Archive for October, 2005

WinSCP - Freeware SFTP and SCP client for Windows

Friday, October 21st, 2005

WinSCP is a freeware SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure SHell). Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this basic function, WinSCP manages some other actions with files.

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Making phpBB2 working with PHP5

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Officially, phpBB 2 (as of this writing, up to version 2.0.17) is not supporting PHP 5. If you install PHP 5, and use it to run phpBB, you will encounter the following symptoms and errors:

  • You cannot post message - When you want to post new topic or reply to a topic, after writing your message, when you click “Submit”, a blank page or screen or error message is shown with address bar showing posting.php, instead of posting confirmation message.
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ppStream - P2P based Streaming Media (P2P Internet TV)

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Introduction to ppStream and P2P TV

ppStream

PPstream is a software that allows to view a streaming audio video media (i.e. TV channels) based on BitTorrent Peer to Peer (P2P) technology.

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Using phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management in Windows XP

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Introduction to phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a open source, web-based client that can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as a single database. It supports PHP5 and MySQL 4.1.

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Install phpBB 2 in Windows XP running on Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 4

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Introduction to phpBB

phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. To run phpBB, powerful PHP server language needs to be enabled on web server and installed any one of the following database: MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers.

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Check Oracle Version

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

There are several ways where you can query or retrieve the version number of installed Oracle products:

1. If you just want to check the version information of the Oracle database, simply connect and login to the Oracle database with SQL *Plus. Upon login, you will see:

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Install AWStats- Free Logfile Analyzer for Site Statistics

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Prerequisite

As AWStats is Perl based, a Perl Interpreter need to be installed first to take anvantage of AWStats. For instruction on how to install Perl in Windows machine, check out this article.

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Install, Setup and Configure CGI and Perl in Windows XP

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Prerequisite

Obvioulsy, a web server needs to be running on the Windows machine. Refer to this post for instructions on how to install Apache2 in Windows.

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