05.09.08
Posted in Intermediate, Windows at 5:46 pm by Techie
As I don’t always have an Internet connection, being able to get my laptop online through my cell phone (a Blackberry Pearl 8100 on T-Mobile) is quite useful. Here’s how you do it. I presume at this point you’ve already installed the Blackberry Desktop software, and can sync fine over USB.
Determine COM Ports
Right-click on “My Computer” (often found in the Start Menu), and select “Properties”. Click on the “Hardware” tab, and then the Button for “Device Manager”. Expand the section for “Ports (COM & LPT)”. You should see a couple entries here for RIM Virtual Serial Port v2 — for me these were “COM4″ and “COM5″.
Note the COM numbers for these entries. Close out.
Set Up Network Connection
Go to the “Control Panel”, and open up “Network Connections”. (If you have category view enabled, you may have to go to “Network and Internet Connections” first, before being able to select “Network Connections”. Go to “File->New Connection”, which will launch the “New Connection Wizard”. Do not do the Network Setup Wizard — that’s something else.
Click Next. Leave the option as “Connect to the Internet”, and click Next. Select “Set up my connection manually”, and click Next. Select “Connect using a dial-up modem”, and click Next.
At this point it should be asking you to select a device. Make sure to select the entry for one of the COM ports you found above. I noted above that COM ports 4 and 5 were for RIM, and here the only one showing up was COM4, so my choice is pretty clear. Select the correct one, and click Next.
For ISP name, put in whatever is meaningful to you so you know what it’s for. For instance, I called mine “T-Mobile (Blackberry)”. Click Next.
For Phone number, put in the following and click Next: *99#
For “Internet Account Information”, leave the fields blank. Leave “Use this account name and password…” checked, and uncheck the box for “Make this the default Internet connection”. Click Next. That should be the final page of the Connection Wizard, so click Finish.
This will probably pop up the “Connect T-Mobile (Blackberry)” dial-up wizard. Don’t connect yet. Close this out, because we need to make some changes to the modem first.
Go back to “Control Panel”, and go to “Phone and Modem Options”. (If you have Category View enabled, you may have to select “Printers and Other Hardware” first.) On the “Modems” tab, you should see the modem you selected above listed (e.g. “Standard Modem; highlight it and hit Properties.
This will bring up the properties window specific to that modem. On the Advanced tab, there’s a box for “Extra initialization commands”. In here, put the following:
+cgdcont=1,"IP","wap.voicestream.com"
If that doesn’t work, use the following instead:
+cgdcont=1,,"wap.voicestream.com"
OK all the way out, and launch the connection again. You can find it in the Control Panel under Network Connections (again, if you have Category View enabled, you may have to navigate into “Network and Internet Connections” first), under the Dial-up section. Alternatively you may find it under Start->Connect To on the Start Menu, if you have the new style Start Menu enabled.
Click Dial, and it should connect!
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07.11.07
Posted in Error Messages, How To, Intermediate, Windows at 4:06 pm by Techie
I have a Lenovo X41 Tablet PC that I had installed Ubuntu onto. I recently decided to re-install the original Windows software, so I ordered the CDs from Lenovo and broke out an external CD drive. However, when I put in the Rescue and Recovery CD and booted the machine, I ended up with a blank black screen and nothing else. What gives? I updated the BIOS and the embedded controller firmwares, but to no avail. The computer would boot up the CD, a brief message about examining the setup would fly by, then a blank screen. I figured this was a problem with the recovery CDs, because my Ubuntu live CD booted right up.
As it turns out, Lenovo recovery CDs are very picky about their hard drive setup. They need to copy files to disk for a variety of tasks, so if you’re using up all the partitions, then the CDs will stop booting, but give you no other errors.
I had previously installed Linux on the machine, so my partition tables were in a state the machine didn’t really understand. What I needed to do was trash the existing partitions, and flush out the boot record.
Easy enough — I fired up the Ubuntu live CD, and launched the partition editor in System -> Administration. I had to turn off the swap space, by right-clicking on it in the partition editor, and selecting “swapoff”. By default, Ubuntu live CDs will scan your drives for partitions marked as swap space, and use it, so you have to turn off this usage to delete the partitions. I ran through and deleted all the partitions, and applied the changes.
