Posted by: SiiN on: April 15, 2008
By default, Telnet client. is not enabled in Windows Vista. . You can enable it by the following steps:
1. Click Start then select Control Panel.
2. Select Programs and Features.
3. Select Turn Windows features on or off.
4. Select the Telnet Client option.
5. Click OK.
6. A dialog box will appear to confirm installation. The telnet command [...]
Posted by: SiiN on: April 14, 2008
On servers with MySQL 4.0.x, after a fresh installation of smf using Fantastico, while accessing forum, you might see “unknown system variable ‘names’”
It appears to be caused by this code in SMF:
// Most database systems have not set UTF-8 as their default input charset.
if (isset($db_character_set) && preg_match(’~^\w+$~’, $db_character_set) === 1)
db_query(”
SET NAMES $db_character_set”, __FILE__, __LINE__);
The [...]