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I hope GWallet will fail miserably. I will never transfer money through google. Dammit GWalletSucks.com seems to be already reserver...What comes to PayPal, I haven't used it much as I usually buy stuff within EU and bank transfer is just easier and cheaper. But the times that I have used I've been satisfied.

SQL space has limitations and of course post length and BBcode determined how much space is taken on the database. Images and other attachments aren't usually saved on the database (although it can be done) but just uploaded to the web space, so they at least count towards the max web space. It's also wise to remember that complicated bulleting board systems save a lot of meta-data for each post/topic. Post time, editing history, poster address and of course information on which board/sub-board/topic the post belongs, is it a reply to a specific post and so on.

Well... The control panel itself would be fairly easy to do. The big question is what it should be able to do? You'd build the panel itself with a server side language and/or CGI. For each feature it would just require that you know how to use the system behind it. For example, for databases what commands you'd need to get a database set up and essentially build a web based UI for it. Same goes for email systems and so on.User management would be one big issue. You'd have to keep track what users can and cannot do, what they have done and what are the limitations. And finally, the system should be very secure, which would mean lot of testing and constant revising. So although it could be easily split up in quite small tasks it would be quite a big project. But it helps a lot of you find ready usable parts for some tasks and embed them to the system. Oh and no, I would not be interested in such project. Unless I would get paid of course

Right now, I'm using Mandrake. This in fact is not my own computer, it's my parents. But administered by me so... :huh:I also quiteregularly use Debian at univertisity and found it quite nice. Next time I install Linux (I'm currently kind of forced to use Win2k) on my own computer it'll most likely be Debian. Back in the days I had Red Hat of which I don't have much complaints.

I don't know WinXP remote desktop as I don't use WinXP but I can give you help network wise.You need to have the ports open to both directions, incoming and outgoing. And I doubt that this Remote assistance utility uses UDP so I'd keep the ports closed and anyways it doesn't work try with UDP ports open too. Also, the router might be blocking the ports, so yes you need to enable port forwarding. Again first do only TCP and if not working UDP too. The router should be really easy to configure; easier than ZoneAlarm.

Useful info. Although I need to mount new images quite rarely, I usually need only one of two images at the time and I just keep them all mounted at once. And changing it from the basic DT menu isn't that time consuming Anyways I gotta inform my mate who has a extensive music collection (CDs, legal) that of which he likes to make images and then listen them from there and transfer them to his office so he can enjoy music there as well. I think he uses a player software that reads straight from the image. Oh and then there are the people who get most of their stuff in CD/DVD image format. Or, I mean, so I've heard.

I think you'd be better of by doing web searches. The matereial that we could share here should be else where on the web as weel ans I doubt should be too hard to find. Pay attention to universities websites. If there is something else on someones hard drive it is either their self made or would be illegal to share here anyways. And don't forget wikipedia, its usually a good starting point for searching. I think you could strat off from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X25

I can't think of how could it be possible. As far as I'm concerned, there is no way for us to detect whether IE is going to display a download dialogue or not. And anyways, I see no reason to change that function. It already does what it needs to do. I personally have treated IE issues by detecting if browser just identifies itself as IE and then go for the "works in IE" code. The only exception I do take in account is Opera (because if its relatively big popularity) and any other browser masking itself as IE just has to pay for it

Yes they support it with attribute matching ( [type=text] ). Its just Microsoft that doesn't support this. By they way does anyone know if the new IE version will be compliant in this?

Most major bulletin board system have conversion tools. SMF is probably best known of their great conversion tools. I was very positively surprised when I converted phpBB to SMF; the conversion utility supported phpBB modifications, like categories hierarchy and attachments.Oh and I wholly agree with PureHeart, I see no reason for anyone to convert from vBulletin (up to date, good system) to phpBB (years old, poor features)...

Cursor is standard CSS so it should work on most newish browsers. But... I strongly advise not to use own cursors unless you have a very good reason. If you thought it'd just be a cool thing to do... well its not. People have used to the standard cursors and I personally can say that if someone has changed the basic cursor for the page to a crosshair for example (that I've seen done way too often) I usually get furious, leave the site and never come back. I'd imagine if a custom cursor would be ever worse. Whole other thing is if you have a good reason. For exaple if the webpage is a game or some other kind of "application", like a map system or something, changing the cursor to something more suitable is all right. And in fact you should use a different cursor if the function of mouse clicks/drags/whatever actions are different from the usual.

Now this is a bit unfair comparison. Wired communication has been around for decades, in fact over hundred years if you consider it started from telegraphs. Wireless communication is still very young technology and it is very rapidly developing. If both options were equally available, they would cost just as much, cabling wouldn't cause problems and the network devices were equally priced then of course I'd build a wired ethernet network. However often wireless is lot easier and more suitable. And sometimes pulling wires is not even possible, like in old museum buildings for example.I use a WLAN Internet connection. The network is free access network, meaning that anyone within the range can connect to the network freely. The connection to outside Internet requires logging in (it is done with a proxy server). Gladly for at least the test perioid everyone from out university can connect to the Internet without charge so essentially I'm using a free 10Mbps internet for free. I see the future of Internet access in this kind of wireless networks. Mobile devices are getting more and more popular, Nokia communicator already supports WLAN and I'm sure cheaper phones will follow. There will be different types of wireless network available... On cities, there will be WLAN and WiMAX available. In more rural areas UMTS and possibly WiMAX. The devices, computers PDAs, cell phones would be able to connect to any of these and roam from network to another.

I guess there could be alternative methods inside the function. It would check whether the query starts with SELECT or INSERT and the select the proper action. Would be a bit messy function but on the other hand the actual code would look neat with only single type of function calls for database queries.

