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I have been trying to think outside the box on this install. The HP<\/a> Data Vault<\/a> is great for backing up data, but it could easily do more. For instance, it can run as an Intranet, or website Sandbox.<\/p>\n

In this video, Jeffrey Powers shows you how to configure your HP Data Vault to to run Apache<\/a>, MySQL<\/a> and PHP<\/a> \u2013 while continuing to run Internet Information Service (IIS). We talk about configuration to the HTTP and the SSL levels in both sides and how to make them work in harmony. Finally, we show you through a CMS (Joomla<\/a>) instance how the Data Vault handles both sides.<\/p>\n

With the Dual core processor and RAID configuration of the Data Vault, this machine could be a quick solution. It could sit on a Web Developers\u2019 desk, or power a small business Intranet, Asset tracking program, Help Desk software or whatever you want to throw at it.<\/p>\n","link":"http:\/\/www.geekazine.com\/video-pod\/hp-data-vault-installing-apache-php-mysql-as-a-sandbox?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss","img_url":"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekazine.com%2Fvideo-pod%2Fhp-data-vault-installing-apache-php-mysql-as-a-sandbox","media_url":null,"year":"2009","month":"11","day":"17","hour":"16","minute":"15","second":"8.000","score":null,"hash":"","creation_date":"1258554506","modified_date":"1258554506","tid":"feed*e44cc4731976e51a","type":"feed","datetime":"Nov 17, 2009 8:15 AM","specificity":"n","disp_date":"Nov 17, 2009 10:15 AM","timelines":[],"index":1,"even":false},{"eid":"mfk3mFO-M2k","username":"d0d1b0ba1d012003","title":"Outbrain \u2013 Related Content for your Blog \u2013 Blogworld #BWE09","utc_ts":"1258540212","descrptn":"<\/a><\/a>

We all are looking for ways to put more meat into our posts, while helping with SEO<\/a>. Search Engine rules state that within that algorithm, the more links<\/a> we have, the better. Therefore, linking to related information \u2013 especially from within your own site \u2013 is a key to ranking better.<\/p>\n

Outbrain is a program that lets you do just that: link to information that relates to the article at hand. It takes your keywords and puts related links on the bottom of the post. It can be internal or external links, completely controlled by you.<\/p>\n

We talk with Kate from Outbrain about how this system works and any other particulars involved.<\/p>\n","link":"http:\/\/www.geekazine.com\/video-pod\/outbrain-related-content-for-your-blog-blogworld-bwe09?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss","img_url":"http:\/\/www.geekazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yapb_cache\/outbrain.96b7imy6z10cwkok04sssg48g.27ty3bfoxo9wgcowoccowg0kg.th.jpeg","media_url":null,"year":"2009","month":"11","day":"18","hour":"10","minute":"30","second":"12.000","score":null,"hash":"","creation_date":"1258554506","modified_date":"1258554506","tid":"feed*e44cc4731976e51a","type":"feed","datetime":"Nov 18, 2009 2:30 AM","specificity":"n","disp_date":"Nov 18, 2009 4:30 AM","timelines":[],"index":2,"even":true},{"eid":"MjQJCP_soeI","username":"d0d1b0ba1d012003","title":"The Myth of Computer\/Television Synergy","utc_ts":"1258461729","descrptn":"<\/a>

It\u2019s over. The AOL-Time Warner divorce will be final on December 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time of the marriage, I was a loyal AOL customer. I cut my online teeth with Bulletin Boards<\/a>, so I already knew basic nettiquette when I joined AOL (so I did not pick up some of the habits that made \u201cAOLer\u201d into an online insult). When AOL made the internet available to its users<\/a> and announced their unlimited-use pricing scheme<\/a>, BBS\u2019s quickly died out. AOL was not the cheapest game in town, but it provided good value for the money, included newsgroup access, and fought spammers relentlessly.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t excited about the merger at the time it happened; the underlying concept, that somehow a cable\/entertainment company and an online service could benefit each other, seemed off-key.<\/p>\n

Reading the story linked above, I finally realized why (I\u2019m slow, but I eventually get there).<\/p>\n

The merger was founded on the idea that computers could become some sort of hybrid computer\/television entertainment center. It\u2019s not going to happen.<\/p>\n

They both have screens. That\u2019s the beginning and the end of the similarity.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because they both have screens that businesses think that they can force the television into a computer (or, in the case of WebTV<\/a>, force a sort-of pseudo computer into a television). But the idea confuses technology with psychology.<\/p>\n

