And once again, the Microsoft camp attempts to spread the F.U.D. that “we’re winning” and “Linux is not free”.
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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.

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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.

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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!

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. …Read the rest of this article

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!

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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.

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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 . …Read the rest of this article

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 …Read the rest of this article

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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