Houdini

With the cable that is going to your present hard drive the way it is plugged in allows for you to add a hard drive to that IDE channel so unless there is not a little extension to that cable (it goes only to you present hard drive) then you will not require a new cable, plus prevent any other complications.Do not worry too much about the static but there are components on the bottom of the hard drive avoid touching them if at all possible. Handle the hard drive by its sides. Not having a grounding wirst strap and all that is not necessary. To make sure that you are not carrying a static charge after you have turned you PC off and removed the access panel just toughing the chassis will discharge any potential static that might be in your body. So if you are holding the chassis of the PC and the hard drive there is no possiblity of a static charge zapping your hard drive. Truthfully I have never installed anything into a PC and killed it in the process, just be sure that your PC is off completely some motherboards even when turned off still have power going to the mother board, it might require you to unplug the power cord to the PC also to make the light you will see (if any), if you don't see such a light you are probably OK.If you look carefully at your hard drive you will see three different sections there. One is for you to plug the IDE cable into and will only go in one way. Usually you will have to take the extension that is for the slave hard drive and twist it 180 degrees to plug it in. The cable will only plug into the hard drive one way. If you look closely you will notice a pin missing on the hard drive and if you look at the IDE cable you will see a 'key' and that key would fill the void where the missing pin is. If you were to try to insert the cable in wrong it would not work because the key would hit the pin of the hard drive. The other two sections of the hard drive are the one on the extreme right which is where your power cord will go. The other section has little jumpers on it that tell the drive whether it is to be used as a Master or Slave or possibly CS (not likely). If you look at the hard drive carefully there will be a little diagram that show how to set these jumpers to make your drive either a master or slave.In you case at this moment you would want to make your new drive a slave so referring back to the diagram of your slave settings set up your new drive as a slave then install it into the PC case and connect you IDE calbe and power calbe (also has a key and will only plug in one way). Power your PC back up and depending one your system (Windows will find the new drive and assign it drive E unless you have to DVDs or CD roms or any combination there of ,then it will assign your new drive as F.Your new hard drive will not have any information on it so you will have to low level pormat it and get it ready for the PC to use, again I dont know your operating system so that is another topic. You should be ready for that after you have done the above.

Think of it as a learning experience! Plus you got some credit for posting your experience.

Ha anyone tryed the mxBB Portal that integrates with phpBB2? It allows you to have a Portal kind of like PHP-Nuke or Mambo or XOOPS. What you do is set up one database that mxBB and phpBB2 share, then you install first your phpBB2 forum, after that you install the mxBB Portal. The neat thing about it is that you can use all the mods for phpBB just like you would in the standalone verion. This is because except for the integration of the mxBB and the phpBB the forum is still standalone. I have set the system up on one of my servers and am still learning how to use it after running PHP-Nuke for about a year and a half mostly because it does use phpBB for the forums and I like the phpBB. You can see how a site like it workswith Easy MOD already installed and Advanced BB Code box and the File Attachment MOD, with more coming at this LINK and if you want to try the software for yourself then you can go to the home page HERE. If you like phpBB and all the MODs that are available for it and are thinking about a portal then you might want to visit those links.

Those kind of deals have been around for awhile, there is the buy one and get another one free, or get one for 1 cent, or of course the get the phone free (actually you pay for it then wait for a rebate, which might not ever come).No matter how any phone that you purchase or get at a reduced price or even free you have to have a service provider, and the better the deal the longer the terms of the service plan, which if broken could be rather expensive, just ask my ex-wife about the $250 plus bill that she got for breaking the terms of the service from a provider, if you don't pay it then they report you to the credit bureau.Phones and the quality of them have increased greatly since 1995 when I had one of those phones in a bag that was analog and unreliable. Oh well at least you got a free phone just watch the minute usage and you should be just fine.

Well there are good aspects and bad one to blogs, but there are so many of them that if you attempt to tell something that knowledgable bloggers can pick up on and find flaws with this might be bad for you but it is good to know that blogger can be kind of like a truth checker about things which they are knowledgable about as in the case of the bogus 60 minutes report.But they can also be ranting of lunatics or dim wits that just so happen to have access to an internet connection and may have absolutely no sources to back up a thing that they state.I remeber that when doing research papers you needed a minimum of three sources that could easily be checked to help prove the validity of your paper. Now days when I see unnamed sources or anonymous sources I figure it is really made up since there is no way to check the validity of the source. The sad thing is that there are those that actually believe some of the stuff made out to be truth just because it was on television or in print, and have never bothered to find out if the statements made were based on facts that could easily be checked.

Actually the code given above is CSS but it is inline with the tag instead of defining a class as I did you still are defining the CSS within the element itself so he would still be using CSS (That is what style is A Cascading Style Sheet) and it must be referenced. You can use absolute , relative, fixed or static positioning. So he would still need to learn a little about CSS and how to use it for whatever his particular application. It is not that hard really, and DHTML is the Combination of CSS, JavaScript and HTML to achieve dynamic results that are just not possible with any of the above alone. A great site is Dynamic Drive with all knids of free code and hints as well as samples.

