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FROM OUR SPONSOR: FREE UNIX Management Guide http://searchSolaris.com/r/0,,8510,00.htm?unixguide ____________________________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights 1. TOP STORIES AND FEATURES - Featured Topic: Got Solaris questions? Ask Gary! - News: Sun and BEA to bundle in bid to blacken Big Blue - News: Flaw in Sun RaQ servers could hand keys to attackers - News: Microsoft: JVM flaw more serious than first believed - News: Mono project updates .NET for Unix, Linux - News: Out of the Loop: MS versus Java -- let Springer decide 2. TIPS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Ask the Experts: Writing to a RAID5 metadevice - New Poll: Are Java's woes Sun's own fault? - Administrator Tip: Eliminating quotation confusion - The Missing Link: E-panhandlers make Net gains ____________________________________________________________________ *********************** SPONSORED BY: NetIQ ************************ FREE UNIX Management Guide Do you want to improve user experience, exceed SLAs, save time and increase the return on your infrastructure investments? Get "The Top 10 Reports Every IT Manager Lives For" from NetIQ. This free guide explores 10 critical UNIX system views and management reports. Register now! http://searchSolaris.com/r/0,,8510,00.htm?unixguide ____________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCHSOLARIS.COM FEATURED TOPIC | Got Solaris questions? Ask Gary! Solaris expert Gary Smith, a frequent contributor of tips to SearchSolaris.com, is available to answer any questions you have about general Solaris administration. If you have a question for Gary, send it to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. We'll post an answer as soon as possible. >> To check out some of Gary Smith's contributions to SearchSolaris.com, CLICK: http://www.searchSolaris.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid12_gci868769,00.html >> For past SearchSolaris.com Featured Topics, CLICK: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/featuredTopics/0,290043,sid12,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS The headlines below and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/ SUN AND BEA TO BUNDLE IN BID TO BLACKEN BIG BLUE | Bloomberg News Sun has agreed to bundle BEA's application server into Solaris 9 beginning next month as the two firms look for ways to blacken Big Blue. A Giga analyst said that this is a good move and that Sun was "crazy" to be fighting BEA in the first place. FLAW IN RAQ SERVERS COULD HAND KEYS TO ATTACKERS | InternetWeek According to the good folks at CERT, Sun Cobalt RaQ 4 Server Appliances have security flaws that affect certain users. If your systems have the Security Hardening Package installed, this means you. The flaw could let remote attackers run code to take over the system. Sun has issued a patch for the problem and has posted more information at http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/49377. MICROSOFT: JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE FLAW MORE SERIOUS THAN FIRST BELIEVED A serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Virtual Machine for Windows could allow an outsider to remotely control a vulnerable system. A security expert said that exploiting this flaw does not require a huge amount of technical sophistication. (SearchSecurity.com) http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci869142,00.html MONO PROJECT UPDATES .NET FOR UNIX, LINUX | CNET The builders of the Mono open-source development project released an update that lets programmers write Microsoft .NET applications for Linux and Unix. The Mono Project, which is spearheaded by Ximian, an open-sourced desktop software company, is to create an open-source version of the .NET development environment. OUT OF THE LOOP: MS VERSUS JAVA -- LET SPRINGER DECIDE How can we end this whole mess between Microsoft and Sun? Two words: Jerry Springer. (SearchWin2000.com) http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci868709,00.html The headlines above and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS ::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ASK THE EXPERTS | Writing to a RAID5 metadevice QUESTION: Can you still write to a RAID5 metadevice when one of the disks that make up the device fails? >> For Ken Milberg's expert response to this question, CLICK: >> To pose your own question to one of our experts, or to read some of their answers to previous questions, CLICK: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/ateExperts/0,289622,sid12,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TAKE OUR NEW POLL! >> Are Java's woes Sun's own fault? Tell us what you think in our new poll at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/poll. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ADMINISTRATOR TIP | Eliminating quotation confusion The following are some quick guidelines for the use of quotation characters in interactive shell usage or when writing shell scripts. >> For the complete tip, CLICK: http://www.searchSolaris.com/tip/1,289483,sid12_gci866811,00.html >> For our complete library of Solaris Administrator Tips, CLICK: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid12_tax281849_alpD_idx0,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE MISSING LINK | E-panhandlers make Net gains Hang onto your wallet! The indigent, indebted and incredibly audacious are turning the World Wide Web into the World Wide beg. Cyberbegging sites now belong to everyone from an aspiring opera singer to a woman who can't imagine a world where "someone as talented as me was forced to work." And the clicks in all those cyberpails are adding up. One woman managed to dig herself out of $20,000 in credit card debt and parlay her site into a book deal. The moral of her story? It's amazing what you can net off the Net just by asking. (Reuters) >> CLICK: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/12/12/tech.panhandling.reut/index.html >> To view our complete collection of offbeat tales from the world of information technology, CLICK: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid12_tax292504,00.html ********************************************************************* Do you find this email useful? 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