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With so many people launching their own websites for business and commercial purposes, there is this greater need to utilize managed web hosting services as opposed to shared hosting services. Make no mistake about it; there are many benefits to using shared hosting services. The number one benefit is of course, its affordability. Since there are multiple users sharing the cost of web server maintenance, prices can be offered at very, very low rates.
However, subscribing to managed hosting services is a worthwhile investment to online entrepreneurs and ecommerce minded business people. There are more benefits to using a single web hosting service.
What is managed web hosting in the first place?
This type of Internet hosting goes by a number of names, like: managed web hosting, managed dedicated servers, managed hosting, dedicated hosting services, and dedicated servers. In this type, web developers or website owners usually have full and exclusive control of the server(s) that they are utilizing. This means that they have a controlled pulse on the server hardware, software and operating system that is active in their website(s).
In some instances, web developers can even opt for server administration as well; and the server company can provide technical support on a regular basis.
What are the advantages of using this type of Internet hosting?
As stated earlier, there are more advantages to using this type of Internet hosting. A couple of which includes:
1. You can choose your own operating system and operating system support. You can either choose a Linux System (or other open source operating systems such as CentOS, Debian, Fedroa Core,) Microsoft Windows SPLA Server, and Red Hat Enterprise. Having the liberty to choose the application means you can avail of operating systems that you are most familiar with, which practically saves you time in regards to learning the ropes of a new system. Aside from that, you can also choose which OS would actually fit your budget best. If you are a bit tight with the buck, you can always go for OS that is open source technology based, because these are usually offered for free.
You can also have add-on services or support systems like: application patches, OS kernel upgrades, system extensive vulnerability resolutions, and even upgrading on the latest security fixes.
2. If you are particularly pressed for time, you can easily outsource the managerial duties for this Internet type of hosting. You can very easily hire a 3rd party service provider to do: backups and restoration; database administration; DDos (distributed denial-of-service attack) protection and mitigation; disaster recovery; DNS hosting service; firewall services; Intrusion Detection; load balancing; monitoring duties in regards to the server; performance tuning; programming consultation; software installation and configuration; technical support; user management; and updates on the application, antivirus programs, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) hardware and the operating system itself.
3. Finally, since you are having exclusive control of the web server, you can use extreme security measures on your website(s.) This is particularly helpful to online based companies who rely on the gathering, storing and the encryption of large volumes of data. The Internet hosting company can very easily provide you anti-virus applications as well as scanning systems and firewall protection against possible hackers, spammers and worms.
Moving images used to be hostages to screens, both large (cinema) and small (television). But, the advent of broadband and the Internet has rendered visuals independent of specific hardware and, therefore, portable. One can watch video on a bewildering array of devices, wired and wireless, and then e-mail the images, embed them in blogs, upload and download them, store them online (“cloud computing”) or offline, and, in general, use them as raw material in mashups or other creative endeavours.
With the aid of set-top boxes such as TiVo’s, consumers are no longer dependent on schedules imposed by media companies (broadcasters and cable operators). Time shifting devices – starting with the humble VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) – have altered the equation: one can tape and watch programming later or simply download it from online repositories of content such as YouTube or Hulu when convenient and desirable.
Inevitably, these technological transitions have altered the media experience by fragmenting the market for content. Every viewer now abides by his or her own idiosyncratic program schedule and narrowcasts to “friends” on massive social networks. Everyone is both a market for media and a distribution channel with the added value of his or her commentary, self-generated content, and hyperlinked references.
Mutability cum portability inevitably lead to anarchy. To sort our way through this chaotic mayhem, we have hitherto resorted to search engines, directories, trusted guides, and the like. But, often these Web 1.0 tools fall far short of our needs and expectations. Built to data mine and sift through hierarchical databases, they fail miserably when confronted with multilayered, ever-shifting, chimerical networks of content-spewing multi-user interactions.
The future is in mapping. Maps are the perfect metaphor for our technological age. It is time to discard previous metaphors: the filing cabinet or library (the WIMP GUI – Graphic User Interface – of the personal computer, which included windows, icons, menus, and a pointer) and the screen (the Internet browser). Cell (mobile) phones will be instrumental in the ascendance of the map. By offering GPS and geolocation services, cellphones are fostering in their users geographical awareness. The leap from maps that refer to the user’s location in the real world to maps that relate to the user’s coordinates in cyberspace is small and unavoidable. Ultimately, the two will intermesh and overlap: users will derive data from the Internet and superimpose them on their physical environment in order to enhance their experience, or to obtain more and better information regarding objects and people in their surroundings. The Maps of Cyberspace “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…” At first sight, it appears to be a static, cluttered diagram with multicoloured, overlapping squares.
