Leave all of the files on your computer - download the Opera browser and use the Opera Unite feature to share all of the artwork right from your computer. If the audience is small and the load is not an issue and you have a good DSL connection - this might be the easiest way to do it. Opera Unite will give you a URL to share and you can password protect the content also. Greg
There is a lively group of Ruby on Rails programmers in my neck of the woods who like the scalability of Rackspace.com for hosting. You might want to check them out- it is a grow on demand infrastructure (that is what you need)
I recently installed a Windows SBS 2011 server - It was bundled on a Dell server with a quad core processor and 12 gigs of RAM. This hardware is spec'd per Microsoft for 75 users. So if you really think you are going to be getting the SQL traffic you outlined above, a Rackspace.com or cloud service would be my only recommendation for hosting. I supported web hosting for 10 years. You are lucky to be coding now, 10 years ago the server above cost $40k from SUN, now these things sell for under $2k and the cloud model is perfect for what you describe. Good Luck
I have been to 6 Novell Classes, 6 Microsoft classes, 6 Sun Java Programming classes, taken 12 Unix Computer based training programs while maintain Unix servers in a web hosting environment for about 10 years. I have been an IT Professional in some very large environments for 15 years. ---
Unix has never had a virus and I install Ubuntu 10.10 on every broken Windows laptop that crosses my path. When I show people how open office works, how easy it is to surf the web, how much faster their 3-5 year old PC works after installing Ubuntu, they sing my praises and say thank you. ---
Anyone over $500 million in revenue thinks they are being smart by buying into the church of Microsoft and if you want gaming or multi-media it's probably the way to go, but for most people MS is just a pain to maintain and Microsoft learned long ago they can do more to kill the competition with one press release than any other means available. ---
I will give Microsoft kudos, MS Exchange client is pretty hard to beat. Nothing on the market is really as good. For collaboration Share Point is great but the effort required on the backend to maintain, move around and configure is really expensive and time consuming. Most small business could do just a well with Xwiki for collaboration and Osmo on Ubuntu to replace MS Exchange.
I too recently recovered a song on a cassette tape that was 15 years old. I connected the RCA jacks to my mixing board and created a digital copy of the track via a PC and Sound Forge. Worked like a dream and the sound quality is perfect.
I've also restored Commander Keen to a PCMCIA drive on a Fujitsu 1000 Stylistic touch screen, though Commander Keen is 1990 and to be fair the PCMCIA drive was 1995 but it all still works and boots to DOS and Keen lives
Generally speaking tape seems to stand the test of time. I am more afraid of DVD failure than tape failure
I have some web development skills i.e. html, css, java script etc and I have taken a bunch of java programming classes, a skill I never developed (programming in java)
Do you have any recommendations for getting acquainted with Ruby on Rails? Are there any demos I can build or DIY tutorials you recommend to get started proto typing or building a basic apps to learn the basics of Ruby on Rails ?
Thanks in advance for the useful links and info above
I connected an Asus eee 701 which I purchased used for $25 to my Samsung - easy breezy - that and a $35 dollar wireless keyboard/touchpad- presto - Internet TV- talk about over thinking a technical issue-
EEE runs Xandros too. Don't even need to pay for software
If you already own MS server 2003 or 2008 or 2010 - WSS 3.0 (the free version) has great discussion board for release notes, development notes, release notes, version control on document libraries and RSS feeds from all to our favorite RSS reader.
I disagree with the process haters. You can crash a space shuttle without processes. If you want to move fast with no accountability, fly solo, but still, don't forget to file a flight plan (oops there's a process). I have a few posts on WSS 3.0 at http://gregstechblog.wordpress.com/
I posted an article last spring on how to fix windows viruses using Unix and responders contributed information creating a very useful guide to securing windows operating systems in the most unlikely of places: a linux forum:
details: http://virus.gregrank.us/
will redirect you to the article mentioned above. I have built my windows desktop AV standards around the ideas obtained from responders (with great success)
Isn't that why we manufacture electronics in China and shoes in India? It's so business can continue to exploit the worker , keep costs down and stock prices high. Put more money in Asian money market funds! Go exploiters, love the returns without the liability. Rich people thank you
I sift through 6000 articles daily, it's a breeze,
For unix I use akregator,
for windows jet brains omea rss reader,
both have easy to use key word search which is why they are my favorites.
