Eugene Yokota's questions

I am trying to create a linked server object via SQL Server Management Studio, and I am getting the following errors:

SQL Network Interfaces: Error getting enabled protocols list from registry [xFFFFFFFF]. 
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "Foo" returned message "Login timeout expired".
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "Foo" returned message "An error has occurred while establishing
 a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that
 under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.".

This is using "SQL Server" type, but I get it even if I create it via SQL statement. I can connect to the target server "Foo" from other machines without problem. How can I fix this?

On my Mac OS 10.5 machine, I would like to set up a subfolder of ~/Documents like ~/Documents/foo/html to be http://localhost/foo.

The first thing I thought of doing is using Alias as follows:

Alias /foo /Users/someone/Documents/foo/html

<Directory "/Users/someone/Documents/foo/html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

This got me 403 Forbidden. In the error_log I got:

[error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to /foo denied

The subfolder in question has chmod 755 access. I've tried specifying likes like http://localhost/foo/test.php, but that didn't work either. Next, I tried the symlink route.

Went into /Library/WebServer/Documents and made a symlink to ~/Documents/foo/html. The document root has

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

This still got me 403 Forbidden:

Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /Library/WebServer/Documents/foo

What else do I need to set this up?

Solution:

$ chmod 755 ~/Documents

In general, the folder to be shared and all of its ancestor folder needs to be viewable by the www service user.

I am looking for a QuickSilver way of doing the following on Mac:

$ sudo vi /etc/php.ini

Is it possible for me to open a file using TextEdit as super user?

Edit: I already know about Terminal plug-in, and it's great. But, I was hoping to use TextEdit without typing full path of TextEdit.