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To be accurate... HTTPS or SFTP don't have anything to do with SSH, well other than they all use SSL. Apart from security there are no other benefits from SSH or SCP (Secure Copy). In fact copying files with unsecured remote copy is faster than SCP. Not that the difference is anything much with modern machines....But security is a major factor. Any moron can capture your password when you use FTP or telnet, like said in previous post it's all plain text there! If you have a private LAN you can easily test this. Download a traffic analysis software, put it running and start making FTP or Telnet connections and read and weep how easy it's to find out what's happening in the network. Just don't do this in public internet, your ISP might not like it .In addition to copying files and using it for remote shell access SSH can be used to make secured tunnels over the internet. This is pretty much like a normal proxy server, just that the connection to the proxy is secured. This is actually quite good way of bringing security and anonymity to web browsing as long as the server doesn't keep logs (ie. it is anonymizing). What I use SSH for...My university offers an SSH access to their server our departments linux and solaris workstations. To read and send email, I SSH to uni server and run email client there. Way more faster than to use a windows email software (like outlook or eudora) or let alone webmail. Our programming assignments are usually done on UNIXes so to do that I SSH to some workstation and do text editing and compiling there.I'm also a member of our student unions computer club which has few servers of tis own and they allow runing of IRC bots. I have an IRC client constantly running there with screen and I can ssh there and check out what happened in the channels when I was offline. For my site here at asta, I use SSH to manage files, some minor editing and command line SQL. Way faster to do than with graphical FTP clients or web interfaces.

I use F-Secure's F-Prot. It is just how I like my anti-virus software. It's not a big lump of software but few small and effective bits:F-StopW which is the always on realtime scanner, very small yet very effective. And stays nicely invisible if there are no problems. The on demand scanner which is also small, but effectrive and fast. Then there's an updater and a scheduler. I usually keep my computer running overnight. And I've scheduled F-Prot to update itself and run a full system scan at small hours. It keeps my system clean, but doesn't make any noise of itself. Great!

I agree that iFrames are evil. Not because they're hard to do, but because I just really really really hate them. Yes, I'm hijacking this thread for my personal opinions on web design. Muhahahah!! Using iFrames, or normal frames for that matter, for the site basic design is, in my opinion un-userfriendly, a mark of lack of design skills and/or lazyness. Don't get me wrong, iFrames are OK for certain tasks. Like small boxes showing little something from another site and such, but when all site content is loaded into a frame so that the pages can't be neatly linked... Well that's when my face colour starts to fade towards #ff0000. I wouldn't be foaming this much if there wasn't a simple and a more professional way to do this: CSS overflow. It possibly combined with server side including and you have visially equal good if not better looking design. And most importantly, easily linkable. There, preacher has spoken and congregation shall obey.

If you're not familiar with Javascript coding, the best way to do Javascript menus is stealing . Just when you see a cool menu on a website. Ctrl-U, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V And make your changes (urls and names) Well of course website owners posses the right to their source codes, but I personally wouldn't mind if someone stole some code from my site. Just be reasonable.

A handy service... kind of... Using current graphical FTP clients is just as easy as this and also whole lot of faster. And using command line ftp, like the one that comes with Windows, is not exactly rocket science. But I guess this kind of service is easier for people to approach. It's insecure but so is all FTP. I was surprised that there is SSL available which deserves hats off.

I have programmed my own system for PHP authentication. It uses PHP sessions and MySQL database.If you're not using HTTP authentication PHP sessions is the way to go. You mihgt have noticed that most PHP systems (like forums) do the authentication with sessions. However sessions aren't that secure... If you just set a certain sessions variable (like $_SESSION['logged_in']=true;) it is actually quite easy to go in without knowing the password. Session IDs are passed at the end of url (if cookies are not available) and people pass links to each other... There are countless of pages in the web about session insecurity so I'm not going to repeat everything here...As sessions aren't secure enough, you need something to go with it. To avoid these sessions hijackings, saving the users IP address and checking against it on everytime login is checked helps. My system includes this. On login it simply dumps the session ID and user IP to a database table. Then of course timestamp needs to be updated everytime the users logs in or login is checked, otherwise the old sid's and IPs would mess up the system. This solution isn't perfect... People are behind same IP addresses (proxies) and IP spoofing is possible. But it's still better than basic session or let alone cookie system. Just remember that you should be using a authentication system adequate to your system.

