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If you thought 2000 meant the end of Y2K as an issue, not quite, according to this article by expert and Orange County insurance litigation attorney Todd Picker…The Y2K problem originates in the software or coding used to operate computer systems. In addition, the consequences flowing from the failure to correct the problem were well known long before remediation costs were incurred. The ques¬tion therefore arises as to whether potential losses related to Y2K failures are fortuitous and whether the policyholders’ remediation costs are incurred to prevent damage to covered property arising out of a covered loss. By the way if you reside in Orange County and require a first rate Orange County insurance litigation attorney then I suggest Todd Picker as he is simply one of the best Orange County insurance litigation attorney out there at this time. In its most basic form, insurance is a con¬tract whereby the insurer undertakes to indemnify another against loss from certain specified con¬tingencies or perils. The contract provides security against possible anticipated loss. Risk is the essen¬tial element.9 Accordingly, it is well recognised that a loss in progress or known loss is not insurable. The rule will apply whenever the insured is, or should have been, aware of a loss at the time the policy was purchased. Applying this rule to Y2K remediation costs calls into question whether insurance coverage can exist at all.

The web hosting industry is flooded with hosting companies sometimes it’s hard to find out which one to go with. You have to ask yourself what is important to you. I always start with first deciding what plans do I have for the website. If I know the website is going to have a forum that might get popular within the first 6-9 months then I will go straight to VPS hosting .

If I want to just put up a blog then I will find blog hosting for wordpress. Wordpress is the only blog software that I will use and you can often find good hosting for less than $10.00 per month. Almost all the wordpress hosting companies offer the same thing, PHP, MySQL, and cPanel. Having cPanel is a must for me since I use the features almost weekly.

If I start to look for hosting for a corporate website then I might go with a dedicated server. Dedicated servers can handle work loads better and traffic that is associated with large corporations. If you have a small to medium business you may be able to get away with shared hosting or a VPS account. It really depends on how much traffic you will have and how many database connections you may be needing. When you do find a host be sure to compare their web hosting plans to see which best fits your needs. The great thing about web hosting is that most companies offer an easy way to upgrade without any hassle.

A man who is known as the Spam King and identified as Robert Soloway for the millions of emails sent to Internet users was sentenced in a Seattle court to approximately four years in prison. Prosecutors in the cases had asked for more than double the amount of years Soloway was sentenced to under the Can-Spam Act due to his damaging criminal activities, but his attorney successfully reduced the sentencing.
Soloway is only the second person to be convicted under the Can-Spam Act and he stated in court he did this to afford a luxury apartment and nice clothing.
Investigators found that he used a program named Dark Mailer to get into a network of botnets that sent bulk emails anonymously. Soloway also sent advertisements for commercial clients and used the addresses of real people without their knowledge.
By using the programs that Soloway used that changed the emails to appear the person had sent it to themselves rather than it coming from Soloway it was argued that this violated the Can-Spam Act.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Cohen asked for a nine year sentence in the case and Judge Pechman who presided over the sentencing after Soloways guilty plea also heard from Soloway and chose sentencing years less than the Assistant U.S. Attorney requested.
Soloway stated that he had made approximately $120,000 during 2005 and became used to living in a specific lifestyle and while he is now ashamed of his criminal actions at the time of the events he was concerned with keeping this life style. He also stated the money that he made in 2005 was not enough finances to keep up with his credit card debt. By the way The person he was fighting with noticed the gun and tried to take control of it, this is when the gun discharged hitting two nearby people and injuring them. Also, if you are in need of a superlative Seattle Criminal Attorney then by all means please take a look at the excellent and professional Law Offices of Mark C. Blair. He is not only an elite
Seattle criminal attorney yet he and his firm service the wider Seattle and King County region such as Lynwood plus also the Snohomish County area.
In a statement from Judge Pechman she stated that this is new territory and there is little to base cases on, she went on to say that at the time Soloway turned on a computer at age 11 he stopped normal social development, leading eventually to a criminal lifestyle.
Soloway while being guarded has 60 days to get some medication problems under control and report to begin serving his four year sentence.

I do not know exactly what the reason is, but lately there has been an awful lot of news pertaining to to technology, personal computing, gadgets in general and handheld devices in particular. Mobile computing has really come a long way and it has taken a real quantam leap in a short period of time, largely driven by strong competition between technology firms and also innovation and the continuation of the size reduction of the veritable microchip. This time,  iPhone 3 has been launched and hot on it’s heels, Sprint released its new Palm Treo 800W. Just another day in technology news, right? All in all, the Palm Treo 800W handset is the newest phone to be added to Sprints Palm Treo line. The new Palm Treo is a very smart phone which runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. It was made with the business professional in mind and runs on Sprints Broad Band Network. The data speed is very impressive for the business professional. Faster and more reliable connection to the Internet will be a reliable service. The Palm Treo 800W Palm also features WiFi and GPS services. The user will be able to access his email almost instantaneously. Additional geeky news from the technosphere as I like to call it can be found at the Apollo, Ajax and Adobe news blog  Over there you may find a lot of gadget and hand-held technology information as well as some general articles.This new Palm Treo will prove to be quite invaluable to the professional business users. It is like having your laptop in the palm of your hands. It is easy to carry and easy to use and will become the business professionals most reliable assistant. It also has a full QERTY keyboard and one touch buttons to most applications. It also has the Sprint navigation search and GPS search for maps. 256MB user memory (approximately 170MB available user memory) is also on this phone. The touch screen supports the16 bit (65K colors, Qualcomm MSM6800A chipset).  

