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I use Flickr because it's the first thing I tried. I'm easy. I find it's easeit to use something that works okay than spend a lot of effort trying to find the perfect thing, which may not even exist.
Question: I'm trying to install my old HP 5300C scanner to Window XP, and it's strongly cautioning me not to do so because it hasn't passed Windows Logo something blah. I really don't want to buy another scanner. Is this a serious consideration, or can I just install the damn thing?
Just "install the damn thing."
I did. It can't find the scanner. Even though it's sitting right there plugged in and everything. I hate my computer.
I inputted your scanner info and windows XP into google and scanned for the most likely to help.
Has a scanner driver straight from HP (Hewlett-Packard, not Harry Potter)
I'm holding it right in front of the screen but it still says it can't find it!
You need to hold it in front of the webcam.
I've got MAMP (Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP) installed on my iBook just fine, and I can run PHPadmin app with queries against MySQL tables just fine. But how do I 'run' a PHP program? Loading the .PHP file into my Firefox browser doesn't seem to work, and of course the stupid instruction book I have (MySQL Weekend Crash Course) doesn't say how you actually i start the model PHP files they supply running.
I can wait until tomorrow and buy a better instruction book, but geez, I feel pretty useless when I don't even have a clue as to how to proceed.
Where are you storing the files? If you're using the version of Apache that comes with the Mac, php is automatically enabled, but you'll need to be sure to store your files in the Sites folder inside your home folder. (It's possible to tweak Apache to use something else, of course, but for now, easiest to go with the default.)
edit: and after that, what Kevin said (which I should've made more clear). But trying to open files that are on the desktop or wherever is the most common mistake I see with this.
When I followed Kevin's link, I got an error:
Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1.
MAMP actually does run right on the Mac, and stores the database files under the Applications folder. I can run queries against them just fine, but when I try to open the .PHP file, it gives a screen with obvious errors in it that makes it clear that the boxes are not being filled by the MySQL queries that the PHP is supposed to be running.