| 71 | Backing Up Your Stuff Part 4: Preparing For Disaster Preview: Okay, picture this ... your computer system has been destroyed by the most recent outbreak of the dreaded typhoid Mary virus. You never knew what hit you. One minute the system was fine. You received a nice email with an attachment which you opened, and boom, your system crashed. You rebooted but it got an error. Now what? Or you could have mice ... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 72 | Backing Up Your Stuff Part 7: Where Is It #3? Preview: These items are all stored by the operating system in your system folder. On Windows 95, 98 and ME, this is generally called "WINDOWS", while on Windows 2000 and NT it is usually called either "WINNT" or "WINNT40" or something to that effect. When you install your operating system you can actually change the name of your system folder (that's the... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 73 | Web Legalities: Bandwidth Stealing Preview: Information (files) loaded to or from servers is called bandwidth. Every time you upload a file to your ISP, surf the web or download a video, you are using bandwidth. Bandwidth is limited. Why? Because it actually is a bunch of wires or fibers connecting servers to the global network. And wires can only carry so much data. When someone attempts ... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 74 | Has your site got the 3 basic security measures? Preview: In recent weeks, attacks on prominent sites such as Yahoo and Ebay have brought home a very pressing point - site security. Anywhere you have a dynamically-generated page, you could be open to attacks where malicious HTML is embedded into your pages. Your pages could be rewritten to substitute your customers' names with "Dummy." Or, credit ca... (more) Published By: Gim Yeap Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 75 | Backing Up Your Stuff Part 2: A Solution Preview: So what do you do when you have so much stuff on your computer that it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to back up the whole thing on a regular basis? You know that you must perform backups (the world is full of dangers to your computer and it's valuable data), but it's just become technically impracticable simply due to the volume of data. ... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 76 | Cyber Warfare Preview: In these days of all-out combat in Afghanistan, terrorist attacks in New York and Anthrax in Washington, it's easy to lose one's perspective. I know I've become addicted to checking the major news web sites several times a day. I now listen to the news radio stations on the way to and from work instead of my normal rock and roll station. It seems ... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 77 | Viruses: The Code Red Worm Preview: Years from now, we will all look back on the summer of 2001 as one of the strangest summers in the history of the internet. We will surely laugh at the frantic gyrations of system administrators and security professionals because of a worm called "Code Red". We system administrators will most certainly chuckle as we fondly reminisce on the late ev... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 78 | Security: Referrer Preview: If you are a webmaster, you will find that one of the most valuable things you can use is the referrer. On the other hand, if you are a surfer, you may want to disable this feature as it can be a security risk and a violation of your privacy. What is this referrer thingie? Well, all web servers have the capability to create log files and virtuall... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 79 | Redirect Worms Away Preview: My site is hosted on an Apache web server. Why is that? Because, in my humble opinion, Microsoft's IIS web server is in no way qualified to service internet web sites (it is excellent as an intranet and applications server, however). Another reason is the vast number of security issues that seem to pop up day after day. In point of fact, the Gart... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 80 | So What's A Cookie For, Anyway? Preview: With all of the rhetoric about cookies, many people don't understand that these little text files were invented for a reason. In fact, cookies were created to solve the internet's equivalent of Alzheimer's disease. You see, web sites do not remember who they are talking to! The web was designed to be simple and straightforward. You (a browser suc... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 81 | Security: Ad Blocking Preview: I don't know about you, but I find banner ads pretty darn obnoxious. Now, I do understand that the foundation upon which the internet is built is, pure and simple: advertising. That's what makes the internet work, and that's why it was growing so fast. It's interesting to see companies fold as advertising falls short of expectations. I hate those... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 82 | Security: Fraud Preview: Fraud is rampant on the internet. It is everywhere that you look. When you are lurking in newsgroups you will find hundreds of messages inviting you to spend money here, there and everywhere. You'll get email demanding your time, attention, and, of course, money for something. Surfing the web will turn up many sites with some incredible offers whi... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 83 | Hijackware Preview: ethical: conforming to accepted professional standards of conduct -- Merriam-Webster OnLine: Collegiate Dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary.htm 2001. (17 August 2001). I swear, internet marketing companies are getting more obnoxious and unethical every day. I guess it was just naive to thing the banner ad risen to it's highe... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 84 | Backing Up Your Stuff Part 3: Software Preview: All right, now you need to consider what software you will use to back up your data. Do it by hand - One possible method (which will not work if you are using a tape drive) is to simply copy files to your backup media by hand. This does have some advantages: - It does not cost anything. And after spending the money to buy some backup hardware th... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 85 | Security: Firewalls Preview: If you spend a lot of time on the internet and you are not behind a firewall, then you are living on borrowed time. Putting some protection between you and the internet is probably the third most important thing that you can do (after getting virus checking software and performing regular backups). The diagram to the left shows an unprotected sys... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 86 | Backing Up Your Stuff Part 1: The Problem Preview: I don't know about your, but I depend upon my computer system daily to help me survive and prosper. I keep everything there: - My daily journals - My writing - Letters and memos - Documents for personal and work issues - FAXes - My photo album (over 10,000 photos) - Graphics art that I've produced In addition, if you are anything like me, over ... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 87 | Backing Up Your Stuff Part 5: Where Is It #1? Preview: I don't know about you, but I love to collect cool downloads off the internet. I've got thousands of stationary files, desktop themes and ICQ skins, as well as more thousands of screen savers and wallpaper files. Most of these special files are stashed in obscure locations which makes them difficult to back up and a pain to restore. However, if y... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 14 December,2001 |
| 88 | How Safe Is Your DATA? Preview: What would you do if you switched your computer on tomorrow morning, only to see an error message and to find that some of your important files had become corrupted? You may no longer be able to open some files - or, even worse, files might have gone missing without a trace. Welcome to the world of data loss! If you rely on your computer, then t... (more) Published By: Simon Morris Submitted: 21 January,2002 |
| 89 | Never Too Late To Learn--BACK UP! Preview: It happened to me... My computer crashed today. First thought is, "This can't be happening to me"! In my effort to prove that reasoning correct, I reboot. First line of defense. Hmm. Still no response. Oh no! What now? What will I do without my computer? I call our computer techie. He tells me how to try one more thing. He adds to *cross my fi... (more) Published By: Mary Holzrichter Submitted: 13 February,2002 |
| 90 | Virus Protection and Hoax Recognition - Be Safe Not Sorry Preview: Everyday I receive numerous emails with virus infections. Many of them come in response to my sending out my twice weekly newsletter to close to 12,000 subscribers. What normally happens is a subscriber's system is infected without them even realizing it. Their email program sends out emails to everyone in their address book without them knowing.... (more) Published By: Joe Reinbold Submitted: 15 February,2002 |