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A contest for the person most representing the best in TCH family values , as seen in forum postings. Rock Sign

Of course it works. Have I ever lied to you before?

Yes, if you remove *all* permissions (even your own!) from a folder before you run the Entropy search rebuild, the search engine will not be able to enter that folder to index the files it contains. After you rebuild the search index, you can re-enable permissions on the folder. The search engine indexes everything in your public_html directory, whether you link to it or not and whether you have it web-password protected or not. (The indexing software runs using your account permissions - if you can access the item, so can the index builder.) Web passwords only protect folders from web browsers, not from anything running on your server (including the search engine indexing software). Of course, if someone tries to access a password-protected item in the Entropy search index using their browser, the web password will trigger and they will have to supply it. Items that only your userid can access on the server will also not be accessible via a web browser (though they will appear in the Entropy index). Web access to those will be "Permission denied".

It's only safe from web browsers. Anyone running PHP, or CGI, or shell scripts on the same server as you can read it. Web passwords only stop web browsers. They aren't good for security on shared hosts.

That's what I like about the Linux/Unix community - it's a fellowship.

I teach GNU/Linux at a Canadian community college. I've been using Unix/Linux for about 27 years. I'll summarize my background and give my thoughts on using Linux from that perspective. I started using Bell Labs Unix V7 (the O/S after which GNU/Linux was ultimately modelled) while taking Computer Science courses at the University of Waterloo in 1976. It was all command-line (like DOS); no graphical user interface (GUI). In the 1980's we started using the X Window system - a graphical system that ran on top of Unix. Mostly I used the GUI to let me run multiple command-line text consoles on one display. At home, I would use a plain ASCII terminal to dial into the Unix machine at school - no graphics. Unix was my only O/S until I bought my first personal computer in 1996. My first personal computer was a P166/64MB that ran Windows 95. (No, I never used DOS or WIndows 3.x.) I played with Windows 95 for a year or two, customized all kinds of things, peeked and poked and generally had a good time, except for all the unexplained crashes. I mostly ran a program that allowed my home Unix machine (a DEC workstation) to open windows on my Windows machine, so I was typing into Unix on my Windows desktop. I bought Microsoft Office; I used Power Point and Excel in my teaching. In 1998 I picked up a free copy of SuSE GNU/Linux (a European distribution) at a local Linux Users Group. I had an ever better time poking and prodding than I had with Windows, and there were almost no crashes. Shortly after that, I tried and stayed with a Mandrake distribution (from France). I'm currently upgrading my machines from Mandrake 8.2 to Mandrake 9.1. With Microsoft's conviction for illegal and monopolistic trade practices in the late 1990's, I made a moral choice to avoid the company as much as possible. "Does not play well with others" is something of an understatement. My best work has always been in cooperative and collaborative projects, such as the Ottawa FreeNet and teaching in general. GNU/Linux and the open-source movement fit this well. As a concession to the illegal monopoly, I bought "Win4Lin", a program that lets me boot Windows inside a window on my Linux desktop and run many Windows programs. (It boots Win98 inside Linux in less than 10 seconds.) I haven't had a machine that boots Windows natively in a year or two. I think non-mainstram companies (and non-mainstream Linux distributions) try harder to satisfy their customers than companies with larger market share. Linux and Apple have user-fests where people get together to say how much they love their computers and share their work. You'll find discussion threads like this one about Linux and how neat it is - it's rare to find a similar one about any Microsoft product. When you pay big money for all your software, you aren't so keen about freely sharing the work you do with others. GNU/Linux is a very sharing community. I'm a power user of computers. I grew up without menus. I learned the power (and fun!) that comes from knowing how to write little programs to make the computer do what *I* wanted it to do. When the graphical user interfaces arrived, the things I wanted to do often weren't on any menus. No problem - I just wrote little programs to do them, and typed their names on the command line or stuck the little programs into the menus. Under Linux, the open-source philosophy gives me the source to the programs that do everything I see on my desktop. I can copy, learn, and modify anything to work the way I want it to. In another forum, you'll see that I went to the Apache source code to track down the exact meaning of an error a user was seeing. Windows users can't do this; all the software is secret. Sharing isn't allowed. That's not the kind of environment in which I like to work. It's difficult for users of commercial software to click on anything that isn't there to make the parent company more money. Commercial success isn't measured by whether you *like* the product; it's measured by whether you *buy* the product (and buy the endless series of upgrades). Things are in Linux because people *like* them there. We *wanted* them there. It's not because they make profit for someone. If I think something else should be there, I have access to the code; I can write it and give it to you. Linux is a software suite that gives us real freedom and power. We can share, we can learn, and it's all free.

