Re: OT: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-04 Thread A. W. Wright
(Since we are top-posting) In your opinion! I am more then happy to pay my $10 for 1/500th of a tree planted and harvested and processed by private companies on their own private property, or resources that would have been cut down and gone unused otherwise. We don't cut down rainforests for paper

Re: php mysql max() question

2009-04-12 Thread A. W. Wright
Craig White wrote: > just want the max of an integer field ultimately into a variable. > >$MaxSalesOrders = 'SELECT MAX(orderno) FROM salesorders;'; > mysql_connect("$HOST", "$USER", "$PASSWD"); > mysql_select_db("lighting_unlimited"); > $MaxSalesOrdersResult = mysql_query($MaxSalesOrders

Re: IM ROOT

2009-04-05 Thread A. W. Wright
James Finstrom wrote: > I was at the park and swap today and the advantage of being a linux > geek is the ability touse it as an excuse. My son saw world of > warcraft and wanted it I said no son that doesn't work on our pc (no > wow in my house) anyway the guy said what is your computer. I said I

Re: Offering Linux hosting

2008-11-27 Thread A. W. Wright
Thomas Cameron wrote: > A. W. Wright wrote: > > >> Is it worth it to keep hosted applications in a Virtual Machine? We >> tried Xen, but it seems to crash the server, I don't know if it has >> anything to do with the processor not supporting native virtualizatio

Offering Linux hosting

2008-11-26 Thread A. W. Wright
I co-maintain a server with the primary purpose as a BZFlag game server (http://bzflag.org ), our server is http://bzfx.net, and we use it to develop a number of cool projects, the biggest is one I programmed (over the course of three re-writes) a player and score tracker http://bzflag.redjacket.ws