I next had to clear out the master boot record, but I could do that right from the live CD. After doing that, I rebooted with the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery CD and said a little prayer.
Once I had done these steps, the recovery CD started right up. I’m surprised Lenovo doesn’t give more details on this in their support knowledge base.
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06.11.07
Posted in How To, Intermediate, Linux, Mac, Windows at 11:24 am by Techie
What’s your favorite editor? Oh, I’m sorry, the correct answer should be emacs. Actually, you should use whatever editor you feel most comfortable with; I’ve just found the ability to record keyboard macros in emacs to be indispensable, all the more so since I’ve been using it for almost ten years. Be I writing on Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, my preferred text editor is still emacs.
However, once I get on a new machine, I need to customize .emacs, which is the startup configuration file. There are a series of changes that I find quite useful, and often find myself looking up again and again. Without further ado, here are the customizations:
;; Emacs usually has a slash screen on startup. Let's get rid of that and start with a blank buffer.
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
;; I like to see what is selected in the buffer. This turns on visual feedback on selections.
(setq transient-mark-mode t)
;; Activate font-lock mode (syntax coloring).
(global-font-lock-mode t)
;; Line numbers are good. Getting column numbering as well is better.
(column-number-mode t)
;; Scrollbars go on the right. Who puts these on the left?
(set-scroll-bar-mode 'right)
;; Enable mouse wheel scrolling.
(if (load "mwheel" t)
(mwheel-install))
;; Always end files in anewline.
(setq require-final-newline 't)
;; ...or ask to end in newline if needed
; (setq require-final-newline 'query)
;; Match parentheses. Useful to be sure you've closed everything up.
(show-paren-mode t)
; Display settings
; default size and color options for all frames.
(setq default-frame-alist
'(
; frame width and height
(width . 80)
(height . 40)
;;;; foreground, background, and cursor colors
;;; (foreground-color . "grey8")
;;; (background-color . "grey92")
;;; (cursor-color . "red3")
)
)
; places top left corner of initial frame at location (25,25) on screen
(setq initial-frame-alist
'(
(top . 25)
(left . 25)
)
)
; Temporary files cluttering up the space are annoying. Here's how we
; can deal with them -- create a directory in your home directory, and
; save to there instead! No more random ~ files.
(defvar user-temporary-file-directory
"~/.emacs-autosaves/")
(make-directory user-temporary-file-directory t)
(setq backup-by-copying t)
(setq backup-directory-alist
`(("." . ,user-temporary-file-directory)
(tramp-file-name-regexp nil)))
(setq auto-save-list-file-prefix
(concat user-temporary-file-directory ".auto-saves-"))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
`((".*" ,user-temporary-file-directory t)))
I additionally have some macros that aren’t generally useful. There’s a million things to tweak in the customization, and if you’re fancy, you can even write your own hacks — better brush up on that lisp! Here are a few more resources of interest:
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06.01.07
Posted in Intermediate, Linux, Review, Windows at 8:12 am by Techie
I have two PCs right next to each other, each with their own display. One runs Windows XP Professional, and the other runs Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I have one keyboard between the two of them. KVM? Nah, that’s too passe. Far better to be able to switch between computers just by moving the mouse.
Synergy describes itself like so:
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
This is actually really cool. It’s almost like having a really large display, as the mouse flows between all windows. I type on my Ubuntu desktop, then switch over to a Windows application on a different monitor by moving the mouse. The two computers share an “edge”, so my mouse moves seamlessly between them. To type on Windows, I mouse to the Windows side; to type on Ubuntu, I mouse to the Ubuntu side. Simple and effective. What’s even cooler is that the machines share the clipboard buffer! I can copy text on one side, mouse over to the right side, and paste it.
Configuration
Configuration is simple. Select one machine as your “server”, which has the actual keyboard and mouse you want to use. Other machines are “clients”, and connect to the server. In my case, I set up my Ubuntu PC as my server, and set up my Windows machine as a client. It could have been the other way.
Interestingly enough, it’s slightly easier to configure the “server” on Linux, if you use “quicksynergy”. This allows you to just specify where the other client computers are. Just fire it up, tell it that a client’s display is left / right / above / below your existing display, hit Start, and you’re off to the races. You can also manually configure it, but that just doesn’t seem fun.
