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I am (trying) to code a private message system for my one website (the one I pay big bucks in... ok, not big bucks, but a chunk of income). As being the first major script that I've ever coded, I would like some assistance on the side. I've never tried anything such as this and the fact that this is revolving around the core of my member's system (if I would have installed some pre-built script, I could have easily intergraded my member's area) makes it a bit difficult as it has to work off of my already existing database and user's table.I really wish I knew enough PHP and MySQL to do this by myself, but I don't.If you're interested, please contact me and if I run into any problems, I'll post in this thread.[N]F

I just read this in Maximum PC, December 2005 issue that "sellers of iPod-related accessories were recently forced to remove the music-device's trademarked name from product names and website URLs. Thus, iPodlounge.com, for example, must now be called iLounge.com. Sellers were also" told how they can refer to Apple products, "...including the demand that the iPod always be referred to as an Apple iPod Device."How about that? I always thought that Microsoft would be the first to enforce something like this for their trademarked names... haha.. go Apple.. [N]FSource: Maximum PC, December 2005, Page 12

I have BINDS installed on my Linux box and was wondering how you use it. For the fact that it is a DNS server, that is all I know. Otherwise, I'm lost! Thanks![N]F

I hate to burst your bubble but Invision Power Board isn't open source. There's a license involved that isn't the GNU/GPL. [N]F

I agree...well, with some stuff anyways. Ok, even if there is a theme for IE to look like Firefox, I still wouldn't touch it because a theme is just a theme... it isn't the core with all the security holes. I stay as far away from IE as possible and only use it when I have to (e.g. incompatable websites, at school on Windows 98 machines) otherwise, I just use Portable Firefox. Curare, why would you install IE that looks like Firefox? Just because it LOOKS like it, DOSEN'T mean that it is it... [N]F

I personally like the second one (the one with the gradient) better... the colors just flow together and it looks really cool. Of course, I'm not a photoshop expert an I usually have to use tutorials to make something cool...

I use Firefox... and when I can't use it (e.g. at school) I have Portable Firefox on my flash drive so I can use it when I can't! ;)Firefox is the best browser... free, secure, and open source! Go Firefox!

I used to use Ezboard.com back when I was a n00b.... I hated the service then I found ProBoards.com which was like.... WHOA! compared to Ezboard.com service.[N]F

Astahost is the best free PHP and MySQL enabled host... one that I use mainly for live PHP testing with banner ads is 100webspace.com. They got to be a pain in the butt but they do have PHP and MySQL for free so you can't really go wrong...[N]F

I use 9 because that is what my school uses (I work in my school's tech department, btw) and the one tech who I work close with uses the same installation (he let me borrow the six CD set and I made copies) and so he can find stuff and tell me to play with it and I can find stuff and tell him. I also use the Linux workstation that I have for when Windows decides to just not work (I just had to do data recovery on my mom's laptop because Windows just decided to "crash" for no apparent reason... ) and whenever I need to do some Linux things. Personally, I have SUSE Standard Server 8 that I got back in Summer 2004 and I like SUSE Enterprise Server 9. Comparing the two systems, I prefer 9 over 8. Maybe I'll look into 10 this summer because when I work over this summer (well, I'm not sure about this summer because we are moving buildings and I get to help move out of our small office in the basement to the new building) no one is on the network so I could possibly download it then... woot! Fiber lines rule!! 250KBPS!!! lol, I love my job... [N]F

lol, m^e, you just reminded me of my school's Internet service provider. (Sorry if this gets a little off topic) One day, the high school webmaster couldn't update the site from home and on Monday made a message on the homepage that for some reason the FTP account wouldn't work. He even had District Technology looking into it. It turns out that it was our provider (which, btw provides the worst web hosting services to member schools... one teacher had to drive out there just to make them put PHP on the server ). Now the provider in reply pretty much said something like "we don't know what we did or how to fix it." So our poor webmaster was given a new FTP account that works fine outside the provider's network. Well, with MySQL, the only thing I can say is that the one that came with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 must have installed wrong or some extra stuff needed wasn't included. But when I installed MySQL from a CD that came with an Apache 2 book (I always copy CD's from books because you never know when you're going to need them later on and not have access to the book at the library) it fixed the previous installation. Now when I got the following: That told me it was functional but I just didn't know any MySQL commands, enough for getting PHPMyAdmin setup which is how I create all databases. BUT, installing XAMPP for Linux which had everything also had PHPMyAdmin setup. I guess I should learn some MySQL commands for the future, but thanks to you, m^e and everyone else, I would have probably been stuck with some other weird error! [N]F

