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  • Don’t Keep Your Visitors Waiting: Monitor Your Blog’s Performance

    Don’t Keep Your Visitors Waiting: Monitor Your Blog’s Performance

    I am always concerned with the performance of my blog to the point where I try to test the performance on at least a weekly basis. My quest to make my blog perform at its best led me to use CloudFlare to cache and send my static content.

    There could be any number of reasons why performance for a blog, or website, decreases and many times you may be able to find the problem and fix it. Other times, such as the decrease in performance on your host’s servers, are out of your control besides alerting your host. In this post I’ll explain the tests I perform to test out the performance of my blog so I can find where my blog performance can be tweaked.

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  • Java – A Huge Security Problem in Your Computer

    Java – A Huge Security Problem in Your Computer

    Many of the attacks on a computer system involves exploiting weaknesses in installed software. Everything from the operating system, Web browsers, office software, and software that just connects to the Internet, may have weaknesses that hackers can exploit to install malicious software. Most of the time malicious software that targets a particular application exploit is limited to a particular type of computer, such as Windows or Apple. This is why it is always important to ensure you keep the applications installed on your computer updated with the latest patches.

    There is one piece of software that is exploited on a regular basis, and the exploits aren’t limited to a particular system. This software is designed to work on many different systems, so it is an extremely easy target for hackers. The software is Java.

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  • LastPass – The Ultimate in Password Protection

    LastPass – The Ultimate in Password Protection

    I recently needed a way to manage my passwords, and decided to give LastPass a try. A few months ago I was tired of remember my passwords, and on top of that I wanted to create more unique passwords. You probably know how hard it is to keep passwords straight for many applications, so I began search for a password management solution.

    After doing some reading I discovered a tremendous service called LastPass. For the past few months I have been using this service I have been impressed with how well it manages my passwords, and makes it very easy for me to login to various locations with different passwords.

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  • Mozilla Firefox – This Connection is Untrusted

    Mozilla Firefox – This Connection is Untrusted

    As I mentioned in my review of Bitdefender Total Security 2013, I ran into an issue where Mozilla Firefox would display a certificate error on my screen when I accessed my Gmail account. In fact the error appeared whenever I access any page within Google, and only Firefox displayed the error, and no other Web browser.

    After some quick research into the problem, I managed to trace the problem to Bitdefender Total Security 2013, and then find what tool within that security suite was causing the problem. Below are the steps I used to solve the issue so I could access Gmail from within Firefox.

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  • Technically Easy Gets a New Theme

    I talked about some thoughts I had on Web design in a previous post title My Thoughts on Web Page Designs, and also mentioned that I was working on a new theme for Technically Easy. After several weeks of development and testing, I finally switched to the new theme this past weekend.

    While it isn’t the most exciting theme, it does contain all the elements and ideas that I had thought about. I have always preferred more simple designs than complex ones, which explains the look and layout of this theme. You’ll have to bear with me while I go over some of the points about this theme.

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  • How to Display HTML Code in Blog Comments

    How to Display HTML Code in Blog Comments

    You can easily display HTML code in a blog comment you leave on a blog. Unfortunately, it does require some minor changes to the HTML before you write it to the comment as regular HTML tags won’t usually be displayed properly, mainly due to security concerns.

    When someone would like clarification about a particular piece of code, they attempt to paste it into the comments, but unfortunately, the code is removed and empty white-space is what appears. In this post I will describe how you can easily paste HTML code in your comment, not only on this blog, but probably any blog.

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  • Web Server Returns 404 Instead of 200 Status Code

    Web Server Returns 404 Instead of 200 Status Code

    I have been experiencing a rather weird issue with my blog recently, and one that I hadn’t noticed until I accessed my Google Webmaster account. The reason I hadn’t noticed the issue was because it wasn’t easily identifiable when viewing my blog, or the administrative pages. The problem was the fact that several of my posts were returning a “404 Not Found” status code instead of a “200 OK” status code.

    What has made this problem weird was that it was only happening on about 5 pages of my blog. All the other pages were returning a “200 OK” status code. Since all post pages use the same template file, and therefore are created the exact same way, I couldn’t figure out what created the problem. While the headers of the pages indicated a 404, the pages were displaying in the Web browsers without any problems.

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  • Four Lessons IT Administrators Can Learn From Yahoo! Server Breach

    Four Lessons IT Administrators Can Learn From Yahoo! Server Breach

    A recent Yahoo! server security breach exposing 450,000 usernames and passwords indicates that there are certain security measures that cannot be ignored. Yes, it is true that every web server is exposed to security risks, but through some precautionary steps, the damage can be controlled or minimized to a great extent.

    In addition, server producers such as Dell try their hardest to make the servers as safe as possible. Network security administrators should spend more nights working on strengthening their network security system.

    Not only this, the network administrator should also double-check that the basic security principles are correctly implemented. In this article we will discuss a few lessons we have learned from the recent successful hack attack on the web giant.
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