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  1. You can set it up with hotmail but for Yahoo you will have to pay extra to be able to download and use Outloo or really any mail client like Outlook Outlook Express or Messenger or Thunderbird or Eudora, so go to their page and read what all it says. I used to use it until they started to charge for it. Now I don't.
  2. Yes but what about the Pirate Theory? I think it is well researched and even has a little graph that almost shows that it has to be true. But I am working on my own theory and that is that the more researchers that get government grants to prove Global Warming or Climate Change is caused by human activity will only be looking for empirical evidence however far fetched it might be.The 'Cow Poop' theory is also a good one that I think I might be able to get a grant on we will either have to quit raising bovine around the world or raise more of them depending on how much money you can get for your conclusion. It is all a damned joke, and I ain't buying any of it except the 'Pirate Theory', we simply need more Pirates and The Flying Spaghetti Monster (who created the universe and everything in it) will be happy and we would not want to make HIM unhappy would we.
  3. There is another theory of Global Warming out there and it has graphs and other data to support the theory. It is the Pirate theory. It seems to lower Global Warming wee need more Pirates. Here is the link to the report with a graph for the Pirate theory of Global Warming. Pirate Theory of Global Warming
  4. Well a good FREE online resource for those that are beginning to learn PHP is called Practical PHP Programming. It is up to date and includes PHP 5. I use it when I am indoubt about certain PHP features. I would suggest though that if you want to learn PHP and MySQL you will need a operatin server on your machine. XAMPP or WAMP or if you have a Mac then MAMP all will create and install a webserver with PHP and MySQL and with XAMPP you get Perl and also the ability to switch between PHP 5 and PHP 4.
  5. Global warming is at presented lately by some expecially Al Gore (who tried to become president three times and lost every time) who failed his science courses in college are tell us that driving cars, burning charoal to grill hamburger or hotdogs, cutting grass with a gas powered lawn mower using freon to cool out homes and automoblies are causing "Global Warming" or now the are calling it "Climate Change" ... duhhh of course it changes BOZO. These theories to me are a crock of d*d* (you fill in the * yourself) and here is a rebuttal of this nonsense. The sun afects the warmness of uor planet more than all the gas powered or internal combustion engines ever could in a thousand years. Volcanos output more of the so called green house gasses that supposedly cause "Global Warming" or "Climate Change". The climate by definition is a constant change, it is like the stock market and here is a truth about the stock market. The stack market goes up, and the stock market goes down, but it never stays the same, and the same is true of the Climate. Now read what a real scientist says about "global Warming" or "Climate Change" Also Al Gores silly movie ( actually a slideshow) is not really raking in the dough and not really that many people are watching it anyway, but I bet it will be nominated for some kind of award even though it is flawed and not even popular just because a former presidential contender (did I say that he ran and lost his bid for the presidency 3 times?). Just want to know how many people really fall for this "Global Warming" or now "Climate Change" b.s. that is going around. I for one don't believe that me driving my car or grilling with charcoal or anything really effects the overall temperature of the earth at all, it is the sun and volcanoes and other things that have to do with all that.
  6. A dirty CD or DVD, clean it before running it. It could also have a scratch in the media, and another problem is you might have to browse to that file on the disk. I clean all my old media before inserting them for an install unless they just came out of the package. You might have smudges of your finger prints on them obscuring the data or even nicotine from a cigarette or cigar, possily a coffee spill or soda. You can use isopropyl alcohol or even aftershave to clean the disk (disc). Run from the center of the disk (disc) outward then allow to air dry then reinsert the disk (disc) and try it again.
  7. If you want phpBB it is free but if you want IPB or Invision you have to outright buy it or lease it from year to year. They are both easy to install, all you really need to be able to do is create a database, and then follow instructions which as seec77 said there should be a README file or install.txt file somewhere in the downloaded zip. A CMS (Content Management System) may or may not include forum software. PHP-Nuke comes with phpBB2, and to installl it wyou need to be able to create a database and then populate it usually with phpMyAdmin. You might want to go ahead and try A CMS or one of the forums and if hosted here at Xisto, you can intall it by going to the cPanel and just clicking the software and it will be installed for you, then all you need to do is set up your forums or CMS.
