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This is an older article, but, since this site just launched it is relevant as we all wait for the official release of Windows Server 2008 to the public. You can read the rest at Microsoft Press Pass.

Browse to the mysql dir and set permissions to write and modify on the myql dir. To do that right click the mysql dir and select the security tab at the top. Click the edit button just below the permissions window. Even though administrator should have access set to full control it might not. If you don't want to manually install using the tutorial I wrote, my installs were done via RDP and the tutorial takes that into account, you can try installing at an elevated level. Right click installer and choose run as administrator.

First thing you could try is to set permissions on the mysql dir to allow write access. I had a different problem when I tried to install mysql on one of the first betas. I found that the service is not being created by the installer. I downloaded the zip without installer and installed mysql manually. If you need help installing manually see this article I wrote for Windows 2003. The process is the same. If you have any further questions post back.

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At work we have a custom distribution, at home I have a custom distribution.* I was thinking of distributing it.* I have a couple of associates that use it and I have been increasingly using it at work on my own.* The biggest test was my sister in law who is the biggest computer illiterate you can find, she doesn't know how to turn the thing off, seriously.* She has been able to use it and loves it.* It's a remastered Ubuntu distribution with all the proprietary software that makes my black heart go pitter patter.* I recently dropped KDE and went with a modified XFCE desktop.* There are naming restrictions and such as I cant have the words buntu in it because I include my own repositories. So, what is a good name?* Something professional.* I have thrown out the name OS/3 as IBM might have objections, I threw out OS/360 as Microsoft and IBM might have objections.* If any of the artists want to help out with usplash, GDM and branding drop me an e-mail. I also don't just want to be another distribution, I have to do something that will set it apart from the rest.* Inclusion of Flash and the Fluendo codecs aren't enough.* While I love and I mean LOVE Microsoft, I don't want to kill it before it leaves the ground although Mono and Monodevelop will ship as the primary development language. For themes and artwork, it will ship with the OpenSolaris nimbus theme and iconset as the default.* I am looking at the 8.04 LTS as my first possible distribution if it happens. Advice, suggestions on why this is a terrible idea, a great idea etc. any dialogue please* pass it along.* Any flames, insults and other derogatory commentary can be directed elsewhere. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft's Windows Mobile chief leaving for Vodafone Seattle Post Intelligencer - 57 minutes ago Sievert had been responsible for Windows Vista's introduction. It's not clear if Berkowitz's departure or any of the other changes are related to the ... Vista SP1 Prerequisites Rolled up in Patch Tuesday Update Washington Post Free File, Clean-Up Tools PC World all 340 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft's Windows Mobile chief leaving for Vodafone Seattle Post Intelligencer - 27 minutes ago Sievert had been responsible for Windows Vista's introduction. It's not clear if Berkowitz's departure or any of the other changes are related to the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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This is a video of Windows Vista Aero vs Linux Ubuntu.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Share how to convert dvd and video to iphone I was able to convert dvd/video to iPhone using the Cucusoft iPhone Video Converter suite software .I found on http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone.html So far, I'm really impressed with how easy it is to use and how effectively it got the job done. 1.Download the latest version http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone.html and install it. You can know more about it by referring here. http://freepchelp.forum/[/font][/size] 2.Insert the DVD you'd like to convert to your computer's DVD drive. http://freepchelp.forum/[/font][/size] 3. Click 'File' menu and 'Open DVD', or directly hit 'Open DVD' button to load the DVD. Set the profile to be iPhone 480*320 mpeg-4 video which is the default DVD video quality. 4. Click around in the DVD's menu to set up DVD playback as you like, select the subtitle and audio sound tracks etc, then begin to play the movie through the software by click the play button. 5. The following window will pop up. Here, you can rename 'Title Name', set 'Save Path' and output quality, then click 'Yes' button to start ripping DVD to iPhone MP4 or iPhone H264 video from the point that the movie starts. That is all. Just so easy! http://freepchelp.forum/[/font][/size] If you'd like to record from certain time point, or want to change some parameters like 'output format', 'video bitrates', 'frame rate', 'audio bitrates', please click 'No' button to close the window. Optional parameters settings * Select subtitles and languages Click 'Subtitle' or 'Audio Track' in the 'Setting' menu, choose the related value you like. * Set output formats Choose the target file format from 'Profile'. The software supports converting DVD to iPhone 480*320 MP4 video,iPod MP4 video, iPod h264 video, MP3 audio. http://freepchelp.forum/[/font][/size] * Set the start time to convert Use the video playback controls to queue up the point at which you want to start ripping. Or click 'Setting -> Go to' and jump to previous/next chapter. * More parameters Click 'Setting -> Output video settings', here you can choose different profile, video/audio bitrates, video size, disable video/audio, aspect ratio, frame/sample rate, etc. If you are not familiar with these options, please view the descriptions listed at the bottom of the window. *Crop/cut&Resize the movie If you want to make the widescreen dvd(16:9) to be outputted as fullscreen(4:3) video, you can use the crop function. Set Crop to "Crop both black bands" and resize to be "stretch to full screen" if you don't need to keep the subtitle. Set crop to "Crop the upper black band" so you can keep the subtitle in the down black band. http://freepchelp.forum/[/font][/size] http://freepchelp.forum/[/font][/size] *Direct/batch conversion If you want to rip you DVD movie into one whole file, please use the direct ripping mode described above. If you want to rip your DVD by chapters to into separated output files (for example your music DVDs, TV Episode DVDs), you can use the batch conversion rip mode, just ticket out the titles you want to convert and click convert. You can switch this two modes by clicking on the mode-Direct&Batch. 7. Hit 'Convert' button, choose the recording time point and quality, then click 'Yes' to begin to convert DVD to iPhone video or audio quickly. 8. After ripping, transfer the converted files to iTunes, and then sync to iPhone. http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone.html More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Currently I'm trying to get the remote access portion of WHS to work properly. I am able to view/manipulate files via the web interface, as well as get into the remote control portion as far as it prompting me to use the attached printers/clipboard, etc. Once I get that far into the remote access portion it attempts to connect and immediately throws an unable to connect, connection dropped error (can't remember exact error offhand). I have the modem set to forward the ports 80, 443, and 4125. I confirm that I can get through (and see traffic) on the port 80 and 443 side, but using some tools I can see that 4125 still doesn't seem to be forwarding, or at least not getting to my machine properly. I had originally thought that it was because I was using a Linksys router behind the Qwest modem, but I took that out of the picture and now have the WHS box hooked directly up to the modem. I've verified that I have the firewall on the modem disabled and that the ports forwarding properly. I've also put the machine into the DMZ and I still can't remote to the actual machines. Has anyone else on Qwest with a M1000 modem had similar issues or am I missing something? Thanks View this thread

