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Since webalizer is no longer installed, I'd say it's no problem at all to delete that folder. This is my personal opinion, though. Since I'm only a mod, I can't guarantee it won't ruin your account. Of course it won't ruin your account but TCH can't be held responsible if you decide to follow my opinion and something goes wrong

Well, I have MDK10 Community Edition working on an old Compaq Presario 1200 series (AMD K62@400MHz)... it's quite slow but it works... If you simply want to use the command line, then it will work as a charm but if you want to load Gnome or KDE, then I'd say it will drag itself a bit

Hi Rick. Unfortunately I can't help you with your question, since I don't use password managers. I did move your post to a more appropriate forum, though, so there's more probability that someone will see it and answer

Well, there are some big names running on Linux, like Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004, Savage: The Battle for Newarth, Quake 3 Arena, America's Army, Tribes 2, Never Winter Nights, Sid Meyer's Alpha Centaury, Epic just announced that, besides the next Unreal title (Unreal 3), the Unreal Editor will also run natively under Linux... There are some big games available and more and more are coming up from big editors. Loki (http://lokigames.com)used to make ports of games for Linux. They ported the first Unreal Tournament, Civilization: Call to Power, Soldier of Fortune, and many other famous titles. Unfortunately, loki went bankrupt but many of their games are still available to buy (http://www.lokigames.com/orders/resellers.php3). Apart from that, there's also Linux Game Publishing (http://linuxgamepublishing.com, who have published some nice games, too. And they're always looking for beta-testers for their upcoming titles! And last but not least, there's The Linux Game Tome (http://happypenguin.org/), which is a site that gathers news about Linux games from all over the web, including commercial games besides the Free software ones, with screenshots, descriptions, ratings and links to the respective homepages (click the "Previous 10 News Items" on the bottom left of the page to see more games). There's also LinuxGames.com (http://linuxgames.com), which has news about the Linux games community and such. So as you can see, you have a lot to chose from. Unfortunately, most developers still prefer to make Windows-only games, so yes, the majority of "big" games doesn't have a Linux version. But the mentalities are changing. Quite rapidly, I might add

That's the reason why I suggest Mandrake over Fedora for new people. And quite frankly, the main reason for me to keep Fedora is because it has huge software repositories that are constantly refreshed with new and updated packages. To be honest, I don't know if Mandrake has such things but if it does, I think I'll be switching to mandrake, if FC3 doesn't get better... Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention one other thing that *really* bothers me in Fedora / Red Hat: no pre-compiled NTFS kernel module! Mad!!! Mad!!! Once more, because of possible licensing issues... blargh!! Every other distro includes NTFS modules in their kernels, why doesn't FC include it?!? It makes me recompile the kernel just to enable NTFS and access a Windows filesystem! Fortunately, I always take the chance to remove unnecessary drivers and modules and make the kernel even faster

Linux King? No way! I just spent too much time in front of computers, when I was younger Tracy, HC is right, a LiveCD is also an awsome way to try Linux. If you have the chance, give Knoppix or MandrakeMove a try, they're both pretty good.

No problem Don, note that this patch "fixes" Mozilla, not Windows. Windows will still be vulnerable after applying the patch, because everything the patch does is block the functionality out of mozilla. If MS fixes Windows Explorer (which seems to be where the real problem is), perhaps the Mozilla developers will make the functionality available once again.

I live in Lisboa (Lisbon), Portugal. Timezone: GMT. 5 or 6 hours more than in your timezone, I think. If you want to ask me something, just send me a PM. Lately I don't have IRC/ICQ/whatever connected much time because I'm always on and off the computer but I check the forums frequently, so if I see a PM from you, I can open ICQ or whatever.

