Apple is offering several deals which can help save some dollars when you buy a Mac. Note that you need to buy everything together on the same invoice from the same store; the deals vary on where you can buy stuff from and still qualify for the rebate. And they are rebates - you’ll need to be fussy and clip UPC codes, save invoices, fill out forms and mail it all back to Apple.

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If you buy your new Intel Macintosh from Apple and you get it with additional RAM pre-installed, you’ll be paying through the nose for the memory. If you’re comfortable adding memory to your Mac (and it’s really not difficult to; it’s the most common hardware operation that end-users perform, and Apple has made it pretty easy to deal with) then you can definitely save a decent amount of money on the RAM.

Increasing the total memory in your Macintosh is likely the cheapest way to improve its performance. MacOS X really wants at least 512MB to start with, and if you’re doing anything memory intensive, say Photoshop, you’ll be very very happy to max out your RAM. Also, if you’re on an Intel Mac and you’re running older, non-Intel applications that are built for a PowerPC, you’ll be using “Rosetta” without knowing it, and you’ll definitely need some extra RAM.
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This one’s more technical than most of these articles…

Browsing through the logs of our web server, I discovered that a couple of photos on one of the web sites we host were being linked to from outside the site. The web site is music-related, and it turned out that there were the three sites that were linking to it were all Bit Torrent sites… particularly rude to steal bandwidth from the host of the composer at the same time as trading their music illegally.

With a bit of research, I found a helpful resource on how to prevent this in Apache 2.
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