Configuring the server on Windows is a bit more complicated, but quite a bit more extensible as a result. You specify which clients share an edge, but have to specify it both ways — e.g., if you say a computer A’s display is to the right of computer B’s display, you must also say computer B’s display is to the left of computer A’s display, or you’ll end up with a one way transport.
As far as client configuration goes, all you need to know is the hostname or IP address of the server. Provide the client names to the server to allow connection, and you’re all set.
Compatibility
Mac has something similar, called Teleport, which actually works better, but only works on Macs. I don’t think Teleport and Synergy are compatible. While there is a Mac version of Synergy available, it’s not fully supported yet. Synergy works on most modern versions of Linux, as well as most versions of Windows, though it has this caveat for Vista: “…when an application running with elevated [privileges] is focused Synergy stops working.”
Conclusion
If you use multiple PCs on one desk, Synergy is a no brainer. Get it, install it, and simplify your keyboard and mouse situation. Also, since most modern keyboards and mice are now shipping as USB, you may find that KVM switches don’t work, as they are often powered off PS/2 devices. Synergy sidesteps that issue completely. Besides which, having a shared copy / paste buffer between PCs is amazing — try doing that with a KVM switch!
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12.12.06
Posted in Intermediate, Mac, Windows at 4:50 pm by Techie
I’m not sure of the legality of this one, but Lifehacker pointed to an article about authorizing iTunes on more than five computers. The basic idea is that the authorization for a computer is stored on your local machine. This is a good thing, because otherwise you would need to be constantly connected to the Internet to play your music — not exactly ideal if you have a laptop. What you do is copy this folder, de-authorize your computer, then restore the folder. Voila — re-authorized, without connecting to the music store!
For Mac, the above link points to an Applescript that handles this for you: iTude.zip
LifeHacker notes that for Windows, the directory is stored in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\SC Info. Copy this folder, de-authorize your machine, then restore it, and your music should play.
A caveat to this is that any music bought thereafter will not work, because the authorization key will change on each new song purchased. However, if you just need a quick additional computer for your music and aren’t buying new music, then this will do the trick. Let’s see how long before Apple patches this!
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11.16.06
Posted in Article, Windows at 11:17 am by Techie
Here’s an interesting experiment. On a Windows desktop, right-click on the desktop, and create a new Folder. Then, try renaming it ‘aux’. Can’t do it, right? There are certain restricted words that cannot be used to name folders or files, even though they use regular characters. You can’t even name it, say, ‘aux.test’. I came across this bug when editing files in CVS that were sourced on a Linux machine. I checked out the repository, but got errors for a folder named ‘aux’. I ended up doing work on a Linux machine to get around this, as there would be no way I would be able to work on the files there from Windows.
The following are reserved names, which cannot be assigned to a folder or file (normally):
- CON
- PRN
- AUX
- CLOCK$ (NT and older)
- NUL
- COM1
- COM2
- COM3
- COM4
- COM5
- COM6
- COM7
- COM8
- COM9
- LPT1
- LPT2
- LPT3
- LPT4
- LPT5
- LPT6
- LPT7
- LPT8
- LPT9
It’s not impossible to create a file with that name, however. You just need to break out the old command line. From a Windows XP box, open up a command window (Start->Run, type cmd) and try:
md \\\\.\\c:\\aux
Congratulations, you’ve just created a folder named ‘aux’! You can even browse to it in Windows Explorer. To break down what the above does: the md stands for “make directory”. Specifying \\.\c:\aux means (in UNC format) on the local machine, volume C:, folder aux.
However, you still can’t delete it from Windows Explorer. To do that, you have to go back to the shell:
rd \\\\.\\c:\\aux
Aside from wowing your neighbors with your random geek knowledge, is there a practical use for this information? While I can’t think of any, it’s good to know to avoid using these, if doing cross-platform development. Do not use these names on a file on a Linux machine if they are going to be opened or edited by Windows users! This includes files and directories with those names but with an extension, such as aux.txt.
References:
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09.14.06
Posted in Beginner, How To, Windows at 10:11 am by Techie
With the recent release of iTunes 7, lots of folks are upgrading and finding that their iPods are no longer recognized. This is actually a common problem, and not isolated to iTunes 7. Sometimes it just happens, even without upgrade. I found my iPod nano was no longer being recognized by iTunes after upgrade, but fortunately, the fix is pretty simple.
