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June 30, 2002 ISSUE 70
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/nl70.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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MMORPG ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/mmorpg.htm ) -
Short for Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, MMORPG are games where thousands of people play together in an ongoing world. Each player has the ability of developing his or her own character and progressing that character its life over time. A great example of a MMORPG is EverQuest.
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: Over 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide
* Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a study released Sunday by consulting firm Gartner. Seventy-five percent of these machines have gone into professional, or work-related, environments, while the other 25 percent have been for personal, or home, use. Approximately 81.5 percent of PCs shipped have been desktops.
- Salon warns it needs to raise more money to survive
- PCs: More than 1 billion served
- Critical hole found in encryption program
- EBay is not liable for fake memorabilia
- Microsoft to spend $750 million in China
- Intuit to acquire Eclipse for $85M
- CNET to fall short and downsize
- Popular online game site spread Nimda virus
- Cap Gemini cuts 5,500 jobs
- Auction scam hits plasma TV buyers
- Online marketing firm sued over pop-up ads
- AMD Athlon MP processors used in production of Scooby-Doo
- Microsoft warns of commerce server flaw
- Windows Media Player hole called severe
- Cyber-Attacks by Al Qaeda Feared
- Seagate boosts hard drive space
- IBM to phase out NetVista X
- Web site exposes credit card fraud
- HP to close plant, cut 300 jobs
- WorldCom says its books are off by $3.8 Billion
- Russia poised to restrict net activities
- Motorola to cut 7,000 jobs, take charge
- California to break free of Oracle
- Be Inc. completes takeover of Palm
- D&D Fantasy a reality, finally
- FTC wants paid search to shape up
- MS to micro-manage your computer
- New Apache worm starts to spread
- FBI checking Americas' reading habits
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:
- Los Angeles (Reuters): Some video game players got a nasty surprise this week when they downloaded software from a popular online gaming site -- the Nimda computer virus.
* Security:
- C|Net: A popular open-source program for encrypted communications has a serious flaw that could let Internet attackers slip into servers running the software, said its creators and a security company this week.
The program, Open Secure Shell (OpenSSH), is included in many widely used operating system distributions, such as OpenBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.1 and FreeBSD-Current, all open-source variants of the Unix OS. Such operating systems appear on networking equipment and security appliances, among other things.
- InternetNews: Microsoft is warning their Commerce Server software customers that they should immediately apply a security patch to fix a number of flaws in the program that could allow hackers to take control of the server.
- ZDNet: Australia--Melbourne-based IT firm, itSecure, today issued a strong warning to users of recent version Windows Media Player to download software from Microsoft to patch the application's security hole.
- C|Net: Security experts are rushing to decode a worm program that exploits a 2-week-old flaw to infect computers running vulnerable versions of the popular open-source Apache Web server application.
* Privacy:
- SFGate: For the first time since the Cold War, the FBI is visiting public libraries to keep tabs on the reading habits of people the government considers dangerous.
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 June, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "How many hours a week are you on the Internet?" Quiz - "What is IRC?" and tip - "Microsoft Office - Repeat Action".
- Updated 50+ company pages with updated information.
- Corrected various minor issues, and updated 20+ pages with new information.
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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NVRAM cleared by jumper.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000291.htm
How to manually remove hard drive compression.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000341.htm
After running MS-DOS game now only starts MS-DOS not Windows.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000140.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.westerndigital.com/company/releases/Pressrelease.asp?release=20020625-0510
This week we were sent a press release about a 200 GB hard disk drive from Western Digital. This is a great press release and really excites us that a hard disk drive manufacturer is releasing such a large capacity hard disk drive, the largest to date.
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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