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Wireless Internet connection sharing pc to xbox360 question

Internet Connection Sharing Problems

 

Hi, I am trying to share my wireless connection with my xbox 360 with either my laptop or desktop. The problem I keep having when I follow the tutorials on this I have found is that everytime I try I get an error saying that a lan connection is already set up using the ip address needed to enable internet connection sharing which is 192'168'0'1. Well I am guessing that the problem is that after going into my router (d-link) settings, I see that it says that the routers ip address is 192.168.0.1 and because of that it wont let me change the ip address on either computer to that address. Also I do have alot of computers and game systems set up wirelessly, and my pc has a port forwarded for a torrent program and I don't want mess that up, so I don't want to change stuff around without some instructions so I don't mess up the network for anyone else. What should I do?

 

-question by dustin

Unfortunately for you the router can't assign its own ip's and have the pc assigning ip's as well. Basically when you setup ICS on a computer, that computer takes on the IP allocation duties a normal router would do, but only if the DHCP server on the router is turned off. The DHCP server btw is what allocates the ip's to every device connected to it wirelessely and hardwired. The other devices on the network will be fine, the pc with ICS enabled will assign the ip's for you to these devices through your router (as long as the DHCP server is turned off). The port forwarding, well that should be easy enough to sort out yourself.

For the first time I think I might give up on consoles. I'm wondering if the new consoles will really be all that great. I'm not buying the hype. Think it will really be all that great? I remember before when consoles used to be state of the art. They always used to seem so amazing and cool. Remember the Super Nintendo days? These days they are starting to seem like mini custom computers. It sucks. I would rather get a computer with better performance than the console. I know you probably can't compete with their processing power but the loading and graphics can definitely be better. I think the day of the console might be dead for me...

Ya know, I hate to throw a spanner in your very helpful works 8nnett, but I think I found one. A pretty good one too by the looks. I still don't know if it will do iFrame thing and integrate with ad servers like I want, but I don't know that would have to be a problem anyhow. From what I understand you can put just about anything in an iFrame. iHope
I'll attach that file and you can tell me what you think if you like. Cheers!

Does anybody know of a script which produces a star rating, like the ones on youtube? I'm guessing that there's no reason it can't be displayed in an iFrame. The purpose is to deliver this star rating tool along with ads to allow customers to rate them. I hope it can be delivered with normal ad server technology and still be handled in the usual manner. Any ideas?

Open a ticket at Xisto - Support and ask the question, there is probably an error somewhere.

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Got any love for Iron Maiden?

Did you hear about what Microsoft are trying to negotiate with Rupert Murdoch? They're trying to pay him to make all his online sites for all his media companies exclusively searchable on Bing and no others. Google are outraged by this, and so is everyone else, and I reckon if this actually goes ahead then murdoch's online visibility will rapidly deteriorate causing him to break the contract with Bing and pay a hefty penalty for doing so.

I was just wondering why my application for web hosting was considered to be fraudulent? I logged in to the billing and support area and it said on the application details it was classed as fraud and was highlighted in red for terminated. Was there some form of problem with my account?

Activity for both members and users, seems to have peaked since the new system was announced. I wonder if perhaps the statistics have been reset during or since the integration of the new system.

I'm sure these forums were quite active at some point, but I've noticed that they seem to have died off a fair bit. I'm making regular posts on topics I like to have an opinion in yet when I check the date of the original topic it was up to five years ago it was made. Is there any kind of reason behind this, and if so is there anything I can do to help get this place back up to strength?

Need to get a dedicated metal section in this forum guys, that's the one subject I can talk about all day and night regardless of post counts and myCENTS and stuff lol Right people, let's run it down, some of the best metal tracks around that ISN'T any of this nu metal boll**** or alternative wan* Pantera, Cowboys From Hell Stabbing Westward, The Thing I hate ASP, How Far Would You Go (Nice and bouncy) KoRn, All in the family Slayer, that's all i need to say Stormwarrior, Heading Northe Soil, Halo U.D.O., instigator U.D.O, screaming eagles Aw man, I can't even start, you want some awesome advice on metal music then reply to this an give me a reason to educate you people!!!

well...doesn't $ look more like I and S ?? how do you mean U and S?
what the hell....ok,i will take this as its true since i don't care
just joking...

