BillBrown

This thread needs just one more person recommending rdesktop. Use rdesktop. And my work here is done.

See if you can get Windows Update to install an updated version of IE. I don't know that doing so will correct the issue but it may.

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What are you planning to use the server for exactly? Bill

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 file but it would require the use of a language such as ASP, …

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 of functions like that) to check for a php.ini, then use it to determine the …

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).

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 running with your Gnome session, you can start playing with different …

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 server environment is better. That being said, I would think that your decision would come down to …

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 shelf-life of an OS's usefulness would be significantly easier. As it stands, Windows 2000 works and …

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 something running KDE, which many Linux OSs can do. I'm a fan of Kubuntu (Ubuntu running KDE). Otherwise …

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 we used was RHEL for our Linux courses. Either are probably going to do …

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 very much recommend vim. :-D

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 could try booting off of a Linux install disk and accessing its partition management tool. You should at …

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, Event Viewer, etc.

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 somewhere on your C: drive though I don't know exactly where it would be). You may …

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 going to your control panel and checking your device manager: …

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 being out of date, run the updatedb (/usr/bin/updatedb) command then try locate again. Note that you'll …

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 stability would never be really usable with larger scaled applications -- glad I was wrong!). The latest …

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, you should be given a choice to drop down to a command prompt and …

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 it to see the syntax used. [url]http://linux-ip.net/html/basic-changing.html[/url] seems to be a pretty good place to get some …

.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 something besides extract the RPM it contains when told to execute. Sun does this a lot …

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 recommend Dovecot. It's relatively easy and it works well. Installing a mail server can be …

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 unless the application is designed to be accessed remotely over the Web, which seems to be the case …

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 an idea of the file system structure you have in place. Also provide …

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 drive in My Computer.

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 comfortable with reading man pages. Let's say you want to install an audio media player. You …

The Internet. :-)

Do you mean to ask which Linux distribution is preferred?

Hi philmonthoss, It really depends on the game as to whether ornot it requires the disk to be in the drive. The best way to find out is to try to run the game without the disk. For the network game, chances are, there will be a tool or dialog …

Hello Garud, There are a number of online services that will help you create a blog within a matter of minutes, such as Xanga, but these come with the down-side that if you want it to be ad-free, you're likely going to have to pay an annual fee. An alternative …

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 interested in arranging for some kind of partnership of some kind.

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

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?

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 this in for good measure. :-)

Hi Philsth1, You might want to contact your Internet service provider and convey this issue to them. It almost sounds like a DNS issue that they should be able to help with. Bill

The host is probably designating your /home/user directory as your account's "domain root", as the three files you see there are typically found in a recently-created 500-level user's home directory. I would find it odd that a Linux/Unix-based Web hosting company would not have an FTP server available to its …

A friend of mine has suggested that I look into Turbogears when I get around to creating the Web site that I'm thinking about. Does anyone have any experience with this application or just thoughts, whether they be good or bad? Thanks, Bill

Another potential problem may be that the RAM you are now using could be defective. Have you tried to replace the ram with entirely new sticks to see if that is the cause~? If you don't have any additional RAM sticks available, you could try swtiching the RAM so stick …

There's no reason to limit yourself to one distrobution for the rest of our life. I agree that Ubuntu is quite stable and there are a lot of people who really enjoy it. I've used Mandrake (then its later silly form, Mandriva), Red Hat and Fedora distrobutions as well. There …

Also try to ensure that your CPU is getting proper cooling.

The RPM man page is going to be pretty handy here. The -i switch is going to specify that you install a package. I would probably go with something like: rpm -ivh packagename.rpm If you come across error messages like how you're missing dependancy packages, don't freak out. Just install …

You could download and use a program called Windows Directory Statistics. [url]http://windirstat.info/[/url] This takes a while to fully run on larger drives but it'll show you in graphical format what directories and files are taking the most space. It's a free download from a sourceforge mirror. :-)

Start unplugging stuff (while the power's off, of course), one item at a time, and trying to boot up with one less thing plugged in and powered each time until get your display back.

Hey Matt.. I'm curious. Did you ever get this worked out~? If you did, are you enjoying version 2~?

Certificates aren't always all that they're cracked up to be anymore. Certifications such as the A+ certainly serve to show others that you have the capacity to learn entry level technical things but it won't get you very far. LPI (Linux Professional Institute) produces a a couple levels of certification. …