If my server is pinged, I want to be able to execute code that not only is sent back to the "pinger" but also logged. What is the best way in achieving this? I'm running a Linux server, so any code would be written in pearl.

I would like to have advices how can I install fresh Linux install and make it secure as web server. I would also like to hear with distros are best for my required web server applications. Required applications 1) Jetty as webserver for web applications. 2) Lighttpd as webserver for static con...

I have to figure out what kind of cpu my HS20 have. Its /proc/cpuinfo output is below. Is that mean It has two IntelXeon units with two cores each ? processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz steppin...

I want to read passive RFID tags at a range of 5 to 10 feet from a mobile tablet PC running Windows. (Attached to a vehicle so the reader/antenna can be large) Does anyone out there have any experience/recommendations?

Actually, I do not know if I have used the right terms to describe our situation. Basically, We would like to have a system to help us to do billing and support at the same time. For example, we would like to offer outside users a customer support with ticket system, however the outside users ne...

I don't know that it's true to ask this question here or not! I want to save files form websites to one special location (I put url, and that server downloads file to its server) Can you give me address of some sites????

I run a regular CHECKDB job but every once in a while it will sit hung in a suspended state. It stops at "DBCC TABLE CHECK" "DECLARE @BlobEater VARBINARY(8000) SELECT @BlobEater = CheckIndex(FactKeyA + FactKeyB + Facts) FROM { IRowset 0xD0DE76EB09000000 } GROUP BY FactKeyA WITH ORD...

If you have satellite phones deployed in your organization I'd like to hear what hardware and provider you're using. We're looking to get about 4 or 5 in the near future. Thanks.

(Hope this doesn't get deleted for "discussion/subjective"). So my problem: I want to make an iPhone-App which displays the time-table of our school. Because the iPhone is so tiny I just want to display the class the student is in. So I set up the data and made an XML with the time-table of a cl...

I'd like some recommendations (top 3, for eval purposes) on serious packetshaper appliances. We've begun by looking at the BlueCoat PacketShaper 7500. We've got a 44mbit DS3 and will probably be adding another 100mbit worth of bandwidth in the next couple years. AFter the ISP router, we're all co...

One of my clients has a Vista Ultimate - 64 Bit Touchsmart IQ-500. If left overnight or for a few hours it responds right away. But when left for a few days it locks right up. I've tried turning any disk suspending off, any hibernation off, basically everything stays on except for the monitor...

I have the opportunity to take an internship position helping maintain a Unix cluster. I've not done a lot with clusters before, and I'd like some recommendations for good introductory material to the topic. (The other intern is going to be bringing me up to speed but I'd like to look sort of pre...

Scenario: Alice and Bob have collaborated to build a web application that is hosted on two different web servers. The part of the application on Alice's server is in charge of collecting all "non-sensitive" information from the end user. The part of the application on Bob's server is in charge ...

My new installation of Ubuntu 10.10 by default locks the screen after doing nothing for 5 minutes. This is just what I want, but after that I am not able to unlock it again. The screen remains black when I move or click the mouse or even if I push a button on the keyboard. I still found a workar...

We have an automation process which undeploys specific configuration on LM every night. this process also deploy the configuration at morning. The problem is that this process works as admin so all this configs deployed by admin, which means sometimes they deployed on "reserved" resources pool. ...

I have Solr running on a large Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance. There are a number of other Rails services running on this EC2 instance too. Today, Solr choked and had to be restarted. Here is some more information: Number of documents: + 5 million Throughput: + 100 rpm Avg. Response time: 60 ms (an...

Has anyone made it to work?

Thinking about doing a hardware RAID1 or RAID-10 on SSD drives. I read the hardware cards aren't able to keep up with SSD throughput. What are the specific nuances affecting SSD raid? Also, Does anyone know if there are specific manufacturers focused on hardware raid cards for SSD? Thanks!

Everytime I try to access this url http://mysite.com/somefile.php?url=http://google.com I get Forbidden error, how I can solve this issue using .htaccess file. I am on shared hosting so all I can do it edit the .htaccess file and nothing else. Please tell me solution that can be implemented usin...

i'm trying to make a video streaming website and i'm looking for flv encoders that work with php. i tried using ffmpeg, but it doesn't work with php 5.3, what alternatives do i have?