Well if for some reason the site is designed so that it will just not function with certain browsers. Blocking the incompatible browsers makes sure that the site isn't even attempted to be parsed. Then of course a different version of the site can be loaded.

I connect to all four major instant messenging networks and it is interesting how MSN is the sovereign king of downtime... Thar's why people shouldn't just use MSN only. Get another one to the side or better yet log to IRC.

BitComet user here. I used to use BitTornado too but I prefer "old style" p2p programs where I have all downloads in one window. I alsi had my try with Azareus and it was good. But I started suspecting it from causing problems with my router so I switched to BitComet. It turned out it wasn't Azaresua dn actually now I have a whole other router. But BitComet kinda stuck. Personalyl I did not notice any changes in download speeds.

I did not know which forum to post this. I guess this is ok. There is a major security hole in AWstats versions 6.2 (which is running currently here) and it needs to be updated to 6.3 Check http://www.awstats.org/ for more info. Apparently https://www.phpbb.com/ was cracked through this vulnerability.

With currect configuration my Athlon 2600+ Barton is around 45C while idle. In heavy load it rises up to 60C. I'm using the AMD boxed cooler. Not the best in the world and not the most silent one. I have been planning on changing it but coolers are quite expensive... Case stays quite neatly at 30C. I have Antec case with a power supply that has specific connectors for case fans. It adjusts the speed of the fans according to system temperature. It keeps the temperatures a tad higher than what they would be if the fans were blowing and max power. My current setup is that there is no fans in the air intake, one temperature adjusted fan at side (for graphics card). Then there's one temperature adjusted at back and one blowing at full power (the topper rear fan). The noise is moderate and so are the temperatures. I have my machine right beside my balcony door. If ever I need exyta cooling, just open the door and down goes the temps. Especially now at winter time when its -15C out there. The problem of course is that my legs would be freezing but you gotta priorisize these things. .

I have yet to encounter a Linux distribution that I don't like or have much to complain about. At university I get to use Debian's and its sweet. Once I get my 2nd computer fixed (read: new MoBo for it) I will install Debian to it. For my parents I installed Mandrake. They are far from being talented with computers but so far there has been nothing that they need to do that they couldn't. Mandrake is bluddy easy to install and the package contains most of the stuff that machine ever needs. I have downloaded and installed only few additional programs. My first Linux was RedHat which I installed to my own machine. Everyhting was smooth except that I couldn't get some devices to work. But it's not really OS's fault when there is no drivers. SuSE, well as I study IT I know quite a few linux gurus. And many of them favour SuSE linux. I'd say SuSE t-shirts and patches are most popular "linux-gear" around here. One well respected finnish computer magazine just recently wrote a highly positive review of the new SuSE (is it 9.2?) .In my opinion the things in Linux world are quite well. There are lot of high quality distros available and the software houses behind them keep on improving them. All that is needed is more people to start using them.

Apparently you wish to make the counter yourself and not use a ready made one. That's the right attitude. PHP is a good choice for language. You should make a page that is used for viewing a picture. Use a parameter at the end of the URL to identify which image is loaded. So the url to view a picture would be like: yoursite.com/viewpic.php?pic=1 The variable "pic" here can be accessed with $_GET['pic'] Then of course you need to create some kind of system to save the picture data. You could use simple the picture's name in the variable (yoursite.com/viewpic.php?pic=me.jpg) but that would mean that by changing the url you could view any picture inside yoursite. To avoid you could keep list of pictures that are allowed to be viewed there and check it everytime the page is accessed. Other, and more sophisticated method would be to build a table, a database one if you are familiar with them (if not, it might be worth learning), where you save a unique id (an integer) for each picture. This same table could be used to save the number of time the page is accessed ie. the thumbnail is clicked. For the actual counting, it's easy as pie. Just load the old value of clicks plus one to it and save/update database.

Problem with the web is that there are users from a lot of different countries, and countries copyright laws differ quite a much. An example, that I read from a computer magazine recently, sprung to my mind. In Russia there is a certain electronic music store (I do not wish to advertise them here...) that, because of the lot looser copyright laws of Russia, can offer material that is not available in western countries. And this is perfectly legal as they are operating in Russia and follow Russia's law. The magazine mentions that they actualyl have music by the Beatles available to download for payment. In western countries yet no music by the Beatles has been released to be sold electronically.

