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I'm currently in the middle of looking at Virtualiastion options and I'm interested to know how other people are getting around management interface issues. I'm looking at deploying VMWare ESXi, but from what I've read you have to purchase the management interface on top of the free product to make it useable - am I right? If so, are there any free interfaces? If there aren't - what are people paying for managing systems? I've used Citrix Xenserver in industry and the interface was really nice, I believe there's a free version of the hypervisor and management console now too - has anyone deployed this in favour of VMWare? thoughts on this issue? I don't want to start rolling out demos and real systems over the next few weeks if I'm going to have to shift technologies. Just recently left indutry to come back to education so I've had my head in full paid products rather than cut-down versions.... currently reading like mad through vendor documentation!

Maz - Black Tide?

tmcd35 - yay!

Sub Focus ? what about this one... http://i-love-cartoons.com/snags/clipart/Looney-Tunes/Pepe-Le-Pew/Looney-Tunes-Valentine-Pepe.jpg http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_spider.jpg

DOPE! just realised... NiMh NickelBack

you don't know Battery Pork? ... say what you see eh... but I'm sure there's no Rechargeable Pig bands out there ;)

Battery Pork?

Stu - is it White Mustang rather than Metallica?

And there was me thinking it was Planet Roy

Phil Collins?

oooo-kaaay.... one childhood thrown out of the window. At 13 I was still playing with lego and my C64.... Girls were annoying things that you threw snot at "when I were a lad back in't day"

Not sure about the others... Hightower - foo Fighters ?

easy one... http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/images/jimmykrankie.jpghttp://veganica.com/works/a1/p1360_chicken-tude.jpghttp://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2007/10/RICK%20ASTLEY%20COMP.JPG

kings of leon?

RunRig ?

Thought it was Soundwave but it's the second image that's throwing it for me... hmmmm:confused:

Electric Light Orchestra ? Right... what about this... http://kylamor.com/klm/images/stories/Pearls/pearl-oyster.jpghttp://img.timeinc.net/recipes/i/recipes/ck/04/06/berry-jam-ck-642350-l.jpg

Superb! ROFL

Just had a quick look for you... seems you need to pre-populate MySQL with a database and user before it runs: From the MRBS documentation: ( MRBS: Documentation : INSTALL ) -------------------- For a new install: creating the DB =============== You can place the MRBS database tables in an existing database or create a new database with the following: mysqladmin create mrbs mysql mrbs < tables.my.sql Application Setup ================= First, select your database system. Define one of the following: $dbsys = "mysql"; Then define your database connection parameters. Set the values for: $db_host = The hostname that the database server is running on. $db_database = The name of the database containing the MRBS tables. $db_login = The database login username $db_password = The database login password for the above login username --------------------- Links ===== PHPMyAdmin phpMyAdmin - Download MySQL GUI Toolkit MySQL :: MySQL GUI Tools Downloads

You're getting the error because it can't log on to the database engine - probably because there are no users in the system for it. Best thing to do is get yourself a copy of PHPMyAdmin - this is a web-based control engine for MySQL. From there you can generate usernames and passwords and set privileges to your databases, rather than having to worry about the command-line stuff. the other thng you can do is to get the GUI toolkit if you're on Windows if you prefer to use that over a web-based toolkit. Ideally you want to set a password for your root account - it's not a good idea to run without one. you'll want to set usernames and passwords for your individual databases. I've not looked at MRBS before, but I should imagine there would be a setup script page you could configure from - anyone else out there with more info on it that can help pmassingham?

you can always create a chunk of php code around your main loop to return pages of information - e.g. off the top of my head (from things I've done in the past): ---------------------------------- $sql = "SELECT * FROM mytable "; if(($pageStart == "")||($pageStart < 0)){ $pageStart = 0; } $sql .= "LIMIT $pageStart,50"; $result = @mysql_query($sql); while($resultArray = @mysql_fetch_array($result)){ // Grab a new row of data // Do your grab / display routine here $pageStart++; } // To create a google-esque page list $sql = "SELECT * FROM tablename"; $PageNum = 0; // Set First Page $numPages = 0; // Set zero number of pages to display $result = @mysql_query($sql); $numresults = @mysql_num_rows($result); while($numPages <= $numresults){ print " $PageNum "; $PageNum++; $numPages = $numPages + 50; } ------------------------------ This will create a page with fifty entries per page, if you enter the page with no starting point it will display from the beginning... hope that helps a bit - PM me if you need a bit more info.

If you're grabbing from MySQL or suchlike, use the limit function of SQL... easiest and simplest way!

Why not mirror your MySQL server - then you can have instant updates between the two sites and if either one went down you can recreate from the other one (for DR policy). fair few sites out there with info about mirroring... How to setup mysql mirroring | UK Web Hosting | Linux Windows Server Tutorials | PHP MySQL Service You can set up RSync to work both ways putting new content between themselves - I've used RSync to keep two boxes up to date when changes are happening on both.

Does anyone have a copy of the contract easynet has with secondary schools in the UK? Just taking over as network manager at a school on the NGFL and there's an easynet connection that is supposedly managed, but they "charge" you extortionate rates for opening ports / connections to servers. So much so the previous manager ended up using an external hosting company to get the website up....doesn't hold much hope for this 2010 target for delivering grades and info to parents! I want to know exactly what was supposed to be delivered as part of this service so I know where I stand as regards payments... LEA is doing the usual pass the buck routine with me...

If you want to get into coding properly for CSS and XHTML, Komodo Edit is a really useful tool - Open Komodo | Open Komodo It's freebie OSS, so you can even install it on your school network without incurring the wrath of the license monkeys. The problem you'll find with Frontpage is that although it is easy to use, it adds in all kinds of weirdness that will confuse you if you're trying to look at the source code and figure out what it's doing. NVU is a good tool, but I'm just a traditionalist in regards text interfaces!