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“Anyone who has designed web sites for any length of time knows the limitations of html and other client side languages like CSS and JavaScript. While these languages remain at the core of web development, their primary function is to control how text and graphics are presented. Because they lack the ability to manipulate information […]

“In this article, I’ll show you how I created a search engine friendly dynamic image gallery, using only the features built into a core distribution of the Apache web server. This image gallery will support supplementary file information, as well as error damage control. … The techniques can be used for far more than just […]

Christopher Rice           I have heard a lot of vague complaints about the Windows Installer and MSI standards that Microsoft has been putting on the market.  Personally, with a few minor glitches, I like the technology.  When it is used right, it can be valuable.  Self healing and managed software should be the solution for […]

The graphical user interface (GUI) has been a part of personal and business computing for quite some time now. Remote services like AT&T’s VNC and Windows 2000 Terminal Services (which comes standard with all Windows 2000 operating systems supporting two simultaneous users) offer users a simple, standard GUI interface for administration. Pragma TelnetServer, known in […]

“It is in situations like this summer’s Code Red pandemic that the true pros and cons of server colocation come out. If you want to provide some public Internet services like Web, CVS, chat, or Usenet very often it is a better choice to have your private Linux or FreeBSD box running at a colocation […]

“The package builds on the Red Hat E-Commerce Suite, which was introduced earlier this month, and includes the open-source e-commerce platform Interchange 4.8, the configuration tool CommerceLauncher, the Apache Web server, the Red Hat Database, and the Red Hat Network subscription service with software updates.” “”The earliest open-source products were very infrastructural … used by […]

by Marcin Policht In the recent years, Microsoft has developed several new scripting technologies, intended to extend availability of the Windows Component Object Model beyond the reach of software developers. Most of them gained almost immediate popularity among system administrators, who finally had a set of tools much more flexible and powerful than batch files. […]

by Dana Daugherty Does your organization want to avoid installing the SMS client on its server systems? It is possible to exclude your SMS Login Points (NT Domain Controllers) from having the client forcibly installed. I’ll show you the process to make this happen. Does your organization want to avoid installing the SMS client on […]

‘Other’ scopes in Windows 2000 DHCP Windows 2000 DHCP also has the ability to create 2 other types of scopes, one of which you may be familiar with, the other which is probably new to you. Superscopes were first introduced in Windows NT 4 SP2. Essentially, a superscope is used in situations where we run […]

Christopher Rice If you are like me, you hate acronyms. I despise them. In this industry, unfortunately, we are forced to live with them. It also sucks when you hear an unfamiliar acronym thrown around in conversation and you don’t want to sound like an idiot and ask what it means. So, for all of […]

The latest edition of Apache Week covers threading models in Apache 2.0, upcoming 2.0.23 release, further work on SSL module in 2.0 and httpd test suite, and AxKit becomes an Apache project. A test suite for the Apache httpd server is now under development, currently including over fifty PHP tests, and more for several stock […]

Christopher Rice     If you are like me, you don’t have a lab that has a setup anywhere near what you would need to really mock your production environment.  What this means is that you can and most always will run into issues that blindside you because you do not have the correct setup for […]