  8. phpBB2 has hundreds of MODs. You can find many of them at phpBB Hacks here. Some of them are good and some of them really are lousy, and basically you really do not know until you download and install them on your site. This topic is how to instal test and use or get rid of MODS that you download. I 'port' MODs from the phpBB2 standalone BBS to the 'ported' version of PHP-Nuke. These MODs are the same in action but have to be modified further to work with the PHP-Nuke database and file structure. There are a couple of important points to be taken into consideration when you are thinking about adding a MOD to your phpBB2 for either PHP-Nuke or phpBB2. Below you will see the best way that I have found to approach the matter. First make a backup of each and every file that is to be modified by the MOD. This can not be emphasized enough. BACK UP any file that you are modifying. Failure to do so could bring your entire site down and this is never a happy thing. Second If there is any modification or addtition to the database DO that BEFORE you edit the very first line of code. Also make a backup of the database before you actually alter it, you might want to restore it. Third Develop all your code on your local PC with a real webserver and MySQL or other database (preferably MySQL). If you do not have a server setup on your local PC take some of that music and burn it to CDs or DVDx and the same with games, make room and put a webserver and database on your machine. Fourth be very careful when editing, even though it is mostly just find a line or lines of code in the file pointed out by the MOD install itself, make sure to carefully follow what it says. Stray comments such as /this is a commentwill fail because those comments require two // (forward slashes). You are not in a race you are merely editing a file and any typo or other error will result in failure.Fifth fully test your forums. After you have finished your MOD make sure that everything, and I mean everything still functions like it did before you added the MOD. it is possible for the MOD to work but you broke something else in the process or there is a bug in the MOD itself. Sixth if the script for the MOD is not what you like or thought it would be then get rid of it. If you followed the very first step of making a backup of your files before you ever started editing and if you also paid attention to the second step and backed up your database before you edited the first file then you shoud be able to recover your forum with ease. If you do not have a webserver on your Local PC then at least have a second copy of your forum with another name on yur webspace and edit that copy and do your testing there, this way if there are problems with the MOD at least it won't kill your working site and if it is popular it might not be much longer if you are breaking it all the time adding MODs. If you have the MOD working properly, you can do one of two things you can rename it to what your site is (let users know that the board will be down and shut the working site down) then rename the working site to anything alse like http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and then rename your now MODDED site to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ then reopen your board, this should not take much more than the time involved in goingto the ACP to shut the board down then do the rename the board and then through the ACP just reopen it maybe 1 to 3 minutes.
  9. Pages don't know what is going on with the other they can only information from one and compare it to known values that should be. As far as confirming passwords if they do not match on the second page then there will be an error, and this can happen. Suppose that in the first password text box the user typed mistletoe and in the second confirmation password text box they typed mistertow or eve missletow two of these sound the same but are not the same and one is completely wrong. The confirmation password is not needed in the database but just for the purposes of registration only and it ensures that the user is certain about the word or group of characters they are using for a password. The reason there is logic provided by a processing page is to determine just what has happened with other code elsewhere. Logic in a computer program is basically just a bunch of test for a true or false condition and the action to be taken with the result of the outcome of each condition. A simple pseudo code would look like: if(it is raining) { //start first if Watch movies on television if(television is broken or there are no movies on it) {//start nested if listen to the radio }//end nested if else { go to sleep till movies are on or television gets fixed or replaced }//end else }//end first ifelse //if the first if fails then do this{Cut the grass and tend the garden} The options are limited to the programmer (you maybe someone else) to develop what occurs when certain conditions are either true or false. So a careful analysis of what should or should not occur with any given condition within your program before you even start writing it. The outcome of your program depends on how well you develop the logic. Of course the above is ridiculous kind of logic and has room for improvement and that is up to the programmer in the first place. Take all possibilities into consideration and decide beforehand how to handle them and your code will work much better when carefully planned. Remember the biggest room in the world is ROOM for IMPROVMENT.