Also put sharepoint behind the firewall at work and use an rss feed reader to keep up with everyone at work. it's all free and the way I cope
The slant of this article is purposely antagonistic.
"Yes the entire computer movement boils down to two people's influence: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs" -
One person will control all of the toys?
I'm telling Mom!
One only needs to read all of the articles today from slashdot, paints the Microsoft picture pretty clearly. Microsoft feels threatened. Linux is taking over the enterprise, Microsoft is giving away 500,000 licenses in china and russia under the auspices of freedom and at the same time bashng OpenOffice for giving itself away. The war is on, Microsoft has a viable competitor, it's name is open source. Congrats IBM, you started all of this with the Linux open project...
I've installed and run the free version of MS WSS 3.0, works well inside an Ubuntu Virtual machine! http://wss.gregrank.us/
If you believe what you read 40% of Server OS are Linux flavored. Big Guys definitely use Open Source, but the core of the organization tends to be MS Exchange Server and MS Office Suite centric.
I did add a citation ("rule of thumb, not always") in parenthesis of my original post.
I worked exclusively with Fortune 500 companies (A-Z) for a decade. They were primarily MS Exchange and MS office shops.
As a government entity you have more to risk losing support for open source software and stalling projects and service vs going with a traditional channel like Microsoft.
For better or worse Microsoft is backed by $15 billion dollars of revenue per year in success ( "Blue screen" success).
In fact MS Share Point alone is used by Best Buy, Eagle Airlines, countless others and have thousands of third party developers working on their own gigantic Web 2.0 hairball.
Most companies who gross over $500 million per year are Microsoft Shops. Open Source is for the other 95% of small businesses (rule of thumb, not always). Microsoft has the advantage of history (both good and bad) and longevity.
I run Microsoft WSS 3.0 (the free version) inside of an Ubuntu Virtual Machine in my lab. I share my WSS 3.0 deck on slideshare at http://wss.gregrank.us/
Like it or not Microsoft, Amazon and Google are buying property on all the big rivers and dams and plugging directly into the power grid at the source. This is their business model: cloud and collaboration services for a hand held and ipad future world order.
Another good resource for evaluating the move to the cloud:
http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance/csaguide.v2.1.pdf
on an android phone, in a terminal window and as the root user one can issue this command: "netstat -a"
this will display all the connection your phone is making out.
cut and paste the domain names or IP addresses from "netstat -a" terminal window into a text editor
now open/etc/hosts file with a text editor and place the following lines in your hosts file:
# 127.0.0.1 localhost must be first line
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 Facebook.com
make each entry on a separate line, the slashdot forum reformatted my line breaks
###continue and add all the domain names and remote IP's from your 'netstat -a"
This will block communication to facebook (example)
I've seen people block over 15,000 URL's this way
Slashdot reference:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1346470/HOSTS-file-blocks-500-social-networking-sites
I have my vinyl collection from the 60-70's giving away my age here, and my fathers 78's from the 40's and 50's (the nat king cole set he gave my mom as a wedding gift)
All of the albums still play well on $100 turntable, some have more pops than others but overall the albums play well 50-60 yrs later and one could argue the pops and crackles add character and history to the songs.
What's old becomes new again. I like this trend. I always loved the art on the vinyl records and liner notes, missed them when they went away and glad they are coming back
Every piece of open source software I have used - contain a paypal button to support the developers.
So even if the license is "open source" the developers acknowledge there is rent to pay, mouths to feed etc...
I have personally gotten into the habit of making contributions to open source software I use every day.
I also don't commercially use someone's open source software, advertise around it(collecting revenue ala Bing) and stiff the contributing developer. But that is just me.
I think if you are going to use even open source software commercially, being a good "net citizen" and making small donations is good stewardship.
