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Web
Nginx configuration, security, and other information
Nginx is rapidly gaining popularity in the WebHosting world, especially since performance, speed, and scaling are becoming ever more important. ย Nginx is capable of handling a large amount of concurrent connections with a fair amount of ease. It is used…
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Cool Stuff
Hacker Typer – code like a hacker
If you are ever needlessly bored or you have the desire to become a super hacker able to blast out lines of code in an instant and impress your friends or visitors, HackerTyper.net is your friend! I cranked out the…
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Networking
Viewing and killing TCP IP connections Windows
Many time inย troubleshooting or needing to view network traffic information or connection information, seeing your TCP/IP connections in Windows can provide valuable insight into problems or issues that may be going on in Windows with connectivity. ย Also, viewing connection information…
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News
Untangle 11.0 new features and changes
Untangle has announced and released a new version of their ever popular UTM device the NG Firewall which is used by an ever growing number of customers. ย The simplicity and all-in-one nature of the product appeals to many as one…
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Web
Installing a LEMP server with WordPress and Google Pagespeed
If you are looking to host a webserver and want a really reliable, stable platform that has excellent performance, a LEMP server using the latest flavor of Ubuntu – 14.04 along with Nginx and Google Pagespeed is hard to beat.…
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Windows
Windows 10 Security concerns already
The story broke before the weekendย as reported among others by the Hacker News about Windows 10 Preview having a keylogger to spy on your activities. ย It seems that Microsoft may be taking its technical preview to the next level of…
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Virtualization
Installing vSphere Update Manager 5.5 update 2 and configuration
Maintaining and deploying patches and updates throughout any environment can take a lot of heavy lifting by administrators. ย VMware environments need to be patched and updated along with other OS environments in any enterprise environment. ย While updates can be manually…
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Security
Install Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET for better security
In this day and age of high profile exploits in the news involving businesses that we all know and use, digital security is more on the minds of everyone now than ever before. ย While there isn’t anything we as consumers…
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Computers
Performance Tweaks VMware Workstation 10
For those of you who use VMware workstation 10 in running VMs on your desktop or laptop computer, you may have noticed that in certain situations or conditions things may get a bit sluggish when your workstation is under load…