You can use CSS to position an image like say a logo. you would first define the CSS like this with CSS<style type ="text/css"> <!-- img.logo {position:fixed; top:0px; right:0px} --></style>The above would go before the </head> of your page then you would place the style you just defined for the image tage with a class of logo like the below<img class="logo" src="where the image is">The above will set your logo image at the top right of your page and it would stay there even if the user scrolls down, I am sure you have seen this before.All you need to do now is go and learn about CSS or DHTML, just do a gGoogle search for positioning images or CSS positioning.

Instead of a scrollong box for navigation why don't you try DHTML with menus that slide menu selections outward and take up less space with mor content. It would make it easier to navigate and improve the overall look , vut all things considered it looks good.The biggest room in the world is 'room for improvement"!

I am glad to hear about iti, I have been using PHP Designer 2005 for about four months, mostly for new code or testing some PHP ideas out or running sample coe. Most of the time I use HTML Kit because I can update files on my server with its built in FTP. I think there is supposed to be that capability but I think you have to download extra stuff to make that function work, so I will definately go and look at it. Most likely will download it.

You want a CMS or Content Management System like PHP-Nuke or Post-Nuke or XOOPS or possibly Mambo they all do these thigs with downloadable modules to suit your site, you can make them appear however you want through an admin panel. You can get PHP-Nuke or Mambo through Fantastico here on Xisto when you are a member. Do a Web search for CMS on google or MSN Search or Yahoo Search and you will see pretty much the same results for your query. I have been running PHP-Nuke for about 18 months and like the ease of its use, have tried XOOPS and looked at Mambo but after using the phpBB forums that I am familair with the I just stick with PHP-Nuke. Hope that helps some, Houdini

I have been running sites with forums since 1998, with early versions of Invision, Mercury board (now also Quicksilver) phpBB YaBB, SMF and more and have never had a problem. Just about every CMS has a forum or Bulletin board, who in the world is going to go around and hassle the millions of forums that there are out there, this would be a feat that would only be accompliched with willing accomplises that don't like you and are probably in competition with you and just want to scare you. I do not allow certain posts on my site but they are things like no terroristic threats, no advocation of the overthrow of my own country or state, nothing immoral, or illegal, no porographic images or link to them, and no really abusive behovior on my boards. I run four of them and offer help to webmasters and postential webmasters that are thinking about running certain types of websites. It sounds to me like you have read one of those urban lengands. Keep you site up and keep it clean and just watch out for hackers, don't worry about posts that are not really much more than other peoples opinion, and if you live somewhere that it is illegal to post certain information that might offend a politician or public policy or anything like that, you might want to think about fleeing from that oppresive regime, because next they can lock you up or execute you in the middle of night for anything they wish. This is just my opinion, but I live in the United States of America and can express it without any fear of the above mentioned consequences.

You should at least make a link back to the home page which is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ by going to the templates/subSilver.tpl file and finding the below code near the bottom of the code <!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in --> and somewhere in there put a text link like <a href="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/;Then when you have more links in the home page you can edit them with the same, or just get a CMS that lets you set all that up. You could also set up a lang dependancy with a variable and also an image link back to the Home page (that is all up to you, the design or existing icons you may have) with the img src path to the image within the href If this is hard to understand or you have not a full grasp of basic HTML or PHP then send me a PM and I'll help you set that up.

A BLOG is taken from the term web log. It is kind of like a journal or diary except that it is is published online, there are sites where intenet users can publish their own BLOGs for whoever wants to read them. It can be about anything. It is an alternative means of producing information of any sort. A good example is when just prior to the last presidential election in 2004 in the 60 Minutes story that accussed President Bush of being AWOL from the National Guard and used a bogus document as proof and displayed the said document on television that bloggers looked at the document and took the timeframe and other details and shot the story down.In the response the bloggers pointed out that the document could not have been produced by any knowwn typewriter that was in existence in the 1970s they pointed out that the document displayed even though degraded in appearance as thoough someone had made several generation of copies of an origional to make it appear "old" that it was probably created using recent technology namely MS Word (which wasn't even around in the 1970s). They also had some other bloggers that having had past military experience to note that no commanding officer would have written a document in the manner that this document was written.The bloggers found so many problems with this "proof" that President Bush had gone AWOL that they had to apologize for the story, although Dan Rather tried to maintain that he thought the document was in fact valid. Several people were fired over the incident and although not really fired Dan Rather aint around anymore he 'retired' and was still on a special segment of 60 minutes which has since been cancelled.So blogs actually are sources of information from professional and amatures both that counter the misinformation the the so called mainstream media throws around all the time due to the liberal bias that they have. This was probably born of frustration in that you see no positive news about anything conservative in the print, TV, or radio news about Republicans especially President Bush whom is hated by these news outlets. Even though the economy is doing great and more people in the US now own their own homes, unemployment is and has been lower for longer than it ever was during many administration you wont hear about it from these news outlets.So read some of the blogs and find out what is really happening in the world, nationwide and locally.

