Experts-Exchange.com Newsletter July, 15 2003
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What's in Experts-Exchange's Newsletter
- Top Networking Experts for July
- #1 Ranked Experts in Networking Topic Areas
- What's New At EE
- Networking News
- EE Premium Services for IT Help
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Top Networking Experts for July
Two weeks ago we highlighted lrmoore as the Top Expert for mid-July. The same is the case this time, and we continue to give kudos where kudos are due. Not only is lrmoore the expert with the most points in the Networking Topic Area this month, but also the #1 Ranked Networking Expert. lrmoore you continue to impress!!
But just to give someone else a chance, we also want to recognize PeteLong as the expert with the second most points in the Networking Topic Area for July. PeteLong has only been an expert since April 2003, and already is making waves as one of the top Networking experts by answering or assisting in 7 Networking solutions, plus earning 65,178 total expert points this month alone. Keep up the good work PeteLong!
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#1 Ranked Experts in Networking Topic Areas
Ranking acknowledges the quality of answers given, in addition to the quantity. The top ranked experts in each topic area have not simply answered a lot of questions, they've also gotten the highest grades for there answers.
These are the top ranked Experts in the Networking Topic Areas:
lrmoore - Windows NT Networking
jlevie - Linux Networking
ShineOn - NetWare
Joseph_R_Thomas - Microsoft Network
nealgs - Broadband
peter_paul - Windows 95 Networking
As mentioned in the last section, the #1 Ranked Expert in the overall Networking Topic Area is: lrmoore
Keep up the good work!
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What's New At EE?
Bookmarking feature for subscribers to the Experts-Exchange Premium Service.
Now our Premium Servie Members can bookmark questions, and then go to their own personal Bookmarks page to see an easy access list of links to questions.
New and Improved Topic Area Navigation
Now all of our members can take advantage of the new navigation in the left bar that allows you to expand and collapse the entire topic area hierarchy instead of just the parent topic areas.
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Networking News
Iomega develops 1.5G byte mini disk for mobile use
"Existing portable storage solutions in today's consumer electronics products are too expensive, too slow, too fragile, or too power hungry for the coming generation of mobile devices," said Werner Heid, president and CEO, Iomega Corporation. "Iomega's exciting new DCT platform is different."
Read the full article here.
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Teleworking Vulnerabilities
"A complete network/IT security policy should include a set of best practices and rules for telecommuters. Some of these practices simply involve common sense - someone just needs to think them through and educate the company's teleworker population about them."
Read the full article here.
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SCO action fails to slow Linux
"SCO's demands that Linux users should pay for UnixWare licences appear to be falling on deaf ears."
Read the full article here.
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Message from our Sponsor: Cisco
Cisco - Attention Network Administrators
now
5.3 MINUTES IS AN ETERNITY.
See how you can migrate your existing voice systems to Cisco IP Communications and still maintain "five nines" (99.999%) availability -- with 5.3 minutes or less of downtime annually. Simplify troubleshooting. Reduce operating expenses through centralized management and call processing. And extend your existing voice and data infrastructure so you can deploy at your own pace while quickening your returns. Get the story now.
The Five Nines Story
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/so/neso/vvda/iptl/5nine_wp.pdf
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