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Cobalt RAQ3 RAQ4 Backup, Restore and Recovery TIPS

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:41:54 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Restore system backup RAQ3 and RAQ4 files. As all users of Cobalt Raq 3 and Raq 4 internet appliances know, the internal Backup system is very poor for large an small sites. Our Engineers discovered that an entire website went missing on a Raq4 Server, meaning the directory (/home/sites/site6/web) was gone and of course all [...]

Cmos Battery - Linux Hard Drive Crash On DELL Server

admin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:30:11 +0000

HughesTech Labs: HughesTech Engineers discover the root cause for Hard Drive crashes on DELL Server running Linux. One of our DELL Servers would have a major hard drive crash about every seven (7) days. The Server would just reboot, scan the Hard Drive, wait a few seconds for a root login at the console, then repeat the [...]

Blocking file-sharing peer-to-peer (P2P) Networks

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:56:26 +0000

HughesTech Labs: The Truth About P2P (peer-to-peer) File-Sharing and How to block It! Routers and Firewalls can not block P2P (peer-to-peer) traffic, System Administrators think they are stopping it, but they are not! Even the U.S. Government can’t block it, That is why President Obama’s Marine One blue-prints were found on a computer in Iran! There is only one [...]

Headlines Generator - Free Online Headline Generator

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:38:41 +0000

HughesTech Labs: The Engineers at HughesTech have finished with their new Software: Headline Magician which is a Online Headline Generator, that allows web users to create professional Headlines free. The users simply answer four (4) questions, then click the “Generate Headlines” button. That’s It, Headlines Generator does the rest. Users are displayed various Headlines that they can use for [...]

Domain Name Directory - Buy, Sell, Domain Name Appraisals

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:16:10 +0000

HughesTech Labs: HughesTech Engineers have completed our latest: Domain Name Directory The domain directory offers domain name owners a directory where they can list their domain name or website they wish to sell. The Domain Directory also offers Domain Name Appraisals. This new directory brings both sellers and buyers of both websites and domain names together. The [...]

Winter News - Winter News Scroll Gadget

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:01:48 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Our Engineers have released for FREE our latest Winter News Scroll Gadget. The Winter News Scroll Gadget is different from the rest of our Gadgets, this gadget is an html scroll-er type gadget. This gadget is simple to install on any web page or blog. I am going to paste the gadget in this post and you will be [...]

Google Gadget Designs

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:44:12 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Our Engineers are now designing Google Gadgets for other Businesses. Get a Custom Google Gadget designed that reflects your content. A Gadget should provide useful information that the Internet community would be interested in reading and webmasters would be willing to add your Gadget to their Websites. Our Engineers have been developing Gadgets before they were [...]

Wrong Encoding Can Cause Poor Search Engine Rank

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:59:13 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Webmasters, using the wrong encoding tags can cause poor Search Engine Rank! The following tag can get you in big trouble with the Search Engines: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd“> This tag is fine if you don’t use tables, but if you do use tables, it tends to hide all content within the tables [...]

Free Classifieds Site Is Now Open

admin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:09:35 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Free Classifieds site is now open, users can view Classifieds or post Classifieds. It’s up and working, this is our beta release and our Engineers are currently working on a new Search feature. The system was designed to handle millions of listings and deliver them quickly. The Classifieds site has it’s own Secure Messaging System, so users [...]

Perl: Authenticate Web Forms (Anti-Spam Bots)

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:20:57 +0000

Technology Blog: Perl script (MathAuth.pl) to Authenticate Submitted Web Forms (Anti-Spam Bots). If you have a Website that has forms that are submitted by clicking a button, then I am sure you have been plagued with spam bots submitting to your forms. We were searching to add the rotating image form of authentication, but after using many of these [...]

IRS EMAIL SCAM! 2008 Economic Stimulus Refund.

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:24:16 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Warning don’t be fooled today by an email with the Subject Line: 2008 Economic Stimulus Refund. from field: Internal Revenue Service <refunds@irs.gov> This Email reads as follows: INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE United States Department Of The Treasury Over 130 million Americans will receive refunds as part of The White House program to jumpstart the economy. Our records indicate that you are qualified [...]

PC Virus Or Dirt? Internet Explorer, PC ERRORS? Help

admin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:55:49 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Has your PC been slowing down? Getting errors when using the Internet Explorer and other Windows Programs? Think you have a bad virus? If your PC Computer has any of the above symptoms, then check the temperature of your Processor. Just like when you are not feeling well you take your temperature, well your PC Processor [...]

New WordPress Meta Tag Generator Plugin Released

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:05:54 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Releases MetaMagic Plugin For WordPress Simple to use and install WordPress Plugin should help Bloggers with SEO! Automatically creates meta description tags and meta keywords tags for single posts. Simply underline a phrase in your post while using the Wordpress Editor and that text will be the content for the meta description tag. The Tags in your post will [...]

PC Answering Machine Software Now PUBLIC DOMAIN

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:17:49 +0000

HughesTech Labs: We have released our best selling Software (Answer_It v3.6) to the Public Domain. Answer_It takes advantage of TAPI functions provided by Windows and Voice Modem manufactures, thus producing a very powerful program capable of replacing your current telephone answering machine and CallerID box with this single application. Features include recording outgoing messages within Answer_It, adjusting the [...]

Fix For Google/WordPress’ Translation Problem

admin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:30:54 +0000

HughesTech Labs: This fix for WordPress v2.3.3 is in reference to our post about 8 hours ago. We put our best Engineer on the apostrophe character problem that WordPress has with Titles around 1 A.M. EDT Today, he emerged from the Lab about an hour ago looking a bit pissed and agitated when he threw a printout in [...]

Careful What Characters You Use In WordPress

admin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:15:25 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Because of the coding nature of WordPress’ Title, you can have major problems with Google seeing the correct words…. It would be best to avoid using the apostrophe character in the title of your WordPress posts, or Google will not see the word you used the apostrophe character on! Case in point: Our Sister site had [...]

Project: WordPress Speed Update

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:49:27 +0000

HughesTech Labs: Have you ever heard the saying: IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT Our Engineers have determined that using the WP-Cache Plug-in, By Ricardo Galli Granada for WordPress v2.3.3, is more than capable to handle the masses in case of a Digg front page listing etc. The only thing you need to do is make sure your permissions [...]

Is Your PC Really Secure? Think Again!

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:47:48 +0000

HughesTech Labs has been reviewing the shrink-wrap Windows® XP SP2 Firewall for some time now. What we found was very strange and unusual. It turns out that some internet applications seem to get added to the Exception rule, without the permission from the Owner or the Administrator of the PC! The current Firewall gives the user no indication (feedback) of [...]

Project: Wordpress Speed

admin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:28:35 +0000

Well after using Wordpress v2.3.3 for a short time, we have discovered that it is to dependant on MySQL and needs some attention, at least on our servers. Hats off to the Authors of Wordpress for an excellent program and concept, but our Engineers feel we can speed-up the delivery content of Worpress tremendously! And yet another project is [...]

WordPress 404 and 500 server errors Help

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:41:48 +0000

It is only fitting that we start our very first blog post with some setup help tips for WordPress that is installed on Cobalt Raq3 or Raq4 Apache Servers. If you changed the permalink settings, then you might be getting 404 and 500 errors from your web server. This tip may very well work with different web servers, [...]