Thanks...Eggie

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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.

David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY

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Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.

The Swiss flag is square.

The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.

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The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.

The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.

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The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

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The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

Emus cannot walk backwards.

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The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.

Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point.

The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.

The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery.

The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing with his hand resting on a sword, or by holding gloves.

The forward pass was created by the football team at Saint Louis University.

In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote, there is at least one song about rain.

A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.

The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.

Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".

The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.

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All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.

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The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team to win the World Series after being relocated.

The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

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Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.

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The Western-most point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington.

There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.

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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

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The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

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There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.

The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes onstage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines.

Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.

Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.

The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

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Camel's milk does not curdle.

"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.

The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.

A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality.

The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate."

Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

Hamsters love to eat crickets.

The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.

The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.

The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean.

The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint.

Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album

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The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.

The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.

Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortned to Sheriff.

An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.

The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West.

The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

Soweto in South Africa ws derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.

Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.

Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.

Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image or a silhouette of the monarch's head instead.

Images for picture stamps in the United States are commissioned by the United States Postal Service Department of Philatelic Fulfillment.

Artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the done of the U.S. Capitol while painting a mural around the rim. He died four months later.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.

Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972)

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark.

When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called "spring tides." When they are at their lowest, they are call "neep tides."

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.

Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.

The difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their apron (belly.) The male blue crab has the Washington Monument while the female apron is shaped like the U.S. Capitol.

It takes a lobster approxiamately seven years to grow to be one pound.

The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding.

The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were MC2880 and 1910MD.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.

A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.

The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.

Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.

Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.

Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds.

On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo.)

The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career.

All porcupines float in water.

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.

Many northern parishes (counties) of Louisiana did not agree with the Confederate movement. To show their disapproval, they changed their names. That's why there is a Union Parish, Jefferson Parish, etc.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.

German has a wood for the peace offerings brought to your mate when you've committed some conceived slight. This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food.

In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers.

In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)

The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low."

Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand.

Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material. The building now houses the Physics Department.

When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr", which means "lord of the sea".

The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened

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Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.

Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean war.

The southern most city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii.

Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain.

Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.

Michigan was the first state to plow it's roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line.

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.

The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept."

Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns would carve out the centers and fill it with wax.So the people buying them started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?"

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No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with are in reference of another verb.

Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama has the world's largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in the World.

The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith.

Maine is the only state that borders on only one state.

There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.

Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day.

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'

Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.

Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.

Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth.

St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position.

Lizzie Borden was acquitted.

Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.

A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of course).

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Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

Theworld's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany.

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World

Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a

projected death toll while it was being built. No one died. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

A cat has four rows of whiskers.

Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride).

Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy.

If you were standing in the northernmost point in the contiguous (48) states, you'd be standing in Minnesota.

Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia.

Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

I'm not really well versed in the arts of using the computer without software aid, anyway, my friend's friend created a invision free board for roleplaying, and this hacker who hates my friend's friend hacked into the original board and deleted it, now he is attacking the second board that we have made... Can someone give me some insight on how this hacker is always successful? Is there anyway to block this?

Some info: The basic package (~$2) doesn't come with shell access by default (one can request for it though, i think ~$1pm). However their is a nice web interface for crontab in Cpanel and an Advanced (unix style) interface. Cron jobs work perfectly for my site, so you can surely go ahead.

