Its Official Google has Changed its Name to Topeka

It has a nice Ring to it.

They’ll be renaming their services too, our favorite:
Gmail -> TopeMail (like dope, with a T in front)

Google name change to Topeka

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Happy April Fools day

Read more here

Spring Beach Shots at Deerfield Beach

Some random photos taken at Deerfield Beach

Deerfield Beach Pier

Deerfield Beach Sunset

Deerfield Beach FL

Deerfield Beach Water

Ft Lauderdale Wordpress Meetup – March 2010

South Florida WordPress Meetup Group

South Florida WordPress

March 10th, 2010 @ 7PM  at Panera Bread

Ft Lauderdale, FL

This months topic: Wordpress 3.0 – It’s coming… Fear it or love it?

This meetup is a great place to meet WordPress pros and discuss Wordpress questions.

Who should attend:

Bloggers
Business Owners
Writers
Designers
Photographers
Programmers
Developers
Marketers
SEOs
Website Hobbyists

Rasmus Lerdorf, Creator of PHP will be in Ft Lauderdale Florida

Rasmus Lerdorf is speaking at Nova Southeastern Uni on March 18th, 2010 at 6:30PM.

This event is free and open to the public. The event is hosted by FLUX

We love Rasmus’s approach to looking at the fundamentals when programming web applications.  According to the Flux website, he will be speaking on benchmarking and optimizing site code to improve performance.  Can’t wait.

The organizers have not posted the room/auditorium information yet – as they’re trying to get a larger room.  We will post this as soon as its released.  I expect there will be a massive crowd. Nova Main Campus (Davie, FL) is quite big – its best to figure out where to park before hand.

How to Reset VTONF Password

A couple of months back, Mo, our Sys Admin setup a test server with Open VZ server virtualization.

Open VZ is a cool way for us to have separate *nix OS instances running on one server. So for example we can run CentOS, Ubuntu or Redhat etc., on the same machine. This is great for testing on various flavors of linux.

The OpenVZ installation is not easy, but there is a great deal of support and documentation on the web that helped us. Patience is a key

Here is a good OpenVZ installation tutorial

Once OpenVZ is setup, most operations can be performed from the shell prompt.

Mo did install a nifty web management console called “VTONF”. It is a PHP application that does pretty much all that we need to do to manage the VZ containers.

We forgot the password for the VTONF console – yes we did . We searched online for help changing the password but no luck. Also it seems that the VTONF site is down.

So after going through the PHP code (the code is documented well) this is how we reset the password:

$ cd /etc/vtonf/

The username and password are stored in a file called “.vtonf.shadow”

Edit the file in VI or Nano

$nano .vtonf.shadow

The username and password are separated by a :
username:password

Once you’ve changed the above, save it and login to the console.

http://OpenVZServerIPAddress:8001

Hope this saves you some time.

Florida Everglades

Friendly Residents - They just like to taste - we promise

Our undying love for the Florida Everglades prompted us to set up an Everglades information site. Filled with stories, advice and photos from our many trips to the Everglades.
To me this is one of the most magnificent places in the world.

If you’re visiting Florida (from out of state and would like an airboat tour guide, one of us would be glad to accompany you for the adventure – lunch and drinks on us.

To learn more visit: http://www.everglades-info.com

Optimizing Skype to Work in a LAN with Routers and Firewalls

Network administrators can positively impact the quality of Skype communications
conducted by their network’s users by tuning the network’s handling of transmission
control protocl (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) packets for best Skype performance.
By this we mean that network administrators can exercise a great deal of
control over their users’ networking experience by adjusting control parameters on
networking appliances such as routers, fi rewalls and network address translation devices.
In the broadest possible terms, Skype considers an ideal network confi guration

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to be one that’s set up according to the rules shown in Table 1-1, below.