This is an article sent by watchguard technologies about different tips or ways to harden windows servers in an event of a DOS attack. Personally im not an avid windows user, call me a */nix freak ... still the article is worth reading it, and for windows users ... a must!

Today, Microsoft released a security bulletin describing a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer. By tricking one of your users into visiting a maliciously-crafted Web page or into opening a maliciously-crafted HTML e-mail, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute code on that user's computer, with that user's privileges.

Since less than a month ago I started a slow learning curve on the proper use of CSS (cascading style sheets) , the best way for me to keep track of all the small new things im learning was to create a new section dedicated to CSS. Hopefully by the end of the year (2005) ill be a CSS Guru, so stay tuned. I started with a small tip to disable printing in a browser.

This is an update on my last situation on high iowait times on my linux RedHat EN 3 Server. Needless to say even though the change i describe on this article worked in my case , with my specific hardware ... its not a bullet proof solution since i know IOWAIT problems vary a lot in relation to hardware, but it may help.