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January 1, 2007 ISSUE 240
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl240.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 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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Syntax ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/syntax.htm ) -
1. When referring to a programming language or command, syntax is a set of rules that are associated with the language or command.
2. When referring to an error, a syntax error is an error that is encountered when the programmer or individual who wrote the code has not followed the rules of the language, causing the program to fail.
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: Earthquakes Disrupt Internet Access in Asia
pcworld.com -- A pair of powerful earthquakes off the coast of Taiwan damaged undersea cables and disrupted telephone
and Internet access today in Asia.
12/31/2006 - Samsung Demos 'One Month' Fuel Cell for Notebooks
12/31/2006 - Hynix DDR shipment hijacked in Taiwan
12/31/2006 - French space agency to publish UFO archive online
12/31/2006 - Virtual reality to get its own network?
12/31/2006 - Reading a DVD with VLC or mplayer is now illegal in France
12/31/2006 - YouTube hosts New Year's Eve Bash
12/31/2006 - Low-cost laptop could transform learning
12/31/2006 - 50 Coolest Websites
12/31/2006 - Some rethink posting of private info
12/31/2006 - IT disasters you never hear about
12/31/2006 - Chess player caught cheating with wireless device
12/31/2006 - PayPal 'Virtual Debit Card' Beta Seeks to Eliminate ID Theft
12/31/2006 - Hot picks: the best tech of 2006
12/31/2006 - UK home computer pioneer honoured
12/31/2006 - Spam Volume Jumps 35% In November
12/31/2006 - iTunes back to normal after slowdown
12/31/2006 - Computer Warming a Privacy
Risk
12/31/2006 - Watch Out For "Happy New Year" Worm!
12/31/2006 - Colorado woman selling snow on eBay
12/31/2006 - The Internet -- a fragile system threatened by natural disaster
12/31/2006 - E-mail school reports considered
12/31/2006 - MPrint MW-260, the new Brother compact printer
12/28/2006 - Real robots
12/28/2006 - Anti-spam tool ceases as spammers evolve
12/28/2006 - Google Passes Yahoo as Second Most-Visited Web Site
12/28/2006 - The Year in Online Video
12/28/2006 - Microsoft Tries To Patent RSS
12/28/2006 - The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year
12/28/2006 - Business of blocking games is a growing one
12/28/2006 - Social networks influence online holiday shopping
12/28/2006 - 2006: The year in tech
12/28/2006 - All bets off as casino refuses to pay jackpot
12/28/2006 - HD DVD's AACS Protection Cracked
12/28/2006 - Web kid with attitude says sucks to $1bn
12/28/2006 - Wiki Search Planned
12/28/2006
- Earthquakes Disrupt Internet Access in Asia
12/28/2006 - YouTube Responds to Japanese Complaints
12/28/2006 - News At Seven Brilliant, and Probably Useless
12/28/2006 - Hacker Con Submits to Spychips
12/28/2006 - 100 things we didn't know last year
12/28/2006 - iPod tops annual Amazon charts
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?3582006
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:
Watch Out For "Happy New Year" Worm!
blogs.pcworld.com -- Verisign is warning of a new e-mail worm arriving in inboxes with
the subject "Happy New Year!".
Websense: Skype worm on the loose
news.com.com -- Internet security firm Websense has discovered a worm that uses Skype to propagate.
* Security:
HD DVD's AACS Protection Cracked
gizmodo.com -- They told us it was bullet-proof, unbreakable. Yet in a mere eight days, a hacker by the name of Muslix64 has managed to single-handedly break the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), the standard that Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, and others developed to protect HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. The BackupHDDVD software is posted online on a Doom 9 forum thread along with the volume and title keys needed to decrypt Full Metal Jacket, Van Helsing, and a few other popular HD DVD titles. Time to, er, backup those movies.
Mozilla Releases 'Critical' Patches for Firefox
cio-today.com -- Despite the newly patched flaws, Mozilla's Firefox browser is widely believed to be safer than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which suffers from countless
hack attempts on account of its popularity. More than 80 percent of all Web surfers use Microsoft's browser, putting a target on Redmond's back that hackers, who want the most bang for their coding buck, have been all too happy to aim for.
* Privacy:
Computer Warming a Privacy Risk
wired.com -- A security researcher has a devised a novel attack on online anonymity systems in which he literally takes a computer's temperature over the Internet.
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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* With the new month of January, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "Are you upgrading to Windows Vista?" as well as results from last months poll, Quiz - "Which part
of the computer does an EIDE cable connect to?" and Tip - "Windows XP mouse Snap To".
- Posted new questions and answers and posted our 900th question and answer.
- Posted several hundred updates.
- Re-uploaded all pages on site for new year.
- Performed dozens of other minor updates throughout site.
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 can I create a photo slideshow?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000865.htm
How do I install MS-DOS?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000866.htm
How do I copy a web page link?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000867.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.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2006.html
Google has released their Zeitgeist for the year 2006. This is a great page to find the most popular searches for the year 2006, what was hot, milestones,
and more.
http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/info_48.html
We also recently came across a Metal Pen, a pen that has no ink and nothing to dry out and does not require sharpening. The site claims that the pen will work just as well in 25 years time as it does today. Now only if there was a way not to loose it.
http://video.stumbleupon.com/
Finally StumbleUpon recently released Stumble Video a great service that grabs online videos from sites such as Google Video and YouTube. What makes the site fun is the ability to Stumble on videos in different categories (channels) quickly and easily. The site
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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