The Palm Treo 800W is available now as it was released hot on the heels of the Apple iPhone3. It is selling for around $249 after mail in rebates and a 2-year service contract.

As stated before, this phone was designed and manufactured with the business professional in mind.

Whether you are just getting started with your online presence or you a
veteran with many years online, shared hosting is probably one of the
cheapest and most effective ways of hosting your own site. The vast
majority of sites are all hosted on shared servers and there is a reason
that these plans are so popular. First and foremost, they are cheap, and
second, they usually have a decent set of features that make them
worthwhile to most site owners. However, is shared, cheapest
hosting the smartest solution for your site? Let’s take a look at some
of the pros and cons of shared web hosting.

Pros

Low cost – Most shared web hosting plans cost less than $15 per month.
If you are just running a personal site or a blog, you really don’t
want to spend much money since you won’t be generating any income on your
site.

Feature Sets – Today, the majority of shared hosting companies offer
enough features that these plans are well worth the money. From
Fantastico to unlimited email and databases,  php web hosting support etc, you can usually find a shared hosting plan that offers
everything you need.

Decent Limits – For those with basic traffic needs, the bandwidth and
disk space on a shared hosting plan are more than sufficient.

Cons

Server Issues – This is mainly a problem when you are working with a
web hosting company that has too many people on one server. Each and
every site is sharing the resources on a server and sooner or later,
something has to give. Whether one site has a traffic spike or a DDOS attack
hits, everyone else on that server is going to suffer for it.

Security Problems – Although most shared servers are quite secure,
there are a few that have had some major issues. This is usually due to
sites that are using banned applications or if one site on the server is
hit with a malicious attack. As mentioned above, DDOS attacks are also
quite common and will affect the whole server, not just the targeted
site.

Not Enough Room to Grow – If you have an ecommerce site or your site
becomes very popular, a shared web hosting plan will usually not be
powerful enough to meet your needs. You’re going to need higher levels of
disk space and transfer as well as more processing power.

Conclusion

In the end, the answer of whether shared hosting is right for you can
only come from individual site owners. Every site is different and will
have different needs. For most, shared hosting is more than sufficient,
but for those with larger sites, a bigger solution such as a VPS or
Reseller hosting package is usually better suited.

When you are looking for web hosting the qualities you probably look
for in perspective host is price, the amount of bandwidth and space
included and reviews of the host on the web etc. There is another Item you
should also consider, that is how the web hosting company is backing up
your website.

Making sure your website is backed up sufficiently is one of the most
important items you should consider when choosing a host for your
website. Losing a bit of data from your website can hurt your company, losing
it all could be fatal. Problems do arise, everything from accidently
deleting data from a database all the way up to your web host’s hard
drive failing.

Web hosting companies have various tried and tested methods of backing
up their clients websites with the most popular probably being the
backup system that is included in the Cpanel web
hosting software.

Although perfectly capable, the Cpanel’s backup facility is not without
its flaws, such as load inflicted on the server during backup runs and
the lack of facilities for clients on shared servers to restore their
own backups.

An alternative backup solution that has become the “buzz” word of late
is CDP (Continuous Data protection), this basically means that when
data is written to the hard disk, it is also backed up to another
location.

There are a couple of advantages of a CDP backup system like this such
as the obvious one that your website data (files, database, emails etc
) is constantly being backed up and there is a revision history of your
backups should you need to restore one from a specific month, day or
even hour!

There are plenty of companies out there now offering CDP backup
solutions such as Symantec/Veritas and EMC and there are plenty of web hosts
that offer this kind of backup protection for their clients, Dream
Hosting is one of these web hosting companies.

So remember when you’re looking for a new host ask them about their
backup systems and make sure your website is being protected.

   In a recent statement by the Google corporation they have employed a Code Weaver team to make some different Photoshop improvements that were specific for Wine in order to make Photoshop CS and CS2 perform on Linux desktops. All in all, this could sound a bit strange for Google to have done this, and yet this particular action has indeed had the desired effect of opening the said Wine program for better use with the Linux based programs.

