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I have not used it, I just assumed it existed because of the planet software that is written in Python, but Planet Php appears to contain at least pieces of what you want:

http://www.planet-php.net/
http://svn.bitflux.ch/repos/public/planet-php/trunk/

(It does want a database though)

He contributes to PHP's DOM stuff and uses XML alot in Bitflux CMS. Has done a number of talks on XML in PHP 5+ here: http://www.bitflux.ch/publikationen/vortraege.html - pay special attention to http://php5.bitflux.org/xmlonspeed/ and http://php5.bitflux.org/xmloncrack/

Yeah and Tobias Schlitt of Pear posted about it on the same day in his blog: http://www.schlitt.info/applications/blog/index.ph p?/archives/349-PEARXML_RPC-Security-vulnerability !.html and other PHP software, like Bitflux http://blog.bitflux.ch/archive/2005/06/29/bxcms-1- 2-1-security-bugfix-release-codename-not-our-fault -2.html, was patched on June 29th too.

http://www.php.net/ had a news entry about the issue last week. So everyone should have patched their pear-libs in the meanwhile.

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Except this is not something Google did first. It was done quite a while ago...

LiveSearch does something very similar, is Open Source and exists since April ;)

If you look for more XMLHTTPRequest examples, which tightly integrate JS and PHP (other server side languages would be possible), see JPSpan.

I don't quite understand all the hype about Google Suggests. The technique for doing it exists since at least 2 years on Mozilla (and even longer on IE). Therefore, doing something like that was possible since a long time, but maybe everyone was just scared of using JS for "serious" stuff..

Some bloggers did this months ago and released the source (and it's not obfuscated like Google's code). This is definitely not new tech.

See here for more info:
http://blog4.bitflux.ch/wiki/LiveSearch

See a demo here (the quick search in the right hand menu searches the guy's blog in real time):
http://maniacalrage.net/archives/

And Apple has an overview/guide of the XMLHTTP methods which is used for these kind of applications here:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xml httpreq.html

Why not grab a legal version from the LiveSearch wiki page, which is given away under the Apache license?

I didn't ask people "not to recommend SAMBA" - the point is, SAMBA is an already obvious example of one such replacement. It does not cover every Microsoft service, however. I just didn't think it'd be helpful for anyone to see 500+ posts that say "Dude, do some research, SAMBA already does this". What I'm asking is, how feasible is it to do something similar for the rest of MS's services?

The MS-SQL example wasn't just a question of whether or not it's possible to use ODBC. Yes, I know what ODBC is. And, yes, I've already found UnixODBC. What I want to know is, for example, if I have a commercial package that claims to require MS-SQL server, and I try pointing it at a MySQL server in "MS-SQL Compatibility" mode, how likely is it to work? I EXPECT that the answer is probably "only if it's using ODBC to connect", but in that case, has anyone tried it, and if so, does it turn out that it occasionally still doesn't work due to special quirks or capabilities provided by MS-SQL's ODBC driver that MySQL doesn't replicate?

If I, for some reason, don't WANT an entire Windows authentication framework but just want a directory server that MS Outlook will think is "ActiveDirectory", can it be done with the right schema in OpenLDAP, or is there special missing functionality?

SharePoint's WebDAV server implementation is yet another issue, as is Microsoft's quirks in their WebDAV client driver.

I suggested this as a discussion question, not a "hey, I'm trying to do a single specific task, can somebody do a google search for me and give me detailed step-by-step instructions?" which seems to show up in the "Ask Slashdot" section from time to time lately. The subjects of making Microsoft clients somehow work with non-MS servers, and making MS servers interoperate with non-MS clients just happens to interest me, and I thought it might interest other people here too, so I asked...

Part of the problem here is that there isn't enough mindshare for the idea that the format you edit in isn't the format you share files in. MS are at least indirectly to blame here, their monopolistic status has given people the impression that MS Office formats are appropriate formats to share documents.

In the UK govt software market, people who make systems to support the Public Records Office standard - for archiving, ie sharing documents with our future selves - must support storing the original document, AND a 'rendered' copy that will still be legible in future.

Looking at them from this archival viewpoint, it becomes obvious that MS Office formats are inappropriate for rendered/interchange usage, as OLE containers can contain pretty much anything - you need every windows program on the planet to be sure you can read them. Not only that, they often preserve editing/versioning information which you don't want to share (see eg. the leaked origins of the UK WMD Dossier).

I don't expect things to change anytime soon, theres no money in it; and none of the available options are all that great (PDF also has plugins, PS isnt supported well in windows, XML can contain arbitrary meaningless binary data, etc). For now, the best you can do is to aim at xhtml+jpg as your interchange format, producing presentations using e.g. slideml.

Something like that already exists...it's called popoon and part of the bitflux cms project.

Try http://bitflux.ch/editor.IIRC from one of the authors of the book.

I'm developing on linux. Therefore this can't be the problem.. Although, I had the impression it's faster on Windows, but I seldom use Windows, so i can't really judge that.

If anyone is interested, why it's mozilla only, I just updated our FAQ about that.