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 [...]
No job is complete until the documentation is done. That is just as relevant in corporate world as it is in consulting (and often just as ignored by some **ahem**). The de facto standard for producing network documentation has been Microsoft’s Visio. This program is part of Microsoft’s Office suite and lots of vendors make [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday I had the pleasure of being one of four speakers at the network storage event sponsored by the CFITS (Central Florida Information Technology Society). All four presentations have been put together in a single power point that is posted on the CFITS website. I’ve included a flash version of just the GeeForce slides here. [...]
Who needs MiFi when there is JoikuSpot? Smarter, cheaper, better.
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, [...]