We are all on this planet together. Why be the a-hole over a few bucks? This is just plain human decency
Slashdot Mirror
9.9K @ http://bigsong.com/
Leave all of the files on your computer - download the Opera browser and use the Opera Unite feature to share all of the artwork right from your computer. If the audience is small and the load is not an issue and you have a good DSL connection - this might be the easiest way to do it. Opera Unite will give you a URL to share and you can password protect the content also. Greg
There is a lively group of Ruby on Rails programmers in my neck of the woods who like the scalability of Rackspace.com for hosting. You might want to check them out- it is a grow on demand infrastructure (that is what you need) I recently installed a Windows SBS 2011 server - It was bundled on a Dell server with a quad core processor and 12 gigs of RAM. This hardware is spec'd per Microsoft for 75 users. So if you really think you are going to be getting the SQL traffic you outlined above, a Rackspace.com or cloud service would be my only recommendation for hosting. I supported web hosting for 10 years. You are lucky to be coding now, 10 years ago the server above cost $40k from SUN, now these things sell for under $2k and the cloud model is perfect for what you describe. Good Luck
I have been to 6 Novell Classes, 6 Microsoft classes, 6 Sun Java Programming classes, taken 12 Unix Computer based training programs while maintain Unix servers in a web hosting environment for about 10 years. I have been an IT Professional in some very large environments for 15 years. --- Unix has never had a virus and I install Ubuntu 10.10 on every broken Windows laptop that crosses my path. When I show people how open office works, how easy it is to surf the web, how much faster their 3-5 year old PC works after installing Ubuntu, they sing my praises and say thank you. --- Anyone over $500 million in revenue thinks they are being smart by buying into the church of Microsoft and if you want gaming or multi-media it's probably the way to go, but for most people MS is just a pain to maintain and Microsoft learned long ago they can do more to kill the competition with one press release than any other means available. --- I will give Microsoft kudos, MS Exchange client is pretty hard to beat. Nothing on the market is really as good. For collaboration Share Point is great but the effort required on the backend to maintain, move around and configure is really expensive and time consuming. Most small business could do just a well with Xwiki for collaboration and Osmo on Ubuntu to replace MS Exchange.
I too recently recovered a song on a cassette tape that was 15 years old. I connected the RCA jacks to my mixing board and created a digital copy of the track via a PC and Sound Forge. Worked like a dream and the sound quality is perfect. I've also restored Commander Keen to a PCMCIA drive on a Fujitsu 1000 Stylistic touch screen, though Commander Keen is 1990 and to be fair the PCMCIA drive was 1995 but it all still works and boots to DOS and Keen lives Generally speaking tape seems to stand the test of time. I am more afraid of DVD failure than tape failure
I have some web development skills i.e. html, css, java script etc and I have taken a bunch of java programming classes, a skill I never developed (programming in java) Do you have any recommendations for getting acquainted with Ruby on Rails? Are there any demos I can build or DIY tutorials you recommend to get started proto typing or building a basic apps to learn the basics of Ruby on Rails ? Thanks in advance for the useful links and info above
I connected an Asus eee 701 which I purchased used for $25 to my Samsung - easy breezy - that and a $35 dollar wireless keyboard/touchpad- presto - Internet TV- talk about over thinking a technical issue- EEE runs Xandros too. Don't even need to pay for software
If you already own MS server 2003 or 2008 or 2010 - WSS 3.0 (the free version) has great discussion board for release notes, development notes, release notes, version control on document libraries and RSS feeds from all to our favorite RSS reader. I disagree with the process haters. You can crash a space shuttle without processes. If you want to move fast with no accountability, fly solo, but still, don't forget to file a flight plan (oops there's a process). I have a few posts on WSS 3.0 at http://gregstechblog.wordpress.com/
Love Ubuntu 10.x - best yet
I posted an article last spring on how to fix windows viruses using Unix and responders contributed information creating a very useful guide to securing windows operating systems in the most unlikely of places: a linux forum: details: http://virus.gregrank.us/ will redirect you to the article mentioned above. I have built my windows desktop AV standards around the ideas obtained from responders (with great success)
Install Ubuntu 10.x and search the software repository for word processors Abiword, Zoho api or Gnumeric (excel like) just a few
Isn't that why we manufacture electronics in China and shoes in India? It's so business can continue to exploit the worker , keep costs down and stock prices high. Put more money in Asian money market funds! Go exploiters, love the returns without the liability. Rich people thank you
I sift through 6000 articles daily, it's a breeze, For unix I use akregator, for windows jet brains omea rss reader, both have easy to use key word search which is why they are my favorites. Also put sharepoint behind the firewall at work and use an rss feed reader to keep up with everyone at work. it's all free and the way I cope
I submitted an article on using Ubuntu and NX nomachine at home to prevent exactly this type of attack. No one commented http://slashdot.org/submission/1365444/A-personal-private-cloud-server
The slant of this article is purposely antagonistic. "Yes the entire computer movement boils down to two people's influence: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs" - One person will control all of the toys? I'm telling Mom!