Really, it is an extremely powerfulway of presenting the dynamics of the emerging e-publishing industry. R2 Consulting has constructed these eBook Industry Maps to “reflect the evolving business models among publishers, conversion houses, digital distribution companies, eBook vendors, online retailers, libraries, library vendors, authors, and many others. These maps are 3-dimensionaloffering viewers both a high-level orientation to the eBook landscape and an in-depth look at multiple eBook models and the partnerships thathave formed within each one.” Pass your mouse over any of the squares and a virtual floodgate opens – a universe of interconnected and hyperlinked names, a detailed atlas of who does what to whom. eBookMap.net is one example of a relatively novel approach to databases and web indexing. The metaphor of cyber-space comes alive in spatial, two and three dimensional map-like representations of the world of knowledge in Cybergeography’s online “Atlas”. Instead of endless, static and bi-chromatic lists of links – Cybergeography catalogues visual, recombinant vistas with a stunning palette, internal dynamics and an intuitively conveyed sense of inter-relatedness.
Hyperlinks are incorporated in the topography and topology of these almost-neural maps. “These maps of Cyberspaces – cybermaps – help us visualise and comprehend the new digital landscapes beyond our computer screen, in the wires of the global communications networks and vast online information resources. The cybermaps, like maps of the real-world, help us navigate the new information landscapes, as well being objects of aesthetic interest. They have been created by ‘cyber-explorers’ of many different disciplines, and from all corners of the world. Some of the maps … in the Atlas of Cyberspaces … appear familiar, using the cartographic conventions of real-world maps, however, many of the maps are much more abstract representations of electronic spaces, using new metrics and grids.” Navigating these maps is like navigating an inner, familiar, territory. They come in all shapes and modes: flow charts, quasi-geographical maps, 3-d simulator-like terrains and many others.
The “web Stalker” is an experimental web browser which is equipped with mapping functions. The range of applicability is mind boggling. A (very) partial list: • a.. The Internet Genome Project – “open-source map of the major conceptual components of the Internet and how they relate to each other”. • a.. Anatomy of a Linux System – Aimed to “…give viewers a concise and comprehensive look at the Linux universe’ and at the heart of the poster is a gravity well graphic showing the core software components, surrounded by explanatory text”. • a.. NewMedia 500 – The financial, strategic, and other inter-relationships and interactions between the leading 500 new (web) media firms. • a.. Internet Industry Map – Ownership and alliances determine status, control, and access in the Internet industry. A revealing organizational chart. • a.. The Internet Weather Report measures Internet performance, latency periods and downtime based on a sample of 4000 domains. • a.. Real Time Geographic Visualization of WWW Traffic – a stunning, 3-d representation of web usage and traffic statistics the world over. WebBrain and Map.net provide a graphic rendition of the Open Directory Project. The thematic structure of the ODP is instantly discernible.
The WebMap is a visual, multi-category directory which contains 2,000,000 web sites. The user can zoom in and out of sub-categories and “unlock” their contents. Maps help write fiction, trace a user’s clickpath (replete with clickable web sites), capture Usenet and chat interactions (threads), plot search results (though Alta Vista discontinued its mapping service and Yahoo!3D is no more), bookmark web destinations, and navigate through complex sites.
Different metaphors are used as interface. Web sites are represented as plots of land, stars (whose brightness corresponds to the web site’s popularity ranking), amino-acids in DNA-like constellations, topographical maps of the ocean depths, buildings in an urban landscape, or other objects in a pastoral setting. Virtual Reality (VR) maps allow information to be simultaneously browsed by teams of collaborators, sometimes represented as avatars in a fully immersive environment. In many applications, the user is expected to fly amongst the data items in virtual landscapes. With the advent of sophisticated GUI’s (Graphic User Interfaces) and VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) – these maps may well show us the way to a more colourful and user-friendly future.
