This newsletter has been designed to maintain links with customers and provide an information service for internet users generally.

Please visit us at http://www.engadineweb.com.au and signup for this monthly newsletter.

Editorial

This month's newsletter is a little early as I will be in Adelaide for a week.

Those who are using Hosting Shop hosting services will have noticed considerable downtime on Friday 10 September. Hosting Shop use Powertel Co-location Facility for their telecommunications services. PowerTel owns and operates the third largest fixed fibre-optic telecommunications network in Australia. As impressive as this is, they were not immune to a spike in their power supply which was the cause of this outage.

I know that there were some concerned and upset customers, however Hosting Shop was not at fault. To ensure that this does not happen again Hosting Shop are relocating all their servers within the next 4-6 weeks.

Be assured that Hosting Shop considers service reliability as a high priority with a service level of 99% uptime.

On a number of occasions customers have asked me to re-send newsletters as they had accidentally deleted them. All archive newsletters are now available on my website as a menu option, please visit http://www.engadineweb.com.au/pg_news.php.

Bruce Beresford, Manager & Editor

In this Issue:

• Featured Site
• Virus Watch
• Unpatched PCs compromised in 20 minutes
• How Stuff Works
• Appeal over domain notices dismissed by Federal Court
• Quotes of the day

Featured Site  

This month's featured site is blushgirl make-up artistry.

Michelle Crofts of blushgirl make-up artistry is a professional Sydney based makeup artist who specialises in creating beautiful personalised wedding makeup for the modern bride.

Michelle Crofts of blushgirl make-up artistry is a dedicated and professional makeup artist who is passionate about her work.

Michelle studied at the Napoleon Makeup Academy and keeps up with the ever changing beauty industry by regularly attending beauty/makeup workshops to keep up to date with the current fashion trends.

Her friendly, helpful manner and expert advice will ensure you will look your very best for that special occasion.

Whilst working on magazine shoots, fashion shows and with modeling agencies her chosen and passionate field of work is weddings and blushgirl make-up artistry offers a mobile service throughout Sydney.

Visit Michelle's website and review the services offered.

Virus Watch  

Latest Threats - from Symantec

13-09-04 W32.Spybot.DNB

13-9-04 W32.Spybot.DNC

Unpatched PCs compromised in 20 minutes  

Don't connect that new PC to the Internet before taking security precautions, researchers at the Internet Storm Center warned Tuesday.

According to the researchers, an unpatched Windows PC connected to the Internet will last for only about 20 minutes before it's compromised by *malware, on average. That figure is down from around 40 minutes, the group's estimate in 2003... >>>More TechRepublic Article

*Malware (for "malicious software") is any program or file that is harmful to a computer user. Thus, malware includes computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and also spyware, programming that gathers information about a computer user without permission.

How Stuff Works  

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

How Stuff Works (HSW), created by Marshall Brain, a computer scientist and award-winning educator formerly at North Carolina State University, is designed to provide science information and electronic links to science and technology sites, museums, magazines, and other question and answer sites. Brain, author of A Teenager’s Guide to the Real World and nine other books, targets a teenage audience, but this fast loading, highly navigable, well-illustrated, and fascinating site is useful to younger children and to adults who seek information about how things work. The information presented is current and very few hotlinks could not be accessed. Primary features include:

• Sixteen major categories (such as Engines, Food, Your Body, Computers, Gadgets, Basic Technologies, Electronic Devices, and Things Around the House);
• 14 Power Panel links (Table of Contents, Newsletter, Books, Awards, Author Information, etc.);
• The Big List (a comprehensive tabulation of topics;
• The Question of the Day (and its archives); and
• ICE search engine.

Brain depends upon readers’ questions and the answers contributed by experts (other authors, websites, press releases, and his own BYG Publishing Company in Raleigh, NC) for site content. Electronics, technology, biology, physics, chemistry, and computer science are site strengths, and some geology, American history, and finance are included. Topics in anthropology are represented infrequently. If anyone is interested in how ATMs, VCRs, and UPC bar codes function; how aspirin, light sabers, Internet cookies, Cruise missiles, Furbys, and kidney dialysis work; how crayons, plywood, and cell phones are made; or in Boolean logic, calculating UV indices, dental implants, gas turbine engines, and a seemingly endless list of other topics—this is a valuable Web resource. As testament to its value and accuracy, this site won more than 20 awards, including the 1998 “Cool Site of the Year,” just during the past twelve months.

Science NetLinks... Reviewer Name: Charles C. Kolb; Reviewer Affiliation: National Endowment for the Humanities.

Great site, worth a place in your Favorites...

Appeal over domain notices dismissed by Federal Court  

The Federal Court has rejected an appeal by Domain Names Australia (DNA) and its director, Chesley Rafferty, against a finding in April that domain name notices distributed in July and September 2003 were "misleading and deceptive".

According to a release from auDA, the .au domain name administrator, the appeal judgment, published today, "dismisses all aspects of the appeal and awards costs to auDA".

Now that is good news however they have not stopped Domain Registry of America who are still sending unsolicited renewal invoices to unsuspecting domain name owners. Those who renew their domain name (at inflated prices) using this service will just be making this company richer and will still have to renew their domain with the original company if they have missed the fine print advising the requirement to carry out a domain name transfer.

In an attempt to avoid customers falling prey to these people I offer a free Domain Name Management service to my customers. With this service in operation, the only renewal notice that you must act upon is one from Engadine Web Services; throw all others in the bin. Most of my customers have opted in and by default all new customers are placed under this management system. If you are not sure whether your Domain Name is being managed by us, just send me an email and I will let you know.

Quotes of the Day  

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. A. H. Weiler (1909 - 1943)

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939.

Brought to you by The Quotations Page

Have any questions relating to the internet or your computer? Let me know and I will research an answer and use this for future entries in our newsletter. Pass on your questions via the Enquiry Form on our Web-Site or send me an email.

If you have a friend or associate that you feel would benefit from receiving this newsletter please forward it to them for their review...

You have received this newsletter as you are an Engadine Web Services Customer or you have subscribed via our web-site.

To Unsubscribe from this newsletter 'click' the link and send an empty email...