RMI server: rmiregistry or LocateRegistry.createRegistry
For RMI on server-side, do we need to start rmiregistry program, or just call LocateRegistry.createRegistry? If both are possible, what are the advantages and disadvantages? ...
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Is GnuPG compatible with McAfee eBusiness Server 7.1?
Right now, we're using PGP command line 9.0. Does anybody know if GnuPG will work? It'd be a lot cheaper. ...
Whats the best way to get started with server virtualization?
We recently bought a new rack and set of servers for it, we want to be able to redeploy these boxes as build servers, QA regression test servers, lab re-correlation servers, simulation servers, etc. We have played a bit with VMWare, VirtualPC, VirtualBox etc, creating a virtual build server, but we came across a lot of issues when we tr...
Windows Licensing Question
This is slightly off topic of programming but still has to do with my programming project. I'm writing an app that uses a custom proxy server. I would like to write the server in C# since it would be easier to write and maintain, but I am concerned about the licensing cost of Windows Server + CALS vs a Linux server (obviously, no CALS)...
Learning FreeBSD
What is the average time that it would take a complete novice, whose background is mostly Windows XP, to go through the FreeBSD handbook and get sufficient mastery to setup a server from the ground up? ...
custom server control values lost in callback
I have a custom server control that loads data from a web service into a GridView. Works fine on my page. I want to be able to click on a row and pop a popupcontrol with more detail on the clicked row. I am using the client side events of the DevExpress gridview to handle the onclick. And from JavaScript I am calling a callbackpanel t...
Installation documentation
I'm looking for a good template on server-side installation of software for a project I'm working on. The client-side is pretty straight-forward. The server-side installation is a little trickier. It is made up of several pieces (services, database connections, dependencies, ports that need to be unblocked etc) During a recent test,...
How to Limit Download Speeds from my Website on my IIS Windows Server?
When people download files from my website, I don't want them to be able to download faster than 300KB/sec per file. Is there anyway to do this? I'm running IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003. ...
Server Operating System
What would you suggest would be the best operating system for a web server? If possible please enumerate the advantages and disadvantages if there are any... ...
Blade Server and Development
A lot of clients are asking if my applications support a Blade Server. I wonder if I have to consider something especial in the development or is only hardware with a standard OS (Windows) on it. ...
What happens when I click the Stop button on the browser?
Let's say I click a button on a web page to initiate a submit request. Then I suddenly realize that some data I have provided is wrong and that if it gets submitted, then I will face unwanted consequences (something like a shopping request where I may be forced to pay up for this incorrect request). So I frantically click the Stop butto...
What's the foolproof way to tell which version(s) of .NET are installed on a production Windows Server?
This question is not so much programming related as it is deployment related. I find myself conversing a lot with the group in my company whose job it is to maintain our production Windows servers and deploy our code on them. For legal and compliance reasons, I do not have direct visibility or any control over the servers so the only wa...
What tools are available to measure the "health" of an enterprise web-based system?
I assist in maintaining an enterprise web-based system (programmed in J2EE, but this is a more general question) and I'd like to know: what good tools are out there to measure the "health" of an enterprise system? For instance, tools to check memory space on servers, check the status of batch runs, the number of records processed in a c...
How can I use post-commit hooks to copy committed files to a web directory from SVN?
My Ubuntu server has Apache and Subversion installed. I use this server as a staging server, purely for testing purposes. I use Apache to host the web application, and Subversion to keep versioned copies of the source code. My current workflow: Make changes to a file Commit the file to the Subversion repository Upload the file new ove...
What are good application servers for LAMP stacks?
I need recommendations for good application servers for monitoring and debugging PHP and Mysql running on linux. It should have a GUI, query profiling (log slow queries etc.) and capture PHP errors with environment coniditions. I am aware only of the Zend Platform that provides those features and I'm looking for alternatives. ...
How do I rename a SharePoint virtual machine
I am using virtual machines for development,but each time I need a new VM, I copy the file and create a new server, but I need a new name for the server to add it to our network. After renaming the server, the Sharepoint sites have many errors and do not run. ...
Slicehost installation profile
I'm no UNIX Guru, but I've had to set up a handful of slices for various web projects. I've used the articles on there to set up users, a basic firewall, nginx or apache, and other bits and pieces of a basic web server. I foresee more slice administration in my future. Is there a more efficient way to set up users, permissions, and sof...
System.IO.FileSystemWatcher to monitor a network-server folder - Performance considerations
I want to watch a folder tree on a network server for changes. The files all have a specific extension. There are about 200 folders in the tree and about 1200 files with the extension I am watching. I can't write a service to run on the server (off-limits!) so the solution has to be local to the client. Timeliness is not particularly im...
Design of high volume TCP Client
I have a .NET TCP Client that sends high volumes of messages to a (.NET async) TCP server. I need to keep sending messages to the server but I run out of ports on the client due to TIME_WAIT. How can a program continually and reliably send messages without using all of the available ports? Is there a method to keep reusing the same ...
Best way to store and use a large text-file in python
I'm creating a networked server for a boggle-clone I wrote in python, which accepts users, solves the boards, and scores the player input. The dictionary file I'm using is 1.8MB (the ENABLE2K dictionary), and I need it to be available to several game solver classes. Right now, I have it so that each class iterates through the file line...