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Using a password protected folder would be a good idea, since HTTPS would only protect the data transmission between your clients and the server but anyone could still access the forums. After that, you should only need to set the "Cookie secure" option to "Enabled", in the administration panel and you're ready to go.

Probably silly question but have you tried the Windows port with the regular URL?

Very good reading, Snipe! Thanks for sharing it One question: why do you suggest DOS-Style 8.3 filenames? Also, the "correct" (at least according to W3C standards) alternative text attribute for hyperlinks is alt, not title, I believe. Thanks again for sharing the PDF!

As Rob said, you should be just fine. I've done that myself a couple of times and had no problems at all. And, again as Rob said, if you had some modified files, you'll have to redo the modifications. Hope you manage to get everything working again

Wayne, please post only one message, no need to post multiple (equal) messages in various forums. I'm closing this thread so that you can keep an eye on only one thread instead of two.

Moved to the correct forum for better organization.

Moved to the correct forum for better organization.

The only reason I can think of is that your CD-ROM does not allow you to boot from it... is it an old CD-ROM drive? PS - I moved the post to the correct forum for better organization.

Wayne, try deleting the file from the server and uploading it again from your computer. Sometimes I have a problem with some files not being updated through FTP but to be honest, I'm not sure if it's a problem with the server - not at TCH, unfortunately - or if it's just my FTP client that thinks the file is up-to-date and skips it. But the workaround I came up with is deleting the file from the server and uploading it again.

Try these: http://winehq.org http://www.transgaming.com/ Frank's Corner is also a great resource: http://frankscorner.org/ You have a how-to for installing Wine and also WineX

Wise decision. "If it isn't broken, don't fix it!" Glad to see you're getting along on the *nix world

I just visited Firefox's homepage and there's no official build for BSD - should have thought of that earlier... Anyway, if it took all that time, then it was probably compiling the program. I really don't know how to help you any further excpet telling you to visit Firefox online forums or perhaps some BSD forums and see if someone has the sollution for your problem.

Rob, have you upgraded to a nightly build or the stable 0.8 package? About taking a long time, I don't know how Firefox works on BSD but it works like a charm on Linux. Did you have to compile it from source?

Glad it worked Which method did you use, by the way? Did you simply delete the file or upgrade to firefox?

Check your Firebird profile directory ( ~/.phoenix/default/<some.random.string>/ ) and see if there's a file named "lock" after you shutdown firebird. If there is, delete it. Firebird should start normaly using the default profile, after that. But it's strange, that file should be deleted automatically when you close Firebird. Try upgrading to Firefox and see if it fixes the problem. But check that lock file first, or it will lock you out of firefox too.

Manu, you had mentioned that WEFT thing in another post and IMHO, just like tattoovampire said, any tool that produces IE-only code is really lame. You say that "more than 75% of users today have I.E. so Netscape can be compromised on this"... I can't tell you how much this kind of mentality irritates me. First of all, why do you say 75% of web users use IE? For example, in one of my sites, IE counts only for 72% of all visits. In another, it's only responsible for 63% of the traffic. Second, even if IE would count for 80%, 85% or even 90% of your visitors, why would you simply ignore the other visitors who prefer to use a browser instead of a toy?

It will default to Times New Roman or whatever your site visitors configure their browser to use. Why not provide a link for your visitors to download the font, along with instructions on how to install it? Also, this is not a specific FrontPage issue. The font you use on your webpage is independent of the program you use to create it. By the way, nice avatar PS - moved for better otganization.

I forgot the last part: once you have the MySQL server running, you can enter 'mysql' in a console to get into the MySQL client and work from there, just as you used to do on Windows.

Well, I'd say you have one less issue to worry about - this MySQL problem is really simple to solve The problem is that you probably had the MySQL server starting automatically on Windows but that's not happening on Linux. I don't know why, because if Apache starts automatically (I'm assuming this, because you said you could get to a webpage by pointing your browser to localhost), MySQL should start automatically too. But again, I don't know Mandrake well enough to be sure about this. Anyway, here's how to solve the problem. The MySQL server is a system service, so you need to start the corresponding service. You might have something for this on the control panel (this is the thing I like about MDK, it has almost everything integrated into one nice control panel) but if you don't, you can go to the shell, enter "su" followed by your root password and then enter "/sbin/service mysql start" or, if that doesn't work, try "/sbin/service mysqld start" (note the extra 'd'). When you want to stop it, instead of 'start', enter 'stop' at the end. You can also enter 'restart' to have it make you a cup of coffee... Self descriptive, right? Hope this helps

Agreed, excellent reading!! A must have for anyone who makes webpages!