All vendors in the enterprise document composition market who use XSL-FO claim it is an ‘open standard’ and that makes their solution superior, more modern and customer oriented than proprietary ones. That dear analysts, vendors and customers is a straightforward misrepresentation. Most vendors seem to believe that the use of an XML-like structure proves a kind of elevated status of intelligence or a future oriented technology. It is easy to fall for the XSL-FO marketing pitch because how many do actually know what XSL-FO is and how it is used in the vendors product. Honestly, do you? Really? Well, let me reiterate or possibly enlighten you:
‘Open’ means that all defining structures of the complete application are published formats. ‘Standard’ means that the file formats and program functions are FULLY compatible to a large percentage of solutions in the market. The current vendors using XSL-FO do not fall in these categories! I found only one vendor who fully publishes on his website the details of which version of which XML specifications are supported and which function in which specification is implemented and which are not. But even this one vendor does NOT specify how much proprietary code creates how many additional functions that make the product not compatible with the ‘open standard’. All other vendors choose a simpler route from the outset by saying that their product IS BASED on the ‘open standard,’ which already implies that the standard is a foundation ONLY on which any number of proprietary extensions were implemented.
We at ISIS Papyrus could also say that we support ‘open standards’ such as C++, HTTP, Linux, AFP, PDF and so on. I propose (actually know) that NONE of the compositions applications based on XSL-FO are fully portable between the vendors. Obviously those vendors do not want to be THAT OPEN, because it would mean that you can take the application from one vendor to the next at any time. Consider that a complete correspondence solution is not just the formatted XSL-FO file but include the metadata entities, the resource assets, the external data interface, the user interface definition with data mapping, and the process and post-processing definitions. If portability is a key requirement for you, ask for a written guarantee that the above complete application can be imported into other products. You will not get that. If it is not a key requirement why would you bother with XSL-FO?
Many years ago when ISIS was the first and only one to propose that a standard ought to be used, our competitors claimed that this was a drawback and limitation. The only published document standard at the time was IBM’s AFP and we used it and still do. Then we also supported IBM’s OGL and PPFA. Today we do support the import and use of XML formatted elements today (CSS, XSL, and can output XSL-FO) but we would not claim that to be a standard.
Here is a short list of problems with XSL-FO that I will discuss in detail:
All non-XML data formats have to parsed, validated and XML converted.
Multiple XML input files require specific XSLT definitions for each combination.
The design of XSL to XSL-FO to print format IS NOT at all WYSIWYG.
Different XSL-FO processors for identical output formats are not fully compatible.
XSL-FO page regions are positioned by dummy-tables and can overlap.
XSL-FO processors for different targets produce VERY DIFFERENT results.
XSL-FO processors cannot handle relative posititioning of items.
No access to current formatting position for white-space management.
XSL to XSL-FO to PRINT format cannot guarantee a certain number of pages.
XSL-FO is not able to provide the true number of pages of a complete document.
Most XSL-FO formatters need therefore to predefine rigid page masters.
Web pages or emails need special XSLT’s that bypass XSL-FO formats.
XML needs to use URI as substitute for embedded resources or binaries.
Relative external URI references reduce the portability of an XML file.
NON-standard functions produce barcodes and charts embedded as SVG.
SVG conversion to target formats for printing is VERY inaccurate.
XSL-FO products do not use any of the XML business rule ’standards’.
Many custom Java, .NET or scripting functions are used to generate XSL-FO.
FIVE to SEVEN XML parsing and writing steps are needed to the printed page.
XSL-FO is thus not suitable for high-speed production (millions of pages)
Numerous codepage issues on input, handling and mapping to print fronts.
XSL-FO does not support for print-time mapping of layouts into pages.
All post-processing, print management and resource functions are proprietary.
If a vendor claims that his implementation of XSL-FO does not have the above problems that may be actually true, but it means that the product is not longer compatible with XSL, XSL-FO and the ’standard’ XSL-FO drivers.
A XSL-FO product could only be standard if built from Open Source, but vendors have to use non-standard components such as GUI, rule, barcode or chart functions. Open Source continues to evolve rapidly while an enterprise solution needs stable and tested functionality. That means that in a very short time, your solution is far away from the ’standard’ that everyone else uses. When you then run into a problem the vendor cannot easily apply the Open Source fixes. We use a few licensed Open Source libraries but would never claim that they represent a standard and only use them if we are in absolute control of bug-fixing ourselves.
Finally, I conclude that most products that use XSL-FO are substantially too expensive, because if they represent a standard there is no original know-how that the vendor owns and should be paid for.
