I know, I know, I’m a few days late for the whole World Backup Day craziness. But here we go anyway – remember to backup. And… remember to check your backups and archives! Every 3 months I archive my clients’ emails to keep my imap mailbox nice and clean. A couple of weeks ago was...

They always say the best way to learn is by making mistakes – and that is certainly true with web hosts. In the past 10 years I’ve had 6 different webhosts. Out of those, only 2 of them are actually decent. It’s a sad fact that I’ve spent more time with bad hosts than with...

SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is the newest attempt by the RIAA/MPAA/Media Lobbyists Congress to control Internet piracy. The way it all works now is like this: If a site infringes on a copyright, the content owner will send in a complaint, called a DMCA (Digital Mellinium Copyright Act) Notice to the website’s...

Many broadband ISPs these days use something called DHCP to provide their customers with IP addresses. DHCP works by creating a pool of addresses which can be given out to devices that request one. For the most part you will usually have a router that connects to your cable or dsl modems – so you...

Back in October Google announced that they would be enabling SSL search by default… at least for Google account owners. What this means is every ounce of information is (at least theoretically *see below) encrypted while it goes over the tubes between Google’s servers and your computer or mobile devices. Traditionally SSL was only used...