==================================================================== SEARCHWIN2000.COM DAILY NEWS August 30, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/news/0,,sid1,00.html ==================================================================== Sponsored by NetIQ ============================================================ FREE NETIQ AUDIOCAST -- SECURITY IN THE ERA OF E-BUSINESS Go one-on-one with leading security analyst Frank Prince from Forrester Research and security experts from NetIQ during our FREE audiocast, "Security in the Era of E-Business, An Analyst's Perspective". You'll gain insight on IT trends, business challenges and management issues impacting security implementations. Register today! http://webevents.road-show.com/netiq/20010911/start/register.asp?origin=srchw2ktips ============================================================ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAD STORY "Feds thwart Code Red mutant" The FBI is trying to catch a virus. The Bureau says someone is trying to spread a mutated version of Code Red -- some 6,000 computers could have caught it. Agents have warrants for arrest and hope to catch some culprits before they do more damage. One agent says to be vigilant about keeping IIS patched and antivirus software current. SOURCE: Network World http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0829redthwart.html We've got all the Code Red and security information you can eat at http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid1_gci751616,00.html. You don't need to get a clean plate with each trip, and sharing is ok! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- TODAY'S WINDOWS 2000 AND INDUSTRY NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Torvalds: Microsoft's Passport poses no threat [2] Managing the Windows-Linux enterprise [3] IBM tunes dense servers for telcos [4] Microsoft judge orders Sept. 21 meeting [5] EU widens its probe of Microsoft [1] "Torvalds: Microsoft's Passport poses no threat" Mister Linux himself, Linus Torvalds, told developers this week that Passport will not give Microsoft carte blanche to tax Internet transactions. Torvalds said Uncle Sam would not let that happen -- because he's the omnipotent tax guy. Critics fear Passport will give Microsoft a suffocatingly tight grip over the Internet. SOURCE: CRN http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=29415 [2] "Managing the Windows-Linux enterprise" Many Windows managers are adding Linux Administrator to their job descriptions. A Linux management expert explains the challenges of managing the warring operating systems. SOURCE: searchWindowsManageability http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid33_gci763836,00.html [3] "IBM tunes dense servers for telcos" Windows 2000 is now up and running on a shiny, new pair of Big Blue servers. IBM this week has rolled out two rack-dense servers for telecommunications customers that run Win2k as well as Linux. The IBM eServer x300 DC Power Model and the IBM eServer x330 DC Power Model can keep running regardless of AC power conditions and use a whole lot less cable. SOURCE: ENT Magazine http://www.entmag.com/breaknews.asp?ID=4899 [4] "Microsoft judge orders Sept. 21 meeting" Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has already started banging the gavel in the antitrust case. She has ordered both sides, MS and the DOJ, to report by Sept. 14th the lingering problems in the legal battle and ways to solve them. She also set up a meeting on the status of the case for the following week. SOURCE: Reuters http://www0.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1445762l.htm [5] "EU widens its probe of Microsoft" The "eastern front" of Microsoft's legal battle is making news this week. The European Commission is taking a closer look at the Media Player/Windows relationship to see if the bundle is illegal. The EU also thinks Microsoft may have not told vendors about other companies' server software that would work with Redmond's products. 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The error states, "cannot find server or DNS error." My default gateway on the client PC is set to the same IP as my private network nic. My Win2k server has DNS server and DHCP server off. The Win2k server correctly set up the client DHCP and DNS. Is there some other service in the Win2k server creating a problem? See Expert William Boswell's reply: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid1_cid405427_tax285114,00.html ==================================================================== KNOW-IT-ALL QUESTION OF THE DAY! ==================================================================== A technology that puts data from different sources together on an optical fiber, with each signal carried on its own separate light wavelength is called: a. dense wavelength division multiplexing b. frequency-division multiplexing c. Data Space Transfer Protocol d. helical scan e. laser diode Check to see if you are correct! http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid33_gci764124,00.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- SEARCHWIN2000.COM POLL ------------------------------------------------------------------- Did Code Red nail you? Tell us what happened in our new poll at http://searchWin2000.techtarget.com/poll. SOUND OFF! Have a great poll idea? Or just feel like commenting on the current question? Please send your comments, ideas or questions to News Editor Ed Parry at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Please include your name, title and company name. --------------------------------------------------------------- THE MISSING LINK --------------------------------------------------------------- A look at an off-the-wall story off the Web "Porn sites billed users for exotic ports of call - FTC" Madagascar is a place where lemurs live and where some phone customers go to get ripped off. Two adult Web site operators in the U.S. are settling up charges that they connected their subscribers via an international phone line to Madagascar (that huge island in the Indian Ocean). Of course, those subscribers had no idea what was going on, until they got their phone bills and noticed unspeakable sums in the "pay this amount" column. They probably could have flown to the island in first class for a cheaper rate. The sites are paying back more than $26,000 to settle the charges. 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