References:
XML-Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0. W3C http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210 XML Names – Namespaces in XML. W3C Recommendation. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names XPath – XML Path Language. W3C Recommendation. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath CSS2 – Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2). http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512 DSSSL – ISO/IEC 10179:1996. Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL). HTML- HTML 4.0 specification. W3C Recommendation. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40 IANA- Character Sets. See ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets. RFC2278 – N. Freed, J. Postel. IANA Charset Registration Procedures. IETF RFC 2278. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2278.txt. RFC2376 – XML Media Types. IETF RFC 2376. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2376.txt. RFC2396 – Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) IETF RFC 2396. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt. UNICODE TR10 – Unicode Consortium. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/index.html. XHTML- XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language. W3C, See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1 XPointer- XML Pointer Language (XPointer). W3C Working Draft. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr XML Stylesheet – W3C. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet XSL – Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). W3C Working Draft. See http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl XSL-FO – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
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Will this course[OS II] be at most, for Networking via the OSs(not only NETWORKING course) ?
AFTER textbook (or similar)
Guide to Parallel OSs with Windows XP and Linux ISBN:978-1-4188-3725-9 BY COURSE.COM…
what textbook(s) come for reading(LEVEL), I guess that will be FOR course=”OPERATING SYSTEMS II” (tell me some)?
Will this course[OS II] be at most, for Networking via the OSs(not only NETWORKING course) ?
Incomprehensible question.
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RSS or Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary is the latest information management tool that is gradually earning popularity among web users and website owners. With RSS technology, it is possible to get the latest postings from your favorite websites. But clicking on the RSS or XML button in a homepage is not enough to give you the service you need. An RSS feed or code displayed in the pop-up screen if not on the main page is composed of symbols and words that would only make sense to advanced RSS users and computer programmers and software enthusiasts. Another software tool called an RSS aggregator or reader is needed.
An aggregator works by scanning the worldwide web with latest postings based on the RSS code (containing the website’s URL) provided or added by the user. When it finds a new posting, news, or update, it will publish the RSS feed on your home page containing the title of the posting, which also serves as a clickable link to the website source. This RSS feed may or may not contain the whole article, a summary, and photos, depending on what RSS aggregator you are using.
Aggregators come in two types: the downloadable program or desktop-type and the online or web-based type. The desktop aggregator usually charges a certain amount for its services; this would include regular updating in the form of upgrades or patches to the original version. This type of RSS reader allows more customization of RSS feeds as well as page format or design over its on-line counterparts. But of course, price can be a drawback.
On-line or web-based aggregators are free of charge. All you need to do is register an account with them then you can start enjoying their services. Depending on the “brand” of the aggregator, customization is more limited. Some even do not allow you to customize at all.
Product and service advertisers are realizing the potential of RSS aggregators in internet marketing. In fact, several submit RSS codes to several popular web-based aggregators to reach the growing technophile and internet-based market. My Yahoo has been instrumental in popularizing RSS technology to both users and website owners and advertisers.
At present, there are many aggregators to choose from and newer versions of the same aggregator are constantly developed by its programmers.
Below are some of these desktop and online aggregators: Desktop Aggregators 1. AmphetaDesk Advantages: - free - supports Linux, Mac, and Windows - easy addition of RSS feeds
Disadvantages: - not maximized use of screen display - few options for customizing
2. FeedDemon Advantages: - user friendly - free trial version - contains prepared popular feeds - allows filtering of RSS feeds - configurable “watch list” to manage junk RSS feeds - search channel feature that incorporates other RSS services e.g. Feedster - allows feed storage for future use - tabbed browsers for channel navigation - built-in podcast receiver
Disadvantages: - supports only Internet Explorer (embedded) - paid software (`$29.95)
Online Aggregators 1. Bloglines Advantages: - all major browsers supported (e.g. Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Firefox) - user-friendly especially for beginners - free, web-based aggregator - easy registration - no advertisements - contains its own directory of RSS feeds of thousands of websites - personal email account for subscribing to newsletter emails (optional) - allows privacy adjustments for personal blogs - allows saved searches - mobile version available - 10 languages supported - Additional add-on tools for automated blogrolls and subscription buttons
2. NewsGator Advantages: - free (consumer-standard version) - provides personalized news channel - allows translation of RSS articles into email format - synchronization of feeds in several devices possible - browse and search feed capabilities save time on surfing - allows keyword filtering - blog headlines - button-click automatic subscription to news feeds
Disadvantage: - Outlook-based thus limited to Windows
3. My Yahoo Advantages: - Free web-based aggregator - user-friendly - customizable home page design - button-click subscription to RSS feeds - built-in directory and search tool for feeds - wide variety of feeds e.g. news (science, technology, local), weather - connects to all Yahoo features and services
Disadvantage - banner advertisements
There are also lightweight RSS aggregator extensions which are actually plug-ins to existing internet browsers. An example of which is Sage aggregator.
