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October 7, 2001 ISSUE 35
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/nl35.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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ALT ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/alt.htm ) - Short for Alternate. ALT is a key generally located by the space bar on IBM compatible computer keyboards. This term may be used to describe a key combination such as:
CTRL + ALT + DEL
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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* Compaq Computer Corp. is recalling 1.4 million power adapters used with some of its laptop computers, U.S. federal safety regulators said on Thursday.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said Compaq agreed to the recall after receiving five reports that the AC power adapters caught fire. No injuries were reported.
The recall involves AC adapters used with some of its Armada, Prosignia and Notebook models, and were sold individually as well. The adapters were sold between September 1998 and July 2001.
- The Register: Intel is finally inciting the death of the floppy drive and is calling on PC manufacturers big and small to stop supplying the once-capacious 1.44MB removable drive in the latter half of 2002.
So say confidential Intel documents seen by The Register. The chip giant wants OEMs to phase out the floppy in the second half of 2002. It hopes they will pull the plug - as it were - on PS/2 and serial ports at the same time.
- News.com: Microsoft is phasing out Windows NT 4.0, its 5-year-old operating system for businesses.
Microsoft on Monday discontinued the server version of NT because of increased demand for its newer replacement, Windows 2000, and because of the forthcoming release of Windows XP.
The software giant is no longer selling NT Server 4.0 via its volume licensing programs, through which businesses can buy the operating system in bulk and with a discount, according to Microsoft's Web site. The software giant, however, will continue to sell individual copies of NT 4.0 through retail stores.
- Travelocity to cut staff, ad spending
- Sun microsystems cutting nearly 4,000 jobs
- Monster.com job-seeking site cuts its own staff
- Webvan finds buyer for its tech platform
- Sun to face challenge from I.B.M.
- Beenz.com finds buyer for assets
- Xbox to offer parental controls
- Senators propose net tax ban extension
- New .info web registry back online after two-day shutdown
- McLeod to cut 1,600 jobs
- Zero knowledge cuts anonymous web surfing service.
- Buy a Mac from an Apple retail store, get free RAM
- Amazon, eBay in turf war over exec
- At age 30, e-mail matures to adulthood
- Web sites pull intelligence data
- Sun releases Solaris 9 for beta testing
- DoubleClick buys tech assets of L90
- Jupiter slashes staff 30 percent
- WorldCom plans 1,000 job cuts
- Hackers find bin Laden's accounts
- Nortel to cut 20,000 more jobs
- Novell claims Microsoft disparaged it
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 this week.
* Security: No new Security information this week.
* 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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*With the new month of September Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "How many MP3 files do you have?" Quiz - "Which of the following file extensions is not a audio file format?" and tip - "Microsoft Windows 95 and above".
- Computer Hope is continuing to work on a complete modification of our computer dictionary. While this work is being done unfortunately it is possible you may experience bad links until completed.
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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Mouse not being detected in Windows 95 / 98.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000254.htm
How to check the BIOS manufactured date?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000234.htm
Windows 98 Power Saving/Standby mode does not work.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000153.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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http://www.imdb.com
This week we will be talking about a spectacular movie site known as IMDB, short for Internet Movie Database. IMDB is a excellent resource for individuals who may be looking for movie related information including actor information, new movie releases and much more.
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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