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I won't pretend that I should be a System Administrator for any network that really matters -- but I do have at least a basic understanding of protocols, ports, and the various means that hackers commonly use to compromise software, systems and networks.  Today I've been configuring a new application test server for a project we're ...

One of the things that I love the most about technology is that it's everywhere.  My favorite application of technology is often observed in consumer electronics.  It seems like just about every week I see some small consumer device launch into the market and make a large impact.  This week it was the SlingBox -- a small network ...

OK -- time to confess -- we weren't backing up the estatic development server often enough.  It's something I've lost sleep over, as I've dimly thought about the effects of not having our development server backed up appropriately.  I had spent many hours considering a backup solution, and today decided to do something ...

Dan D'Andrea and I have spent considerable time discussing the differences of the *nix variants to Windows Server.  One of the age-old arguments for *nix servers (about 6 years ago) was their stability and reliability.  Unix servers were often up for years, where Windows boxes often couldn't stay stable past a week.  ...