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October 27, 2002 ISSUE 85
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/nl85.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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Public domain software ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/publdoma.htm ) -
1. The term public domain in general refers to the free use of the work or object without any restrictions. This may be because of the lack of a copyright or because the work is no longer owned.
2. When referring to software, public domain refers to software that is able to be freely distributed and used, either because the company has released it to be public domain or because the company is no longer in business. Public domain software may or may not carry a copyright.
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: Brother Recalls Printers
* AP-Washington: A New Jersey company is recalling about 100,000 printers that can overheat, posing a fire hazard.
Brother International Corp., of Bridgewater, has received two reports of printers overheating and catching fire, one of which caused minor property damage, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday. No injuries were reported.
The recall includes laser printers with model numbers HL-1040, HL-1050, HL-1060 and multifunction printers with model number MFC-P2000.
- Terra Lycos cuts 21% of U.S. staff
- Internet sales tax push coming next year
- ATI goes mainstream with new graphics technology
- StorageNetworks preps job cuts
- MSN releases new version of IM
- Torvalds: Next Linux due by June
- Microsoft apologizes for NY decals
- Hot holiday gadget hit stores
- Google excludes controversial sites
- Security experts pinpoint problems in IE
- Cisco buying fewer false alarms
- Encryption method getting the picture
- Mormons put census from 1880s online
- Sharp integrates processor into LCD display
- Microsoft puts its tag on smartphones
- Microsoft to buy Vicinity for location services
- Key Internet servers hit by attack
- Brother recalls printers
- Windows XP Embedded gets first set of fixes
- IBM: Computer heal thyself
- Microsoft starts testing new version of Office
- Is Microsoft licensing forcing banks to break the law?
- Folding@home scientists report first distributed computing success
- Siebel gets hooked by .Net
- Apple vows to snub 2004 Macworld Boston
- AMD's Opteron fuels Cray supercomputer
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:
PCWorld: Flaws in several versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser could allow an attacker to read files or run arbitrary code on a user's system, an Israeli Web application company warned Tuesday.
* 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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- Updated 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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Monitor has a tint of one color
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000243.htm
If a device is removed in Device Manager will it be redetected?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000294.htm
Missing standby option in Windows 98 shutdown dialog box
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000158.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.harmankardon.com/product.asp?cat=CAL&prod=DAL%20150&sType=S
This week while helping one of our users with their computer we came across an interesting product that allows users to easily connect their computer to an audio system through their USB port. This looks to be a great product for users who may want to have a quick easy way to connect their computer to their stereo to listen to their MP3 files for example.
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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