My latest trouble came when I was trying to install Windows 2008 Server to an older development server that only has a CD-ROM drive. Its a micro form factor and there is no good way to get a DVD drive in it. Even hanging one off the side has hiccups with this system. So how do you do it? Or what if you server doesn’t even have an [...]

After buying a “professional” program like Adobe Dreamweaver for hundreds if not thousands, you would think they would care in the least about productive workflows. Yet Adobe hasn’t fixed any of these issues that go all the way back to the good old days of Macromedia Studio. 1. SCP Support Who still wants to use FTP [...]

I always thought this was a stupid topic that people would fight about. For a period of time I would make my sites not even care if its www.example.com or example.com. The short conclusion of this topic is simply this. Either work great, but you need to pick one or the other. SEO The big reason you find people telling you to do this is [...]

So again today my webserver has been hit by another person using a vulnerability scanner trying to find something to hack into. Harmless as it may seem this could be the start of a serious server takeover. Once a vulnerable application like an old version of PHPmyAdmin is found, it could be only a matter of time before your [...]

If you ever got the error : Unable to find WA_memento.htm Or if you have strange errors that occur every time you save or open files. Or if your pages don’t load include files. Or anything else strange and you have installed a WebAssist plugin, you may be surprised to find that uninstalling the plugin does nothing to help your [...]

A primary reason for hashing is to stop a potential hacker from getting usable data once they have broken into your server. Poorly built websites do not hash their passwords and since most users reuse their username and passwords, you are actually endangering every user that uses your services. For a business, this can be a [...]

So with the company I need a better way to monitor all of the servers/domain names that we run. I need something that can run automatically in cron but display graphs of performance. You see there is a full spectrum between online and offline. Often you can see signs of a server about to go down by graphing its performance. Also since [...]