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June 9, 2002 ISSUE 67
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/nl67.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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UART ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/u/uart.htm ) -
Short for Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter, UART is a chip used to manage computer serial ports, disk drive interrupts, screen refresh cycles, and any other device that requires timing. With a serial port transmission the UART converts the bytes into serial bits and transmitting those bits through a asynchronous transmission stripping out the start and stop bits for each character.Below is a listing of various UART chips. The 16550 chip series is the most commonly used UART.
See the above link for the remainder of this definition.
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: Drivers no longer free.
* The register: A week ago scanner giant UMAX began to charge its US customers for driver updates that were previously free as a web download.
PC users expecting to get XP drivers, and Macintosh users expecting to get upgrades to Mac OS X had a shock in store. Device drivers that were previously available as a free download had been withdrawn, and users were now invited to pay for a CD-ROM version.
- Online personals soar in popularity
- To link or not to link?
- Red Hat: Sun's being a bully
- Worldcom contemplates 16,000 job cuts
- Best Buy changes privacy policy
- Ticketmaster acquires Dutch ticket service
- IBM plans $2.5 billion charge, layoffs
- Could feds foil Microsoft with IT spending?
- MIA shuts down video site Film88.com
- Verisign slapped with third lawsuit
- Flaw reported in IE browser
- Expedia, Citysearch form alliance
- Hackers respond to password challenge
- Transmeta to power HP Tablet PC
- Viewing secrets safe with Sonicblue
- Postal Service buys 40 segways
- Apple announces QuickTime 6 public preview
- Yahoo to give home page a makeover
- Napster files for bankruptcy
- Broadband users cut into cable
- Now you pay for drivers - UMAX pioneers new price gouge
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: A new virus could score a surprise goal against fans seeking up-to-the-minute championship results online during the FIFA World Cup. According to antivirus company Sophos, the VBS/Chick-F virus arrives via e-mail as a compressed HTML file that carries the subject "RE: Korea Japan Results." Once the attachment is executed, the text "Enable activeX To See Korea Japan results" is displayed.
* Security:
- CNN: A security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser could allow a hacker to take control of a remote computer if its user clicks a link to an outdated Internet protocol, a computer security firm says.
* Privacy:
- CNET: Best Buy is changing its online privacy policy, allowing the company to combine customer information from its Web site with that collected in its stores.
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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* Computer Hope has setup its new web server at http://beta.computerhope.com for testing purposes. The server currently contains a mirror of our site and we ask our users to visit this address to help ensure that the server is fully functional and that no problems exist before we permanently move. The new server should help increase the overall speed and capability of Computer Hope. If any issues are found with this server they can be e-mailed to webmasters@computerhope.com.
- Posted 60+ definitions for dictionary.
- Fixed various minor issues.
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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Missing icons on my Windows 98 desktop.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000325.htm
Recovering lost sound in Windows 3.x.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000207.htm
Installing a PC IDE/EIDE Zip drive.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000416.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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http://www.archive.org/
This week we talk about the Internet Archive, a site dedicated to keeping records and storing all large web sites on the Internet from 1996 to now. As of October 2001 the Internet Archive contained 10 billion pages or over 100 TB of data. This is a great place to locate web sites that may have gone offline or to see how your favorite web site may have looked in the past.
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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