Advantages: - free of charge - beginner-friendly - reeds both RSS and Atom feeds - allows feed discovery - can be assimilated to Firefox bookmark (storage and live) - allows OPML feed lists imports and exports - customizable style sheets - supports a wide range of locales e.g. Catalan, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Polish, Slovenian, etc. - easy installation
Disadvantages: - good for about 12 RSS feeds - limited use to Mozilla-Firefox and Mozilla-Firefox supported browsers
RSS developers promise better features in future versions of their aggregators. Microsoft is planning to include a built-in aggregator in their next Windows version. These developments are definitely something to look forward to by all internet aficionados.
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retriving data from a WD my book essential?
I have a lot of my stuff saved in this external Hard Drive but it was installed to a computer that crashed a few days ago.What would happen if i connect the drive to another computer? would it let me retrieve the files or would I have to face loosing the data? any help would be appreciated.
The WD My Books mount on most all computers Windows and Macs so I see no reason that you should not be able to see your files and retrieve them.
You may have to install the drivers on some computers as I don’t know the OS or the configuration yet here is the link to get the drivers for My Books
advanced Linux Programming book Is “Point & Click Linux book” great for a newbie starting out?
I have basic computer knowledge(web surfing w/Firefox, some P2P, basic Window’s Vista understanding, but no programming – i.e., just a average user I guess).
Would love to get away from having to CONSTANTLY “update” for the latest spyware / malware / window’s updates, etc.) And I heard the book “Point & Click Linux book” was a great start to Linux read.
But – how much of a Neo / Morpheus “free you mind” would I truly have to do to have “practical daily usage” with Linux?.
See, I also want to be able to explain “basic Linux” to my wife who is “computer simple(not illiterate) when it’s all said and done, lol.
I’m asking for too much, aren’t I?
Thanks for any help in advance.
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If you get a pre-packaged linux distro, it’s really not that hard to use. it’s just different, but most of them come with point and clicky. You’re only going to get any real linux info by installing and using it. Get the book once you’ve had a play around yourself.
If you’re hesitant about commiting to removing Windows just to try some new OS you might not even be comfortable with – why not try Linux out in a Virtual Machine first.
VMWare lets you make a Virtual Machine – basically you’ll get a window (in Windows) that acts as a seperate computer. You can install Linux to it, and play in it (like a sandbox test desktop) first
You can get VMWare here:
http://www.vmware.com/
- use it to make a new Virtual Machine
Then, get a well packaged Linux distro like one from below to install to a new VM:
Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com/ (a common favourite)
Debian : http://www.debian.org/ (more of a coders choice)
Mint : http://linuxmint.com/ (looks real pretty, people be jealous)
Now you got a user-friendly Linux build to play with and see how you like it, and if you find the whole process far too painful, just delete the VM and windows is right where you left it.
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The Fab Four from Liverpool–John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr–in their first movie. Nobody expected A Hard Day’s Night to be much more than a quick exploitation of a passing musical fad, but when the film opened it immediately seduced the world–even the stuffiest critics fell over themselves in praise (highbrow Dwight Macdonald called it “not only a gay, spontaneous,…
Christmas is not a good time of year in the McClane family. Especially for John McClane, who always happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But if it weren’t for the heroics of this rugged, resourceful cop, many lives would be lost and megalomaniacal terrorists with various European accents would be having their evil way. In 1988, director John McTiernan and the phenomenal hit Die Har…
Special Edition Harley-Davidson Matte Black Hard Hat with Silver Skull and Blade Graphics. Features metal Bar and Shield logo emblem. 6-point ratchet adjustment. Cushioned sweatband provides increased comfort for the wearer. Type 1 and Electric Class G and E….
how do i start a Sneaker Store that sells limited-edition and hard to find sneakers from manufacturers?
Get Business license, contact manufacturers and negotiate quantity and prices, compare them, decide if your overhead costs come under potential realistic profits, get a building and dew it.
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