First, some details. After upgrading, I plugged in my iPod nano, and heard it detect the hardware. However, it never showed up in iTunes. I opened up My Computer, and found that the drive was being recognized, so Windows was acknowledging its presence. iTunes just no longer was recognizing its existence. I unplugged it and re-plugged it in, but it just wouldn’t pick up.
Apple recommends the five Rs when you’re having troubles: reset your iPod settings, retry on a different port, restart your computer (after updating software), re-install your iTunes software, and restore your iPod (erasing all data on it). Trying each of these steps (one at a time, not all of them) will solve most problems with iPods.
In my case, I first reset my iPod settings by scrolling to Settings->Reset All Settings (on the iPod itself, silly). Once I did this and my iPod rebooted, it was recognized by iTunes. Yay! However, the firmware was out of date, and iTunes requested I update to the latest. (Note: the old iPod updaters appear to no longer work — you now appear to have to use iTunes to do firmware updates.) Unfortunately, the update didn’t work. Here’s a tip: wait until your iPod finishes syncing. Once finished, I did a restore + update, to get it to the newest firmware. Once that was done, my iPod re-picked up, and I had to configure its sync settings anew, and leave it to copy music.
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09.13.06
Posted in Error Messages, Intermediate, Windows at 5:05 pm by Techie
I figured a good thing for this site would be to post up error messages I receive, as well as how I solved them. After all, I’m not the only one to get random errors, and if I add to useful results in Google, why not?
After installing iTunes 7, I tried launching it, and got this error:
The iTunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (0x666D743F).
That’s awful cryptic. With a little digging, I found that the reason was because I was using Remote Desktop to access my PC remotely while trying to launch iTunes. Apparently, iTunes 7 doesn’t like it when you redirect sound, which is what Remote Desktop Connection tries to do by default. In the Remote Desktop Connection settings, I went to the Local Resources tab, and changed “Remote computer sound” to “Leave at remote computer” and things worked fine.
This error may also occur if you have third party sound plugins, or are otherwise redirecting the audio. For example, if you were using the Volume Logic plugin, you may get this error, or find that the plugin mysteriously stops working (uninstallation of this plugin is recommended until Volume Logic can release a new version). Total Recorder is another program that was causing problems. Also check is in Control Panel, Sounds and Audio Devices; make sure that in the Audio tab that your sound card is selected. Under the Volume tab Speaker settings, click Advanced, and play around with the Speaker setup drop down — try setting it to headphones, for instance, and see if that fixes the problem.
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08.31.06
Posted in Advanced, How To, Windows at 11:14 am by Techie
In the old days (say, around 1990) a must-have application when buying a computer was an encyclopedia on a CD-ROM. Hello, Grolier’s and Encarta! No more would you need a shelf full of books to look up interesting facts! When I bought an iBook, it came with a copy of World Book, which I thought quite an entertaining addition.
These days, such an addition is no longer the norm, thanks to the Internet. An incredible amount of information can be gleaned online with a quick search. However, a project started a few years ago has quickly risen to become a great resource for user-provided information on a wide variety of topics. I speak, of course, of Wikipedia. While initially just a quick repository for user feedback, it’s quickly become a resource worthy of comparison to more established sources, such as The Encyclopedia Britannica, even if its veracity may be in question.
I have a laptop, but don’t always have an Internet connection, but wondered, why can’t I have an offline copy of Wikipedia? As it turns out, I can. Now, if I’m on the road and want to look up something quickly, I don’t even have to find a hotspot — I can just turn on my laptop, pull up a browser, and find the answer. This article shows you how I did it.
Overview
Wikipedia runs on the open source software MediaWiki. This in turn runs on top of MySQL and PHP, as well as possibly Linux and Apache. My laptop runs Windows XP Professional SP2 Tablet PC Edition, so running Linux and Apache just wasn’t going to happen. Fortunately, there is a WAMP project (Windows – Apache – MySQL – PHP), which did all the hard work of that installation for me. So, all I’d have to do is:
- Install WAMP.
- Install MediaWiki.
- Download and install a pages dump of Wikipedia.
