Category: Software

You may be wondering why I haven’t posted anything to this blog recently. Although I am busy getting married and taking care of a puppy; I must admit something. I am completely addicted to …

Sometimes you just can’t get enough of a bad thing. Here is another rant about page view licenses, specifically those implemented in Web Trends 7.5b. After continually fighting with their support staff I came to the realization framed pages …

Project Overview
For one of our larger clients we’ve decided to move their website / database / analytics to a dedicated group of servers. While this project was fairly straight forward on the surface it became a real pain when it …

After evaluating a number of products I found NoCat to be the best open source solution for building hot spots. We aren’t an ISP, but we often host seminars where techie clients need Internet access. To effectively isolate …

After a horrible experience using Windows XP 64-bit, I decided to give Linux a chance to prove 64-bit technology is mature enough for production use. The server is going to be doing a “minimal” installation which should keep things …

There are a few applications which have made my life significantly easier. I thought I would take a moment to express a special thank you to the following programs.

Webmin
This terrific application was a great tool to get me started …

With the additional load from virus / spam filtering effecting the performance of our core mail servers, we decided to create an MX server to place in front of our current mail system. This server is designed to receive all …