Local hosting: Dynamic server stepdown

[danielwang]

Bah! Who needs operating systems! I run mine without an operating system in REAL MODE. Take that!

I do too, on some of my boxes. That's why they're called "network applicances". Such as EMC storage devices running DART. And, of course, those Cisco Catalyst routers with specialized operating firmware.

I'm not the main coder (Phade still is, by far), but, yes, it's probably a bad sign. Expect the .org to be down soon with some PHP error about a missing right square bracket...

Doesn't PHP automatically detect errors such as this on a code rollover? Well, anyways, such an error probably wouldn't affect the Org, as long as you are using proper code rollover procesures such as having a test and production server, and only moving code one module at a time.

Basically he wants to turn a simple, already-functional system into something that's stupidly hypercomplex and fragile. It's like UNIX versus Windows.

The newer latest version of Windows .NET Gundam lets you run a text-based MUD over SSH! The existing telnet server already can be used for MUDs by editing a registry value ("Shell") to point to the MUD application pool, and you can install an ssh replacement if desired.

The authors say they use Cygwin libraries for the ports of the Linux tools. Don't the authors of Cygwin charge lots of royalty money?

[trythil]

Doesn't PHP automatically detect errors such as this on a code rollover?

No.

The newer latest version of Windows .NET Gundam lets you run a text-based MUD over SSH! The existing telnet server already can be used for MUDs by editing a registry value ("Shell") to point to the MUD application pool, and you can install an ssh replacement if desired.

The authors say they use Cygwin libraries for the ports of the Linux tools. Don't the authors of Cygwin charge lots of royalty money?

It's too bad Cygwin is GPL, so the authors can't charge royalties on the code itself.

How is being able to run a MUD over SSH, or any kind of secured connection, new or shocking? UNIX machines have been doing remote access junk like that for years.

More importantly, what the heck does that have to do with anything in your original post? What does being able to encrypt and authenticate a simple text connection have to do with forcing conversion to WMV, adding on the extra infrastructure (financial and technical) to allow streaming, switching server OSes and having to maintain a totally diffferent system despite the fact that everything is working perfectly and is probably working better than if you were in charge?

I really need to stop feeding the trolls.

Me too, but I can't stop