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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 […]

As a super administrator, being served some humble pie from time to time has its benefits.

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 […]