Also noteworthy is that you can run PHP scripts from the shell prompt or a cron job, by compiling PHP as an executable CGI and using it as an interpreter just like Perl.
So, you can write the web site and the offline background stuff in the same language.
Not that this has anything to do with the original poster's search for J2EE solutions.
It's pretty hard to beat MySQL, Sendmail, pop3d and inn when it comes to price, and often when it comes to performance also.
Yes, but they are godawfully difficult to administer, especially sendmail. I set up a mail server the other day for an NT manager, and he was just rolling his eyes as I tried to teach him how to handle adding users, maintaining virtusertable, aliases,.forward files, simple mailing lists, etc. He's like "this is absolutely nuts." And I have to say that I agree with him.
- doctors from giving medical advice from arbitrary locations
- lifesaving rescues of injured hikers.
- lifesaving rescue of a woman in the midwest who was stranded in a 5 foot, -20F blizzard for two days (saw this on TV, they triangulated her position from her signal strength on the towers:)
- assistance of motorists with infant children broken down along dangerous highways miles from the nearest payphone
So using this as a history lesson that we can learn from, and hopefully not repeat. What tech is possible right now that The Powers That Be are preventing us from using, and how can we fix that to give ourselves access to that tech.
Um, DSL? IP telephony? Video on demand?
The telecom industry is still very heavily regulated. It's no wonder working DSL is so hard to get. The FCC is trying to force ILECs to cooperate with CLECs, but it is never going to work. I say we do away with regulations that prevent multiple telco/cable comapnies from wiring the last mile, then stand back and let them all compete for customers.
For network card, you should also consider Intel EtherExpress 100. From what I heard, It's been supported for the longest time and it's driver is the most mature.
Blah. I had troubles with this card a few years ago, mostly with multicast AppleTalk (netatalk) traffic. The driver may be mature now, but a year or two ago it wasn't, as I found a lot of list postings from others having problems with it. Swapped a 3Com in instead and had no problems. In fact, I have never, ever had a problem with a 3Com card under any OS, so that's what I've been sticking with over the years.
Check out Dialtone. Good prices, connectivity and service. I have a K6-2/400 there for... let's just say it's a lot less than that, and I think my bandwidth cap is higher than 30GB/mo although I really don't remember right now.
Yes, Quanta (which is a text-based web editor similar to HomeSite) absolutely rocks. I recommend it to anyone who will listen. No decent WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver yet though. IBM offers TopPage, but it's fairly cheesy and is a Winelib port anyway.
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IIRC, smbmount/smbmnt is not really part of Samba, but rather a separate package which is included in the distro for the convenience of users. I seem to remember reading in the FAQ that you're on your own with questions about it.
Couldn't you make a shell script that contains a 'umount/mnt/winmachine' and then make that script suid?
As for participating in the drug war in America, I am totally willing to live in a "police state" if it keeps even one child from "getting high" or using heroin.
Sadly, the "police state" you welcome is far more destructive than the drugs themselves. Is it really better for people to die or spend their lives in prison, than for them to touch drugs? Should we really be fighting a war against our own families?
No matter - the drug war is rapidly losing public support anyway. Its days are numbered.
I have had a dedicated server at Dialtone Internet for over a year, and have been pleased with their service. They have great connectivity, 24 hour monitoring, a ticketing system and reasonable pricing. They don't handle patches under my plan (I handle those via ssh) but I have dealt with their support department several times (reboots, and a hardware failure) and they have been very professional. I did have some difficulty once, straightening out some billing issues with their mostly Spanish-speaking staff in that department. It took two days of faxes and emails and a lot of patience on both sides before we were able to overcome the language barriers and get things in order.
Anyway, I would definitely recommend Dialtone to anyone looking for a dedicated server.
I've got two instances of GAIM running right now, connected to two different screen names, and it's working just fine. I even disconnected and reconnected to make sure.
I didn't have any problems the last time this came up on Slashdot either. AOL must like me. Boy do I feel special.
Thanks for the info. I checked that listings and found out that my PBS affiliate in Maryland also carries Robot Wars UK. I'm watching it right now, in fact, but for some reason I don't care for it quite as much as Battlebots.
Would it be possible to take the Apache source, and dumb it down to cut all overhead but the processing of a specific module, run it as a seperate server, and get the same effect?
I think it helps to compile Apache with the smallest possible set of modules - i.e. the bare necessities. Some configuration directives can make a difference also.
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1) Exercise.
2) Getting on a regular sleep pattern. This has taken me years, but I'm getting there.
3) Cutting down on caffeine, especially after 6:00 in the evening.
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Also noteworthy is that you can run PHP scripts from the shell prompt or a cron job, by compiling PHP as an executable CGI and using it as an interpreter just like Perl.
So, you can write the web site and the offline background stuff in the same language.
Not that this has anything to do with the original poster's search for J2EE solutions.
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cool, thanks! i ordered the e-smith cd.
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Sendmail, Inc. sells one, but it's fairly expensive IIRC.
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It's pretty hard to beat MySQL, Sendmail, pop3d and inn when it comes to price, and often when it comes to performance also.
.forward files, simple mailing lists, etc. He's like "this is absolutely nuts." And I have to say that I agree with him.