  10. Get an editor that has highlighting for your syntax. PHP Designer is a good editor and has this capability. and you can define the color of opening and closing characters. I use cyan for my dolor but I believe that as a default PHP Designer comes using yellow as the color. The best way to check for an unmatched parenthesis or curly brace or square bracket is to place you cursor to the immediate left of the character inquestion. The character most likely to be missing though is the closing curly brace }in a if or else block of code. Which will give the error of Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in D:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\NewsPortalProject\register.php on line 42 The above is just an example but one like it will come up when you leave a curly brace off in your code. At PHP builder and Dev Shed and PHP Phreaks you will see someone complaining about this very often, and of course the standard answer is that you have left a curly brace out of your code. The error almost always point to the line after the end of your code also. If you got the above error it is most likely that your code is actually only 41 lines long which confuses most beginners. This is why I use PHP Designer's auto completion feature, which at time can be annoying with single quotes but saves me from the problems of unmatched braces or parenthesis and so on. If you do not have aPHP Designer then you can download it here at http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php You will speed up your development and debugging tremendously using such a tool. This is not an advertisement for PHP Designer mostly because it is FREEWARE, but because it is a really great program for the price of merely downloading it. I used to use HTML Kit and still do but for development purposes I use PHP Designer. Usually in the case of a parenthesis it should be possible to find the error because they are used mostly with functions with little or even nothing between them such as mail() function which has no more than 5 parameters, two are optional, and each are seperated by commas so if you had a problem with the below mail "toemail@asite.com","Surprise E-mail", 'My Subject', $message);of course this error would be easy to locate since it is so short, actually you should not have too much trouble finding a missing parenthesis, but a curly brace is a different story. Do your self a favor and get a good editor and I do not care what anyone else says about using notepad or whatever Macs editor is or the editor that come with Linux, get a good editor that actually helps you write and trouble shoot code.
  11. You would need to use CSS like body{background-image: url(tsmg2.jpg); repeat:no-repeat; background-attachment:fixed} You might want to enlarge the image or it might work if you tried body {background-image:url(tsmg2.jpg); background-position:100% 100%}
  12. That belongs in the body tag <html><head><title>My New Site</title></head><body backgound="tsmg2.jpg"><!--all your other stuff you want-->Your content here</body></html>
  13. MySQL is just another Database management system, except that it is free, and is highly supported. Suppose that you wanted to create an inventory of all the items in your household for insurance purposes. Well with a database you could create a database called inventory and within that database you would of course have tables which contain various data such as household so you create a table within the inventory database called household. In this table you would then have various items, their description, price paid, serial numbers, photographs, and so on. After you have created your inventory database and table of household item table then you would place the actual data into the household table one item per row in the dable along with the description, price, and other important data for insurance purposes. MySQL uses the SQL language which is not difficult to learn basically it uses english words to perform its work. do a search for MySQL tutorial or go to W3C schools and look at their tutorial and you will find that it is not that difficult at all. As an example to create a database with MySQL or just about any other database the command is: CREATE DATABASE inventoryWhat was so hard about that?
  14. I saw this question in the PHP section and though the first answer should be no you can not use PHP to create a timed event for such a script. PHP is server side and only reacts when the server is accessed. The browser (client side is always open) so the only way to write a time dependant script would be with JavaScript. So technically you can not create a PHP script for something like a clock or a counter that counts down. That would be best achieved by using JaavaScript or JScript. Of course you can user PHP to manage the database or flat file to store questions and things like that but using PHP alone will not do the job.
