Over the last couple of weeks I have started having some problems with spam showing up on various pages where I allow the a visitor to post comments. The message is always the same across all the pages. To help prevent this type of spam the visitor must register with the site and have their […]
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VeriSign Announces Increase in .Com/.Net Domain Name Fees
Today VeriSign announced that it is raising the wholesale cost of .com domains from $6.42 to $6.86 a year and .net from $3.85 to $4.23. This change is effective 10-1-2008. This will most likely case the discount domain registrars to raise their prices roughly the same. The cost is said to help with the costs […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 Availability Zones
Amazon announces the creation of availability zones for the EC2 system. Amazon describes them as “distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other availability zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other availability zones in the same region”. With new web service calls you can choose what zone your […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses
One of the problems with Amazon EC2 was the dynamic nature of the IP address that you received for each instance you started up. For development it isn’t a big problem, but for a production system you can see the problems this can cause if you instance fails for some reason. This morning Amazon announced […]
Read moreUsing Multiple Monitors to be More Productive
Several months ago I finally got a second monitor. After a couple days I don’t know how I ever did it with just one. I believe I have become much more productive especially as I usually have remote desktop open on one of them. If you need some proof that it can help your productivity […]
Read moreNew York Times and Amazon EC2 and S3
I came across an interesting article on the New York Times site that talks about how they used Amazon EC2 and S3 to help make their articles from 1851 -1922 available to the public online. There was a total of 11 million articles. They had to take sometimes several TIFF images and scale and glue […]
Read moreFirefox Extensions
One of the things I like about Firefox is that there are many people out there writing some pretty cool extensions. Below is the list of the extensions I am using and I am always looking for new ones that can improve the user experience or make my time surfing the Net easier. DOM Inspector […]
Read moreData Backups Part 2
Over the last week I evaluated some different online backup products to figure out which was the best for me. I ended up going with Carbonite. Carbonite offers a 15 day free trial. After that it is only $49.95 for a year of service per computer. There is no limit on the amount of backup […]
Read moreInstant Messaging
I have been using Instant Messaging (IM) software for a long time. I started out on AIM and was able to just stick with that client for many years. Then I had some friends that only used YIM so I started running it too. Then a couple years ago I started using MSN and Google […]
Read moreSecuring WordPress Part 2
After publishing Part I and doing some more searching on Google I came across the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. The plugin will keep your WordPress installation updated to the newest version available. Reading through the comments it looks like a pretty good plugin and I’ll be recommending it to my friends who have problems keeping […]
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