Re: WOT: Allaire stock price

2000-09-16 Thread Len Conrad
>That might be true of less established, more exposed, non-quoted >companies, but >not the Allaires of this world. CF has been compared to ASP for >along time, and >CF goes from strength to strength on merit. but we're talking about stock prices and Internet investors, not product merits. >T

RE: WOT: Allaire stock price

2000-09-16 Thread Len Conrad
>Are you saying that ColdFussion will be a thing of the past?? I'm suggesting what a lot of investors, dumb and smart, could be thinking about Allaire et al as presumptious, even talented players on what MS considers to be their own, private strategic turf. If former market share godzillas li

Re: WOT: Allaire stock price

2000-09-16 Thread Len Conrad
With all of MS's server-side momentum/juggernaut only increasing, SOAP, XML, asp, .net, C# tools and noises, ALL non-MS NT/W2K web server appplication server vendors are in MS's gun sights, and investors know what happens to the MS's strategic targets. Investors can't be faulted for expecting

RE: Hotel Booking Engine up

2000-09-13 Thread Len Conrad
>Well instead of writing and saying that, write your own then. Hi Bob, People, esp programmers, can really be assholes!! www.Go2France.com is our French lodging guide, has about 75,000 lodging facilities, all types. We are thinking about offering each one an on-line reservation service, wit

Re: Mail Servers?

2000-08-23 Thread Len Conrad
>Are there any GOOD yet not too expensive mail servers out there? We >currently >have exchange no matter what we do we cant get CF to work with exchange as >long >as Relaying is shut down. So we wanted to install another mail server for >CF >that can bypass exchange. Meaning we dont want a mail

RE: Mailing List

2000-08-19 Thread Len Conrad
>Well, I have to disagree. For lists up to 3,000 or so, >(the limit of my experience with CF-driven lists) >a CF-driven list server offers flexibility and features >others do not, such as dynamically selected message >content that varies for each subscriber. This is a must >feature in the age o

RE: Good inexpensive NT Email Solution

2000-08-19 Thread Len Conrad
>Oops, let me try again, 100,000 total users per server and suggested max of >2,000 users per domain. hah, I thought it sounded too good to be true. A low-end server, but of course the low-end is the big end. Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http:

Re: Good inexpensive NT Email Solution

2000-08-18 Thread Len Conrad
http://www.floosietek.com/ftgatehome.htm $300 for 50 boxes, also mdaemon, www.deerfield.Com or build your own for free with FreeBSD or Linux. Len >A good place to start your search is: > >http://serverwatch.internet.com/ > >They review many types of servers. > >John > >-

Re: response test, please?

2000-08-18 Thread Len Conrad
>Hi everyone, 15 - 20 seconds to Paris, Level(3) 1 megabit/sec. Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways --

Re: OT: Monitoring Telnet Connections

2000-08-08 Thread Len Conrad
>Anyone know how you can track connections to telnet services in an NT >Server? Use telnet daemon with good logging: http://www.fictional.net Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways -

Re: List slowdown problems and solutions

2000-07-19 Thread Len Conrad
Michael, I'm getting bounced mails for fusionfx, so if you know how to get this msg to Aaron and/or Greg, please do. Len === If you guys are working on the houseoffusion.com zone, please go ahead and fix this longstanding pb that show up on my mail gateway's console: Ju

Re: List slowdown problems and solutions

2000-07-19 Thread Len Conrad
>Try getting to www.houseoffusion.com. It seems to be offline, but going to >www.fusionauthority.com (same box) is working. Same for the list. The DNS >for HoF should be 140 with the email server at the same address. 141 is FA. >currently, HoF is (was) mapped to 141 and is being moved (propagated

RE: List slowdown problems and solutions

2000-07-19 Thread Len Conrad
Quite apart from the serious DNS setup pb's HouseOfFusion.com had when it was contactable, this is not even funny: DNS Expert Detailed Report for houseoffusion.com 19/07/00, 20:58, using the analysis setting "Thorough" ===

CF_radius ??

