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Hey somebody necromanced my thread :unsure:After I've asked I've been using Netbeans. For a few months I've been doing solely C programming but before that I intensily did couple of months of Java coding. For my uses Netbeans has got everything and more importantly the lack of a pricetag made it my choice.I'll have to see if I do more Java in future: if so Eclipse migth be worth trying.

As far as I know, only problems you can face are performance related. And that of course depends on the nature and volume of the traffic. The actual router boxes of today aren't really that much different from your home PC. Just stick with Linux... I can't imagine to horror of trying to do this with Mr. Gates' OS...

If I'd ever get a pet I'd name it Mannfred. That would just sound cool to my ear.

I use pretty much what I'm given I don't have my own server and can't get to choose which DBMS to use. I don't shy away from any of them but MySQL seems to be by far the most common that's available. Being open source might have a lot to do with that.

Your topic title looks like this is a guide to doing it. Question mark would be nice.

So basically you need to buy a product that you can register, then get invited join up and you might get to test their games? Or did I misunderstand something.

Actually that sounds really simple to do:What you want to do is, when User A clicks on User B's name to add her to his friends, your system stores to a database (whatever you are using, text files are fine) record that A requests "friendship" from B. You'd probably want to use some unique IDs (like ID numbers or email addys or however you identify your users) . Then everytime a user logs in, the list for friendship requests is checked in case there are requests for this user. If there is, a dialogue to allow or deny is viewed. Implementing notifications of new requests should be quite straightforward to do, if you want to.

Now I'm jealous... I'd really want a flat monitor. Or a couple. My CRT is fine... It's 19" and being a CRT supports high resolutions which I like to use. But it seems likely that I'll be moving more than once within a year and a heaevy 19" CRT is a real pain to haul to fourth floor! Not to mention the added fesk space that would come handy. Good thing is that TFTs are constantly getting cheaper and the quality has been improving a lot. Maybe soon I'll afford one.

WML is XML and thus very easy to convert to HTML using XSLT. http://www.w3schools.com/ has a really good XML tutorials including XSL transformations. The chances are that you won't find ready converters anywhere. Well at least such that produce result that satasfies. If you need help with XSL post here and me or someone else will surely give you a hand.

Hey hardware guys and gals.I'm finally fed up with my PC's DVD drive, made by Samsung and sold to me a couple of years ago for a very low price. I'm using my PC as my media player. I have it hooked to a stereo amplifier and old, but good, pair of speakers. I have a lot of CDs and I listen them a lot but I do not own a separate CD player as I'm quite comfortable with using my computer for that. Also, I occasionally watch DVD movies with my comp. The thing is that the crappy DVD drive makes awful noise and for a while now, it sometimes just refuses to open. I reckon it's a bit broken. So now I'm looking for a high quality drive. It should be well balanced so that it won't make noise and I shoudn't need to replace it for few years.

Okay. That's it I'm not buying an iPod! Yeah a funny story. The earplugs probably made things worse but it really takes an idiot (preferably an american one) to blame a music player for getting hit by a lightning.

Yeah that was really hard to understand. It either sounds like an impossible or a trivial problem.

So you probably have a Wi-Fi router, which is connected to Internet and you use the Internet connection through it with your PC with a Wi-Fi card. And you are wondering if someone else (a neighbour) can access your network and use your Internet connection. First of all, you need to have the encryption enabled on both, your PC and the router. If it doesn't work you need to upgrade drivers and/or firmware. And you really should be able to allow only certain MAC addresses to access your router. If you are wondering what's your Wi-Fi card's MAC address, typically it can be seen from the card's software.Unfortunately I can't give you accurate pointers as I don't possess the software you are using.

Sounds very interesting. My site is gradually growing and at some point I'm going to be needing money to run it. And I wouldn't mind earning something extra from it which would justify spending more time with doing it. Waiting for your articles.

When my friend was a kid, he and his brother had a hamster which they called superman. When it died their parents got them a new one which the boys named superman II. Well they were better names than P1 and P2.

