Been watching the Microsoft "I'm a Stereotype" ads. Kind of makes me laugh. This has to be a high complement to Apple that their ad program is working.

The only problem with this ad though is that it assumes that if you own a PC, you have Windows on it.

Well one thing is for sure, I own or use several PCs even at work - and Windows will never be on my computers.

I hear people say all the time that Linux is not ready for prime time, but, it is ready for my time. I do wish that people would get out of the habit of letting their PCs run them, and get rid of windows so they can run their PCs again.

As I found out recently, migrating a Xoops website from one server to another can be a daunting task to a new user.

But after doing it once, I now feel that if I need to make the move again, I can do it faster, easier and more efficiently than before. I would like to thank all the Xoops users that posted their tips on this subject in the

As it is good practice to protect sensitive data, and encryption is a good way of securing that data, there are steps that should be taken to safeguard the loss of data through the security that protects them.

Whether it is business or personal data, some are too sensitive to allow others to view. It might be the next big trade se

The most important item to backup with any CMS with dynamic content is the database. Almost all data for these sites are stored in the tables within the database. Because of this it is good practice to backup the database reliably and often.

I have recently chosen to do a complete database backup everyday. Depending on the activities of

In the previous segment of this series of articles we discussed the backing up of the MySQL database with mysqldump and cron. I have since (through testing the restore process) revised the script slightly in that article. Please re read the article and add the change to your script.

Now we will discuss the restoring of our database backu