As you may know, working with tight budgets can sometimes lead to very interesting solutions. The company that I work for has over 30 retail locations and several branch offices that connect back to the corporate network using point-to-point T1 or broadband connections. The connection speed is a major concern and with the demand of data and network services increases, a need for a branch office server became apparent.

One of the options that had been considered was to use a local Windows XP workstation to be a file/print server, but the restriction of a maximum of 10 concurrent connections was a significant issue. And since the company is primarily a Microsoft shop, the option of deploying Windows Server 2008 at each location would be nice… except it meant spending a lot of money on licenses alone. Read the rest of this entry »

In the days of blatent copyright infringement and plagiarism, it does not surprise me that people decide to copy content from articles and not include any form of attribution or link back to the original article. Well, I just ran across such a case when going through the Google Webmaster Tools results for my site.

Someone decided to copy and paste the text of my “HOWTO – Limiting Access to TCP-wrapped Services With hosts.allow” article that I wrote for the June 2002 release of Daemon News e-zine. The person decided to not include the original author, much less the copyright text.

It may seem like a victimless crime, but damn… where is the decency in citing your sources?

Here is the link to the plagiarized copy of my article: http://boilinglinux.blogspot.com/2008/05/setting-up-hostsallow.html

Unfortunately, the plagiarizer does not have any direct means of contact, only way is through posting comments.