Tech Questions

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Ugh! I actually hit the wrong key and closed the window when I was done with this entry. Ok, I’ll type it again. I have a couple of questions for those who know a lot about the WWW.

1. I’m re-doing Patrice’s website (peek if you want, but there are a lot of broken links and the site is in French) and when I was coding the footer to make the includes he asked me “Why do you use that © sign? My stuff is not legally copyrighted”. My question is: Can I use that © even if the content of the website hasn’t gone through the legal yadda yadda? Is it better to put only “Content by whoever”? Please, enlighten me.

2. I’m also going to re-do my office’s website (talk about reducing costs because I’m also creating a logo, ha ha!), but we are hosted in a NT server and I have no idea of how to work for dynamic websites out of the Unix environment. So far the site is static and I’m using plain HTML, but I want to make includes and I think NT doesn’t support PHP or SSI (am I utterly wrong?) I guess I’ll have to learn some ASP. What are your opinions and do you know where I can find a good (and easy) tutorial to at least the basic stuff?

Help will be greatly appreciated.

8 thoughts on “Tech Questions”

  1. I use the copyright symbol simply because what I write is my property and there are those idiots who’ll think ‘oh, no copyright symbol, I can steal it’…despite the current copyright laws saying as soon as I’ve posted it (or written it), its automatically copyrighted without filing with the government, but its like with all this warnings of ‘open packet and eat peanuts’ and such, better to have it on there than deal with a legal problem later…

  2. My understanding is that, the moment you put it in writing, you have the rights to that document. I agree with Christina that using the copyright symbol makes it easier for you to make the case that whoever copies it should have know this material is not in the public domain.

  4. Yep, as soon as you write or create something it is copyrighted, whether or not you have gone through the legal processes. Copyright law states “Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form so that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.” Writers often take on the practice of printing out first drafts of stories, mailing them to themselves and keeping the sealed envelope with the postmark date on it as proof of their date of copyright in case it is ever needed in legal matters.

    Here is a link on Canadian copyrights for you. :smile:

    Sorry, I can’t provide any help on the coding question :sad:

  5. PHP, and ssl both work on the NT environment. If you are just hosting through an NT provider, then you can request they install it on the server, it is quite turnkey, I did it earlier this week on my home box.

    If you have to install it yourself go to http://www.php.net/ the executable works with iis. Perl is a little more do a search on active perl which is the distribution that works with nt. As far as databases go mysql also works on nt.

    If you have more questions just hit me on the email.

  6. So let me get this straight – you’re running Windows NT Server technology on a Unix operating system? Why??? LOL! I just *assumed* that everyone who had Unix automatically went with Apache. But, at any rate, you can use PHP on IIS (The NT Server).

    You will have to d/l PHP and install it on that box, and I’m not really sure what else. Read this thread here for more info… or search “php nt server” on Google for more info.

    Hope this helps!