WordPress has a slight reputation when it comes to spam since the file '/WordPress/wp-comments-post.php' often get's exploited allowing spammers to automate posting to WordPress Blogs. The mess usually costs huge amounts of time to clean up just to go through all the unsolicited junk mail/bogus posts generated.

INTRO Printing, can become one of those nagging things if you don't have it going yet.  This is especially true on Linux.  Though it's 2009 at this time, Linux is still lagging in printer support though that margin between Linux and Windows is shrinking rapidly.  Having been already logged into my Linux partition I thought […]

One of the things you definitely want to take a backup of on a regular basis, especially if you are a WebAdmin/WebMaster is that of your MySQL database for things such as a forum, blog or anything else you have that may use MySQL on your site. For this you'll need telnet/ssh login to allow […]

Was interested tonight how well Java (A language I know) is doing against other languages such as C# (One that I don't know). I'm also something of a Bash/Ksh and Perl buff so I was also interested in popularity indexes as well. I remembered earlier a site I had used to check for this.  I […]

Having a dual boot system, I find that when setting one OS time correctly will corrupt the other OS's time. This has been going on for a while on my system despite numerous attempts to set the time properly. I suspect this has to do with BIOS settings but couldn't pin point the correct one […]

PROBLEM Occassionally, the default MTU (Maximum Transmission Value) value of a NIC card can cause you issues including being unable to view/see many internet sites or cause you issues when setting up your network, to the point where you will see communication popup errors and slowdowns.

One of the more powerfull features of any Linux/Unix system are the monitoring features and capabilities of the OS. UNIX systems in general have been around for decades and in that time the tools available to users and admins alike on both systems have grown tramendously. In fact, the log files, tools and applications under […]