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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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