2000-07-18 Thread Len Conrad
There is one tag in the gallery for AAA radius going back to 1997? Anybody know of a more recent tag tested with more radius servers? Thanks, Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways ---

Re: OT: mail transfer agents

2000-07-14 Thread Len Conrad
>I need to set up my own mail transfer agent (MTA) to accept outbound mail >from CF, as the local infrastructure only supports authenticated SMTP. My >traffic level is relatively low, hundreds of message per day max. I would >put it on a dedicated box, and want to configure it to only accept ma

RE: Javascript

2000-06-30 Thread Len Conrad
www.dynamicdrive.com has tons of cross-browser mouse-over menus. some js, some java. www.brainjar.com got some cool stuff. Len = >Looks like the Javascript menu component Will, details @ > >http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/smith_menu2/smith_menu2.html > >-Original Messag

Re: Equivalent

2000-06-28 Thread Len Conrad
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/texttool.htm is only one of many Len >I know this is not a CF question, but it does apply to the CF App I am >developing. I wanted to know is the an equivalent attribute for the href> tag for hyperlinks to display a "text bubble" like the ALT >attribute

Re: OT: What FTP-Server ?

2000-06-24 Thread Len Conrad
>I want to buy a new FTP-Server under NT 4. >I am not satisfied with my WAR-FTP-Server. No contest: serv-u, www.cat-soft.com , even for W2K. Inexpensive, with daily support from Rob the developer in the serv-u list. Version 3 is in the works. The next would be ipswitch's ftp server but it's

test: 16:00 Paris FR

2000-06-21 Thread Len Conrad
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Re: ISAPI

2000-06-18 Thread Len Conrad
>While we are at he ISAPI, is anybody familiar with ISAPI programming. Does >somebody know a good ISAPI list? www.15seconds.com might have something for you. Len -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsu

ot: test

2000-06-08 Thread Len Conrad
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Re: [OT] Mail Delay ?

2000-05-20 Thread Len Conrad
>It's because there are a ton of people subscribed to the list and the >list is hosted on a server that could use an upgrade. It has a tendency >to get bogged down. > >So who wants to pitch in to buy Michael a new server? Wrong approach. He could keep his current server for the locgical list pr

OT: test, sorry

2000-05-20 Thread Len Conrad
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OT: CF-Talk DNS pb's

2000-05-20 Thread Len Conrad
As an anti-spam tacitc, our ISP is going to start requiring that the "HELO / EHLO hostname" to have a valid DNS A or MX record. Preliminary testing, see below, shows that ... hof001.houseoffusion.com ... has neither. This is quite silly for a list as important as CF-Talk, esp since it's so

RE: Seeking Broadcast E-mail System

2000-05-16 Thread Len Conrad
>CF is the wrong tool for a mailing list. I agree. I think asking CF to do volume mail deliveries, do DNS lookups, deal with a bunch of broken mail servers, Internet delays, etc, etc, is a real waste of a CF machine. CF should be used to generate the mail but hand off all the mail at LAN spe

Re: Anyone know about firewall software?

2000-05-12 Thread Len Conrad
>I don't think NAT is a _requirement_ of very many firewalls, No, we run a border router with FreeBSD and stateful ipfilter without ipnat and have public addresses on outside and inside interfaces. FreeBSD 4.0 comes with VPN support with IPsec. With several 10/100 enet interfaces in a FreeBS

RE: DNS Test Post

2000-05-05 Thread Len Conrad
>All other email started showing up at Hosting Company Y just fine -- it's >only the CF stuff that's acting weird. Sounds like HoF's unsubscribe is broken. Len -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubs

RE: DNS Test Post

2000-05-05 Thread Len Conrad
>The open relay thing is kinda interesting putting it mildly, and so easy to fix. What's he running as list server? Does it have any anti-spam and DNS validation? >- with all the tech people >(including those who would like to undermine CF) on this list, it is not >inconceivable that some of

RE: DNS Test Post

2000-05-04 Thread Len Conrad
>sounds like the MX record for alakazam.com that was cached by HoF has not >met its TTL yet. Give it a few days. Don't know why HOF would be caching anything beyond TTL, and anyway HoF's zone is screwed up but I can't get any respone from Michael. Apart from his DNS being spoofable and the m

RE: Has this list gone nuts?

