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I just saw the new version... maybe I'll give this another spin... har har.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp W3Schools has great guides on the basics if you're just starting out. I found PHP.net and MySQL.com a little overwhelming when I first started learning.

I think his point was that PHP isn't any more complicated than JS. I actually started with PHP and am now learning JS... usually the other way than what many people might do.

http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm Arctic Silver 5 helps a bit, but not quite as much as you seem to press on. That Zalman 9500/9700 (whichever one it is) is almost impossible to incorrectly install. As long as he's got any sort of thermal paste in there, it'll do the job.

The two and three finger clicking is something that's implemented in the drivers, not the hardware. Just because the Linux drivers allowed you to do that, doesn't mean that the Windows Synaptics drivers will have that feature. I've seen it in OSX for Mac laptops, but I have yet to see that option in Windows.

You might want to look into purchasing a barebones laptop and adding the necessary components. You'll be able to use your own software on it without any troubles, and the price would be up to you.

What's your price point? That'll play a role in what you can get. Any preference on size? I know my father won't travel with anything larger than a 12" screen, because otherwise the laptops are too heavy. On the other hand, my hands are large, so I can't type on any of those tiny keyboards. Do you need lots of battery life, or just a portable computer that can be used on occasion without being plugged in? Dell and Lenovo would be my first two picks. Asus makes some nice laptops, but they can be pretty pricey. Just make sure that if you get the Dell, get the CompleteCare package. It's accidental protection (against pretty much everything except theft) so if you drop it or spill coffee on it, they'll fix it or replace it.

For the links, I'd suggest looking at this directory listing script. I've got it running in my random files folder, and it posts icons before certain types of files. There's also this simple directory indexer that might get you going in the right direction.

@jcarle - There are good lessons and bad lessons. Typing is actually a lot like playing a piano, and I know some people who have serious wrist injuries from playing the piano, while others who use proper positioning of their hands/wrists never feel a thing. It has to do with the fact that the tendons that actuate your fingers sit inside "sleeves". When your wrist is flexed up or down, the tendons rub against the side of the sleeves. This is fine for the occasional thing, but when it's continuous (for people who type, for example), that's when you start getting troubles. Just keep your wrists in a natural position. If they're bent more than 15 degrees from "straight" while you're typing, you're going to run into troubles.

It is somewhat related, because of the integration part... IMO, the fact that "Yo momma" jokes are juvenile and dumb is what makes them funny. It's the same reason people go to watch movies with Will Farrell in them, or shows like Wedding Crashers. For me, it's the moaning and groaning I hear from my friends that gets me...

@Sir.Frogster - You'll have to edit the given sample files to give the proper path to the font files. Otherwise, the script won't find the font and won't be able to insert it into the image.

@MadBoy - While the concept does help the application installs section for MSFN, we'd like it if members had a little more than just their own work here. If the creator can contribute around here with more than just his own work, then his help is more than welcome. This has been the status quo for a while, and for many members. @mr_smartepants - Remove the DVD decoder and it'll be all happy.

That's pretty much exactly the info I was looking for. Sure, it's for Ubuntu, but I'm sure I can modify it for my purposes. Thanks!

Not to offend anyone, but I found this joke quite funny.... Yo momma's so fat, I had to integrate her by parts!

Just out of curiosity... what does the whole system do (unless that's "we'd-have-to-kill-you" information)? That's a crapload of crunching power and storage space....

I take it that this is a clean, unaltered XP install? PS/2 mice shouldn't need any drivers, but maybe it's something motherboard related (driver-wise). If you connect a mouse via PS/2, check under device manager. Are there any red X's or yellow question marks?

The drives on different channels (and therefore on each individual SATA port) are completely independent from each other speed-wise. The drives on IDE won't slow down the drives on SATA. You can buy an IDE-SATA converter, but don't expect to get huge speed gains from it (aside from freeing up a channel). The drive is still limited to how fast it can spit out the data, and the interface still isn't the bottleneck these days.

So... I've got a little project to setup here, and I was hoping someone would be able to help. I've got several systems, that are just going to be for number crunching. The total disk access is negligible, so I was planning on having all the machines boot off the same image on a server. In essence, have systems that run as though they're diskless, but keep /tmp and /var on the local disk. I don't want network installation, but network booting. I've already got a DHCP server, NFS server, and TFTP server up and running. I read somewhere (I'll have to find the link again) that one possibility is to install the system as normal on one system, modify a couple of files (such as /etc/fstab), and then just copy the entire contents to the TFTP shared directory. Anyone have any helpful hints or tips? I'm going to be running CentOS on these systems, since it's been recommended for our applications. TIA!

I'm not sure if this would be considered self-advertisement... so I'm going to remove the link for now. You've only got 2 posts so far, but the concept is great, and I'd be up for testing and supporting this. Help out a little more at MSFN and you can put the link back up (at least 10 posts). If you want, you can even ask for help in the programming section on how to make a NSIS installer for the driver files (it's simple, lightweight, and compresses the files for you).

:S <--- I hope I'm not the only one. For clarification... segments per hard disk = 8 segments per volume = 32 max volumes = 64 When talking in "normal english", what's a segment? I think that we'd be talking about a volume (aka - "drive") that's made up of several segments (partitions?) on one or more disks. And that you can have up to 64 "drives"... let me know if I screwed up somewhere. I'm pretty sure I did.

Yea... I'm starting to wonder how much that one system is setting you back. I'm starting to work on a 20-node computing cluster - two quad-core X5355's, and 8GB of RAM per node. Getting those to work together is going to be interesting... Any benchmarks on your setup?

What nmX.Memnoch said about the Security tab is all that you need to restrict use of the printers to certain users. Would it be possible to put the three computers on their own internal network? If you were to "hide" those computers and the printer behind another router or firewall, you'd essentially block off access from the rest of the open wireless network.

I'd suggest using a VPN solution or remote desktop. You'll have to use File and Print Sharing though (any specific reason why you want to avoid it?). I've got Hamachi installed on all of my computers. My printer is connected to my home server, and I can print to my printer from anywhere using that exact setup.

Just a note... VMWare5.5 supports giving the virtual machine two CPUs. Maybe you're using a legacy machine or VMware 4?

I'd actually suggest putting a simple backup drive on the same channel as an optical drive. They're not accessed as often, and the problems only occur during simultaneous burning and disk access (which on a less-frequently used drive shouldn't be an issue). And you can go farther than A to Z (although you can't use A or B - those are still reserved for floppy drives). You can mount an NTFS drive in an empty folder. That's what I do with my "My Documents" - it's on a separate partition in the event that something goes haywire with my Windows. I'm not sure if there is any specific limit to the number of mounted volumes or if it's up to you.