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IdeaStorm seems to be built on Ruby/Rails on Apache Linux - Tell us what SW you use, Dell.

90 points posted to IdeaStorm by jmxz 04/03/07

Interesting

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http: me that www.IdeaStorm.com is running

Dell Computer Corporation 143.166.82.44 Linux Mongrel 1.0.1 28-Mar-2007

Last I heard, Mongrel was a Ruby infrastructure, and Linux is clearly Linux.
Seems odd for a company that "Recommends [whatever Microsoft tells you to]" on every page.

What are you using on IdeaStorm? Can you recommend that as well?

jmxz
04/03/07		 Oh, and the reason I said Apache is that you can sometimes get an error message that says "Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora) Server at www.ideastorm.com Port 80"
phubert28
04/03/07		 So, you checked-out Netcraft??
jmxz
04/03/07		 Well, first I got the error page saying Apache, which got me interested.

Then I ran "HEAD http://www.ideastorm.com" which says it runs Mongrel

% HEAD http://www.ideastorm.com
200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:49:00 GMT
Server: Mongrel 1.0.1
Content-Length: 41540
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:56:22 GMT
Client-Peer: 143.166.82.44:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Set-Cookie: _session_id=52872d54869ecced0a82b9e3fa9b9ba7; path=/
Set-Cookie: _session_id=52872d54869ecced0a82b9e3fa9b9ba7; domain=ideastorm.com; path=/; expires=Fri, 31 Mar 2017 19:27:52 GMT
Status: 200 OK

I'm not sure how Netcraft infers Linux from that - but however they guessed, it reenforces what the ideastorm error page says ("Fedora").

and finally, yeah, I posted the netcraft link since it's a more easy clicky thing than the HEAD command which some OS's lack.
phubert28
04/03/07		 Like my Windoze boxes here... I really SHOULD install Linux on ONE of them... (attached to 3 different domains and 2 different VLANs)
phubert28
04/03/07		 I wonder what this is with helmecj01's demotions... just a hostile guy, or what?
jmxz
04/03/07		 phubert28 - Re: "should install linux on one" 'course you could run a vmware/virtualpc/virtualbox linux instance in one of them. All are free as in $0. Virtualbox is free as in GPL (or at least dual-licensed as GPL). http://www.virtualbox.org/ . I've had minor trouble getting networking working with it; but eventually got it - so if you try and need help feel free to ask.
catalyst
04/04/07		 MIA
premcv
04/10/07		 Well, here's what I found at www.netcraft.com:http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:
jmxz
04/11/07		 @premcv - "dellideastorm.com" doesn't seem to be anything but a redirect to ideastorm.com, though - and ideastorm.com itself shows up as

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:
premcv
04/11/07		 @jmxz: Noticed that too! Thanks a ton!
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