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PhpGedView and Excessive Bandwidth

Monday, October 24th, 2005

For the second month in a row, my site has gone over the regular bandwidth quota for no apparent reason. After doing some digging, I found out that over 500 MB was pulled on some days off my site. After even more digging I discovered that majority of this traffic ...

Genealogy Online

Monday, March 7th, 2005

After playing around with several programs, I finally installed PHP GedView for collaboration of genealogy research in my family. For privacy and security reasons only dead people are accessiable to unregistered users. You can find it here. On an unrelated note, someome from *.usdoj.gov has been looking around my site today ...

Genealogy as a Security Risk

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

One would think that putting up genealogy information would be a good thing. However, while working on it I came across a rather interesting security risk - most genealogy programs will hide details for living individuals but will still keep their names open. This MAY be a security problem since ...

Private Data in Public Webspace

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

I have been recently playing around with some geneology utilities for my website and came across an interesting problem. One of these programs, PHP GedView, requires a directory with full write access in order to work. Their documentation recommends that "for optimal security, you should move the "index" directory to ...

John Kerry - Something for Every Voter?

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004

According to an "Inside the Beltway" article (via LGF): New research by Burke's Peerage reveals that Mr. Kerry is the only presidential candidate in U.S. history who has genealogical descent from Muslims, Jews and Christians. Among the most interesting parts is that John Kerry is a direct descendant from the prophet Muhammad. ...