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December 26, 2005 ISSUE 210
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl210.htm -
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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Metalanguage ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/metalang.htm ) -
Term used to describe a programming language that is a markup language, similar to a standard language, utilizing various rules, statements and expressions. A good example of a metalanguage is XML.
See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
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Top News Story: Seagate to buy Maxtor for $1.9 billion in stock
macworld.com -- Hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate Technology LLC will acquire Maxtor Corp. in an all-stock transaction worth around US$1.9 billion, the companies announced Thursday.
12/25/2005 - The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years
12/25/2005 - eWEEK Labs Picks the Technology Flops of the Year
12/25/2005 - Japan's humanoid robots | Better than people
12/25/2005 - Real-time texting for deaf people
12/25/2005 - Dell recalls laptop batteries
12/25/2005 - Opera Denies Microsoft Buyout Rumors
12/25/2005 - Court blocks Calif. video game sales restriction
12/22/2005 - Top 10 little-known science stories of 2005
12/22/2005 - Google founders are FT's men of the year
12/22/2005 - College Launches Cell Phone Film Contest
12/22/2005 - Microsoft may face daily EU fine
12/22/2005 - Gadgets for Kids
12/22/2005 - Microsoft settles with Google over executive hire
12/22/2005 - People Power Vs Google
12/22/2005 - France may sanction unfettered P2P downloads
12/22/2005 - Children to teach adults on Safer Internet Day
12/22/2005 - Microsoft fixes patching software glitch
12/22/2005 - 'Battlestar Galactica' special to premiere on iTunes
12/22/2005 - Firefox Calls "Action" on Ad Contest
12/22/2005 - Python Creator Guido van Rossum now working at Google
12/22/2005 - For Sale: Every Newton Ever Made
12/21/2005 - Invention: The inkjet-printer pen
12/21/2005 - Salesforce.com outage cuts users off
12/21/2005 - E really does equal mc squared
12/21/2005 - Texas files new spyware claim against Sony BMG
12/21/2005 - iTunes and QuickTime flaw detailed
12/21/2005 - Creator of World Wide Web Starts Blog
12/21/2005 - All-Digital TV Deadline: Feb. 2009
12/21/2005 - Robot Demonstrates Self Awareness
12/21/2005 - Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance
12/21/2005 - IBM to Buy Micromuse for $865 Million
12/21/2005 - Seagate to buy Maxtor for $1.9 billion in stock
12/21/2005 - OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 Update Released
12/21/2005 - 'High Risk' Flaw in Symantec AntiVirus Library
12/21/2005 - MS: Want Windows Live Messenger? Pay.
12/21/2005 - FTC says federal spam law has worked
12/21/2005 - NeXT Fans Give Up the Ghost
12/20/2005 - EBay Scraps Plans to Offer Live Pets
12/20/2005 - AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads
12/20/2005 - High Web traffic means sales
12/20/2005 - The computer remains king of chess
12/20/2005 - Yahoo to plug security hole in dating site
12/20/2005 - Santa IM Worm Making a List
12/20/2005 - Governments Tremble at Google's Bird's-Eye View
12/20/2005 - Firefox 1.5 Stability Problems? Readers And Mozilla Respond
12/20/2005 - 2005 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
12/19/2005 - A better way to count clicks?
