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    Email Privacy

    July 2, 2006

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Ever get an email from yourself that you didn’t send? Ever get spam from someone that you can’t reply to? Using the settings of an email program, it is possible to pretend to be anyone that you would like. If you want to send email from bill.gates@microsoft.com then that is entirely possible. Finding the address of who actually sent email is easy, but ensuring the identity of the sender is not part of standard email. This is where the protocols for PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, and GPG, or GNU Privacy Guard, come into play. GPG and PGP are Open Source suites of applications allowing…

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  • Business,  Consulting

    Web Hosting Primer

    April 10, 2006

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal When you start a new hosting environment, you will probably handle many of the tasks that you will likely want your clients to handle later down the road. There are many products that help to ease the administrative burden of a shared hosting environment. These products empower users of your services to create their own accounts and perform other administrative tasks using easy to navigate web portals. • cPanel and Plesk are server management software solutions designed to allow administrators to create Reseller accounts, Domain accounts and email features. Administrators have the ability to assign users rights to various aspects of their hosting environment.…

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  • Business

    Telecommuting 101

    January 2, 2006

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Trying to imagine how to run an office in Los Angeles, New York City and London (with thoughts of Paris)? Well, there are a whole host of products looking to make your life easier. The hard part is figuring out which ones work best for each and every specific environment. Usually it boils down to matching your company’s business logic to products that are offered with an emphasis of working within your budget while attaining goals set forth by senior management. Typically, the most paramount need businesses have with Remote Access Services (RAS) is file sharing. From Word and Excel documents to Final Cut…

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  • Business,  certifications

    ITIL

    August 2, 2005

    To quote wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Infrastructure_Library The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and policies for managing the Information Technology (IT) services (ITSM), developments and operations.

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  • Business

    Apple's Market Share

    April 8, 2005

    Originally posted at http://www.318.com/TechJournal According to a report by JupiterMedia Corp, Mac OS X is becoming more and more of a standard in the small to Enterprise business categories. The report states that in organizations with 10,000 or more employees, 21% use Mac OS X on their desktops in the office. In businesses with 250 employees or more, 17% of the employees run Mac OS X on their desktop computers at work. Mac OS X is taking market share aware from traditional Linux and Unix installations. One explanation for this is that Mac OS X is easier to use than Linux and Unix, especially for desktop computers. Another explanation is…

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