Re: Sphinx search

when you say headache of running a linux server, what
are you referring to?  Do you need a box?  If so, what
kind of capability do you need?
--- Gary Mort <bz-gmortbeezifies.com> wrote:

> Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> > I'd love to see some sort of
joomla<->sphinx
> integration, that one
> > might be worth creating a project for on
> JoomlaCode. To be honest
> > though I'm not sure how you would integrate the
> two, as they are quite
> > separate and distinct beasts  
> Well, I've been fixing some code that does searches
> of data in a Joomla
> component(AdsManager), which also comes with a
> really messy mambot to
> plug into the regular Joomla search.  The default
> searches are really
> really bad(price fields can be searched for EXACT
> price, not ranges).
> 
> So I started looking at how to make that advanced
> search mode a bit more
> friendly, when I ran across Sphinx and looking at
> it, it has every
> advanced search function I would want.  Since all
> you need from your
> search result is an id number and the component it
> is in, it seems to me
> Sphinx could be easily integrated with a server side
> search, so the
> server checks the Sphinx system based on the parms,
> and returns a bunch
> of data, than back to the Joomla MVC component to
> format the display of
> the data.
> 
> I have a good idea of how to integrate my component
> with Sphinx.  And I
> see how to do the Joomla content component.  The big
> problem I was
> looking at was how to make it painless to integrate
> everything else?
> Something that would take all the search Plugins
> installed for each
> component, and build out the Sphinx index(though
> worst case, I think
> that can be handled just by saying "hey, here is
a
> neat tool if you want
> to write yet ANOTHER search module")
> 
> The only downside I saw with it was requiring a
> server to run the daemon
> on(yeah, I'm a shared hosting guy.  I just don't
> have the time to deal
> with the hassle of setting up, configuring, and
> securing a server these
> days.  Other than periodic refreshes on my
> MythTV/router I don't worry
> about it much.)
> 
> Still, it would be a fun project to work on,
> providing I can find
> someone who wants to handle the headache of
> maintaining a linux server. 
> 
> 
> 
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Anthony Ferrara wrote:
> when you say headache of running a linux server, what
> are you referring to? 

Making sure it is secure, periodically checking logs or
whatever your 
preferred method to track security incursions, installing
and 
configuring a web server, installing PHP & Perl along
with a basic web 
server configuration.

It's not so much time consuming, once your doing it, as time
consuming 
to get your head(or at least my head) into the mode of
remembering all 
this stuff, building a baseline system, yadda yadda yadda.

Or to put it another way, I'm feeling lazy.  Given a choice
for my 
personal projects between coding and admin, I'll do coding
these 
days(I've had a third cell line not in use much(kids line)
and unlimited 
messeging for the past few months I'm just itching to hook
up and fiddle 
with Kannel and Mbuni(SMS and MMS messaging from your
computer using a 
cell phone)

But sitting down to work out the web server setting involved
to properly 
connect up to kannel just pushes the project lower and
lower.
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bz-gmortbeezifies.com wrote:
> Anthony Ferrara wrote:
>> when you say headache of running a linux server,
what
>> are you referring to? 
>
> Making sure it is secure, periodically checking logs or
whatever your 
> preferred method to track security incursions,
installing and 
> configuring a web server, installing PHP & Perl
along with a basic web 
> server configuration.
>
> It's not so much time consuming, once your doing it, as
time consuming 
> to get your head(or at least my head) into the mode of
remembering all 
> this stuff, building a baseline system, yadda yadda
yadda.
>
> Or to put it another way, I'm feeling lazy.  Given a
choice for my 
> personal projects between coding and admin, I'll do
coding these 
> days(I've had a third cell line not in use much(kids
line) and 
> unlimited messeging for the past few months I'm just
itching to hook 
> up and fiddle with Kannel and Mbuni(SMS and MMS
messaging from your 
> computer using a cell phone)
>
>
Interesting.. I was not aware that Kannel supports US mobile
handsets. 
One of the projects I'm exploring is a solar powered weather
station 
which sends the raw weather data to an internet connected
server. We 
have a site at the top of the mountain for the weather
sensors and the 
server is over a mile away at the bottom. I was considering
long range 
wifi or a ham radio, but if we used a mobile phone, we could
do away 
with the server at the base of the mountain (which has flaky
DSL 
connectivity).

If you simply want to send SMS and MMS, most carriers in the
US allow 
you to send data to phones via their own email->gateways 
( vtext.com, 
tmomail.net)

About 5 years ago, I wrote a php function which would accept
a phone 
number and submit to all the major carrier gateways (since
we don't know 
which carrier to use based only on the number).

~Rolan
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