Tracy, since Linux and Windows are independent operating systems, meaning that when you're using one you won't be using the other, your system will not suffer no slowdown at all because of that. Of course that if one of those systems is "heavier" than the other, you will notice the difference - in this case, you may notice that Linux, although it appears to take a bit longer to boot, is faster than windows. There is one other consideration to have in mind: if the free space available to Windows decreases a lot, it may become slow and maybe even crash. Why is this important? Because in order to create free hard disk space to install Linux, you'll have to shrink the Windows partition of your computer's hard drive and if your hard disk capacity is low or if it has little free space, when you resize Windows' partition, you'll leave it with little free disk space. Nowadays this isn't that much of a problem, since hard drives are getting bigger and bigger, so as long as you have above 500 Mb free on your Windows partition, you should be OK. Other than this, go ahead, Tracy. Give the penguin a try, read through these forums, you'll find lots of Linux threads with valuable information and if you need any help, just ask

Hi. First of all, welcome to the family! If you need anything, just ask. About your question: use http://yourdomain.edu/sqmail

Funny, this comes just in time for this discussion: Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...ST&f=19&t=11453 Need I to say more?

Time for another update, guys! And this comes just in time, after another discussion about this kind of problems. http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/08/2327246&mode=nested&tid=78&tid=82 http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/08/2159244.shtml?tid=126&tid=128&tid=154&tid=172&tid=95 And a link to the problem related page on mozilla.org: http://mozilla.org/security/shell.html So as you can see, this is one of the big differences between open source software and MS software: while MS takes weeks and sometimes months to solve problems with their software, open source software has them solved in less than a day! And there's more: This is the kind of thing that made me drop MS software.

No problem, Tracy. Always try to solve the problem for about 5 minutes. Then post your question in the forums. If you do this, you know you'll solve the problem by yourself in the next few minutes. I'm glad you got it working

Yes, I agree Bob. But the hackers will also write for the browser that is more easily exploited, and that's IE, I have no doubts about that. I also have no doubts that, although obviously not perfect, an open source browser like Mozilla will always be a bit safer than a closed alternative, because holes are discovered faster and patched even faster. It will then be up to the users to keep their systems updated, as Rob and I mentioned on another thread. I'm not saying that other browsers will not have security holes, I'm just saying that when a security hole is found, it will be easier to exploit that hole on IE because the hole stays open much longer than with other browsers.

Bob, I know you didn't mean to "attack" anything but you have to keep in mind that all those comments about IE security flaws would never arise if MS would patch it's browser in a more timely fashion. If they do a bad service to their users, by leaving them unprotected for months and months, I think it's normal people comment it - even more, if you take into account the absurd number of vulnerabilities that are constantly being found in their products (especially IE).

LOL @ Robert But yes, I also agree with Mike. And I also want to add that I never intended to bash anything. I know this may sound stupid, like "yeah, if you don't want to bash IE/MS then why do you keep posting these things?". Well, I'm just talking about the things I don't like about IE/MS. I hate almost everything in IE, except the fact that it started a bit faster than Mozilla. About MS, I just hate their way of doing business, the way they treat security flaws in their products and the way they fight their competitors. On the other hand, I love their ardware. MS makes some of the best computer hardware I ever used. I'm not the typical "MS should disappear" or "Bill Gates is Evil" kind of guy, I also have bad things to say about Linux, even though I love it and use it as my main OS and support the Free software philosophy. I'm just a user who wants to use the software that will bring him the smallest possible ammount of worries

Glad you got it, Tracy. May I ask what was the problem?

Tracy, try adding "public_html/" the the nav.php path there, like so: >include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/public_html/inc/nav.php";

I knew sooner or later someone would counter my "attacks" on IE I also knew that he/she would fail when trying to do it, because IE is not updated at the same pace other browsers are. Yes, other browsers also suffer from vulnerabilities but when these are disclosed, the browser makers already have updated their software while MS leaves IE unpatched for months even after knwing about the vulnerabilities Sorry, Bob, you'll have to dig deeper

Not that I know of. And I also agree with Bruce, I hope there isn't any, it would be a major security hole.

