This is a guide for anyone who’s experiencing a blue screen problem that occurs when trying to install Windows XP on a PC purchased relatively recently, or might be getting hard drive errors while installing.

You can fix this error by going into your BIOS settings and changing the SATA mode from AHCI to ATA.

Be sure to then save your BIOS settings, and restart the computer. This should resolve the blue screen.

Google for PHPMyAdmin, it should be the top search result.

You’re probably best off grabbing the .tar.gz if you’d like to follow along with this tutorial.

After the download is complete, we’ll need to do the following:

• Open a shell
• Move the downloaded tarball to your web server’s document root
• Untar the tarball

There’s no installation required other than untarring. You should be able to access PHPMyAdmin from your browser. Just make sure that your url matches the folder name of your extracted PHPMyAdmin application folder.

Please post any comments– if you need help, I’d be glad to get back to you!

As far as being a platform to develop enterprise class applications in a professional, modular, scalable fashion, Java takes the cake all day in my opinion. It has countless frameworks, an enormous community, and a powerful, portable language behind it– the best language if I might say so myself: Java.

The biggest, and probably only, problem that I have with Java applications is the lack of affordable web hosting available. From what I’ve read, hosting Java web applications tends to be expensive because of the need to have a JVM running, opposed to just a shared web server or whatever. This is why I started looking into PHP.
At first glance, PHP was just a hacker-esque, outdated scripting language… and maybe it is all by itself. The power comes with it’s frameworks. I’ve started looking into cakePHP, a rapid-development PHP framework. So far, it looks really promising. I’ll try to get some tutorials posted up here once I get into some coding.

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1. From a clean installation, go to http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA and select the one-click install that corresponds to your model of video card.
2. Your browser should ask you if you want to save or open the .ymp file, just click ‘open’.
3. You should then be taken through an installer that will download and install your drivers. After this, you’ll be prompted to reboot. I guess for most people, this is all you’d have to do and you’d be running your NVidia card without problems. If you’re an unfortunate bastard like I was (which you probably are because you’re reading this), then you’ll need to follow the rest of these instructions.
4. Go superuser (su).
5. Type ’sax2 -r’. This should make your computer do some type of crazy shit that you don’t really need to be concerned about. All you and I need to know is that it’s probably going to result in your X server starting successfully.
6. You should be brought back to the shell. Type ’startx’ to load your X environment.
7. Once it loads, type ‘nvidia-settings’ and do any additional configuration you need to do for your video card (i.e. setting up multiple monitors)
8. Restart the machine through your X server’s restart function. Sometimes, the first time you restart, your settings will be a little screwy. I don’t know why, but restarting a second time usually works.

Good luck!