Traveling this summer? Don't lug your data with you — just set up your laptop to talk to your machine remotely and access your music, e-mail, photos and other files from thousands of miles away. In Wired's How-To Wiki.

Or, if you have a shell account on an internet accessible server somewhere (your web server perhaps), you can make a script to keep your home computer logged in via ssh. Log into the server, run 'w' to see logged in users, note…

The access to the server room is now via the womens bathroom. There will be a sign on the womans door that can be changed from OPEN to CLOSED and vice versa. Should you need to enter the server room, please change the sign to CLOSED. Once you are done, please change it back to OPEN.

It was a fairly reasonable request, so the company's executives signed a new lease and prepared to move. There was, however, just one, small hitch. The nice little server room they built in the back of their office - equipped with air…

Wordpress is notoriously famous for going down during Digg Effect, a phenomena when 1000s of digg users try to visit a site in a very short time when it hits the front page, simulating a form of DDOS causing the site to go down.

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Lookup the geographical location of an IP address using this Google Maps and MaxMind mashup

Server Location Lookup - Find a server or IP addresses physical location.This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com/

X server is a critical part of the Linux desktop, enabling graphical user interfaces. Between 15 hardware and software companies, they had made up about 66% of the total code commits since 1999. But where did the rest come from? The remaining 30~33% of the work can be attributed to independent developers and other less-noticeable companies.

Between these 15 hardware and software companies, they had made up about 66% of the total code commits since 1999. But where did the rest come from? The remaining 30~33% of the work can be attributed to independent developers and other…

If youre concerned about your web pages speed or want to make sure youre in tip-top shape before starting or launching a project, heres a few useful, free tools to help you create and sustain high-performance web applications.

The Web Page Analyzer is an extremely simple, web-based test to help you gain information on web page performance. It gives you data about the total number of HTTP requests, total page weight, your objects’ sizes, and more. It tries…

If youve ever used SSH to connect to a server, you ll know its limitations: if you want to open a new window, youll need to create a second SSH connection to the server. And if the connection breaks during the SSH tunnel, youve lost your progress. This is where Screen comes in.

Start a new window by typing “CTRL + A” + “c”. The C stands for Create - I know, too obvious. A new window will be created. In order to test this, type the command “top”. Then…

Easily run an autoscaling, load-balanced, monitored failover-safe cloud computing cluster on Amazon's EC2 cluster on open-source software!

PoolParty is based on established open source technologies that have been widely used in production. It takes your EC2 server pool, and invites S3Fuse, monit, and members of the High Availability Linux Project . Now you don’t just have a…

SUSE has launched a web application which you can use to create your own Linux distro based on OpenSUSE 10.3. Alpha version, invites only. Screencast available.

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As many of you know, Revision3s servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. Its an all too common occurrence these days. But this one wasnt your normal cybercrime ? theres a chilling twist at the end. Heres what happened, and why were even more concerned today, after its over, than we were on Saturd

Jim, I hope you sue them. What they did was reckless and irresponsible, and someone needs to send MediaDefender a lesson that performing illegal acts to fight other illegal acts is NOT right (two wrongs don’t make a right)….

Google is said to operate a global network of about three dozen data centres with, according to some estimates, more than 1m servers. To catch up, Microsoft is investing billions of dollars and adding up to 20,000 servers a month. Siberia is proving interesting as a location.

The criteria that companies use to pick a site keep evolving, says Mike Manos, Microsoft's director of data centres. His team feeds 35 sets of data into an electronic “heat” map of the world. With colours that range from…

Apple snags a much larger share of the market when you focus on brick-and-mortar sales of “premium” PCs; desktops and notebooks that cost $1,000 or more.

According to NPD's numbers recounted by Apple Watch, Apple snags a much larger share of the market when you focus on brick-and-mortar sales of "premium" PCs; desktops and notebooks that cost $1,000 or more. It is…

A former Microsoft security manager has published a tool designed to detect and fix PCs that may be susceptible to “endless reboots” if updated to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3).

Discover the benefits of paravirtualization in this informative webcast today. This server virtualization-themed webcast not only explores how to improve virtualized server performance, but provides real-world user examples, explains how…

Apple and Sony are fierce competitors, but that hasnt stopped the PlayStation 3 playing nicely with Mac OSX computers. Thanks to some great third-party software, and Sonys decision to add support for the UPnP AV standard, the PS3 has, in some ways, become a better solution than Apples own offering to the problem of streaming content - audio, vid

For videos (or any other media stored outside of iLife) you have the option to designate any Mac folder (or folders) as being accessible on the PS3 via MediaLink. A good place to start is the Mac’s default…