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May 5, 2002 ISSUE 62
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/nl62.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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Whack ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/whack.htm ) -
Slang commonly used to describe a slash. Whack can be used to describe either a forward or backward slash although is commonly used to describe the forward slash in a web address. For example:
http://www.computerhope.com would be pronounced h-t-t-p, colon, whack, whack, w-w-w...
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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Top News Story: HP merger lawsuit dismissed
* A Delaware judge ruled Tuesday that Hewlett-Packard's shareholder vote was legal, paving the way for the company to complete its merger with Compaq Computer.
- Leap Wireless to cut jobs, take charge
- BBC launches new Internet search engine
- Klez worm variant tops virus chart
- eBay brings Escrow aboard
- Intel in deal for disposable cell phones
- AOL inks e-book deal
- IBM servers: Who needs humans?
- Intel to unveil speedy new P4s, chipset
- HP merger lawsuit dismissed
- Melissa virus creator gets 20 months
- Segway hits bump in its progress
- Free-to-fee with content can be risky business
- eMac evokes price shock for students
- Net radio will pull plug this week to protest fees
- Google to power search functions across AOL brands
- Laws, Net filters not enough to protect kids online - report
- Buyer alert: Digital camera prices plummet
- Microsoft in final talks for Danish firm
- More embarrassing Microsoft e-mail
- Will Google, Yahoo renew vows?
- Best Buy closes wireless registers
- Star Wars sick days will cost $300m
- Flaws uncovered in Netscape, Mozilla
- id Software partners with Activision on DOOM II
- Yahoo launches advice site
- Tech pay at decade low
- Handspring CFO resigns
- eBay hit with site slowdown
- SONICblue forced to spy on ReplayTV users
- Double whammy hits Macromedia
- Nvidia in chip dispute with Microsoft
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:
- CNET: The latest and friskiest versions of the Klez worm were by far the most active computer threat last month, according to a new report from British antivirus company Sophos.
The Klez.g and Klez.h worms were responsible for 77.8 percent of all virus infections in April, according to the report.
* Security:
- MSNBC: Think you are safe from the cryptic world of wireless computer hacking? Think again. Security researchers who study wireless networks have found another embarrassing information leak, this one involving well-known retail giants. Some stores use cash registers with wireless networks that beam data including credit card numbers to a central computer elsewhere in the store. But a hacker can sit in a stores parking lot and listen in to the data. Indeed, consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. shut off wireless cash registers at its stores Wednesday after being alerted to the potential problem, saying it was investigating the issue.
- Internet News: GreyMagic Software said both Netscape and Mozilla browsers are at risk for an attack that would allow local files to be read.
According to a security posting on its Web site, the Israel-based software company found that a component for retrieving XML documents from a Web server, known as XMLHTTP, can be used to read local files by blindly following server-side redirections.
* Privacy:
- Internet News: SONICblue, maker of a series of digital video recorders, was ordered this week by a federal magistrate in Los Angeles to reveal the individual viewing habits of its ReplayTV 4000 customers and pinpoint the frequency with which movie and television shows are recorded and electronically shared with other users.
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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* With the new month of May, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "How many hours a week are you on a computer?" Quiz - "Which of the following is not a mouse technology?" and tip - "Quickly search the Internet."
- Continued work on dictionary update. Uploaded addition 100+ definitions to server.
- Corrected various errors throughout the web site.
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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After changing the resolution and rebooting the computer video is distorted.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000192.htm
Assigning the CD-ROM drive to a certain letter.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000038.htm
I have a C drive and H drive, what is H?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000018.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 have recently been getting a lot of e-mails from various users asking why they are unable to click on any of the links throughout our newsletter. The majority of these e-mails were AOL users; unfortunately AOL requires each link to be anchored to be displayed properly. Because our newsletter is plain text we cannot format all links to be anchored. Therefore for our AOL customers we have created a link at the bottom of our newsletter, allowing each AOL user to quickly get to our Newsletter page for an HTML version of our newsletter. In addition we have also created document CH000479 that has information about how to get hyperlinks within your newsletter for all users that may not already have links.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000479.htm
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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