Archive for July, 2007

Wireless Network Security

Most households have some sort of broadband that is hooked up to a wireless router of some sort. These wireless routers are by default insecure. It is argued that wireless in any form is incredibly insecure due to the fact that you can’t physically contain it Read more »

Duplicate Content www vs. non-www Canonical Problems

The typical a domain usually starts with http://www and a subdomain would usually only contain the http://.; however, recently search engines have been marking http://yourdomain.com as an entirely different site from http://www.yourdomain.com. Meaning they get an entirely different ranking in Google searches. Read more »

Installing Ad-Aware

Adware is a program that is used to find and remove adware and spyware. To install adware simply follow these steps. Read more »

Send email notifications with php

In order to send an email notification on your site via php you will probably need some sort of scheduled task program. This will execute the php script routinely. Since I tend to use open source software I used cron. Cron is found in Unix and Unix-like operating systems and is used to schedule commands to be executed periodically. It reads a series of commands from standard input and collects them into a file known as a “crontab” which is later read and whose instructions are carried out. Read more »

How to: Send a TXT Message Through Email

Sending txt message through a computer can be incredibly useful. Google sends txt messages through their calendar service to remind users of important dates and appointments. They can send movie times, wheather reports, stock quotes, directions, notifications of new email, etc… Read more »

Download files through authentication

I recently needed to implement a way for authenticated users to download files. Normally to host a file for download on a site you would need to provide the url to the download. www.yourdomain.com/restrictedfile.pdf. Read more »