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December 15, 2002 ISSUE 91
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/nl90.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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Dvorak keyboard ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/d/dvorak.htm ) -
Developed in 1936 the Dvorak keyboard has all vowels and punctuation marks on the left side of the keyboard and consonants on the right side.
An illustration of the Dvorak keyboard may also be found on the above link.
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: DIRECTV discontinues broadband service
* DIRECTTV writes: We have some difficult news to share. With the dramatic change in the capital markets and the significant shift in the telecom operating environment, DIRECTV Broadband can no longer stand as an independent business.
It is our sincere regret to inform you that DIRECTV Broadband will discontinue operations. DIRECTV Broadbands network will be operational for a minimum of 30 days. We are working with our last-mile carriers to determine alternatives for your broadband service.
- New Netscape punctures pop-up ads
- AOL cuts 300 jobs
- NEC, HP team up for global outsourcing services
- General Magic files for chapter 11
- Oracle's Ellison backs storage start-up with $100M
- Spam headaches bring more pain
- 'Firefly' display could light up TVs
- The world according to Google
- DIRECTV discontinues broadband service
- Vulnerability could allow attackers to take over Sun RaQ servers
- Online advertising set to boom in 2003
- HP inks 5-year pact with Hughes
- Microsoft patches eight software holes
- Faster, cheaper Windows installations
- Prosecution hammers away at 'DVD Jon'
- SuSE beats Red Hat in ease of use
- HP adds to Microsoft partnership
- FBI to cast Net over fugitive
- Computers' shelf life gets livelier
- Struggling liquid audio may sell assets
- Bluetooth in five minutes or bust
- High-schoolers find winning in science
- Microsoft expected to offer Linux software
- Australian court in landmark Internet ruling
- FBI: Hacker stole 80,000 credit cards
- Study refutes e-mail myth at work
- Organized crime flexes muscles online
- Yahoo plays host to small biz
- India draws corporate support for Linux
- IBM claims world's smallest silicon transistora, says Amnesty report
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 information this week.
* Security:
- PCWorld: A serious security flaw in Microsoft's virtual machine found on most Windows PCs could allow an attacker to take over a user's system, Microsoft warned late Wednesday. A fixed version of the software is available.
Microsoft's VM is used for running Java applications on Windows PCs and comes with most Windows and Internet Explorer versions. All builds up to and including build 5.0.3805 are affected by eight security flaws, six of which pose a "low" or "moderate" risk to users, Microsoft said in security bulletin MS02-069.
- Information Week: CERT issued an advisory about a security vulnerability affecting Sun Cobalt RaQ 4 Server Appliances, which, ironically, only affects systems with the Security Hardening Package installed. The vulnerability could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code to take over the system.
* Privacy:
- CNN: Israeli police, aided by the FBI, arrested an Israeli suspected of hacking into computers of a U.S.-based electronics company and stealing personal information, including the credit card numbers of some 80,000 customers, according to court document released Sunday.
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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- Continued working 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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I can connect to the Internet however cannot open any web pages.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000268.htm
Loud pop or crack when turning on computer.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000205.htm
Cab CD-ROM drives be mounted vertically?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000220.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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Google has recently releases several new features that we have really enjoyed. This week for our all talk section we thought we would mention each of new available options from Google as well as an explanation on each of them.
http://froogle.google.com/
Froogle is likely to be the more commonly used new features that Google has made available. Froogle enables users to easily search for the lowest prices on any product. Although still in beta this product looks to be a very promising product and should prove useful during the holiday shopping season.
http://labs.google.com
Two new available demos have been made available in the Google labs. The first demo called the 'Google Viewer' allows a user to search for a topic and then go through the results automatically, similar to a slide show. The second demo known as the 'Google Webquotes' enables a user to get quotes from a third-party about the item searched for.
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2002.html
Finally, the Google Zeitgeist is more of a listing of interesting information containing various search results on different topics for the year 2002.
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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