Glad you managed to get it working again, without having to reinstall windows from scratch

First of all, I agree with Alan, I think it's much more fun to get your system running by figuring out certain things - as long as you don't need it to work "NOW" and the things you need to figure out are too hard to understand, of course And it's a great learning experience! HC, I'm glad you got this far! Don't thank me, thank yourself for taking the time to do it and having the patience to endure the difficulties Gaim does have some problems with Yahoo! Messenger. Sometimes it can get to your account, sometimes it can't. Never quite understood why. If Kopete works and you need Yahoo!, then use it. There are some other Instant Messengers you can try, if you want. Just go to freshmeat.net and search for "instant messenger" Now for the showstoppers: The soundblaster should work without any problems. Mandrake 10 uses Kernel 2.6, meaning it is probably using ALSA as the sound backend, which supports AWE64. You can get more info about ALSA's supported soundcards here. I'm not sure if Mandrake has sndconfig available but I remember seing a sound configuration thingy on Mandrake's control panel. Have you tried looking there? Unfortunately, the printer is not suppoerted by CUPS The 3200 is, but not the X6170 Not much you can do about this one, unless you want to wait for someone to write a driver for it, write it yourself or (recommended) write Lexmark and complain about the lack of a driver for your operating system. The webpages should probably be located under /var/www/html/ but you should confirm it. The control panel probably has some section for the webserver, where you can see the webpages location on the filesystem. The MySQL error is weird. Where are you getting it? Tell me more about it so I can try to help you out on that one.

The big difference between using MySQL's NOW() and PHP's time() is that PHP's time() will be compatible with any database server, while NOW() may not work, if you change the database server. It requires a tiny bit more work, yes but it's not that hard.

NOW() should work but I suggest you use UNIX timestamps instead. Use the time() function to get a UNIX timestamp from PHP and then insert the returned value into the database. This way, if the need comes, you'll be able to get the timestamp from the database and manipulate it more easily than if you use MySQL's formated timestamp.

HC, you'll have software available for all of those tasks you mentioned in just about any distribution you use Office Suite - OpenOffice, KOffice IM Client - Gaim and a bunch of others (but gaim is the most popular) E-mail client - Evolution, Mozilla Thunderbird, KMail, Sylpheed Claws... Database - MySQL it is but you can also chose PostgreSQL, if you prefer Perl release - These are usualy up to date in all distributions, since PERL is something heavily relied upon, for system scripts (at least on Red Hat / Fedora Core) HTML Editor - Kate, Bluefish, Quanta, Mozilla Composer (only the last one is GUI based) FTP GUI - GFTP, KFTP.... Download optimizer - Downloader for X, KGet Perl code editor - I use Bluefish for all my web coding needs (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP but it supports syntax highlighting for a lot of other languages, including PERL) If the software you get with the distribution you chose is not enough, just head over to freshmeat.net, sourceforge.net and perhaps linux.tucows.com, search for what you want and download the goodies! About the differences between each distribution, well, some distros prefer to include just a minimal set of tools to make your computer work as a gateway/proxy, others want to give you a full desktop environment and provide tools for every-day work, others concentrate more on server software... Some include tools to make them easier to administrate, others have no tools at all and you have to do everything by hand... You see, Linux is actually only the Kernel of the operating system. All the rest is (usually) Free/Open Source software (a lot of it from the GNU project) that the distribution makers throw in the mix - hence the name "GNU/Linux". You can strip a distribution down to it's minimum compnents and have a functioning linux system that takes only a few megabytes. You can even have only the kernel to boot the system. Of course it wouldn't be of much use, though That's why the distribution makers add software packages to the bundle in order to achieve the desired functionality for their Linux flavor/flavour (long story, if you search the Linux kernel mailing lists you'll get it). About the 6 GB HDD, it's enough to try Linux but I think you'll need more space if you want to use it as your main OS Good luck with your experiment! And as I said, if you need any help, just ask!