The main problem with you site is that once you get into the forums there is no way to return to the 'home' or index page, of course right now you only seem to have besides the home page a forum running phpbb@ software. You might want to place a link back to the mainpage with a link in the overall_header.tpl file or possibly a logo link to the main page somehow.Once I was in the forums that was where I stayed without using the back button to get there. You might want to think about that before adding other links besides the forum link as it now is.

If you use PHP-Nuke go straight to the PHP-Nuke home page and get a block and module that is made just for the PHP-Nuke CMS right HERE and see if that isn't what you want.

Email them to yourself as attachments!

It would help to add the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute to the ID field, plus I noticed that they suggested to make a connection.php file kind of like the config.php file in the little tutorial that the link lead to, but he is going to have to use PHP and not HTML for what all he is trying to do.MySQL would help just by learning a few basics like creating databases and tables and adding the structure of the tables. The tutorial was how to create a database driven tutorial site. I just glanced over it and it would at least get you started, but it does start out by assuming that you have a basic knowledge of MySQL and PHP.

OK do a dump of your database from you current webhost. If you have phpMyAdmin then just go to the export link and check the save as file and this will download the database to your local machine wherever you tell it to in the file prompt. Then you need the phpbb 2 php-nuke file that transfers it for you, it can be done manualyy but you need toknow dhow PHP-Nuke names tables so just download the file from the link that I will provide in this post and follow the instructions, don't worry about the PHP-Nuke version 6.5 because that is when PHP-Nuke started using phpbb2 instead of the Splatt forum, and the table structures havent changed since then so the file works for all version, it just translates the old table name to new ones and then sets up the addtitional nes that are used by PHP-Nuke and when it is done you will be ready to go. here is a link to the page for the down load. https://www.phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5431and the link to the file that you will see in the above link so you can go right to the download of it. http://virtualia.curvedspaces.com/download/index.htm

Unless you have a really busy board with lots of long posts you should not really worry too much about disk space I have one server with one database that operates two different bulletin board sofware systems running PHP-Nuke with phpBB and PHP-Nuke running Invision (same forums as this site,but different version). I am up to 90% file capacity and about 85%. I have 100MEG storage including the database.The main site has 45MEG of downloads so that leave about 40 meg being used by both sites, and unless you really need to keep really old posts, you can always delete the oldes ones by pruning them, so you really shouldn't worry too much about your disk space.

They probably did not refresh the cache so they are reading the cache statistics. ruben caught it right quick. The only real reason for having the ability to refresh or clear the cache would be when you do in fact remove some files as they did, and the cache will eventually update (I suppose, it depends on the software) but it wouldn't hurt to at least try refreshing the cache then see what the result is.

Your link failed, try these links instead the first is for XP PRO and the second is for all Windows to allow the remote assistance. For the Win XP PRO http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ For all other Windows use the below http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I previewed and tested both the above links and they will work. Also here is the main page for all machine concerning tools and utilities for Windows. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Welcome to Xisto! You will get to recognize quite a few of those that you will see posting here. Although to get an account with Xisto you must keep your credits up to keep your account active. I am not really young but still like the idea of the host for posting which I don't mind. I noticed that as of this post that you have 5 posts, so you will only ned 5 more to qualify for posting, then you will need to request posting there is a special form for that and you will have to wait a short while to be approved.You will notice that after you do get approved and start using your account that your credits will go from the number of posts you have made to the number of days that you have as a credit to your account, and that you will have very few days of credit and must post almost immediately or your account will be suspended, but you can read about that in other forums, in the meantime enjoy the site and you will be able to learn quite a lot here at Xisto as a member.

Just go to your Help and Support in the start menu and select the Invite a friend to connect to your computer in the main heading of Ask for Assistance then have your friend or parent or whomever go ahead and follow the directions, you don't need to worry about you system configuration as long as you have an internet connection. I think you are getting Remote assistance confused with the commercail program Go to my PC.

Then all they need is to query the database with the new messages which should be nubered sequentially so the query would only download those posts which were entered since their last visit, you would have to have a means of letting the database know what the last message was that was on their machine, the database does not care whether or not the user that is quering them just now came online and will fulfill the query and be done with that request. The database itself is always online but with the users intermittently accessing it is of no matter.Instead of acting like a normal server the forum is actually being used like a mail server but how it is being used doesn't matter even if a user is constantly online but does not make a request for data then the database as far as it is concerned they are not there so I really don't see what the problem with the offline or limited use of the database is you would just fetch all the new messages then log off and the database could care less as well as the user.

First of all what is an OFFLINE FORUM, I mean if it is not online nobody can see it the thing has to be online or it is nothing at all, or just what do you mean?