Persons relate to computers and televisions differently. Just listen to how we talk: We watch<\/em><\/strong> television; we use<\/em><\/strong> computers. Many times we watch<\/em><\/strong> television while we use<\/em><\/strong> computers. We don\u2019t want to \u201cwatch\u201d a television show or movie in a little box in the corner of the screen while we surf the web or read a blog in another little box in the same screen. <\/p>\n

Indeed, sales and showrooms seem to indicate that persons want bigger and bigger televisions while netbooks and smartphones seem to indicate that they are willing to use smaller and smaller computers.<\/p>\n

This is not to say I\u2019ve never watched a television show or a movie on a computer; I\u2019ve done so when there is no other alternative. Once, I even watched something on Hulu<\/a> (okay, it was a rerun of last January\u2019s U. S. Presidential Inauguration and I was looking for a quotation I thought I had heard in one of the speeches so I could blog about it\u2013never found it though\u2013and I had the television going at the same time). <\/p>\n

My DVD player plays *.avi files. It explicity doesn\u2019t guarantee to play them all, but it has played about half of the ones I\u2019ve tested on it. If I can get an *.avi of any length to play on the DVD, I\u2019m going to watch on the television. <\/p>\n

In a way, the DVR does represent a merger of television and computers. After all, a DVR is basically a VCR with a hard drive instead of a tape. <\/p>\n

The merger doesn\u2019t exist in the psychology though; the persons I know who have DVRs relate to them the same way they used to relate to their VCRs. They view them as entertainment machines, not as computers that do entertainment stuff. <\/p>\n

(Aside: I don\u2019t have a DVR. In the VCR days, I learned that, if I recorded something, the likelihood that I would actually watch it was slightly less than the likelihood that AOL\u2019s stock will ever again climb over $100.00 a share. My DVD player can record to DVD. I tested it. It works.)<\/p>\n

Some years ago, there was a big hoop-la over the potential of \u201cinteractive television<\/a>.\u201d We have that now. But not how it was envisioned, with persons clicking on their remotes. No, for shows such as American Idol<\/a> (which I was unfortunate enough to watch once), persons click on their cell phones to vote. Now that\u2019s synergy. Pointless, but synergy.<\/p>\n

I predict that the computer monitor and the television screen will never merge. The electronics have merged\u2013meaning the methods for getting an image to a screen.<\/p>\n

The psychology? No. <\/p>\n

Afterthought<\/strong>: AOL waned because dialup waned. The only person I know who still has a paying AOL membership maintains it because her vacation cabin is too remote for broadband. AOL did nothing strategically or tactically wrong; broadband did to them what talkies did to silent movies.<\/p>\n

If it were not for broadband, AOL might be spinning off Time-Warner, rather than vicey versey.<\/p>\n","link":"http:\/\/www.geekazine.com\/news\/franks-thoughts\/the-myth-of-computermedia-synergy?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss","img_url":"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekazine.com%2Fnews%2Ffranks-thoughts%2Fthe-myth-of-computermedia-synergy","media_url":null,"year":"2009","month":"11","day":"17","hour":"12","minute":"42","second":"9.000","score":null,"hash":"","creation_date":"1258554506","modified_date":"1258554506","tid":"feed*e44cc4731976e51a","type":"feed","datetime":"Nov 17, 2009 4:42 AM","specificity":"n","disp_date":"Nov 17, 2009 6:42 AM","timelines":[],"index":3,"even":false},{"eid":"qmaY-Ca549I","username":"d0d1b0ba1d012003","title":"DITH Nov 18 \u2013 Calvin and Hobbes is Syndicated","utc_ts":"1258511412","descrptn":"<\/a><\/a>

1894 \u2013 The first Sunday Comics section is printed by the New York World<\/p>\n

1985 \u2013 91 years later, Bill Watterson syndicates a comic about a boy and his stuffed Tiger. Calvin and Hobbes will bring laughter to millions for the next ten years. It reached through 2,400 newspapers (at it\u2019s height) and spun off 18 books. Bill Watterson ended the comic on December 31st, 1995 and has left it retired since.<\/p>\n

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Please add to your favorite aggregator. RSS Feed<\/a> \u2013 iTunes<\/a> \u2013 Stitcher<\/a><\/p>\n

Other Day in Tech History<\/a> items:<\/p>\n