I went to the Apache source code to find out what causes that error. Here it is: > if (str[0] != '[' || str[strlen(str)-1] != ']') { return "RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters"; } In other words, if the delimiter at the start of the flag part (the [OR] thing at the end) is not a left bracket, or the delimiter at the end of the flag part is not a right bracket, you see that error. The RewriteCond line must have exactly four fields. Some things to check: - that you have no unescaped blank in one of the lines (i.e. xxxxx\ yyyyy containing two blanks, only one of which is escaped) - that lines ending in a backslash have no blanks after them I copied your posting and pasted it into my own .htaccess file and it gave no errors; but, I don't know if the cut/paste between you and me removed duplicate blanks.

You might recognizeTim Berners-Lee as the fellow who invented the WWW. This site works best in Any Browser - Campaign for Non-Specific WWW.

Gutter mind? What's gutter about an accomplished nose typist?

O unkind cut! O cruel barb!I'm not from Canada ; I'm in Canada. (I also happen to be from the part of Canada that I'm in; but, that's incidental to the ins and outs of where I'm from. ) Here in Canada the PCs have microphones and, if you run Wyndose, they crash in two languages. Rock Sign because Linux Rocks!

Both hands? This leads us to ask how you are typing your replies; but, perhaps the details are more than you wish to reveal at this stage in our relationship. :-)

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Here in Ottawa (45 degrees north latitude, beside a river) it's been about normal: min 16C max 27C (60F, 80F) In Boston, my wife bought an air conditioner for her room! (She's at Boston U studing International Public Health for three months.) Official Ottawa weather (metric and Imperial): http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?yow http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/cit...html?yow&unit=i Ottawa weather summary: http://weather.davintech.ca/

Into this family forum comes a movie with plagiarized pictures and music showing people getting blown up and falling off buildings, and people say "wow" and send it to all their friends. It scares me. I ask: Should every country do that? (send people to travel the world and kill the people who threaten its way of life) and people say "inappropriate topic for a family forum". Yuck! Okay, sorry. I didn't know. It's not easy for people living outside US culture to comprehend what US family values mean these days. It's a sensitive issue, and words seem harsh when there are no faces to see behind them. I'll wait for that www.standing-on-the-back-deck-drinking-a-beer-while- roasting-a-hotdog.com/forum.php. Make it a tofu dog. Obviously I'm not going to figure this one out at a keyboard.

Is every nation on earth that thinks it sees a threat to its way of life obligated to wage war to end that threat?

Not being American, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to remember until I read the background: http://64.177.83.63/liberty/background.htm (The background says that the pictures and music for the piece were taken from other people, without credit. That hardly seems fair.) The author says Americans are obligated to go to war "every place on earth that ever poses a threat to the American way of life". You might understand how nervous this makes us non-Americans feel. :-(

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Tim Berners-Lee invented the web as a way to share information. It seems reasonable that it should be hard to hide and protect information using a tool designed to share and distribute it! :-)

But remember that anything that relies just on .htaccess and/or .htpasswd is only safe from web browsers, not from PHP, CGI, or shell. (Many/most of the suggested scripts are only secure from web browsers, not from direct file system access.)