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If there was an evil programming group I should be the sole member seeing as I am the evil programmer. Bwahahahaaha... Well I guess you could consider all members in both groups to be evil programmers.

I probably shouldn't be encouraging people to just grab the speedtest image and post it here however I just wanted to share my results with you all I'm paying $30 USD a month and as far as I can tell I'm getting the best value for my money compared to the rest of you (not counting the ones of you who are getting it for free...)

And why would you trust some random guy at bust buy who most likely read some rumor on the internet. They don't even tell us apple employees anything, why would they tell best buy employees. I do not want to say anything for sure because I do not want to look like a fool but I would be willing to bet money that june 9th will come and go and nothing will happen.

I would normally offer my help to anyone on this board who and questions or issues, however it seems that you have already made up your mind that you dislike this service which is a shame. I understand your frustrations with this service, many times when things don't work the way they should people just give up on them completely, and if I was in your position I'd feel exactly the same way, however I can assure you that there are no "faults" in this service. There may have been some error on behalf of the admin who set up your account, or perhaps you just didn't fully understand how to get to the cpanel. I'm sure if you were to notify an admin about the issues you were having they would be more than happy to help you with them.

Yes if you just want your warning to go down normally you can do what chappill suggested. Just post good quality posts and in about a month or two PM an admin asking to lower your warning if they haven't already. However, you might want to dispute this with an admin or mod if you didn't write the posts or whatever form the violating content was in. Let them know what happened and they might be able to look up the IP that the content was posted under and if it is different than your normal one then perhaps they might consider removing it sooner. However if you have dynamic IP I doubt they can do too much. I'm not saying that you are lying but I'd think they would want to be fair to all members and not remove warnings to members who make up excuses. Like I said I truly believe you, however if one of the admins or mods were to remove your warning without proof that it wasn't you other members might abuse this.

Unfortunately. this exact issue happened to me. Apparently xisto was updating their version of php and for about an hour the php code was not being parsed out. My only suggestion is to hide the sensitive information that you do not want to be revealed in a directory that only php can access and not a client.

Just helping you out with your good old vocabulary here: define:border

I think I'd just announce that we have two more members in our group. Please welcome Saint-Michael(Maverick Programmer) and shadowx(PhP pRoDiGy Programmer). With every passing day our forces get stronger.

Yes that was my first attempt. I thought I found it and wouldn't have to post this on trap, but ran into the problem that mikeyboy discovered in his edit.

I need to stop clicking on topics started by alex1985. They just lead to confusion, and me attempting to figure out how to explain it so he can understand it and realize it is impossible and go back. Ok listen. Flash and PHP don't "work together". PHP is server side and flash is on the client side. Now I'm sure I know what you mean, you want to know if flash can load data from an external page correct? THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PHP. You must understand this before you are able to get anywhere with programming. Yes, flash can load an external file with the loadVariablesNum function, HOWEVER this has no restrictions to it being only php. This can be a text file if you wanted it to be. If you wanted it to load a php file thats great but understand that all php is doing is generating basically a text file on the fly for you. It in no way "works" with flash other than it rendering pages for it.

Anybody who first of all puts a user modifiable variable into anything that isn't being parsed out, and then puts a pointless delete_all.php page in the same directory deserves to have their website removed. That is just plain stupidity.

Well they are just values in an array. There is no real reason to turn off persistent connection because PHP's mysql_connect function automatically makes a non-persistant connection. If you have any questions about persistent connections you can read about them here. As for the driver I am not sure. It almost looks like he is using a function that is designed to connect to any type of database and is a lot more open ended. However mysql_connect works fine and already defaults to all of those values so there is no real reason to set them if you plan on using that.

I'm sure by now everybody knows the evil group, and I've been waiting for somebody to make a rival group to it and perhaps we could have a group battle. I was going to start one myself but I didn't feel it appropriate being in both groups rival to each other so to inspire people to make their own "groups" I created a neutral one. The coding group. The members and their tag lines are as follows: As you may notice, many of the members of the coding group are already in the evil group. Therefore there is no hostility between these groups... as of now.So what is the point of this topic? Well mainly to bring Xisto's attention to this newly formed group and to hopefully inspire more groups to form. Evil group may be the first but it doesn't have to be the only. Post any comments or suggestions you have to my ideas and or the newly formed group.

@SMIf I understand you correctly you mean have second most recent topic etc? That is already implemented. Check out the link in the topic about how to change that.@DamanOf course that couldn't be done in Xisto's bbcode. And for a website it wouldn't matter because we wouldn't need an image in the first place we could just print out the content dynamically.

Ahhh good old Diablo. I haven't played diablo in ages, but when I did it was my favorite game. And I still consider it to be the best RPG story-line ever implemented. If you play 1, then 2, then LoD you'll be amazed with how in-depth the story-line is. Unfortunately I haven't played in a very long time just because I don't have time to actually play enough to get good stuff, but perhaps one day I'll go back and start it up again.