These instructions should in theory work for any Windows XP SP2 machine. However, your results may vary. I take no responsibility if you try this yourself! Some anticipated caveats:
- You need Administrator privileges. You’re installing software, as well as creating services, so you need the privileges.
- You need disk space. The full English Wikipedia will take a over 10 gigabytes when uncompressed into the database.
- You need NTFS. Because of this, the database files themselves may grow to larger than 2 GB. If you’re using FAT32, you’re out of luck.
- You’re installing a new service. By default, the server installs without remote access, and hopefully, you leave your firewall in place. However, you are still installing new services on your machine, which means they have the potential for exploitation.
- No pictures included. These instructions do not cover the images in Wikipedia.
That said, let’s get on with the show!
Install WAMP.
Go to the Wampserver site and download the latest WAMP distribution (in my case, 1.6.4). Double-click the executable to run, and the defaults will pretty much be what you want. (E.g., install to C:\wamp\, create a Start Menu group, do not auto-start, set DocumentRoot to www, and Launch immediately.)
A Windows Security Alert will probably pop up and ask if you want to keep blocking Apache HTTP Server. You want to select “Keep Blocking” for this question.
Now, in your systray on the lower right side you should see a little dashboard icon, with a lock on it. It should be white, and when you mouse over it, it should say “WAMP5 – All services running – server Offline”. (When they say “offline” here, they actually mean that it’s restricting access to localhost — it’s actually online, technically.
To verify that it’s working, open up a web browser, and point it at http://127.0.0.1/. If the installation was successful, you should see a page that looks like the following:
That’s it for WAMP!
Install MediaWiki.
First, we’ll set up a MySQL user for Wiki. To do so, make sure WAMP is running. (If not, go to Start->Programs->WampServer->Start Wampserver.) Then, go to phpMyAdmin. Click on “Privileges”, then “Add a new User”. Use the following values:
- User name:
wikiuser
- Host: Select “Local” from the dropdown
- Password: Select “Use text field” from the dropdown, and pick a password of your choice
- Generate Password: Click the “Generate” button
- Global privileges: Leave all unchecked
Scroll to the bottom and click “Go”, and it should successfully create a user. On this confirmation page, you should have a screen to edit the user if you scroll down. Do so, to the section marked “Database-specific privileges”. Set the dropdown to “Use text field”, and enter “wikidb”. Click “Go”.
You should be presented with a new page for Database-specific privileges. Click the “Check All” link to check all the boxes, and click “Go”.
Download the latest stable release of MediaWiki. At the time of this writing, that was version 1.7.1. It’s a .tar.gz file, so you’ll need a program to expand it — I recommend the shareware program WinRAR. When you unpack this, you’ll create a folder named mediawiki-1.7.1. Rename this to wikipedia, and move it to c:\wamp\www\.
If you now visit http://127.0.0.1/wikipedia/, you should get a splash page saying to “setup the wiki” first. Follow that link, and you should get a “Site config” page. I used these values for this form:
- Wiki name:
Wikipedia Offline
- (Admin) Password: custom password
- Database host:
localhost
- Database name:
wikidb
- DB username:
wikiuser
- DB password: same password used when creating MySQL user
The other defaults were fine. Once done, I went in Windows Explorer to C:\wamp\www\wikipedia\config\, and moved the file LocalSettings.php up one directory to C:\wamp\www\wikipedia\.
Another check of http://127.0.0.1/wikipedia/ should state that “MediaWiki has been successfully installed.”
Download and install a pages dump of Wikipedia.
You can download a copy of the English Wikipedia pages from http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/. However, you should check this page, for the entry for “enwiki” first, to make sure the dump completed successfully. The file you will want is named enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2. This contains all the article pages, but none of the revisions or history. You just want the articles, right? As of this writing, that file is around 1.5 GB, compressed.
If you don’t already, you should make sure you have Java installed. If you don’t, you can get it from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp. I usually just open a command window and type java and hit enter, and see if it just hangs. If it does, it’s probably installed, and I hit cntrl-C to cancel.
You’ll also need MWDumper. Download mwdumper.jar from http://download.wikimedia.org/tools/. Put this file and the wiki dump file in the same directory, say, c:\tmp\.