Yeah it was pretty annoying as I was so used using win explorer. I have used Explore XP to replace it, but usually going through My Computer works just fine for me.Now off to check that site, thanks for the link.EDIT: I got this solved. Not straight from annoyances.org but through few links. I opened the explorer in full screen F11 and then right clicked on its menu.

Okay, I've had this problem for close to a year now...For some reason, the menus from the top of the Windows Explorer disappeared. This includes the "File Edit View ...." menu, the menu bar with back, fwd and up buttons (called the Standar menu, I think) and the "address" field to which you can type the directory. Believe it or not, there is no way you can get any of the menus back if you have lost all of them. Normally you can change the menus by right clicing over one of them, but as I don't have any... So where are these setting stored? In the registy I guess but I haven't managed to find it yet. Or is there another way to restore the menus? By the way, I'm running Win 2000.

The best way, in my opinion is to do this with PHP and then either include a page suitable for the browser or redirect. It is in fact really easy to to. The global server variable $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] contains string form the HTTP request telling the browser. To check which browser it is, you should use regular expression (with ereg() ) or a function like strpos(). Internet explorer can be identified from a string MSIE. It is also wise to check that it is not just some other browser (like Opera for example) disguising itself as IE. The HTTP_USER_AGENT that Opera sends also contains string "Opera".

Javascript includes are not a very good idea... As you probably know, if Javascript is turned off, isn't supported or otherwise doesn't work your includes won't be loaded. It also increases the page loadtime a bit, as the browser does another request when it parses the Javascript. My opinion is that javascript includes, should only be used the way they were intended, ie. including only javascript code.

What do you exactly mean by this? There should be no difference for the script be your files included though include or require, as long as the files are there and are readable by the script. It depends. Require causes the script to terminate if the inclusion failes. Ie. if your menu files is missing or the script doesn't have permissions to read it. Include prints and error but continues the execution of the script. So using include, your page will have an error message instead of your menu, with require there will be nothing else but error message. If you page is useless without the menu, I mean completely, you can use require. But the situation is rarely such, so I would go with include. Include is aimed for that kind of tasks exactly. Loading menus or content, which aren't absolite neccessity for your site. Require is for loading functions or a settings file. It is quite pointless to continue execution of a page which gets stuff from database if database settings file cannot be loaded.

Exactly. Bash or (t)csh if you prefer more C-styled scripting like I do. Scripting is not just good way to make some routine tasks easier and less time taking, bt also a great way to test things before you program them into a bigger "real" program. And I agree Qwijibow on the compiling scripts matter. "Compiled script" is kind of a oxymoron isn't it. The whole point of sctipts or batch files, if you will, is to have a quickly and easily editable code that does simple thing. If performance is an issue, you should be using something else than script...

This works really well. I have a decent PC and a megabit connection. Firefox loads the pages lightning quick, once I click a link the page is there. And so far I have experienced no problems.But I'm a bit conserned however... These kind of "Firefox tuning" threads (Pimp my Firefox ) will be soon appearing to other than computer related forums. And people will pimp their 'foxes. This will mean more load to servers which will be a bad thing for some sites that already struggle with too much load.

A better way to do this would be to set the mail server (instead the computer running the Outlook) to send the messages. This is usually called as "Vacation Message". This of course requires that your email service provider offers such service. I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but here in Finland my experience that most ISP's have this option at least for a small extra fee. For companies, a vacation message is often a neccessity. Having customer to wait a reply for a 4 week holiday doesn't sound like good service. Instead a nice, and most importantly, instant, message describing the situation and advising the customer to contact another email for urgent issues might mean the difference between losing and not losing a customer.CommuniGate Pro, which my university uses as a mail management system has this option under 'Rules'. I am not sure if the cPanel here at asta has such options, at the moment I can't get logged in.EDIT:I finalyl got into cPanel and there is an AutoResponder tool like I remembered. Right there in the first row.

That kind of traffic monitoring is illegal here. It's even illegal for the employer to use if the eployee doesn't mind. Yes HTTPS and SSL encrypt the data before they are send. What the sniffers can see is you sending encrypted packets. Which of course could be banned too...

And to make things slightly easier for you, you could use server side scripting for getting those image dimensions. For PHP that'd be function getimagesize().

But GIMP is also cross platform. Which is a big bonus in my eyes.