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July 30, 2001 ISSUE 26
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/nl26.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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CMOS ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/cmos.htm ) -
Short for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor, CMOS is a battery inside your computer that allows things such as your time and date to be stored on your computer also one of the most susceptible components in a computer to ESD.
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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* Associated Press: Tucked into a new law on education standards for day care workers is a requirement that private technicians tell police if they find child pornography when servicing computers.
- Feds will pursue Russian programmer case
- Palm to separate PDA, OS Businesses
- Code Red worm problems could re-emerge Aug. 1
- Days of free Internet lunch ending in China
- Hitachi puts CRTs to sleep
- BroadVision to cut 200-300 jobs
- Chipmaker Infineon to cut 5,000 jobs
- JDS Uniphase to cut 7,000 more jobs
- Qwest, AOL Time Warner enter network deal
- Quantum posts loss, eliminates 500 positions
- HP to trim 6,000 jobs amid global drop-off
- IBM, Terra Lycos Sign Technology, Marketing Pact
- Does President Bush care about technology?
- Lawmakers want 'kids' domain
- CNet cuts 15 percent of work force
- HP to buy StorageApps for $350 Million in stock
- Cisco scores win with france telecom on GSR router
- AOL could propose Amazon buyout. Would it?
- Media giant swarms around AT&T broadband
- Blizzards Warcraft III delayed until 2002
- Microsoft career site hacked
- Hacker's fury at Adobe's FBI snitch
- Lucent posts a loss, to slash up to 20,000 more jobs
- AOL takes $100M stake in Amazon
- Happy birthday to personal computer
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:
- More trouble may be coming Aug. 1 to corporate computer systems that still haven't been properly patched to defend against the Code Red worm.
* Security:
- More trouble may be coming Aug. 1 to corporate computer systems that still haven't been properly patched to defend against the Code Red worm.
- ZDNET: A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, security analysts and the company selling the software warned Monday.
* 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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- 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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Extracting files from the Windows cabinets:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000363.htm
How to copy a large file or directory to floppy diskette:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000119.htm
Enabling / disabling the password prompt for Windows 95 / 98:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000131.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 additional changes to the Computer Hope Newsletters. After last week's modifications several users recommended that we not cut off our text because it was harder to read. Therefore we have made this change in hopes that our newsletter will be easier to read. If you have any additional comments or suggestions please feel free to e-mail newsletter@computerhope.com
http://www.teoma.com/
With the popularity of the Google search engine it is not supprising to see other companies creating search engines similar to Google. This week we would like to talk about the new search engine TEOMA that is currently in beta. TEOMA looks similar simular to Google however has features such as Expert links, page topics and various other features. If you are having difficulty locating information on the Internet you may want to give this search engine a try.
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
Computer Hope has recently been included on the Freetechmail.org page that links users to computer related newsletters on the Internet. Users who enjoy Computer Hopes newsletter may also enjoy others found on this page found at:
http://www.freetechmail.org/
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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