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<p>MySQL databases are often the main data-source of web applications when it comes to shared hosting services with very limited possibilites (no system service support, no scheduling, no in-memory database, ...). Often, management or visualization of such databases is not easily done, since no admin utility is installed, no remote connections to the database are allowed, and access by the sql binary (via SSH) is not user-friendly. A better way to manage databases visually in such cases is the challenge.</p>

<p>An austrian discounter internet provider has sold not widely spread usb-modems with his prepaid cards for HSDPA internet connections. With Windows this modem works fine because the drivers are delivered with the modem. But with Ubuntu 9.04 only common usb-modems work without laying hands on the system. A nice addon would be if the modem works with the built-in network-manager of Ubuntu, so you can just click on the modem and connect to the preset internet provider, respectively the right access point, without providing your username and/or password every time.</p>

<p>To connect to the internet via vpn and wlan you first have to get an ip address from the wlan accesspoint. After this you can build up the vpn tunnel and register yourself in one step. This is safe and comfortable if you are working at your workplace. With Windows XP (SP3) this works without problems.</p><p>But when I use Ubuntu 9.04 I cannot connect to the server to register. On the TU I can only receive an ip address, open a browser an type my username and password in the login-field.

<p>CSS-based web page layouts are more and more substituting table-based layouts, since processing of table-based layouts is more complex (which may prevent screen readers from correctly reading a page), and not easy to style. Pure CSS-based layouts allow complete customization by simply exchanging the style sheet.</p><p>The task of creating a pure CSS menu, which is located at a fixed position, emerges from the need for a menu which will always be available, wherever the user is scrolling.

<p>There are these websites that you can cache movies and watch them online. I want to watch the DivX format because of the high visual quality, besides I have already&nbsp; DivX player on my computer which I can watch DivX movies with, but it's not enough for watching movies online.</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Software for handling multiple digital video streams and integrating them into a website. A director should be able to select one out of different camera positions and post the video stream to a website together with some inserted text (either overlaid on the video or as a text on the webpage itself) </span></p>

Typo3 is a powerful content management system with a rich framework for extensions. However for simple tasks it can be too much work to write a fully-fledged extention. The goal is to integrate small server-side programs into a typo3 managed website with less work.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CodeIgniter is a PHP based programming framework which implements the model-view-controller paradigm. All HTTP requests have to pass the central index.php file (provided by CI) which initiates the framework controllers to load the views and render a site. So it is not possible to directly call a specific site by entering its URL. To open a specific site the according controller has to be called by passing its name as HTTP-Get-Variable to the central index.php.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The standards file upload dialog provided by HTML is restricted to one file per dialog. It is not possible to select multiple files in one single dialog and upload them all in a single step. Some websites circumvent this by arranging several single file upload dialogs <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">successively</span> which makes the service not very user friendly if someone intends to upload a bunch of vacation photos. However, there are web services &ndash; e.g.

<p>Windows Vista as well as Windows 7 offer the possibility to develop so called sidebar gadgets. These pieces of software can be integrated into the desktop sidebar and were designed to offer small chunks of information like the actual weather, the time or calendar dates. Some of the gadgets need the have access to the internet to gain the information required by the service e.g. stock exchange rates. In this case it has to be possible to write gadgets that dynamically load and display the content of a given RSS feed.</p>