Posted by Tom Whiting on 05 May 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized|
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Loading ...So, what is hacking really?
Is it an all encompasing word that should be used when ‘bad stuff’ happens? No
Is it a phrase that is often over-used to promote one’s own ego? Yes
Is it something that is catastrophic and unrecoverable from? That depends on what was done.
Posted by Tom Whiting on 27 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized|
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...So, I woke up this morning, doing my usual ‘news’ rounds, seeing if anything interesting had happened, and lo and behold, I ran across this article , in my rounds. This is just disturbing for more and more reasons, but, the most important reason? Well, read more to find out.
Posted by Tom Whiting on 09 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized|
(1 votes, average: 2 out of 5) Loading ...Inevitably, it was going to happen, right ? 
Sorry about the downtime, folks, in the process of moving things around to a more efficient database server, I ended up (accidentally) deleting the blog database. Thankfully, I follow my own advice and had backups a plenty ready, but, OOPS!
Yes, it took me a few days to realize, with all the craziness of life, and again, I apologize. I’ll try not to do it again, though I’m hardly perfect!
Posted by Tom Whiting on 23 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: The Spam Issue|
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...We all know that spam in the mail is bad. In fact there are studies proving that mail spam is one of the highest costing resource around. Let’s face it, deleting spam, figuring out which is spam, all this takes time, and, time = money. Thusly, mail spam is costing companies money.
That’s not the topic of this one though . In this entry, I’ll cover a few tricks for getting rid of spam bots, comments, and the like. Please note that a LOT of this stuff is more advanced than the regular setup, and believe it or not, it takes a LOT of work to get off the ground and going right. Continue Reading»
Posted by Tom Whiting on 15 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: The Spam Issue|
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...If you’ve been doing business for any reasonable length of time, you will notice that one area gets flooded with spam above everything else, the helpdesk.
Why? Well, this is a guaranteed way to get your mail through (well almost). Any reasonable company will have support@ addressed through mail, almost guaranteed, and of course, it’s a spammer’s dream! Guaranteed delivery of e-mail, WOOH!
Posted by Tom Whiting on 02 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: The Spam Issue|
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...We all know spam is a global problem. The question? How to get rid of it, or how to take control of it. There are plenty of ways to do this, and this post will (hopefully) help you get things straightened out and figured out in how to address this issue. Please note, that from hereon , in this post, I will be assuming that you are using CPanel, have root access, and can change things around in the shell. If you’re not comfortable with SSH access, we can help you out, you just need to contact us for a quote.
Posted by Tom Whiting on 01 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: phpdocs|
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...So, after a bit of harassment and whatnot (people harassing me, mind you), I’m releasing the LTN :: PHP patch and distribution, as well as maintaining an (un)official php mirror.
What is this distribution you may ask? Yeah, ok , maybe you don’t care, but I’ll answer anyways . Continue Reading»
Posted by Tom Whiting on 30 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: administration|
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...When setting up new server this week, and trying to add cronjobs, I noticed that I was getting an error:
cron/user: Permission denied
What caused this? Why is it here? How to resolve? Read more Continue Reading»
Posted by Tom Whiting on 22 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: The Spam Issue|
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...When I picked up my first domain, almost 8 years ago, spam was not the issue it is today. Ever since, it appears to have gotten incredibly worse. Why? How do you combat it? Here’s a few tips and tricks from someone who’s been doing this stuff for a few years, and (admittedly) is still learning a lot of stuff:
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Posted by Tom Whiting on 22 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: site stuff|
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...So, I finally caved in and upgraded this place to wordpress. I’ve been using it personally for years, just wanted to try a bit “different” setup. Well, as always, I found my way back to wordpress. Hope you like the theme, new layout, and all that.
As a result of the upgrade, you may notice some of the links you were using previously don’t work. Hey, all you need to do is just update the link. Pretty simple, right?
