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Double Genius: lrmoore became our first Double Genius last week, as he picked up his second 1,000,000 point certificate in Routers to go along with one he has in Networking. And don't be terribly surprised to see his name here again before the end of summer; he's closing in on the Genius level in Firewalls as well. Congratulations, lrmoore -- you're truly one of the best!
I'll see your 1000mb and raise you: Last week, Yahoo announced it would match the 1Gb email storage offered by that other search engine company, so this week, Google upped the ante to 2Gb, with promises of unlimited poi... er... storage to follow.
All this email storage begs the question: Just how many different versions of the Nigerian scam do you actually need? On the other hand, maybe it's not such a bad thing, all this space. If we all used our Yahoo and GMail email addresses when posing to listservs and usenet groups and such, maybe all the junk in the world would wind up in the Bay Area, and all of us would have nice, pristine inboxes again. Of course, maybe I'll get my $1000 from Bill Gates, too.
No, it's not Carly's severance package: We love distributed computing stuff. GIMPS has announced a new Mersenne prime, found last month by a German eye surgeon. At over 7 million digits, the number would fill 235 pages of the New York Times or .07 per cent of a Yahoo email inbox.
In a related story, Hewlett-Packard hired hired a new CEO, Mark Hurd, giving him a contract worthy of Shaquille O'Neal. We'll bet that Hurd can hit more of his free throws though.
Quick, call Larry Ellison: Just when you thought that a deal was in place for Verizon to acquire MCI, the bankrupt long-distance company got permission to reopen negotiations with QWest. This makes the whole Oracle-SAP-PeopleSoft fiasco seem like buying a cheeseburger from McDonald's.
The Microsoft Corner: eEye reported more new flaws in Internet Explorer and Outlook Express that could allow the installation of back door Trojans by doing something so simple as surfing across a banner ad. Most of the major news outlets reported the story on Friday, April 1, but there's no indication that anyone's kidding.
Does "N" mean Nth SP?: Microsoft has come to an agreement with the European Union over the naming of the EU, "doesn't have Media Player built in" version of Windows XP. This should keep the patch makers in Redmond busy for years, except that Microsoft is already planning the release of Longhorn, the next iteration of the Windows OS.
In a related item, we have seen no website offering a pool on the number of documented-yet-unfixed bugs that will be present in Longhorn on the day it is released. Closest to the actual number, without going over, will also get 15 per cent of $40.7 million from the chief aide to a recently-deceased Nigerian general.
Products we can't live without: The iTreoPod, previewed April 1 by c|net. Other neat April Fool's stuff at Google, at news.com, this year's best, and the best of all time.

Your questions and solutions

Still open: Using virtual directorys in Dreamweaver

"I have created a small site in Dreamweaver, which is held on an IIS6 web-server. I've included a virtual directory on the IIS side, pointing to a folder on the same server but on a different disk with some ZIP and RAR files etc. How can I point links to this virtual directory using Dreamweaver? In Frontpage, these virtual directorys were visible in the folderwiev of the site, but not in Dreamweaver."

Points: 500 Mar 22, 2005 02:01AM PST

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Still open: Problem in Aligning Table

"I am creating a page to place my intro flash file. I am using table. I created a page with bg = black and inserted a table with bg = red, 3 rows and 3 cols. I would like to insert my flash in 2,2 (middle). I align table center and cell 2,2 valign - center. The problem is that table is not centering in the middle of the page. Also how come I see my background black infront of my table (left side and right side)?"

Points: 500 Mar 15, 2005 11:03AM PST

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Still open: Don't know how to connect to Oracle database

"When I try to add a record set and define the Oracle database connection, I have entered the info URL:jdbc:oracle:thin:137.152.40.84:1521:dev with its Oracle login user and its password BUT when I click on the Test button for testing database connection I got the following error message: oracle/jdbc/driver/oracleDrive. Would anyone give me some hints so I can connect the database, thanks?"

