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Welcome to the forums, AngelBlade9!

Welcome to the forums, Matt! MySQL and PHP are both provided on TCH's servers - you do not need to download or install either one.

Just the fact that the PC reboots by itself isn't really enough to know what might be causing it. Some possibilites: 1) Some installed program has a bad bug in it, and when it crashes, is taking system with it. 2) Some part of operating system has become corrupted or damaged, making system unstable. 3) CPU or graphics card is overheating. 4) System is infected with a virus or trojan that deliberately reboots system, triggers random reboots, or allows system to be rebooted remotely. Some questions that may help in troubleshooting: - Has the system had any new software or hardware installed or uninstalled recently? - Does the Event Viewer (in Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, Administrative Tools) show any events that could be linked to reboot problem? - Has the system lost power recently or been turned off without being shut down properly? - Does the system seem to run about the same amount of time after turning it on before it reboots by itself? - Does the system have anti-virus software installed on it, and if so, has it been scanned recently? Tracking down this kind of problem often isn't easy.

Welcome to the forums, John!

One way is to use an MT index template to generate .htaccess 'Redirect permanent' directives for your old MT entry permalinks. Required: the DirifyPlus plugin. In MT, create a new index template. The Template Name and Output File aren't really important because you're just going to use this temporarily. You could use "Redirect to WP" for the name, and "redirects.html" for the Output File Name, for example. Copy the following code and paste it into the Template Body: ><MTEntries lastn="99999"> Redirect permanent /mt/archives/<$MTEntryDate format="%Y/%m"$>/<$MTEntryBasename$>.php http://www.garduque.net/wp/<$MTEntryDate format="%Y/%m/%d"$>/<$MTEntryTitle dirifyplus="pld"$>/<br /> </MTEntries> Save the template, then rebuild it. Go to 'redirects.html' in your browser and you should see the generated directives. Copy and paste them into your .htaccess file (I'd recommend the .htaccess file in your public_html directory). The list of Redirect directives should be checked to ensure that both the MT URLs and the WP URLs are correct - there may be a few cases where the logic does not generate the correct URL. I've taken an educated guess on the code above, using the permalinks on both your MT and WP pages as a guide. Once you're satisfied with the list of Redirect directives and have placed them into your .htaccess file, you can delete the Index template if you wish. Regular visitors and search engines that hit your old MT entries should now be redirected to your new WP pages. Hope this helps...

Welcome to the forums, Rich! I believe you are confused about the different types of IP addresses and where you are likely to see them: 1) Dynamic IP address - this is an IP address that a computer holds temporarily, such as your home computer on a dial-up or DSL account. When you connect to the internet, you are assigned an IP address, but lose that IP address when you disconnect. When you re-connect, you are (usually) given a different IP address. 2) Static IP address - this is an IP address that is assigned permanently to a computer. A web server works best with a static IP address, as the DNS records that point to it do not have to be continuously updated. 3) Dedicated IP address - this is a static IP address that is used by only one person / party. 4) Shared IP address - this is a static IP address that is used by multiple persons / parties. When you sign up for a TCH account and register a domain, your account and domain will be set up on one of TCH's servers. TCH's servers have static IP addresses, and the IP addresses are shared IP addresses if you purchase a virtual account - you will be sharing the web server with other TCH users, but the IP address will not change. After your account is set up, the DNS record that says "your-TCH-domain.com = IP address xx.xxx.xx.xxx" is set up, but that needs to propogate to all of the DNS servers on the internet. This process can take from 24 to 72 hours. Since the IP address of your domain will be on a server that has a static, shared IP address, it will not change. So once the DNS has propogated through the internet, you don't have to worry about the IP address changing and waiting for the new DNS to propogate again. Hope this helps...

Welcome to the forums, wallysparks!

I'm by no means an expert here, but I'll weigh in with what my understanding is... em resizes fonts relative to the size of the current font. px is what I would consider specifying an absolute size (strictly, it does not, but it works for me). The argument against using px is that IE users cannot adjust the size of the text in their browser window if it is too small or too large by using "View", "Text Size". (Firefox does not have this limitation - Firefox users can use "View", "Text Size" and it will resize fonts sized with px.) Specifying fonts in a relative size (such as by using em) allows IE users to resize the fonts on the page, but then the appearance of your page is at the mercy of what the user's current "View", "Text Size" setting is ('Smallest', 'Smaller', 'Medium', 'Larger', or 'Largest'). What looks good at 'Medium' often will not when viewed at 'Smaller' or 'Larger', for example. I personally found it too much trouble to get IE to use decent font sizes with relative sizing while taking into account the different "View", "Text Size" settings, so I used px to size all of my fonts on my web page. Hope this helps...

