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The Apache Newsletter

Posted by michael on from the newsflash dept.

Kyle Hamilton writes "The first Apache Newsletter was released today. The Newsletter is a result of the outgrowth of the 'Jakarta Newsletter' and the newsletter can cover all the projects including infrastructure, incubator et cetera."

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  1. A question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have a question, pretty dumb perhaps. I've downloaded this movie off Shareaza, and it's got two files - a .bin and a .que. How do I view the movies in the BIN format? Any special codec?

    Thanks.

    1. Re:A question by shaitand · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      it's .cue, now RTFA like a good AC.

  2. Re:What's the point? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Apache fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Apache box (a P4 2.4 w/1024 Megs of RAM, on an Qwest OC3) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one directory on the hard drive to another user. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4/IIS 4 (On a dual T1, no less!), which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Apache box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
    In addition, during this file transfer, PHP will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even mod_perl is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Apache machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Apache box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the Apache machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 cable modem router with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 2400 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Apache is a "superior" server.

    Apache addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Apache over other faster, cheaper, more stable httpd daemons.