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I am waiting PHP can get something like that !
It's called PEAR DB and it already exists... Although, admittedly, it's not nearly as slick as JDBC and not quite as powerful as DBI.
PHP has a semi-equivalent functionality already built in. You can set the open_basedir directive. It limits a script's ability to perform file operations based on the directory set, or the working directory of the script. For example, if you set it to "." (meaning working directory), and script resides in/home/fred/html/, that script will only be able to mess with files in it's that directory and below. It's definitely not the same as SuExec, but it's a decent way of limiting the permissions of script based on who owns it - assuming, of course, that the script's path somehow reflects who owns/created it. More from the site
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Running your own server loads of fun, don't get me wrong, but $10 a month for all this stuff seems worth it. Unless you really have money to burn, it's impossible to the same kind of performance out of your own server... Do you think Verizon will run a gigabit backone and Hubble power connector to my house for $10?
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Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface is the ultimate intro to microprocessors book. It covers instruction sets and architecture extremely well. As the title suggests, it show how (and why) the instruction set and architecture are tied together. (Most of the discussions revolve around MIPS, but they have stuff on Pentiums and PowerPCs, too.) The meat of the book involves actually designing a pipelined, MIPS-like processor from scratch. Really cool stuff - you can actually implement the final design on an FPGA board pretty easily. The final design is, of course, much much much simpler than an actual processor, but it really gives you a sense of what all the components do and how they function together. Anyways, highly recommended...
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I am waiting PHP can get something like that !
It's called PEAR DB and it already exists... Although, admittedly, it's not nearly as slick as JDBC and not quite as powerful as DBI.
PHP has a semi-equivalent functionality already built in. You can set the open_basedir directive. It limits a script's ability to perform file operations based on the directory set, or the working directory of the script. For example, if you set it to "." (meaning working directory), and script resides in /home/fred/html/, that script will only be able to mess with files in it's that directory and below. It's definitely not the same as SuExec, but it's a decent way of limiting the permissions of script based on who owns it - assuming, of course, that the script's path somehow reflects who owns/created it. More from the site
The same guys who host php.net and mysql.com mirrors have an absolutely amazing deal for website hosting. Ten bucks a month for full Unix development environment (with javac, gcc, crontab, and all that stuff), a real shell account, and a sweet webserver setup: PHP, MySQL, cgi-bin (with Perl and Tcl), anonymous FTP, SSL, and a whole mess of POP features. Plus, they have onsite UPS/generator, a gigabit backbone, and lots of other hardware goodies.
Running your own server loads of fun, don't get me wrong, but $10 a month for all this stuff seems worth it. Unless you really have money to burn, it's impossible to the same kind of performance out of your own server... Do you think Verizon will run a gigabit backone and Hubble power connector to my house for $10?
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Maybe this guy should spin this off into a book, make a killing selling it to Undergrad CS students lost in space...
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface is the ultimate intro to microprocessors book. It covers instruction sets and architecture extremely well. As the title suggests, it show how (and why) the instruction set and architecture are tied together. (Most of the discussions revolve around MIPS, but they have stuff on Pentiums and PowerPCs, too.) The meat of the book involves actually designing a pipelined, MIPS-like processor from scratch. Really cool stuff - you can actually implement the final design on an FPGA board pretty easily. The final design is, of course, much much much simpler than an actual processor, but it really gives you a sense of what all the components do and how they function together. Anyways, highly recommended...
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