In a matter of minutes, a package can be installed and convert your desktop machine to a web server. Using XAMPP, the ability to create a web server is very easy. It works for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris. It installs Apache, MySQL, and PHP. After that, start the service and you're ready to go. Simply copy a file to C:xampphtdocs and it's available on the web. With … [Read more...]
Archives for 2008-05-08
Remote Administration – Troubleshooting without leaving your chair
Remote Desktop - Windows Server 2003 allows you to connect with multiple sessions so you can use Remote Desktop (available from Windows 2000-Vista) to work in the background to perform installs or other routine maintenance. Other operating systems have limitations on the multiple session aspect, so if you connect to a Windows XP machine, you would have to disconnect a local … [Read more...]