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March 19, 2007 ISSUE 247
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl247.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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Samba ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/samba.htm ) -
Popular freeware software program that allows end-users using SMB/CIFS clients to access and use files, printers and other commonly shared network resources. Samba is commonly used on Linux computers, allowing the network shares to be accessed by other computers such as computers running Microsoft Windows.
The official Samba page can be located at http://www.samba.org
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: 'Wiki' wins spot in Oxford English Dictionary
news.com.com -- If you think "wiki"
doesn't sound like English, you're right. But it's English now. This word born on the Pacific Island of Hawaii finally got an entry into the latest edition of the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED) along with 287 other new words.
03/17/2007 - High-tech slots could transform gambling
03/17/2007 - More video games, fewer books at schools?
03/17/2007 - Microsoft sucks, says top blogger
03/17/2007 - For gamers, Wii is No. 1
03/17/2007 - CBS shoots the NCAA to YouTube
03/17/2007 - Flickr targets Hong Kong market
03/17/2007 - Vehicle warning system trialled
03/17/2007 - Laptops feature secure hard drives
03/17/2007 - Intel gets into the flash hard drive game
03/17/2007 - McAfee maps malware risk domains
03/17/2007 - Your ISP may be selling your web clicks
03/17/2007 - Victims fight back against DMCA abuse
03/17/2007 - Microsoft promises rewards for search engine use
03/17/2007 - Skype Expands Community
03/17/2007 - Can computers
make life-or-death medical decision?
03/17/2007 - 'Wiki' wins spot in Oxford English Dictionary
03/17/2007 - Prankster declares live comedian dead on Wikipedia
03/17/2007 - BBC to suspend its education Web site
03/17/2007 - Google's Blog Software Hijacked by Scammers
03/17/2007 - Dean Koontz Hits Second Life
03/17/2007 - Microsoft offers fix for Outlook Web in Vista
03/17/2007 - Blu-ray aims to oust DVDs within three years
03/17/2007 - Ballmer calls Google's growth plans 'insane'
03/17/2007 - Cisco snaps up WebEx for $3.4bn
03/17/2007 - Web censorship spreading globally
03/17/2007 - Millions miss out on Internet boom: British study
03/17/2007 - Google to anonymize logs in a nod to privacy advocates
03/17/2007 - Rise of the Netflix Hackers
03/17/2007 - RSA to offer Trojan take-down service
03/17/2007 - Train more workers, say IT industry leaders
03/17/2007 - Microsoft to buy voice recognition company Tellme
03/17/2007 -
Companies Aim for TiVo-Proof Ads
03/17/2007 - Web woes for First Direct users
03/17/2007 - China to expand 'Great Internet Firewall'
03/17/2007 - Firefox Takes New Tack on Testing Bug Fixes
03/17/2007 - Gateway Tool Targets Pirates
03/17/2007 - Google has acquired Adscape Media
03/17/2007 - The Movie "300" Made With Macs, CGI
03/17/2007 - US university dumps Windows to go all Mac
03/17/2007 - Nanotechnology reveals fingerprints
03/17/2007 - Colorado Woman Sues To Hold Web Crawlers To Contracts
03/17/2007 - Chinese hackers wake up to malware
03/17/2007 - Viacom's Web guru plans for the future
03/17/2007 - Words of a Man's Mouth spread across the Web
03/17/2007 - 10 most important games of all time
03/17/2007 - 1-Terabyte-Drive PCs Coming from Dell
03/17/2007 - Hackers Promise Month of MySpace Bugs
03/17/2007 - SanDisk Introduces 8GB Camera Flash Card
03/17/2007 - Take Two Sues Jack Thompson over Manhunt 2, GTA4
03/12/2007
- The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu
03/12/2007 - Microsoft's antivirus deletes users' e-mails
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?702007
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:
Microsoft's antivirus deletes users' e-mails
zdnet.com.au -- Microsoft has admitted that its Live OneCare security suite has been accidentally deleting some users' Outlook and Outlook Express e-mails.
* Security:
McAfee maps malware risk domains
theregister.co.uk -- A global road map of the riskiest and safest places
to surf online found Russian and Romanian sites among the top-level domains most commonly hosting malicious downloads, browser exploits, and scams.
Google's Blog Software Hijacked by Scammers
news.yahoo.com -- Google's blogger.com is being hijacked to spread malware through fake blogs, a security vendor has warned.
RSA to offer Trojan take-down service
infoworld.com -- EMC's RSA division plans to launch a new service next month that will help financial institutions take down Web sites associated with malicious Trojan Horse software.
Chinese hackers wake up to malware
itweek.co.uk -- Security researchers are noticing an increase in malware originating from China, which is adding to the challenge of investigating online threats.
Hackers Promise Month of MySpace Bugs
pcworld.com -- They won't divulge their real names, they call their project a "whiny, attention-seeking ploy," and they appear to take their fashion cues from Beastie Boys music videos.
* Privacy:
Google to anonymize logs in a nod to privacy advocates
arstechnica.com -- In its continuing quest not to be evil (or, at least, to be less evil), Google today announced an overhaul of its privacy policy. User searches will no longer be tagged indefinitely with an IP address and cookie information, so privacy junkies can feel better about the security of their search historysort of.
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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- Completed all major changes to new Computer Hope chat system. Correcting many of the issues plaguing the previous Computer Hope chat system.
- Added several dozen new dictionary terms.
- Continued work on new upcoming features.
- Several 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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I can't receive any e-mail attachments.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000889.htm
How do I enable / disable JavaScript in my browser?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000891.htm
How do I add or remove a row or column in Excel?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000892.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://colibri.leetspeak.org/
This week we came across Colibri, a great free utility that can be installed on a Windows computer and allow you to quickly run a program from anywhere without having to move your hand away from the keyboard. Once installed a user can press CTRL + Space to open the Colibri menu and type the name of the program they wish to run, as you type possible selections will appear and allow you to select from the available options. For example, a user could type cal or calculator
to open calculator or not to open notepad.
http://upcoming.org/
Also we recently came across a fantastic website that list upcoming events for your location or for almost any other major location in the world. This is a great way to find out what's going on in your state or if you're traveling somewhere a great way to easily find out if anything interesting will be going on while you're there.
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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