April 2, 2008
by meandean
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With more church webmasters taking advantage of free, one-click installs provided by inexpensive web hosting solutions, I figure it is time to provide a quick tutorial on how to harvest useful operational, user and security information the error logs using a variety of commands already at your disposal – free. Continue reading
March 14, 2008
by meandean
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Below are steps describing how I used Knoppix Linux to fix the dreaded Windows XP ‘Error Message: Stop c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Session Manager Initialization System Process…’ failure.
February 14, 2008
by meandean
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Using a blog to manage a website’s content is a flexible and affordable solution more and more churches are employing to effectively present their message online. There is however one drawback – in that some of the open source blogging solutions used as content management on the cheap also tend to attract attention from nere-do-wells who attack the comment and content functions of application such as WordPress and MovableType with robotic floods of advertisements offering anything from enlarging various appendages to curing male baldness all while losing your life’s saving playing poker online. Continue reading
February 9, 2008
by meandean
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This post is dedicated to all of you running your church’s website in the choir robe closet, or who have been graced with a generous and geeky member who has taken advantage of one of those cheap, unmanaged dedicated server deals advertised at places like WebHostingTalk: Continue reading
November 1, 2007
by meandean
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I find in my gmail inbox an email claiming to be from the IRS asking me to ‘Click here to request your refund’ … within about 5 seconds I knew I was looking at a phishing email scam. Below the enumerated screenshot are 5 clues that gave it away: Continue reading
October 30, 2007
by meandean
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As I travel to the Hashemite Kingdom next week, there are at least 5 simple things I can do to make my WiFi experiences a bit more secure. So can you, here’s how: Continue reading
May 11, 2002
by meandean
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Once again Rachael C. not only yanks the plank outta my eye, but smacks me upside the head for not scripting my backups on a regular basis. And she’s right to do so. Here is a link she recommended in … Continue reading