Savannah W-ITS

It seems that the research says that we just scan web pages – most information is simply not processed – so why do so many news sites provide you with a shotgun blast of ’stuff’?
When I look at web sites for local news organizations a couple of things leap out at me about the presentations [...]

When searching for information on on the latest batch of Windows Mobile phones (summer 2009) it is easy to get confused  – it seems that some phone models with the same names are not actually the same.  I downloaded the HTC Touch Pro 2 manual from the HTC web site – after reviewing the manual [...]

I am still reviewing but this information may keep you on the fence a bit longer.  Note that a new Windows Mobile phone is set to be released via T-Mobile in the next week or so (mid August 2009) – right now the MyTouch is probably not going to work for me – but it [...]

Update 1/5/2010 – the new, Nexus One Android Phone from Google is now available – I would love to see a review that covers the items below (as well as comments from my other posts about Android) – same problems present?, i.e.

can you connect to hidden WiFI networks?
can you empty the trash for your non-Google [...]

A recent cracking (an illegal access of computer systems and data) of Twitter related data-in-the-cloud (my reference when using tools where data is used and stored on a remotely hosted system) is in the news.
It seems that some bad person decided to guess the passwords of some users with Twitter relationships (employees or family members [...]

Refresh Savannah – NG – nerd gathering and a bit more. [next gathering 6/16/06, topic SEO,  at Lady & Sons]
Last night (5/18/09) the 1st meeting of Refresh Savannah occurred at the office of Music Intelligence Solutions in Savannah.  It was a diverse gathering of folks interested in NN (nerd networking – opportunties to expand brain [...]

In the United States January 20, 2009 is a day of:

hope
fulfilment
expectation
joy
dis-belief (did I really live to see this day?)
wonder
celebration (we have a peaceful, tremendous political shift and we revel in it.)
a new partnership in American politics.

With possibly record numbers of on-site observers (the ‘crowd at the Mall’ – may have new meaning) and countless more [...]

Today I received a couple of emails about an old issue – your privacy…
Note – my guess is that *every* provider of ‘free services’ (email, email-lists/groups, web sites, etc.) is going to do their best to monetize their ’service’.  While free services sure are convenient, nice, nifty, etc – they do have a price – [...]

ModSecurity is a web application firewall (WAF) for the Apache server.

I’m a big fan** of this Open Source solution – Once you install the module you can use it to:

• filter at the server level (directly in httpd.conf or as include files),
• filter at the directory/location/folder level (via .htaccess files),
• stop specific (i.e. known) attacks,
• stop generic attacks.

You can also use it to simply monitor your web traffic at a more detailed level.

Recent log

Systems Administrators (SAs) need some Whoops! time.

In addition to knowledge breadth and depth, system administrators need experience; this is, perhaps, the defining aspect between senior and other levels of technology creators, managers and maintainers.  Been there – done that.  Some less than positive examples (usually experienced early as a SA):

• made a small tweak/system change that caused everything else to fail OR
• accidentally locked out all users and/or auto-magic processes