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Are you installing it on Windows? If so, you shouldn't have any complications. Make sure you have the mysql.ini file in the right place (look it up in the manual) and when you want to access MySQL you need to start it's service. Could you post a step by step description of what you did to install MySQL and start running it?

Yes, I forgot to mention the differences. In addition to what leezard said, you also get the CDs but most importantly, you'll usually get 90 (depending on which distribution you buy) days of support.

Suse Linux is available for free, too, as is every Linux-based OS. You can get it here: http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/su...inux/index.html I wouldn't go for Suse, though. I'd try Red Hat first. People also say that Mandrake is very good for beginners but actually, it's not much different. Red Hat is as easy to install as Mandrake - actually, I'd say it's even easier, because Red Hat has lots of excellent online documentation: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/R...install-guide/; from what I've seen in Mandrake's site, Red Hat has better support; Mandrake can be a little frustrating since they thought it would be nice to put some files in non-standard locations and therefore, some programs freak out;

First of all, let me also recommend that you keep Mozilla around for those occasions when Firebird decides that it's not a good time for it to work Firebird is still a work in progress, and so it crashes a few times. As for the OS, I suggest you take a look at the biggest-and-greatest-Linux-thread-ever http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...?showtopic=2871

OK, you beat me to it: I edited my post but you had already replied

Yep, that's it. Quite easy and provides a neat effect, doesn't it? As for security, I suppose it does pose a bit of a risc. Still, the only thing you could exploit would be a bug in the browser's image handling code, because the script URL is inside an <img /> tag, so the browser should interpret whatever comes from there as an image and nothing else. On the other hand, you can make the script send a different MIME type in the HTTP headers, tricking the browser into thinking the file is not an image but some other kind of file... I don't know how a browser reacts to this because it's a contradiction: the HTML <img /> tag tells the browser that the file is an image but then the HTTP header tells it that it's another kind of file but I don't think it will crash or anything like that. It will probably just ignore the file and move on. Of course there may be some exceptions, like MS' lovely Internet Explorer, which, if I'm recalling correctly, suffered from such a bug, some time ago...

Yes, that's basically it. Here's how it works on the background: In it's configuration file, Apache has a list of files for which it should look when your browser requests a directory. When that happens, Apache takes a look at the directory you're requesting, to see if there's any of the files it knows of. If there is, it'll serve the first that matches the list. If it doesn't find any matching file, it will show you a directory listing if the directory is set with the permissions for it, or an error page otherwise. For example, imagine you have an index.html and an index.php file on your public_html folder and the index list on your Apache's configuration is the following: index.html index.htm index.php index.shtml If you request http://jimscomputing.com/, Apache will first look for an index.html file in the public_html directory and serve it. If you delete that file, the next time you request that same URL, Apache will not find index.html, so it will look for an index.htm and will not find one either. It will then look for an index.php file and since there's one, it will serve it. Next, imagine you also delete the index.php file. If you request the same URL once again, Apache will do the same it did before but this time it will not find index.php and when looking for index.shtml it will not find it either, so it will check the directory's permissions and if you are allowed to see it's contents, it will display them, otherwise it will give you the "401 Unauthorized" error. I don't know what's the index files list here at TCH but it could be a useful piece of information. Could someone post that here, please?

I change it every 10 minutes. If you pay attention, you'll see that there are times when it doesn't change - that's when I'm not home, so I can't change it. OK, I'm just kidding, of course! It's a script on my webserver. I know I posted how to do it somewhere here on the forums, in response to someone's question about PHP and generating text in images. Let me try to find it........ got it: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...?showtopic=3042

I don't think you'd have any legal problems with that and I find it a pretty cool idea!

Right on, Rick. It's fixed, now Thanks!!

Well, you don't even need to put the /index.php part, it works if you write just jimscomputing.com and actually, that's the more usual way Besides, PHP is so common that people are used to see that termination on webpages, so it's not a big shock. Of course, there are people for whom computers are a strange thing, but I think those will freak out even just with the .html

It's still there. Do you want me to open a help desk ticket to provide you with my username and password, so you can take a look at it?

Get used to it, Cheryl. They keep surprising us every day! Welcome to te family!

This might not even be related to the mail server but since it started happening when Rick changed something on server6's mail server, I though I'd post it here, maybe someone has a clue as to what it can be: I have this little applet that sits on my Gnome taskbar and regularly checks my mail server to see if there's any messages (an inbox monitor). If there are, it displays a little rotating 'e', meaning I've got new mail and can open my e-mail client to fetch it. The thing is that the inbox monitor always indicates one more message than there really is, even if I don't have any message in the server (it says I've got 1 message). But then I open Evolution (my e-mail client), press the "Send and Receive" button and it doesn't complain about anything. I'm guessing this is probably something wrong with the inbox checker and not the TCH mail server but it's strange that it started happening after Rick fixed the other problem I mentioned above. Does anyone have any clue about this one? Thanks in advance.

For those of you who want to try these scripts, note that most of them only work on Internet Explorer and are not standards compliant. Otherwise, great collection, Zethilone

Oops! Sorry, I forgot about the "Choice does matter" slogan. It was a little late when I posted that and my brain was a little numb...

Yep, it seems allright now Thanks a lot, guys

Thanks for the kind words, Bill I enjoy being part of the family As for my e-mail "problem", I'll drop in the support ticket (I'll give it a low priority, since it's not a big deal). I should note that I checked my forwards in CPanel and I only have one set up, contrary to leezard's case (at first I thought that would be the source of my problem, too). PS - Ticket submited. I'll post here when I receive an answer. Good night, everyone

How about a slogan for TCH? I was thinking of something related to advertising TCH and I thought of slogans... It seems something a little "small" for such a grand prize, though... I think... or maybe not... Anyway, I have to agree that the webpage contest is probably not a good idea, since there are certainly family members who know *much* more about making webpages than others. That would make things a bit unfair. Yes, a contest will always be a little unbalanced, there will always be some people who know more about the contest subject than others. But I think we should try to select a contest that minimizes that difference and perhaps focus a little more on something that doesn't have to do with technical knowledge - hence the slogan idea; it all depends on your imagination. By the way, I'll take this chance to say what everybody else already knows, and contests such as this one only make it even more obvious: Rock Sign

Just a note about E-mail and Firebird: Mozilla Firebird is not supposed to be a coplete package like Mozilla is. Meaning, it doesn't have an e-mail client. If you want one, you can get Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Firebird's "e-mail companion". Think of it this way: Firebird is the remake of the Mozilla browser component and Thunderbird is the remake of the e-mail client. But they're making them separately this time - a better approach, IMHO, since it means smaller files to download, smaller memory footprints and software that runs faster Get them all at www.mozilla.org

I'm in a bit of a hurry, now. How long will we be able to give ideas for the game?

Hi everyone. I'm having a strange "problem" with my e-mails. It's not quite a problem since it's not doing anything really bad but it's annoying. I have two e-mail accounts in my borfast.com TCH account and I have set up a forwarder so that everything that comes into the second e-mail account gets forwarded to my main account. The thing is that for every e-mail sent to my second account, I receive two in my main account. Does anyone know what this could be?

There are?? I have already been there and I don't remember seing any new stuff. Can you give an example?

Excellent post, idallen!! I can relate to almost everything you said! Well, I never used a DEC computer or had a 'true' UNIX at my place but I also started with the command line (Slackware or Debian, anyone?) Anyway, I think this topic is becoming something every Linux newby should read!

That's something I never thought about but... can spaces be used at all?? Maybe that's the problem...