COMPUTING NEWS SPRING 2002

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Spring 2002 Issue

What's New

Revised Maintenance Schedule for VMScluster
CC-EMU Lab Logs heavy Use
New Multimedia Equipment in 151 McKenzie
QwestDex Online Telephone Directory Debuts
New Wireless Classroom
Oregon Rates E-Friendliest
New Resource for Web Developers

Microcomputers

Should You Upgrade to Mac OS X?
Supporting Mac OS X
Norton Ghost Saves You from Data Loss
Did You Know?
MacTV Brings Multicast to Mac OS X
Nasty Mac OS QuickTime Exploit

Features

What Happens to Your Email Account in Summer?
Facilities Services Gets FAMIS
Who's Who at the Computing Center
2002 University Website Congruence Study

Networking

NSRC Staff Goes to Ghana
Dealing with Pop-Up-Under Web Ads
VPN Ready for UO Off-Campus Users
Network Infrastructure Companies Struggle
Major ICANN Restructuring Proposed
Smithsonian Connects to Abilene

Security

Basic Firewall Concepts
Microsoft Gets Serious About Improving Security
Trojan Virus Poses as Microsoft Security Update
Security Problems Still Plague Microsoft
BlackICE Defender/Windows Problems
Beware of MP3 Vulnerabilities
Asian Spam

Industry News Headlines

New Hotmail Fees
Tiny DataPlay Disk Packs 500MB Punch
Enron Shuts Down Fiber-Optic Network
Verizon Brings "3G" Wireless to Portland
European DSL Standard Offers Higher Speeds
Bell Labs Breaks Speed Record
Intel Drops RDRAM

IT Training


Carla Meeske uses the new wireless classroom in Condon Hall to instruct her Marketing 199 students in Internet business basics. See related article on page 11.

Computing News is published quarterly by the User Services and Network Applications Group - UO Computing Center - 1212 University of Oregon - Eugene OR 97403-1212
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