Hi genesis. First of all, welcome to the family! As for your question, I assume you know how to configure MySQL CC and your problem is that it can't connect to your server. Easy to solve: go to your cPanel, click the MySQL configuration link and configure the allowed hosts with your IP. That should do the trick EDIT: Ooops, Don beat me to it. That's the result of opening all the new posts at the same time and not refreshing the page when you go to answer them

Well, Fedora Core isn't exactly beta os alpha quality software. It is stable software (supposedly, at least ). The big difference is that Red Hat wanted to test new stuff in the real world and they probably were also tired of supporting their "home" version of Linux (Red Hat Linux 9 was the last one), so they solved two problems with just one move: they handed over Red Hat Linux to "the community" but they still control it almost 100% (yes, it's stupid and yes, lots of people were mad at Red Hat because of this move), so now they don't have the responsability to provide support for Fedora Core, because it's a "community project" but since Red Hat still controls the project almost 100% they can make anything they want, like testing bleeding edge software in the real world and see how well it will work on their Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unfortunately, FC2 does have some serious problems. Starting with Red Hat Linux 8 or 9 (can't remember which one), Red Hat decided to remove MP3 support from XMMS (Linux's "Winamp" equivalent) and other media players, due to *possible* licensing problems and Fedora Core 2 was no exception. No other Linux distribution worries about this and none ever had any problems but hey, Red Hat, that's fine, no problem, I'll just download the xmms-mp3.rpm package double-click it and... I said "double-click it".... oh, wait... yeah, I forgot, in FC2 you can't install RPM packages simply by double clicking them, just like you did in RH8, 9 and FC1 because someone forgot to set it up to do so... For me, this is not a real problem, I actually prefer to install RPM packages from the command line but for a new user who doesn't know how to do that or doesn't know how to set up Gnome/KDE to open RPM packages with the package manager, he/she will be in trouble! But perhaps this is a nasty bug that has already been solved. And look, the Up2Date icon is flashing with a red exclamation dot! It means there are new updates available! I right-click it, select "launch up2date", enter the root (admin) password and I'm presented with a nice, easy to use wizard that helps me update my system with just a few steps. I click next and it starts downloading the new packages' headers... done. I click next and I select... err... wait a minute, now it says there are no updates available? But just a minute ago, the tooltip over the up2date icon said there were like 5 updates available! Well, I'll give it a another try later on. Now let's surf the web for a bit. Mozilla is our only available browser (unless you chose to install KDE and Konqueror), so I open it and go straight to Mozilla Firefox webpage and download it. While it downloads, I might as well go watch some Happy Tree Friends cartoons (happytreefriends.com). Err... where's the site?? Oh crap, I forgot, because of *possible* licensing issues, Red Hat decided not to include the Flash plugin with FC2... well, I guess I'll have to install it. And while I'm at it, I might as well install Java, too, because... yes, you guessed it, because due to possible licensing issues, Red Hat decided not to include it in their distribution. Well, after installing all this stuff and playing around for a while, I decide to give another try to the update tool. This time the available updates list is not empty and I select them all. I click next and it starts resolving the dependencies.... and it keeps resolving the dependencies... yes, it crashed. I have to kill the app and start all over again. I guess you got the message. I can use FC2 because I know how to fix all these nasty "bugs" but if I was a novice user, I doubt I would want to keep it as my main OS. But even I am getting tired of having to constantly fix things Red Hat overlooks or forgets... If I wanted to have to compile half or all of my system, configure it all by hand, etc, I would have chosen Gentoo or Linux From Scratch. Well, time to shut up. What started as a simple comment, ended up as a micro-review of Fedora Core

Just to elaborate a bit more on the symbolic link stuff: what Bruce said means that if you enter the www directory, it's exactly the same as if you entered the public_html directory. It's just a shortcut.

LOL Well, I know our wine is very famous but even that doesn't help me much: I don't drink.

I believe Robert has already patented patents. Or was it Bruce? Can't remeber which one did it, but I know MS ows them a lot of money!