Re: [Boston.pm] more on hosting and email suggestions, any experience with VPS?

2004-12-07 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 01:11:00AM -0500, Andrew Langmead wrote: Does anyone have any experience with any companies providing Virtual Private Server (also called Virtual Dedicated Hosting)? After years of using shared hosting services, I switched about a year ago to a UML based VPS with

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Courier IMAP

2004-12-07 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Zlatanov wrote: Courier IMAP is very reliable and standards-compliant. The problem with Courier IMAP is the support community. When I researched it I found several people complaining about how the lead developer(s) ran the project. So I

[Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server? - a possible answer!

2004-12-07 Thread Ranga Nathan
I found that we already have a Mandrake box running Postfix. With the reviews I had from this list, it seems to be a reasonably good choice. Thank you all. __ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc.

[Boston.pm] I/O to device

2004-12-07 Thread Ranga Nathan
An interface to z/VM's command processor (CP) is implemented as a device (/dev/cpcmd) I want to use perl to send commands and receive results. I have never done I/O to device, so this is something new. I have a sample c program that does: fd = open(CPDEV, O_RDWR); if (fd = 0) { rc =

Re: [Boston.pm] more on hosting and email suggestions, any experience with VPS?

2004-12-07 Thread David Meyers
Gyepi SAM wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 01:11:00AM -0500, Andrew Langmead wrote: Does anyone have any experience with any companies providing Virtual Private Server (also called Virtual Dedicated Hosting)? The main disadvantage I have found is that you cannot run commands which require real

[Boston.pm] OT: blosxom

2004-12-07 Thread Greg London
my website is on Pair. I want to put a blog up on my site. Pair has blosxom on the list of tools they have. According to blosxom homepage, it's pure perl, so its sort of a on-topic question. Anyone know anything about blogging as far as which blogging software is good? Is it all a wash? Is

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: blosxom

2004-12-07 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Hey Greg, I have been using blosxom since one of the early imaginary number version releases (0.x+i). I strongly recommend it, it is essentially a clever perl script, very minimalistic, it builds on *NIX assumprions (as it should!), so that you simply create a text file in a certain directory,

[Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Howdy all. I have a quick (hopefully) and easy (hopefully) question you might be able to help me with. I would like to create a form (html) that takes in a little bit of info. Most importantly I want it to give the user an option to select a directory from their hard drive. Much like the

Re: [Boston.pm] more on hosting and email suggestions, any experience with VPS?

2004-12-07 Thread James Linden Rose, III
While we're on the topic, this lurker would like to know if there is anything better for running multiple websites than a BHCOM.com virtual server (I pay $59 per month for the virtual server, and $25 per month to be able to host up to 25 domain names (total $84). All of my websites have the

Re: [Boston.pm] more on hosting and email suggestions, any experi ence with VPS?

2004-12-07 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:14:13PM -0500, Philipp Hanes wrote: -Original Message- From: Peter Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I just visited www.tektonic.com, and they appear to be an acquisitions/holding company... do you have a direct link to information on their services?

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 04.12.07 14:13 -0600 ) Alex Brelsfoard: But say I want to upload all of the pictures from a wedding or something. zip them up into one file. [pre-process] i don't think the browser file selection controls are anywhere near as flexible as local graphical file selection controls. i think

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread joe
php does multiple file uploads; I've seen it work but haven't looked at how it manages it. More here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.multiple.php On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:31:22 -0600 (CST), Alex Brelsfoard [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wow, well it's good to see we're all on the same

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Daniel Allen
To add to the list of options: There is a module for Apache known as mod_dav that implements Web Folders (DAV). DAV is very nicely supported on Windows and Mac (less well on Linux) and will let you treat a server space as a folder; file transfers are done via HTTP GET and PUT. However,