Nation Pigeon

I am board of all the same desktop environments, they all look the same. They all have the same flat 2D display. since the release of Vista they have all gone flashy and shiny, that’s great but it is still the same as the old ‘95 desktop, it has a menu at the bottom and flat 2D windows. Yes there are some desktops that have some sort of 3D or 2.5D display but these are all still fundamental the same thing.

What I am trying to say is that we need to have a good long look at the current desktop and see what we can do to make it new and exciting. I shall prove my point with these images.

I mean they are all the same, I know Bump Top is different but its still not that different to what we have at the moment.

Basicly I’m looking for something completely different, yet simple to use and has an innovative user interface.

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Pete Information, Programming 3D Programming, Linux, modeling, theme, Windows XP

If you only have one account on your Windows XP computer which does not have a password and it is asking you to “select” the account. It is possible to bypass this pointless selection by running this command in run (Start->Run or Windows Key and ‘R’)

control userpasswords2

Then un-check “User must enter a user name and password to use this computer”

That should solve your problem, let me know if this helps or not.

Pete Tutorials login, Windows XP

If your computer running Windows is starting to slow down, or running out of hard drive space then you might be in need of a simple program called CCleaner.

I was able to save 1.77MB of space and that was just from tempary files that Windows creates for it’s self. I have save up to 4GB of space from useing CCleaner. It’s very good!

Pete Tutorials Windows XP

If you want to learn PHP you will need a server that has PHP support. If you don’t feel confident enoght too install a major web server and all the bits then good news. There is a software called Nanoweb, which is a free small web server that supports PHP. It works on both Linux and Windows. So for Windows download the Windows installer here

TIP: Download the version that has PHP with it if you do not already have that installed on your machine.

One you have it downlaoded double click on the installer and click on ‘Extract’

It will extract the files and then terminate the install

It will load up the read me file and once you click on close it will continue with the install and end. If you would like to read the read me at another time then you can find it at C:\nanowe.

Now that it is all installed goto your desktop and double click on ‘Start Nanoweb’ Unblock windows firewall and you should see a command prompt window saying the following.

This means that the server is all working fine. To make sure of that type in localhost into your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox Netscape etc) You should see “Welcome to nanoweb!”. That file is located at C:\nanoweb\www, the www folder is the main root directory (folder) of the server. This is where you will be saving all of your PHP script files.

That’s it! All you need to do to set up a PHP development web server. If you want other people to view your files then you may have to port forward your ip address, this will be coverd at another time.

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