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Apache Maintenance Basics
You’ve downloaded and configured your Apache server and are ready to move on to the next project. Can it really be left to fend for itself in a darkened room? Yes. To some degree, anyway. With the exception of configuration testing, once Apache is…
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 4: Submission and distribution
Splitting up a grid into simpler, smaller, elements makes the whole process of building a grid much easier. Grids are not mystic, they just require careful planning and a degree of flexibility in their operation and structure to allow work to be s…
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Building a grid with Perl, Part 3: Metadata
This tutorial is the third in a series of tutorials looking at how you can develop a grid solution with Perl. This series looks at building a framework for a grid system while also creating a distributed image storage/retrieval system as a sample …
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 2: Exchanging information
In this tutorial series, we’re using Perl to build a resource grid that stores and manipulates photos and images. Communication drives the grid process, and in this tutorial we’ll look at the communication requirements in our grid, including the n…
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 1
Put your Perl skills to work and learn how to build an image storage grid distributed over a number of machines. The generic resource framework you build can be used for any resource grid system, but the example system will concentrate on storing …
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Perl and the grid infrastructure
Whether you want to develop a standalone grid or just want to provide an interface to an existing one, Perl can help. Through its extensible architecture and support for many of the protocols and systems that make up the modern grid, Perl is an id…
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Reverse Proxying With Apache 2.0
The previous Apache-focused tutorial published on ServerWatch discussed the benefits of a proxy server for the network, and how it can speed up access, reduce bandwidth requirements, and perform basic information filtering tasks. This type of prox…
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Apache 2.0/WebDAV update
One of the problems with Windows XP is that when working with non-Windows servers and services that it supplies the wrong login authentication information. When you are prompted to login to a system like WebDAV, Windows XP wants to send DOMAINUse…
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MCSE Windows Server 2003 Network Passport (Exam 70-293)
Microsoft’s MCSE exams are tough, and you need a guide to help you translate that list of requirements on their exams page into the various areas of the system that you need to know about. In this passport title, I cover (with the help of Chris Mc…
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Build a grid app with Python, part 2
This tutorial marks the first of a series of tutorials that will teach you the mechanics of a grid and how to develop a grid using Python as your supporting language. At the end of the series, you should have a good idea both of the technicalities…