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Some weeks ago we published a tutorial instructing how to use Nginx as a Reverse Proxy with buffering & cache functions using the standard edge-origin pattern. The configuration settings shown within …
Nginx Reverse Proxy Cache for WordPress How to fine-tune Nginx used as a Reverse Proxy Cache server for a typical WordPress web site Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post you're probably dealing with a SQL / T-SQL query which is either doing: a DISTINCT on a column having ntext data type. a JOIN with multiple …
SQL - The ntext data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable - How to Fix How to fix the "The ntext data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable" error affecting MS SQL Server and other DBMS based on T-SQL Read More
As most people probably notice, the .vmdk files created by VMware for Mac OS X Operating Systems tend to continuously grow as time passes by, getting bigger and bigger after …
VMware Workstation - How to Shrink a Mac OS X .vmdk (Virtual Mounted Disk) File How to effectively reduce the file size of a Mac OS X .vmdk file in VMware Workstation 12+ Read More
When dealing with a WordPress Web Site you might want to hide or exclude one or more Categories without actually deleting them: in other words, to prevent them from being …
WordPress - How to hide a Category from Front page, Archives, Feeds, Searches and Category Widget A great plugin to exclude a category from your WordPress Web Site... and a neat PHP script to deal with the Category Widget as well Read More If you're reading this, it probably means that you are experiencing an odd behaviour on your WordPress home page: you are often unable to see your most recent posts, as …
WordPress - How to Fix Home Page Caching Issues by setting the Last-Modified response Header to the most recent post An effective workaround to overcome a common WordPress problem that might cripple your SEO efforts Read More
Telephone-based marketing has never been as intrusive as in these years, at least in Italy. The ineffectiveness of the controls of the Data Protection Authorities and the evident inability of …
HIYA - How to protect your Mobile Device against unwanted phone calls, spam calls, announcements and commercial offers An innovative spam-filter for smartphones that blocks the caller through a configurable blacklist of unwanted numbers Read More
In the remaining weeks that separate us from the final introduction of the GDPR, many italian newspapers and agencies are relaunching the institutional video created by the Privacy Authority to …
Data protection is Freedom - Data Protection Authority GDPR Video An institutional video from the Italian Privacy Authority to explain the importance of the innovations introduced by the new EU Regulation Read More
In the past we have already talked about ENISA, which stands for European Union Agency for Network and Information Security: for those who do not know it, it is one …
GDPR - Privacy and Data Protection on Mobile Devices - Free PDF by ENISA A useful report dedicated to Privacy and Data Protection on mobile devices with a GDPR perspective available for free download Read More Good news for those who are striving to adapt their corporate procedures to the new European General Data Protection Regulation, better known as GDPR. The ENISA (European Union Agency for …
GDPR - Security of Personal Data Processing - Free PDF by ENISA A very useful handbook to help understanding how to comply with the personal data security requirements issued by the GDPR Read More
If you want to keep track of what's happening in terms of IT security these days, you can hardly miss Qualys: not only for the free and premium services they …
Qualys Webcast - Prioritization of Vulnerabilities in a Modern IT Environment A complimentary webcast offered by Josh Zelonis and Jimmy Graham of Qualys, Inc. - March 14 2018, 7:00 PM CET Read More