Post installation

I could not find the "permissions" link in administration part. Is it due to non-existence of any user accounts rather than mine, or do i have to install any additional module?
Thanx.
Lashae-

Greetings:

I'm looking for alternate ways to display entries (particualarly blogs) by dates, similar to the way it's done in other blog tools. What this involves is a "roll-up" of entries under a certain date header, then another date header. An added bonus would be to specify a particular dates to lay out on a page instead of the total number of entries. Another related item is to display lists of archives "rolled-up" by month or year, instead of a search menu drop down.

I have a Drupal site up and running which is being actively used by roughly 600 users. All in all I'm very pleased with Drupal. I found it easy to set up, configure and implement despite having zero knowledge of PHP. Now that the users have been using it for about a month they're starting to ask if it's possible to have a more phpBB style forum, where everything is "flat" rather than the indented (and I feel superior) style that the Drupal features.

Since Drupal doesn't have the capability to allow admins to use html without also enabling for all users, I wonder if it would be possible to conditionally apply the html filter?

For example, if the node is the story node, then don't have the html filter apply. This would work well in my case, since the admin is the only one allowed to create a story.

I am mostly php illiterate and would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction to make this modification. Or it's not possible ...

Hey everyone, been working on my new drupal site for a month now (rombus.sytes.net) and i have 2 questions:
1. is there any way to display blog entries by catagory? i have been searching for a while now and have not figured out how to do this
2. Is there a better menu than menu.module? i like how it looks and works, but i hate how it has to reload the page every time, would the Dhtml menus module work better? anyone have an example of it?

Went to the home page of one of my sites today and got this error:

Warning: mysql_connect(): Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' in /home/virtual/site5/fst/var/www/html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 12
Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'

Can anyone help with this? Not necessarily fixing, but would be helpful, but more what would have caused this.

Thanks,
Brad