Computer Hope newsletter #78
September 01, 2002 ISSUE 78
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
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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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MPP ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/mpp.htm ) -
Short for Massively Parallel Processing, MPP is a type of computing that uses CPUs in parallel to execute a single program. One of the significant differences between SMP and MPP is that with MPP each CPU has its own memory which helps to prevents a possible hold up that you may experience with SMP when all the CPU's attempt to access the memory at once.
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: 'Happy Mac' killed by jaguar
* Happy Mac, the smiling icon that for 18 years greeted Apple computer users when they started up their machines, is dead.
A staid Apple logo illustrated in self-possessed shades of gray has replaced the eager-to-please icon in the new Jaguar version of the Macintosh operating system.
- Ziff Davis agrees to pay settlement
- The future of artificial intelligence: The Borg?
- RIAA site comes under second attack
- New Active-X vulnerability discovered
- IBM expands its storage range
- Report: Dot-com job cuts top 1,000 for second month
- Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic
- Next version of Netscape launched
- New Hard-Drive tech overcomes magnetic memory problems
- Who's spying on my Hotmail?
- 'Happy Mac' killed by jaguar
- Humor site SatireWire gives last laugh
- Review - AOL's AIM 5.0 beta
- Cartoon turtle to promote web safety
- Online gold diggers come up empty
- Bye, Bye Betamax
- Microsoft discloses more code
- Wordperfect wins an Office battle
- Unisys unveils high-end storage tool
- Expert demonstrates Microsoft hack
- Caldera name change puts Unix first
- Toshiba, NEC working on new DVD format
- Dell trumps HP with Rackspace deal
- Gadgets keep pets busy and fed
- Once-hot business crippled by feuds
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:
Internetnews: Microsoft Thursday said that a new flaw discovered in Windows could allow a hacker to conduct a denial of service attack on your computer.
C|Net: Microsoft said Wednesday that a critical flaw in most versions of the company's Windows operating system could allow malicious attackers to corrupt the digital certificates that PCs use to connect to network services.
* 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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* With the new month of September, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "What's your Internet connection?" Quiz - "Which of the following is an example of Binary?" and tip - "Microsoft Internet Explorer".
- Continued work on dictionary and made minor updates throughout website.
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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Main laptop battery does not charge.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000353.htm
Disabling Windows 98 Task Scheduler from startup.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000152.htm
General scanner trouble shooting.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000443.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.netsizer.com
This week we talk about Internet Sizer by Telcordia. This is a very interesting site that allows visitors to watch the Internet grow in real-time by the amount of Internet Hosts and Internet users. In addition to watching real-time data you can view previous months averages and various other interesting information about the Internet growth.
When last viewing this page we noticed a drastic drop in Internet hosts with the months of July and August being Null. We are uncertain if this is an issue with the chart or the growth of Internet hosts has actually declined significantly in the last two months. We e-mailed Telcordia about this question to see if we could find additional information. We will e-mail the results of our findings in next weeks newsletter.
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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