  15. I see newbies all the time looking for either a login script or after a little querying you find they really would like to have a registration script. The first thing for such a script for a members area would of course be a form and being kind of old fashioned I still like to format my forms with a table but I do use inline CSS to make it a little nicer. I never did like forms that had an asterick * by a field and then a Note: Fields marked with * are required. So what I do instead is add a background color to those areas and then use a CSS background color stating that thise text boxes or whatever are required. Here is a form that I use for a registration. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Registration</title> <meta http-equiv="generator" content="PHP Designer 2006 - BETA" /> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000"> <center><h2>Welcome to the Registration Page.</h2></center> <div align=justify><font size=-1 color=blue><center><h4>Terms of Service</h4></center>This site is for those that are at least of the age of 18 or older. If you are not at least 18 or older then you must have your parents permission to sign up and they must actually sign up for this page and use theinformation for your account that they provide. With this in mind it is understood by filling out this application that you are the parent or legal guardian of a minor and are signing up for an account. Poronography suggestive photographs or solicitation of prostitution is forbidden on this site. By filling out the form below you are stating that you will abide by the above. If you have lied about your age or identity, your account may be terminated without notice, and possbile prosecution may also result from your actions with the account if granted. Please keep in mind that any content provided by you should be civil in nature and not advocate the overthrow of the United States Goverment or any state therein.</font></div><br /><br /> <table border=1 bordercolor=lightblue width=100%> <form action='processing2.php' method='post'> <tr><td><input type='text' name='firstname' style='background:aqua' value=' <?php echo $_POST['firstname']; ?>' /><-Enter First Name</td> <td><input type='text' name='lastname' style='background:aqua' value=' <?php echo $_POST['lastname']; ?>' /><-Enter Last Name</td> <td><input type='text' name='username' style='background:aqua' value=' <?php echo $_POST['username']; ?>' /><-Enter preferred username</td></td></tr> <tr><td><input type='password' name='pass' style='background:aqua' value=' <?php echo $_POST['pass']; ?>' /><-Enter preferred Password</td> <td><input type='password' name='pass2' style='background:aqua' value=' <?php echo $_POST['pass2']; ?>' /><-Confirm Password</td> <td><input type='text' name='email' style='background:aqua' value=' <?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>' /><-Enter a valid E-mail</td></tr> <tr><td><input type='text' name='address' value=' <?php echo $_POST['address']; ?>' /><-Street Address</td> <td><input type='text' name='city' value=' <?php echo $_POST['city']; ?>' /><-City</td> <td><input type='text' name='state' value=' <?php echo $_POST['state']; ?>' /><-State</td></tr> <tr><td><input type='text' name='zip' value=' <?php echo $_POST['zip']; ?>' /><-Zip Code</td> <td><select name='dobm' style='background:aqua'> <option value='1'>01</option> <option value='2'>02</option> <option value='3'>03</option> <option value='4'>04</option> <option value='5'>05</option> <option value='6'>06</option> <option value='7'>07</option> <option value='8'>08</option> <option value='9'>09</option> <option value='10'>10</option> <option value='11'>11</option> <option value='12'>12</option> </select> <select name='dobd' style='background:aqua'> <option value='1'>01</option> <option value='2'>02</option> <option value='3'>03</option> <option value='4'>04</option> <option value='5'>05</option> <option value='6'>06</option> <option value='7'>07</option> <option value='8'>08</option> <option value='9'>09</option> <option value='10'>10</option> <option value='11'>11</option> <option value='12'>12</option> <option value='13'>13</option> <option value='14'>14</option> <option value='15'>15</option> <option value='16'>16</option> <option value='17'>17</option> <option value='18'>18</option> <option value='19'>19</option> <option value='20'>20</option> <option value='21'>21</option> <option value='22'>22</option> <option value='23'>23</option> <option value='24'>24</option> <option value='25'>25</option> <option value='26'>26</option> <option value='27'>27</option> <option value='28'>28</option> <option value='29'>29</option> <option value='30'>30</option> <option value='31'>31</option> </select> <select name='doby' style='background:aqua'> <option value=1930>1930</option> <option value=1931>1931</option> <option value=1932>1932</option> <option value=1933>1933</option> <option value=1934>1934</option> <option value=1935>1935</option> <option value=1936>1936</option> <option value=1937>1937</option> <option value=1938>1938</option> <option value=1939>1939</option> <option value=1940>1940</option> <option value=1941>1941</option> <option value=1942>1942</option> <option value=1943>1943</option> <option value=1944>1944</option> <option value=1945>1945</option> <option value=1946>1946</option> <option value=1947>1947</option> <option value=1948>1948</option> <option value=1949>1949</option> <option value=1950>1950</option> <option value=1951>1951</option> <option value=1952>1952</option> <option value=1953>1953</option> <option value=1954>1954</option> <option value=1955>1955</option> <option value=1956>1956</option> <option value=1957>1957</option> <option value=1958>1958</option> <option value=1959>1959</option> <option value=1960>1960</option> <option value=1961>1961</option> <option value=1962>1962</option> <option value=1963>1963</option> <option value=1964>1964</option> <option value=1965>1965</option> <option value=1966>1966</option> <option value=1967>1967</option> <option value=1968>1968</option> <option value=1969>1969</option> <option value=1970>1970</option> <option value=1971>1971</option> <option value=1972>1972</option> <option value=1973>1973</option> <option value=1974>1974</option> <option value=1975>1975</option> <option value=1976>1976</option> <option value=1977>1977</option> <option value=1978>1978</option> <option value=1979>1979</option> <option value=1980>1980</option> <option value=1981>1981</option> <option value=1982>1982</option> <option value=1983>1983</option> <option value=1984>1984</option> <option value=1985>1985</option> <option value=1986>1986</option> <option value=1987>1987</option> <option value=1988>1988</option> <option value=1989>1989</option> <option value=1990>1990</option> <option value=1991>1991</option> <option value=1992>1992</option> <option value=1993>1993</option> <option value=1994>1994</option> <option value=1995>1995</option> <option value=1996>1996</option> <option value=1997>1997</option> <option value=1998>1998</option> <option value=1999>1999</option> <option value=2000>2000</option> </select><-Date of Birth (M-D-Y) </td> <td><input type='text' name='occupation' value=' <?php echo $_POST['occupation']; ?