Virtual Private Server

Part 8: Install PHP for web applications, Xcache to speed things up, mysql for databases & Subversion for easy platform (ie wordpress) upgrades. Tutorial series index at guvnr.com. Enjoy!

Part 5: Secure a local-to-remote connection using putty and openssh. And we’ll streamline a password-free logon process with authentication keys. Tutorial series index at guvnr.com. Enjoy!

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When you make your living on the Internet, you sometimes forget that the resources you use every day (and take for granted) might rate an incredible discovery to anyone who doesn’t already know they exist.

Whether they help you make money, save time, save money, or avoid frustration, these ecommerce tools and services rate my highest recommendation for anyone who conducts any form of ecommerce online.

ClickBank.com –

If you sell a downloadable product such as an eBook, report, or software, you can’t beat ClickBank for processing credit card payments. Not only do they take the payments and send you a check twice a month, they also plug your product into an existing network with tens-of-thousands of affiliates who can sell it for you. Also, unlike a traditional merchant credit card processing account, ClickBank assumes all the fraud risk and prevents many of the “horror” stories you hear in connection with online credit card processing.

MySiteSales.com –

Since ClickBank only allows the sale of downloadable products, MySiteSales.com comes to the rescue for anyone selling a physical product or service. Offering a suite of integrated product catalogs, follow up autoresponders, advertising tracking, a secure server, and even limited-time coupon offers, this tool rates a “must have” for setting up and integrating a professional ecommerce solution on virtually any size website.

Aweber.com –

If you need an unlimited number of follow up autoresponders and the ability to send an email “broadcast” to all your contacts at one time, Aweber offers an excellent managed solution. Specializing in helping small to medium-sized Web businesses implement an effective email follow-up strategy without complicated software, Aweber gets our highest marks for service and dependability.

GoDaddy.com –

Cheap, reliable, easy-to-use domain name registrar that only charges $8.95 per year for each domain name you register. Godaddy rates cheaper and just as, if not more, reliable than any other domain registrar. They also offer a “private registration” option that allows you to keep your identity as the domain owner a secret from unscrupulous people who exploit domain name records to compile mailing lists, spam databases or worse.

FrontierPowerHosting.com –

Any successful ecommerce endeavor begins with a solid website hosting service. Nothing shuts you down faster than an unreliable web host because, the second they go offline, your business goes offline. I host one of my servers at FrontierPowerHosting.com because of great customer service and guaranteed up-time.

ClipArt.com –

Ever pulled your hair out searching for that perfect image, photo, or piece of clipart for your website? Once you exhaust the Microsoft collection on your computer, the next stop (if you want to find something fast) is Clipart.com. With thousands of images searchable by keyword, you can always find the perfect image in less time and without the worries of copyright infringement if you just pull something off the Web.

Google.com/Adsense/ –

Website got traffic but no making much money? Open a free account with Google AdSense and earn a commission any time someone clicks on any of the targeted ads. An excellent way to earn extra cash on virtually any website.

In this video, youll learn more about working with a professional web designer or using a simple web builder tool provided by your web hosting company. Get more information at www.networksolutions.com Are you a web developer dealing with small business, embed this video in your own site or blog . Questions ? send them to is smedia@networksolutions.com

Las Vegas, NV — January 25, 2010 — Pacific Timesheet has announced that it has significantly enhanced its support for California labor rules such as meal penalty rules and split shift premium rules.

The state of California requires that certain classified non-exempt or hourly employees are paid a meal penalty equal to one regular hour of pay if they miss a meal after more than five hours of continuous work. In addition, California requires employers to pay non-exempt or hourly employees a premium if the time that lapses between shifts is more than one hour.

Jim Dickerson, VP of Operation stated, “The challenge of complying with California labor laws is not just how they are defined today. Ongoing cases each year have made complying somewhat of a moving target.  Pacific Timesheet’s highly configurable support for complying with these laws has been an advantage our customers with operations in California have been looking for.”

According to the California Labor Code, “In California, an employer may not employ an employee for a work period of more than five hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than thirty minutes, except that if the total work period per day of the employee is no more than six hours, the meal period may be waived by mutual consent of both the employer and employee. A second meal period of not less than thirty minutes is required if an employee works more than ten hours per day, except that if the total hours worked is no more than 12 hours, the second meal period may be waived by mutual consent of the employer and employee only if the first meal period was not waived.”

Dickerson continued, “Pacific Timesheet provides support for an unlimited number of rule combinations, which includes rules for employees who sign a meal penalty waiver and those who do not sign a meal penalty waiver.” In addition, Pacific Timesheet has provided support that allows for individual meal penalty overrides or split shift overrides or waivers with a detailed comment for auditing for circumstances where the penalty or premium needs to be modified according to the California labor code. Pacific Timesheet also provides extensive support for California overtime rules, including consecutive-day overtime rules.

