How to know your Customer’s Wants and Needs
To use marketing research effectively for your growing business, you should understand what motivates your customer.
Introduction to Bluetooth and J2ME Part 2
In Part 1 we went over the basics of Bluetooth technology and some possible development opportunities Bluetooth gives us. Part 2 of this article goes into a little more detail how to create a Bluetooth server and client.
Look out PDA, here comes TDA!
First it was the Smart-phone that threatened to oust PDA. Now, the PDA is all set to take on the heat from next generation PDA, the TDA.
How Not to Go About Getting Link Popularity
A classic way of getting seen and noticed on the web is to make sure your site is linked to as many other sites as possible. The strategy of link-exchange has been so overused and abused that search engines are now wary of it and may penalize sites that are linking to “link farms”, or to any other sites with non-relevant content.
Creating ext3 File Systems
The ext3 filesystem is a journaled file system that is compatible with ext2 (an ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2 if necessary).
Yahoo’s Top Searches of 2004
Based on results culled from millions of Yahoo Search users, the top searches of 2004 give unique insight into this year’s consumer interests and trends.
Amazon Has Record Holiday Season
Amazon has finished its busiest holiday season ever during which time it set a single-day record with more than 2.8 million units ordered, or 32 items per second, worldwide.
ProFTPd, wu-ftpd, and general ftp security
FTP in general has a long and sad history of security problems. If you need to run an ftp server, you need to keep careful track of vulnerabilites and exploits that may make for a very unhappy day.
Writing and Compiling C programs on Linux
Most Linux and Unix programs are written in C. When you download source for a project, it will often be C or C++ source code. You don’t necessarily need to know a darn thing about C or anything else to compile the source if you aren’t changing it. It may be helpful for you to understand a bit if you are having problems with the compile, but even that isn’t really necessary.
Testing for Network Connectivity in a Script
Sometimes a script needs to know if it has network or internet connectivity before it continues, or perhaps its whole purpose is the report a loss of connectivity or inability to reach specific services.