Greetings,

I'm wanting to learn how to use PHP to check for things like how phpBB or PostNuke do during installation.

For the PHP stuff, I would imagine that I'd use fread() (or a combination...

Depending on the computer's manufacturer, the computer may have a "hidden" partition that may be necessary for a system restore to occur.

If fdisk doesn't tell you what the partition is, you...

I'd also recommend Nvu if you're familiar with FrontPage but are using a Linux OS. It's free of cost and can upload files using the built-in FTP manager. If you don't need a graphical editor, I'd...

If there was a published timeline indicating when certain types of advancements within the Windows arena were likely to be achieved over a 50 year period of time, I would think that estimating the...

Hi Laurie,

No matter, really, which language your developer uses to interact with the Access file as long as it work properly to meet your needs. If your developer knows enough to want to use Java...

I may very well be just missing the bigger picture here but what is a remote desktop type interface going to help with in this case?

You could create some Web content to interact with the Access...

Open up your MMC (Start -> Run -> MMC).
Click File -> Add/Remove Snap-in.
Click Add..
Then add whatever features you want to configure, including Internet Information Services, Certificates,...

Your request for information is entirely too subjective for us to give you solid answers. If your definition of "best" is that the GUI looks like Microsoft Windows, then you'll probably want...

They're not exactly hosted with Real Player. Rather you're using Real Player to download and play the videos locally, which means that there may be a copy of it on your local drive (probably...

Couldn't agree more. Thanks Gromit. :-)

Wine has recently come a very long way. Version 1.0 brought new levels of usability that I hadn't expected from them (I half-assumed that it might someday may minor improvements but that its...

You might want to give locate (/usr/bin/locate) a try. If you don't have locate installed, it would be worth grabbing.

If it's installed but you get an error when running it regarding a database...

Though one of XP's major selling points was that it does provide a whole whack of device drivers, it may not have had one for your sound. You can check to see if there is installed support for it by...

It might fair to say that whatever you're comfortable with is the best for you. There are pros and cons to each Linux distribution. I actually prefer to use Kubuntu for most things but I don't run...

Nobody said can't be. :-) If you'd like to use the GUI, most current distributions, including (K)Ubuntu, offer a grand assortment of of GUI administration tools ranging from user management to...

What are you planning to use the server for exactly?

Bill

CentOS is probably the best choice if you like the RPM package style. You'd probably find a lot of CentOS and RHEL in larger production environments. When I was working IT at a technical college, all...

Unless you want to get super crazy with performance down to the whatever smallest amount possible, PHP will run on both Windows and the Linux operating systems. Everyone has an opinion about which...

You could boot off the install disk and go into its recovery mode, electing to mount the file system under /mnt when prompted (at least, it should I believe). After the file system mount is complete,...

Google is your friend. :-) You might also see if the modem's manufacturer has any documentation that they can provide for you.

You may need to do one of these to see what's happening with your network: tail /var/log/syslog

Replacing the gateway can be done with the ifconfig (/sbin/ifconfig) command. Read the man page for...

.bin files are compiled ( meaning that you can't always properly view the source in a text editor). Running a .bin file is usually as simple as this: ./file.bin

.bin (binary) files generally do...

Yup. You're likely to find a great deal of information if you use a Google search. Try searching for: "suse postfix install howto". Postfix will be your SMTP but you'll need a POP3/IMAP solution. I'd...

There is an easy way to find out. Because you're using an Ubuntu disk, you can probably boot off of it without taking the time to install it. Booting may take a few minutes but once it's up and...

The address the installation process is looking for is the fully qualified domain name that you would use to identify the machine you're installing it on.

Often, it's enough to say localhost...

You may need to contact the application's developer to see if she/he has any ideas regarding how this can be resolved. If you do, be sure to include the distro and version you're using so they have...

You could use ext2ifs. I use it at home and it works just fine. I'm able to not only see files on my ext3 partitions but edit and write to them as well. Each partition will show up as an individual...

For installation of software, apt is your friend. Either be root (not so great) or better yet use sudo (/usr/bin/sudo) when using apt. The man page for apt is probably pretty useful if you're...

The Internet. :-)

You'll likely want the top left-most link.

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe

Do you mean to ask which Linux distribution is preferred?

Did you come across any new information when you contacted your ISP?

This thread needs just one more person recommending rdesktop.

Use rdesktop.

And my work here is done.

Do you mean you want to transfer files from like hdb# (Linux /) to hdb# (/mnt/windows) or to a different machine entirely?

I've found XP to be far less annoying than Vista and I've never actually used Vista. I've only watched others use it (and that's enough for me).

Something else that may be useful to anyone else who reads this looking for answers is that, believe it or not, fdisk -l will tell you what physical drive the partition is on. Just thought I'd throw...

I see now. It's not that Internet Explorer isn't working or that you're being kicked offline but that you're having DNS issues. The WWW isn't the Internet in itself but is only a small part of it...

I would think that the next best step for you would be to examine how you're marketing yourself as a designer. Perhaps you could contact some smaller hosting companies and see if they would be...

If you're not getting an error message when you try to run Internet Explorer, you might just need to give your computer a quick reboot.

You're on the Internet if you can send and receive email. What exactly is it you're trying to do? Do you mean you can't get Web pages to load?