Computer Hope newsletter #22
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July 2, 2001 - ISSUE 22
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I N T H I S I S S U E
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer Virus, 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.
MBR ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/mbr.htm ) -
Short for Master Boot Record, MBR is a small portion of a
computer hard disk drive used to determine which partition
a computer will boot from. The MBR tells the computer where
to find and how to load the operating system. It also tells
the computer how the hard drive is organized and provides
information about the drive's partitions.
The master boot record is located on the first sector of the
hard drive; it's the first program the computer runs after
performing a memory check and looking for a bootable
disk (if set in CMOS). The MBR is also susceptible to boot
sector viruses that can corrupt or delete the MBR, which
can leave the hard drive unusable and prevent the computer
from booting up. A well known MBR virus is the Monkey Virus
See a complete dictionary of computer terms at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
* Reuters: A U.S. appeals court on Thursday unanimously
overturned an order to split Microsoft Corp. in two, but
left intact a finding that the software giant illegally used
its monopoly in the Windows operating system.
- Moster.com buys rival hotjobs.com
- Jim Ellis, Co-Creator of Usenet, dies
- Nasdaq trading goes offline
- 360networks files for bankruptcy
- Agere Systems cuts 4,000 more jobs
- Hewlett asks employees to take pay or vacation cut
- Compaq employees to take week off
- Adaptec reduces workforce by 325 workers
- Apple confirms hiring of FreeBSD co-founder
- Yahoo! Acquires Content Site
- Microsoft to drop Smart Tags from Windows software
- First two new top-level domains become operational
- EarthLink announces first rake hike
- MSDN subscribers forced to use Passport
- StarOffice meet Star Wars
- Metricom sheds 23 percent of staff
- Yahoo to add video to it's Instant Messenger
- Google mulls float plans
- Compaq plans shift to services, software
- NBCi cuts some services
- Covad to shut down BlueStar Network
- AOL Internet service members surpass 30 million
- Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2000
- Acxiom laying off 412 workers
- Compaq to phase out non-Intel Computer lines
Find all of the above articles and latest news at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
* Virus: No new major virus threats.
* Security:
- Vnunet: Security professionals are concerned that a program
used by hackers to exploit a flaw in Microsoft IIS webserver
has not been made public. They fear that the hackers are
keeping the tool secret in a bid to launch further damaging
IIS attacks.
- Computer World: Two servers for the instant messaging service
ICQ were cracked Monday, defacing at least one Web page.
- Security experts this week uncovered two significant
vulnerabilities in the standard and enterprise editions of
Oracle Corp.'s Oracle8i database that could not only place
companies' data at risk but could also expose the database
server operating system to hackers.
* Privacy: No new Privacy information this week.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
* With the new month of July Computer Hope has posted
its new monthly Poll - "Do you plan on upgrading to
Microsoft Windows XP?", Quiz - "Which of the following is
not a Internet browser?" and tip - "Internet Explorer".
- Added a top 10 definition to computer dictionary
- Corrected various errors and bad links throughout page.
- Updated search engine database.
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.
How to create a FAT32 partition:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000452.htm
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000365.htm
Where can I get MSCD001 or MTMIDE01:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000228.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
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6. All Talk
http://images.google.com
This week we will talk about another new feature found at
Google. Google has posted a public beta of its new image
search. Using this page a user can quickly search through
over 150 Million images. We briefly tested this utility and
it looks promising and should make an excellent addition
to am already great service.
The above items as well as other new and innovative
services and technologies can be found on our What's Hip
section on our News page at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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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