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  1. Excellent, thank you very much.
  2. Is there any advantages to using PDO such as execution time or security? The reason I'm asking is because I've just started building an application and I would like to know if I could just continue with what I know using mysql_connect or if I should switch. Any advice?
  3. I'm hoping to get direction on this subject. I've seen some articles and how-to's on PDO recently and all I've ever seen on them is seemingly just an alternative to use mysql_(whatever). Can someone explain to me what the difference between them is and why one would be better than the other, or if it's just a situation of use PDO when doing one sort of application and mysql_(whatever) for another? I did search the forums and didn't find anything that really explained it to me, but maybe I didn't search right, if I missed where this has already been brought up, I apologize.
  4. I had a chance to talk to some co-workers who know much more about this than I do, and they got me thinking about how long it would take to update any of the bars. It seems that the time between any increment/decrement would be far enough between than a refresh would occur more than once in almost any situation so I don't need ajax, but rather fill the meters using javascript or php-gd. Thank you anyway for the people who read this.
  5. Please hear me out for just a moment. I am very new to javascript/ajax, and as I understand it, ajax would be what I need for this idea I've had. If I am wrong, please proceed to beat me with the manual so that I can know where to look. What I want to do is have 3 progress meters filled with a two color gradient. The first bar I want to just randomly select a value between two numbers, then select a random time to wait between two other values before regenerating the first number. Example: it would pick between 80 and 100, then pick an amount of time to wait before picking another number to display. I want that number to be the percentage to fill in this meter. The second bar I want to start at a value I specify in an XML file and have it slowly degrade throughout the day starting from a certain time of day. Then I want a button I can hit to start filling it up again until that original time. The third bar I want to fill at a rate that starts on one day and ends on another. This will pretty much never change, I just want to set it once then not worry about it again. Where can I look or what can I look for to do this? Would it be better to use just javascript instead of ajax? Every time I do searches for ajax progress bar or meter it brings me to upload tutorials, which aren't what I want. I appreciate the time it takes to read this and respond, so thank you.
  6. Thank you! You are the first person that has been able to answer my question on multiple different forums.
  7. I know there are a few out there already, plenty of good free ones, but I was hoping to get some advice and maybe find exactly what I'm looking for. Background information: I mirror a repository for the Fedora compiz-fusion rpms, and I was wanting to put a map on a page of mine that will scan my apache access_logs, check for any entry that contains 'urlgrabber', get the IP from that entry, do a lookup on it then plot where it is on a map. It's nothing mission critical, but I think it would a neat tool to have to see where I'm getting the most requests from. Does anyone know of an application that can do that, and is also free?
  8. What exactly do you have running on your website, is it a CMS that uses PHP and has an open upload script? Do you allow PHP uploads, or are you using something else? I've worked for a shared webhost before, and 99% of the time a site was "hacked" it was a script kiddy exploiting a PHP upload script on the server.
  9. It means exactly what it says, edit the smtpd.conf file in /etc/postfix/sasl/ and add those lines, usually at the bottom.
  10. The only reason I can see PHP running faster in any Linux distro is because it's a very slim install and hardware is overkill. Otherwise, I'd agree with you, the difference should be fairly marginal.
  11. I used to work for BlueHost/HostMonster and they were switching to Ubuntu because of this. Though they spent the first 6 months of their paid support getting a working LDAP(I think...?) system going, but I quit just as they were getting it rolled out. I prefer Fedora simply because it was the first one I was introduced to, no other reason. Ubuntu or Gentoo are just as good, and I've head great thinks about OpenSUSE.
  12. When I explained why it may be easier to upgrade the OS only once every 5 years, not every six months, your reply was: indicating that the only type of 'maintaining' to be done is to upgrade the OS.
  13. But maintaining is not just upgrading, maintaining involves administering to it as well. Upgrading is not the only thing to do when maintaining a server.
  14. neogranas

    US keyboard

    Which EN keyboard did you select, the EN-US or the EN-UK? Just out of curiosity.
  15. It does, but for an inexperienced user, once every 5 years may be easier to deal with than 6 months or a year. Besides, when you upgrade from release version to release version, there is always enough of the updates that it could break what you've worked hard to set up, especially if it's special settings not just defaults. So it may be daunting for someone to set up the server every six months, but it could be great for job security. It tends to be a lot easier to set it up once and just maintain it for a number of years.
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