>' /><-Occupation</td></tr> </table><br /> <center> <span style='background:aqua'>Aqua colored fields are required!</span><br /><br /> </center> I am over 18 year old or I am the parent or guardian <input type='radio' name='age' value='yes' />Yes <input type='radio' name='age' value='no' />No<br /> I agree to the <span style='color:blue'>Terms of Service</span> as shown above the form. <input type='radio' name='tos' value='yes' />Yes <input type='radio' name='tos' value='no' checked />No<br /> <center><input type='submit' name='register' value='Register' style='background;lightcoral'> </form> </body> </html> It might be a lot of coding but it only need made once and your new users will be spending some time with it. So to avoid data errors and to make date entry into my database easier this is why I use the three drop down select boxes. I prefer to use the PHP only to retain values entered into the various fields in the event on the next page there are errors. Also required but not expressly stated are the two radio button groups for age and the Terms of Service aggrement, which is the first thig checked for in the processing page. Then of course you will want to process this page when the user has hopefully filled out the thing entirely and with no mistakes like the confirmation of the password. So the very first thing I check for in the next page is the following; pressed submit, checked yes to the age and the Terms of Service. if($_POST['register']=='Register' && $_POST['tos']=='yes' && $_POST['age']=='yes'){Then I check for blank required and generate an error for each one that is to be shown for each error, or if it is correct then I assign a $_SESSION variable to the $_POST value for later use. I start a session at the beginning of the script so I can assign and use $_SESSION variables, and also trim all the $_POST variables with $firstname=trim($_POST['firstname']);$firstname=addslashes($firstname);//in case of apostrophes$lastname=trim($_POST['lastname']);$lastname=addslashes($lastname);//in case of apostrophes...I also use addslashes with cities because there are some like the one in Idaho that I can't remember nor could I spell, but it does have an apostrophe in it. I also generate a random number with this script that will be sent out in the email that is sent for the new member to use to activate their acoount. Yes my processing page also send out email and it inserts the information that the user filled out and puts it into a database table named temp, which is purged within 24 hours. One of the fields will have this random number inserted into it as well as all the normal data that will be transferred to the permanent members table. I said that the first check I made was if the usen hit submit, and the two TOS and age requirements but actually the first thing I check is if the username the new member enters is already in use if it is the file ends with a message that the username they chose is already taken and to hit the back button and try again. Then of course after checking for blank required fields there is a second check for the email validity which is the most you can do short of sending a mail and waiting for a read reciept so I merely use a regex (regular expression) like this. if(!eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email)){ $error.=("The e-mail address you entered is invalid.<br />"); $num++;Other than sending an HTML email using the mail() function that is about all that goes on other than the message that shows the information entered by the user (provided everthing else is correct). In this section I give them the option to go ahead and activate from this same script by going to an action.php page which will have another form but this one only asks for the Username Password and the activation code which is presented on the page here. This is optional because the email has a link that goes to another page activation.php the link sent in the email looks like this; click on the following link <a href='http://localhost/activate.php?active=$random'> [url="LOCALHOST/activate.php?active=$random"]http://localhost/activate.php?active=$random</a>[/url] also within the email I let those that use AOL know that they might have to copy and paste the activation link into their browser (I think the AOL email client is kind of stupid). So basically with my registration there are four pages one with the actual form shown above one that checks all the inputs accesses the database and checks to be sure that the username it not already in use by looking at the member table then another page for instant activation which will then check the newly entered data that is in the temp table to be sure they have the correct random number and if so will then insert the users data into the members table and then delete the information that is in the temp table, and an activation page that is accessed with the email link that the processing page created and then do the same as the last mentioned page. I am sure there are more improvments that can be made to what I already have and ocassionally I look at ways to maybe make some improvements but as it is so far is it satisfactory and does what it is supposed to do. If any body has any ideas for other features or requirements for a registration and processing script then post them in this area. I would like to see them.