About Pacific Timesheet

The Company is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, and has offices throughout North America and Europe. Pacific Timesheet is an equal opportunity employer always in search of talented professionals interested in the development and application of proven software technologies. Pacific Timesheet’s Time Management Systems are used by some of the world’s leading organizations such as Applied Materials, BCD Travel, Joy Mining, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, NOAA, New Visions for Public Schools, University of Massachusetts and many more. If you need additional information about Pacific Timesheet go to www.pacifictimesheet.com, or call 866-416-2061 ext. 1. Pacific Timesheet is a leader in providing timesheet software as a service and time tracking software. Its flagship product, Pacific Timesheet, provides unprecedented ease-of-use, flexibility and reliability for time and attendance, time off and absence management, payroll timesheets and project/job time tracking. Built on platform, database, and browser-independent technologies that can be implemented either on-premise or on-demand, Pacific Timesheet provides an enterprise-ready solution that is easy to use and implement for companies across the globe. About Pacific Timesheet Enterprise

Pacific Timesheet is a leader in providing timesheet software as a service and time tracking software. Its flagship product, Pacific Timesheet, provides unprecedented ease-of-use, flexibility and reliability for time and attendance, time off and absence management, payroll timesheets and project/job time tracking. Built on platform, database, and browser-independent technologies that can be implemented either on-premise or on-demand, Pacific Timesheet provides an enterprise-ready solution that is easy to use and implement for companies across the globe.

Bangalore is an IT hub of India and its growing very rapidly. It’s also called Bengaluru. Bangalore is India’s third most populous city and fifth-most populous urban agglomeration.

FORUM for Bangalore and karnataka

Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India because of its position as the nation’s leading IT exporter. A demographically diverse city, Bangalore is a major economic hub and the fastest growing major metropolis in India.

As Bangalore is IT city, people are very much used of Computer and internet. People of Bangalore are very much depends on Internet so called virtual life. For any kind of requirement, News, Yellow Pages, Jobs, classifieds, Local Information, City road map, address, chat and dating etc

Today the world has become small village, thanks to internet and technology. The world is getting closer and closer with internet.

So, it becomes very vital for us to discuss our problems and new ideas with each other. If we discuss with each other what we have learned by experience then definitely the we can evolve a better society. For example if a person is facing some problem in his computer and he does not know the abc of computer. Then, it is very difficult for the Computer Company to solve his problem from their call center support. So, if there is good computer technology Forum then the person can openly ask to the world for the solution for his problem. And may be somewhere in the world, somebody may have solution for his problem.

Now day’s one new trend have been emerging in the Bangalore and Karnataka society that is called Internet Forum or Message Board. This is an online discussion place similar to bulletin board where user discussed their day to day activities like some professional and personal help. It could be Jobs, Help for Real-estate, tourism and culture, sports, movie and music.

People participating in an Internet forum may cultivate social bonds and interest groups for a topic may form from the discussions.

Forum trends is becoming very popular in Bangalore and Karnataka and people are using frequently on the internet space.

I found one very good Bangalore related website which covers many things along with the Online Community requirement for Bangalore and Karnataka internet users. People can share their views on different topics as such Family & Relationships, Religious Places in Karnataka, Food & Drink: Taste of Kannada, Bangalore Darshan, Tours and Travels, Jobs and Career, Tourism in Karnataka, Sports, Movies, Music etc

BangaloreOrbit.com provides all the basic local information for the people of Karnataka and Bangalore. It acts like a online Bangalore Help Desk and the needy people.

People do get involve in Beauty, Fashion & Style discussion and trends, Consumer Electronics related things and many more.

BanagaloreOrbit provides one stop solution for Bangalore discussion forum requirement.  I have analyzed many post which was posted on Banagaloreorbit Disucssion Foruma and it seems that people are getting their reply within short span of time.

People are discussing many things on the site for example Accommodation, House and Land, Bangalore Shopping, Bangalore Hotels and Restaurants, Bangalore Entertainment, Bangalore Education, Jobs and referrals, Bangalore News, Bangalore Events, Issues and Problems we face in Bangalore, Bangalore city maps, schools and colleges in Bangalore, restaurants, events.

BanagaloreOrbit Forum is meant for Bangalore discussion forum where people can do Bangalore Travel forum, Bangalore Travel Guide, Bangalore hot chats, Bangalore discussion forum, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Bangaloreorbit Forums prefer a premise of open and free discussion and often adopt de facto standards. Most common topics on forums include questions, comparisons, polls of opinion as well as debates.

