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March 17, 2002 ISSUE 55
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/nl55.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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ADSI ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/adsi.htm ) -
1. Short for Active Directory Service Interface, ADSI enables access to Active Directory by
exposing objects stored in the directory as COM objects.
2. Short for Analog Display Service Interface, ADSI was developed by Bellcore in 1993 is a
protocol that allows for voice and data to be heard and displayed on devices such as phones
over a analog telephone line.
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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* CNET: Handheld maker Palm said Saturday it will replace older cradles for its m500 and m505
models to solve a longstanding problem that prevented some units from properly synching to a
PC.
- More web sites charging access fees
- Samsung unveils speedier combo drive
- Report: Hynix, Micron closer to $4 billion deal
- Palm to replace faulty cradles
- Outage blocks Mac.com e-mail
- Avaya cuts jobs, sells stake
- eUniverse, L90 server merger plans
- DoubleClick unloads e-mail list
- Flash appearance causes traffic jam
- Wells Fargo latest target in scams
- Intel shrinks chips to 90 nanometers
- Recordable-DVD buyers cry foul
- Excite@Home spin-off seeks new home
- MediAmazing turns off free radio streams
- Multiple security flaws found in Oracle servers
- EBay home page goes down for 90 minutes
- AOL browser beta signals new positioning
- Zlib security flaw could affect numerous programs
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 virus news this week.
* Security:
- Internetnews: The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) Friday
warned of nearly 20 vulnerabilities discovered in Oracle servers.
Found by David Litchfield of NGSSoftware, the vulnerabilities include buffer overflows,
insecure default settings, failures to enforce access controls and failure to validate input.
CERT said the vulnerabilities could allow the execution of arbitrary commands or code, denial
of service and unauthorized access to sensitive information.
- A warning about the security flaw identified Monday in the zlib compression/decompression
library affecting Linux systems has been broadened to include Windows and any other other
operating systems that use the zlib code.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
Computer Security Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/secureqa.htm
Computer Privacy Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/privacyq.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Continued working on the Computer Hope new web server.
- Continued work on dictionary update.
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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Determining the PCI version
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000307.htm
Unable to boot from floppy
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000279.htm
Issues with Windows image thumbnails
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000284.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
See every Q&A in Computer Hopes database at:
http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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We would first like to thank each of you who have taken the time and effort to helping
Computer Hope by donating to our web site.
http://www.invair.de/FILEWALKER/English/hauptteil_english.html
This week we stumbled accross the Filewalker, developed by a Invair Technologies a company
based in Germany. The Filewalker is a one handed PDA running a Linux Operating System with a
133MHz processor, 32MB SDRAM and 16MB Flash ROM.
http://www.flexstorm.com
We also were sent a link to the Flex CD by Flexstorm. Like the name implies flexstorm has
developed a flexable CD with the same capabilities as a regular CD.
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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