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December 2, 2001 ISSUE 42
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/nl42.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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GPU ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/g/gpu.htm ) -
Introduced August 31, 1999 by NVIDIA. GPU is short for Graphics Processing Unit. The GPU is a single chip processor located
on the video card capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second.
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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* AP: At least 16 percent of customers on ExciteAtHome's high-speed Internet service were without access Sunday, after the
bankrupt company cut off service to AT&T Broadband subscribers.
AT&T had restored service to more than a third of its customers - about 226,000 subscribers - and moved them to its own
network. The company said it could take as long as 10 days to restore service to its 640,000 other subscribers across the
United States. AT&T transferred most of its customers in the Northwest Saturday and moved customers in Texas Sunday. The
company hopes to move the rest - in Chicago; Pittsburgh; Hartford, Conn., and cities in the West - next week.
* CNN: Toshiba will stop selling desktop computers in the United States and focus on mobile computing and servers, a Toshiba
spokesman said Thursday.
"Considering the U.S. market situation for desktop PCs, Toshiba America decided to gradually stop selling desktop PCs," said
Kenichi Sugiyama, spokesman for Toshiba in Tokyo.
- Toshiba pulls out of U.S. desktop US market
- Mysterious 'IT' to be unveiled
- Soda machines that answer the phone
- AT&T working to restore web access
- QuickTime anniversary celebration this weekend
- Excite@home restructuring information
- Gator.com to halt online ad sales
- KaZaA ordered to cease infringing copyright
- Dot-com layoffs down for November
- Study: Constant security fixes overwhelming IT managers
- Palm cuts another 250 jobs
- Software flaw threatens Linux servers
- Opera fine-tunes latest browser
- Ascential software buys Torrent for $46 million
- IBM cuts 1,000 chip-making jobs
- Yahoo payment service no longer gratis
- Google may let surfers rank search results
- Palm to cut some MyPalm services
- Rumors abound of @home shutdown
- Google, others dig deep--maybe too deep
- E-tailers invade Sunday newspapers
- Human embryo clone created
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: New variants of the bandtrans virus are now spreading through e-mail. We highly recommend that you verify that your
virus protection program has the latest updates.
Additional information about badtrans can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vinfo/badtrans.htm
* Security:
- Microsoft releases patch to correct the possible exposure and altering of data in cookies in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Find the file at the below address:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-055.asp
* 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 December, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "Which of the following is not a Unix or
Linux variant" Quiz - "Which of the following is not a Unix or Linux variant" and tip - "Unix / Linux / Variants".
- Added new Unix shortcut section as well as added additional shortcuts to Mac OS and Microsoft Windows page.
- Continued work on dictionary section.
- Corrected various errors on our pages.
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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Hard Disk Fail (10), (20), or (80).
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000454.htm
CD-ROM not working in Windows 9x.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000227.htm
Partition shows up as a MS-DOS partition.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000226.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.erikyyy.de/tempest/
This week we happen to come across an interesting site that explains how to make your monitor distribute AM radio signals.
Using Tempest for Eliza any individual can distribute AM radio signals from his or her computer monitor and be able to pick
that signal up on most radios.
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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