Discover why Windows Mobile is the optimal choice for your organization and* IT professionals. Join Windows Mobile expert, Derek Snyder, as he covers the top 10 features of Windows Mobile and System Center Mobile Device Manager for business and how standardizing on Windows Mobile devices can decrease your support time, simplify and centralize management, provide more secure access to corporate data and extend line of business applications to mobile workers. Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Matt Hester – IT Pro Evangelist Derek Snyder – Product Manager Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://matthewhelmke.net/temp.html Matthew puts together a list of things that you can't do on Windows or Mac (easily?) but you can do on most Linux distros. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Platform: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista,Mac OS X,Linux PC Authority Business Centre, Australia - Jan 31, 2008 ... using a public P2P network, so your files are safe and secure. Download here is for the Windows version of Mozilla Firefox (and now works with Firefox 2.0). More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

On Michael Dells corporate site just weeks before the Ubuntu launch Mike had a machine listed as his home machine running Ubuntu, the Dell Precision M90. Well, since the Ubuntu launch Mike has upgraded that system to a newer model the Dell Precision M6300..... Read more Link More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w 100.000 pc's running Ubuntu and Dell is starting to sell them again here in Europe. Seems like this is the moment of truth for Linux as a desktop OS. I am looking forward into seeing some results! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It's time for linux.conf.au conference again. Interesting presentations on whole week. Bruce Schneier's keynote [Video] (more videos coming ...) Have you ever been there? Was it a bad idea post this on C9? ) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Interesting tidbit written by Jamie from the famous (USA only?) show MythBusters. I guess Jamie doesn't believe that Vista's bloat and stability problems are a myth. He recommends upgrading to the Ubuntu operating system. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4243994.html?page=3 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have a SonicWall TZ 180 Wireless Router. I have installed WHS on my system and had to manually open ports to get it to work. It seems to works fine on the LAN, but I cannot get a connection to clients on the WLAN. I guess I need to open the same ports. My question is: what do I put as my destination and source in the firewall rules. Is it LAN/WLAN or WLAN/LAN or something else? Do I open up the same ports as what MS recommends. I am almost there - any help from anyone would be appreciated. Thanks, FF View this thread

I saw this on Engadget via Digg: Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile is game changing, does FlashSo when is Windows Mobile going to be able to do Silverlight too? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Once you uninstall SP1 that will disappear from the desktop.

New question from me. :) Is there any elegant way of determining which directory is equivalent to "Program Files" on a given windows mobile device? *I'm developing an app that will be localized to several countries, and need to determine the Program Files path dynamically regardless of which region or country the device is localized for. I'd like to avoid having to hardcode every possible localized version of the file system. Examples: "\Program Files" (English) "\Programfiler" (Norwegian) "\Programmen" (German) and on and on... Is there for instance any environment variable on winmob devices that lets me determine the path on that device? Regards, Thomas Nilsson More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Head honcho of the Developer Division has a blog about Incubation projects. * Personally speaking, this is where Linux and Windows diverge. There is little to no innovation in Linux. One cannot afford to be as structured in an open source environment. Yes old ideas are used innovatively but there is no new stuff. The thing that constantly amazes me is how 'Head Honchos' have the knack to put things in buckets. I hear this time and time again. When I encounter the corona_coder, creditcard etc I always find that this element of incubation*is never present for all their ever present GPL waffling. I am however always careful not to write people off Prima Facie. If people 'harp on' about Macs surely there must be some intrinsic value in the product. Why is is that people always think that you're either Mac, Windows or Linux? Never can one use all three harmoniously? Now unless I'm missing something, what are the innovative features that Linux brings to the table? For the recent Flurry of Windows 7 pandemonium here at '9, the debate was centred around design and implementation of features. We can almost always expect to be surprised (anticipate derision here) by each new*Windows OS, what is it that Linux has? Why is it so great? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

* liners? Im getting bored making fake things in my spare time. Ive tried to do stuff for FOSS before - but found everyone rude. Q: what's involved in making our own distro? specifically - like that abomination GOS* (i could do way better than their web OS UI) if anyone is interested - email me. (or post) *9 OS* :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Linux a greener alternative to a forced Vista move? InfoWorld, CA - Jan 15, 2008 If you read my blog yesterday, you noticed my entry about Microsoft's move to retire XP and effectively force Windows shops into a wasteful migration to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds