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We were there the end of June through the beginning of July last year. It was a great time. We stayed at the South Coast, Its about 2 miles south of the main show but still on the same road. Only half of the rooms were finished at the time and the price was right. Should I mention the buffet? I think it was about $12 for supper. Being from the midwest it came as a shock when we walked out of the airport at 2 AM local time. It was still over 100 degrees! Don't believe that cra# about "Its a dry heat". It's just da## hot! But we loved it. Another thing we noticed was that all of the back yards as well as the neighborhood itself had brick walls around them. Talk about locking in the heat. We DO recommend the heli tour of the Grand Canyon. It was about $200/person for 3+ hours but well worth it. The history we learned about there and back. The movie scene locations. The final scene in Thelma and Louise. The Mars movies. I had no clue. You have to drive through Death Valley, its surreal! 122 degrees! The poor rental car, it was all it could do to cool the interior to about 90. The colors the different kinds of rocks the different looks! You gotta see it. We drove from SPAMMER-BEWARE to SPAMMER-BEWARE just to see the different styles and try the food. If you like french food go to the Paris. JUST GO!

I have noticed for a while that when I close or save a Word document, there is a lot of network activity. This happens even when it is stored on my local drives. It can take upwards of 10 seconds to close. However if I disconnect from the network it closes almost instantly. It makes me wonder if a copy is being sent to "The Man". But that is not likely as I have exclusive access to my machine. Any thoughts??

I tried Open Office a while back, it's cute. I need the Rules feature of Outlook. And My Access database needs to be able to read my emails.

Currently I am using Office 2000 and the disc's don't care how many machines you install them on. I had heard from the salesman at Bestbuy that Microsoft would allow you to install Office 2003 on one desktop and one laptop machine. Does anyone know about Office 2007 Professional? Ideally I would like to install it at home, work and my laptop. I assume you have to activate it via the web. Thanks

Gmail wouldn't cut it for me. I use Outlook as I can use Access to retreive the order information and generate the proper email replys. Unless there is a better way. I am open for new ideas.

It’s a small fix it yourself site. Due to the nature of the business, we don’t get many repeat customers. But that brings to mind another question. When the mail quota is used up on the server, does the auto responder still work? Or does it email “That mail box is full”? Because if it still works I can set it to a small number and reply “This address is no longer used, Please visit the main site”.

I realize that I can/will get spam. But with form mail (using PHP programming) I can force the word ”Model” in the beginning of the subject. That will make filtering very easy. Second I could use rotating email addresses such as January_service_only@mysite.com. The customer would not see the address until they get a return response from me. I hope that they will be smart enough to figure it out.

What are the down sides of using form mail (PHP)? And or rotating email accounts to nix spam? It seems in the last week the level of spam getting through Spam Assin has gone way up. It was about 5 or 6 a day now it's has been running 400-500. I am considering form mail and using an account like 'january_only@mysite.com' . There has been some great help on here in the past, thanks.

I am the IT dude for the small company I work for. We have high speed (over phone wires) internet into a router (belkin cheapie), going to about 9 work stations (XP,2K). We have one employee who spends too much time surfing the government sites for ways to get his family into the US. Is there a way to block anything with .gov in it. I am using the hosts file but I have to enter each and every site. Thanks P.S. The boss doesn't like to spend money. That's why I got stuck with the IT stuff.

I know that your opinions are not legal advise, but here goes. I have a site that helps people fix their own tvs. An individual has (aparently) read one of my pages to adjust the focus on his set. He claims, in his words... "I got severly electrocuted" And now he is going to have his lawyer contact me. bla bla bla I'm not overly concerned as I have never had any contact , financial or otherwise with this person. And my site never told him to stick any body part into a spot where there is dangerous voltage. My question is .. If he is in state "A" and I am in state "B", where does he file? Thanks

1. They are dropped to a post pay page that instructs them to expect an email from us. I have a significant percentage that forgets they have a different email address since they signed up for Paypal. A month later they email that they never received what they ordered. 2. Ick ! 3. My clients are your average run of the mill people. They don’t have fax machines. 4. I sell specific information about their model of television. Emailed to them. And a fair number of my sales are for $5. Adding an extra fee for snail mail receipt would just gum up the works. Plus an upsell offer in the same arena would take more creativity than I have.