Yeah it is currently being limited to 6 lines, so if it runs over it cuts it off and says that it was cut off, but do you think i should limit it to only one or two lines? Or perhaps it should be a variable in the URL that you can set?

Nevermind I can see now this is impossible without using JSS. I'm just going to use tables. Thats right. You guys heard me. Tables can do more than your stupid standards compliant div + css. Css and div layers are inferior.

Just another quick update, all of the bugs have been fixed now just need to work on parsing out the HTML and hopefully getting it to apply to the text, but if I can't get it its no big deal. There are some things that you guys can look forward to: Replies in thread count Emoticons "To read the rest of this topic click here" message below topics that have been cut off minimalistic version (only shows topic title) - for people who don't want to take up a lot of room in their sigs Nope this is all php with a little bit of help from gd library.

Oh, ok I see what you mean now. Can you give us the code to what you currently have and I'll add an address bar.

You mean you want to make something that can unblock sites on your school network? Well that would be impossible to be done with just js/html. Your school doesn't look at the url in your address bar, it checks the domain every time you make a request, even when making the request over ajax. The only way to actually get this to work is use a backend script that can run on the server. This way the server (which is not being blocked) makes the request and sends that data to you through a domain that isn't blocked.

Did I mention Mac? Oops I guess I did... that must have been a typo. No I was marly pointing out the flaw in your so called facts that 8gb is most you can put in a machine... Besides what makes a mac anyway... The fact that it was made by apple? The insides of these machines are practically the same nowadays. Besides first thing I'd do with any new mac is triple boot Mac/windows/linux... I was just making different points. Besides the main point that I wanted to say was the 7.1 audio. Complete waste... Well duh, I was making a point that anybody who still used floppy's wouldn't be using this computer either. Why not put a VHS player in there while we're at it...

I've got Flash MX 2004... I know I'm living in the past but alas haven't had a chance to upgrade yet.

Some may remember a while back I created a dynamic image that would tell you your post count and last active for trap. It had a bit of a run but then died off. It just wasn't very useful. BUT NOW I am presenting the most epic Xisto image Ever. This one is SUPER customizable and already works for ALL MEMBERS! It is designed to be put in your sig so other members can see the recent topics you have written. It is still in early early beta stage but soon it will have the date posted along with some other cool features. So I'm sure you are all excited to see them so here are mine: Most Recent Topic by me: Most Recent Post by me: If you click on the images they go to that specific post/topic. You can get up to 5 topics in history. Meaning you can display your second to last post, third to last etc... all the way up to fifth to last post you have made. So I'm sure you are all excited to try out these new images. Well the instructions are here. Just add that bit of code (preferably in a hide tag) to your sig or post and you've got it! Few things left to be fixed/added that are coming soon: *Adding support for emoticons *fixing long line wrap bug (occasionally long lines wrap in the middle of words) *adding topic title to image *adding date to image *making HUGE posts be a bit smaller so they don't take up half a page *hopefully support for BBCode like bold etc...

Ahh yes liquid cooled computers. I remember when this was trendy. I'm actually using a liquid cooled computer to type this up right now. They're great until a hot summer day and the plastic pipes expand and start to leak some of the liquid on the logic board. Perhaps in about 10 years apps will be this intense and programmers will be lazy enough to make their programs actually take up this much ram but this is a bit overkill now unless you are going to need to render a bunch of HD video. And about your claim that 8gb is the most you can cram in a machine is far from the most. MacPro can hold 32 gigs. Once again who really needs this? And if you do need this or more MacPro beats this again with its whopping 4 HD bays each capable of up to 1TB for a total of 4 TB. Wait floppy? Hmm that doesn't sound very groundbreaking. Whatever programs you have on floppy's probably wouldn't even run on the newer operating systems. How about a modem while we are on the topic of old technology that this machine has. What about the users who still want internal modems to connect to their dial-up? Even though 7.1 does have two extra surrounds, in my opinion less is more. I defy you to sit in a 7.1 set up and then in a 5.1 setup and tell me which one is which. 2 extra unique channels especially when located so close to the existing surround are very difficult to hear. This is the primary reason the standards still are 5.1. Besides most of your sources are going to be 5.1 at best, and usually stereo which means when you pump it through your receiver it's just going to use prologic and essentially be the same as 5.1 Whew that was quite a workout. Now I am not saying this machine isn't awesome because it is, but I am only refuting your fact that "I want this machine" because this isn't the only super computer on the market. But hey if you've got an extra one of these baby's lying around I'll take it.

Yes thats exactly what I need. If you can make me something that works in all browsers to do this then you can have my 20 credits.