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July 16, 2001 ISSUE 24
C O M P U T E R H O P E . C O M N E W S L E T T E R
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl24.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 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.
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DEF CON ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/d/defcon.htm ) -
DEF CON is a annual underground computer conference held in
Las Vegas, Nevada USA. of networking, computer, hardware and
security experts who discuss computer and networking
security. The conference generally contains computer hackers,
network administrators, government officials and various
other individuals from around the world with computer
and computer security interests.
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?
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* Reuters: Afghanistan ruling Taliban movement has banned
the use of the Internet in the war-torn country to stop
access to vulgar, immoral and anti-Islamic material, an
Afghan news service said on Friday.
The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) quoted
Taliban Foreign Minister Maulvi Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil as
saying the movement was not against the Internet as such but
was opposed to obscenity, vulgarity and
anti-Islamic ``stuff'' on it.
- Microsoft changes tune on MP3 ripping
- AdForce near asset sale, complete shutdown
- Medscape to cut 100 jobs
- MAPS to cease all non-subscription access
- Microsoft to offer online music service
- Afghanistan's Taliban bans Internet
- Online grocer HomeRuns.com strikes out
- Motorola cuts 4,000 more jobs
- U.S. Scientists create world's most precise clock
- Judge orders Napster to stay down
- Microsoft to allow PC makers to alter Windows
- Lucent says more than 8,500 workers took buyout
- Gateway cuts jobs across Asia-Pacific region
- Intel halts sales of defective server chip
- Cisco to buy metropolitan net company
- MSN Messenger service restored
- Compaq to cut 4,000 more jobs
- Gemplus to cut 450 jobs worldwide
- MicronPC back in the computer groove
- Microsoft stumbles with XP preview
- 123India.com to charge for e-mail from July 22
- Apple acquiring DVD software maker
- MSN Messenger outage continues
- Microsoft plans VeriSign security
- Alcatel to slash 2,500 more jobs
- Online grocer Webvan closes
- Laser printer under $200 unveiled
- Corning to cut 1,000 jobs due to telecom sector slowdown
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
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* Virus: No new major virus threats.
* Security:
- Colman Communications Consulting has uncovered issues with
the Encrypting File System feature included in Microsoft
Windows 2000.
When files which were previously in plain text are
encrypted using EFS, either by encrypting the file or the
directory the file is in, or by moving the file into a
directory with EFS applied, a plain-text (as distinct from
cipher-text) copy of the file is made on the disk. In
addition to this plain-text fragments of the original file
may also persist.
- ComputerWorld: Black Hat: A cryptologist who helped discover
several gaping holes in the international wireless LAN
standard and the encryption algorithm meant to protect such
networks yesterday detailed the vulnerabilities that could be
leaving corporate systems open 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?
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- Added 20+ new dictionary definitions.
- Added additional questions and answers
- 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.
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How to fix an invalid page fault:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000222.htm
Noise from the computer:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000302.htm
Floppy disk fail (40) or (80) error:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000426.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
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Users who have been receiving the Computer Hope newsletter
may have noticed changes in the overall appearance of our
newsletter this week. We have made these changes in hopes
to make the newsletter more appeasing and easier to
navigate. If you have any comments or suggestions please
feel free to e-mail newsletter@computerhope.com
http://www.alicebot.org
This week we would like to talk about the AI bot and AI
information page A.L.I.C.E. This is a great site for anyone
interested in Artificial Intelligence or chat bots. On this
site you can talk with Alice or learn more about AI and AIML.
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
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newsletters on the Internet. Users who enjoy Computer Hopes
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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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