There’s an old saying: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” There should be a similar addendum for IRC support channels: “If you don’t have anything useful to add, don’t say anything at all.” IRC support channels can be an extremely useful resource — if someone is available and…
With Christmas quickly approaching, we felt it would be helpful to list some great website that assist with holiday deal finding! Highlighting the marriage of technology and great deals/coupons, we’ve listed a few sites for you to start your hunting! http://www.fatwallet.com – This site not only lists deals & coupons, it has also worked out…
This Christmas will be a happy one… I finally found a few ecommerce sites that sell a worthy line of Brainteasers, Puzzles, and Secret Boxes.
Nearly everyone that has worked in tech support before (or even those that haven’t) has a joke or story about some naive end-user calling about a routine problem but describing it as “the Internet is down!” — when really all they needed to do was reboot or something. It’s funny, and we nerds all get…
As an entreprenuer, the most attractive word in our vocabulary is growth. We want high growth because in our minds, that denotes a successful business. It makes perfect sense – if you were unsuccessful you definitely wouldn’t grow… so the opposite must be true! Unfortunately, many entreprenuers have learned the hard way that growth is…
One of our clients called and reported an issue with a MS Access database. The user was able to open a network based .mdb file, but when they tried to click on a switchboard button they received the following error message: “Disk or network error.” There are many resources that deal with this error, but…
Ask and ye shall receive. Here’s an example of a blacklist poisoning comment-spam attempt we just got tonight: Author : Charles Ford (IP: 196.7.0.160 , ge1-0.cc1.cpt1.alter.net) E-mail : Joshua@internet.com URI : http://www.av.com Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=196.7.0.160 Comment: Very informative site. Good job. thins that excited you at 14: http://www.adobe.com , <a href=”http://www.yahoo.co.uk” rel=”nofollow”>thins that excited you…
Chris has a very informative post about why he’s banned Microsoft’s indexing robot, elaborating on some of the problems: repeatedly fetches large binary files, including 500 megabyte ISO images, that are properly served as binary files and have not changed in some time; 21 fetches for 4 files accounting for 3.7 gigabytes of transfers this…
A new trend in comment/referer spam is on the rise — or on the low, I should say, since it is low indeed. Typically, when I get a comment spam that slips through our .htaccess checks and wpblacklist, I usually have to go to the wpblacklist options area and manually search for the URL they…
Adaptive Path have posted an executive summary on AJAX. Here is what they have to say about the executive summary: By speeding up Web application response time, Ajax has also set a more aggressive pace for industry change and business evolution. Ajax will soon be fully integrated into Web application server platforms, but in the…
