php-windows Digest 27 Apr 2005 16:03:13 -0000 Issue 2649
Topics (messages 25919 through 25924):
Re: Secure customer service web page browser
25919 by: Jason Barnett
25920 by: Ordal, Peter
25923 by: The Disguised Jedi
Re: Get an RSS reader to E-Mail content
25921 by: Maxwell Brodie
Process Control in Windowz
25922 by: Wagner, Aaron
Web based Accounting / COM
25924 by: Jason Barnett
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Michael Purdy wrote:
Ross
Your requirement is similar to what I have seen in a number of retail
stores.
It is common practice for stores to be provided with a customised Linux
desktop environment and a non externally routable IP Address.
Mike
Great suggestion. I have actually thought about doing this as well and
I was wondering if anyone had a more specific suggestion? I.e. does
anyone know of a good minimalist *nix distro that will only allow LAN
web browsing? Off hand my first thought is Gentoo, but I haven't ever
used it so I don't know if it would work well here.
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Ross,
Generally the term you want to search for is "kiosk". For example, Googling
for Kiosk Linux will turn up a lot of useful results.
Cheers,
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Honniball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:15 AM
> To: php windows
> Subject: [PHP-WIN] Secure customer service web page browser
>
> Hey,
>
> Warning: not really a PHP question.
>
> Apologies for posting this question here, but I figure PHP
> people have plenty of general web-browser and system
> experience between them.
>
> We have some old machines (pentium II 348Mhz 128M RAM 3Gig
> HDD) that I would like to use as in-shop customer enquiries
> machines to save them going to land fill.
>
> All they need to be capable of is running a web-browser,
> directed at a specific site (in-house site that enquires on
> inventory information).
>
> The only issue is security. I want to make it impossible for
> the customers to either visit other web sites or to do
> anything else on the PC.
>
> Anyone know the best approach to take? Maybe some kind of
> linux distro running some custom browser?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> . Ross Honniball JCU Bookshop Cairns Supervisor
> . James Cook Uni, McGregor Rd, Smithfield, Qld. 4878, Australia
> . Ph:07.4042.1157 Fx:07.4042.1158 Em:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Gentoo would work, but you need some experience in Linux, as it is one of
the most difficult to install. Send your question to the Gentoo list
[email protected] and see what they have to say.
On 4/26/05, Ordal, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ross,
>
> Generally the term you want to search for is "kiosk". For example,
> Googling
> for Kiosk Linux will turn up a lot of useful results.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ross Honniball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:15 AM
> > To: php windows
> > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Secure customer service web page browser
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > Warning: not really a PHP question.
> >
> > Apologies for posting this question here, but I figure PHP
> > people have plenty of general web-browser and system
> > experience between them.
> >
> > We have some old machines (pentium II 348Mhz 128M RAM 3Gig
> > HDD) that I would like to use as in-shop customer enquiries
> > machines to save them going to land fill.
> >
> > All they need to be capable of is running a web-browser,
> > directed at a specific site (in-house site that enquires on
> > inventory information).
> >
> > The only issue is security. I want to make it impossible for
> > the customers to either visit other web sites or to do
> > anything else on the PC.
> >
> > Anyone know the best approach to take? Maybe some kind of
> > linux distro running some custom browser?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > . Ross Honniball JCU Bookshop Cairns Supervisor
> > . James Cook Uni, McGregor Rd, Smithfield, Qld. 4878, Australia
> > . Ph:07.4042.1157 Fx:07.4042.1158 Em:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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Hello,
I am already using a desktop solution, but I like this script because I can
call upon my feeds from anywhere in the world, but my next step would just
be to add e-mail functionality.
"Jason Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Maxwell Brodie wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using the following script to keep me up to date from any computer
>> in the world that has web access, but I would like to get it to
>> automatically E-mail the content to my E-mail adress, here is what I have
>> so far.
>>
>
> I know this isn't what you were asking for, but... have you considered
> using Mozilla Thunderbird?
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/all.html
>
> The reason I ask this is because I use it and it already aggregates RSS
> feeds for me. It also allows me to aggregate all of my email addresses
> into one program instead of checking each one individually. Thunderbird
> actually is not so great at sending from multiple email addresses, but it
> is quite excellent for reading everything above from one program. Heck I'm
> using it right now. :)
>
> And please let's not turn this into a contest over "which email client is
> the best." I'm merely trying to point out that there are already MUA's
> out there that will do what the OP wants. Feel free to chime in though if
> your MUA does aggregate RSS feeds! Or if you actually want to answer the
> original question that I dodged for that matter :)
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Has anybody used process control for PHP in Apache2. I have processes
that lock and become zombie process. I would like a way to kill them
with out having to bounce Apache2 service.
Running on win2k,
Server Version: Apache/2.0.48 (Win32) mod_perl/1.99_13-dev Perl/v5.8.3
PHP/4.3.4
Thanx
aaron
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The question: can anyone point me to a good howto for building COM
components? It would be great if there were open source tools for
building the actual COM object. It would be better if the howto was
geared towards building COM objects for web apps. Obviously the web
pages will be written in PHP so if there is a reference for PHP <-> COM
interoperability that would be the best!
The details:
My company is a longtime user of the the Peachtree Accounting software.
It's very cheap compared to all of the features it provides ($849
multi-user) and it meets most of our needs. However, my boss recently
told me that we need to be able to support a few features remotely.
- Our install guys need to be able to enter expense reports
- The boss wants to be able to get Cash Flow / Financial reports
- Sales wants to be able to do quotes
- Peachtree provides a free SDK (provided you understand COM ;)
http://www.peachtree.com/partners/addonpartners/
P.S. Yes we know about the web interface that is available from Best /
Peachtree. However, their pages require IE in order to function and
that is simply unacceptable.
P.P.S. If anyone out there knows of another program that is comparable
to Peachtree in features (and already has good web support) then feel
free to let me know about that alternative. We're looking to upgrade
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