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  1. I will be loading this up on another partition (dual boot) to test it myself. If I don't like what I see I can always boot up to my XP.

     

    Good idea.

     

    I use VMWare Workstation on my XP box to run software test and surf the Web. Using a virtual machine is like having a dual boot, since the virtual machine is totally isolated from the parent OS.

     

    I also use Mac for my day-to-day work because it is just so much more stable.

     

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    I tried Vista when it came out ... and I ran the other way.

     

    Stefan

  2. Hi,

     

    I am hearing a lot of good stuff about Windows 7 from a few nerd friends of mine:

     

    - it is much faster.

    - loads and shuts down faster.

    - lighter than XP in terms of the install.

    - gets rid of all the stupid Vista security problems.

     

    Has anyone here used Windows 7 yet?

     

    Stefan

  3. Hi,

     

    Check out this line of code:

     

    VALUES ('7', 'Africa', 'zebra'))";

     

    ... Try not setting a value for your ID field. I seem to remember ;) ... that it was set to be auto incremented and was of data type INT:

     

    CREATE TABLE `symbols` (

    `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,

     

    As you know, '7' means you are sending MySQL a string when it wants to insert an INT.

     

    Let me know

     

    Stefan

  4. So I have to old forum up and running with the latest version of the old forum's software

     

    .. You old timers may find it interesting to check it out.

     

    Funny thing about the old forum is that it still gets a lot more traffic than the new one - it has been up for many years. In fact, we still have people joining the old forum ... even today!

     

    I will be using the old forum as more of an announce board and I will try to make people visiting our old place aware of our new home.

     

    Stefan

  5. How you do this depends on how often the information is updated and how many shipments you have to track. So for example, if you had to do an update on a few shipments say twice a day, it may make sense to just have a web page where you would manually enter the data.

     

    But, if you need to keep tracking information private and you have more than a handful of shipments to track, then you will need to create a tracking system where people can log in to view their data.

     

    Needless to say, this thing can get complex depending on your needs. You may want to search for shipping tracking software on Google or Bing. You might find a shrink wrapped solution that can do the job.

     

    If you want to learn about HOW this kinda of interactive website is built, you want to check out killerphp.com.

     

    This particular article may help as well: database driven websites.

  6. Hi,

     

    That's easy, use the Flash format and play just about any video format.

     

    With the Flash 10 player and up, a Flash movie/video player can read and play back multiple video formats including:

     

    - FLV

    - h.264

    - Quicktime

     

    ... and others.

     

    The preferred video format is h.264.

     

    Using Flash as the player will allow you to remotely control (from the server) the playback of the video. You can do just about anything, for example: you could at a particular time index in the video, have the Flash player fire off a request to a database and then display that information on screen while the video is still playing. Or you could tell Flash to pause the video and load a new page.

     

    ... Etc.

     

    Powerful stuff.

     

    Stefan

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