Because of bangaloreOrbit volatile and random behavior it is not uncommon for nonsense or unsocial behavior to sprout as people lose temper, especially if the topic is controversial. Poor understanding of differences in values of the participants is a common problem on forums. Because replies to a topic are often wording aimed at someone’s point of view, discussion will usually go slightly off into several directions as people question each others validity, sources and so on.

People can get the solution from the experience of other person. And exchange of information between the two persons is Vice-Versa. It can create a more knowledgeable society in the world. And the people will be able to interact more and more. We can take the example of latest virus and spyware attacks in the world (Blackworm, kamasutra are some examples). These virus attacks has done so much damage worldwide. So we can share our expertise with each other in the computer forums or science communities, we can create better-educated and intellectual society.

BangaloreOrbit discussion covers not only the bnagalore internet discussion requirmenet, it covers all the places like Belgaum, Mysore, Mangalore discussion requirement. The server the purpose of one stop online Discussion Forum for all part of Karnataka consisiting of my districts of Karnataka and city of Karnataka.BangaloreOrbit Covers the following Districts..

Bidar District Bijapur District Bagalkot District Bellary District Bangalore Rural District Chikmagalur District Bangalore Urban district Chamarajnagar District Chikballapur District Chitradurga District Davanagere District Dakshina Kannada Dharwad District Gadag District Gulbarga District Hassan District Haveri District Kodagu District Kolar District Koppal District Mandya District Raichur District Ramanagaram District Shimoga District Tumkur District Udupi District Uttara Kannada

BangaloreOrbit Discusion forum Circular discussion and ambiguity in replies can carry out arguments for several tens of posts of a thread eventually ending when everyone gives up or another similar debate takes it over. BangaloreOrbit Discussion Forum has many features like Private message, Private messages are generally used for personal conversations. They can also be used with tripcodes—a message is addressed to a public trip and can be picked up by typing in the tripcode. Attachment, An attachment can be almost any file. When someone attaches a file to a post they are uploading the file to the forums’ server. Emoticon

Emoticon or smiley is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form. Poll

forums implement an opinion poll system for threads. Most implementations allow for single-choice or multi-choice (sometimes limited to a certain number) when selecting options as well as private or public display of voters.

Each day we are facing with some kind of new challenges in our life for example computer problems and virus threats. Different people think in different in different ways. Sometimes a big problem for us is smaller for other person (that is he is having the solution for that problem).

Part 5: Secure a local-to-remote connection using putty and openssh. And we’ll streamline a password-free logon process with authentication keys. Tutorial series index at guvnr.com. Enjoy!

An introduction about using an FTP program to make a connection to a web server. In this example I am using ws_ftp pro.

Shopping cart software is an application that is used to create and run a sales website. Like any website, it involves two main components: the storefront and the administrator’s area.

Shopping Cart Software

The storefront is the area where visitors can interact with the site, usually to select the items that they want to buy and paying for them. It can be as simple or as complex as the needs of the store.

The administrator’s area is the part where the configuration of the website can be modified. Common modifications are inclusion/deletion of products, inclusion/modification of categories, changes in price, etc.

While there are some commercial shopping cart software applications, many individuals are turning to free shopping cart software. Their objective is, obviously, to save money.

An outsider might think it’s difficult to find free shopping cart software, much even less good free shopping cart software. However, it is surprising to see all the options that are available, and most of them are very good ones.

Here’s a list of the main free shopping cart software applications on the market today: Magento, osCommerce , Virtuemart (+ Joomla), Ubercart (+ Drupal), X-Cart , Zen Cart , ShopCMS , CS-Cart , Cube Cart , eCommerce Framework G5 (ECF), Ecommerce Templates , FlyingCart, Go Ecommerce EShop Builder , Interspire Shopping Cart , iScripts Multicart , JadaSite , JShop , LiteCommerce , PhPepperShop, PrestaShop, ProductCart , Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software , VP-ASP Shopping Cart , WebAsyst Shop-Script , and Zeus Cart (AJ Shopping Cart).

Of course, the first question that comes to mind is why would the developers of all these applications would give them away for free. In fact, there are several good reasons, but let’s see the two that are most important.

The first one is to break a lock up of a market by a single company. If a company has a captive market for a type of product, other markets can break it by distributing their source freely. This forces the monopolizing company to reduce its prices and its power on the market, while at the same time, making consumers aware of other possible suppliers and the quality of their work.

Secondly, some companies release watered-down versions of their applications for free, and then charge customers for the use of the full features of the application. Even if the client doesn’t choose the paid application, it makes publicity for the company and clients may want to buy the company’s other products.

In any case, free shopping cart software has made the rise of e-commerce possible, allowing it to become such an important part of the world’s economy.