I've never used SpyWare Doctor.... I just use Ad-Aware because I feel it is stronger than some other ones I have used. I may need to give SpyWare Doctor a spin! Just one more thing: is it free or are there two versions like Ad-Aware (free and paid)? [N]F

And closely related to spyware is adware which is a program that launches ads on you. Pop-up windows come out of nowhere even if you have a pop-up blocker.both are terrible evil things. like I always tell everyone, run a spyware scan at least once a week to keep your computer safe and running smoothly.[N]F

My school uses Turnitin.com (mainly just the English Department) but I've started to notice that they've been slacking off of it. Like last year in English I, we had to turn in a paper, and my instructor said to use Turnitin.com but then she like changed her mind and just said to turn them into her.I think it might be slow grading papers by having to download each one! That is like the one major flaw with Turnitin.com... teachers have to spend more time downloading and grading. This year, don't think the school is even using it. [N]F

I'm wondering if anyone has ever used SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 as a regular desktop Linux distro?I use mine as a local test server, but I'm thinking of installing it on my laptop (it has mobile features in it!) and dual booting with XP. Maybe not in the near future or anything.It doesn't come with software like OpenOffice.org like some other versions have (Xandros for example, and I think Fedora Core 4) and it is very limited except on server stuff. Well, I am new to Linux so I wouldn't exactly know what 'limited' was on a Linux system.One question is though, if I decide to use SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, when I install should I just remove all the server stuff or just leave it disabled on the system? Like my local test server has DHCP server software, BINDS DNS software, and some other stuff I don't use.Thanks for any tips![N]F

Thanks for the tips m^e and everyone else.Since I work at my high school's IT department and we're setting up a local Intranet server, my "co-worker" (so to speak) told me about this thing called XAMPP and I downloaded it today. I accidently took off the Novell stuff on the server and had to get the Novell SUSE files back on. Once I got it back, I disabled Apache2 (took me a while to figure it out why XAMPP wasn't working ) and got XAMPP fired up.I noticed when I unpackaged the tar.gz file was that it seems to be like PHPTriad for Windows (XAMPP also has a Windows version) because it included Apache, PHP, MySQL and a bunch of mods like Pearl and CGI. Now, using XAMPP, MySQL works! I don't know what the difference was between me trying to manually setup MySQL and XAMPP doing it, but XAMPP obviously did it the right way!I feel kind of bad for wasting your time, but I did learn a lot! I am a little more comfortable on my Linux server now! Thanks! You're all great! [N]F

Yay! I actually got somewhere... No Errors!! Ok, but I kind of need some help! I typed in: "mysqld -u root &" I got: "mysqld: ready for connections" BUT, if you look at the display... the two brackets [] at the end there is where the cursor was.... as soon as I tried mysql -u root -p just like m^e said but it can't find the command "mysql"... well, at least I made SOME progress.... can anyone help me setup tables and stuff from the counsole or at least until I can get PHPMyAdmin installed? Thanks! [N]F

(if this topic is in the wrong spot, I apologize. please just move it as I wasn't sure *exactly* where this belonged... linux or here but because the name is Internet & Network client/servers, I figured it fit here more than Linux) I noticed this after I re-installed Apache (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, has both Apache2 and Apache 1.3.X but the test page for the server says: ) but everytime I go to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, the browser starts looking for "linux.site" but if I go to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists//, it loads the index page in my public_html folder... anyone know why and how to fix this? if it is because I have BINDS installed, if I remove it should that fix it? sorry about all the questions, but I'm new to Linux and I'm trying to setup a test server without resorting to Windows which is the easy way out! Also, to combine topics, vsftp refuses to start. Everytime in the counsole I type: (minus quotes of course) "vsftpd start" I get the following in return: "500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot open config file:start" any ideas? thanks if you can help on either topic! [N]F

