Recovering from attacks

You don't need a new website. You need to make your current website more effective! How can you do that? There is no single answer -- websites are part of a larger system, and you need to consider many different aspects to make your site effective. We've been making websites since the start of the web, and know what makes them work -- as well as not work. Take what we have learned to make your site better!
🕑Feb 23, 2009 🖋John Locke 💬0

Ask Freelock: How do you stop spam?

We get a lot of questions about how to fight spam. For the most part, it's too late when it reaches your email program--but on the mail server, there are several tactics we employ to minimize what reaches your inbox.

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🕑Jun 09, 2007 🖋John Locke 💬4

When all else fails, restore your backup

Quick quiz:

  1. Your computer has been infected with a virus, and it deleted everything on the server. What would you do?

    1. Send the server hard drive to a data forensic/analysis firm to see if they can recover your project data.

    2. Recreate all your marketing material from scratch, scanning your logo and everything else.

    3. File a law suit against Microsoft, Symantec, and Dell for letting this happen.

    4. Call your friendly computer technician who disinfects your computers and then restores your previously backed up data from the Internet.

🕑Dec 01, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬0

BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk

Just stumbled upon a pretty cool web interface to a centralized backup system. You can manage a series of snapshot backups of all the computers on your network. It can automatically send a user an email if there's a repeated problem of missed backups.

🕑Jan 25, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬3

A laptop, coffee, and disaster recovery

Last week, my laptop died a sudden, spectacular death by drowning as a full cup of coffee poured into its keyboard. It emitted a pop sound, and the screen and all power shut off.

What would be your reaction? Mine was to immediately unplug the power cord and remove the battery. Then I took it over to the sink and poured out the coffee. Remembering tales of people flushing keyboards with water, I ran some fresh water over the keys and then set to work. I removed the keyboard, the palm rest, a few of the inner cards, and let it sit without power for several hours. Apparently not long enough.

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