With 5 years you could devote that to creating a new operating system, encryption system, video game, movie, novel, or solving some problem at a world level. It too much time if you ask me. Bummer
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EDINBURGH, Scotland – A 19-year-old Scottish man who admitted to threatening his grandmother’s parrot for interrupting his sleep, was ordered by the courts to apologise with chocolates. Stefan McKinsley, 19, pleaded guilty the following Monday to a breach of the peace after his grandmother phoned police Friday at 2:45 a.m. and told them the teenager was intoxicated and hitting the parrot’s cage, Britain’s The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Prosecutors said McKinsley, who threatened the bird with violence if it did not quiet down and allow him to sleep, did not calm down after his grandmother put a cloth over the parrot’s cage. McKinsley, who spent the weekend in jail, was sentenced by Edinburgh Sheriff Court to buy his grandmother a box of chocolates by means of an apology. Truly bizarre!

i used to player runescape alot but well i m 17 now and it just too much of a boring game for me so i stopped playing it and havent been back on in a few years.

Hi, I can use crontabs, hosting allows it.

I've had a quick hunt around the forums and through the FAQ but couldn't find anything about cron jobs. Is crontab supported with webhosting or will I have to outsource my cronjobs?

A wife decides to take her husband to a strip club for his birthday. They arrive at the club and the doorman says, "Hey, John! How ya doin'?" His wife is puzzled and asks if he's been to this club before. "Oh, no," says John. "He's on my bowling team."

When they are seated, a waitress asks John if he'd like his usual and brings over a Budweiser. His wife is becoming increasingly uncomfortable and says,"How did she know that you drink Budweiser?" "She's in the Ladies' Bowling League, honey. We share lanes with them."

A stripper then comes over to their table, throws her arms around John, and says "Hi Johnny. Want your usual table dance, big boy?" John's wife, now furious, grabs her purse and storms out of the club.

John follows and spots her getting into a cab. Before she can slam the door, he jumps in beside her. He tries desperately to explain how the stripper must have mistaken him for someone else, but his wife is having none of it. She is screaming at him at the top of her lungs, calling him every name in the book.

The cabby turns his head and says, "Looks like you picked up a real ***** tonight, John!!"

A couple went to a doctor because the man was feeling down, tired all the time. The doctor said I will give a shot of vitamins, a prescription for some pep pills from the drugstore, and an empty jar for checking your sperm count - bring it back in next week so I can check it.

When the guy came back to the doctor, the doctor said, "Why, this jar is empty, I told you I needed to do a sperm count." The guy said, "I tried with my left hand, I tried with my right hand, my wife tried with her left hand and she also tried with her right hand, she even tried with her teeth. We could not get that jar open!"

A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the footpath, and stopped centimeters from a shop window.

For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said, "Look mate, don't ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!"

The passenger apologized and said, "I didn't realize that a little tap would scare you so much. "

The driver replied, "Sorry, it's not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver. I've been driving a funeral van for the last 25 years."

An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again. The boy asked his father, "What is this, Father?" The father [never having seen an elevator] responded "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is."

While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights with numbers above the walls light up. They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction.

The walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old woman stepped out. The father said to his son, "Go get your mother."

This new seatbelt has saved many lives!

A young lady had just visited her doctor and he informed her that she was pregnant. The young lady had been married for ten years and had wanted a baby very badly. As she sat on the bus, on her way home, she felt that she had to share the good news with someone. The gentleman sitting next to her seemed as good as anyone to share the good news with.

Sir, she said, I just received the best news you could ever imagine. I have to share it with someone or I'll bust. She told him the news that the doctor had told her about being pregnant.

The man shared her enthusiam as he shared his expierence. He said he was a farmer and he had trouble with his hens laying eggs. He stated that he went out to the hen house one morning and all of his hens had layed eggs. He was so happy. he added, "but confidentially, I changed cocks."

The newly pregnant woman responded, "Confidentially, me too."

Once upon a time, a beautiful, independent, self assured princess happened upon a frog in a pond.

The frog said to the princess, "I was once a handsome prince until an evil witch put a spell on me. One kiss from you and will turn back into a prince and then we can marry, move into the castle with my mom and you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children and forever feel happy doing so."

