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  1. Newegg on Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts? · · Score: 1

    I habe been purchasing from Newegg for about 10 years now. They have been the best. Prices are low even compared to the same items local with shipping. They beat most local stores by about 20 to 30 percent, with shipping. There return policy is great.
    If you have a real problem with an item and you want to return it, it is easy to do, just go online and in your account request a return and an RMA is created there, No hassles.
    I have spent in the last 10 years over 100 grand with these people and I would say I have had maybe one or to problems with equipment or shipping, but they have always made good on there products.
    I really never go any place else to look. Not worth the effort.
    One thing they do not do is tech support. But they do have a tech website where you can ask questions in the forums before and after purchasing a product.

    These guys offer everything in computers and technology. If you need/want it they have it.
    Trust Newegg, I do.

  2. Re:Oracle's listener on port 1521 on Half a Million Database Servers 'Have no Firewall' · · Score: 2, Informative
    Well if you would have read the article before writing you would have read that he tested the systems for patches, that would mean the server would have to be running to do this.

    There was one other disturbing finding in Litchfield's 2007 survey: Many of these unprotected databases are also unpatched. In fact, 4% of the SQL Server databases Litchfield found were still vulnerable to the flaw that was exploited by 2003's widespread SQL Slammer worm. "People aren't protecting themselves with firewalls and the patch levels are atrocious," he said.

    About 82 percent of the SQL Servers were running older SQL Server 2000 software, and less than half of those had the product's latest Service Pack updates installed. On the Oracle side, 13% of the servers were running older versions of the database that no longer receive patches. These Oracle 9.0 and earlier databases are known to have security vulnerabilities, Litchfield said