I'm looking for a cheap, simple, reliable web proxy appliance. Just a box that plugs into power and ethernet, and that redirects HTTP traffic to other existing web servers. It's intended for low volume web sites. Should I build a tiny, ultra low power pc to do this buy a cheap consumer-level router with this feature buy a dedicated en...
I need a virgin postgresql virtual appliance. I would prefer it on linux. ...
I'm helping a typical small company that started with a couple of outsourced systems (google apps, svn/trac). added an internal jabber server (ejabber for mostly iChat clients). subscribes to a couple of webservices (e.g. highrisehq). and has a vpn service provided by a pfsense freebsd firewall. And the net result of all this is that th...
I want to search for multiple file types at once. For example, when I want to search for ".htm" files, I add "filetype:htm" to the query and that works fine. Similarly, "filetype:html" also works. However, how can I specify a query parameter that returns all htm AND html files? ...
The open source community is producing tons of software appliances because they are able to distribute the OS, essentially for free. So you can quite easily download a virtual image of an application and have it running in minutes without the need to configure and setup. This is a great advantage for cutting down setup and configuration...
I have an application that a customer has asked us to package into a software appliance and wanted to find a list of all of the things that I need to consider. Stuff related to choosing the operating system is well-documented, but other aspects such as building usable web consoles, frameworks I should consider (the application is written...
We have a continuous integration server running Hudson CI. I'm thinking about putting up an LCD display in the office with various build stats and am curious what others have put together. I'm currently thinking about buying a WIFI-enabled digital picture frame that I can send generated images to. Or repurposing an old laptop... Thoug...
I want to create a simple virtual machine with the IBM WAS Community Edition installed. Does the licensing allow publishing the complete appliance? (I want to use Debian without any non-free packages for everything else.) ...
virtual machines hold great promise as a way to distribute hard to configure applications. i have been using jeos vmbuilder (and some bash scripts) to generate my appliances, but i'm looking for something more elegant. in my case, i'm looking for a solution that will build a linux-based vm with configured versions of tomcat and mysql as...
It's introduction is here: http://www.yiiframework.com/demos/ But what's that virtual server image for ? ...
Hi to all, I have a problem: I'm running a kubuntu10.04 in a virtualbox appliance. I've installed on it all the updates and the virtualbox guest additions. The host os is a windows xp: it runs on a thinkpad t60 with a very old ati x1300 graphic card. With the right windows driver this graphic card let me use opengl acceleration. On vm, ...
Hello Although I have no problem using SecureCRT (5.1.2 build 274) to work from Windows and connect to PC's running Linux, I have a problem when connecting to an embedded Asterisk appliance that provides"vi" through BusyBox 1.4.1 (2008-03-10). The issue I'm having, is that when I paste code into vi, the text appears jagged like this: ...
I installed a Drupal 6 appliance in VMWare workstation for the development of a new site. I realize that I could have choosen a Windows-based VM that comes with its own GUI, and this problem wouldn't be one. I do prefer the lean and headless Linux VM, though, because it is much more efficient with resources of the host computer, and I ca...
I am interested in software alternatives to the Google Search Appliance (GSA) for use in a (large) university context. Has anyone experiences of migrating from GSA to an alternative solution? If so, what were the reasons for doing this (technical, financial, staff effort, etc) and have the experiences been positive? ...