Because the White House is worried about "a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there," please let them know about me if you suspect I am passing anything "that seems fishy."
I've made it simple for you. Just fill out this form, hit the "Inform on me!" button, and you will have let the White House know about me.
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Below is a batch file I found to help speed things up (Wish I could remember where I found it to give credit) in replacing notepad. You will notice that notepad2 has been renamed and is in the folder c:\notepad. Also you will need to un-hide all system files.- Syntax highlighting: HTML, XML, PHP, ASP (JS, VBS), CSS,
JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, C#, Resource Script, Makefiles, Java,
Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Perl, Python, Configuration
Files, Apache Config Files, Batch Files, Diff Files
- Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
- Basic regular expression search and replace
- Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
- Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
- Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
- Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
- Open shell links
- Mostly adjustable
@echo off
echo ****You must have Notepad2.exe in c:\notepad and named notepad.exe****
pause
copy /y %WinDir%\System32\dllcache\notepad.exe %WinDir%\System32\dllcache\notepad.exe.orig
copy /y %WinDir%\ServicePackFiles\i386\notepad.exe %WinDir%\ServicePackFiles\i386\notepad.exe.orig
copy /y %WinDir%\System32\notepad.exe %WinDir%\System32\notepad.exe.orig
copy /y %WinDir%\notepad.exe %WinDir%\notepad.exe.orig
copy /y C:\notepad\notepad.exe %WinDir%\System32\dllcache
copy /y C:\notepad\notepad.exe %WinDir%\ServicePackFiles\i386
copy /y C:\notepad\notepad.exe %WinDir%\System32
copy /y C:\notepad\notepad.exe %WinDir%
echo.
echo.
echo Write down the locations after the REG_MULTI_SZ or REG_SZ in case the batch file does not work. If it does not work, you will need to look in the locations from below to find other copies of notepad.exe that are possibly being used to restore the original notepad.exe
echo.
reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup /v "Installation Sources"
reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup /v ServicePackSourcePath
reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup /v SourcePath
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LoadModule php5_module "x:/php5/php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
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Here are the steps that I took to get PHP and MySQL on IIS:
Software Needed:
PHP Install
Unzip the PHP binaries package (php-5.x.x-Win32.zip) to C:\PHP5 and do the following:
Let IIS know you have PHP
You have to tell IIS where PHP is and add the extensions:
Testing PHP
<?PHP phpinfo(); ?>
MySQL Install
Unzip the MySQL file that you downloaded earlier and runSetup.exe
Add a user to test with:
Open the SQL Administrator CommandLine and type the next commands (hit enter after each line)
CREATE USER 'test'@'localhost'IDENTIFIED BY 'test';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
This will create a user called testwith a password of test
Bringing It All Together
Now we have to let PHP know thatMySQL has been install:
Open the php.ini file (Start ->Run -> php.ini) and either uncomment or add the following:
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
Save the php.ini file and restartIIS
Testing PHP & MySQL Together
Type the following in a text file and name it test.php
<?php
// Let's connect and select adatabase
$link = mysql_connect('localhost','test', 'test')
or die('Couldn't connect to the MySQL Server:' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db('mysql') ordie('Couldn't Select the Database.<br><br>
The error returned by MySQL says:<br>' . mysql_error());
// See Ya!
mysql_close($link);
?>
This page will comeback with the errors:
Couldn't Select the Database.
The error returned by MySQL says:
Access denied for user 'test'@'localhost' to database 'mysql'
This was just to see if PHP could see the MySQL Server. If you see this error it is install andworking.
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I have been in a frenzy the past couple of weeks looking atdifferent web templates for a site that I am thinking about. As aTechnology Director of a small school it is hard to find quality technologyresources that I can afford and when none exist, I have to coble somethingtogether. There are several good sitetemplates out there, but I have focused on just two.. Joomla! andWordpress. Below is what I have found...
Rating:
Joomla☺ - for the shininess of it..NOT the install
Wordpress ☺ ☺ ☺ - because it just works.
Joomla!: This is one of the newer finds that was mentioned to me by afellow Tech Director and was eager to try it out. The installation was for the most partpainless, if you are accustomed to white-hot pokers being stabbed in your eye(or else where) repeatedly. Yes, theyhave a web based install method that looks very good. It will walk you through setting up your siteand associating it with a database. Thatpart is easy. Where you start to run into trouble is when you complete all the steps and hit the final Finishbutton. There is a very small message atthe bottom of the page that tells you that setup could not write to theconfiguration.php file while at the very top in large red letter it is tellingyou to completely remove the installation folder.
