New ways to contact that company that is "The Blokes in Technology" are being considered incudng Voice Over IP, probably Skype , SMS Messaging direct to our number or even a new number??
If you are going to rebuild any computer including a Fujitsu Siemens laptop, you will find that simply fitting a new hard drive and then installing the operating system will not be sufficient to get everything working properly. We discovered that once you have installed the operating system, which was in this case XP Professional, you will need to obtain the the drivers for a lot of devices including the chip set on the mother board, the Graphics Card or chip, the tracker pad and the modem plus the driver for the special little buttons on the lap top which are programmable...
Unfortunately, it seems that for some older Fujitsu Siemens Computers it seems that you can not just ask and get a driver cd, but at the same time many of the drivers are available on the Fujitsu Siemens Web site. What you have to do is to put in the model series and then the specific model
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 14 January 2009 )
Installing Apache, MySQL, PHP, and MySQL GUI Tools
Written by The Processor
Sunday, 04 January 2009
How do you set about installing basically a Web Server, a Database Server and a fully working Installation of PHP, along with some tools to see graphically how your Database Server is and what the result of SQL queries are?? A good question: well there are a lot of Database servers available, and there are also a number of Web Servers available, plus if you look at PHP there have been to date a heck of a lot of versions of it.. Yes??!!!! We are going to talk about installing the latest Version of Apache and the latest Version of a MySQL Server and the latest Version of PHP, together with some useful Graphical Interface Tools that help in the operation for the MySQL Server.... As I am sure you are aware the Versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP Keep changing at regular intervals, so you may be reading this and the versions I mention may have moved on from whats detailed here. The order to do things in i think is to install Apache Web Server first, then install the MySQL Database Server Second, and then install PHP third, and then lastly download and install the MySQL GUI Tools.
Starting with Apache, we went for installing the Apache 2.2.11. Now it seems easier if you get a download that is a .msi installer as apposed to a zipped file that requires unzipping. If you go to the main Apache Web site here is the link Apache Web Site you just need to find the HTTP Server link, click on that then find the download link for the Version of A|pache you want, in this case Apache 2.1.11. Once you click the download link you will find many choices including a few you do not want for a windows XP Machine, You need to look for the windows one it will be Win32 Binary with open ssl and will end .msi
Ok so thats the one.... choose a mirror site close to you as is reasonably possible and download the file, you then will have a new icon on your Desktop when the download has completed. Double click on this to start the installation. Notice the file is quite large so it is ideal if you have broadband, but may still be possible on dial up if you have both a fast modem and a good isp!!! You will be asked for a few bits of information during installation, Give a Domain name like Mydomain.com and an admin email like
and give the server a name, it just is something you need to do during installation, remember we only want this server for local use on a pc it is not going to work as a server other people will access. You want this Apache Server to work as a Service under Windows, You will be able to tell it has worked in two ways: 1 If you look in the task bar you will see a little icon, a circle with a tiny feather sticking out of it, when you double left click on this icon you will see the Apache Monitor 2, you open a browser and got to here http://127.0.0.1/ you will see in bold the Words It Works!
MySQL 5.1 has now been released so is available as a download. You need to firstly go to the MySQL Web Site for starters we conveniently put a link to there from here MySQL Web Site then you need to look for the download, find the downloads link near the top of the site , then click that, then look for the link that says MySQL 5.1 Generally available for release for production use. Then you want the link for windows, then you want the link for windows essentials (x86), pick a mirror and download the package, then run it, you will find that it does install both the server \and an appropriate client, pick all the default options during installation. The server should run every time you start windows but to access it easily with a GUI interface you will need additional software, which we mention further down this article. during the installation of the MySQL server it will ask for a root user password, give one and do remember it, and tick the box to create an anonymous user. Warning Warning..... you may find that you can not connect to you MySQL Server unless you do connect as the root user. why, because the MySQL server sets up with some anonymous users and what this means is that as a local user you can not connect to this server, that's how it is..... in order to let people connect locally you must delete the anonymous users first of all....You should solve this frustrating inconvenience, after you have installed the latest version of php, which we talk about next.......
So where to go to get php, well that's not difficult you need to go here The Main PHP web Site Ok so you are going to get the appropriate download for windows XP, we will tell you where to go... Most people will be looking for the most receint version of PHP, and at the time of writing this that is PHP Version 5.2.8. you should look on the PHP main site, then find the very small link to downloads, it is to be founf along the top of the site with many other links, then once you have cllicked that find the windows binary installer package. Clearly the version mentioned here will only be current for a limited amount of time and will be replaced with a more receeint version. Download the package from a mirror that is close to you. You should i believe end up installing PHP into a folder called PHP that is directly under the Folder called Program Folders in the root of you main Hard Drive, that is usually C: Ok there are a few more thing to disscuss, one is how to test everything properly, and the other is how to configure the brand new MySQL Server so you can connect to it as a user you have creatred with no problems, look out for the Article, Testing your MySQL PHP and Apache Installation, and How to configure correctly a New instalation of MYSQL Server 5.1..
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 14 January 2009 )
uninstalling and reinstalling php
Written by The Processor
Saturday, 27 December 2008
Lets say that for some reason you wish to uninstall your current version of php and install a different one. There is not really recognizable way of uninstalling php, unlike a lot of programs you can not us the uninstall programs icon in the control panel, in stead you approach should be to delete the directory that php is in and then to look in the apache configuration file and either remove all the lines you put in yourself when you installed php or just make them all into comments.
You can edit the main configuration file of the Apache web server using notepad, which is on every windows computer. so here we tell you how to start note pad and where and what the main config fle for apache is. Where is the main configuration file for Apache to be found?
ans. for Apache version 2 the main configuration file will be here; c:/Program Files/Apache2/conf/http.conf
How to start notepad : go to the start button, choose All Programs, Accessories, notepad
ok, so we are going to see if we can remove php version 5.2.5 and then afterwords, install and configure up php version 5.2.2. Why would we want to do this you may ask? well the answer to that is that the version of php that we are running at
