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July 28, 2002 ISSUE 74
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/nl74.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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X-Jack ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/x/xjack.htm ) -
Type of connection used with laptop network and modem connections on PC Cards. The X-Jack connector is a small plastic piece that can be extended from within the card, this plastic piece has a hole which the connector plugs into.
Unfortunately the X-Jack is a delicate component and can be easily broken off. However, the x-jack does not require any additional cables such as the need for a dongle with other types of PC Cards.
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: Microsoft begins to clean out Hotmail
* ZDNET: As part of a series of new storage policies aimed at driving more people toward its paid services, Microsoft has instituted a plan to delete sent Hotmail messages that are more than 30 days old. On Tuesday, it began erasing all messages in subscribers' Sent file transmitted before June 16.
- August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the semantic web
- IBM and Linux and biggest threats - Microsoft
- Microsoft begins to clean out Hotmail
- Deep linking takes another blow
- Microsoft to ad 5,000 new workers
- Microsoft stomps on swarm of bugs
- IBM, Opera will create multimodal browser
- Apache server supports .Net Tech
- E-mail's not free? Mac owners flee
- Lucent posts loss, cuts more jobs
- Gates admits 'misstep' in parts of .NET launch
- Have you hugged your geek lately
- Sun to push StarOffice for Apple OS X
- Virus dials 911
- 3.0 gigahertz chip release moved up
- No home for digital pictures?
- China looks to replace Windows
- Microsoft canary phone - the first pics
- PC sales decline but recovery seen
- Real takes the open-source route
- U.S. supercomputer dealt setback
- New PHP vulnerability found
- AOL, Comcast, AT&T near deal on Time Warner Entertainment
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:
- Internet News: An input-checking vulnerability in PHP that opens the door for hackers to gain Web server access has been patched Monday and users are urged to update as soon as possible.
The patch, found at the PHP.net Web site, corrects the POST parser method in the software standard, which looks at the incoming traffic's headers and allows or rejects the data.
* 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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- Made various corrections throughout web site.
- Continued our work on Dictionary.
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 install font option in Windows
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000146.htm
Ways of locating system specifications
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000017.htm
Lost system resources
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000374.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://grc.com/default.htm
Gibson Research Corporation or GRC for short is a great place for users who wish to check their computer and network for any potential holes. Anyone who may be curious or concerned about their home network should definitely try this page.
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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