Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
If you are running SBS2003 and Exhange and you are using the built in POP3 connector to check for email on other pop3 boxes, you are probably really annoyed that you cannot check pop email boxes more frequently than every 15 minutes. Well, there is a way to make the POP3 Connector in SBS2003 check […]
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
For the impatient types that are looking for their $100 off coupon code for Server Beach, the code is NWX3DCU3BW and my name is Jason Golod (if you need it). If you stay signed up with ServerBeach’s rock solid dedicated hosting for 90 days, you get a $100 credit. Pretty sweet deal considering their level […]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
I am pretty much a rookie when it comes to server administration. But, I did just make a few changes that the box that runs this, and a few hundred other, sites. It is a dedicated linux box with a P4 processor and a gig of RAM. I just read through this “Optimizing MySQL” tutorial […]
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
If you are looking for a way to backup all of your MySQL tables daily and have them emailed to you, I found an awesome MySQL backup script that takes about 1 minute to configure and works perfectly right out of the box. Of course, you may have trouble emailing all of the files to […]
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Pesky myspace.com users remote linking to images on your site in their sigs? Using .htaccess seems to be the default method most people use to try and block these requests. But, this may not be the most effective method anymore as browsers like Firefox may circumvent this. Sooo, how do you block remote image linking […]
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Let’s just say that the past 3 or 4 days have been a big learning experience for me. This is not how I wanted to learn how to administrate linux better, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers. One of the things that has been making me insane lately is how slowly this blog has […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Ok, I am no linux admin. A box I have sitting here next to me, that I am running Debian Linux on, was compromised by some friend in China. After a few emails and conversations with Lawrence at Speakeasy, I installed Portsentry and thought I had the problem under control. Well, I didn’t. Lawrence let […]
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