10 Jul 2009

A New Operating System from Google...

I told you so. Google had to eventually threaten the Microsoft OS stranglehold. They could not in all conscience not do so. See their announcement here for some details of this very key development: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their em...

19 Jun 2009

how to enable SSH on Cisco IOS routers

It's worth enabling SSH in nearly every case for normal day to day remote access. This is mainly due to the inherently insecure nature of its little brother - TELNET, which is completely un-encrypted and therefore sniffable on any network. Here's how: R2(config)#ip domain name cisco.com R2(config)#crypto key generate rsa The name for the keys will be: R2.cisco.com Choose the size of t...

18 Jun 2009

More Coolness...

http://www.yaml.de/en/home.html "Yet Another Multi-Column Layout" - incredible JAVA CSS layout engine. http://www.ohloh.net/p?sort=users&q=training Ohloh - this is an interesting site that examines the open source community projects out there from many different angles. Extremely cool. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/about_features.html It is open source and therefore free of charge ...

18 Jun 2009

CSS Layout

Standard Content Elements Heading Levels H1 Heading H2 Heading H3 Heading H4 Heading H5 Heading H6 Heading Paragraphs This is a normal paragraph text. This is a normal paragraph text. This is a normal paragraph text. This is a normal paragraph text. This is a...

17 Jun 2009

Cool sites from today

http://www.seobook.com/ "Seo Book is different. We focus our training program on how to grow your presence. Our tagline Learn. Rank. Dominate. matches our approach to teaching SEO. " http://htmlpurifier.org/ "HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure ...

01 Jun 2009

recent connection failures

We've had some issues recently, so I wanted to apologise for those and tell you that they are now resolved (or so my service provider tells me...) here is a history for the last few weeks - look what a bad cable can do to your reliability! This report is thanks to a free website uptime monitor from www.basicstate.com JaxBeachtech.com connection failures: Start , End, ??, Ping failur...

01 Jun 2009

It begins - how Google can grow beyond Microsoft's wildest nightmares...

I have often wondered when Google would begin to develop an alternative to the windows platform - something for the rest of us... But it is already out there in plain sight - just smuggled under the radar in the form of a "phone operating system". Take a look at this post from Engadget - there is a video clip of a "smartbook" - an ASUS Eee PC prototype running google's "Android" on a 1GH...

26 May 2009

IT Security Standards ISO/IEC 27002

Assembling a security policy can be a difficult task without guidance. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published a security standard called ISO/IEC 27002. This document refers to information technology related security issues and outlines a code of practice for IT security management. ISO/IEC 27002 provides a guideline for developing organizational security standard...

20 May 2009

European open source adoption - Forrester Report

See: tdwi.org img.MyImage { border: 2px solid darkblue; } A recently released survey report on OSS adoption in large European companies tracks some very interesting trends. The Executive summary included this: "In October 2008, Bull commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the upcoming paradigm change of open source software enterprise adoption. In conducting in-depth interviews w...

28 Apr 2009

Emergency repair options for XP/2000

From: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Troubleshooting-Startup-Problems.html Troubleshooting is merely the methodical application of common sense and technical knowledge to the inevitable problems that crop up in a fallen world. If common sense can be codified (and perhaps it can with AI) then it starts with answers to simple questions like: Why? How? What? In this article I'...

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