MikeJ

Just FYI, I'm not trying to change your mind. I'm not, and haven't been, saying that opensource is bad. I'm a big supporter of opensource myself. I'm just making the statement that when people claim that something is more secure just because it's opensource, they aren't looking at the whole picture.

Yep. Nice size yard for the BBQ, too.

I've been using the Thermaltake Volcano 7 cooler on my XP2000+ CPU with no problem for over 2 years. The only mod I did to the cooler when I installed it is it had a temperature sensor that I removed and hardwired the fan to always run max RPM. 'Course I also had a Thermaltake silver orb (older model yet) in my XP1300 system and the orb fan died after 3 years or so and my cpu fried. But then again, that machine was on 24/7 for over 3 years.

There was a Linux virus before Bliss called "Staog" (1996) but it was more of a proof of concept virus (to prove that it can be done on Linux) and didn't do any real damage. If you look in Symantic's virus database, you'll see many other Linux viruses (what exposure they actually got and how many of them are truly different and not just slight mods of previous ones I don't know). If you want to get a more objective overview of security and various operating systems, I highly recommend taking some time and reading the publication "A Taste of Computer Security" which includes some decent background on computer security of various popular operating systems and discusses more factual information then the misleading statements that "opensource" (many eyes) alone makes something more secure.

You are connecting both hard drives with the same data cable, correct? (CD and DVD are on a separate cable?). And you have one drive (the boot drive) set as MASTER, and the second drive set as SLAVE?

You're in the thumb. http://www.infomi.com/county/lapeer/

Hey, I grew up in Clare. Just north of center. Still have several relatives in that area.

Yes. Using your domain for <SERVER> (http://example.com) should work correctly (or eliminating server completely and letting it do an relative POST using the current domain being accessed).

Only on dedicated servers do we allow you to run your own services (such as a streaming media server which would be required for a true streaming audio or video). Semi-dedicated are still shared with other users and therefore we don't allow user run services on them. That doesn't mean you can't embed sound files in webpages for a psuedo streaming on shared servers (some sound files will start to play while they are downloading), you just don't get the true streaming capability.

I don't believe such a thing exists, although you may find things cheaper than GoDaddy (TCH uses wildwestdomains which is a company of GoDaddy specifically for reselling). Becareful with making a decision about listing false information in a whois record. That can be grounds for losing the domain as it breaks ICANN's policies about domain registrations. For the purpose of avoiding spam, the private registration is really the only way to go (just look around for who might do it cheaper, I'm not aware of any). It's unlikely the registrar choice is why you got spam, and more likely the fact that you changed your registration (it's been known that spammers monitor whois changes) which is unrelated to any particular registrar. I just deal with blocking the spam I get, then trying to avoid being listed at this point.

I'm not a man of many words, so I'll just say... Stay postive. Stay strong. You have more friends supporting you then you probably know.

Hi Griff. Yes you can transfer all of your existing accounts into your reseller account and cancel the existing packages. When you sign up for the reseller account, you can choose whether to have us migrate all of your accounts for you (there's no charge for that), or do them yourself. If you have any more questions, please ask.

Just a clarification, $10.95/yr is for maintaining the "registration" of your domain name. It is required for every single domain name you have if you were to transfer them all to TCH as your registrar, regardless of how that domain is used or not used. If you keep them wherever you currently have them registered (and define TCH for your name service), then you wouldn't pay TCH anything for the registration (you would just pay for the hosting) but will have to continue to pay your current registrar for every domain that you have with them at whatever rate they charge. In otherwords, the domain registration is a separate cost from the site hosting. Domain registration you cannot avoid paying (otherwise you would lose your domain), it's just a matter of who you are paying (and to some degree how much). The $10.95/yr listed in the plans only applies if you want TCH to be the registrar of your domains. ... And "unlimited" means as many as you want to create as long as it doesn't cause serious problems with other customer sites on the shared environment. For example, it could be as little as 1 high volume mysql database, or more than 1000 hardly used mysql databases. It really depends on how you use them. Basically, as long as your usage doesn't use excessive system resources (which is mentioned in the AUP), you can keep creating them. I don't believe we've ever come across an incident yet, though, where we have had to limit or request someone to upgrade based on the number of email addresses or databases someone was creating.

Looks like a one-baht coin from Thailand to me. Edit: Here ya go... http://thailandforvisitors.com/general/moneycoins.html The one-baht there is silver, but looks like the same pictures.

The only time we would block anyone is if that IP address was involved in abuse of our services. That is not the case with jupiter.robustserver.com at IP address 66.246.37.202, your sending mailserver. We have no blocks against that address. I obviously cannot test connectivity from your provider, but I can test it to your provider and it looks fine. If your provider wants to troubleshoot the connection, they can contact our support group through our help desk, or contact me directly if they want: mikej (at) totalchoicehosting.com or "tchgurumikej" in AIM or Yahoo instant messengers.

Webhosting accounts here already have a catch all enabled by default when they are created.

The weirdest thing my MS-Windows did was run for more than a day without crashing. *ducks all the incoming flames* Yea yea, windows isn't that bad, buy ya left the door wide open!

Just to clarify, this isn't a TCH only thing. It's a common default setting in most unix distributions. Bruce didn't do his test on a TCH server. I'm actually somewhat curious what Linux installations/distributions Bruce and Raul are seeing this ability enabled.

I'll say this in plain English. You can't. Only the "root" (admin) user can change ownership of files on TCH servers.

It depends on the implementation of the system you are using (and where the confusion is happening). >mike@kingkong [~]$ uname -a Linux kingkong.********.com 2.4.26-grsec.2 #1 Mon May 3 22:42:41 EDT 2004 i686 unknown mike@kingkong [~]$ ls -l testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 1 Jul 14 13:52 testfile mike@kingkong [~]$ chown nobody testfile chown: changing ownership of `testfile': Operation not permitted That's on my own dedicated server (running RedHat Linux), but the shared servers are configured the same way as far as chown, as are RedHat installations by default. It won't be changed due to security and auditing reasons.

"Giving away" file ownership would be a huge security hole (as scripts can be set to run as the owner of the script, for example).

Red Hat Linux release 9

All this script does is basically automate the process of using the cPanel web interface to initiate a backup, so it is therefore limited to what you can do via cPanel. To do individual directories would require a something completey different.

If they authenticate to that directory, I believe they'll carry that authentication even if they visit non-protected pages.

That value generally displays an HTTP authenticated user. Is any part of your site htpasswd protected?