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Check if your web site is compressing pages
Here is a great site to check if your web server is sending pages in compressed format: http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php This is definitely something you want to have turned on as it saves on bandwidth and download times.
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Hyperic goes open source. Other solutions include: Nagios, Open NMS, and Big Brother
CNET has an interesting article about Hyperic going open source. The Hyperic HQ software monitors what’s happening on company networks and reports events to administrators. This is the type of software that no one who is managing servers should be without, and now the solution is completely open source. Hyperic HQ allows you to: Auto-Discover all
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KB917537 will not install? Here’s the solution.
Are the latest four Microsoft security patches not installing for you? Is KB917537 one of the fixes? Well, it seems that this patch will not install unless you shut down the IIS Admin service and its dependent services manually (thanks Microsoft!). My suggestion is to uncheck this patch from the list of four new security
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Microsoft Private Folder 1.0 – Just released
Microsoft just released a neat little utility called Private Folder 1.0. It’s unsupported and will only run on “genuine” Windows XP. What it does is give you a new folder called “My Private Folder” that is password protected to prevent anyone who may be sharing your computer from accessing the files in that folder. From
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vBulletin: how to add a timestamp to templates for DoubleClick ad code
Here’s the code to add a timestamp to your vBulletin message board for ad code such as DoubleClick: <a href=”http://ad.n2434.doubleclick.net/jump/N2434.site.com/B1917331.3;sz=1×1;ord=$timenow?”> <img src=”http://ad.n2434.doubleclick.net/ad/N2434.site.com/B1917331.3;sz=1×1;ord=$timenow?” alt=”Click Here” width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ /></a>
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Dell Annoyance: Huge Dell background slows down remote desktop access
Dell installs all their servers with an annoying Dell background image (1.8MB!!!) on the main logon screen. This image slows down terminal service connections because you have to wait for this high color image to load. The first thing I do is remove this background from any new Dell server. To do this, edit the
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Another useful software package – HTTrack Website Copier
Need to make complete copy of a web site but don’t have direct access to the files? I’ve had this happen for several clients whose web developer would no longer give them access, or who wanted a copy before they terminated their relationship with the web designer. Well, HTTrack is a free utility that does
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WordPress FlvPlayer Plugin – Getting it to work properly!
The FLVPlayer WordPress plugin is a nice utility to add Flash videos to your WordPress site, but it has not been updated by the author in numerous months and does not completely work as described in the installation instructions. Here are the steps I had to take to get it to work: Download the latest
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Great music site – Pandora.com
Ok, so I may be a little bit behind the times, but I just discovered Pandora. This web site is based on the Music Genome Project and allows you to create up to 100 radio stations based on your favorite artists or songs. You input your favorite artist or song and they build a radio