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I'm not sure who dropped the ball on this one, but I'm not very happy about it. I altered the nameserver records of one of my other domains, inkshop.org, through OpenSRS (read: Tucows). I wanted to set the name server to be "ns1.inklog.net", but for some reason, it kept telling me I couldn't, even though [...]

The daemon processing framework is written. I can accept requests on any port using XML-RPC. The daemon supports a very small subset of HTTP… just enough to get by. It knows how to ignore the first line of the request, parse the headers and look for Content-Length and then get the content. I haven't decided [...]

I guess the problem is in PHP. When PHP is waiting for a new socket connection, it can't do anything else, even if signal handlers have been set up. So, for now, I'm just going to rely on INETD to handle that part. In otherwords, the process will not fork. Each time it is spawned, [...]

If I fork a child process, and the child exits, how can I get the parent to wake up and see that? What happens is that, since the parent is doing something else (specifically, waiting for a new socket connection), it won't acknowledge that exit until it's done doing what it's doing (which means, until [...]

Verzion Wireless will be offering PUSH TO TALK (like Nextel's Direct Connect) service starting this Monday (2003-08-18). The downside is, the plans are $20 more per month. Additionally, I don't know if shared lines will get to use PTT or not. Finally, they only have one phone that supports it, and that phone runs $149.99 [...]