Photo Caching on Social Sites
Posted by Matt Jenkins in infrastructure management, miscellaneous, monitoring on May 21st, 2009
I read the bbc news story today - which reports that a group at Cambridge University found that the direct URL to uploaded photos on various sites continued to exist 30 days after they deleted them.
Is this news? These sites have several hosting challenges, one key area is caching.
Avaya IP Office 500
Posted by Matt Jenkins in miscellaneous on February 21st, 2009
I’ve been in Germany this week installing a new branch office. The phone system is to be the very capable IP Office 500 from Avaya - which is great for branch offices as its pretty cheap and remotely configurable, and has the capability for small community networking across the VPN.
A couple of things caught me out on this install Read the rest of this entry »
Google flags all sites as malicious
Posted by mjenkins in miscellaneous on January 31st, 2009
Google may contain badware!
Earlir today Google flagged every site with the statement “This site may harm your computer” in its search results on both Google.com and Google.co.uk. I saw this issue live, and immediately started using Yahoo for search.
Tiered Internet kills competition.
Posted by Matt Jenkins in Uncategorized on June 7th, 2008
A few thoughts on the problem with a tiered internet and why ISPs who deliver content need net neutrality to avoid a conflict of interests.
Attaching SQL Databases
Posted by Matt Jenkins in database on May 28th, 2008
In MSSQL2k, a lot of users would use the detach command within the GUI to kill all the active processes on a DB, this functionality is somewhat cut down in MSSQL2005 - you can see the processes & kill them individually, but not as a bulk kill.
To detach a database in Tsql, you can use:
EXEC sp_detach_db 'database', 'true'
This will detach the DB and skip checks on doing so.
Office Perimeter Security - VPN Access
Posted by Matt Jenkins in networking on April 1st, 2008
The office perimeter can be the most vunerable area of the smb network, it is the access gateway for the world - friends and foe. As an ever increasing number of users require external access, how can you stay secure without hindering legitimate users? Every user has a different need for VPN access, and there are many different requirements in different businesses.
Here is my view on how you can use the VPN to help secure your network: Read the rest of this entry »