Monthly Archives: December 2007

How to restrict users in linux to their home directory

Posted on December 3, 2007 by

So lets say you have a server with a bunch of users and they all have sites and data and you don’t want them to be able to see each others data. A lot of distributions aren’t setup to stop users from wandering and reading files within other users directories.

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Goverment Employee uses On Call IT firm to destroy Goverment data

Posted on December 3, 2007 by

A Goverment Employee used an On Call IT service to perform a "seven level" format on his hard drive that possibly contained federal evidence.

Scott Bloch runs the Office of Special Counsel, an agency charged with protecting government whistleblowers and enforcing a ban on federal employees engaging in partisan political activity.

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Ever wondered what the first domain names registered were?

Posted on December 3, 2007 by

You can find the list of 100 of the first domain names ever registered at http://www.thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com

Which has the full list, and what rolls in at number one? Well its SYMBOLICS.COM!

You can check out the full list here.

 

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Looking for Free To Air Satellite fixes? Is ftatalk.com too busy? Use satfix.net a recently setup mirror!

Posted on December 1, 2007 by

I noticed quite a few of my visitors are finding my article about

MySQL Thread Caching and a Busy Site

And looking for the http://www.ftatalk.com mirror.

Heres the mirror http://www.satfix.net most of the articles on http://www.ftatalk.com are located on this site so just load it up, register and go.

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