Date: 03/07/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, css, html, database, sql, web, microsoft

I have to make an online volunteer hour logger for a school project, so I've been teaching myself PHP for the past few days, but for some reason none of the scripts I've tried have worked for me. I have a domain and server that provide MySQL and a web-based database manager (CPanel) and know HTML and CSS pretty well.

Basically what I want my website to be able to do is:

1. Enable users to register (fields: name, student no., password, password verification, email)
2. Login and submit their volunteering information in a form (fields: organization name, event/activity, volunteer type (drop down), date, #hours, reference letter (check box))
3. Be able to edit this information after submission
4. Logout
5. Possibly the administration being able to access a report summarizing a certain user's information? (like a query on Microsoft Access)

I've been following: http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Signup-and-Login/3027 but after doing everything I don't know how to connect users to members-only pages.

My website right now is: http://www.rhscolts.org/cas
Login will be registration and login, and Your Hours will have a "Please login or register" message unless the person is already logged in, in which case the form and their volunteering info will appear.

Is this too hard to do? Because I asked some people before I set about doing this project and they told me all I need is a few scripts, but then nothing is really working right now :(

Can anyone help me please?
My email is sheatore@hotmail.com if you want to talk to me directly.
Please and thank you in advance, ANYONE!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/548674.html

Date: 03/08/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Capping his visit to the nation's capital, Microsoft's chairman speaks about importance of balancing privacy concerns with data collection.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6165395.html

Date: 03/08/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

If Microsoft can't find the people it wants here, at the price it's willing to pay, one would think it can certainly find them elsewhere. Yet Gates said Microsoft has 1,500 positions it can't fill, right now.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/100282264/

Date: 03/12/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

It would seem to be in Microsoft's best interests to get a standard out there. Identity, which includes the management of passwords as well as credit card data, really hasn't progressed much in the last 10 years, partly due to Microsoft intransigence.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/101118168/

Date: 03/13/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web, microsoft

Microsoft quietly released Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 - all editions. Their website calls it a release candidate, but given it's presence on the official update site, I suspect it's the final version.

You can get it via the update site, or if you prefer (as I do) to get it as one download and apply it offline, you can get the entire package here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sp2.mspx

Along with a complete rollup of all critical updates released since SP1, it also includes some new features, which depend on whether you are running the standard, R2 or SMS versions.

See the FAQs for more information.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sp2/top-reasons.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sp2/faq.mspx

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1049655.html

Date: 03/14/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

Major international bank HSBC will standardize its Linux deployments on Novell’s SUSE distribution, with Microsoft’s premium support. The HSBC deal requires Microsoft to supply the bank with three-year priority support subscriptions to Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. HSBC, which has more than 9,500 branches employing 284,000 staffers in 76 countries, is seeking to reduce the diversity of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hsbc-bank-will-adopt-suse-linux-with-microsofts-support/

Date: 03/15/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

Every major vendor today has a "posse," a set of open source vendors who surround it and live in its ecosystem. Microsoft has one. Novell has one. RedHat has one. IBM's is like the company itself, quiet, corporate, and shy unless they have something to say.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/101960072/

Date: 03/16/07 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: software, microsoft, google

Hello all. I'm about to ask three really dumb questions, but I'm not a computer whiz, so please bear with me.

I just upgraded from XP to Vista. Mistake number one, as I did it by myself.

So... after a rocky installation, I have the following problems:

1) It erased all my software. I can locate things like Word and Excel, but it tells me they aren't configured. Is there a way to do this without re-installing the software? I ask because I'm far away from the installation disks right now (at school, discs are at mum's).

2) My sound isn't working. When I attempt to do anything involving sound, I get the following message: "The computer cannot play audio because the Windows Audio Service is not enabled. Would you like to enable the Windows Audio Service?" And I click 'Yes' and it takes me to the Sound menu. There, it says my VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller is working and enabled. There is no option to enable the Windows Audio Service though... any thoughts?

3) My Windows Live Messenger doesn't work. Apparently the system is stable and running, but I keep getting the following error code when I attempt to log in: "81000314". According to my google search, this might mean that Softpub.dll may have become unregistered. It suggests to register softpub.dll. Any insight into how I might go about doing this?

I appologize if these are really elementary questions... but I'm stumped. I've run available updates and searched the internet and microsoft.com at length, but no one is speaking my language (read: Dumb).

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/ms_windows/77109.html

Date: 03/20/07 (IT Management)    Keywords: software, java, microsoft

Why is Sun's Java going the GPL open source route? Are software development costs doomed to spiral out of control? And what about Microsoft? Sun's "Father of Java" James Gosling tells all.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6168738.html

Date: 03/22/07 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Gamers who reported fraud with their Xbox Live account were likely duped into giving up their information, according to Microsoft.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6169500.html

Date: 03/22/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft has just been hit by an immense judgement for its use of MP3, a software algorithm. While Microsoft today is very much in favor of software patents, this has not always been the case.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103646576/

Date: 03/23/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Soapbox, Microsoft's answer to YouTube, closes to new users for up to two months so it can create better safeguards against pirates.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6169851.html

Date: 03/23/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

With Response Point Microsoft has put its lawyers at the disposal of supporting the technology Vonage and Digium pioneered. They are competitors in the market, but in a law court they will sit on the same side of the table.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103873648/

Date: 03/26/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

We once had IBM-ologists. Now we have Microsoft-ologists. In both cases these are people paid to know, or guess, what Microsoft "is really thinking" when if Microsoft itself knew one would think they would tell us.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/104474738/

Date: 03/27/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

Novell is becoming a one-way mirror. Microsoft technology flows through it into the open source world. But the technology itself remains closed to the open source world. Open source developers only see Novell.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/104699919/

Date: 03/29/07 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Vulnerability in the way Windows handles animated cursors puts users at risk of serious cyberattacks. Microsoft is working on a fix.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6171727.html

Date: 04/02/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft, google

Google reportedly has emerged along with Microsoft as a contender to buy the online-advertising company.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6172381.html

Date: 04/02/07 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

There's a new Microsoft Windows vulnerability being exploited across the Internet that has already attacked more than 100 sites. Here's what to do about it.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6172440.html

Date: 04/04/07 (Security)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Applying Microsoft's Tuesday fix for a "critical" Windows flaw can cause trouble with audio and networking software on some PCs.
Video: Hacking a Vista PC

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6173413.html

Date: 04/05/07 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

With five security bulletins scheduled for release next week, Microsoft plans patch for Content Management Server flaw.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6173707.html