Every now and then I hear mention of a solution to the spam problem. I think Yahoo had an article on comparing the header with bla bla bla and so on. Guaranteeing that the mail came from the person who sent it. So why doesn’t someone implement one of these schemes? Is it the major company’s ( Yahoo,AOL, etc) don’t want to consider anothers ideas? Or could it be that someone else is making money on “on going spam solutions”? It’s irritating enough having to cull through the mail trashing the ones with the two word, meaningless subject lines. Yes I do use Spam Assasin. But every now and then a paying customer of mine emails me saying he didn’t receive the info he ordered. I surmise his email trashed my email, thinking it was spam. If you had a in house software issue of this magnitude the higher ups would have flamed the programmers and it would have been fixed in a couple of hours. What is the take from the experts on here? Just venting

Got it! Life is good again. (As I eat crow...) Thanks

I logged in to cpanel late today to find an anoying change. I used to be able to manipulate the data in my databases. Or more importantly replace ALL of the data using a text file. Granted I haven't spent much time 'Searching' through here (yet) but I wanted to see if I could get an answer or help before the TCH guys go home. Roy

Thanks I'll look into the program. At the same time I am pursuing a PHP method. I have found an easy way to delete all of the old data. I know it's just basic SQL but so am I. Next I have a script that would parse a text file and insert the data into the database. I am shooting for a no password, no brainer, click you are done method. Some of the people in the office here are still having trouble with the concept of "more than one window open at the same time". So less is more. thanks

As prices change in my local Access database I create a text file with the entire table data. Then I use Cpanel to empty a table in my database and then insert fresh data from the text file on my local drive. This works fine for me but now I need to have the rank and file workers do the same task. Does anyone know of a PHP script that will accomplish the task without asking the worker for any user input of any kind? thanks

That is what I am using. The first script does show I am connecting. But the weird thing on the second script is the ECHO statement doesn't print.

I really appreciate the patience everyone here has for us beginners. I'm getting closer, I think. I can connect using the script below. <?php $DBHOST = "localhost"; $DBUSER = "sales_bob"; $DBPASS = "abcd"; $DBNAME = "sales_newdatabase"; echo("work"); // // lets show any errors we get in PHP // ini_set ('display_errors', 1); error_reporting (E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); // // Now we connect to the MySQL server and select the database // if ($dbc = @mysql_connect ($DBHOST, $DBUSER , $DBPASS )) { if (!@mysql_select_db ($DBNAME)) { die ('<p>Could not select the database because: <b>'.mysql_error().'</b></p>'); } } else { die ('<p>Could not connect to MySQL because: <b>'.mysql_error().'</b></p>'); } echo ("<h4>Successfully connected to your MySQL server and database</h4>"); ?> But the next script gives me a blank screen when I run it. Not even the echo("test "); prints. <?php $dbhost = "localhost"; $dbuser = "sales_bob"; $dbpass = "abcd"; $dbname = "sales_newdatabase"; $dbtable = "feedback"; echo("test "); $conn = mysql_connect"($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass); mysql_select_db($dbname); $sql = "select * from $dbtable"; $result = mysql_query($sql,$conn); $number_of_rows = mysql_numrows($result); echo "the number of rows is $number_of_rows"; ?> No errors are listed or anything for that matter. Just a blank screen. Through the Cpanel tools I have the DB and Table and sample data. What am I missing? I am trying to get the hang of mysql/php one step at a time. Is there something I need to configure at the php/mysql admin level? Thanks again

I have a site with TC since 2003. Plain old HTML stuff. I copied the pages from another site and changed the colors and content using Firstpage 2000. So my HTML skills are not the best but I get by. Now since I have some success with the site, I want to do some major changes. Stuff like changing one menu list and having it reflect on all my pages. And maybe some data lookup functions. I know I can do that with PHP and MYSQL but thats two more languages I would have to try to pick up the basics. Would Dreamweaver be a better learning option, to get the job done? Any and all opinions are welcome.