I like to monitor the stats for my website very closely, to see how visitors find the articles on my site. I have noticed that the majority of visitors come from google or some other search engine. I am a big fan of google and use it all the time. In wordpress, I use the google sitemap plugin to generate a sitemap and automatically submit it to google. But through keeping an eye on my mint stats (mint is the best stat program for a website ever), I have noticed that when I write a new article, there are no hits to that article from google for at least two weeks. For example, exactly two weeks ago, I wrote an article about memory dumps. The last two weeks, I have not received a single hit on that article from any searches on google. Tonight I suddenly received several hits on that article. I have also noticed this same thing with other articles that I have written. It doesn’t bother me that it takes two weeks for search results to find my articles, I just found it interesting. So if you are running a website just know that it will take two weeks for search results to return your site.
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I bought a new domain name the other day. frank.vg I wanted to get a simpler domain to use for email. I currently use gmail for most of my mail, but I would like to start hosting my own email. frankdzedzy.com is too long and hard to spell to be an email address. Of course frank.com, and all the other top level domains are already taken. So I registered frank.vg, with Network Solutions. .vg is the tld for the British Virgin Islands. While I have no connection with the British Virgin Island (wish I was there though:) it is a nice simple domain name. Right now I pointed it to my website here. Eventually, I will probably use it for email, and maybe my home webserver. It would definitly be cool to get frank.com or frank.net though.
There have been many times, while I was at work, when I wanted to access my computer at home. There are many different ways to do this. GoToMyPC LogMeIn and
You could just setup Vnc and use that by itself for remote access. But vnc is not encrypted, so it send everything you do across the internet, including your password in plain text. While the odds of getting your password sniffed out by a hacker are probably slim, you don’t want to take that chance. So SSH tunneling is neccessary.
SSH tunneling involves establishing an ssh connection, and forwarding the port you need over this connection. This allows SSH to encrypt all the info you send. It does add some overhead, but the securiy and privacy is worth it. This guide focuses on Windows. If you use another os you probably already know how to do all this.
I noticed that the article below, that I posted on digg is no longer to be found on digg. When I originally posted it, I did not expect to receive 334 diggs, and a spot on the homepage. Now I can no longer find it on digg, except under my profile. I guess to many users decided that it was not “relevant” information. When I wrote the article, I also didn’t realize that I would get so many comments about how “lame”, “old”, and “newbie” this information is. While I would admit, that it is old, and basic information, it is information that every technical computer user should know. But there is so much information out on the internet, that in reality, not many people know much about how email actually works. But everyone has to start somewhere, even the 133t geeks. The basic premise of the internet is for people to share information, even old information, that may be more than two days old. I just don’t understand why a few more knowlegable people would be so strongly against info that hundreds of other users found interesting and enlightening. People can be so proud and arrogant, it amazes me. Well enough of my rantings. Hopefully, those who read the article will benifit from it. I will try to post more technical articles about things I know and learn about. And if it is too basic for you, find another blog to read. I will think twice now about posting articles on digg. It is a great website, but it doesn’t seem to be the place to go for old technology information. Enjoy any “old” information that I post, because, if it is still relevant, it isn’t really “old”.