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June 15, 2004

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	What's New at Experts Exchange Feedback, 2 Geniuses and more spoofing Featured Experts Two of EE's best Your Questions and Solutions yuzh, our Page Editor for Solaris		Nata's Corner A letter and more virus talk Inside the Numbers ameba's list of new Certificates Tip for New Members Be clear in what you're asking

What's New at Experts Exchange

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Two Geniuses: Two more names have been added to the Genius list (1,000,000 points in a single topic area): Zvonko in the Javascript topic area, and arbert in the Microsoft SQL topic area. Contratulations, gentlemen, on a job exceedingly well done.

More credit card spoofing: The two latest financial institutions are US Bank and CitiBank. If you get an email from either, asking to verify any personal information, go to the bank's website and follow the instructions.

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Our questions, articles and featured experts were provided by Solaris Page Editor yuzh.

Your questions and solutions		Featured Experts
Still open: Solaris Inventory "I manage a couple of sun boxes which are stored remotely. Can I find out what hardware model these boxes are using commands?" Points: 75 05/25/2004 09:38AM PDT Can you help? Still open: ssh session timout "When I connect to this machine I get dropped after about 5 min of inactivity..." Points: 250 06/03/2004 04:04AM PDT Can you help? Automate Disk format "I want to write a script to automate the disk erasing process. Instead of issuing, format command and selecting 0....15 disk drives individually, is there any way to write script that detects all attached valid disks and erases them all?" Date: 05/06/2004 07:38AM PDT View the solution Ghost-like mirroring tool for Sun boxes? "I'm looking for (don't know if it exists) a tool similar to the Symantec Ghost product for Sun boxes?" Date: 10/29/2003 04:18PM PST View the solution "The Ups and Outs of Low Cost Computing" An interesting article from the Sun Inner Circle Read the entire article.		JustUNIX JustUNIX joined Experts Exchange in July, 2003, and true to his username, has stayed pretty close to the UNIX and Solaris topic areas. He is a system architect and security consultant with about 20 years in the business, and owns his own consulting company. He notes that he doesn't have as much time to participate at EE as he would like, but he's done well enough to get our attention. Login Name: JustUNIX Registration Date: July 3, 2003 Expert Points: 61895 yuzh yuzh is the Page Editor for the Solaris topic area. One of our most active PEs, he says he has been "playing with UNIX since the punch card days", and doesn't like the publicity he deserves for being known by Sun Australia, SunSolve and Sun Inner Circle. We beg to differ; he's one of EE's best. Login Name: yuzh Registration Date: June 21, 2000 Expert Points: 448444 Certificates: Guru, Solaris; Master, UNIX, UNIX Programming Computer101 Ya gotta love 'im. C101 has been around EE for a while: he joined in late December, 1999, and was well on his way to the upper reaches of the Hall of Fame when he was asked to become a Moderator in April, 2001. He became an Administrator in September, 2002. His dedication to EE is matched only by his propensity for fixing his truck and working on his putting.

Tip from the Page Editors: Ask your question in the right Topic Area, and look for subtopics that might be more appropriate. We see a lot of questions asked in Databases, for example, when they should get asked in MS Access or Crystal Reports. If you're not sure, write to the Page Editor and ask, or look at the All Topics page.

One of the least-known new features at Experts Exchange is our new Link Exchange. Our Link Exchange program is beneficial to both sites in a couple ways:
1. The number of resources available to users on both sites will increase
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If you would like to swap links with EE, just fill out the form at the Link Exchange page.

Nata's Corner: Still more virus talk

I got an email the other day from one of EE's members about my note a couple of weeks go, suggesting a few things about virus protection and keeping your computer safe.

One of the comments was about updating your virus protection. I didn't mean to suggest that you have to go out and buy all new virus protection software, but you do have to make sure that it gets updated regularly. That brought up the member's second point: Symantec calls the list of viruses it protects against "definitions", as does McAfee, but other companies use different terms. Trend Micro calls them "virus patterns", for example, but in any case, once you've bought the software, you can update these files as often as you like, for a nominal fee.

The member also brought up my comment about installing a firewall. My cable modem/router has a built-in firewall that I can configure from my computer; the firewall is built into the hardware. But if you don't want to spend the money for protection via the hardware, you can also get the software kind. There are a number of different companies that have (and sell) them; my correspondent says that he likes the one from Zone Alarm because it's easy to use, and best of all, is free.

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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 May 31 through June 12.


Expert	Certified	in Topic Area	Expert	Certified	in Topic Area	Expert	Certified	in Topic Area
Dhaest dancebert 0tacon routinet lucas911 Data-Man alorentz neeraj523 Javatm arbert gregoryyoung sirbounty _ys_ roshmon sramesh2k SheharyaarSaahil Sembee kristinaw	Guru Master Guru Guru Master Master Sage Master Guru Genius Guru Master Master Wizard Sage Wizard Master Master	Visual Basic Visual Basic MS Access MS Access MS Access MS Access ASP ASP Java Microsoft SQL .NET Hardware C++ MFC Windows XP Windows XP Exchange_Server Exchange_Server	pratikroy sunray_2003 robinluo sunray_2003 qwaletee bhagyesht webwoman AlexFM tovvenki diggisaur rockiroads dualsoul jarasa Callandor andyalder lrmoore donjohnston mikecr	Master Master Master Master Master Guru Guru Guru Master Master Master Guru Master Master Master Sage Master Master	Oracle MS Office Outlook Networking Networking Programming Web Development C# C# Microsoft Network Databases XML JSP Storage Storage Routers Routers Routers	CarlWarner richrumble ghana What90 SteveGTR meverest Tacobell777 tovvenki tgannetts MASQUERAID samri tovvenki ewtaylor sunray_2003 Vikas_Dixit duz vzilka	Wizard Master Master Guru Guru Guru Master Master Master Master Guru Master Master Master Master Guru Master	FoxPro Windows Security Windows Security Windows Server 2003 MS-DOS IIS IIS VB.NET VB.NET Miscellaneous Apache ASP.NET VPN Security PowerBuilder Online Marketing App Servers

807 experts have 1161 certifications: Genius:10 Sage:45 Wizard:82 Guru:200 Master:824

Tip for New Members: Be clear in what you're asking

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