   The Wine program is basically a type of Windows compatibility layer that makes running windows programs on Linux and while this is not perfect with the Code Weaver team it has gotten much better. Those who have tested this since the Code Weaver team did their magic have nothing but praise and have even gone as far as to say they would be completely using Linux if it was not for the work this team had done to Photoshop CS and CS 2 software. Most of the comments from Linux users have been similar, the ease of using this program now has Linux users quite thrilled indeed.

  Along with this team that had worked on the Photoshop CS and CS2 programs to secure the way they are able to run with Wine and Linux, they have also employed a large and highly skilled team of interns to work on fixing the other many patches that happen to number in the hundreds.   it will be nice to see that particular project come to a successful fruition.

 All in all, this may in fact turn out to be one of Google’s best projects since google analytics, which of course is used to generate either monthly or daily web traffic reports so that they are able to monitor their websites progress by tracking the sites search engine ranking, monitor the traffic to your as well as the back link counts used with Google and other top search engines. This is often used to aeither replace or act as a supplement to traditional counter or hosting based site statistics such as webalizer and analog traffic statistics which generally accoumpy the CPanel administrative page.

Here is an article from esteemed author William Ellis which I thought was good food for thought. He brings up a lot of interesting points in my opinion. His author/byline and website are listed at the bottom of the article by the way:

Disk Space: How much space are you actually going to require? Your needs are going to depend on the size of your website. A normal web site only uses about 400mbs of space. That’ is basically the equivalent of some 600 mp3 songs or 500 high quality photos. Although most hosts do not allow file sharing or the storing of mp3 files due to copyright laws.

Bandwidth:The majority of hosting firms offer a wide array of bandwidth options in their particular plans. So precisely what is bandwidth as it relates to web hosting? Essentially, it is the quantuty of traffic (or web “transfer” depending on the jargon you use, blog editor) which is permitted between your web site and the rest of the world wide web. The specific quantity of bandwidth that a hosting firm can provide is determined by their particular network connections, both internal to their data center and external to the public web.

Most personal or small business sites will not exceed more than 10GB of bandwidth per month. If you have a web site that is composed of static web pages and you expect little traffic to your site on a daily basis, go with a low bandwidth plan. If you go over the amount of bandwidth allocated in your plan, your hosting company could charge you over usage fees, so if you think the traffic to your site will be significant, you may want to look at a plan with more bandwidth.

Email: Make sure the hosting company offers adequate email accounts. If your a business with 100 employees or more and they only offer 5 email accounts with there package then it’s not a good plan. Email accounts also use your disk space if you have 50 email account and they each use 50mbs of storage that will go against your total disk space for the plan you choose.

Extra Features: There are two popular control panels that alot of hosting companies use these are cPanel and Plesk. They both offer similar features and are easy to navigate. Control panels can take alot of the headaches out of managing your site as they include one click installs of popular software like forums, blogs and content management software. They also have features like traffic stats to your site, server load issues and database management.

Cost:Cost is often a major consideration factor for many Website owners. You should decide on how much you can afford or are willing to pay for hosting. Watch out for setup fees and long term contracts that offer lower prices per month. If you sign up for a 2 year plan and start having problems 4 months down the road the likelihood of getting a refund for the remaining amount is about zero.

Byline-Resource-About the Author section:

This article is a little Off Topic i admit, but i wanted to Share this valuable Information:

Nutrition today is a part of many people’s daily concerns more so than ever before, health is a regiment that many people are following strictly and for this reason the human life span has increased in the past decade.
There are many vegetables that have been proven to have certain vitamins as well as antioxidants in them, along with minerals that are known to aid in not only good health but also help to guard against some diseases such as cancer. Broccoli is one of these vegetables that is said to have properties that are known to aid against cancer.
There are also a number of items that we find new on the shelves at nutrition stores and one of the items we will find now is goji juice. This juice comes from a berry and vine that grows in the Himalayan valleys and has long been popular in traditional Asian medicine. The berries of this vine are known in this culture to have antioxidants and in China the Goji is a name used for more than a few different species of plants and usually is known to refer to the verieties of Lycium, a name that might be known is English Wolfberry, matrimony vine, and Chinese Boxthorn.
   The berries of this plant are what the juice is made from, the plants produce a small berry in size; and they can be orange or light red. The berries also have many seeds, when eaten alone they have a sour taste and for this reason they are often mixed with other food.
   Goji juice and its properties are used as a daily nutritional regiment by many people as its properties have a long tradition in the far east, a region noted for advanced knowledge of herbal and nutritional matters in general. Goji juice is relatively rich in antioxidants and of course antioxidants are known to help build up the immune system and help fight free radicals which can damage our cells.
Dr. Earl Mendell, formulator of high quality goji juice, states that the role of this petite red berry from the Himilayas has been scientifically researched with significant results. dr. Mendell helped to initiate
the “nutritional revolution” with his publication of the esteemed Vitamin Bible which is the single largest-selling nutritional book ever written. He is currently perfecting the
newest generation of this premium Goji Juice, known as GoChi.