also, most decent ftp daemons allow you to deny access to dot files, and directories.. so if its 'hidden' they can't get at it...

actually.. pm me the model number of the drive.. i have a few laying around that i will eventually ship back to ibm.. some of them have dents in the case so i cant RMA them, if one of them matches...

Unfortunately, there is not an easier, less costly way. If you want that data, you have to be prepared to pay for it.

On top of that, when you do send it off to get recovered, they are going to...

well.. there IS a version of wusage for 9x and NT.. but wusage sucks, and i wouldnt recommend it. ;D

well.. the reason it looks similar is because it is what you normally see as vi on a machine.. as most of the time its Vi Improved, which is what vim is.. its a great text editor.. all kinds of...

sure.. dont run any ftp servers? that message is mainly directed towards people running servers.. so as long as you're not running a PUBLIC server.. you should be fine.. if you got something thats...

actually... i would recommend you start with C, then perl, and then C++.. in that order, then you can go back and work with perl as object oriented, as you can do that.. but learn c first.. if you...

you want a good text editor? use vim. ;D

http://vim.sourceforge.net/download.php

shell programming is a big part of linux administration.. the main reason for shell programming is automating mundane sysadmin tasks.. so pay attention.. you may not like it, but if you ever get a...

well.. as far as the hosts allow, there are a copule of options you can do, for one, the dhcp client on your xp box, you should be able to specify certain MAC addresses to get certain ip's.. do this...

you could try opening up port 8080 on the router as that will most likely be blocked there right now.. and then setting that for the port on the webserver... as if i remember correctly, IE will...

if/when it happens again check the task manager for any "unknown" programs running under your username.. its possible its just a malicious form of spam.. seen it happen before.. but i would check...

that sounds like a personal problem to me.. ;D don't you know when it comes to linux you're suppose to take one for the team and do whatever it takes??

so whats the story cheif.. get it working yet?

the action pack is not really worth it.. waste of money.. just get a MSDN subscription.. hell.. most of the people who you will wind up talking to if you ever do have to call M$ don't even know what...

yeah.. here are a couple suggestions:

http://www.winappslist.com/webauthoring/log_analyzers.htm

livestats is good.. but expensive.. the first one i have never seen/worked with.. but it looks...

mmMMMM.. you want help with samba? well who am i to dissapoint.. just remember.. *evil grin* RTFM:

http://www.jsanten.demon.nl/linux.html#samba

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how good is your kungfu? if you're feeling up to it, install gentoo. http://www.gentoo.org/

you will have to build the entire system as the only pre-built distributions of it are for i686+, but...