Wordpress creates the RSS feed with PHP. The PHP script for RSS 2.0 feed is called wp-rss2.php and is located at the Wordpress directory. So in your case the address would be: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ You can link the file directly just like any URL and the browser/ RSS reader should recognise the file from the file mime type even if the file extension isn't .rss or .xml. In addition to that you might wish to add a link to the html header. The code would look like this: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="wp-rss2.php" />. Intelligent browsers (Opera, Firefox) regocnise this and offer the user an easy way to subscribe to the feed. It's a bit hard to explain, it's better that you try it out yourself.

Yep, you're basically entering an empry query as $sql is not defined. But a generic function for different types of queries might be a bit useless as the return values of mysql_query can be very different, ranging from simple boolean values of a say INSERT to big results of SELECT queries. I don't if you meant to do it but although otherwise a possible thing to do would be to send multiple queries tot the databse at once, separated by semicolons this is not possible with PHP as it is considered a security threat. You code would miss the appending of the quesries anyways so you probably weren't thinking about this.

If it asks for the folder with the traling slash (ie. forums/ ) then put a single slash there. If treiling slash is not there, leave it empty. If neither work, you could use './' (dot and a slah), which basically in unix systems references to the current directory.

I'm actually very surprised on how slow they are developing it... It is supposed to be the number uno open source forums software out there and people are pretty much stuck with 4 or so year old systems. The reason why I'm surprised is that I don't think there should be any shortage on open source developers interesting doing it. Only reason I can come up with is that the project lacks proper leader. And by leader I don't mean a single person but the core group working with it. And as they develop it very slow others like Jelsoft (vBulletin), Lewis Media (SMF) and Invision keep getting their products better and better without phpBB people being able to follow. They don't want to realease a system that is just sligtly improved phpbb2, others are way more advanced now-on. Especiall Jelsoft with their vBulletin... I recently visit a couple of sites running vBulleting and man has the system been improving. They just keep coming up with fresh ideas. I used to be a phpBB man... I waited for the version 3 for a while but then as there seemed to be no progress switched to another free system. And never looked back.

I posted this to the requests forum a while ago but nothing happened... So I though to try here.I can't log on using SSH, so could I get it back enabled. I need SSH access for SCP file transfers. I'm FTPhobic.

Change: "It is good coding style to define the type attribute for all form fields" to "It is good coding style to define the type attribute for all form fields anyways" You absolutely need to define the attribute in order the CSS2 attrribute matching to work.

This is the way to do it. It is good coding style to define the type attribute for all form fields, although "text" is assumed the default. This is in fact supported in many browsers, but not in Internet Explorer (surprise, surprise ) Usually this isn't a problem as CSS is most of the time used to change the form field colours, backgrounds, borders; stuff that IE users can do without. But width is something you gotta get right on every browser. If you really need the option and can't come up with other solution, you might wish to try Dean Edwards IE7: http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ It fixes most if IE CSS issues, with no need for users to install anything.

I can't make SSH connections to my site. Could I get it enabled again? (I'm sligtly paranoid of using FTP...)

All my internet traffic goes over an unencrypted WLAN connection and I'm not terribly worried about people listening it. I encrypt my email, use SCP instead of FTP, IRC on a server whioch I connect vie SSH2 and use encryption for ICQ connections and alike. I do not consider using these a burden, as I'd do it even if I used a wired connection (adsl). But if I had the option to choose, (I don't because I use a WLAN access internet connection, the access points aren't mine) I'd use WPA. Yes, encryption always increases the overhead and thus slowsdown connection, I consider the added security a worthwhile trade-off. Besides, the actual internet connection hardly depends on the 100m (or so) WLAN encrypted connection; there are way bigger bottlenecks elsewhere. The situation is naturally different if you use the WLAN for other than internet. For those who are not familiar with the WLAN encryption methods, WEP is practically useless on a bigger networks as it can be so easily cracked. This is why my connection provider doesn't use it. The reason for not using WPA is probably because some APs in the network don't support it. I am under the impression that once all the APs get upgraded to 802.11g standard, WPA might get enabled.

We definitely need the sources... But few things: Have you run your code through a validator? If not do it and along with the source code paste the results here. The W3C CSS validator is availble here: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ and HTML validators here: http://validator.w3.org/ Generally speaking it is not a good idea to test your work-in-progress code with MSIE. IE respects the standards rather poorly and the results with proper browsers can be dramatically different. Instead do your developing and testing with a Gecko based browser or with Opera and make sure its standard comliant. It probably won't look like intended on IE, but results are still readable.

I started programming with Pascal at school. I think I was 12 or 13 at the time. I learnt it quite fast and actually did my friend's projects as well, for money of course After that I didn't do any programming for years... actually next time I started was when I got into university 4.5 years ago. I learnt C and after that many other languages. I mainly do C++, Java and PHP now.

Yes it would. But there is a reason why this isn't the case: there aren't enough addresses! The version four of the IP protocol is the one that's commonly used now. IPv4 supports 32-bit addresses, meaning that there can some 4 billion different addresses. And as you know, more and more computers and other appliances (especially cell phones) are getting connected Internet is getting more and more popular in the population rich asian countries. When Internet originated, the number of connected computers were hugely underestimated. Other problem is that the addresses aren't equally distributed. As Internet originated in the USA, US companies get to reserve address ranges first. You could say that USA is hogging IPv4 addresses. But there is a cure for this: the IPv6. Yes, that's not typo, they decided to skip the version 5. IPv6 has 128-bit addressing, which means some 3.4 Ă 10^38 addresses. I remember hearing that the number of addresses are enough to have several addresses for each atom of every human being alive. Yep, they screwed up with the IPv4 addresses and with Ipv6 they go to overkill One lecturer said that once the intellectual clothing becomes popular they're probably going to assign each button a couple of IPv6 addresses...