Computer Hope newsletter #88
November 17, 2002 ISSUE 88
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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Coaster ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/coaster.htm ) -
Common slang used for either an AOL compact disc or a compact disc that is no longer good either because of scratches or because of a failure during its creations. The term coaster comes from the coaster commonly used to keep watermarks being made on tables from drinks.
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: End of the beginning: Internet Sales Tax
* Internetnews.com: Efforts to impose an eventual Internet sales tax reached the end of the beginning phase Tuesday when representatives from 32 states approved model legislation designed to create a system to tax Web sales.
- Linux server shipments to double next year
- Roxio bids $5.3 Million to buy Napster assets
- Yahoo tests premium-service package
- Where did everyone go?
- IBM dips toe back into handheld waters
- Hackers drop spyware into popular tool
- BIND vulnerabilities raised
- Linux, open source have 'more security problems than Windows'
- FTC sues six in 'Spam' e-mail round-up
- Polymers could push Internet speed
- Gillette to purchase 500 Million EPC tags
- Music giants are going for the burn
- Cray unveils fastest supercomputer
- Teen says game inspired crime spree
- Sunnyvale chip-maker AMD to cut 2,000 jobs
- Red Hat wins over Windows convert
- British 'hacker' fights extradition to US
- Beta of Opera 7 for windows released
- Microsoft says Longhorn to be client-only Windows release
- Microsoft follows rivals into enterprise IM
- Xircom settles with 3Com to tune of $15 million
- End of the beginning: Internet Sales Tax
- Tech legend takes on Microsoft
- Microsoft 's Gates announces $400M investment in India
- Microsoft fixes network glitches
- Web panhandler pays off $20,000 debt
- IBM launches Power4+ chips
- ViewSonic touches Microsoft smart displays
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:
- InternetWeek: Security researchers are warning about serious new vulnerabilities in the BIND software that runs on most Internet DNS servers.
One of the vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on a vulnerable server.
* 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 minor updates to page.
- Continued 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 1MB of system memory.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000016.htm
What does the x stand for on 32x?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000218.htm
Viewing the contents of a file
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000429.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.sanyo.co.jp/koho/hypertext4-eng/0211news-e/1106-e.html
This week we talk about the new and improved "Banryu" home-robot from tmsuk Co., LTD. Banryu, which means "guard-dragon", is a robot that is intended to help protect a users home. The robot is capable of detecting a "burnt scent", detecting motion or intrusion and reporting these events through various methods such as calling the user on his or her cell phone. This could be yet another look at to what each of us may one day have in our homes.
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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