Computer Hope Newsletter 234

October 30, 2006 ISSUE 234

COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER

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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 viruses, worms, 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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Watt ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/watt.htm ) -
Abbreviated as W, a watt is a unit of electrical power equaling the product of amperage and voltage, and represents the amount of power a device requires to operate. Common measurements are kilowatt (1,000 watts), megawatt (1 million watts), microwatt (.000001 watt), and milliwatt (.001 watt).

See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term 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: With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed

news.com.com -- Mozilla officially released Firefox 2 on Tuesday afternoon, adding security features and a new interface.

10/29/2006 - U.S. must confront IT skills gap
10/29/2006 - Linux guru warns on security of open-source code
10/29/2006 - Year-End Bargains Expected For Flat-Panel TVs
10/29/2006 - Nabaztag: A conflicted Wi-Fi rabbit
10/29/2006 - Breaking through Apple's FairPlay
10/29/2006 - Security firm punctures Vista's Patchguard
10/29/2006 - Cell phone knows when owner strays too far
10/29/2006 - IE v Firefox: the battle begins
10/29/2006 - Apple Posts Fix For MacBook Sudden Shutdowns
10/29/2006 - Public must prepare for 'robot revolution'
10/29/2006 - If You Dislike Microsoft's Windows Antipiracy Checks, Look Out
10/29/2006 - Political bloggers coordinate 'Google Bombs'
10/29/2006 - Verizon unveils Flash Lite for mobiles
10/29/2006 - Adobe Tests New Document Reader
10/29/2006 - Japan: The Missing Million
10/29/2006 - Has Comedy Central Decided People Have Seen Enough Of Its Sho...
10/29/2006 - Gateway to Replace 35,000 Sony-made Batteries
10/29/2006 - Public Beta of Next Winzip
10/29/2006 - Once Again, the PC Built From a Pumpkin
10/29/2006 - Army monitors soldiers' blogs, Web sites
10/29/2006 - Fantasy game wins Joystick awards
10/29/2006 - Copying own CDs 'should be legal'
10/29/2006 - Designing a more accessible web
10/29/2006 - World discusses Internet future
10/29/2006 - You've Got Mail
10/29/2006 - Another flaw in IE 6 found
10/29/2006 - Happy 5th birthday, Windows XP!
10/29/2006 - Firefox 3.0 Already?
10/29/2006 - Mozilla rebuts Firefox 2 bug reports
10/29/2006 - The 15 Freakiest Web Sites
10/29/2006 - In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year
10/29/2006 - Phishing Attack Targets MySpace Users
10/29/2006 - Wikipedia Mulls Copyright Purchase Plan
10/24/2006 - Hacker unlocks Apple music download protection
10/24/2006 - The Internet black hole that is North Korea
10/24/2006 - Telephone banking system recognizes your voice
10/24/2006 - Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
10/24/2006 - Dell talks up being green, upcoming quad cores
10/24/2006 - Dell talks up being green, upcoming quad cores
10/24/2006 - Intel pushing new environmental PC standards
10/24/2006 - Computer beats fastest text messenger
10/24/2006 - Scientists Create Cloak of Invisibility
10/24/2006 - YouTube names names: why is anyone surprised?
10/24/2006 - World of Warcraft:The Burning Crusade game delayed
10/24/2006 - Huge Native American face on Google Earth
10/24/2006 - Steve Jobs declares 2007 to be "one of the most exciting" in ...
10/24/2006 - Apple introduces Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro notebooks
10/24/2006 - 'ID theft risk' on bank websites
10/24/2006 - Diebold Source Code Leaked Again
10/24/2006 - Microsoft Agrees to Arkansas Settlement
10/24/2006 - Final Version of Windows Defender Now Available
10/24/2006 - SGI sues ATI for patent infringement
10/24/2006 - 10,000 Fedora downloads in five hours
10/24/2006 - With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed

Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?2952006

Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm

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3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
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* Virus: No new virus news this week.

* Security:

Linux guru warns on security of open-source code
news.zdnet.com -- Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the U.K. open-source community, has warned about complacency over the security of open-source projects.

Security firm punctures Vista's Patchguard
theregister.co.uk -- Security vendor Authentium has discovered a mechanism to get around Microsoft's controversial Patchguard kernel protection technology, which is due to ship in the 64-bit version of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.

Another flaw in IE 6 found
news.com.com -- Microsoft is investigating a flaw in Internet Explorer 6, according to a posting on the software maker's Security Response Center blog. The ADODB.Connection ActiveX control in Internet Explorer 6.x may contain a vulnerability that can cause memory corruption, and therefore crash the browser.

Mozilla rebuts Firefox 2 bug reports
news.com.com -- A day after shipping Firefox 2, Mozilla on Wednesday largely rebutted two claims of security flaws in the latest version of the Web browser.

Final Version of Windows Defender Now Available
pcworld.com -- Microsoft released the final version of its Windows Defender antispyware tool today, while security rivals squabbled about whether the company has given them sufficient access to Windows Vista to build competing products.

* Privacy:

Phishing Attack Targets MySpace Users
pcworld.com -- Attackers have found a way to use a genuine MySpace account to trick users into disclosing passwords.

Find a direct link to each of the above articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news/security.htm

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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Posted new questions and anwers.
- Various minor updates throughout site.
- Continued work on some upcomming updates.

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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How many people are on the Internet?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000847.htm

How can I edit the registry from the command prompt?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000848.htm

What are the $NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$ folders in Windows?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000849.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

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6. All Talk
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http://www.jamendo.com/
We recently came across Jamendo, an interesting site that allows everyone to download and share his or her music for free and legally. This is a great location to find new types of music and a great location to find open source music or music with no royalty costs.

http://wrongway.org/cube/solve.html
Many people have a Rubik's cube. However, most people become easily frustrated with it after several weeks / months of no progression. We recently came across this great site that allows visitors to enter how their Rubik's cube is setup and then give you each step required to solve it.

http://www.paulsadowski.org/BirthDay.asp
Another fun site we recently came across is the Birthday calculator site, a fun site that gives you complete statistics about the day you were born, including such facts as what celeberties share your birthday, astrology information, how many seconds old you are, and much more.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/
Line rider is a popular Flash game developed by ~fsk at deviantART and something we thought was worth mentioning in this weeks newsletter. In this game a player draws a series of lines starting in the top left and after hitting the play button a small character on a sled rides on your lines. An example of what can be done can be seen in the below YouTube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SVMFCZgvNM&NR

http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/2005/10/top-ten-best-ghost-photographs-ever.html
Finally, in celebration of the U.S. holiday Halloween we thought it would be fun to mention a blog we also recently stumbled across that features the top ten best ghost photographs ever taken.

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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