I am typically not one to recommend a social network to my clients w/ the exception, of course, of the already established networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, etc. My whole philosophy regarding social networking at this stage of the game is that if you want to build a community, build upon what’s already […]
Crypto Bug Cripples Ubuntu Linux
Fortunately we predominately run Centos Linux and aren’t affected by the Major Crypto Bug that was announced this week. Apparently it only affects systems with the Ubuntu flavor of Linux running. Here’s a snippet I found in PC Magazine outlining the bug exploit. A major problem has been revealed in Debian Linux and derivative packages, […]
Book Review: Run Your Own Webserver
My partner Stephen ordered us all a copy of this book shortly after we started Pleth. It took me a while to finally get into it because my first thought was that it was going to be a light read but it really wasn’t, parts of it were filled with some really good info. There […]
Plesk 8.3 Released for Linux/Windows
I just got back in from the holidays and was going through all of my technical announcements, etc. and found a notice in my inbox that the awaited release of Plesk 8.3 has been released. We are currently running 8.2. I am not for sure when we are going to be doing the upgrade but […]
Log Monitor
This is a pretty cool app for monitoring log files. I am kind of surprised that someone hasn’t thought of this sooner, and maybe they have but this one looks pretty cool. Link to Log Monitor – The Code Project – Files and Folders
Using Open Source to Create Commercial Products
This is a good webinar provided by Techonline that deals with Using Open Source software like PHP, MySQL, (LAMP)… to develop commercially rebrandable software solutions. There is alot of buzz right now about Microsoft suing FOSS over patent infringements, etc. (i kind of doubt it will float but w/ microsoft’s attorney’s who knows…) Here’s some info about the Webinar: […]
Palm Pushes Linux Smartphone to Next Year
Wow, this is news to me. I am anxious to see how this will even look, much less what all it will allow you to do. I have owned the Palm Treo phones that ran the Palm OS and the Windows OS and I must say that I think that is probably the best phone that […]
Linux Server Load Averages Explained
This is another good resource from WHIR explaining Linux Server Load Balancing which can sometimes be confusing to grasp, or at least was for me once upon a time. Linux Server Load Averages Explained