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August 11, 2002 ISSUE 76
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/nl76.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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Eliza ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/e/eliza.htm ) -
Also known as Doctor, Eliza was a form of artificial intelligence created by Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum who was a part of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. Eliza was a program that made a user believe he or she was talking to a real therapist.
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: EU approves Hitachi's purchase of IBM hard-disk unit
* The Nando Times: The European Union Commission on Monday approved Hitachi Ltd.'s $2.05 billion acquisition of the hard-disk drive unit of U.S. technology giant International Business Machines Corp.
- Sears chooses Dell for full-line store infrastructure upgrade
- Map hackers strike Warcraft III
- EU approves Hitachi's purchase of IBM hard-disk unit
- Report: Hackers acquired sensitive SLI engineering documents
- Security flaw hits multiple OSs
- Ashcroft asked to target online song swappers
- IBM's new microscope may mean faster chips
- Search turns up Google Toolbar risk
- Microsoft-FTC settle over Passport
- Crypto scientists crack prime problem
- More jobs go at Marconi
- AOL puts heat on media players
- US congress drowns in e-mail
- Oracle, Dell sign software deal
- Robot hand for the disabled
- Nokia to cut 900 network jobs
- Serious vulnerability uncovered in Apache 2.0
- Gateway turns to hobbits to draw customers
- Microsoft plugs holes in Content Management Server
- All the news that's fit to Google
- Trojan horse technology exploits Internet Explorer
- Partnerware closes shop
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:
- MSNBC: Security researchers have warned of a flaw in communications software that could allow attackers to take over computers running Windows, Mac OS X and Unix-based operating systems, as well as those with Kerberos authentication systems.
- Internetnews: Red Hat Director of Engineering and Editor of ApacheWeek Mark J. Cox Friday warned of an Apache 2.0 vulnerability which could allow an attacker to "inflict serious damage to a server, and reveal sensitive 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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- Uploaded 40+ new dictionary definitions.
- Continued our work on our 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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Creating a HTML back button.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000317.htm
Stuttering sound as Windows 95 / Windows 98 loads.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000259.htm
Computer does not turn off.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000310.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://world.altavista.com/tr
This week we talk about the AltaVista Babelfish Translation service. This is a great free service for users to translate text and even web sites from one language into another. We find ourselves using this site frequently to help us translate foreign company web sites or e-mail we receive that is in a language we do not understand. This is also a great for determining foreign SPAM messages that are in a different language, which allows for us to filter foreign keywords.
Google is also developing a similar service that is currently in Beta. You can find their site at http://www.google.com/language_tools
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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