2000-04-26 Thread Len Conrad
And House of Fusion's DNS is screwed up, too. I get a warning everytime I get a msg from this list. It's an easy fix, specifically his reverse zone but ABOVE ALL at least for his mail server at .140, but my msg's to Michael go unanswered. If anybody knows how to contact Michael ... Len BIND8

Re: OT: Restart of PCAny

2000-04-26 Thread Len Conrad
>Is it possible to restart PCAny remotely ? >S.O. told me it is with NT 4 Server ? >If even also with NT 4 Workstation ? yeah, lots of ways. You can make a cold fusion page that CF_EXEC's a batch file: net stop "pc anwhere NT service name" pause a few seconds net start "pc anwhere NT ervice n

Re: U.S. states pull down menu

2000-04-20 Thread Len Conrad
>You know what I do...I go to the US Post Office site, and copy all the >states, then copy you mean with your error-prone hands? Just go to any web site, surf around, where there is submit form for containing the states (and same for countries), like www.Mapquest.com, and save the HTML sourc

Re: intermedia hosting $$ for SQL server

2000-04-19 Thread Len Conrad
>I checked out Intermedia Cold Fusion hosting. Doesn't $50/month extra for >SQL server seem a little much? No, I find it reasonable. How do you expect them to pay for $3000 per CPU SQL internet connector license (probably a dual P500), the NT license, the raid controller/disks (probably at le

Re: Is Able Commerce truly user-unfriendly and hence useless?

2000-04-16 Thread Len Conrad
>The basic look created by Able Commerce is so ugly there >should be a law against it. Agreed. Programmers who design web pages should be beat with ugly stick. The default web look is so bad it is an obstacle to appreciating the technical aspects. ie, you like ACB "in spite of" the ugliness.

Re: GIS Solutions For CF

2000-04-12 Thread Len Conrad
>I have a need to implement a GIS solution using CF. I am using the TMS >system from the Census bureau now, but need to have something a bit more >refined. As I recall several folks have done things with MapObjects or >MapInfo. I am looking to serve up maps via the web with locations derive

Re: CFMAIL Question

2000-04-11 Thread Len Conrad
>I have heard horror stories of CFMAIL overloading mail servers. The pb seems to be more that the CFMAIL SMTP client tends to pile up msgs in the CF send mail queue when there is a hiccup and has to be kicked to start sending again, or at least that seemed to be a frequently reported pb. It i

Slightly OT: Listserver

2000-04-09 Thread Len Conrad
>What is the best and what is the cheapest (free ?) listserver-product ? > >Any CF-Solutions out as well ? > >Uwe I am extremely impressed and pleased, in practice, with a dedicated FreeBSD machine (P166, 32 megs RAM) running postfix as MTA (an IBM public software product) an

Re: Speed of CFMAIL

2000-04-07 Thread Len Conrad
>On a good day I can have my box spit out 2.000 mails per minute, That's just queued to disk? or delivered from queue to smtp destination? Howie needs to how many mails / hour delivered OUT OF THE CF BOX (to his next hop MTA). 30 ms/msg is pretty darn good, anyway. 3,000,000 / day ... queue

RE: Speed of CFMAIL

2000-04-07 Thread Len Conrad
> As the author of CFX_MAIL, I think I'll use that rather than ASPQmail, though :). oops, I thought your name rang a bell! (so why were we ever talking about CFMAIL??) >LSMTP costs a lot, but it runs on a minimal hardware platform. postfix costs nothing, and it runs on a minimal hardware pl

RE: Speed of CFMAIL

2000-04-06 Thread Len Conrad
>Do you have a URL for postfix? vbg www.postfix.org > And is there a Solaris/Linux port? yeah, sure. Wietse has done a world-class job with postfix, including a beautiful install routine. IBM doesn't publish crap under their public software license and hire Venema for a sabbatical to do

