My choice is always the O'Reilley books (http://www.ora.com). I do most of my CGI stuff in Perl (since I do a lot of system stuff in it anyway) and they have the best books I've looked at (they have an especially good 'CGI for Perl in 60 minutes' or something like that). One of my favourite jump-off points for scripts is http://www.extropia.com/Scripts/. As for Linux....are you new to Unix? Start there. I bought one of those Que books for linux-specific stuff a while back and was not too impressed. I was going to take a look at Yggdrasil's 'Linux Bible', so if anyone has that one I'd like to hear what you think. There's one other book that I recall from a year ago, give or take, called something like 'Running a Perfect Internet Site With Linux' that may have everything you'll need to know about the system. The entire text used to be online, but that was some time ago. However, in order to fit this topic to the list, I really think you should abandon the idea of a web server and set up an *8-bit Atari BBS* instead. Mine was a 130XE with 384K ram (I did the upgrade myself - had to run it with the cover off because of the heat), 4 1050 disk drives, and a single 2400b Codex modem. I was 13 years old, I don't think I've ever had that much fun with a computer since. I had a "retro" system set up a year-or-so ago, but the only calls I ever got were from the guy who had helped me set up the original. Hope that helps, Aaron On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Hans B Pufal wrote:

OK, I got it wrong (I'll blame the pain killers but it's more likely either old age or alcohol poisoning :-) The Convex 3200 is not ECL but GaAs based - guaranteed to need at least four phase :-) There's a little photo of a small system showing off the paint scheme at http://maruja.convex.es/CONVEX/info/c-series.html and more information regarding performance at http://nhse.npac.syr.edu/hpccsurvey/orgs/convex/convex.html Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "My Alfas keep me poor in a monetary Melbourne Australia 3083 | sense, but rich in so many other ways"