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February 09, 2003 ISSUE 97
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/nl97.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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Nanosecond ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/n/nanosec.htm ) -
Abbreviated as ns a nanosecond is a unit of time representing .000000001, or 1 billionth, of a second.
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: Leaking Capacitors Muck up Motherboards
* spectrum.ieee.org -- It has all the elements of a good thriller: a stolen secret formula, bungled corporate espionage, untraceable goods, and lone wolves saving the little guy from the misdeeds of multinational corporations. In this case, a mistake in the stolen formulation of the electrolyte in a capacitor has wrecked hundreds of PCs and may wreck still more in what is an industry wide problem.
- Broadband Over Power Lines? It's Possible
- Internet access grows, but slowly
- MSN deliberately breaks Opera's browser, claims company
- PalmSource cuts 18 percent of work force
- Pixar switches from Sun to Intel
- India's external storage market at $36.5 mn
- Big Surprise: Microsoft, IBM, Oracle Deemed Top Players In Web Services
- Microsoft Provides SQL Server Patch Kit As Experts Question Patch Practicality
- Report: Bush Considering Cyber Warfare
- Bush Data-Mining Plan in Hot Seat
- FBI seeks hacker of eBay users' info
- Sun lets slip Solaris 9 on Intel
- Leaking Capacitors Muck up Motherboards
- Microsoft issues security bulletins for IE and XP
- Japanese scientist invents 'invisibility cloak'
- Grid computing at work against smallpox
- Chat room friends come to Burnaby woman's rescue
- Is Microsoft Afraid of Open Source?
- Dell: It's Time Floppy Drives Go Way Of The Dodo
- Dot profits: Net firms bouncing back
- Microsoft and MIPS form Windows CE alliance
- Phantoms of the Opera driven out
- Yahoo tests new search layout
- Motorola strengthens computer group with tech acquisition
- Apple trims prices, product array
- Pro-Saddam Kooks Hack NASA
- Security Flaws Found in New Opera Browser
- Desktop Linux group launches
- Comdex operators file for bankruptcy
- Microsoft Moves on Ruling in Sun Case
- Apple dealers biting back Mac sellers say computer maker cuts them out in favor of its outlets -- and they're fighting mad
- Slammer Was Fastest Spreading Worm Yet
- Xbox losses mount; Office profits up
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:
- Internetwk.com -- In the wake of the Slammer worm, Microsoft posted to its Web site three tools designed to help users identify vulnerable instances of SQL Server 2000 on their network.
- infoworld.com -- Microsoft issued two security advisories Wednesday, pointing to a "critical" flaw in its Internet Explorer browser and a second, less severe problem with its Windows XP operating system.
* 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 has been continuing to work on its scripts. Although behind schedule we have posted the open beta of our new search engine. You may test this new search engine at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/bsearch.cgi
Our new search engine has several new and improved features. The most significant of these is the new search capabilities. In the past our search engines results were based off keywords, however the new search engine indexes the whole site fast and efficiently. Like our past search engine the results for each of the pages are placed into folders. These folders include a standard pages folder, help pages folder, question and answers folder, dictionary pages folder, company contacts folder, computer games folder, history folder, and finally a newsletter folder when matches are found.
Although the search engine is not complete and is still being worked on, feel free to contact our webmasters with any issues that you encounter and/or any recommendations you would like to make.
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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Receive error when CD is put in computer.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000212.htm
Windows 9x error "Data or no disk loaded" when audio CD inserted.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000176.htm
Location of Qbasic in Windows 95 / Windows 98.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000008.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.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html
Earlier this week we linked to an optical camouflage in our news section. This week for our 'All Talk' section we thought it would be more informative as well as interesting to link directly to the Optical Camouflage section of the Tachi Lab website. Optical Camouflage allows a projected image to be masked onto a masked object, causing the object to appear transparent. On this site you will find additional information about this technology as well as movies and pictures demonstrating its capabilities.
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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