  16. I am not sure but cleaning up temp files are those files that are in the Windows temp folder, it should have nothing to do with PHPs temp files which are in the c:\Program Files\xamppp\tmp folder unless you created another one and then redifined where you put it in the php.ini file. It just hold stuff like session cookies and what not and might only have two or three files. Usuall it will destroy files when they are no longer needed. The temp folder in the c:\WINDOWS\Temp however has all kinds of stuff and is used when you install programs and doesn't necessarily clean them up just look in there and you will see what I mean. You might need to uninstall and reinstall your xampp install cause it sounds like there is some file corruntion or configuration maladies. When reinstalling just accept the defaults as the install goes about its thing.
  17. I am a Vietnam Era Veteran and was highly disrespected during and for a while after my service by those in my own country. At the time it was mandantory to sign up for the Selective Service. Then at the time I was in what they called a lottery where each year they announced your lottery number which wa based on 366 balls falling from a big basket in whatever order the birthdate came out. My number was 167 which was in my 19th year on earth my chances of being called up (which is about one in two). One of my cousins was 18 from the year before (he was definately gonna be drafted) and another cousin of mine got 366 (never had to think about the draft).My other cousin joined the Army National Guard and I ended up joining the U.S. Navy active for 4 years with a two year reserve requirement (total six year obligation). I wnet to boot camp and completed it and then went to my first school in the military to learn Basic Electricity and Electronics, then I was sent to Avionics "A" school and after that went on to Tradevsman "A" school. These were self paced courses and were graded by either pass or fail, in other words if you did not score 100% correct on all questions asked you failed that test, and were allowed to retest after a review. If after three retests you still failed you were dropped from the school and sent to the 'Fleet' to do whatever (quite a motivation in my opinion). I then completed my three schools and was sent to my first duty station where I went to even more schools. There was ground traning for the A7E attack aircraft and mini and micro circuitry repair sponsered by N.A.S.A. to be qualified to repair circuit boards that were one of a kind including the boards that landed the first Lunar Module on the Moon. It seems that any air pockets in a solder joint can be catastrophic in outerspace, and the sam can be said of the epoxy that the circuitry is encapsulated within.I also had acces to and trained twice a month the delivery of a nuclear weapon to pilots and aircrew. There is a procedure that must be followed until the last two minutes at which time the pilots and aircrew will take no communication from anyone and will conduct the mission of delivering the weapon. Even the President of the Untied States can not stop it after the two minute warning...until then it can be stopped, otherwise it will happen as planned. This was 30 years ago, but the nuclear weapon delivery will never change, it will happen if all procedure are inplace. So why am I saying all this...because my missions were conducted from the air with no contact from those on the ground that we conducted these missions on. Just fly over avoid fighters and kill the bad guys on the ground. We got communications fromthose foot soldiers on the ground as to where to deliver the weapons.Al Zarqwai was on the other hand a terrorist, and stayed on the fround using any weapon he could imagine or use to cause destruction to the U.S. Armed forces and later on the people of Iraq bar none to cause strife. The tactics were to attack footsoldiers and then attemp to blend in with the general populace, aven hiding in their homes and acting like everything was alright then to shoot the footsoldier in the back as they left...no uniform no symbol of any sort that they are the enemy. This makes them a terrorist or at best an enemy combatant and rules of war do no apply to them because they are cowards trying to use the rules of ared combat against our own trooops.I do not doubt that these terrorists have not produced some photographs that indicate that it was our own troops that violated rules of war (even though they are the one that actually did the misdeed). I am sick of the politics of it. There are three places in Iraq that are having problems, and in my opinion I would just carpet bomb the three area of concern after telling the residents to either get out right now or be killed within a week and be done with it. The military can do it and should in my opinion and put a stop to this all. Oh sure there will be complaints but in the end it will settle the problem, and then we can bring our footsoldiers home.
