Recent content by Elvie

Can anyone recommend an open source CMS that allows certain features/pages to be accessible only to users with a password? (do Joomla or Drupal allow this?) I have a client with a small budget so if I can find a CMS with this feature it'll save me from programming this site. This project is...

Does anyone use satellite internet? I've finally sold my house this week so we're moving on and it looks like our next place may be rural. I'm looking at all options but it looks like the only options right now are dial-up or satellite internet. The residential satellite package is topped at...

I run a number of blogs and the amount of blog spam that was hitting my blogs everyday was becoming a real problem. It got so bad that I shut two of them down all together, and had to switch the rest to comment moderation. All the spam comments were automatic bots that were posting spam links...

In the past I've been a do-it-all-myself for free kinda gal, but for one of my new projects I decided to open my wallet and pay for a license for BlogHoster. BlogHoster is a PHP-based software that allows your users to have their own blog on their own subdomain. My Favourite Features Each...

Spamhaus, the U.K. based anti-spam group, is about to lose its own domain name because they have failed to comply with a American $11.7 million judgment. Spamhaus warns that the world will be hit massive amount of spam if their domain name is suspended. Read more...

Rumours are circling the web that there are talks between Google and YouTube. Google in talks to buy YouTube -report and WSJ reports Google and YouTube are in acquisition talks

I'm one of the those programmers who periodically need to crank something loud and violent in order to shut out the world and get down to business. Often I listen to Rage Against the Machine - their self title album from '92. It really gets me over a lull and back into a good session of...

Excellent article: A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Server (Security Inside WHM/CPanel) http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=327478 Even with a managed server, you might be as surprised as I was to find that many of the settings outlined in the 3 part article are not defaulted on...

I have two domain names for sale: YouNeedACreditCard.com YouNeedAMortgage.com Both are registered at GoDaddy and don't expire until Jan 2008. I just took the sites down, so these are domain names only. The credit card site had a PR of 1, the mortgage site had a PR of 3. Make an offer.

Bloggers get perks! I've covered a particular industry with a blog for a couple of years now, and I just received an exclusive free media pass to a conference with free meals, and a free day-long tourist train ride to converse with the conference speakers and politicians on the last day of the...

I signed up this morning for a Del.icio.us account so I could see what it's all about. I imported my bookmarks and then decided to delete a bunch of them. I guess my deleting clicks were too rapid because I have already been "temporarily blocked" by del.icio.us - for at least 30 minutes...

It's been years since I looked around for a chat application. Last time I decided against Java based chats because they bogged down my site too much and I set up a simple html refresh chat. Now I'm looking at having a chat window on the screen while the user is using my site so they can chat...

For anyone experienced with various free CMS, which one would be the best and require the least customization for a family website? I own our family name as a domain name and I think it would be neat for my extended family to each have a password and be able to update the page with their...

Okay fess up, which one of you rigged up this one? :) Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million

I've decided to offer the users of one of the communities I own a free blog service. I downloaded and installed the multiple users (mu) version of WordPress, but I can forsee many many hours of customization ahead. My time is at a real premium right now. Today I discovered BlogHoster -...