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@iVTEC: Hehe, realists opinion. Come to think about it, tripping to wires is far more likely than to lose something valuable to hacker attack. But in the security world, we need to go with the worst case scenario. Just to generally say something about wireless security: being wireless, i.e. the signals are travelsing in the air all around, is always less secure. Yes, you can listen to electric wires without cutting the cord with the help of induction, and it's not even that hard, but you still need to dig that cable up and in mean time stay unnoticed. With wireless, just drive your care to the parking lot, open laptop, stick the antenna out and start listening. Listening to all wireless communication, even short range as Bluetooth and RFID is bloody easy, even fron significantly longer ranges than the actual appliance ranges (Bluetooth can be listened miles away with special equipment). You don't get the physical protection of concrete walls or floors or 6 feet of ground. That leaves it all on the encryption. Speaking of specific wireless technologies, the in-built encryption methods have significantly improved. WCDMA mobile technologies are lot more secure that 2nd generation networks (the GSM network we use here in Europe has no actual security in it). WPA in WLAN is at the moment actually working encryption method, unlike WEP. So the in-built security methods are in a decent level now, compared to what it was few years ago. Also, the increased speed of the wireless networks does allow much stronger encryptions to be used inside the channel without the actual payload traffic getting slowed down. To put it in a sentence, more speed more encryption possible. The problem with this is that while the nice technologies are available and work well on the fast connections, people don't bother to use them. People still use unencrypted FTP and ignore SSL/TLS on email settings. Not to mention the increasingly popular instant messengers of which some don't even offer encryption possibility... And guess what, people send those credit card numbers and other sensitive info no matter how much Microsoft warns them. For a "normal person" a secure wireless connection is available and with ease. Secure the channel if adequate method is available (i.g. WPA not WEP) and then secure the traffic inside (i.e. SCP not FTP). IF you are aware of these and use it like that, you got yourself a safe wireless connection.

There's tons of them in the web. Type in your favourite search engine: "SQL tutorial" and you'll get bunch of really good tutorials with lots of examples. Once you know the basics the DBMS's developer's online reference manual is probably the most handy tool to use. I've been doing database applications for years now but still need to check things from dev.mysql.com/doc regularly.

A lot of companies here and our university uses F-Secure Internet Security here. Also, I have it on my personal computer.It's a really good software, handles all your basic security needs (antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall) in one nice package. The updates are really fast and the you have the ability to centrally load the definitions.

There's been web accelerators for like 10 years and they've never done anything too amazing, otherwise they would be integrated to operating systems and we'd all be using one... And Google aren't really miracle makers. I'm just surprising that they even attempted such a thing.

Well not on a webhost, if you mean a webhost like Xisto. If you have a remote access (like SSH) to a server you could use screen to keep any program running. Just screen command line eDonkey or a torrent client and leave it downloading and the fetch the files later. But for a normal webhost... Basically I think what you mean is have a script executed though the webserver interface (accessing it with a browser) and then download the finished files with FTP or through www. That wouldn't be possible because webservers simply won't allow a script to execute that long. Technically you could have a script executing a system call and opening for exaple a torrent client but that would a) most likely be against the terms of service, not possible because system calls are rarely allowed.

Or use a system call?

First of all: that's really handy calculator. Thanks for posting TavoxPeru. No. Em sizes are relational. So if user changes font size in his browser, Ctrl+MouseScroll or View->Font Size in IE, all the fonts are resized proportionally. So headers "<hX>" are increased in size proportianlly as much as the normal text. If you have set the font size as absolute pixels, the IE, for example, refuses to change it. The font size is set in the code and the browser won't render it differently. Browsers which "zoom" are a different thing as they zoom everything, including tables divs and images. Ems are the recommended way. Simply because relational measures are far more handy for special browsers such as one's in hand helds. Basically the text stays readable regardless of the screen size or resolution.

I don't know MySpace, but given the nature of the site, I guess they have instructions how to embed video there. And if not, I'd say that easiest way for you to do it is to go someone else myspace, view the source and shamelessly copy the video embedding code. :DAnd since you're going to have the video public anyways... why not upload it to a video service like YouTube.com? Simply upload it there and the site even gives you ready code to embed the video to MySpace. Easy and your video will be on a fast server and for free.

I had similar problems when I used to have a cable connection. My connection worked perfectly for a couple of months but then started regularly disconnecting. I first blamed my ISP, which is known to have many problems, but then I heard that the T-splitter could be causing the problem. I changed my cabling and hooked my TV to another outlet and voila it started working lot better. However the issue did not vanish... The line kept disconnecting when I used P2P software. The most likely reason was that my ISP kept disconnecting me because of the P2P traffic, which of course they denied or because of the heavier load.

My first thought was that they're cheating with taxes... We own google but no, no money... :DWell funny incident however. I guess the rich people have credit cards with "low" limits in case someone tries to overcharge them.

I refuse to be a nerd enough to wish a computer type happy birthday. Or just refuse to admit it...

You explained your system well but not the actual problem. What errors you get when you try to open the RAM file with a player? Are you absolutely sure that the PHP script that outputs the RAM file produces correct code?If you have static RAM file that contains the SMIL code (that's SMIL right?) and a PHP file that outputs the exact same contents with HTTP headers, my opinion is that they should work in completely same way. Only problem that I can come up with is the media player which refuses to treat file with php extension as RAM, although the MIME type is correct. Check the player settings or try another one.