That night, while the princess dined on frog legs, she kept laughing and saying, "I don't think so!!"

4 married guys go fishing. After an hour, the following conversation took place:

First guy: 'You have no idea what I had to do to be able to come out fishing this weekend. I had to promise my wife that I would paint every room in the house next weekend.'

Second guy: 'That is nothing, I had to promise my wife that I would build her a new deck for the pool.'

Third guy: 'Man, you both have it easy! I had to promise my wife that I would remodel the kitchen for her.'

They continue to fish. When they realized that the fourth guy has not said a word, they asked him. 'You haven't said anything about what you had to do to be able to come fishing this weekend. What's the deal?'

Fourth guy: 'I just set my alarm for 5:30 am. When it went off, I shut off my alarm, gave the wife a slap on her butt and said:

'Fishing or Sex ?' and she said: 'Wear sun-block.'

@grim reaper1666:it is even better to scan your pc when windows is not loaded...i don't know how that option is called,but i think avast has that option,i didn't use any other antivirus program for ages... you should scan your computer on regular basis so you can protect your files and privacy

thanks...Eggie

You don't learn to be a 'hacker', in order to exploit security weaknesses in systems, websites etc. you first have to learn all about the system. Once you have studies and become well hearsed in what it is you want to break in to then it's simply a case of using your new found knowledge to test weaknesses. For example, if you want to hack a website and it uses php, there is a page on the website where you can enter your email address to be added to the mailing list. Now we assume that when we enter our email address then that information will be added to a mysql database, which means the POST data sent will be inserted in to a query such as: mysql_query("INSERT INTO maillist (email) VALUES ('".$_POST['email']."')"); Notice that the data isn't being processed and is just being input directly to the database (obviously we can't see the code but hacking is all about trial and error). So what we could type in to the email address form is: x'); DROP TABLE maillist; -- Now what the new query will look like after the data has been inserted in to the query like above is: INSERT INTO maillist (email) VALUES ('x'); DROP TABLE maillist; -- Now our unfortunate Mr WebHost has lost his entire mailing list because he didn't use mysql_real_escape_string before inserting his POST data. Now this kind of thing you can expect to work on a site created by a complete noob to php programming, but very doubtful it will work on a pro's site, in fact it's probably impossible. When making attacks such as this you have to ensure you are selecting your targets carefully, some even put in measures to catch people in the act of hacking. I would demonstrate more examples over things such as .asp and through .exe files but I won't bother. I only learned about the different types of exploits myself to better protect my own software and website designs. Actually using this knowledge to cause random damage for no reason is just childish, it should only be used if you actually have a goal that needs accomplishing, such as gaining admin status for your favourite online game, or accessing a file on another persons computer and changing your college grades or such like. Once you have the ability, USE IT RESPONSIBLY!!!

First of all you will need to create the following documents and copy and paste the contents of the below code in to them:

shoutbox.php

mysql_select_db ('DATABASE NAME');

if (isset($_GET['sendshout']) && !isset($_GET['readshout'])){

$shout = mysql_real_escape_string(trim(htmlentities(strip_tags($_POST['message']))));

mysql_query("INSERT INTO shoutbox (user, date, content, name) VALUES ('".$_SESSION['id']."', '".time()."', '".$shout."', '".$_SESSION['username']."')");

}

if (isset($_GET['readshout']) && !isset($_GET['sendshout'])){

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shoutbox ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 0, 10");

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){

echo "<strong>".$row['name']." linenums:0'><?php session_start(); mysql_connect ('MYSQL HOST', 'MYSQL USERNAME', 'MYSQL PASSWORD'); mysql_select_db ('DATABASE NAME'); if (isset($_GET['sendshout']) && !isset($_GET['readshout'])){ $shout = mysql_real_escape_string(trim(htmlentities(strip_tags($_POST['message'])))); mysql_query("INSERT INTO shoutbox (user, date, content, name) VALUES ('".$_SESSION['id']."', '".time()."', '".$shout."', '".$_SESSION['username']."')"); } if (isset($_GET['readshout']) && !isset($_GET['sendshout'])){ $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shoutbox ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 0, 10"); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){ echo "<strong>".$row['name'].":</strong> ".stripslashes($row['content']);."<br />"; } } mysql_close ('MYSQL HOST', 'MYSQL USERNAME', 'MYSQL PASSWORD'); ?>

shoutbox.js

return;

