Windows Server 2008 makes hosting debut
June 30, 2007
About 2,600 Web sites are already running Microsoft Corp.’s forthcoming Windows Server 2008, a small but increasing number that indicates rising interest in the operating system, according to new statistics from Netcraft Ltd.
Microsoft is now using Windows Server 2008 and its Internet Information Server (IIS) 7.0 for its main Web site, www.microsoft.com, said Colin Phipps, Internet security services developer at Netcraft, a Bath, England-based Internet research firm that releases a monthly survey on what operating systems are being used for Web hosting.
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BBC iPlayer
June 29, 2007
BBC unveiled iPlayer service. A services that allows you to download and watch all BBC programme. A spokes person for BBC described the iPlayer services as the “Biggest change in the way we watch TV since the introduction of Colour TV 40 years ago”
t took BBC about three years to develop iPlayer. Once iPlayer is installed on a PC, user can download most BBC programmes to local storage device, however downloaded programmes will automatically be deleted from a user’s PC after seven days. BBC said this measure is to protect BBC and its suppliers copyright.
discuss this at uk webmaster forum
Duplicate Content
June 27, 2007
One of the hot discussions at UK WW this week is the issue of duplicate contents. Senior UK WW member OWG quoted one of Googles spokes person as having this to say about duplicate contents:
1) Duplicate content doesn’t cause your site to be penalized. If duplicate pages are detected, one version will be returned in the search results to ensure variety for searchers.
2) Duplicate content doesn’t cause your site to be placed in the supplemental index. Duplication may indirectly influence this however, if links to your pages are split among the various versions, causing lower per-page PageRank.
You can find out more about duplicate contents and other webmaster related issues at webmaster forums
Wireless Network Security
June 16, 2007
Most webmasters have a wireless network system in their home. One of UK WW member who is also a network engineer wrote and fascinating and useful guide to
securing your wireless network. Excerpts from the article below.
Since the year 2001, wireless networking has become very popular. Nearly every home has a wireless network or is in the process of setting one up. But what’s the main risk with wireless networks, it is SECURITY. There have been thousands of lectures, tutorials and media coverage about the importance of securing a wireless network but it seems that this has had no affect on wireless network users.
People do not realise that leaving a wireless network unsecured can be an open door for neighbours but even worse for mobile attackers searching for wireless networks so they can get their hands on YOUR personal information.
Thousands of people are setting up wireless networks at home everyday so they can benefit from the convenience that Wireless networks can bring, including; shopping online and chatting to friends/family whilst moving around the house and/or sitting in the garden.
But what about SECURITY, why don’t people bother to protect their wireless networks and use their credit card online when they are aware that their wireless network may not be secure. Reasons why people do not secure their wireless networks include:
You can read the full article on UK Webmaster Forum.
phpLD fan in Da House
June 16, 2007
A new exciting member has just joined UK Webmaster Forums, he is LinkHunter a phpLD user who has and incredible thirty web directories, all powered by phpLD.
UK Webmaster Forum phpLD competition caught LinkHunter’s attention as soon as he joined. He entered the two hundred words competition to win a phpLD, excerpts from his entry follows:
The PHP link directories have gone down a very long trail and I have been there to ride down it with them! It first started out as the 2.0 series directory which was a very state of the art script design that caught the eyes of many designers, coders, and graphics people. The forum at the PHP directory site started gaining the attention of those people and inspired them to start making custom templates to allow people to have a custom look to there 2.0 as well as many new modification scripts like stats counters, Google updaters, and more!
You can read LinkHunters full entry here.
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