http://www.jsimmons.co.uk Applied Information Technology Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:17:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you seen those adverts on the web or in the internet mags advertising server co-location. Co-location is where you pay a company to place your server on the internet in a data center. You pay a monthly or fee and you may sometimes a setup fee. Just like a ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2009/06/01/caveat-emptor-buyer-beware/ A rather dangerous security flaw which can cause major havoc on the ability to deliver internet services has been discovered. A team of security researchers have discovered a security flaw in the protocol called TCP. TCP is the blood that flows through the internet. Without TCP the internet would not ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/10/04/sockstress-is-able-to-cause-internet-meltdown/ The New York Stock Exchange depends on Red Hat Linux to perform. They use Linux for trading systems and they purchase support from Redhat. Key fetures looked for are: Speed Reliability Cost Flexibility http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/10/01/nyse-depends-on-linux-to-perform/ The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo. http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/09/11/another-day-in-the-office/ I have recently come across a very promising ecommerce product called Magento. The current version is 1.14. At the time of writing this post, Magento is just over 1 year old. It is still a very young product and show's great promise. It is designed using current PHP coding standards, ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/09/04/magento-open-source-ecommerce/ When you boot from a Ubuntu Live CD, you do not get access to your LVM volumes. LVM is a storage arrangement which allows you to create a file system across multiple discs. For example If you have 2 500GB discs, You can make a file system 1TB in ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/09/04/using-lvm-with-a-ubuntu-live-cd/ Over the past few months quite a my friends and associates have been complaining about the latest windows operating system, Windows Vista. The complaints range from the fact that they perceive windows vista to be slow, or certain hardware devices or programs have stopped working since installing Vista. Some problems have been so hard ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/07/11/you-do-have-a-choice/ Data protection Stupidty. I’m getting quite worried about the amount of news items that I have seen recently which highlight security breaches due to laptop theft or missing CD’s in the post. One of the most public is the HMRC data of 25 million records on non-encrypted media. A number of security experts ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/07/04/data-protection-stupidity/ I have been working with CISCO networking equipment for over 10 years. Over the years they have created a very strong brand dominance. This is then fed by the fact that most corporations will only insist on using CISCO network equipment within networks. However over the years CISCO’s competition has ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/06/27/the-trouble-with-cisco/ BECTA is an organisation which outlines the use of technology in Britain's educational system. A report has been released by BECTA which outlines it's position on deploying VISTA and Office 2007. Microsoft Vista and Office 2007: full report An interim report was released in January 2007 which came to the following conclusions: the ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/01/25/becta-says-whoa-to-schools-deploying-vista-and-office-2007/