You’ll need to edit MySQL’s config file to increase the max_allowed_packet size. If you don’t, the import will most likely choke around the 49,000 article mark. This is quite annoying, because it kills the rest of the import. While you’re add it, you might as well change the innodb_log_file_size, which should modestly increase the import speed. To do so, go to c:\wamp\mysql\, right-click on my.ini, and select Open. This will open up the ini file in a text editor. Find the line innodb_log_file_size, and set this to 512M (was 10M in mine). Scroll to the bottom, and add the following line:
set-variable=max_allowed_packet=32M
Remember that little dashboard with the lock in your systray? Left-click on it, and a menu should pop up. Select MySQL->Stop Service. Wait a few seconds, then left-click on it again, and select MySQL->Start / Resume Service.
Before you import, you’re going to need to delete data in MySQL from the default installation. Otherwise, you’ll get errors about a dupe right at the start, and then none of the rows will import. Left-click on the dashboard with a lock in your systray, go to “MySQL”, and select “MySQL console”. You’ll be asked for a password, which by default is blank, so just hit enter. Enter in the following commands into the console:
use wikidb;
delete from page;
delete from revision;
delete from text;
quit
This will delete all pages in the wiki.
Open a command window by going to Start->Run, and typing in cmd. Type c: to change to the c: drive, and then cd c:\tmp\ to change to the directory where you put mwdumper.jar and the wiki dump file. You’re ready to do the import, but beware — this will take a long time. It’s best to start the process, then leave for a few hours. When you’re ready, type the following:
java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5 enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | c:\wamp\mysql\bin\mysql -u wikiuser -p wikidb
This will begin the import process, and as noted, this will take a long time. There are over three million pages to process, so don’t expect it to finish right away. On a reasonably fast single processor machine (*not* my laptop), it took me over 24 hours.
Usage
Using Wikipedia Offline is pretty straightforward. If you haven’t already, start WAMP. (If you see the dashboard with a lock icon in your systray, and it’s white, then it’s running. If not, go to Start->Programs->WampServer->Start Wampserver.) Then, just fire up a web browser and browse to http://127.0.0.1/wikipedia/. If all goes well, it should be accessible just like Wikipedia, searches and all.
Anticipated Questions
- Why do this?
I’m not always connected to the Internet, and think Wikipedia is a great resource. Now I can take it wherever I want. I suppose if I were paranoid about Wikipedia tracking my searches, then I could do this and do all the searches I wanted offline. Doing it this way also seemed like a fun tech project.
- Is this legal?
Sure! Wikipedia offers all of their data for use by interested parties. All of the software involved is open source, except for Windows.
- Where are the pictures?
You can download a dump of the English Wikipedia images from here. Wikipedia doesn’t package these with the dump for two reasons: 1) the images might be copyrighted, so they don’t want to distribute them; and 2) the dump file would be huge. As of this writing, the dump file is about 75 GB, which was larger than the hard drive on my laptop.
- Isn’t it overkill to install full MediaWiki?
Yes, but it’s not nearly as much effort as you might think. Plus, with WAMP, I can experiment with other types of LAMP-based software. You can always build static pages if you’d prefer something a little more lightweight.
- Won’t the data fall out of date?
Yes, but I’m doing this more to just have a quick reference, rather than something that’s kept constantly up to date. In that sense, it’s similar to those encyclopedia CD-ROMs! Besides, the way the dumps are handled, you’re guaranteed to be slightly out of date. If you really need to be that current, you should probably be going online.
- How can updates be done?
I’m presuming I can just go in mysql and delete from the ‘page’, ‘revision’, and ‘text’ tables; download a new dump; and re-import using mwdumper.jar. I haven’t actually tried this, though.
- Can I use these instructions to run a wiki web site?
There are a few problems with this. First, the WAMP folk note that “WAMP5 is not meant to be a production server.” Also, running a web site takes a fair bit of security knowledge to prevent hacking, so you’ll get yourself in trouble if you just use it to publish on the ‘net. Finally, you can’t republish the contents of Wikipedia as your own site. So, technically, you could use the first few parts to set up wiki, but it’s not a good idea. You’re better off getting a proper web host that has a one-click install of wiki, such as DreamHost.
- How do I uninstall?
If you want to trash the whole thing, go to “Add or Remove Programs” in the Control Panel, and select WAMP5. Remove it, then be sure to delete C:\wamp\ as well.
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