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New faces: The staff at Experts Exchange, over the last few months, has tripled in size. Joining the Engineering staff are Brian Aberu, Scott Meggelet and Justin Dennahower, and Liz Robertson keeps the office humming. This is all good news for veterans Brian Gardner and Jan Louwerens, who don't have to take ALL of the heat. Welcome aboard, folks!
New Genius: capricorn1, a member of Experts Exchange since January 2001, began learning Microsoft Access about a year ago. Last week he became the fourth Genius in the topic area. Congratulations, cap!
New Points Policy: Last week, Engineering pushed a limitation on the number of points that can be accumulated by EE Members at 500. Members who have fewer than 500 points will continue to receive their five points per day until the cap is reached; when they drop below that level, they will resume accumulating them.
More XP SP2 News: This could go on forever. First, the Windows XP service pack that's on the way to you has a new option in the the preferences (Security tab, Download Images section) to "Block images and other external content in HTML e-mail" that is checked by default. That means you'll get a funny looking Newsletter if you don't uncheck it.
C|Net's News.com.com reported last week that even with SP-2 installed, there's a security hole that can allow an attacker to install a program on a victim's computer after convincing the person to visit a malicious Web site and click on a graphic -- using the standard drag and drop so common to Windows programming. Read the entire story.
C|Net also gave a less-than-spectacular review of the Microsoft release, suggesting it would definitely recommend installing Service Pack 2, but "only after Microsoft has had a few weeks to work out the kinks." Read the entire review.
File-sharing software legal: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled August 20 that the companies that make file-sharing software cannot be held liable for what the users of the software do, according to a story reported by ABC News. The decision is seen as a major blow to the recording and movie industries' attempts to slow the copying and sharing of copyrighted works. Read the story here.
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Still open: Making Linksys PCMPC100 work with Fedora Core 1
"I'm trying to connect a laptop with a Linksys PCMPC100 PCMCIA card to my Win2k network. With a Mandrake 9.2 distro, the computer would hang when the bootup part got to Starting pcmcia. It doesn't hang with Fedora Core, but I couldn't get it to work."
Points: 500 Jan 02, 2004 10:33AM PST
Can you help?
Still open: Need help installing Gentoo on a SPARC 220r
"I have been trying for 3 days now to get Gentoo up on a sparc 220 to no avail... Everything seemed to go ok, but upon reboot I get: Restarting system. Resetting ..."
Points: 500 Jul 28, 2004 11:04AM PDT
Can you help?
Still open: Real Bad Bandwidth Problem
"I have about 13 colocated Linux servers and 1 colocated XP Pro server. Every now and then, our bandwidth goes mental and it sends about 7MB worth of data out."
Points: 500 Jul 28, 2004 07:00AM PDT
Can you help?
Still open: At my wits end, FTP related issue
"When a upload transfer starts, the first couple of seconds are fine, but then everything drops to around 5KB/s, then 3, then 2, then 0.8, etc. and eventually drops out completely. Sometimes late at night, when the user load is down, it does better, but not normal."
Points: 500 Jul 15, 2004 07:20AM PDT
Can you help?
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paullamhkg
paullamhkg joined EE in May 2003. He's been in the IT business for ten years, with four years administering Windows NT4 systems and another four working with Linux. He is currently the IT manager for a Hong Kong company with over 400 employees.
Registration Date: May 31, 2003
Expert Points: 246695
Certificates: Master, Linux, Linux Setup
khkremer
khkremer, a member of Experts Exchange since March 2003, has been using Linux since the very early days -- he is Registered User Number 2116 -- having started using the operating system in January 2002. He is currently working on Acrobat plug-in development and does Windows development in C++ and MFC. khkremer is also one of the hardest-working Cleanup Volunteers we have.
Registration Date: March 4, 2003
Expert Points: 824581
Certificates: Wizard, Adobe Acrobat; Guru, Linux; Master, Linux Setup, C++ Programming, MFC
Netminder
Netminder joined Experts Exchange in late October, 1999 -- a cruel Halloween joke on the site -- and distinguished himself not so much as an Expert, but as someone who cared passionately about the site and the people in the EE community. It took a while to get him into the our ranks ("EE's loss" is his analysis), but since he joined us in January, 2002, he's been the person we go to when we need something organized and written down. He was kicked upstairs to his current position of Site Administrator in November 2002.
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| Tip from the Page Editors: On every page, you can see the Top 15 Experts in each topic area for both the current year and overall, and you can see the Featured Expert, who is the Expert with the most points in the current month. You can see how you rank by clicking on your username, and then clicking the View Rank link. The page defaults to your overall rank, but you can select a topic area. You can also see where you were through a particular date as well. |
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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
2. Site relevance is increased within all major search engines when a site provides links to and from quality resources
If you would like to swap links with EE, just fill out the form at the Link Exchange page. |
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I read a lot of stuff, but I found a couple of articles out of Great Britain that I thought I'd pass along. No, I'm not picking on anyone -- but I wonder what we would say if these same studies had been done in the United States.
The first article is from The Register, a slightly irreverent IT news website. The article says that British PCs are "sick" about nine days every year, which is about two days a year more than the average worker. Two-thirds of the downtime is attributed to spam, with most of the rest due to viruses. Approximately $842 of the $36,000 average annual paycheck of the British worker is spent fighting spam. Read the entire article.
The other article comes from News.com.com, and says that the British government has established regulations requiring companies to implement a three-stage complaint process to deal with, among other things, inappropriate emails that are violations of company policy. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) established the rules when a survey it conducted found that one in ten workers had sent the wrong kind of email to the wrong person, and that 25 per cent of those who received the emails didn't think they were very funny. What ever happened to the stiff upper lip? Read the story here.
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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 August 8 through August 22.
919 experts have 1373 certifications: Genius:14 Sage:56 Wizard:95 Guru:231 Master:977
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