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Making Web Servers Safer
As you no doubt know, the latest Internet Explorer exploit, Download.Ject, escalates security problems to the lose-your-life-savings point for users. Do business with an infected bank site and user keystrokes get logged and sent to a “bad guy” server. Yow! As of this writing, nobody knows exactly how the Windows-based IIS was infected, except the…
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Creating a Data Backup Server
As more and more of your life’s records and memories are stored in digital form, it makes sense to explore the best ways to keep them secure. All methods have drawbacks, some of them glaring. Floppy disks are all but dead as a format. ZIP disks are expensive for their capacity. CD/DVD backups are great—if…
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Shared-Hosting Perils
Shared hosting can be a cost-efficient solution for many Web sites, but you may end up paying a different sort of price. As always when sharing with strangers, there’s a risk of the unknown. A well-designed and -managed operating system along with other system software may be able to protect applications and users from one…
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How to Replace Internet Explorer
If you believe, as I do, that Internet Explorer has just gotten too dangerous for everyday use, your next conclusion must be to move yourself and your clients to another browser. But now come the hard questions: Which browser do you use, and how do you migrate users? Before I jump into those questions, though,…
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Build It: A $1500 All-Around PC
Usually, when we do a Build It story, we piece together a rig for a very definite purpose. Typically, the idea is to choose an aggressive price and show our readers how a little careful shopping and part selection can come together to make an impressive…something. Perhaps it’s a Digital Audio Workstation, an inexpensive gaming…
