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When it comes to gathering statistics on web sites, you can never have enough. While one of the most popular method for tracking statistics is through services such as Google Analytics, log file analysis remains a reliable way to track your visitors as they are immune to script blockers.

As an IT manager, there are a lot of things you can do which directly impact your company’s bottom line. While the most obvious are direct hardware and software costs, an often overlooked aspect is energy/electricity consumption by computer systems.

If you've got a web application that uploads files to the server through a PHP script, you might have noticed that by default you can't upload terribly large files. Here's how to change it.

All Dell servers come with the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator software which has the ability to monitor and display system level indicators. Here's how to batch assign them to send an email.

When you've got multiple RDP servers sitting behind a firewall, it's tricky to access more than one through Remote Desktop on a single IP. Here's the solution.

Changing the group a user is associated to is a fairly easy task, but not everybody knows the commands, especially to add a user to a secondary group.

When working on development projects or doing product demos which utilize email, having an environment you know will work can be critical. For these situations, having a completely self contained email system is imperative, and here's how to set one up.

If you use the rsync utility to keep your backups synchronized from your database server over to your backup or secondary file server, you might want to prevent the script from using too much bandwidth. Here's how.

Microsoft Office 2007 introduced a new XML based file format for the Office suite of products, and what you might not know is that you can easily extract the images, text, or embedded files from within these documents.

There are lots of great utilities out there which do essential tasks such as monitoring and reporting that once you have configured them, they just sit in your system tray and do their job without you ever knowing. Here's how to run an application as a Windows service whether or not the user is logged in.

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