}

htmlRequest.open('POST', 'shoutbox.php?l=sendshout=true', true);

htmlRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

htmlRequest.send('message='+document.shoutbox.message.value);

document.shoutbox.message.value = '';

document.shoutbox.message.focus();

} linenums:0'>function ajaxFunction(){ var ajaxRequest; try{ // Opera 8.0+, Firefox, Safari ajaxRequest = new XMLHttpRequest(); } catch (e){ // Internet Explorer Browsers try{ ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) { try{ ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e){ //browsers all not support, rare case alert("Your browser does not support ajax, please use Mozilla Firefox!"); return false; } } } return ajaxRequest; } function showData() { htmlRequest = ajaxFunction(); if (htmlRequest==null){ alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request"); return; } htmlRequest.onreadystatechange = function(){ if(htmlRequest.readyState == 4){ document.getElementById("shoutarea").innerHTML = htmlRequest.responseText; } } htmlRequest.open("GET", "shoutbox.php?readshout=true", true); htmlRequest.send(null); } showData(); setInterval("showData()",1000); function saveData(){ htmlRequest = ajaxFunction(); if (htmlRequest==null){ alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request"); return; } if(document.shoutbox.message.value == "" || document.shoutbox.message.value == "NULL"){ alert('You need to type a message!'); return; } htmlRequest.open('POST', 'shoutbox.php?l=sendshout=true', true); htmlRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); htmlRequest.send('message='+document.shoutbox.message.value); document.shoutbox.message.value = ''; document.shoutbox.message.focus(); }

index.html

<html>    <head>    <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="shoutbox.js"></script>    <title>Shoutbox</title>    </head>    <body>    <form id="shoutbox" name="shoutbox" method="POST" onSubmit="saveData(); return false;">    <div id="shoutarea"></div><br /><input $id="message" name="message" type="text" size="50" maxlength="100" class="textbox" /><input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"/>    </form>    </body>  </html>

You will also need to run the following MySQL query either in the console or using phpMyAdmin:

CREATE TABLE `shoutbox` (

`id` integer(255) NOT NULL auto_increment,

`user` integer(255) NOT NULL,

`date` integer(255) NOT NULL,

`content` varchar(100) NOT NULL,

`name` varchar(45) NOT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (`id`)

);

Now the above files assume that you have already written to your session the following variables,

$_SESSION['id'] : This is the current users unique id number

£_SESSION['username'] : The current users display name

These variables would usually be set in some kind of user login script however to test the shoutbox you could just write them in to the shoutbox.php script.

Now what happens above, the ajax javascript file contains all the custom functions required to operate the shoutbox. We include this in the head of the our html (or php) index file soit can be used when submitting our form. The forms onSubmit function being used to call the saveData function from the javascript document. I think the rest is actually pretty self-explanatory so have fun testing it out.

Just to recap quickly, in shoutbox.php where there is the following line:

mysql_select_db ('DATABASE NAME'); linenums:0'>mysql_connect ('MYSQL HOST', 'MYSQL USERNAME', 'MYSQL PASSWORD'); mysql_select_db ('DATABASE NAME');

My first MMO has to be Legend of the Red Dragon, which is actually the first mmo ever created and back then was called a Door Game. This was back in the days where if you wanted to connect to a BBS (Bulletin Board System) you had to literally dial-up the site. There are still a few sites today that run LORD over telnet and the game is still being developed, but for the most part it's popularity has gone down dramatically. Although I'm surprised it's even still played anymore considering it was released in 1989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon

Now that's proper old skool gaming at its best!