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Installing Windows XP on Acer Travelmate 6291 Laptop (SATA Hard Drive Without Floppy)

lorenz — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:06:19 +0000

Last night i was confused when i was installing Windows XP on my friend’s laptop, the installer didn’t recognize the laptop’s hard drive,i thought there was a problem with the hard drive. After googling for a while, i found that it was caused by Windows XP installer that didn’t support SATA hard drive. To overcome the problem, we have to include SATA drivers into Windows XP installation CD and reburn it, and fortunately, that’s not a complicated task to do .

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Installing MapServer and PHP MapScript on Linux

lorenz — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:35:57 +0000

Introduction

MapServer is an open source and free software for rendering maps, images, and vector data on the web. MapServer was originally developed by the University of Minnesota (UMN) ForNet project in cooperation with NASA and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Presently, the MapServer project is hosted by the TerraSIP, a NASA sponsored project between the UMN and consortium of land management interests (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu).

MapServer can be compiled on many platforms and operating systems, but in this tutorial, I will focus on unix like system, especially Linux.

Prerequisites

Operating system used in this tutorial is Linux Fedora Core 7 with Apache (httpd-2.0.55), PHP (php-5.2.3), and PostgreSQL(postgresql-8.2.4) already installed using manual source installation (not using default rpm package). Required libraries that already installed are libpng, libjpeg, libtiff, and zlib. Installation manual for those softwares and libraries are beyond the scope of this tutorial.

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How to Enable MySQL InnoDB Storage Engine on XAMPP

lorenz — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:50:32 +0000

InnoDB is one of MySQL storage engines, it supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign-keys. However, by default, InnoDB is not enabled by XAMPP. To enable it, locate the my.cnf configuration file (normally in C:/xampp/mysql/bin directory) and search for the following lines:

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Tips mengatasi problem instalasi XAMPP

lorenz — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:42:35 +0000

Tips ini untuk mengatasi permasalahan pada saat instalasi XAMPP pada windows dimana apache tidak bisa menerima koneksi HTTP. Kondisinya adalah dimana setelah instalasi xampp berhasil dan aplikasi apache telah dijalankan melalui control panel xampp tapi kita tetap tidak bisa mengakses halaman default dari xampp (http://localhost). Hal ini disebabkan karena adanya bentrok dengan program antivirus yang ada di komputer kita. Secara default, apache menggunakan WinSock V2 API AcceptEx() daripada fungsi standar Accept() (BSD Styles) . Beberapa aplikasi antivirus memiliki bug yang mempengaruhi fungsi AcceptEx(). Untuk mengatasinya, tambahkan tag Win32DisableAcceptEx pada file konfigurasi apache (httpd.conf) untuk menonaktifkan fungsi AcceptEx().

Langkah-langkah mengatasi permasalahan tersebut:

Buka file httpd.conf yang terletak pada folder XAMPP\apache\conf
Tambahkan tag Win32DisableAcceptEx
Save file tersebut
Restart apache

Buka browser dan cek kembali http://localhost,jika berhasil halaman default XAMPP akan ditampilkan.