www & apache19 May 2009 08:28 am

use Posix; # needed for strftime() func
use WWW::Curl::easy; # func new()

News and Announcements07 May 2009 06:47 am

When you have your computer serviced, can you trust your geek?  Read this article. A security firm in the UK bought 300 hard drives, and found sensitive information from private citizens, and many government organizations.

Now don’t get me wrong, companies often do a good job doing DOD wipes and EMF Bulk wipes of magnetic material. Additionally, firms like Iron Mountain and and other local shredders are used extensively by banks, medical offices, and businesses that dispose of sensitive paper records. Additionally these guys, and most pros can offer excellent guidance on the disposal of not just paper, but electronic records, as well as electronic archiving with imaging and encrypted backup through electronic transmission.

But we go further to make sure that hard drives and backup media, as well as archival practices conform with safe and secure methods, before personal and business information places your company, its employees, or its customers at risk.

If you have questions, contact the Atlanta database experts.

www & apache04 May 2009 09:24 am

Often called a new search engine, and a replacement for google, Wolfram Alpha is said to understand natural language. This is a scientific advancement from the standpoint that google primarily uses word and phrase matching, and successfully assigns relevancy to words and phrases in its indexing methodology towards providing more relevant search results than MSN or Yahoo. However, when asking the question ‘is an angstrom bigger than a MM’ google first gives you a site that talks about the metric system and second a site talking about angstroms and electrons. Someone wondered if a search engine ought to answer correctly, i.e. “No, grasshopper”.

British inventor, Dr Stephen Wolfram is a PHD mathematician who has applied his knowledge towards computing and used computers in his work since 1973. I never touched anything more advanced than a calculator until 1981, and then was still skeptical due to the lack of a backspace key on the keypunch machines that produced the 80 column hollerith cards. Wolfram has advanced to looking at natural language, which involves advanced parsing and evaluation of meaning well before formulating results. Some of this is quite well established in computing, indeed the compilation of a Fortran program into machine language is a crude form of this, i.e. what does an IBM 370 understand to mean ‘please calculate the sum of the values stored in the symbolic location for “A” and “B” and store it in the symbolic location “C”‘. Of course, this result would be dozens of machine instructions.

Another approach that has a parallel to Wolfram Alpha would be the askjeeves search engine, which at least gives a sidebar with the questions ‘how big is an angstrom’ and ‘the metric system’, so with some reading and skill at opening links in new tabs, you can gather the information to answer the question. What Wolfram alpha really promises to finish is that last step, kind of like the cash register at Burger King starts with a picture of a hamburger on one key, and an apple pie on another key, and finishes by telling the fast food drive up window practitioner the exact change due to me, the patron.

Perhaps Wolfram Alpha can explain to me why they always put the bills in my hand, then the change on top so it rolls off on the ground, or why the wrong food always ends up in the bag.

Microsoft World Domination14 Jan 2009 02:50 pm

Many viri have figured out how to go into the registry and disable task manager.  This is a useful click-jacking technique, because the best way to kill a suspicious dialogue box, and make sure you are not click-jacked is with the task manager end process.

So, as admin, run regedit and search for the registry key ‘disabletaskmgr’ and change from 1 to 0.

Microsoft World Domination09 Dec 2008 11:07 am

Any small usb drive will do, and are readable in safe-mode on most newer computers.smitrem directory with runthis.bat - smitfraudfix by siriccleanerrr-freeavg-free 8.0avast freespybotsuperantispywarehijackthismalware bytes

Microsoft World Domination08 Dec 2008 02:54 pm

Virus Scanner - Avg Free or Avast Free edition
Malware Scanner - Microsoft Defender, Malware Bytes, Spybot S&D, Superantispyware.

While we are at it, get a quad core to keep up with all the viri windows lets through.

Microsoft World Domination08 Dec 2008 02:49 pm

HP has engaged in the practice of linking a ‘tatoo’ or serial number between their motherboards and their recovery partitions.  This means that hardware changes can prevent their computers from proper recovery.  This makes it important to use an HP approved hardware service company to do a motherboard replacement, or anything leading to tatoo changes.

I would love to describe how the technical means of defeating the ‘code purple’, but with the cost of computers these days, it is cheaper to buy a new one.  For example, I had a customer that had a one year old HP laptop computer, that upon inspection seemed to have a major problem.  So we called HP and told them we needed a warranty repair.  They sent Fed-Ex to pick it up, replaced the motherboard, and sent it back, all while leaving the contents of the Hard Drive intact.  (They make no warranty of this happening)

On the other side of the one year warranty, if the computer had lost the motherboard, it would not have been worth fixing.  Generally we are going to charge between $ 400 and $ 800 to replace a motherboard.  So go buy a new computer.

www & apache06 Dec 2008 08:43 am

I used vi themes/pushbutton/page.tp1.php

News and Announcements22 Sep 2008 09:48 am

<HEAD>

   <META NAME=”GOOGLEBOT” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”>

Sample robots.txt file to disallow entire site from all spiders:

# robots.txt file created - mansup.biz
# Tues 4 sept 2007

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

News and Announcements08 Aug 2007 08:59 am

This is an example of a WordPress post, you could edit this to put news about your company.  You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

We can link this system to your public page, or hide it behind passwords (for an extra charge), so for example you can keep your employee manual and company policies on-line.  We can send you a backup of the entire database via email every night automatically, so this is a safer way to develop company information than relying on a pc hard drive, or even a server hard drive.

This post is an example of news posted about the project.  The actual employee manual or company policies, or shipping instructions should be saved as pages.  See the pages link on the right.