Points: 300 Mar 8, 2005 06:59PM PST

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Featured Experts

ryancys

ryancys seems to have been wandering around Experts Exchange forever; as a contractor developing and deploying JSP applications in Singapore, he is active in Visual Basic, VBA, VB.Net, ASP, JSP, Coldfusion MX, Access, SQL Server, Oracle 8i, Photoshop and some Java, and spends a lot of his time in Dreamweaver and Flash.

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Esopo works primarily doing web design and Windows programming using Delphi and Visual Basic, and is also a huge fan of Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX. Besides supporting many Open Source projects, he is also justifiably proud of his status as one of EE's Lounge Lizards.

Registration Date: January 23, 2003

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Nata's Corner: It's about time

woman in specticals You can make the case that if it weren't for all of the flaws in Microsoft's Internet-related programs, I'd be out of a job, because a lot of my columns seem to be about viruses and phishing and things like that.

Microsoft has finally gotten around to going after the people who are giving it a bad name. Gates and Co. filed 117 lawsuits against phishermen last week. Of course, most of them are what are called "John Doe" suits, meaning that Microsoft doesn't yet know who it's suing, but with their resources, maybe they'll put a few of these folks out of business.

This shouldn't come as a huge surprise: I'm an eBay fan. But there have recent actions by various state governments to require some sellers to have licenses of various sorts -- as auctioneers or pawn shops, among other things. The states' reasoning is pretty simple: if a California pawn shop sells something, it collects sales tax of 7.25 per cent minimum, and you had better believe that Ahnold wants his money.

Finally, we've been thinking about getting a new car, but after reading that carmakers are putting black boxes in cars that record speed and seat belt use, I'm not so sure I want one. Not that I exceed the speed limit or anything like that, but I'm not so sure I want my car tattling on me.

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Inside the numbers

ameba, one of EE's prominent Experts, provides us with a list of newly earned Certificates. His list of all of the Certified Experts is located at his site. The list below covers the period from March 20 through April 3.

Expert	Certified	in Topic Area
Arthur_Wood Shauli joeposter649 ThaSmartUno coopzz BriCrowe Kevin3NF Racimo Otana leew COBOLdinosaur justinbillig RozanaZ aikimark calinutz mattisflones Chris-Dent jim_cakalic sudhakar_koundinya mayankeagle aozarov	Sage Sage Guru Master Master Guru Master Master Master Master Wizard Guru Master Master Master Master Master Wizard Wizard Wizard Master	MS Access Visual Basic ASP ASP ASP Microsoft SQL Microsoft SQL Microsoft SQL Microsoft SQL Microsoft SQL JavaScript JavaScript JavaScript Delphi Delphi Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Java Java Java Java

Expert	Certified	in Topic Area
sciwriter SheharyaarSaahil oBdA mdiglio amirinamdar DoTheDEW335 flyguybob angelIII ture Cbrine david251 Dreamboat raterus sachiek thrill_house humeniuk Dave_Dietz gecko_au2003 S-Twilley ihenry oBdA	Wizard Master Master Master Master Master Wizard Master Guru Master Master Master Sage Master Master Master Master Master Guru Master Wizard	Networking Networking Networking Windows XP Windows XP Windows XP Exchange_Server Oracle Excel Excel Excel Excel ASP.NET ASP.NET ASP.NET Web Development Web Development Programming VB.NET VB.NET Win Server 2003

Expert	Certified	in Topic Area
mdiglio BlueDevilFan Sembee black0ps FLAASHER abu_deep mcmonap rindi samccarthy huntersvcs kneH b1xml2 lrmoore R_Rajesh knoxj81 caterham_www Joe_Woodhouse PsiCop Henka	Master Guru Master Master Master Master Master Guru Master Master Master Guru Genius Guru Master Master Master Master Master	Win Server 2003 Outlook Outlook ColdFusion Flash Microsoft Network Databases Storage Storage Storage Applications XML Routers Word Security Apache Sybase Sendmail 3rd Party Tools

1335 experts have 2107 certifications: Genius:35 Sage:99 Wizard:137 Guru:360 Master:1476

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