*** ANSWERMAN INTERNET EXTRA *** Sunday, June 30 1996 This is a weekly newsletter for the community of new Internet users on America Online. It is brought to you by AnswerMan, AOL's area for those learning to use the Internet. Come see what's new at keyword ANSWERMAN. Got comments about this newsletter? Send them to Kevin Savetz, "savetz" on America Online. ||| IN THIS ISSUE || | Purple's Picks -- CJ Purple gets financial From the Internet Jargon File -- a kludge by any other name... Upcoming AnswerMan Chats -- what's on tap in AnswerMan? The End -- how to reach me or unsubscribe ||| PURPLE'S PICKS || by Sarah Nehrer (CJ Purple) | Hi everyone! Hope everyone is having a great summer! This week we'll talk to those of you who are *really* into personal finance. There's a great web site from CNN dedicated solely to that topic, and it's called CNNfn - The Financial Network (http://www.cnnfn.com). This page updates frequently, so you'll want to reload often to get the latest information. Here's what you can find on this fact-filled page: 1) the Grapevine - full of information about what's in and what's out in the business world, insider tips and gossip; 2) Interact - where you can comment on the business stories of the day (and your opinion may end up on TV!) ; 3) Managing Your Business; 4) Managing Your Money; 5) Markets, which includes commodities, currencies, interest rates, and U.S. and world markets; 6) News; 7) Programs and Transcripts - lists of CNN and CNNfn programs, as well as transcripts from these shows; 8) Resource Center - links to financial resources, site resources, special reports and WWW resources; 9) a search tool to search articles included on the site by keywords, and a link to InfoSeek (see a previous newsletter for more info on that service); 10) a help site which includes help with general Internet questions, WWW questions and suggestions on how to use the CNNfn site to its maximum efficiency; and 11) stock quotes. As if all that weren't enough, there are also links to Hoovers Online, a database of important corporate statistics, and an Almanac that gives you all kinds of interesting information and trivia (business and finance-related, mostly). Pathfinder (which we'll talk about next week) also has a link from here. Needless to say, to check out every single link on this page could take you hours! But if you are obsessed with finding out as much as you can about the business and financial world, this appears to be the place to go! Remember, you can always e-mail me at cjpurple@aol.com. Otherwise, I'll see you all next week! Have a great Fourth of July! ||| FROM THE INTERNET JARGON FILE || | Once again, we present five terms, culled from Net culture, that you didn't know you needed to know. mung Mash Until No Good (or, if you like recursive definitions: "Mung Until No Good." :) To destroy something, usually accidentally, occasionally maliciously. Your computer only mungs things maliciously. (Mung is also a kind of bean. The sprouts are often used in Chinese food.) kluge a. An ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole, such as a Rube Goldberg device. b. A clever programming trick intended to solve a particular nasty case in an expedient, if not clear, manner. Often used to repair bugs. glob To expand special characters in a wildcarded name. For instance, the DOS and UNIX conventions for filename "wildcarding" have become sufficiently pervasive that many hackers use some of them in written English, especially in e-mail or news on technical topics. For instance, the character * means "any string". and "?" means "any single character". In the example "I don't read talk.politics.*" the globbing indicates that the speaker doesn't read any of the talk.politics newsgroups. bogosity The degree to which something is bogus (useless, incorrect or unbelievable). Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading. bogon flux A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". ||| UPCOMING ANSWERMAN CHATS || Chat live with AnswerMan in these hour-long sessions | Pick an interesting topic & bring your questions | Keyword: AM CHAT Make your own Web page - Sunday, July 7, 6PM ET Back once again by popular demand -- itching to create your own home page World Wide Web but don't have the faintest idea how? During this session, the AnswerMan will take you on a crash course on the basics of HyperText Markup Language, creating a web page, uploading it to America Online, and getting the world to beat a path to your homepage. This is the fast track to your own spot in cyberspace. Viruses on the Internet?! - Sunday, July 14, 6PM ET We've all heard the horror stories of viruses--harmful little programs that can destroy computer data. Can your computer get a virus from the Internet? How could it get infected? Can you get a virus via e-mail? What can you do to prevent getting wiped out by a virus? Wouldn't you rather be safe, than sorry? AnswerMan will answer all of these questions about computer bugs that bite, this hour. Internet Censorship - Sunday, July 21, 6PM ET Can you really say what you think on the Internet? Will the government come after you for sharing unpopular ideas or posting dirty pictures? Does AOL censor Web sites and newsgroups? How does the AOL TOS (Terms of Service) limit your use of the Internet? Is free speech dead, or does it thrive on the Net? Ask your questions and share your thoughts during this sure-to-be-interesting hour! Privacy on the Net - Sunday, July 28, 6PM ET Who is reading your e-mail? What can Internet users learn about you and your personal life? Are your computer files safe from crackers on the Net? Just about everyone who has used the Internet has asked one of there questions--this hour, AnswerMan will discuss the issues, debunk the myths, and explore the problems of Internet privacy. Questions and discussion encouraged! ||| THE END || | That's all for this week. Please send any comments or suggestions about the AnswerMan Internet Extra to "Savetz" (from AOL,) or "savetz@aol.com" (from the Internet.) 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