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Designing maintainable high-performance systems The new Tomcat 5 server takes filters to a new level of deployment flexibility. Tomcat 5's support for…
Most Unix systems have some way of letting ordinary users perform certain tasks as root or some other privileged user. SCO Open Server has "asroot" and can also directly assign "authorizations" such as backup privileges or being able to change other user's passwords. SCO Unixware/Open Unix 8 have a similar facility in "tfadmin". Many Unixes, and Linux, use "sudo". The configuration of sudo is by…
Most marketers don't give a lot of thought to the buying processes of their customers. That's a shame. Lending due attention to the buying process can have a dramatic effect on your sales.
If you are in the business of selling products relating to online privacy, now might be a good time to step up your Internet marketing promotions. In last month's issue of CNET Downloads Publishers Newsletter, it was stated ... "the online privacy category saw an astonishing 924 percent increase in download activity between August (2002) and February (2003)."
When a web page is accessed by a link from some other page, the address of the other page (the "referring page") is made available to the web server. We can pick that information up from logs or as the page is being displayed. For example, if we have Server Side Includes or php, we can pickup the referring page from an environment variable. Here's…
Undocumented networks are extremely common. Many times this is related more to the difficulty of keeping the documentation up to date rather than to the difficulty of the documentation process itself. Many LAN Administrators had big dreams at one time of keeping elaborate drawings detailing every last aspect of the network. However, networks tend to change too frequently for such drawings to stay current. In…
