If you’re like me, remembering fifty or more unique passwords is sometimes frustrating. I refuse to use any sort of password management system, and writing them down defeats the purpose of even having a password. Some prefer using the same password for everything, but if one account is compromised, the rest will probably soon follow. […]

Before Firefox was even thought of, the Internet was plagued with thousands of sites proudly displaying browser recommendation icons. You remember them, right? The classic phrase, This Site Works Best With Internet Explorer and similar variants encouraging the use of Netscape. With the release of the w3 web development standards, many webmasters hoped to put […]

This is what happened when I took down my network’s defenses the other day. Fortunately my Windows machines were patched, or I might have been hit with a nasty remote exploit, or eighty. Click the thumbnail for the larger version.

Those are all incoming connections initiated via Netbios. If you don’t take the time to define […]

Search engine optimization and traffic are topics nearly every webmaster is concerned about. Many resort to social networking sites in an effort to gain exposure, but according to several performance indicators, traffic from these sources performs poorly. Total Adsense earnings from the Digg effect, $0.64. Total Adsense earnings from 8,592 unique stumble visitors, $0.96. This […]

According to WhiteHouser.com, the U.S. congress has just passed a bill that grants immunity to telephone companies should they come to trial for domestic spying. That means warrantless eaves dropping on U.S. citizens is no longer a crime. Not terrorists, not illegal aliens, but United States citizens. Since most of, if not all the Internet […]

If you’re one of the few elite that refuse to run Linux with a window manager, you might have the urge to resize the bloated resolution of the console/terminal sessions. Fortunately, this is a very easy process, but requires restarting, unless there’s some elite command I’m unaware of. Alright, assuming you’re using the GRUB boot loader, […]

Over the past couple weeks MySQL crashed when spiked with large amounts of traffic. To remedy this, a cron job has been implemented to simply restart mysql and lighttpd every other day. Here’s how it’s done. First, if you haven’t already, define a cron job editor, like so: # export EDITOR=vi ; or… # export EDITOR=nano ; The pound symbol […]