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I'm trying to set up an image upload section for clients to submit fairly large image files (up to 30Mb) for use on their design projects. Since I am not on a dedicated server, I cannot modify the PHP.ini file, but my understanding is that I can set higher upload and time limits on a directory basis by using a .htaccess file. Is this correct? If so, is there any specific technique I must use in my PHP code to recognize the .htaccess file, or is it automatic? This is undoubtedly the start of many questions I will have as I put this together (I'm a print designer with just enough PHP knowledge to really screw things up). Thanks for reading this far.

Great! Thanks Mike.

Will do. Thanks!

Can anyone tell me what the file named "courierpop3dsizelist" is and what it is for? It is located in the following directory: /mail / DOMAIN.COM / EMAIL_NAME / Also, in the same directory is another directory "cur" which I assume is shorthand for "current". This directory always seems to get filled up for my wife's account even though her email client (Apple Mail) is set up to remove all messages from the server immediately upon download. On the other hand, I have the same settings on my email client (Apple Mail), and never have a problem with my "cur" directory getting full. Odd... Thanks for any help (it's great having such a quick responding support forum!) sigmadog

That's great news. Thank, Bruce!

I'm going to be putting together a basic site for a client using PHP. Their site is hosted on an NT server, and PHP is loaded. I've done most of my PHP on Unix servers (Apache) so I'm wondering: Are there are any major differences between how I should code for the NT server versus Apache?

I haven't been around here for a couple weeks, so I missed this thread... I use GoLive 6.0.2 for my site design and for my clients. I'm not a super-knowledgeable geeky web guy, just a designer who knows what I want the site to look like. I do a bit of coding off to the side using BBEdit (I'm on a Mac) whenever I need a specific javascript or php script, but most of the work is done in GoLive. There is some quirkiness involved with GoLive, but it's a quirkiness that I, for the most part, understand. Having tried the Dreamweaver demo a while back, I was quite impressed with it, but couldn't make the mental leap in workflow from GoLive. It's like apples and oranges. Clearly, you can go into some impressive depth of coding with Dreamweaver, but that's not my specialty, so GoLive works fine for me. A word of advice: avoid like the plague GoLive's grids, they make for incredibly dense and heavy, complicated code. Do your layout with CSS and leave the tables for tabular content; it's much cleaner that way. You can view my site at sigmadog.com Good luck with your business.

Yep. Another thing to consider is storage expandability. On an iMac that is limited to external drives. Personally, if I were getting into video production on a Mac, I'd probably go for a G5 tower with a dual processor. Of course, cost is always a factor, but the lifespan of the tower versus the iMac is something to think about: the dual G5 will be productive and expandable for a lot longer than the self contained iMac. If you are close to an Apple store, you should visit it and take a test drive.

Well, as a Mac user, I like the fact that the Mac comes with basic editing software for free (iMovie HD, iDVD) as well as music creation software (Garageband). I don't work with the video editing software so much right now (I'm a print designer), so I can't really say if they have all the power you would need for your videos. Your level of experience in the field, and what you want to accomplish will likely be the determining factors there. But if your needs match the Mac application's capabilities, that's a fairly sizable money savings right there. You should look into whether the iMac is powerful enough to handle video editing. I know they market towards the casual / family user and if your needs don't rise much above that, then the iMac might work fine. By the way, none of this is to say that PC's are bad (no flames from the Borg Collective, please) But my experiences are with Macs. Good luck. Sounds like fun.

Overall an excellent photo in terms of composition and colors. My only comment is that the natural center of interest (in my view) are the more delicate central protuberances (what the heck do you call those, anyway?), and they seem slightly out of focus. I wonder if the image could be improved by shifting the center of focus to these items instead of the foreground? Anyway, I do some photography myself, in addition to my career as a graphic designer. And I've art directed a few photo shoots (which makes critiquing second nature - you know what they say: "Those who can't, criticize."). You have a great photo there, regardless.

