Ave, Well good words there, I'm not gonna argue with you on that. And as much as I have heard general windows users crib about Vista's security features, I have heard same amount of praise by more 'developers' genre of users about its' security features. Your second suggestion of learning your OS is something I'm deeply dwelling into everyday since I installed Vista, and is one strong reason I'm not willing to go back to XP just because things work in XP. I'm finding the challenges in Vista intriguing and a learning experience. I'm not sure which drive names you were referring to, but coming from a Web Developing background, I certainly pay utmost attention to naming conventions. 10 years ago I've been there where simple HTML pages wouldn't pull up due to Case mismatch, spaces or special characters. I can assure you in my personal case with this "Cannot load mySQL extension", folder/file names is not the issue. Security is a an issue I need to learn & understand further in regards to Vista and may well be the cause of my problem. And while I don't find much logic in Richard's solution (I.e., copying the DLL), without trying, it would be too premature to label it logical or illogical - because if it does work, logic can be scrutinized. All in all, good post there mate, and appreciate you sharing your mind! Cheers! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rahul Sitaram Johari CEO, Twenty Four Seventy Nine Inc. W: http://www.rahulsjohari.com E: sleepwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ³I morti non sono piu soli ... The dead are no longer lonely² On 3/14/07 11:36 AM, "Tim" <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (this is a bit off list, but i think it is important for developpers to > understand even a part of how the systems they are using works..) > > I follow the thread and none of the explanation make any logical sens.. > Ahem.. Win..... Anyways, > > Put it this way guys, apache, php and mysql are native to *nix, *nix has > strict standards on names (no spaces.. Above i see a line with spaces in the > dir that doesn't work, and one without spaces that does work.. Hint hint?), > a common place to access all configuration files (no copying this file here > then there cus we don't know where to look to configure things correctly), > strict standards on user permissions (nowadays hehe) AND you all mentioned > vista's new 'security tightening', is this really a suprise?? For years have > been setting up servers on *nix machines and always came to appreciate this > 'tight security' as a strive from the developpers to have a good security > base for the running daemons before even using them... > > Suggestion? Learn how to setup a server on a unix system, get out your old > 386 or 486 (even made a router/firewall/ftp server with an old 286, great > cus they have no fans on em so make no noise ;) and install a linux distrib > to get a feel for permissions and security and you will appreciate the new > security features in vista (to some extent lmao).. > > Second Suggestion.. Learn your OS, its security schema, user permissions > etc.. Click and go is NOT a solution, it never will be and will almost > always miss a case (especially when it comes to server daemons) where it > should have worked.. > You'll save yourself a lot of time this way rather then searching in the > wrong places.. > > My productions servers are linux, my developpment server is linux, i > wouldn't have it any other way.. It's almost treason to run an open source > language on a proprietary OS! (laugh laugh, don't get upset its a joke).. > > Double quote: > > "He who asks a question may be a fool for a few minutes > He who does not ask may be a fool forever" > > ... but he who takes the question ... who has the want to find out for > himself ... the reasoning behind ... and not just the answer. Those are the > sort of people that will learn ... (Rhino) <- y'all know who he is ;) > > > Regards, > > Tim > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
