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January 23, 2006 ISSUE 213
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl213.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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Average ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/average.htm ) -
Also known as mean, median, and mode. Average is the sum of a collection of numbers, divided by the total amount of numbers. For example, assume we have the following collection of numbers: "1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3". The sum of these numbers is 16, 16 divided by 7 is 2.28, therefore 2.28 is the average of these numbers.
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: Microsoft extends XP Home support to '08
itnews.com.au -- Microsoft has quietly extended the support lifespan of Windows XP Home, which as recently as last week was scheduled to be put out to pasture at the end of this year.
01/22/2006 - Download plan for deleted tracks
01/22/2006 - New TVMyPod service comes in gray (area)
01/22/2006 - Yahoo's Social Circle
01/21/2006 - Futuremark Overhauls "The Gamers' Benchmark" With 3DMark06
01/20/2006 - Phishing Attacks Hit All-Time High
01/20/2006 - Japan's Konica Minolta to stop making all cameras
01/20/2006 - Paper decides to close blog, citing vitriol
01/20/2006 - Surveys show open source popularity on the rise in industry
01/20/2006 - Can Wikipedia Survive Its Own Success?
01/20/2006 - Google Opens IM, VoIP Services
01/20/2006 - Apple sees 'pause' in Mac sales
01/20/2006 - Intel abandons x86 support on Itanium
01/20/2006 - PC viruses hit 20 year milestone
01/20/2006 - F-Secure issues patch for critical flaws
01/20/2006 - German Wikipedia backup amid lawsuit
01/20/2006 - First WiMax Products Officially Certified
01/20/2006 - Music sales on the net, hit a high note
01/20/2006 - Privacy experts condemn subpoena of Google
01/18/2006 - Windows Wireless Flaw Lets Others See Your Stuff
01/18/2006 - Symantec Updates Antivirus Products
01/18/2006 - Survey Finds Google Is Strong in China
01/18/2006 - Tokyo to get world's first 'maglev' elevator
01/18/2006 - Are virtual assets taxable?
01/18/2006 - Record falls as best Rubik's 'cubers' meet in S.F.
01/18/2006 - Details on Intel's beta Mac development tools
01/18/2006 - Internet Explorer 7 to have history flush feature
01/18/2006 - You've got problems: AOL patches photo flaw
01/18/2006 - Microsoft releases programming tools betas
01/18/2006 - Oracle releases patches for more than 100 flaws
01/18/2006 - Tokyo Stock Exchange faces more IT worries
01/18/2006 - No major Windows XP update until mid-2007
01/18/2006 - PCs: The Buzz Is Back
01/18/2006 - Google buys radio adverts firm
01/18/2006 - Blackmailers target $1m website
01/17/2006 - Microsoft extends XP Home support to '08
01/17/2006 - Teens bold blogs spur warnings
01/17/2006 - Corel Refreshes WordPerfect, Drawing Tool
01/17/2006 - 111 million go online in China
01/17/2006 - Microsoft Posts First Windows Vista Security Fix
01/17/2006 - Media giant about to back European 'Google killer'
01/17/2006 - Seagate cranks up notebook drives to 160GB
01/17/2006 - Internet users quick to judge
01/17/2006 - FSF updates open-source license
01/17/2006 - Microsoft updates tools to woo Domino faithful
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?152006
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:
PC viruses hit 20 year milestone
news.bbc.co.uk -- The 20th anniversary of the first PC virus falls this month.
It was during the opening weeks of 1986 that the first PC virus, called Brain, was discovered in the wild.
* Security:
F-Secure issues patch for critical flaws
news.com.com -- Security vendor F-Secure issued a patch Thursday to deal with critical flaws in a number of its antivirus and Internet security products.
Windows Wireless Flaw Lets Others See Your Stuff
news.yahoo.com -- A security researcher warned over the weekend that the way Windows XP and 2000 look for wireless connections can be used by hackers to dip into unsuspecting users' hard drives.
You've got problems: AOL patches photo flaw
computerworld.com -- America Online Inc. users may want to upgrade to the latest version of the company's software following the discovery of a critical flaw in the AOL suite of client software. The bug, which was reported today on the French Security Incident Response Team Web site could be used by attackers to run unauthorized software on an unpatched computer.
Oracle releases patches for more than 100 flaws
computerworld.com -- Oracle Corp. today released patches addressing more than 100 separate vulnerabilities in its database and application server software, as well as in its collaboration and e-business suites.
* Privacy:
Privacy experts condemn subpoena of Google
today.reuters.com -- Right-to-privacy groups said on Friday an attempt by the Bush administration to force Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of materials from its databases set a dangerous precedent that should worry all Americans.
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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- Ran another site-wide update that uploaded updated navigation bar buttons that are displayed at the top of the page, changed the links of some of the buttons, and added a forum button to the top of each of the Computer Hope pages.
- Added new computer dictionary definitions and questions and answers and updated several other other pages already posted.
- Continued work on the Computer Hope forums, computer hope mail scripts and other misc. scripts on Computer Hope.
- Performed other minor updates throughout site.
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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What are the types of things I can do on the Internet?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000721.htm
How do I delete one or more files from a CD?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000788.htm
How do I set a Windows screen saver password?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000790.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://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
On February 7, 1999, the spacecraft Stardust was lunched into space and collected cometary samples in 2000, 2002, and 2004. Just recently on January 15, 2006 the samples have successfully returned to Earth. Now the Stardust@Home project needs human participants to help in locating the small grains of commit located in the special aerogel collectors. As mentioned on the web site the complexity of locating these small grains is equivalent to searching for 45 ants in an entire football field, one 5cm by 5cm (2 inch by 2 inch) square at a time. Accepted participants for this project will be able to connect to a server and use a virtual microscope and examine focus movies containing images collected from the stardust interstellar dust collector.
This is a fascinating project and a first of its kind to our knowledge. The project will begin on February 15, 2006 and is expected to end October 1, 2006. If you're interested in helping this project or learning more about Stardust we highly recommend visiting the above link.
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1137518939
Also this week we thought we would mention a link we mentioned last week on the Computer Hope forums that contains some of the funniest and best movies available for free on Google Video. In addition to the link we posted other users also posted some other good links.
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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