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The number of ways of reading an xml file from another server in PHP?

I am trying to read an XML-file from another server. However the the company that's hosting me seems to have turned of the file_get_contents function from retrieving files for files from other servers (and their support is not very bright and it takes forever for them to answer). So I need a work around in some way. This is my current c...

Is there a way to refresh the Cache in Sun Application Server 8.2

Hi, I'm trying to make updates to some static html templates running from Sun Applicaion server 8.2. When I save these updates and refresh on the client side I don't see any changes. From looking at the logs, its seems to be using the old cached page: [#|2008-10-30T17:44:01.775+0000|INFO|sun-appserver-pe8.2|javax.enterprise.system.s...

OpenSource tools/services for server monitoring

I'm looking for an OpenSource server monitoring tool that allows the following: Monitor a variety of services on TCP, UDP. Supports custom port numbers. Supports some basic response checking (beyond initial connection checking). Basic dashboard overview of health status. Alert notifications via e-mail. I could roll my own, but want t...

Best approach for maintaining a quality assurance server for several mid tier clients

We are getting to the point where we have several mid tier clients that could benefit from a QA server, but none can afford to pay for a dedicated QA box as well as a dedicated production box. I've been toying with the idea of a virtual environment, either hosted in our office or with a third-party, that several clients could hit to view...

DBus-Server in Java?

Is there a server implementation of DBus for Java? There's a lib for clients and services (not servers). ...

Coldfusion Server Monitoring - Not Working

Hi there. I am trying to launch the Coldfusion Server Monitor on a Windows Server 2003 (Web Edition) machine running Coldfusion 8 (ver. 8,0,0,176276). It is running in stand-alone configuration. The pop-up window launches as http://www.mydomain.com/CFIDE/administrator/monitor/launch-monitor.cfm. However, I get a Flash dialogue box the...

How to register COM libraries at runtime?

Let's say I'm developing an application that installs COM component and installer registers them. This works great. Now the software is required to run from a memory stick. How can I register my libraries runtime and make sure, that the registry is cleaned up after running the application? ...

Has anyone tried using ZooKeeper?

I was currently looking into memcached as way to coordinate a group of server, but came across Apache's ZooKeeper along the way. It looks interesting, and Yahoo uses it, so it shouldn't be bad, but I'd never heard of it before, so I'm kind of skeptical. Has anyone else given it a try? Any comments or ideas? ...

Force telnet client into character mode

I have an application where I accept a socket connection from a telnet client and put up a simple, keyboard driven character GUI. The telnet client, at least on Linux, defaults into line-at-a-time mode, so I always have to do ^]mode char manually. A skim of the relevant RFCs suggests that if my application simply sent the characters IA...

Is it safe and acceptable to install VS.NET on your production server?

Usually, we install VS.NET on our production server, to solve problems easily with our product, if necessary. Is this a good or bad idea? ...

Server monitoring and alerting software?

What software does everyone use to monitor hardware? I know about nagios and cacti, but does anyone use any other software? ...

Is there a port of memcache to .Net?

I am interested if there is a port for the server implementation. ...

What are the technical considerations for running MSSQL and MySQL off the same Windows server?

Our application runs off MySQL, but a client has another application that requires SQL. We want to run them both on the same box. What are some technical considerations for this configuration... is this really just a matter of making sure there are no port conflicts? ...

Passing data from C to Java

What is the best way to pass data between a C server to a Java applet? Currently it's done by using a buffer and copying bytes to it using memcpy, but if the object ever changes I have to hunt down every instance of where it's being sent to the applet and have it changed. Is there a better way to pass object to java? How would you do it...

How to use Popen in Windows to invoke an external .py script and wait for its completion

Have you ever tried this feedback calling an external zip.py script to work? My CGITB does not show any error messages. It simply did not invoke external .py script to work. It simply skipped over to gush. I should be grateful if you can assist me in making this zip.py callable in feedback.py. Regards. David #**********************...

How do I find out what mail-server my host has installed for me?

I'm using MediaTemple's (dv) hosting service. How do I determine what mail-server is installed? Should I use the shell? If so, what command would be used? ...

Oracle: TNS-12532: TNS:invalid argument

Trying to establish a connection between my windows box (2003 server) and the oracle (11g) database. I'm able to successfully ping the oracle host from the windows box. However tnsping command fails with the error tns-12532 error. Any ideas to solve this issue? ...

Ajax "Is there new content? If so, update page" - How to do this without breaking the server?

It's a simple case of a javascript that continuously asks "are there yet?" Like a four year old on a car drive.. But, much like parents, if you do this too often or, with too many kids at once, the server will buckle under pressure.. How do you solve the issue of having a webpage that looks for new content in the order of every 5 second...

Is writing server log files to a database a good idea?

After reading an article about the subject from O'Reilly, I wanted to ask Stack Overflow for their thoughts on the matter. ...

What do I need to run ASP.NET web applications on my personal machine for testing purposes?

I'm running Windows XP SP3 and I do have the latest .NET libraries installed, as well as Visual Studio 2008. I'm also running (and would like to continue to run) Apache HTTP Server as well, if that matters. Perhaps someone can provide a list of software that I need and then I can look up configuration or ask here if I can't find what I ...