What appears to be happing is that the Anonymous InternetUser account does not have write access to the file. Fine I can deal with that, give it writeaccess with IIS and every thing is happy right? Wrong… You have to go to the web-root folder andgive it the permission from the security tab!.. Think about this. Is it wise to leave a config file world writable? IMHO - Nope. Then manually edit the file in atxt editor. After you do this you canbring up the page. However, when you login to the Admin interface and try to make more global changes you will not beable to unless you leave the config file world writable. Ohh,and just incase you have tried to install Joomla and wanted to go to the forumsfor help – forget it. They will tell youto check to make sure that the config file is in the correct directory and gothrough the set up again. Or the willmove your post to another forum with out posting a link to where they movedit.
Over all my impression was that the Joomla group is more interestedin eye-candy than making a quality product that works.
Wordpress: I have used word press for quite awhile and havebeen very impressed with the install, support forums and easy of use. There area lot of templates available to set your site up almost any way you want. I know, Wordpress is a blogging suite, but itis not that hard to turn in to a stable and very usable web site. I had one site that I wanted to work as amobile gateway. I looked on Wordpressand found an add-on for it. In 5 minutesI had a site that was accessible to mobile phones. Give it a try, it may surpriseyou.
My over all impression was that Wordpress just works. There are a lot of tweaks that you can do anda lot of templates to use. If you want ano-hassle web site this is a good way to go.
I will be digging out an old web site suite that have usedin the past to give another review soon. It is called Plone and runs on Python and Zope. I need to configure my web server to make itwok so bear with me. From what Iremember it is very customizable and fairly easy to use.
More later…
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I found a great Open Sourceproduct the other day while looking for a way to monitor me network @ work.. Untangle (UT). Here were myrequirements:
I set UT up as a transparent bridge and stuffed it in between my last switchand router where it can see all traffic going into and out of my network. Itested it for a while in my office before deploying it on my network anddecided that I liked the interface. It's been up for about a week now andno problems in production. I will caution you, that is you are going torun it headless, you will need to enable SSH. I know it may soundgoofy, but it didn't occur to me to do it during my testing because I hadaccess to the console but 10 min. after I put it on the network I needed wanted to access something that was not on the webinterface. Also with SSH you can modify(with extensive help from the forum) the default install to add among otherthings nTop, a nifty little program to showbandwidth usage and network usage statistics.
Considering I have nothing more than time invested in thismachine, I would say it serves my needs quite well.
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This is one of the easiest web editors that I have seen you should check them out if you need an online editor.webpad is a web-based text editor which gives you access to files from any of the following locations;
- Your own computer (via file upload)
- The server that webpad is installed on (via direct file manipulation)
- Any FTP server (via FTP file operations)
- Any website (via remote file requests)
- Popular blogging tools (Blogger.com, MovableType, TypePad, LiveJournal, blosxom, WordPress)
- Other data sources via a flexible plugin system
It features a simple interface and includes a collection of powerful HTML tools for working with web pages.
webpad is written entirely in PHP (HTML, CSS and JS), and operates in your browser without any need for cumbersome plugins or extra downloads.
Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags. It also features a comprehensive web administration.This is an easy to use solution to distribute podcasts. I simply FTP my audio file to my site and then click one link on the PodGen admin page to updadte my XML page. Then modify the episode information and I'm done.
Here is a list of the software that I use to make my video files. You may know of better ones, if so, let know! These are all OpenSource and FREE to use:
CamStudio
This the main video capture program that I use. It does a great job recording what is on your screen. It can do voice overs while recording, pop-up info clouds, and highlight your mouse for high visibility. If you would rather not have to deal with an AVI file, it can also record to Flash.
SUPER
Is a program that handles video conversion of the .avi files from CamStudio to .mov files so I can use them in iTunes. I am sure it can do more but that is all I need it to do at the moment. It has "drag and drop" file importing and will take an AVI created with the Microsoft1 Video codec that is 857MB and convert it to an 8.61MB MOV file encoded with DivX. (Real numbers!)
PodProducer
Is an audio mixing program that can handle multiple audio inputs such as MP3s, and WAVs and combine them with your voice via the microphone. It has queuing capabilities, audio level control, and instant play buttons that you can configure as well and the ability to
upload it strait from the program interface.
Basically, if you can see it on screen or have to tell someone howto do it, it can be captured with these programs and distributed to your users. I am getting rather long here, so I will save that for later missives...
Thanks for the heads up Phil!
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