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I'm trying to connect to pgsql via laravel and finally got everything setup (pgsql server running, pdo installed, all libs installed). I'm running on a VPS (CentOS) managed via CPanel/WHM. Here's what I'm doing: I'm trying to create a user database via artisan (Laravel's command line) using migrate:install. For those that don't use Laravel, artisan uses php's PDO for pgsql to connect. Here are my settings: 'pgsql' => array( 'driver' => 'pgsql', 'host' => 'localhost', 'database' => 'dbname', 'username' => 'username', 'password' => 'password', 'charset' => 'utf8', 'prefix' => '', ), I've also

How can I check files that I already processed in a script so I don't process those again? and/or What is wrong with the way I am doing this now? Hello, I am running tshark with the ring buffer option to dump to files after 5MB or 1 hour. I wrote a python script to read these files in XML and dump into a database, this works fine. My issue is that this is really process intensive, one of those 5MB can turn into a 200MB file when converted to XML, so I do not want to do any unnecessary processing. The script is running every 10 minutes and processes ~5 files per run, since is scanning the

Using any member of the Windows Server family, I can set up an active directory, and have a single pool of users for a large scale of computers; access can be given / removed for any shared resources in the given domain (including access to client computers, etc). What similar (and widespread) solutions exist for managing a multi-user, multi-computer environment using Linux? What are their advantages/disadvantages? And how can they interoperate with Windows? Not sure if this is what you had in mind, but Linux w/Samba can act as a domain controller for Windows desktops. For example, see SAMBA

I have been trying to get my head around to understanding performance and scalability and would like to know what developers/sysadmins are doing to juice their systems. To standardize the answers, it would help if you could take your best shot at responding to any of the following: Profile - Magazine publication on Joomla; Jobs board on CodeIgniter + OpenId + AJAX Performance - Maximum requests per second per server ? Hardware - Server, router, disk, LAN? Software - Lighttpd, Memcache, Varnish, Nginx, Squid, Pound, LVS, eAccelerator, etc. Services - Amazon S3, Akamai, Google compute, etc.