L&C Tech Talk

America’s puritanical values strike again! From Steve Jobs using the whole “think-of-the-children” routine, to now Google and their apparent problems with older woman and younger men (what would Ashton Kutcher say?) - Google has banned so-called "cougar" dating sites from advertising through its network, which is bad enough. Meanwhile it doesn’t seem to have the same problem with ads where older men are seeking younger women. I smell hypocrisy! For those of you who don’t already know, a "cougar" in this context is an older woman looking for a younger man, or, as Wikipedia puts it (as only Wikipedia can), "a woman, 35 years ...

So our Parent company Integrated Business Technology Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio  recently deployed PHP List to managed their large email marketing lists. As the lead systems engineer on this project our main goal was to automate processing the message queue and bounce messages via the AptHost.com CPanel Cron Job / Cron Tab interface. I spent hours searching PHP-List's forum and documentation but could not find the clear and exact answer as to how to create the cron job in a CPanel environment. All the answers I found were for self hosted Linux servers where Shell access was available and the cron job ...

Many of you may have noticed that today Google Inc has announced they will be changing their name to Topeka in light of Topeka Kansas changing the name of the city to "City of Google" as part of a nation wide competition started by Google, in which the winning city will receive High speed fiber optic internet to every residence. "We're planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. ...

"Imagine if the internet took hold in China," George W Bush said in 1999, "Imagine how freedom would spread." It turns out he was wrong about that one. Google, after four years of running its search engine in China, relocated to Hong Kong last week. On the mainland, Google had been censoring its search results to in accordance with Communist Party restrictions. Now that it’s moved offshore the entire service will face interruptions from the Great Firewall – a massive, sophisticated system that monitors web surfing outside the domestic internet. What you are seeing here is yet another defeat of the idea that the ...

The Chinese government has issued a warning to Google this week. Speaking to reporters at the National People's Congress on Friday, the Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said he hopes Google will respect China's rules and regulations. But, according to several press reports, he cautioned the company: "If you insist on taking this action that violates Chinese laws, I repeat: you are unfriendly and irresponsible, and you yourself will have to bear the consequences." In January, Google set off alarm bells in China when it announced that it would stop filtering search results at Google.cn. The company has been staunchly ...