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October 6, 2002 ISSUE 82
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/nl82.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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OSD ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/o/osd.htm ) -
1. Short for On Screen Display, OSD is a menu displayed on various devices that displays options used to adjust the display or other options that may be available to that device.
2. Short for Open Source Definition, OSD is an agreement for distributing, using and modifying open source code.
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: Chess champion Kramnik beats 'Deep Fritz' computer
* Reuters: World human chess champion Vladimir Kramnik took the lead on Sunday over Deep Fritz, the latest computer star, by winning the second game in a match billed as the "Brains of Bahrain" contest.
- Chess champion Kramnik beats 'Deep Fritz' computer
- How and why the Internet broke
- Hong Kong news site hacked
- Google Degraded? Geeks Aghast
- Cisco unveils wireless hardware
- Commerce One cuts deep
- WorldCom suffers widespread Internet outage
- AOL 8.0 drops satellite subscribers
- What spies beneath
- More Windows flaws declared
- One per cent bugs caused half of Microsoft errors
- In reversal, Sun to ship $99 Solaris 9 x86
- Bugbear strikes millions of computers
- Multimedia Windows XP takes Microsoft out of the office
- Mitnick laptop for sale on eBay
- IBM shrinks NetVista desktop
- Red Hat releases Red Hat 8.0
- The Mac OS that can't be tweaked
- Russian hacker, lured by FBI, gets 3-year sentence
- Google unveils mid-market search appliance
- .Mac subscribers grow steadily
- Govt. to unveil top 20 vulnerabilities
- IBM plays tag with new hard drive
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:
- IOL: Sydney - Millions of computers worldwide have been infected this week by a fast-replicating virus called Bugbear and security experts warned on Friday that the threat was still accelerating.
* Security:
- News Interactive: MICROSOFT disclosed several security flaws today, including "critical" problems in many versions of its Windows operating system.
* 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 October, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "Which is your favorite search engine?" Quiz - "Which of the following is currently a hard disk drive manufacturer?" and tip - "Google Toolbar".
- Continued work on the Computer Hope 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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After Windows NT 4.0 installation video only runs at 16 colors.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000170.htm
Copying floppy to floppy
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000019.htm
Emm386 error #00
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000013.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.sans.org/top20/
This week we talk about a website that was released today by the SANS institute and the FBI. This page is a great site to visit for anyone concerned with his or her computer or computer network security. The site lists the Top 20 vulnerabilities for various operating systems and software programs.
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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