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SPAM ALERT!

Laz — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:37:30 +0000

Like everyone else I get a ton of SPAM in my inbox, even with all of the SPAM fighting tools I can find and use. Usually, as a last line of defense I use a product called Mailwasher to catch anything that gets past server filters, but we’ll talk about Mailwasher later. This post is [...]

Google Drive Creates Mountains Of Buzz

Laz — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:11:34 +0000

Google has now released to the world knowledge of it’s online file storage service called Google drive. From what I can see this has caused a ton of buzz and discussion all over the ‘net, some good and some bad, slamming Google and saying they just copied Dropbox. Well, let’s face it, Dropbox didn’t have [...]

Check out this cool service – Pastebin

Laz — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:20:51 +0000

I just recently found this, and I know, a bunch of you probably already know about it and maybe have for a long time. But hey, I just found out about it and it is so cool I just had to tell everyone! The site is called Pastebin and it’s a cool site (the site [...]

Navicat SSH Tunnel Error – 2013 Lost connection to MySQL server

Laz — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:17:41 +0000

This post is for anyone out there running any Navicat database tools. The company, PremiumSoft, that makes the line of Navicat tools is probably best known for there incredible database administration tool, Navicat. That’s where I first found them. They make a database admin tool that can connect to MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite [...]

Debian and Ubuntu Sources List Generator

Laz — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:22:26 +0000

That title sounds pretty cool doesn’t it? Yes, it sure does! I found this nifty little tool and saw right away that I just had to share it with everyone. It’s a really cool web interface to a tool that lets you point and click your release information as well as your resource/branch preferences, and [...]

Learn Solaris UNIX or Linux Today, The Real Way

Laz — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:04:46 +0000

OK Folks, I added this post so I could tell you about a new article that I just posted. Just like the title here suggests, I talk about learning Solaris UNIX and/or Linux the real way or maybe it would be better said as the right way. I don’t suppose there is a wrong or [...]

CSS: Class versus ID

Laz — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:11:06 +0000

Just a quick post to share something cool. I was learning more about the difference between classes and ID’s in CSS and found a great article at CSS-Tricks and I just had to share it with everyone. The link is here http://css-tricks.com/the-difference-between-id-and-class/ so go check it out if that sounds like something of benefit to [...]

Komodo IDE Snippet Variables

Laz — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:37:13 +0000

Here we go, for anyone out there using Komodo IDE (and maybe Komodo Edit, not sure if this is available in the free version). Aside from being the coolest and best IDE I have found for editing PHP, PERL, SHELL and other scripts, the environment itself has lots of features. One cool thing is that [...]

Review: Ghost In The Wires

Laz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:35:13 +0000

This post is a little bit different than normal, but still applies overall to the scope that I am going for here I think. I just finished reading a really cool book called Ghost in the Wires written by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon with the foreword by Steve Wozniak. Sounds like a thrill [...]

New Advisory Pages!

Laz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:51:46 +0000

Whoah! We have been busy, busy over here setting up a bunch of new advisory pages. Just in case you are wondering, we take an RSS feed and set it up to display on a page. So, you can click on that page link and get the latest information from that RSS feed right there [...]