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The recent Toyota recall of cars by the millions created a marketing opportunity for everyone including Toyota. How do you cash in on the opportunity? Easy...

Nginx is a reverse proxy server from Russia with extra features. If proxy server is meaningless to you, skip Nginx. Nginx is also a light weight Web server competing against lighttpd.

You might see the name when selecting a hosting company for your Web site but you should not have to do anything with it, the hosting company should configure what you need.

Are you flying out through the Perth International Airport? Buy your lunch before you pass through customs at the Perth International Airport.

Three of my four computers failed in three days. When are we going to get reliable computers?

There are unused icons on your desktop
One of many endless trivia that makes Windows XP more frusatrating than Windows 2000. Windows XP 64 has one advantage that might be worth the pain to some people but for me, XP is not worth the effort.

Backup software is the software that will save your career. It is rare that you need to recover something from a backup but when you do need that backup, you need a backup that works. What software should you consider?

The Qnap TS-210 is cute, should save power, and has a long way to go before it is a market killer. I will update this page over the next week based on tests of the Qnap TS-210.

For Sale

The Qnap is a nice idea and a firmware update should fix the problems. You might be able to use it now if you use the version of Internet Explorer the Web interface was designed for. I am not interested in waiting for updates or changing Web browser. The Qnap is for sale. AU$250 cash delivered to your door in Sydney or the Central Coast. AU$400 including the two Samsung HD502IJ 500GB disks already in the machine.

There are times when you just want to store some files away from your computer just in case something happens. Way back in the previous century you would use an FTP server for the storage. Today you use NAS, Network Attached Storage. Tomorrow you might store the files in a Cloud.

How do you carry data from one page to another using sessions?

You can use standard PHP features to access and use session data. In your Drupal Web site, you can add code direct to a Web page or write an add on module to process data on any page. The same code works in any page in every Web site except a few that do not have PHP switched on by default.