About all that can be said is that at least one file on your drive (the file that you can't copy) is corrupted in some way - a bad sector is just one possibility. I don't know how you're copying the files (or what OS you're using). In Windows XP, you could open a command prompt window and use xcopy /c to copy your files and continue even if errors occur. (Use xcopy /? to see all options available for xcopy command.)

I believe that error is a read error - the problem is with the file on the drive you are copying *from*. If there was a CRC problem writing the file (like due to a bad sector on the disk), the disk should automatically find the next available good sector and keep going.

Welcome to the forums, /usr/local! TCH can do a site-to-site transfer, but only if the the other site has CPanel access. The FTP manager in CPanel is what you'll use to create an FTP username/password with: - Log into CPanel, then click on FTP Manager - Click on the 'FTP Accounts' link - Click on the 'Add FTP Account' link - Enter FTP login and password that you want to create, and enter '/' in the Directory box. - Click 'Create' button Note the username of the new login on the 'FTP Accounts' page - it may have the login name created with '@your-TCH-site.com' appended to it. Give the new username (including the '@your-TCH-site.com' if necessary) and password to the site's owner, and they will be able to login with any FTP program to upload files to the TCH server.

Hi Brian - The Help Desk should be able to assist you with regaining access to your CPanel. I would like to point out something though. It is possible (but not likely) that CPanel and Invision Power Board have some bug in them that's preventing you from being "remebered" between visits. When you visit your CPanel or this forum and log in, a cookie is sent to your computer to identify who you are and that you are logged in. If the cookies are not generated correctly, you would not be remembered properly. But these cookies are in turn stored by your browser. If your browser is not saving those cookies, or is deleting all of them when you close your browser, there nothing for the browser to send back to CPanel or this forum to identify you. Form data that filled in for you when you return to a page (such as your login username and password) is exclusively saved and retrieved by your browser - the CPanel and IPB applications have nothing to do with that at all. Based on the problems you've described, I would suspect that the problems you're experiencing are issues with your browser (perhaps your browser's cookies and form data settings need to be changed, or the saved cookies and form data have become corrupt), and not CPanel or IPB.

Welcome to the forums, zealous!

I believe the contact list is actually stored in the Buddies.xml file ('Program Files/Trillian/users/default' directory).

You can download the update and install it yourself manually from the MSKB article 886185 page (look for the download link under "Microsoft Download Center"). Maybe you'll have better luck with that.

Movable Type, WordPress, and Textpattern are all blogging applications, and I guess all of them could be viewed as a CMS. Movable Type can do all of the things you've described - use MySQL, link to and display archived articles in a number of ways (individual archives, category archives, and daily/weekly/monthly archives), and it includes an Atom XML feed template by default. Although MT can do what you ask, I would not characterize MT as a "simple mySQL/PHP based news publishing script" - most people would not consider it simple and it's not PHP based, although it can produce PHP pages and does have a PHP dynamic publishing capability. Hopefully some of the other family members here can provide some information on the other applications you're considering.

I think it would help to know a little more about what you're looking for. You say you're "not happy with the way it [CuteNews] archives old news" - what exactly are you not happy with? How would you like your archives stored? I can answer specific questions about Movable Type's capabilities, but I don't know much about any of the other programs you've mentioned.

Welcome to the forums, ripefis!

Congratulations, Weezy! Good luck on reaching your goals this year!

Welcome to the forums, ry_shuq!

Welcome to the forums, Silent85!

Welcome to the forums, dmath!

Welcome to the forums, Tiffany! As others have said, it can take up to 24 hours before your account is set up, but hopefully it won't be nearly that long. When I signed up at TCH, I think I received my welcome e-mail within an hour or two.

Welcome to the forums, Redman! Doing a quick search of the forums, I found this answer: I know that's probably not what you want to hear - sorry.

That's exactly the problem. From what I've read, GoDaddy has been doing this for at least three years, and they thought it was okay since nobody ordered them to stop.