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Wicked Cool PHP 131

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 07, 2008 @02:56PM from the totally-gnarly-books dept.

Michael J. Ross writes "Web developers familiar with a particular programming language, such as PHP, typically turn to books and forums for assistance only when they confront a specific problem that they believe has probably been encountered by many of their peers in the past, and who have published their answers in print or online. Hence the growing popularity of programming "cookbooks", which eschew flowing narratives in favor of self-contained problem descriptions and solutions. One example of a book that combines both styles is Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems, by William Steinmetz with Brian Ward." Keep reading below for the rest of Michael's review.

Comment Same problem, different approach (Score 1) 449

by chkorn on Saturday July 28, 2007 @03:38PM (#20025395) Attached to: Cross-OS File System That Sucks Less?

I had the same problems a few people above mentioned. But since memory requirements are rising and rising I now bought a ATX casing, added 5 hard discs to a Raid 5 (approx. 2.5TB).

More information:

OS: Gentoo Linux
Windows/OS X shares: Samba
Linux shares: NFS

Surely, not the cheapest approach, but I think something like this will last longer (more space, does not "die" when the original machine becomes obsolete) than a normal shared disk and I can also use it as a print server, bittorrent client and so on.

Cheers!

Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA 209

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @09:40AM from the 17-months-seems-fair-to-me dept.

number6x writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for volunteers for a simulated trip to Mars. The simulation will put a crew of six in isolation for 17 months. The crew will be made up of 4 Russians and 2 Europeans. In all the ESA will need 12 volunteers for back up purposes. Seventeen months was chosen to simulate the time needed for the journey to Mars and back, as well as a 30 day period spent doing experiments on the red planet."

Dell Refuses to Sell Ubuntu to Business 522

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @08:53AM from the now-that's-just-weird dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I had a surreal experience with Dell today. My boss asked me to order a new computer for our small, non-profit business. Wanting to support Dell in their decision to sell computers with Ubuntu installed, I decided to order one. First, I talked to a small business representative, who informed me that I could not order one of the Ubuntu-based computers through the small business department. I had to go through the "home and home office" department. I called the Home office department. I asked the representative if I could buy one of the ubuntu computers for my company. She said (and I quote), "these Dell computers are designed for personal use only, as long as you use it for personal use, you can purchase one." So I lied and said I would.... Next, I tried to buy it on our business credit card. They would have none of that. She told me that I had to buy it through a personal card. Now, as a non-profit, our business does not pay sales tax (10% in Tennessee). Had I bought it with my own card, I would have had to pay tax (~$90), which my company would not have reimbursed me for. So.....no Dell today."

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