Windows-Help.NET News - 23 December 2000, Vol 3 No. 51

23 Dec. 2000, Vol 3 No. 51

Christmas 2000

by Arie Slob

Dear Windows-Help.NET Subscriber,
This is the last issue of the Windows-Help.NET Newsletter for 2000. I know that not all of you "celebrate" Christmas, but most do, so from here I want to wish you happy Holidays and all the best for 2001!
The Newsletter will return to your mailbox with the January 6 issue.

WindowsMedia.com Offers Three Classic Films Online To Launch New Movie Guide for Trailers, Features and Shorts

To mark the launch of the new WindowsMedia.com Movie Guide for trailers, feature films and shorts online, Microsoft Corp. is offering free, full-length streams and downloads of three classic movies over the holidays at the WindowsMedia.com Web site.
The Movie Guide is live today with a full stream and download of the cult classic "The Chinese Connection" starring Bruce Lee. On Dec. 22, three days before Christmas, the Movie Guide will feature a full stream and download of the 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol", considered by many to be the definitive film version, starring Alastair Sim as Scrooge. On Dec. 29, to coincide with the theater release of "Shadow of the Vampire", a new film about the making of the classic silent horror movie "Nosferatu", WindowsMedia.com will offer a full stream and download of "Nosferatu" itself. Both "A Christmas Carol" and "Nosferatu" will be encoded using the breakthrough new Microsoft® Windows Media™ Video 8 codec, which offers near-VHS quality at rates as low as 250 Kbps and near-DVD quality at rates as low as 500 Kbps.
Two downloadable versions of each of the three movies will be offered. One version will be encoded at 400 Kbps for desktop or home TV playback, comprising a download of between 250 MB and 300 MB. The other downloadable version will be encoded at 100 Kbps for playback on a Pocket PC using the new Windows Media Player 7 for Pocket PC and will fit on a 128MB CompactFlash storage device. The streamed versions also will be offered at two rates: 300 Kbps and 750 Kbps. All three movies are provided by FILMSPEED.

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Highlights

	Not Eligible For Fast DSL Internet Services? New efforts are being implemented to bring DSL service to customers located as far as six miles from a switching office. More...
	ICANN's Woes Perpetuated By ICANN Itself Contrary to ICANN's promise of openness, ICANN carries on in secret. More...
	Microsoft Announces Release of "Whistler Embedded" Beta 1 Microsoft Corp. this week announced the beta 1 release of the next embedded version of the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system, currently code-named "Whistler Embedded." More...

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Microsoft Security

Patch Available for "Directory Service Restore Mode Password" Vulnerability

Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability affecting Microsoft® Windows® 2000 domain controllers. The vulnerability could allow a malicious user with physical access to a domain controller to install malicious software on it.

Affected Software Versions

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Note: Windows 2000 workstations are unaffected by this vulnerability.

More information

Patch Available for "Indexing Service File Enumeration" Vulnerability

Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability in a component that ships as part of Microsoft® Windows® 2000. The vulnerability could a malicious web site operator to learn the names and properties of file and folders on the machine of a visiting user.

Affected Software Versions

Index Server 2.0
Indexing Service 3.0

Note: Index Server 2.0 ships as part of the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack. Indexing Service 3.0 ships as part of all versions of Windows 2000.

More information

Recent Windows-Help.NET Support BBS Postings

Missing winsvrc.exe - Windows 98
Deleting Index.dat files - Netscape Navigator
Backups in Windows ME - Windows Me
A Tale of 2 NIC's: 1 for LAN, the other for WWW, how to do it? - Windows NT
Power Management, BIOS vs Windows - Hardware

Web site updates

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InfiniSource.com

Added: New Software Law, UCITA... Caveat Emptor!
Added: Not Eligible For Fast DSL Internet Services?
Added: ICANN's Woes Perpetuated By ICANN Itself

Windows-Help.NET

Added: WindowsMedia.com Offers Three Classic Films Online To Launch New Movie Guide for Trailers, Features and Shorts
Added: Microsoft Announces Release of "Whistler Embedded" Beta 1

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