PhpBB isn't particularly hard to install manually. In fact I'd recommend you do it because that way you'll know a bit more of it... And believe me, that knowledge will come handy when you encounter problems with the forums system or you attempt to install modifications.Even more than manually installing phpBB, I'd recommend going with SMF or Invision. SMF is completely free (but not open source) and Invision can be used for free to certain limits (user count and posts). The problem with phpBB is that the core system is really old. Because of its age, it doesn't have the features people expect for a message board of today. For example it does not have built in attachment system and you cannot have child-boards or subcategories. Moreover phpBB has had and will continue to have a lot of security issues. It has been patched for countless of times but the security holes just keeps popping up. PhpBB3 might be a worthy system and being open source I'd be glad to support it. It just has been underdevelopment for so long that I have hard time believing they'll ever release a stable version.Also, SMF is actually even more easy to install.

Now that was surpising. So far Google's different web services have been directed towards indivuduals to post their stuff and info to help in the profiling and advertising. What I mean is services like Blogger and GMail. But a sourceforge styled site hardly categorizes to thisGoogle is in the position to do all kinds of things. The company makes so much profit that pulling moves like this are not even slightly risky. And then again any of these "little" (compared to, say, their search) project might pay off in big time. And this is not a bad thing in anyways. Yes google uses these services for advertising and probably to profiling too. But these are minor trade-offs compared to how much they could help the open source community.And think of how much it must piss off big software companies like Microsoft when a big timer like Google sides so strongly with open source community.

Interesting service. I'll have to see if I would use this with my current site or on the one I'm planning. Also, implementing a system where a user can contant me directly and see my online status sounds quite tempting and would make for a nice little project.

I was realyl surprised by this move from AMD. It's obvious that this is going to change a lot of things, especially in the graphics chip side but I wouldn't be surprised if AMD pulls something new to the processor war too. Certainly they now have an edge against Intel in integraring graphic card functionalities to CPUs.

Sounds quite strange... It must have something to do with the refresh... But what sounds so weird is that the new post is not with same username. How do you fetch the username/ID? Do you use sessions or cookies or what?And is the entire thread/reply created with one execution of a PHP file or do you create a say a thread entry to the table first and then add the contents to another table?

That might be quite hard to do with that network configuration. Your wireless router routs the internet traffic of your BedroomComp and the Laptop to the DSL router, thus all traffic to the wireless router from the D-Link router is as it is coming from the internet. That means that for BedroomComp and Laptop, the traffic from the StudyComputer might aswell be coming from Internet. I'm guessing both, the wireless router and the firewalls in Bedroom and laptop limit this traffic and you are not able to share hard disks and printers. What I am suggesting is that you forget the USB connection and connect all the machines to the wireless router. The DSL router would just route the Internet traffic in and out of the wireless router. With this configuration you can get all the disk and printer sharings to work and in addition you can use the firewall capabilities of either the wireless router or the DSL router more efficiently.

I noticed you have another thread that seemed a bit too copy-paste for my liking. Posting tutorials is cool, just as long a you have written them yourself.

So basically your question is that are there any limitations in choosing table and attribute names in MySQL?And the answer is that, apart from some special characters, you can have pretty much anything as table names. So for exaple "channel" and "crew" are completely OK as table names. However, some people including me, prefer to have some prefix for table names. That enebles you to use the same database for several applications without the risk of name collisions. Also attribute names can be anything.

Google earth is pretty damn neat. It's a good thing that Google does make Linux versions of their software. I'm usualyl just *****ing here about Google and their slightly questionable policies but this time I gotta give 'em the credit they deserve.

A little thing that you might not to come to think about. One point to remember is that some people run their browsers with "maximum security". It might be the browser itself, personal firewall or that company firewall turned a wee bit to tight. Anyways maximum security browsers might also block meta redirects. For those, create another noscript block to the body part containing a link to the page to be forwarded. And in general... Try to steer away from meta redirects. If you don't need to do clientside processing (here you need to, the noscript) use HTTP headers. Much neater, much more pro and much more firewall friendly.

I'm guessing that server always sets the variable. Even if the user is not authenticated (ie. has not typed anme and password) it sets the variable to empty string.PHP itself gives a lot of liberties to the webserver regarding the _SERVER superglobal. In fact it allows to server to set none of the variables or set everything to empty or whatever. If you have access to the server configuration I'm sure you can change this behaviour. On the other hand, that wouldn't make for very portable code. My suggestion is that, instead of checked whether the variable is set, you check whether it's an empty string or not. You could use strlen for example.

Yeah, you should really have the background and all other images too, on the same server as you keep the HTML files of your web page. This ensures that if the site is working, the images are working too. One point in keeping the images files elsewhere is to save bandwidth. In that case, photobucket (and others) are fine for images that don't really affect your sites layout (ie. photos, for instance) but for images such as backgrounds, border pieces and logos either use the same server as the site or have them on a trusty server.

The Hitler Jugend of the Internet! What next? Concentration camps to pirates? Seriously speaking this is employing the same philosophy as the real Hitler Youth. Get a large enough portition of youngsters resisting and fighting the terrible scourge of piracy and their soon it'll become "uncool" to download. Downloaders get their asses kicked in school. Well that's what they're aiming for, am I right? Also this kind of activities serve well for keeping the kids out of real issues like human rights for instance.