Business in the nineties means fierce competition, aggressive marketing and strategic alliances. The extent to which a business succeeds or fails often depends upon that business’s ability to be awarded contracts or to attract other businesses into Joint Ventures or strategic alliances. To accomplish either one usually requires two key items: good ideas and the ability to present those good ideas in a superbly developed business proposal.
Paying for Inclusion in Directories and Search Engines
It seems that everywhere we turn these days, we are constantly hearing the phrases pay-per-inclusion (PPI) and pay-per-click (PPC). There are now a number of ways that the search engines and directories are collecting funds from people trying to get their Web sites listed. The most important thing to note when discussing this topic is that money spent on PPI programs goes solely towards getting your site into the search databases, and that’s it. You can pay them all you want, but PPI is not going to give you a higher ranking. Remember this before you fork over your hard-earned money.
Casing the Joint
First of all let’s look at ports and what they are. When two machines across a TCP/IP network communicate with each other via a service (such as NetBIOS, HTTP, FTP, etc…) each machine will need to know not only the IP address but the port number that translates to the service that is being used. For instance, when someone is “surfing the web” the service that they will be using will be HTTP, which uses port number 80 by default.
Most port numbers can be changed so that vulnerable services can be disguised by using a non-standard port number. For instance, if you knew that certain software exposed a vulnerability in a service, you could try to change the port number in order to circumvent that weakness. However, you would need to be sure all machines on the network are configured as such in order to continue using the service.
Security Basics
Most cracks involve a tool as simple as a Trojan horse, which will leave a backdoor account open to the cracker. Young teenagers have been known to utilize such tools effectively, even against corporate giants. It is because of these types of attacks that users (even if it is your family hooked up to a small LAN on a cable modem) need to be educated about some basics that will stop most typical hackers. First of all, lets talk about passwords. Many of these tools that I have mentioned will expose null passwords. This means that if you do not enter a password when you log in, these scanners will show that to the potential offender, and then the hacker can easily take control of your system.
Top 10 Ways For Web Designers To Find New Clients
Given the “dotcom” bust and the global recession of the past 18 months it can be difficult for Independent Web Designers to put food on the table these days. However, the business is out there — you just have to be a little more aggressive in finding it. Based on our own experience and that of hundreds of Web Designers who have used our Web Hosting services over the past five years, here are ten of the best ways to find new clients for your web design shop this year:
How to Improve Your Sales Copy to Get More Sales
A few small changes in your sales copy can produce a big increase the number of sales you get from your web pages and sales letters. Here are 12 simple things you can do to improve the effectiveness of your sales copy — and increase your sales.
Demystifying Merchant Accounts
Many new business owners are confused about rates and fees for merchant accounts, and rightfully so. In order to get many of your questions answered you have to spend hours searching the Internet. The purpose of this article is to help demystify some of the confusing questions you may have about credit card rates and fees.
When it comes to choosing which Merchant Account Provider you wish to deal with (there are many of them out there) the one factor that influences most people is the cost. Accepting credit cards can be expensive, so make sure when you’re searching around you compare different providers to get the best deal. Read all the fine print also, as you may find some “hidden” charges not mentioned elsewhere like cancellation fees for example.
Java Native Interface
Ok, so now you finally admitted to yourself that you’ve got a problem! You have all this code that has been doing its job for years now but it really needs a bit of a makeover. What doesn’t help your cause is that it has come to your boss’s attention that “Java is the way to go!” and he or she is now eager to harness the powers of this mystical thing they call “Java”. This situation may seem a little far-fetched but a lot of developers have found themselves facing the problem of dealing with “legacy code” or code that has been written in a style or language that is now considered outdated.
Demystifying Merchant Account Rates and Fees
Many new business owners are confused about rates and fees for merchant accounts, and rightfully so. In order to get many of your questions answered you have to spend hours searching the Internet. The purpose of this article is to help demystify some of the confusing questions you may have about credit card rates and fees.
Windows 2000 Remote Installation Services
Remote Installation Services (RIS) is a tool included with Windows 2000 Server products that is used to install Windows 2000 Professional over a network. I have heard that this can/may work with Windows 2000 Server now (it did not in the past), but I have not tried it and cannot verify that it does work.