http://www.datacenterhub.com IT Security, Hosting Views and Ramblings Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:35:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a helpful article for the uninitiated regarding control over not only which pages appear in search results, but also shows some options you can use to control how they appear- read 6 ways to control how and what content appears in search engines http://www.datacenterhub.com/2008/05/13/search-results-how-to-control-how-your-content-appears-and-what-not/ Have you recently installed Google Analytics to your site and found CartIt is broken? If you visit a site which uses the CartIt shopping cart and has the Google analytics code (urchin.js or ga.js) installed you will get several cookies. One called __utmz breaks the ability of CartIt to read it's ... http://www.datacenterhub.com/2008/03/27/cartit-allows-only-one-item-in-the-cart-at-a-time-after-installing-google-analytics/ CommerceBuddy Version 3.0 for CartIt 8.0 was released in 2003 and while not designed for Vista, you should be able to make it run with a few tweaks. CommerceBuddy was designed using Delphi tools, when it runs it creates a small file called PDOXUSRS.NET at c:\. Because the new way ... http://www.datacenterhub.com/2007/08/11/commercebuddy-for-cartit-under-windows-vista-gives-pdoxusrsnet-error/ William Laakkonen, AVATAVA One of the most important things to avoid in creating a dynamic web site is the use of session IDs in your URLs or pages with an ending of ?parameter. Here's an example: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?PHPSESSION_ID=123456 PHP Session IDs may be suppressed in your .htaccess file using: php_flag session.use_trans_sid off The ... http://www.datacenterhub.com/2007/06/28/how-to-optimize-dynamic-web-pages-and-get-out-of-the-google-supplemental-index/ When designing a web site, you generally want to test your pages consistent appearance in any type of browser. In other words, your work of art should not look different depending on the color of eyeglass frames someone is viewing it through. In general, designing using XHTML, CSS, and validating ... http://www.datacenterhub.com/2007/06/23/checking-your-web-site-for-browser-presentation-consistency/ One of my favorite sites for quality free images is pixelio.de. I have posted some of my data center and other photos there under the profile AVATAVA. The photos are of the US Wireless Louisville, Kentucky and the Columbus Ohio Data centers. The Louisville Data Center is no longer in ... http://www.datacenterhub.com/2007/06/11/data-center-photos-and-more/ Every one of us is at risk for extended power outages after storms, tornadoes, or hurricanes. In the event you do experience the power outage, how long your power outage will last will depend on the severity of the storm as well as where you are in relationship to the ... http://www.datacenterhub.com/2007/06/01/assessing-your-risks-for-storm-related-power-failures/ I got a call from one of my customers last Friday; the customer told me that they were without power. There was no storm; in fact the weather was bright and sunny in Florida. It wasn't even a particularly hot day so there wasn't a tremendous heat or power load ... http://www.datacenterhub.com/2007/05/31/six-steps-for-implementing-an-incident-recovery-plan/ Mikko Hyppönen of F-secure has suggested that a new top level domain such as .bank or similar would help alleviate problems of phishing attacks against financial institutions. Unfortunately the suggestion is a solution which does not cure the actual problem: DNS is insecure. This new top level domain has been the ... http://www.datacenterhub.com/2007/05/27/bank-domains-dns-and-phishing/ Someone recently asked the staff at F-Secure® why there is an uncanny resemblance between their official logo and the logo used for Evil, Inc. in the Austin Powers movies. F-Secure officially denies any association with Evil, Inc. The resemblance is apparently coincidental. F-Secure had the same situation with the original name ... http://www.datacenterhub.com/2007/05/27/f-secure-linked-to-evil-inc-p/