The Tlog - a technology blog

1. Limiting Internet Explorer to Windows Update - a way to configure a Squid proxy server so that IE can only access Windows Update; for everything else, people have to use other browsers. If done properly, can prevent a lot of spyware and other problems.
2. Caching Google Earth with Squid - Google Earth doesn’t “like” to be cached in proxies, but if several people in a company access it regularly, having a common cache can save a lot of bandwidth.
3. Why a good sysadmin has a lot of free time - a short essay in which I attack the common misconception that being a good worker means being busy all the time.
4. Blogging tips #14: Making money from your blog - AdSense: getting relevant ads - explains how to make sure your AdSense ads are actually related to your posts’ content, instead of generic ads about blogging and such.
5. Firefox, IE and market share - refutes the “Firefox only appears more secure because fewer people use it” argument.
6. Blogging tips #18: Making money from your blog - Chitika eMiniMalls - a short post about the (at the time) newcomer to the ways of making money from blogging.
7. Why not use Internet Explorer - longer than most articles here, it gives practical (non-”religious”) reasons for not using the default web browser on Windows systems.
8. How to install Windows XP safely - intended for non-technical users; a way around the “chicken and egg” problem of Windows being too vulnerable to connect to the Internet before it’s updated, but needing to be connected to update…
9. Blogging tips #11: Making money from your blog - Introduction - as the title says, it’s an introduction to the several ways of becoming filthy rich through blogging.
10. Blogging tips #2: Being interesting - SEO and ads aren’t the end of the world: good content matters. A lot.

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I’m not including the index page for the Blogging Tips series, even though it’s the most accessed page - I’m restricting this list to individual posts.