Pretty much how Jeigh said. The echo is there because exec returns the output of the program as a string and you just wanted to print it out. Plain system() call does exactly the same. Passthru works the same way, it just directs the binary output of the program to the browser. You'll know when you have to use it. Since you mentioned that you are not familiar with unix... Remember to chmod the right permissions for your compiled program. You can do it with command "chmod a+x program". And as a side note, you can use these functions to run anything on the server. System commands, shell scripts, php scripts , ...

Let's hope that neither Mozilla nor Opera adds support for the format to their browsers. And shoot the schmuck who codes a FF extension for it. And boycott camera manufacturers who store files in wmp format. Just let's not let this happen!

Ajax is something that I should be paying more attention to. I know basically how it works but haven't bothered to try actual implementation. I guess something like this would be a good starting point.By the way, can you (or someone else) give me a link to a website using this Prototype? Or explain how it actually helps you? What can be done with it? Or would I be better off with going through the W3C school first?I'd be nice to have some Ajax discussion here.

I reckon no other image format is currently windows-only.

A new file format by a company, not a standardizing body, is always an attempt to monopolize or at least to make competitors life harder. In case of images... we'll they won't pull through. But if people are stupid enough to start using it (I can imagine people on MSN trying to send me wmp photos...) and if MS gets a digital camera manufacturer or Nokia to directly support the format then they can cause of lot of damage. But like I said this will be too much for Microsoft. Granted, people use WMV, but that's mainly because the video codec field had been a bit of loose as no dominant standard has risen. And also, granted that people use WMA, but that's just because they're dumb.

Phpmyadmin is actually a really easy tool. It let's you do everything possible to your database without using a single line of SQL. If you are completely unfamiliar with database structures and you don't know how they are usually done (what I mean is that you don't know what is the best way to organize the tables and how you can join them in queries and stuff like that) I recommend you find a tutorial and/or, do as Yordan suggested and install some web software (like forums), put some stuff in there (like threads and posts) and use PHPmyadmin to look how the data you have have been stored in the database. For people who have worked with databases it is obvious that you store, for instance, forum posts in one table and information about the posters in another table. But for unexperienced you easily do mistakes which makes further development of your software quite difficult. What I'm trying to say is that you should first learn to design databases and learn the important principles, such as storing same data only once in the database. But you can learn from examples quite easy.

I don't think database is hard to use. Quite the contrary, it makes things lot easier. When I started out doing web applications, I first used simple text files to store data. This was adequate for my simple applications but once I started doing more advanced stuff, text files would have just been too clumsy and less effecive. I was familiar with relational databases and knew SQL but I hadn't bothered to learn the mysql api that PHP has. Naturally I was surptised how easy it was to use and now, even for simple things I tend to prefer mysql over text files. It just saves you from doing lot of boring stuff like parsing text files. Plus, searcing is way faster due to the intellectual stucture of the database.

I'd say that outlook for any company getting into e-music business is quite grim now. Unless they come up with something groundbreaking or provide considerably better service. But Google has one important asset: they possess huge advertising capacity. Advertising on google.com doesn't cost them a thing and I'd guess that's a pretty good place to advertise an electronic music store. And then you can drop the search ratings of the competitors a bit...I say google has a chance in this but they have to provide a really good service. And it can't be done to the style of their other products, that's just not going to work. Anyways they're a large company with raising profit, experimenting such a store won't be a big risk and it might end up being a potential competitor for iTunes.

What's the catch with Google Earth? I just downloaded and installed the beta version and it did ask for adding some google functionality to IE and allowed me not to send userstatistics (different thing is what it actually does, but at least they asked). Are they trying to get you eventually to pay for a more extensive version? Or is there some ads on the map? What's the point of giving such service free?

Thanks man for the post. I imagined something like this was made but never knew about it. I have to seriously consider installing this to my site. Part of my sites actualy content is in the forums and better search engine reachability would be nice. Plus the few posters I have tend to post quality stuff which might attract more people to join in. The little bother of installing might prove to be well worth it.