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    <title>Comment from Justin on 2008-10-31</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>great explaination and very easy to understand.  I appreciate your article.  It cleared up a lot of confusion that I had. Thank you!</p>]]>
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      <![CDATA[<p>This still isn't helping me answer a question I am having trouble with.  I have been trying to access the website of my local city government.  It never works, and I keep being told that its a problem with my server.  What does that mean, and how do I fix it?</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from JULIO on 2008-08-03</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>WHAT DO I PUT FOR "SERVER" WHEN USING "INTERNET CONNECTION WIZARD"?</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from farmson on 2008-03-27</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Gosh... so much I just simply don't understand. I want to create my own web site, but I want to check it out on my own computer before I upload... I've use WAMP and downloaded: MySql, Php, and Apache. I have also downloaded Joomla I want to create "something" in Joomla, test it on my own computer - then add some database record code and etc... all without going online. I've been working at this for 1 mo now and I guess its because I'm not a geek/nerd or because I'm 65, no success. Everywhere I go it says its simple and then they go on to speaking in tech-terms I don't understand.<br />
Now you know what I'm going thru, can you please help me to get my computer up and running with Apache as my server and Joomla as my web site builder? And in real simple terms, like: "type this here and click here. I'm trying to get by without knowing what the foreign language is...<br />
Frustrated but not giving up</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from John on 2007-12-05</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Gosh... so much I just simply don't understand.  I want to create my own web site, but I want to check it out on my own computer before I upload...  I've use WAMP and downloaded: MySql, Php, and Apache.  I have also downloaded Joomla   I want to create "something" in Joomla, test it on my own computer - then add some database record code and etc... all without going online.  I've been working at this for 1 mo now and I guess its because I'm not a geek/nerd or because I'm 65, no success.  Everywhere I go it says its simple and then they go on to speaking in tech-terms I don't understand.<br />
Now you know what I'm going thru, can you please help me to get my computer up and running with Apache as my server and Joomla as my web site builder?  And in real simple terms, like: "type this here and click here.  I'm trying to get by without knowing what the foreign language is...<br />
Frustrated but not giving up,  John</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from kelly on 2007-10-07</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Hey this actually is a pretty good explanation, cheers</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from jim on 2007-06-24</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>hello leo verry good information. makes my study so much easier!!</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from Laszlo Bereczky on 2007-02-18</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Hi Leo;<br />
My name is Les </p>

<p>I start running a game server yesterday, but my concern is my d drive it’s shared and I have too much good stuff on my hard drive which I don’t want to lose.<br />
So, my question is how can; I put some security to that drive so no players can mess up my hard drive.</p>

<p>I have Zone alarm firewall and Avg antivirus.   <br />
Thank you very much for you helps</p>

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      <![CDATA[<p>I am wondering how to make an educated decision on wether to use an existing amd3700 computer to host a web game developed by my son or buy a dedicated "server"?  How can I know if the added cost is worth the investment what should I look for?</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from salman on 2005-05-19</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>I found your site to be informative but still don't know how to install a server on my own computer winxp to test my mysql, html, asp, cgi, php and cfm  which i am trying to learn.</p>

<p>if there is URL to read from please tell me.</p>]]>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Thank you, easy to read and very informative. I will certainly share this link with others.</p>]]>
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      <![CDATA[<p>I found your site to be very informative but I would have like to seen something on Home Network/Server for print and file sharing.  I am wanting to setup my computer for just that purpose.  Other than that, I really enjoyed reading your site.  Thank You in advance.  Pete</p>]]>
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