RE: Speed of CFMAIL

2000-04-05 Thread Len Conrad
>LSMTP handles the DNS lookups, using DNS caching. The product is licensed >per simultaneous threads, but we have it limited to 200. Mail messages are >stored in RAM rather than individual files, so you lose a lot of I/O >overhead. It also does connection pooling, so common mail servers like AO

Re: Zoom In; Zoom Out

2000-04-05 Thread Len Conrad
Similarly in the vector graphics mappsing area, one some of the Flash support sites have examples of using Flash for client-side vector zooming. We have a MapInfo MapXsite map server solution for Cold Fusion, but the zooming is server-side with dynamic .gif generation, real-time population of

RE: Speed of CFMAIL

2000-04-05 Thread Len Conrad
>I'll be connecting CFMAIL to L-Soft's LSMTP. I've tested LSMTP to send >over 80,000 messages an hour, but not with mail coming from CF. ok, so your taking the non-CF smtp gateway approach, good. CFMAIL (or any another CFSMTP client tag) can send directly to an ip address (no DNS lookups? Th

Re: Speed of CFMAIL

2000-04-05 Thread Len Conrad
>Has anybody done any speed tests to determine how many emails CFMAIL can >send in an hour? If CFMAIL's outgoing volume is insufficient, I would recommend having CFMail's SMTP client dump all outgoing mail on a local ip (no DNS lookups by CFMAIL) where a mail gateway running an efficient and r

RE: Security holes revisited -- reward offered

2000-04-05 Thread Len Conrad
www.NWPSW.com has a pretty good port scanner in NetScanTools 4.0, which is useful for other Windows tcp/ip tasks, too. For host security, www.zonelarm.com can block ports with "no reponse", ie, no response to probe, and helps out on the DDOS problem by blocking all of a windows machine's OUTBO

Re: Security holes revisited -- reward offered

2000-04-05 Thread Len Conrad
>Got to http://grc.com/ and you can run tests on the security of your system. >I'd recommend this site to anyone who has a permanent connection. Plus >there's a shareware (or is it freeware? can't remember) program that checks >your computer for the presence of that snoop program that sends infor

Dinowitz here?

2000-03-31 Thread Len Conrad
Michael, The HOF DNS records are still broken. Of all the MTA's my postfix connects to, yours is the only one generating warnings with EACH CF-TALK MSG!! Please fix it. Len -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf

Re: Fw: Javascript Navigation Bar - I need one.

2000-03-28 Thread Len Conrad
t;viewing a .cfm page, it blows away the form variables it was passed. Maybe >I can modify it to take away the "reposition" function. I did really like >it otherwise. > >Thanks, > >Erika > > > - Original Message - > > From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL

RE: Javascript Navigation Bar - I need one.

2000-03-28 Thread Len Conrad
www.BrainJar.com has a nice floating DHTML horizontal menu bar with pulldowns. Len == >Check this site, there are many there: >http://dynamicdrive.com/ > > > > >I've tried a couple different Javascript navigation bars, but none of = > >them seem to work with my CF pages. The one th

Re: cfhttp for .cfm

2000-03-26 Thread Len Conrad
>Just out of curiosity... how could you pull arbitrary non-html files >(.jpg, .gif, .pdf, etc.) from a remote http server and save those files >locally? I know there are umpteen crawlers and offline browsers that can >do exactly that, but is there a way to do it from CF? That was "easy" compare

Re: ffhttp for .cfm

2000-03-26 Thread Len Conrad
>When CFHTTP is used to retrieve an html page, it gets the URLs of the >images, not the actual images. You could write a program to parse >the retrieved html page, then go after each image... but, to what >end... it's an "dynamically created image server" application we're CFHTTPing at, while

ffhttp for .cfm

2000-03-26 Thread Len Conrad
We've got a site where we can GET .htm pages with CFHTTP, but when we want to post to an .htm, it doesn't work. CFHTTP can only post to .cfm. Suggestions? Also, when CFHTTP brings a page of .htm to our server, can a single CFHTTP tag get all the html text AND the images, or is a separate CFHT

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