There are a million ways to make money (or if you're already making money, there are a million ways to make more money). But none of us has time to do all of them. And few of us have the desire to do all that we have time for. Part of the secret to success...
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Ugh! Not this again! Tim Bray appears to be in favor of a scheme for reducing spam by having people pay a little bit for each bit of content they send or post that they want getting past the spam filters of the future. ongoing - Internet Stamps. Since such a system would require some...
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If you are running BIND on your server, here's a tip I discovered the hard way for reducing the probability of your server being abused. A few days ago, I started seeing major explosions in the amount of bandwidth running through my server. I scoured my Apache and email logs, looked at what processes were...
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There's something of an online lovefest underway for Chris Pirillo's newly launched metasearch site, gada.be (pronounced "gotta be", I believe). Since I can't find anyone else mentioning this, I'll blow my own horn. Unless things have changed since late last month, CaRP is the RSS processing engine under the hood. It's one of the most...
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I was recomiling Apache today to update a few modules to their latest versions, and ran into a problem I hadn't seen before: the configure script complained that it couldn't find libpng.(a|so) (meaning libpng.a or libpng.so). I did a bunch of searching online looking for solutions, and after trying a number of things that didn't...
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The top three priorities of an internet server administrator are:

1. Security

2. Security

3. Security

When I was a newbie, I naively installed Red Hat Linux 5.something and if I thought about security at all, I probably figured that I was using a popular distro, so it should be safe. Wrong! That server got...
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I had my first publicly-visible internet server in 1998, and have learned a few lessons the hard way about what it takes to set up and administer one's own server while maintaining one's sanity. This weblog will chronicle some of the problems and challenges I ran into, and offer some advice and solutions for anyone...
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If you're an AdSense advertiser, there's an eBook (PDF) that you should consider reading: Google AdSense Secrets or What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense. I considered getting it a few months ago, but decided then not to spend the money. I did some reading online about how to boost my AdSense...
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The Chordata RSS and Atom newsfeed directory is offering a new service as of today called "Linkback". Website owners who would like to have their own newsfeed directory, but don't want to create or maintain one, can send their customers to Chordata, and have Chordata link back to them from each newsfeed page. The link...
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I noticed today that my recent entry lauding Chuck E. Cheese's for an enjoyable kid's birthday party has been getting more traffic that expected, so I checked Google and indeed, it has mysteriously garnered the number five spot when searching for "Chuck E Cheese"! Weird! It's the only place where Chuck E. Cheese's is mentione...
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