I started with the online doc and a couple of O'Reillys, one on web database stuff, since that's what I was poking at.

ten posts from a new thread, or should I say 1010 in binary?

The bullshit consensus title for the next thread was "Buffistechnology 3: Press some buttons, see what happens", but it got buried in the pseudocide kerfuffle.

After overcoming a couple of minor problems, I got sound working for Windows programs under Ubuntu. There's something kinda fun about playing a bit of a Windows game without the Windows part.

Huh. Gud, if you tool around with iTunes and get any good results, I'd really love to know.

I need some advisment for my job--

I work at a university. We do on-line, non-credit classes in Blackboard.

Currently, the way our on-line registration works is that the person registers. The registration is emailed to me. I type in the registration. I manually run the credit card. I notify the Blackboard people. They put them in Blackboard. We email the person. They take the class. We look to see if they pass. We mail them a certificate.

We would like to have this process be automatic and not need to wait for people to run credit cards, enter them in Blackboard, etc. I am fairly confident that we can build the course in whatever we need to (doesn't need to be blackboard), but we need some sort of web-site, program, code, php or something that will do the following:

Take the person's registration and run their credit card. Email them with a user name/password for the site and somehow match them up with the right course IF the credit card is accepted. At the end of the class, which they take on their own time, email a certificate of completion IF their score is over a certain amout.

My boss, my colleage and I seem to think this can be done, because it seems sort of like an on-line store. Our IT people say it is impossible (but perhaps just not something they want to do. Without their help, we have no idea where to go or even a ballpark cost to get something like this built. Do you have any advice?

I have a friend who wants to be able to make ISO copies of a number of protected software DVDs so that they can be used for reference (by the owner, but it's not like software tends to care about that) without having too switch disks between lookups.

Well, I guess it doesn't have to be ISO--is there any other way that can be handled? Platform is a PC.

You could try poking around videohelp.com [link] for software to create the ISOs. I've been using Daemon Tools [link] to mount disk images. It seems to work pretty well. Depending on what copy protection is on the DVDs, you may also need to look around for cracks (although some are already built into Daemon Tools).

Thanks, DX. I've passed that DaemonTools link on (what a weird website), since it sounds like what they need.

I\'m suspicious of any website where the userid of the administrator is LocutusofBorg.