Monkey business for the geek in you!
PHP and Apache has a history of not being able to track which users are sending out mail through the PHP mail function from the nobody user causing leaks in formmail scripts and malicious users to spam from your server without you knowing who or where. Watching your exim_mainlog doesn’t exactly help, you see th…
Ok first just take a breath, you are getting nothing done by worrying. This guide is meant to try and help mitigate the effects of an attack that is in progresss. I have compiled a lot of the things that I do but it is very possible I have forgotten something. Please feel free to…
Many more visitors beat a path to the iTunes front door, with traffic increasing dramatically year-over-year from December 2004 to December 2005.
Hang out with friends, listen to new music, talk about what’s important to you, share pictures from a party, MySpace has become the teen place and now has 47.3 million users.
eth00 writes: So I am sure if you are running a cPanel server you are having the exact same trouble as we have been having the last week, lots of spam! It appears there is somebody in this world that has decided to write a rather efficient script that searches for webforms then sends spam…
If you need to backup a single cPanel account, and don’t want to do it through the web interface of cPanel you can do it through SSH. There is a script in the /scripts directory on cPanel webservers called “pkgacct”
WilliamS send us a great picture regarding the recent racial clashes in Cronulla Beach / Australia. The pic will tell the whole story 🙂
The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing graphical images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. MRTG is based on Perl and C and works under UNIX and Windows NT. MRTG is being successfully used on many sites around…
How can I get mailman and qrunner to not start by default on my cPanel server ? No one uses them and this is just eating up ram.
WebCentral, Australias biggest web hosting provider, is experiencing a mayor outage! Read their notice here: Outage:05 December 12:00 AEST Water supply to our Wickham Street premises has been cut this morning, which has affected the air conditioning in our data centre. We initially shut off all non-essential services in an attempt to reduce the impact…
Two big things have just happened in Google-land: Jagger and Google Analytics. Together, these two events may have changed the face of search forever.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is a concerned man these days. So concerned is Gates about the emergence of Google as a major player in the web services division that he sent a memo to his staff on Sunday. This memo that has now famously been leaked is entitled, ‘Executive Staff and Direct Reports; Distinguished Engineers.’
by Tim Sheedy, Margaret Banaghan, Patrik Bihammar : This IDC study presents the 2005?2009 market sizing and spending forecast for the Australia systems infrastructure service provider (SISP) market, together with supporting analyses of the underlying forces that are shaping the evolving market., either driving customer demand or inhibiting market growth. The SISP market is predicted…
Syctl.conf Hardening The purpose of syctl hardening is to help prevent spoofing and dos attacks. This short guide will show what I have found to be a good configuration for the sysctl.conf configuration file. The most important of the variables listed below is the enabling of syn cookie protection. Only place the bottom two if…
Many Linux newbies — or wanna-be newbies — get hung up over the choice of their initial distribution. We here at NewsForge have put a lot of thought into this, and have decided to share our best thinking on the subject in order to help ease you newbies out of the monopoly spread into the…
Rebuffing aggressive overtures from Microsoft, Time Warner has agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in America Online to Google for $1 billion as part of an expanded partnership between AOL, once the dominant company on the Internet, and Google, the current online king.
What is Samba? “Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.” Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients
Promoters of adware, software that shows advertising on a user’s computer, use some cunning tricks to get you to install their software on your machine. Here’s what to look out for
When I first started programming in PHP, I found regular expressions quite hard. They were complicated, looked ugly, were hard to figure out, and there wasn’t much in the way of do*****entation either.
A nostalgic look back at 90s web design, and a warning to anyone whose website is an accidental anachronism. Remember the days when every PC was beige, every website had a little Netscape icon on the homepage, Geocities and Tripod hosted just about every single personal homepage, and “Google” was just a funny-sounding word?