  18. I figure that I must enter this discussion concerning wireless usage on an airplane. Cell phone usage was originally banned stating that it could intefere with the communication of the aircraft itself which could be bad in certain scenarios, but it is actully because of how radio waves work and antennas. If you own a dish then your dish is recieving signals of 5 watt transmission from a satellite about 11 miles above the earth. This forms a footprint (area of coverage) of the radio signal being broadcast from the satellite. The reason the satellite is at 11 miles above the earth is to keep it in a geostationary orbit (it stays in the same place at all times).Now if you are in an aircraft transmitting a radio signal above the earth at lets say 5,000 feet then the ability of those cell site towers that recieve the signal from your personal handset will increase with a gain in altitude. This is because the signal from a cellphone or any radio transmission is normally omnidirectional (it radites is all directions) so to illustrate I will make a crude example below...............................A...........................|^.....|^....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^......|^..... 5,000 ft......................................................................A.................................................................................|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|^.....|15-25,000 ftThe ....A.... represents the antenna in the aircraft.The |^ would be towers that recieve and then retransmit those signals that are coming from a radio source. These are spaced along the terrain at stragegic points to provide the most coverage for those that are on the surface of the earth (not in the air), since these signals are omnidirectional then there needs to be a cell cite every so often to recieve and retransmit the signal, however in an aircraft it is simple to transmit to a tower (in this case several towers) and the signal will then go to the desired destination. What I am saying is that using radio telemetry in an aircraft would be enhanced as opposed to using a handheld cellphone in a tunnel and mor likely to work properly without a dropped signal than if you were walking around your own neighboorhood.
  19. Here are some links that might be of help with MySQL and PHP as well. MySQL Basics tutorial PHP MySQL Tutorial PHP MySQL Tutorial (different site) MySQL Tutorial (Dev Shed) These links cover from the most basics to creation of guestbooks and even form validation.
  20. If you are looking for a tutorial then go to the W3C schools to find out all you want to get a good start at this SQL Tutorial.
  21. If you system won't update and all that stuff, then just wait till Vista comes out then contact Microsoft and they will probably send you a new CD with aa new key for XP. I have 4 computers but one of them crashed and the CD was broken so I contacted Windows and told them about my situation and told them I was running a small network and just needed Win 98 for one of my machines and they sent me an new Win 98 CD for $35.00 and it took about three days.
  22. Did you write the code or is it from a ready made package because normally all those semicolons whould have been there and all you would have had to do is enter the proper parameters. The reason the code falieed on the second line is because PHP didnot see where the first assignment was closed; $server = 'localhost'; //This is usually "localhost". If you're not sure, leave it as is.$user = 'startech_summer'; //This is the USER who has access to the database$sqlpass = 'REMOVED'; //This is the PASSWORD for the MySQL user above$db = 'startech_sb1'; //This is the DATABASE to store data Now this is how the code should be and when you enter the proper parameters inside the single quotes then the code should work with no errors provided that you don't have a typo in any of the parameters.
  23. This doesn't make sense at all. YOu might need to remove all files for Apache MySQL and PHP from the XAMPP folder and then reinstall the system again allowing the default settings. If you are having trouble removing some of those files then this means that the program is running, so you need to stop it then go back and remove all files. Do the reinstall only after all files and folders have been removed from your harddrive.
  24. It was real because I was 16 years old when it happened and watched it on televiaion (as crappy as it was back in 1969) no color or any of that. Even today in holywood nor in any production studio is there a way to recreate the gait and movements of those pictures that were sent back from then moon, theycertainly could reproduce it in Hollywood back then and they still can't today so it is just another wild theory probably with more flaws than fact (if any).
  25. To get around that use Database_File.inc.php instead of Database_File.inc you can also use and include in some cases where a header will not work due to output having already happened and you want the user sent to another page.
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