George Chetcuti’s Blog

Last Updated on 5 May 2016, Total: 769 Blog Posts

With a career spanning more than 23 years in IT, George Chetcuti has hands-on experience on HP high-end UNIX setups, Windows high-availability clusters and cloud computing. He has overseen various network projects and managed IT departments. The aim of this blog is to address various network related issues and topics from networking concepts to hands-on tasks for the community of network administrators, where your comments and suggestions are always welcome. He also writes about Windows 7 in the little free time he has at www.windows7library.com.

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  1. Google introduces ‘No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA’

    reCAPTCHA is a free service to protect your website from spam and abuse... Read More

  2. Google’s Cloud Playground

    In literally two clicks, you can start a development project in the cloud, see its code, and start playing with an app on Google’s App Engine, Compute Engine, or Datastore... Read More

  3. Google’s rendering-based indexing best practices

    Google’s Webmaster Guidelines update for optimal indexing in view of the recently announced change of rendering web pages more like a typical modern browser rather than as a text-only browser... Read More

  4. Google’s search algorithm changes

    Another update by Google of its search ranking algorithm has caused anger amongst several businesses which according to CNNMoney had a negative impact on their websites traffic! Many businesses rely on search engines to drive traffic to their sites mainly on Google search engine as it is by far the most used engine. According to Google the goal of the... Read More

  5. Great Firewall of China blocks Google.com

    According to GreatFire.org, a service that monitors blocked websites and keywords by the Chinese government, the Great Firewall of China has censored Google.com and some other Google services during the 18th Party Congress. Read more here - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/403467/20121109/china-blocks-google-com-gmail-maps-docs.htm... Read More

  6. Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics

    This 18th edition of Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics evaluates leading consumer electronics companies based on their commitment and progress in three environmental criteria: Energy and Climate, Greener Products, and Sustainable Operations. The Guide scores companies on overall policies and practices – not on specific products – to provide consumers with a snapshot of the sustainability of the biggest names... Read More

  7. HNAP - the flexible and extensible light weight protocol

    HNAP was designed to be a simple, light weight protocol that is easy to implement inside of small cost-constrained hardware such as network routers, cameras and other small devices... Read More

  8. HP ArcSight Logger contains multiple vulnerabilities

    HP ArcSight Logger contains multiple vulnerabilities, allowing authentication bypass and privilege escalation in certain scenarios... Read More

  9. HP to discontinue its TouchPad and webOS Phones

    HP has announced that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices (TouchPad and webOS phones) at the end of fiscal year 2011. Although, the platform may have been technically solid, it did not reach the expected financial targets. However, HP will continue to explore alternate options for the webOS software as a separate product. The other hot news from HP... Read More

  10. HTTP/2 Approved

    IESG has formally approved the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications... Read More