Yes, but they are godawfully difficult to administer, especially sendmail. I set up a mail server the other day for an NT manager, and he was just rolling his eyes as I tried to teach him how to handle adding users, maintaining virtusertable, aliases,
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Other things that have been prevented:
:)
- doctors from giving medical advice from arbitrary locations
- lifesaving rescues of injured hikers.
- lifesaving rescue of a woman in the midwest who was stranded in a 5 foot, -20F blizzard for two days (saw this on TV, they triangulated her position from her signal strength on the towers
- assistance of motorists with infant children broken down along dangerous highways miles from the nearest payphone
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So using this as a history lesson that we can learn from, and hopefully not repeat. What tech is possible right now that The Powers That Be are preventing us from using, and how can we fix that to give ourselves access to that tech.
Um, DSL? IP telephony? Video on demand?
The telecom industry is still very heavily regulated. It's no wonder working DSL is so hard to get. The FCC is trying to force ILECs to cooperate with CLECs, but it is never going to work. I say we do away with regulations that prevent multiple telco/cable comapnies from wiring the last mile, then stand back and let them all compete for customers.
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For network card, you should also consider Intel EtherExpress 100. From what I heard, It's been supported for the longest time and it's driver is the most mature.
Blah. I had troubles with this card a few years ago, mostly with multicast AppleTalk (netatalk) traffic. The driver may be mature now, but a year or two ago it wasn't, as I found a lot of list postings from others having problems with it. Swapped a 3Com in instead and had no problems. In fact, I have never, ever had a problem with a 3Com card under any OS, so that's what I've been sticking with over the years.
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I've always liked SQL Server, esp. 7.0. It's one of Microsoft's better products. Unfortunately it's only available on one platform.
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Check out Dialtone. Good prices, connectivity and service. I have a K6-2/400 there for... let's just say it's a lot less than that, and I think my bandwidth cap is higher than 30GB/mo although I really don't remember right now.
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I would use it, but it seems that it lags behind the Apache release schedule.
Any idea if that functionality will eventually be rolled into the Apache source?
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What's wrong with charging a buck or two per ISO download to cover the cost of your bandwidth?
I mean, if it's costing you money, I don't think you should feel bad about asking those who are benefitting to share the costs.
I have so much trouble finding reliable mirror sites anymore that I would happily pay a buck or two for a solid, fast mirror.
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Yes, Quanta (which is a text-based web editor similar to HomeSite) absolutely rocks. I recommend it to anyone who will listen. No decent WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver yet though. IBM offers TopPage, but it's fairly cheesy and is a Winelib port anyway.
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IIRC, smbmount/smbmnt is not really part of Samba, but rather a separate package which is included in the distro for the convenience of users. I seem to remember reading in the FAQ that you're on your own with questions about it.
/mnt/winmachine' and then make that script suid?
Couldn't you make a shell script that contains a 'umount
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My boxes are all running SAMBA bound to an internal NIC
And would this not offer unfettered access to your internal network if one of the boxes was compromised through its public interface?
Might be better to have a staging server behind the firewall, and use rsync or something to update the public webservers.
Something to think about.
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So, I hope this is more insiteful and evenhanded, but I don't need any more karma.
Can I have your karma?
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Boycotting companies is one solution, but how does one boycott the government.
MOVE
When people start leaving they'll just make it illegal to emigrate...
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As for participating in the drug war in America, I am totally willing to live in a "police state" if it keeps even one child from "getting high" or using heroin.
Sadly, the "police state" you welcome is far more destructive than the drugs themselves. Is it really better for people to die or spend their lives in prison, than for them to touch drugs? Should we really be fighting a war against our own families?
No matter - the drug war is rapidly losing public support anyway. Its days are numbered.
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I have had a dedicated server at Dialtone Internet for over a year, and have been pleased with their service. They have great connectivity, 24 hour monitoring, a ticketing system and reasonable pricing. They don't handle patches under my plan (I handle those via ssh) but I have dealt with their support department several times (reboots, and a hardware failure) and they have been very professional. I did have some difficulty once, straightening out some billing issues with their mostly Spanish-speaking staff in that department. It took two days of faxes and emails and a lot of patience on both sides before we were able to overcome the language barriers and get things in order.
Anyway, I would definitely recommend Dialtone to anyone looking for a dedicated server.
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thats funny. A 50 meter tunnel filled with methane/air. That successfully makes a 50 meter CANNON!
Sounds sort of like the goatse guy.
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Damn, that's some serious tax... Here in Maryland (eastern U.S.) the rate is 5%, and the highest state sales tax I'm aware of in the U.S. is 8.25%.
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I've got two instances of GAIM running right now, connected to two different screen names, and it's working just fine. I even disconnected and reconnected to make sure.
I didn't have any problems the last time this came up on Slashdot either. AOL must like me. Boy do I feel special.
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Um, technically that would be spelled wookiee(tm).
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Thanks for the info. I checked that listings and found out that my PBS affiliate in Maryland also carries Robot Wars UK. I'm watching it right now, in fact, but for some reason I don't care for it quite as much as Battlebots.
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Would it be possible to take the Apache source, and dumb it down to cut all overhead but the processing of a specific module, run it as a seperate server, and get the same effect?
I think it helps to compile Apache with the smallest possible set of modules - i.e. the bare necessities. Some configuration directives can make a difference also.
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