NEWS
Out of the Loop: What's in Bill Gates' goody bag? (SearchWin2000.com)
Let's get hypothetical: If a bunch of IT execs went trick-or-treating last night, what would be in their goody bags this morning? Find out in the first in a series of regular humor columns from SearchWin2000.com's own news editor, Ed Parry.
NEWS
Expert: PPTP flaw not critical for most (SearchSecurity.com)
A security expert told SearchSecurity.com this week that the severity of a vulnerability discovered in Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) in Windows 2000 and XP depends on how critical the technology is to an enterprise.
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QUICK HIT OF THE DAY
From the trenches -- network troubleshooting
In part one of this three-part article, network administrator and IT consultant Tim Fenner will walk you through the basic uses of basic TCP/IP connection testing utilities -- and point out ways to use them more extensively.
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SITE FEATURE
IIS discussion forum
Don't you just love that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you help someone? IIS expert Brett Hill is walking on Cloud Nine all the time -- he helps SearchWin2000.com members with their IIS problems. Brett's IIS discussion forum is open to all members who are stumped with Internet Information Server problems. Feel free to help a fellow member out, too, and share in the warmth.
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Leaky connection nets school monster bill
You know how it is when you get a big water bill, wonder why you owe oh-so-much for H2O, then find out that the downstairs toilet (that no one uses) has been hemorrhaging for a month? That's kind of what happened to a primary school in the U.K. A leaky Net connection earned the school a quarterly bill of more than $89,000 -- pretty hefty considering that the school never had Internet access during that time. British Telecom blames a faulty router for continually dialing for a connection, thus causing the bill to bulge. And no, BT doesn't plan to budge on the bill. The school, which gets about $14,000 annually for IT expenses, is trying to get BT and the ISP to pony up some pounds to help with the petrifyingly prodigious payment.
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