My Archives: February 2001
Wednesday, February 28, 2001
News: P2P search engine sets sites on Google
P2P searching/ranking would be a good thing. Imagine a 'Napster' search that told you who had the best copies of and widest bandwidth for those old Kiss songs.Posted by Elmer @ 06:46 AM EST [Link]
Knowledgebase Search Results: WebDAV for Netware
This is something we need to do with 5.1.Posted by Elmer @ 06:38 AM EST [Link]
PC World.com | Blockbuster Goes Broadband, Streams Movies to You
This is interesting. We have Charter digital cable with OnDemand movies. For $3.95 you get access to the film until midnight the following night. You can FF and rewind, pause, even go away and come back later. It is cool.Posted by Elmer @ 06:31 AM EST [Link]
Bulletin: EToys to file for bankruptcy protection, close Web site | Computerworld News & Features Story
Outta cash and luck, another e-tailer bites the dust. The lesson, the old rules still apply to the new economy.
(February 26, 2001) Beleaguered online toy store eToys Inc. today announced that it plans to file for bankruptcy protection within the next five to 10 days and then to close its Web site on March 8. After that, eToys said, the company "will focus solely on the winding down of its business and the liquidation of its assets."Posted by Elmer @ 06:22 AM EST [Link]
Tuesday, February 27, 2001
Frame Diverter v0.461-
An ethernet frame diverter for transparent www proxying bridge and morePosted by Elmer @ 11:33 PM EST [Link]
Monday, February 26, 2001
Linux PR: Major Law Firm Installation of Linux
Thursday, May 11, 2000 -- The law firm of Cummings, McClorey, Davis and Acho (CMDA) in Livonia MI and the computer services firm of Unique Systems, Inc., of Holland OH (http://www.uniqsys.com) announce a major installation of WordPerfect and Linux as the backbone of the law practice.
Posted by Elmer @ 04:27 PM EST [Link]
Linux Terminal Server Project.
Something to look into, especially if we go to a web front end totally.Posted by Elmer @ 04:25 PM EST [Link]
Sunday, February 25, 2001
Posted by Elmer @ 04:07 AM EST [Link]
Tim O'Reilly's Post-Apocalyptic Pants2Pants
During the Gold Rush, some prospectors got rich quick and some didn't. Levi Strauss got rich slow by selling everyone a pair of pants, which you need, gold or no gold. Getting into today's Peer-to-Peer rush without going to Tim O'Reilly's conference is like trying to mine gold with no pants on. Even though peer-to-peer as a business model makes about as much sense as a gold rush in a minefield, people are sure going to go through a lot of pants that way.Posted by Elmer @ 04:03 AM EST [Link]
SiteMapper: A PHP Script for creating a Site MAP Copyright (C) 2001 Earl C. Terwilliger
SiteMapper.php was created to build a "site map" of a web site. It takes a given URL and spiders/crawls the local links found from there to build a single HTML page listing all links found.Posted by Elmer @ 03:59 AM EST [Link]
ZDNet: Nusphere MySQL ignites LAMP
I've been using Nusphere on several platforms for development and it is as good as it says it is. It is one of few packages I've seen that runs as described. I am especially impressed with its performance on the wintel platform. It provides a great entree into the Apache/MySQL/PHP/Perl world in a familiar environment.Posted by Elmer @ 03:58 AM EST [Link]
Saturday, February 24, 2001
OSFAQ.com - Speed up your network's Internet connection or Web Server with some Cache
Is your network's T1 line just not cutting it anymore? Or does your web server need a boost? In this article I will be examining how you can speed up your office Internet connection or web server with a Cache server. A Cache server works by storing frequently used web pages locally. So then when a web page request comes in, it simply grabs it locally if it is cached. This is all done transparently, so the user would only perceive the performance boost. In addition, it can cache various different types of data such as web pages, FTP sites, and gopher traffic. Plus, it can accelerate your web-server by sitting between the web server and the Internet. It then will cache web-server requests, and reduce the web server's workload. The performance boost varies between traffic trends, but we received an average cache-hit rate of 54% in our labs. Which means our Cache server was off loading half the traffic from our web servers, and Internet connection. So what do you need?
Posted by Elmer @ 01:52 PM EST [Link]
LJ 83: Deploying the Squid proxy server on Linux
Since Squid is an open-source project and well supported under Linux, it seemed a good idea to explore the possibility of using a Linux-based solution using a standard SAS EMEA Intel PC. This configuration is a Dell desktop PC with 256MB of RAM, 500MHz Intel Pentium and internal 20GB IDE disk. As Dell has a relationship with Red Hat, it made sense to their distribution. Also, SAS has recently released versions of the SAS product in partnership with Red Hat.
Posted by Elmer @ 01:31 PM EST [Link]
Thursday, February 22, 2001
New UPS software 'feature' angers customers | Computerworld News & Features Story
Oops! But Bill said it was OK to re-arrange everybody's browsers.
When United Parcel Service of America Inc. listed the enhancements and key benefits of the newest version of its WorldShip software, it forgot to tell customers one thing: The shipping software might automatically reconfigure their Internet browsers and make UPS's home page their own.The software, recently upgraded to reflect new rate increases and enhanced features, not only sent some users to UPS's Web site, but also added UPS links to their lists of Internet favorites.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:23 PM EST [Link]
Index of /php/code/Smarty
Smarty is a template engine for PHP. One of the unique aspects about Smarty that sets it apart from other templating solutions is that it converts the templates into native php scripts upon the first execution. After that, it just executes the compiled PHP scripts. Therefore, there is no costly template file parsing for each request.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:13 PM EST [Link]
MetaDot: Fast, Free, and Ready to Serve.
MetaDot has released the much anticipated version 3.0. It is absolutely the most significant release to date and delivers a powerful package of security and interface improvements. Metadot 3.0 delivers the key elements critical to every portal implementation today.
Posted by Elmer @ 11:10 AM EST [Link]
Windows PowerPro
Windows PowerPro lets you take control of how you use Windows 95/98/NT/2000. Run commands and configure your system any way you want.PowerPro gives you a compact and powerful launch bar, menu, and tray icon facility. But this is just the start. With a little experimenting with its configuration, you'll find that you can use PowerPro to change the way you work with your Windows system.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:28 AM EST [Link]
Wednesday, February 21, 2001
phpWebSite - Appalachian State University
Language
phpWebSite is written in the PHP programming language, making it ideal for developers to write customized plug-ins. PHP is a server side programming language that is simple, cross-platform, and fast.
Our Goal
Our goal is to provide Universities, corporations, and individuals with a complete web site content management solution that is flexible, robust, and extendable.
Core Features
phpWebSite allows an individual or group to easily maintain an interactive, community-driven web site.
Posted by Elmer @ 11:23 PM EST [Link]
PHPFileExchange provides a web based file interchange system similar to that provided by www.xdrive.com and www.freedrive.com. It features authenticated user login, user groups, read and write access control at the user and group level, user privilege levels, assorted logging options and a MySQL database backend.
Files stored in the system are placed in folders, with the ability to create and remove folders. Access to folders may be controlled at the user and group levels.