What follows is a mini-howto on setting up the Google Web Toolkit on a fresh “Workstation” installation of CentOS or Fedora Core with Apache HTTP server and PHP installed. A series of commands that can be used to setup Google Web Toolkit. Although the howto is intended for environments that primarily use PHP, the information [...]
Suzi Turner provides the Top 10 Tips to Keep that New Computer Spyware-free. This list focuses on computers that run Microsoft Windows. The list could have been reduced to suggesting that people keep their software updated, prefer Internet applications that are more secure, and enhance operating system security by modifying its default settings. It would [...]
A blog entry adds more insight to Jeremy Wright’s Web 2.0 Companies Need to Scale. As an IT administrator, I worry about the availability of Internet applications that run on the servers that I maintain. Perfection is something that I strive for personally, and I continually think about robust methods that will bring the availability [...]
There is no reason for ISPs to block certain ports, but according to this blog entry, it seems that some still do. SBC Yahoo! DSL blocks outgoing connections on port 25 (SMTP) by default, however, they allow their clients to request the port to be opened. Whether or not SBC Yahoo! DSL unblocks outgoing connections [...]
An IT article is publicizing a remote hole in Microsoft Internet Explorer that can be allegedly used to execute arbitrary code. The latest virus definition update for McAfee VirusScan prevents the proof of concept page at computerterrorism.com from executing the payload right after Internet Explorer crashes, but systems without third-party security products may be vulnerable. [...]