12/19/2005 - Texas to get broadband over its power lines
12/19/2005 - 2006: Year of the mobile malware
12/19/2005 - Wikipedia alternative aims to be 'PBS of the Web'
12/19/2005 - SETI@Home project ends
12/19/2005 - This is the Google side of your brain
12/19/2005 - One Billion Internet Users
12/19/2005 - del.icio.us continues to face problems after power outage
12/19/2005 - Microsoft hires user interface guru
12/19/2005 - Not With a Bang but a Whimper
12/19/2005 - Nielsen to add DVR habits
12/19/2005 - The early bird gets the $149 Toshiba laptop
12/19/2005 - Computer forensics tools maker hacked
12/19/2005 - Some eBay users irked over delays
12/19/2005 - End nears for Mac version of IE
12/19/2005 - Azeroth: Population 5 million and counting
12/19/2005 - IPod Earbuds Damage Hearing
12/19/2005 - Web Sites Let Users Send E-Mail to Future
12/19/2005 - Hackers, Extortion Threats Shut Down Game Site
12/19/2005 - Japan plans own Internet search engine
12/19/2005 - Microsoft patch jams up IE
12/19/2005 - ReplayTV to launch TV recording software for PCs
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?3522005
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
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* Virus:
Santa IM Worm Making a List
Internetnews.com -- A worm targeting the three major instant messaging (IM) networks is spreading its payload to buddy lists.
* Security:
Microsoft fixes patching software glitch
news.com.com -- Microsoft has made available a tool to fix a snag that hit some users of its Software Update Services tool. SUS is an older version of Microsoft's current Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) software that lets users manage patches for multiple computers.
iTunes and QuickTime flaw detailed
news.zdnet.com -- Don't open media files from sources you don't trust--it may lead to your computer being hacked, a security researcher has warned.
'High Risk' Flaw in Symantec AntiVirus Library
eweek.com -- An independent security researcher on Tuesday flagged an unpatched flaw in the Symantec AntiVirus Library and warned that attackers could exploit the bug to execute arbitrary code when a malicious RAR archive is scanned.
Yahoo to plug security hole in dating site
news.com.com -- Yahoo plans to tighten security on its dating site after a security expert uncovered a method for breaking into members' accounts.
Microsoft patch jams up IE
news.com.com -- Last Tuesday's "critical" security fix for Internet Explorer is causing trouble for users who have been testing the new IE 7 browser.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
Find a direct link to each of the above articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news/security.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- For the upcoming year of 2006 Computer Hope has re-posted all of its pages, below is a short list of some of the major changes.
1. Removed advanced search button on all pages.
2. All pages are now utilizing CSS for font and display settings. With this change the pages are now using Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, and Sans-serif as the default fonts. We believe this should make the pages easier to read. Finally this change also now makes viewed links a dark blue, helping users know what has been seen and what has not.
3. Cleaned up HTML code on all pages, correcting, removing, and updating over 400,000 different HTML tags throughout the site. This change should help with accessibility, the speed each page loads at, and help conserve bandwidth.
- Because of the continued abuse of the forums by some of the Computer Hope users the forums are now Member post only. All users can still sign up for the forums for free, however you must register before being able to post.
- Added additional third-party companies, definitions, and other updates.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/whatnew.htm
See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chtop10.htm
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5. Hot computer issues.
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How do I change an Excel relative cell to an absolute cell?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000774.htm
Disabling the Microsoft Windows XP System Restore.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000775.htm
My computer does not start unless I restart it multiple times.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000776.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/qanda.htm
See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
See every Q&A in Computer Hopes database at:
http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2005.html
Look back at the year 2005 through the eyes of Google. Google has posted its Google Zeitgeist for the year 2005, listing some of the most popular searches during 2005. If you have not already seen this site it's definitely worth visiting.
http://opencontent.org/ocwfinder/
Fantastic free service that allows any user to quickly search and locate free online college courses and educational material in almost any industry from such locations as MIT, Utah State University, Carnegie Mellon, and more. Unfortunately we were unable to find any introductions to basic programs such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, etc., however anyone interested in learning more about a particular topic such as a new language, Computer Science, Mathematics, etc. should definitely give this site a try.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
We recently also came across an AVG Free Edition, a free antivirus protection program for private, non-commercial, single home users. If you're a home user who is looking for a new antivirus protection program or don't already have an antivirus program installed on your computer you may want to consider using this free protection program.
We would love to hear your comments; suggestions, interests, opinions, fun web sites or what ever is on your mind. E-mail us at newsletter@computerhope.com
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