70-686 Exam
Pro: Windows® 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator
Language(s): English
Audience(s): IT Professionals
Technology: Windows 7
Type: Proctored Exam

About 70-686 Exam
70-686 exam is intended to validate a candidates ability to support medium to very large computing environments that use Windows 7. These responsibilities include setting the strategic direction for the client computers, the supporting infrastructure, and the applications.
 
Audience Profile
Candidates for 70-686 exam should have a minimum of three years of experience installing, configuring, and administering clients in a Windows networked environment and also have experience deploying operating systems and applications. Candidates should be familiar with the client administration capabilities of Windows Server and with management tools such as the System Center suite of products.
Credit Toward Certification
Exam 70-686: Pro: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator
Note 70-686 exam guide is subject to change at any time without prior notice and at the sole discretion of Microsoft. Microsoft exams might include adaptive testing technology and simulation items. Microsoft does not identify the format in which exams are presented. Please use 70-686 preparation guide to prepare for the exam, regardless of its format. 

Skills Being Measured
70-686 exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.
The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.
 
Planning and Managing a Client Life Cycle Strategy
Plan and manage client licensing and activation.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: applications and operating systems; activation method; KMS vs. MAK; prerequisites; choosing a SKU; licensing infrastructure; licensing compliance audits; inventory audits; virtualization licensing considerations; making recommendations for licensing strategy and compliance
Plan and manage software updates.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: application updates and operating system updates; evaluating and approving software updates; enterprise applications; designing an update strategy; choosing an update tool; planning and deploying a service pack; schedule considerations; network considerations; test updates; auditing for security compliance
Plan and manage a physical hardware and virtualization strategy.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: analyzing existing hardware environment; determining which systems meet minimum requirements; tradeoffs of physical vs. VDI environment; network load considerations; disk space; direct connection vs. brokered connection; determining a VHD strategy; choosing 32 bit vs. 64 bit
Designing a Standard Image
Design an image creation strategy.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: identifying operating system and enterprise applications that will be included with the standard image; thick, thin, or hybrid; role-based or geographic-based images vs. single core image; image localization
Design a custom image.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: identifying applications to be installed; identifying features and components to be enabled or disabled; testing the customized image
Define an image update strategy.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: performance optimization; security considerations; efficiency; offline servicing vs. online or post-image updates; re-creating; recapturing
Designing Client Configurations
Design standard system settings.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: choosing methods, including logon scripts, startup scripts, and Group Policy; designing profiles; designing error reporting; designing audit policy
Define client security standards.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: application control policies; encryption; stopping unnecessary services; designing firewall rules; defining anti-malware settings; changes to Kerberos and NTLM; configuring user rights; defining UAC policy; designing a security template for system lockdown; defining account policies; designing security standards for removable storage
Define Windows Internet Explorer settings.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: defining security zones; cache location; branding; in-private mode; restricting or allowing plug-ins; add-ons; privacy policy; browser protected mode
Designing a Windows 7 Client Deployment
Analyze the environment and choose appropriate deployment methods.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: building the infrastructure; advantages of lite-touch vs. zero-touch vs. local install; capacity and scale considerations; determining required changes to the infrastructure
Design a lite-touch deployment strategy.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: unicast vs. multicast; auto-cast vs. scheduled-cast; staggered deployment; scheduling considerations; network load considerations; choosing a client boot method for deployment; unattended answer files; restricting who can receive images; choosing a delivery mechanism
Design a zero-touch deployment strategy.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: designing and configuring task sequencing; unattended answer files; scheduling considerations; staggered deployment; network load considerations; restricting who can receive images
Design a user state migration strategy.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: determining which user data and settings to preserve; local vs. remote storage considerations; determining mitigation plan for non-migrated applications; securing migrated data; testing designed strategy; wipe-and-load migration vs. side-by-side migration
Designing Application Packages for Deployment
Design a delivery or deployment strategy.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: auditing for prerequisites and minimum requirements; choosing a deployment method such as virtualized, Remote Desktop Services, Group Policy, or software distribution; server-based or client-based install; scheduling considerations; staggered deployment; network considerations; package creation standards
Manage application compatibility.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: testing incompatibility; choosing a method for resolving incompatibility, such as upgrading, Remote Desktop Services, shim, or VDI; auditing incompatible software
Identifying and Resolving Deployment and Client Configuration Issues
Identify and resolve Internet Explorer issues.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: security zones; Web applications; advanced settings; Group Policy restrictions; certificates
Identify and resolve Group Policy issues.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: delegation; inheritance; policies are not effective; blocking; permissions; loopback processing; user vs. computer settings; filtering; performance
Identify and resolve networking issues.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: wireless; remote access; VPN; certificates; performance; IP communication; Windows Firewall
Identify and resolve authentication and authorization issues.
70-686 objective may include but is not limited to: user rights; distinguishing between client-based and server-based issues; time synchronization (Kerberos)