MRGRIM

Well, learning a language for language sake can be tough. Try and have a specific goal / project running in the background, for me when I started learning PHP I had academic projects e.g. online hotel booking system. Once this was completed (via reading online tutorials) I started to apply my knowledge and test things out on my own website, made a news update (blog), then decided to try and write a really basic forum, with a bunch of account controls, then I wanted some sort of image gallery with all kinds of upload and image handling features. All these things pushed me to research stuff, some of the knowledge came by downloading other people’s source code, extracting what I needed and modifying it. Perhaps you have a specific project in mind? If not then there was a programming challenge thread on one of the forums somewhere, you could pick one of the topics from that and take a bash at it. However I’ll confess my approach has made me a ‘jack of all trades, master of none’

Dell Latitude E4300 is really nice and light!

Yeah, but if the place isn't legal I personally wouldn't touch it. The other thing to think about, is if this company has been "sold" this software, then I figure they could always persue this other chap via the courts - something I'm sure Microsoft would be interested in as well :P

Heh ;) that wouldn't be the first time I've seen that. Can't help with US suppliers I'm afraid, but do a quick search on Google, also make sure you are familiar with the terms of an OEM license. You just need to inform your customer of the pro's and con's, e.g. if they can't turn up license, then they could run the risk of running without service packs, also if Microsoft did ever audit them they could be in for huge fines (I believe Microsoft goes after a % of revenue backed dated for the history of the product). But I do not know of any companies that have ever been audited. You'll also need to consider the risk to your business; any Certifications (at least Microsoft based) could be stripped (in the above dooms day scenario)

Errrrm, perhaps I am missing something, but your customer has the right to demand the licenses from this other person. If the licenses are OEM then they should have been attached to the case of the system. You could run something like SIW and extract the license key from the Install, but if Microsoft audited his company, you wouldn’t be able to prove that the systems where legal without the COA. I don’t think he has to provide the media, but Microsoft should be able to provide replacements for a nominal cost. Double check what version of Server 2003 you are running, it sounds like they are running Windows Small Business Server (SBS) rather than Server 2003 (there are slight difference – and they use different Installation media) You do not need a degree to become a partner you just need to do all the leg work Microsoft asks of you, from what I remember you need to complete some online exams about the benefits of Windows 7 vs Vista e.t.c. You could also always buy OEM products from a vendor and resell them (in the UK I have used www.bluesolutions.co.uk in the past)

Blade centre for home use is amazing; I tip my hat to you. We our fans spin up to 50% we can hear them from down the corridor, at 100% it’s unbearable, at least you know something’s wrong ;) it gives you a fairly good audio warning. I ran a small HP DL140 rack server in my attic for some time, the noise of that was annoying enough.

Any truer words ever spoken by anyone who's worked at 1st or 2nd level support? As an FYI incase anyone was under a rock The Chronicles of George always raises a smile.

Hi Guys, something that has always tickled me since I got online all those years ago is SPAM. We all get it and we all probably use some method of preventing and removing it. I noticed a user of these forums had a very interesting link in their signature http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/spam/ After browsing over to this site I was rather impressed, but I then quickly realised how actually duff this website may be. Surely once a spammer picks up or learns about the anti spam methods being used against them then they will simply blacklist this domain from their bot? Another though I had, couldn’t this bot perform a MX lookup on each domain to verify it exists? I don’t really know how process intensive an MX lookup for every domain it’s spamming would be? Perhaps x number of rouge domains is acceptable to a spammer?

Scytheon3, thanks for this, I'll take a look and let you know. I have needed a solution "like" this, but pretty much have been to lazy to bother looking at and working out TrueCrypt

I'm not sure what a brass is Something one of our research chemists said to me a while ago while we were chatting. “There no money to be made in a cure for aids, everyone who has aids is poor... now a vaccine for aids is another story, make that and you’ll have people running to you!”

