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“… We’ve decided that it’s time to feature some of the attributes that won MySQL that award. With easy installation and features such as database replication and integration with Perl, MySQL provides a scalable database solution for everyone from small developers to large database dependent applications.” “First, if you don’t have MySQL on your system […]

“The Simple Object Access Protocol, better known as SOAP, is aimed squarely at this data consolidation problem. Recently approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), SOAP uses XML and HTTP to define a component interoperability standard on the Web. …” “SOAP messages are essentially XML documents that each contain a SOAP envelope. The envelope […]

Note that the domain controller will register a variety of service records in DNS. These should be verified, either by viewing them with the DNS tool or by doing an Nslookup query for SRV records as described earlier. It is also worth checking for the existence of the appropriate files in the NTDS directory (as […]

by Dan DiNicolohttp://www.win2000trainer.com Welcome to article number 14 in my 70-240 in 15 minutes a week series. This week’s article covers part 2 of Active Directory and DNS, completing the topics begun last week. This article covers the implementation aspects of Active Directory and DNS. This includes a look at the configuration of zones and […]

IPSec Windows 2000 supports IPSec, which can provide for secure network communication between clients by encrypting IP-based data and using Kerberos for authentication. The beauty of IPSec is that is not application-based encryption (which would require that an application on both the sending and receiving computer supported encryption) but rather network-stack based. As such, any […]

by Dan DiNicolohttp://www.win2000trainer.com Welcome to article number 12 in my 70-240 in 15 minutes a week series. This week’s article is the final installment in the Windows 2000 Server portion of the series, and covers fault tolerance options as well as security configuration and analysis. The good news is that this week’s article is a […]

A slide show introducing PHP. “Handling simple data coming from a form took something like this to do in C …” Then “Perl became an obvious choice …”. “PHP has an HTML-centric approach. … A block of raw HTML followed by the minimum amount of logic possible.” A slide show introducing PHP. Handling simple data […]

The last issue of Apache Week shares information about the next ApacheCon (Dublin), threaded MPM, mod_proxy in Apache 2.0, and SSL support for Apache 2.0. “The first ever Apache conference was held in October 1998 in San Francisco. In 2000 there were two other highly successful conferences in Orlando and England. Earlier this month ApacheCon […]

“… PostgreSQL is an open source database system, and the book PostgreSQL, Introduction and Concepts, is a very academic-looking book from Addison Wesley about exactly that. Not knowing what to expect, I had a quick thumb through, and to my delight realised that this was a dual purpose book – on one hand, it’s a […]

“Here I am, still setting up the VarLinux.org Weblog and Webzine. As I mentioned last week, I need a new server to double as the VarLinux.org server and act as my secondary name server. The computer outlet Citycom (see Resources for more information) is right around the corner from me and has served me well […]

“… I knew that you should be able to serve multiple domains behind a single IP address and have it work with no problems. So, I set off to prove it. …” “First, you should familiarize yourself with Apache and how to set it up. The defaults when installing FreeBSD works fine all you need […]

No Solaris vulnerability this week. Third-party vulnerabilities: Tomcat, ntp. Most patch bundles have changed, many new patches. Top Articles: Samba, JSP, Chasing the wind, Apache hardening, PHP security. Discussions summary: YASSP & Focus-sun. Tip of the Week: pwck No Solaris vulnerability this week; third-party vulnerabilities: Tomcat, ntp; most patch bundles have changed, many new patches.