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Mail Helpers: Improve Your Email Experience with These Handy IMAP Extensions

A set of protocol extensions keeps the legacy IMAP 4 protocol usable, which also helps mobile clients. We present a healthful mix of useful extensions.

PowerDNS: The Other Open Source Name Server

PowerDNS is an amazing, feature-rich, and versatile DNS server option.

Stopping SQL Injection

SQL injection can strike at any moment. GreenSQL is an effective remedy that sits between the database and application and filters out suspicious queries.

Optimizing SQL with Execution Plans

Understanding database execution plans is the key to assessing effectively the optimum potential of an SQL query or estimating your future resource requirements.

Fedora 18 for Admins

Fedora is a trend-setting distribution that sets the pace for future developments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Administrators, regardless of whether they use Fedora, are well advised to look at the newest innovations of the Fedora distribution.

Windows Server 2012 Tricks

Users of Windows Server 2012 will benefit from numerous innovations, especially in the areas of virtualization, high availability, and storage. In this article, we show you some tricks that make handling the new system much easier.

Ubuntu Desktop Remix

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix sees Canonical not only attempt to oust Windows off the enterprise desktop but also position itself as a low-budget alternative to enterprise desktops by Red Hat and SUSE.

Top PowerShell Cmdlets

Windows is no longer the system for mouse pushers. In the latest server version, the default installation installs without a GUI, and management via PowerShell is a part of everyday life for Windows administrators.

Pen Testing with netcat

Once you have successfully exploited a target machine, you might be faced with a dilemma common among penetration testers: Do I have shell access or terminal access? These are not the same, and careful knowledge must be used when interacting with a shell compared with a terminal.

Configuration Management with puppet

If you really want your evenings to belong to your job, you don’t need to depend on configuration management. But is all your overtime really necessary just to configure a server system? Configuration should just happen by magic these days; after all, we’ve had computers long enough to understand how to get it right.