Miscellaneous

Preventing SPAM

The professor was shocked. She never expected any of her students to do this. The computer monitor showed an obscene e-mail from her favorite student. It was actually a spoofed spam, not actually sent from her student, but sent by spammers.

Remote backup using ssh, tar and cron

Are you looking for a solution to backup your data to a remote location? While a solid backup solution such as Arkeia or TSM from IBM are nice from an enterprise point of view, simpler solutions are available from a home user's perspective. I will walk you through on you how you can backup your data to a remote server, using the default tools available on all linux systems. In a nutshell, we will use ssh capabilities to allow a cron job to transfer a tarball from you local machine to a remote machine.

How To Transfer Your Web Site To a New Web Hosting Service?

There are various reasons why an online business owner like you has decided
to switch to a new web hosting providers. Your old web hosting provider probably
has very poor technical support, or their web server is always down, or may be
your old web hosting provider cannot meet your hosting requirements anymore or
you could have discovered a cheaper web hosting service…and etc. Regardless of
the reasons, now you have found a new web hosting service and you need to
transfer your website from your current web host to the new web host. Below is
the steps-by-steps guide that you can follow to achieve a painless and error
free of moving to a new web hosting provider.

Why Your ISP Takes Bribes From Spammers

The lifeblood of the spammer is email. They need to be able to send lots of
it on an ongoing basis to stay in "business". High profile spammers can send 80
million pieces of junk email every single day. Yes one single person.

Web Hosts: Helping us navigate through this future techno-world

Computers, Internet, Web sites…what do they all mean? Hey, you’re probably not a technophobe, I mean you own a microwave right? Just push a few buttons and the food cooks itself-easy. Now, they tell you the best way to share information, have a business, and generally communicate in life, are on the Web. I don’t know about you but for me the Web conjures up visions of a giant spider whose sole intention is to turn me into a tasty appetizer. Computers scare me. People say they’re the tool of the future, but I find them to be quite alien, especially compared to my lawnmower! All the technical jargon associated with these machines, it’s like you have to have a university degree in Information Technology just to turn one on.

Want to find information about someone lost in space and time?

Can you remember a friend or relative’s name that has disappeared from the Earth? You haven’t had contact with them in decades, but now you want to find out where they are so you can get in touch. In the old days this would have been nearly impossible, but now things are different. There are many different ways to find people lost in ‘space and time’ on the Internet. Some are free and some cost, but the amount of personal information you can find about any individual in the world is astounding.

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