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Forwarding non-www requests to www domain

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Add this snippet to your .htaccess file to automatically and visibly rewrite the URL entered by the user, to a single URL. i.e. ‘www.example.com/somepage/’ and  ‘example.com/somepage/’ should both resolve to ‘www.example.com/somepage/’.

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Computer Misuse Act

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

The Computer Misuse Act, 1990 was passed to deal with the problem of hacking computer systems.

In the early days of hacking, the problem wasn’t taken very seriously. It was seen as mischievous behaviour, rather than as something which could cause serious loss or problems to companies, organisations and individuals.

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