A surprising number of small businesses have connected their office networks to the Internet with consumer grade NAT routers. These devices are inexpensive and easy to setup, but they lack features that most businesses should have. These devices are often left unsecured with default passwords and access levels. More importantly when something goes wrong they are [...]
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A majority of dynamically created websites on the web today are backended* by MySQL. Even though NoSQL solutions like project voldemort are all the rage, for a majority of people not doing Facebook type traffic, MySQL is still going to be the backend of choice. In other words, the reports of MySQL’s death are greatly [...]
According to a study done last year by Forrester Research nearly half large enterprise are “evaluating alternative options for managing and providing email”. Why? It’s relatively easy to build a highly available, highly redundant email system that can support tens or hundreds of thousands of users easily with free software. The answer to the”why” is [...]
Open Goo was the name of an incredibly good online collaboration software suite. The project was sponsored by Feng Office. Now the opengoo project has been re-branded Feng Office but it’s still the same incredibly easy to setup and use application.
Feng has all the applications you’d expect in an online collaboration suite – email, notes, [...]
D-Link has produced an interesting series of hackable consumer level NAS devices and the open source community has taken notice. Currently the D-Link DNS-323 and DSM-G600 have active hacking communities building up around them. Will NAS devices be the next take off point for Linux invading the home? Considering the success of the Linux access [...]
