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New virus hitting in-boxes
News Antivirus firms yesterday warned of a new mass-mailing computer virus that has gained a foothold in a large number of PCs by masquerading as an e-mail error.
Tags: Viruses and worms
Lotus flaw reported--but IBM's unfazed
News Big Blue shrugs off report of a vulnerability in some versions of its Lotus Domino Server e-mail and calendar software.
Tags: Security Management
Delegates: English isn't good enough
News Participants at U.N. summit want more internationalization, noting that the English language enjoys an unfair Net monopoly.
Tags: Web sites, Government
Use VBA to find hidden Excel sheets
Techguide If you have hidden sheets in Excel, it might be helpful to programmatically manipulate those sheets.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Document, File, Backup, File System, ASCII, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Access
Google: Unicode vanquishes ASCII
News Unicode conquers ASCII on the Web and improves international search abilities.
Tags: Web sites, Protocols and platforms, Unicode, Google Inc., ASCII, News.com, blog, Web Site, software architect, typewriter
Strong password management for the mobile user
Techguide Truly strong passwords are necessary to protect our information, but they can be a pain to generate, manage, and access globally. Check out two free online tools that can help.
Tags: Mobile, PC security, Authentication and encryption, Data security, Security applications/tools, ASCII, Password, Strong Password, XML file, Xecrets
The mark of a number
Blogs It's the 6th day of the 6th month in the 6th year of the millennium. Most of us would recognize that as a symbol of the ...
Encrypting and decrypting files with GnuPG
Techguide You can use GnuPG, the open replacement for PGP, to manage cryptographic signatures to files or e-mail, as well as a tool to encrypt and decrypt sensitive files.
Tags: Digital signatures, Open source
Another eBay scam fishes for bank details
News Another email scam is targeting the users of eBay, claiming their use of the auction site has been restricted until they update their account information.
OSDL names senior exec for Asia
News U.S.-based Open Source Development Labs has appointed a new executive to spearhead its Linux programs in the region.
Tags: Linux, Open source
ICANN tests global domain names
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers plans to test Arabic, Chinese and other non-Roman characters in domain names in the second half of this year.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names
Get started with GnuPG
Techguide Available with every Linux distribution, GnuPG can be used to encrypt regular files or e-mail and can also verify the integrity of files or e-mail via cryptographic signatures.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Ensure your Web site displays properly with character encoding
Techguide Tony Patton discusses the importance of character encoding used in a Web page and how to choose the right one.
Supercomputer predicts Big Blue skies
News Apparently, you not only need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, you need one who's got an IBM supercomputer. At least the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts seems to think so.
The challenges of maintenance programming
Techguide Learn about some tools that can make code maintenance more efficient, and hence reduce the cost of programming.
Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development