Thanks m^e... I'm going to print this topic for future refrence but I ran into a problem when I ran the above. I'm going to quote what I typed, FYI, "linux" is the host name and I have no idea how to set that or anything but that is another topic! and the bold stuff is what I typed into the shell console When I did a search for "mysql", I got a lot of results so I know MySQL is installed... I even have gone in through YaST and MySQL server and client are checked and installed. The shell command: find / -name "mysql*", brought up lots of directories... there's one in usr/bin, var/lock/subsys, var/lib, usr/lib, usr/sbin/mysqld (is this it? or something important?), usr/share, and some other sim. ones were in data1/usr/* (star just means the MySQL directories, not as many.) All I know is that I got a new error and that is a good thing! At least I know I am making progress! If only I wasn't such a Linux noob! [N]F

Hi, not sure if this is the correct spot but it is on MySQL which is database software! Ok, I am configuring a server for practice and I have run into problems with MySQL... I can't start it!!I'm running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, and in the shell - konsole window, I typed:mysqld startand that brings up the following: mysqld: Too many parametersmysqld Ver 3.23.49 for pc-linux-gnu on i686Use '--help' or '--no-defaults --help' for a list of available optionsSo then I tried:mysql -oand then I got:ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)I looked and 'mysql.sock' isn't even there! Other than that, everything works fine, Apache, PHP... it all works... I can view PHP pages fine over my network on my windows machine perfectly... I'm just having problems with MySQL since this is the first time I have ever tried this on a Linux system.Thanks for any help![N]F

I'd like to know which Linux distro you use and why you chose that one. I'm thinking about switching to Linux full-time (with a dual boot of Windows for those "just incase" moments) and would like to get a broad idea of what people use for desktop running. The only Linux version I have is a server SuSE 9.0 and it doesn't run well with general desktop useage.Thanks![N]F

Lucky you...get all the free over-priced software you want while the rest of us Win user have to sign away our souls to Microsoft... j/k I personally like Linux over Windows because the work I do is web stuff and I am building an Intranet at my school and the server is running Linux (Fedora Core 3 to be exact). Linux is great because it is open source. You can take a desktop based Linux disto (Fedora Core is more of a SERVER distro, not very friendly for desktop use) like SuSE (SuSE is good, I have server editions so they are more advanced) and mod it up. Xandros is great for if you want to run most Windows programs and if you want a stable and secure Linux Desktop. [N]F

I have to make my point accross again. Here, I'll put it in capitol letters for everyone to read (I'm not shouting when I say it either.) GMAIL IS NO DIFFERENT THAN THE MAIL SERVER FOR YOUR COMPANY EMAIL ADDRESS! Nothing is stopping the IT guys from checking out the email that is going through the server. Now of course they shouldn't do this without prior permission. And to quote myself: Do you really think they hire 100+ employees getting paid 30-50 bucks an hour to read email and match up ads to it???? If that was the case, they would need 5,000+ employees to match up ads for websites in the Ad-Sense program. And Google doesn't have that many employees either.... If that were the case, they would have about 10,000 or so employees on their payroll, which they don't. Your email is SAFE. Unless you get a notice from Google that they are turning over your entire Gmail inbox to the FBI which we all hope will never happen. And plus, would you want to read all of that email? I hate to read my 20+ messages per day.... let alone over a million and match ads up to them. [N]F

Thanks for the info, but you're a little bit too late. The tech I am working with re-installed Fedora Core 3 to start over. He made a user and configured httpd.conf to point to /home/user/www/ as the web root and modified mostly everything to point there.Today we finally got FTP working correctly, but had some issues with uploading. Like any file created while logged in as root on the server gave a "Forbidden" message when the file was tried to be accessed on another machine in the tech office over the network. But if we FTPed a file, the permissions were correctly set. Then we got Perl working after we had to find the darn mod_perl which was hiding.Well, I'll take any Fedora Core 3 tips you have because it seems I am growing used to it. I have been working with Linux so much this week I have almost forgotten how to use Windows, lol. Hit me with anything. We're bound to run into more problems. Such as how to speed things up because it is an old server (333 MHz Pentium 2, we'll be needing a new server soon because that won't be able to stand upto the constant network traffic).Oh, one more thing. If you have any tips on how we can secure it, please share! Right now, there is a gaping hole into the server. FTP is in-secure, I am just waiting for a hacker to break into our network and hack right into that server.... We really need to secure it!Thanks![N]F

I am helping on developing an Intranet for my school. We have a server with Fedora Core 3 installed and Apache. I got FTP working too but root access is denied as default. But we have a problem. We would like users to be able to have accounts for their pages, but we don't want to give root FTP access. When we go to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, we get an access denied page. Anyone have any tips? Thanks! [N]F