Well lets see... I'd kick off with 1. "The MEANING"? Then I'd prob shoot for 2. How can I solve world hunger And follow that up with 3. Cure for Cancer and 4. Cure for AIDS and then... 5. How do I patent all of the above? If I was feeling evil, I may ask "What's the vaccine for Cancer / AIDS" ;)

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To 0 dp? :)

Am playing Battlefield Heroes atm http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/

Junk the system? It sounds like it must be pretty old by now, given the history of events, also you're not by chance reinstalling the same bit of warez'd software on every system and using the same AV? I had a friend who used something like NERO and a NERO Crack, he'd format due to problems I dunno every couple of months, he got in such a state one time he brough his disk round to me, within a few seconds of plugging it in, my AV had detected his NERO and NERO Crack was actually a virus...

Ok, I installed XAMPP on a PC, moved all the data folder across, then had to edit the logfile size in my.ini under the MySQL bin folder. Fired up phpMyAdmin and from there I was able to do an export on my data. Thanks for the help but it looks like its been resolved. :)

Will check that out in a moment, I just realised when I copied the data folder, I actually only copied the database folders I required from within it, so I'm setting up a temp MySQL server and copying the whole data folder over it, I'm then hoping it will start the SQL services and hopefully allow me to do a mysqldump. Will post any solution here.

Is your experience with those cheap-o $100 raid cards? I'm still torn personally, from what I read (review wise) they stink... but then again would I expect a $100 card to be comparible to $500++ ?

What about using a motherboard with build in Raid control?

Hi Guys, I need to pick your brains. Around 10 months ago my rack server in the attic died and I was unable to recover the it and I had no backups (it’s a home server and I’d never really gotten around to back stuff up). Rather than replace the hardware like for like (i.e. buy another HP DL130) I decided to start from a fresh and went down the XenServer route and virtualised my server(‘s). I had a number of web projects (old university projects and some old forums etc) running on the older server and recently I wanted to resurrect some of the MySQL databases. Has anyone ever had to do this or done anything similar that they may be able to shine some light on for me? So far I’ve not found a lot on the web about doing this (sadly most documents say the most important thing about disaster recovery is to have a backup / mysqldump) However I did find an article which said it would be as simple as moving the “data” folder from the old server to the new one. I tried this and I thought it was working, I login to the MySQL workbench and I can see 90% of the tables, and half of my web application works e.g. I can login, but when I go to view user.messages it tells me the table doesn’t exist. When I view user.messages under the workbench it shows me the table is there but when I query on it, it also tells me it doesn’t exist. Have I missed something?

Case: Asus (or some sort) Power: Corsair HX520W CPU : AMD Phenom II X2 545 3GHz Motherboard: ASUS M4A78-EM CPU Heatsink: Stock Harddrives: 2 x Western Digtal 500GB Green (Mirrored) Memory: 8GB (4x2GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2) Corsair 8GB (4×2GB) Graphics: Some random £10 card as I didn't buy a mobo with onboard (oops) Network: Single GB port Running on Citrix XenServer 3 x Server 2003 2 x Server 2008 1 x Fedora 8

Give EuroPC a call if you're after a Dell (should be able to get something nice for around 20-30% less than the Dell RRP)

I did not vote for the Welsh Assembly, please come and take it away and reclaim some of the £MILLIONS£ it is costing the tax payers to keep the talking shop open!

One though I think people have prehaps missed here, regardless of OEM etc it would appear he doesn't need his product key? Windows is installed and working, all its asking for is activation, most likely because the HAL layer has changed? If online activation isn't working (e.g. its not making a connection) then he'll have to ring MS to activate, else if its failing it will ask him to enter a new product code (which would indicate to me that he has OEM Windows)

Errrm LOLS ;) Well I've been leaving my rig on over night (pretty much 24/7) 850W PSU, running 4GB RAM, 500GB Sata, Some sort of 3Ghz AMD CPU (Can't remember what it was, its 3 years old now) and a 9800GX2... I just got my most reccent power bill OMFG! That thing is turned off ALL the time now - LOL