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January 19, 2003 ISSUE 95
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/nl95.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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Bind ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/bind.htm ) -
1. In computer programming, to bind is to make an association between two or more programming objects for a specified amount of time.
2. In computer networking bind is used to allow a resource to be sent or received. For example one may bind a request to TCP/IP indicating that it is ready to receive and or send information.
3. In IBM's System Network Architecture, to bind is to setup a session between two logical units or network end points prior to communicating.
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: Case to step down as chairman of AOL Time
* SmartMoney: AOL Time Warner Inc. (AOL) said Stephen Case has decided to step down as chairman, effective at the annual shareholder meeting in May.
- Will new filters save us from spam?
- Intel exits ASIC Biz, revises 64-bit roadmap
- Yahoo plans big expansion of broadband
- Legendary hacker to get unleashed and online
- Agency scouts for tech hotshots
- Military worried about web leaks
- Canada blocks free Net TV
- Security flaws found in ISC's DHCP
- Uh-oh: Spam getting more sophisticated
- Homemade GPS jammers raise concerns
- FreeBSD 5.0 unleashed
- Drivers license spam scam busted
- Hollywood snubs digital copyright plans
- Microsoft has new plan to share code with Government
- Transmeta builds security features into Crusoe chips
- More computer viruses seen in '03
- Microsoft offers CD copy-protection
- Intel slashes prices on laptop chips
- Cnet lays off 5 percent of work force
- Graffiti's dead, long live graffiti 2
- Multi-vendor game server DDoS vulnerability
- Hollywood muscles Australian ISPs over piracy
- Is the RIAA "hacking you back"?
- Sun opens Linux competency centre in Belleville
- SoBig worm brags its way onto the web
- Apple lashes out at Microsoft settlement
- Judge gives Microsoft 120 days to ship Java in Windows XP
- Internet browser that quadruples surf speed wins Irish science prize
- U.S. e-mail attack targets key Iraqis
- SCO threatens to press IP claims on Linux
- Case to step down as chairman of AOL Time
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:
vnunet: A new worm, similar to Yaha, has been discovered in the wild, mainly in the UK and The Netherlands.'SoBig-A' affects PCs running Windows 95 onwards. It contains an SMTP engine to mail itself out to all addresses on the PC, and can spread through network shares.
* Security:
Internetnews.com: The Internet Software Consortium (ISC) has warned of several buffer overflows in its reference implementation of the DHCP protocol that could allows hackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable systems.
* 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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- This week Computer Hope has mainly been focusing on completing its new search engine. We hope to have it out as beta within the next two weeks.
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've lost my certificate of authenticity can you give me one?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000460.htm
My computer is running slow what steps can I do to fix it?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000179.htm
Is it possible to have two video cards in one computer?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000195.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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This week we were sent an interesting product known as the 'WiFi sniffer' as well as a very interesting competition known as Grid Wars, we thought it would be best to make mention of both of these this week.
http://www.idetect.com.sg/WiFi.htm
The Wi-Fi sniffer (Model WFS-1) looks to be a great addition to an administrators tool belt. This is a great device that is about the size of a credit card and allows an individual to quickly and easily see if a wireless LAN is accessible in a certain area.
http://www.gridwars.com
Grid Wars is an interesting idea and game where individuals develop software programs written in CxC and battle other computers for control of their parallel processors. We are interested to see how this all works out, how long it takes and how successful it is.
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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