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 You know, sometimes you just have to make or do something for yourself & afterwards, it seems like a great idea to give it to everybody else. This is almost one of those things...

I've gone a created a script for accessing the "Afghanistan War Diaries" when installed on a local/private server.

Getting and installing the SQL version of the reports is up to you. I will not host them, so don't even ask. But a nice tool to have in your SQL management inventory is "BigDump.php", which comes in handy with these super huge SQL Dumps.

To get you started using this script, you will need the SQL version of the "War Diaries", a system running both PHP5 and MySQL, and my script(link at bottom of article).

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A guy shopping in a supermarket noticed a little old lady following him around. If he stopped, she stopped. Furthermore she kept staring at him. She finally overtook him at the checkout, and she turned to him and said, "I hope I haven't made you feel ill at ease; it's just that you look so much like my late son."

He answered, "That's okay."

"I know it's silly, but if you'd call out "Good bye, Mom" as I leave the store, it would make me feel so happy."

She then went through the checkout, and as she was on her way out of the store, the man called out, "Goodbye, Mother." The little old lady waved and smiled back at him.

Pleased that he had brought a little sunshine into someone's day, he went to pay for his groceries. "That comes to $121.85," said the clerk. "How come so much. I only bought 5 items.

The clerk replied, "Yeah, but your Mother said you'd pay for her things, too. "

Do not trust all little Old Ladies.. 

 So, I'm trying to figure out if the following is possible:

• Linux desktop running whatever distro will make it happen
• XBMC desktop on the living room television
  • Using remote for this session & control of XBMC
• Standard desktop on separate screen nearby on same machine
  • Using keyboard & mouse for session & system control

I want to have separate logins/sessions for each screen so that I won't have to run XBMC as a user and will still have the ability to do work from this machine on the secondary standard desktop using a mouse & keyboard.

Is there a better way to do this than using the 'Fast User Switching' built into the desktop managers?

Or am I going to be forced to run XBMC as a user & tweak the application display settings so that XBMC is locked to one screen?