Norton Antivirus for Mac
Posted on December 10, 2007 by Ben Cecka
So Norton has released a version of their flagship product for the Mac? Please tell me this isn’t so!
All that I can say here is that I hope Mac users have paid attention to Windows users with Symantec’s products — specifically Norton Antivirus. I’ll admit that on my personal Linux machines I don’t run anything [...]
LogMeIn IT Reach
Posted on December 9, 2007 by Ben Cecka
While I’m personally a huge fan of UltraVNC and the RealVNC projects, some video issues with our software made them extremely unstable to the point that I had to find an alternative remote support solution. I looked at a few of them and settled on LogMeIn’s IT Reach.
It’s an impressive product and very affordable, even [...]
Backup and Email a MySQL Database
Posted on December 3, 2007 by Ben Cecka
I know there are a hundred and fifty scripts that do this, but I set out to do this within a single Crontab entry. I thought it would be nice to post and save others from having to suffer with combining a bunch of ridiculous scripts for such a simple task.
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword –all-databases | [...]
PAWN Language
Posted on November 13, 2007 by Ben Cecka
After all these years of avoiding the gritty language of C, my last class forced me to get into just that. Honestly, other than being much more detailed in data-types, I found the logic control to be very comfortable given my experience with PHP.
So, now that I’ve been getting familiar with the syntax I realized [...]
The Ron Paul Effect
Posted on October 17, 2007 by Ben Cecka
If I see something in my feeds with the name “Ron Paul” anywhere in the title or description I’m going to ignore it. I don’t even want to take the time anymore to go vote it down on Digg or Reddit for being lame campaign spam.
Could this be a case of online overmarketing? Burnout? Am [...]
The Machine is Us/ing Us
Posted on October 7, 2007 by Ben Cecka
If anything on the Web is ever to be considered sexy, this is it (sorry for the repost for anyone that got this on my family blog):
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