One only needs to read all of the articles today from slashdot, paints the Microsoft picture pretty clearly. Microsoft feels threatened. Linux is taking over the enterprise, Microsoft is giving away 500,000 licenses in china and russia under the auspices of freedom and at the same time bashng OpenOffice for giving itself away. The war is on, Microsoft has a viable competitor, it's name is open source. Congrats IBM, you started all of this with the Linux open project... I've installed and run the free version of MS WSS 3.0, works well inside an Ubuntu Virtual machine! http://wss.gregrank.us/
If you believe what you read 40% of Server OS are Linux flavored. Big Guys definitely use Open Source, but the core of the organization tends to be MS Exchange Server and MS Office Suite centric. I did add a citation ("rule of thumb, not always") in parenthesis of my original post. I worked exclusively with Fortune 500 companies (A-Z) for a decade. They were primarily MS Exchange and MS office shops. As a government entity you have more to risk losing support for open source software and stalling projects and service vs going with a traditional channel like Microsoft. For better or worse Microsoft is backed by $15 billion dollars of revenue per year in success ( "Blue screen" success). In fact MS Share Point alone is used by Best Buy, Eagle Airlines, countless others and have thousands of third party developers working on their own gigantic Web 2.0 hairball.
Most companies who gross over $500 million per year are Microsoft Shops. Open Source is for the other 95% of small businesses (rule of thumb, not always). Microsoft has the advantage of history (both good and bad) and longevity. I run Microsoft WSS 3.0 (the free version) inside of an Ubuntu Virtual Machine in my lab. I share my WSS 3.0 deck on slideshare at http://wss.gregrank.us/ Like it or not Microsoft, Amazon and Google are buying property on all the big rivers and dams and plugging directly into the power grid at the source. This is their business model: cloud and collaboration services for a hand held and ipad future world order. Another good resource for evaluating the move to the cloud: http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance/csaguide.v2.1.pdf
on an android phone, in a terminal window and as the root user one can issue this command: "netstat -a" this will display all the connection your phone is making out. cut and paste the domain names or IP addresses from "netstat -a" terminal window into a text editor now open /etc/hosts file with a text editor and place the following lines in your hosts file:
# 127.0.0.1 localhost must be first line
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 Facebook.com
make each entry on a separate line, the slashdot forum reformatted my line breaks
###continue and add all the domain names and remote IP's from your 'netstat -a"
This will block communication to facebook (example)
I've seen people block over 15,000 URL's this way
Slashdot reference:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1346470/HOSTS-file-blocks-500-social-networking-sites
I have my vinyl collection from the 60-70's giving away my age here, and my fathers 78's from the 40's and 50's (the nat king cole set he gave my mom as a wedding gift) All of the albums still play well on $100 turntable, some have more pops than others but overall the albums play well 50-60 yrs later and one could argue the pops and crackles add character and history to the songs. What's old becomes new again. I like this trend. I always loved the art on the vinyl records and liner notes, missed them when they went away and glad they are coming back
Every piece of open source software I have used - contain a paypal button to support the developers. So even if the license is "open source" the developers acknowledge there is rent to pay, mouths to feed etc... I have personally gotten into the habit of making contributions to open source software I use every day. I also don't commercially use someone's open source software, advertise around it(collecting revenue ala Bing) and stiff the contributing developer. But that is just me. I think if you are going to use even open source software commercially, being a good "net citizen" and making small donations is good stewardship. We are all on this planet together. Why be the a-hole over a few bucks? This is just plain human decency