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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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]