Here is my Office/Home workstation. My wife and I run our own graphic design business from home. As the primary creative member of the team, it's important for me to stay creatively inspired. The photo shows several possible sources of inspiration. Name them and you will WIN a Great Deal of satisfaction.

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Yep, I'd probably be looking at the USB ports as well. You might try the Apple Discussion Forums (if you haven't yet) before doing anything drastic. Wish I could help more, but this is pretty far from the "using the CD tray as a coffee cup holder" type of help that I can handle.

I just finished spending nearly three hours installing Microsoft's Virtual PC 7 with Windows XP for Mac. I'm doing some work for a client and I need to make it in Windows, and I'm really starting to regret it, if only for the lost time (at least I got to watch 24 on Fox - I'm dedicated to my clients, but I have my limits). If you own a Mac G5 with more than 2 GB RAM. You will need to download the 7.0.1 upgrade to Virtual PC or you won't be able to get it to work. I discovered that pleasant fact well into the second hour of my install. Apparently, the braintrust at Microsoft didn't think to test their product on high-RAM G5's before rushing it off to market. One of the "solutions" presented in the Microsoft support groups before the upgrade came out was to remove any extra RAM to run Virtual PC. Yeah, that'll fly. I'm gonna yank a stick of RAM out of my computer just so I can play Minefield? Sheesh! Anyway, the upgrade did eventually do it's job and now I too can experience the wonderful world of viruses, worms, and spyware, just like everyone else. At last, I finally feel like I belong! Yeah, this is a bit of a smart alecky post, but it's been a long day and I must either vent or kick the cat, and, well, I can't find the darn cat.

Does the outage occur while you are using the mouse, or is it after the computer has been asleep? My reason for asking is that my previous computer, a Mac G4/450 had problems every once in a while with it's video connection after waking from sleep. The fix usually involved a shut-down, a 5-minute walk about, and a restart. Also, I've noticed that a static charge can kill the USB connection also. I've shocked myself once or twice on my Wacom pad and had to re-start. I've learned to touch grounded metal before sitting down at my desk. I'm no expert on this, however, just offering my initial thoughts.

Yeah, I've done that. But my firm conviction, proven time and time again, is that I'm not necessarily the sharpest tool in the shed, and my fear is that some dishonest fellow who is much smarter than I could find a way to read it. Everything I've read so far says it's not a real big issue, and I have no reason to doubt it, so I'll go merrily along with the crowd and leave it where it is. Thanks, Bruce!

Yep! that's it. Thanks, guys! I missed that button. It's working now. Which brings up another question of security. WordPress has me store the wp_config.php file in the blog directory, but how secure is that information? Shouldn't it go outside the root? And if it is outside the root, wouldn't that create problems for other scripts within the application? Sorry. I should probably look for other threads on this topic, but it just occured to me now.

I've been working on transferring my database from my old server to TCH. Got that done just fine. I loaded all my WorpPress files and updated the wp_config.php file to reflect my new settings which are patterned thusly: ------- define('DB_NAME', 'user_XXXX'); // The name of the database define('DB_USER', 'user_YYYY'); // Your MySQL username define('DB_PASSWORD', 'ZZZZ'); // ...and password define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value ------ I've checked and rechecked these settings, and they match those set on the database, but I am getting the MySQL error: ------- We're having a little trouble selecting the proper database for WordPress. Are you sure it exists? Your database name is currently specified as user_XXXX. Is this correct? On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could that be the problem? Access denied for user: 'user_YYYY@localhost' to database 'user_XXXX' ---------- The only wrinkle here is that I've placed my blog in a subdomain so that the URL goes like: "http://www.blog.mysite.com" but that doesn't seem to be an issue by my reading of the error message. I've been to the WordPress Support pages and haven't found anything other than a trick to get the exact wording of the MySQL error, but no solution so far. Any thoughts? Take your time, as I'm going to bed after a long day. I'll check in tomorr... er, I mean later today. Thanks!