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There are numerous applications out there like Glide Digitals portal. Look at http://freewebtown.com/ This application is free and has 5 times the bells and whistles that Glide has and it has been up and running for over 2 years and houses approx 335,000 user on a single server. This company is sitting on something huge and they dont even know it.

As far as Sun's quoting the price of support on their webpage you guys need to pull your heads out of your asses and wash the shit from your eyes and ears. Sun quotes standard warranty support, which is basically next business day parts exchange in the standard price that they advertise. Now, go to Dell's website and price out a server, Dell's advertising quotes their three year gold support option, with 7x24 service as the default option in the list price. Since this is a server, which means that it's probably going to be high availability, I want to see what those support costs are up front. Dell is a lot more honest about this than Sun is.

And Sun having a contract that provides Windows support, big fucking deal. Hell, if you paid Microsoft enough money they'd support Linux and FreeBSD and send you a tech with Tux tattooed on one ass-cheek and the FreeBSD daemon on the other. Years ago when I was dealing with HP they offered to "support" the DEC and Sun systems that my company had, we declined and stayed with our DEC and Sun contracts, which were cheaper. Sun's support for other platforms might cost like Hell, and it might not be any good, but they will sell it to you if you're dumb enough to buy it. Sun will "support" anything they can, and in doing so they will charge you an arm and a leg for the contract. This is because Sun would like to make a lot of money on high-margin consulting services and support like IBM does. Getting your Windows or Linux support from Sun is like having a Corvette worked on at a VW dealership, it's possible (if you spend enough money) but it's not necessarily smart.

Why is anyone going to purchase a Sun Opteron to run Windows or Linux on anyways? It's not the performance. It's not the price. It's not the quality of the systems (I've disassembled a bunch of lower-end Suns and quite frankly I've seen better built systems from beigebox clonehouses) and it's not because of any brilliant engineering on Sun's part (Sun reserves their good engineering for their larger systems, which is why they pretty much own the market for NetBackup media servers and NetBackup master servers). When it comes right down to it the only reason is "because you can", which plays well on /. where the readers like to install Linux on dead badgers, but not in the real world.

Their often one sided view of issues in the middle-east has garnered them a great following in said area amongst people who support the destruction of "infidels" and would love to enforce Dhimmitude

Read this article for a good overvue of why this is no big loss.

Good Riddance to AFP!

Bande de cons, allez vous faire encule.

There's a three hour long recording made by Dr Richard Webb (a scientist involved in reactor design) of the near disaster at Three Mile Island. It was made at the time of the problems there, and is of "archive" audio quality...

http://www.freewebtown.com/threemileisland/

Of course, if you'd said there was a nuclear power plant in the middle of Hartlepool, we wouldn't be objecting. That is very nearly true.

Go here for a recording of Dr Richard Webb from around the time of the three mile island problems if you want to know about jobsworths getting in the way of sorting out a problem with a nuclear reactor:

http://www.freewebtown.com/threemileisland

This seems a good time to mention that I've put an MP3 copy of tape recordings made at the time of the Three Mile Island near disaster by Dr Richard Webb (who was involved in developing the first US submarine and commercial reactors) on the net here:

http://www.freewebtown.com/threemileisland/

It's a cautionary tale. The TMI reactor was thought "safe" too.

Truecrypt (mirror 1 [freewebtown.com], mirror 2) does the same as PGPdisk but is open-source and seems to still be actively developed, unlike PGP658ckt. It also doesn't have the drive size limitations of some competing commercial products.

Damien

Truecrypt (mirror 1, mirror 2) does the same as PGPdisk but is open-source and seems to still be actively developed, unlike PGP658ckt. It also doesn't have the drive size limitations of some competing commercial products.

Damien

Maybe TrueCrypt?