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December 29, 2002 ISSUE 92
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/nl92.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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Explode ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/e/explode.htm ) -
Also known as uncompress, explode is the process of taking a compressed file and restoring it back to its original form.
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: Online shopping passes
$11 billion
* CNET: Shoppers continued to hit the Net as the holiday shopping season headed into the final lap, spending $11.35 billion between Nov. 1 and last week.
- AOL: It's got subscriber problems
- DRAM chip glut could lower prices in 2003
- On-line shopping passes $11-billion (U.S)
- Govt. move on to let in Linux
- Web's infiltration grows
- A short circuit for US engineering careers
- Welsh web designer pleads guilty to virus creation
- Axis launches Linux multi chip module
- Hacker Mitnick's happy new year
- Spam under the tree
- Attack of the killer web robots
- Yahoo privacy worries
- 1.5 terabyte DVD on way
- IT spending projected to rise in next few years
- Dell gets Hon Hai to make two million PCs
- Micron Technology, Inc., demonstrates industry's first 0.11 Micron 1 Gigabit DDR SDRAMs
- Outlook to Lotus: Let's talk
- White house scrambles to defuse privacy concerns
- Queen netted in web of bad faith
- High-tech billboards tune in to drivers' tastes
- Microsoft sued for refusing source code
- Yahoo! gets Inktomi for $235M
- Microsoft plots Macromedia coup against Java
- Bush signs e-Government act
- Promoting web access for the disabled
- Computers compromised in a Flash
- Picture this: Google images on Sprint PCS
- Student gets 'A' for hacking school computer
- PaineWebber ex-employee charged with fraud
- CERT warns of SSH vulnerabilities
- Airline to offer Internet access in '03
- Home user insecurity spurs email virus growth in 2002
- Apple keeps OS 9 alive for a few more months
- .Net my service . Gone but not forgotten
- Microsoft unveils entertainment software
- Gateway: Free computer with purchase
- Mod chip crackdown at Christmas
- HotBot offers one-stop web searching
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:
- Globe news: A flaw found in Macromedia's animation software leaves Web surfers vulnerable to attack when they visit an Internet site or, possibly, open an e-mail, a security firm says.
- Internetnews.com: The CERT Coordination Center has issued a warning that vulnerabilities in multiple implementations of SSH could allow hackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the secure SSH process or cause a denial of service.
* 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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- Computer Hope is preparing to upload several hundred new and modified pages over the next few days in preparation for its monthly and yearly update. We plan on having these updates performed at and around 10:00 PM (MST) on December 30th 2002 through January 3rd 2003. Information about this site wide update will be posted in next weeks newsletter as well as on our what's new page as they occur.
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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Unable to find monitor listed in Windows driver listing.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000244.htm
How to disable / enable screen savers?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000339.htm
Installing a PC computer network card.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000418.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.ivdr.org/iVDR/ivdr_e.html
This week we talk about a new technology known as iVDR. iVDR is short for Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage and is a new 2.5-inch removable ATA hard disk drive storage medium. The idea behind iVDR is to allow the consumer to utilize the storage disk in a wide range of devices, for example the users personal computer, home and car stereos, TV's, etc. iVDR looks to be a promising technology and we look forward to seeing it widely used and available in appliances when ready.
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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