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There are quite a few cyberwar games like that on the net, I actually play in a few LOL. It's not to learn this type of behavior, but it is so I know how to find exploits and thereby having better security on my own sites and machines. There are a few links I would like to share. I do want to stress that each of these links permits the use of exploits for the CHALLENGE, not for illegal intent. They do state this on their pages as well. http://www.hackthissite.org/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://billigtarife.net//?gtnjs=1 (here I completed the first 15 levels was fun ) I am NOT justifying hacking or such activities, I do stress that with permission given and NO malicious intent, it is challenging. It tests your knowledge on computer systems, programming languages, etc. ALL of the links I just provided actually are GAMES, CHALLENGES to test your knowledge. --- As reply to the subject, I too hate hackers (the ones that mess up your system) and personally I would love it to see their MB get fried. I feel that if you use your knowledfe of systems, web programming etc for such activities you don't deserve the right to actually have a computer. There are "hackers" (I use this term loosely for this) out there that actually use the knowledge and skill they have to test companies' security etc. That I do applaud... How can you improve your security? By looking at your weaknesses. I sincerely hope this was not going out of line, if it was, please remove this message, edit or pm me. Please do not take my words as promoting of illegal activities, I strongly object to it. However I do see a good use for this knowledge and these skills when it comes to using them to (WITH PERMISSION) enhance security on servers.

Well, I am a big fan of CSS, especially how you can create beautiful effects with it, without the use of JavaScript, which is turned off by a lot of surfers because of security holes. (From what I heard ) Now my leading example is Eric Meyers and Eric Costello. Eric Meyers' css/edge pages Check with any browser but IE Eric Costello's glish Now when you look at MeyerWeb, you'll notice some really nice effects (if you checked it with a NON IE browser. I would love to reproduce something similar, but am absolutely stunned that IE doesn't display this correctly. Yes, I hear you say "use the IE hacks", but here's my issue... Quote taken from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/hacks.asp What about pre-IE5? I have friends with Win98Se... how about them? Because I don't think they have IE5 (or does Win98Se have that??) Any suggestions? Comments? Anything? LOL Maybe I just needed to vent about that annoying IE CSS thing Why doesn't M$ incorporate correct handlings for ALL CSS, like other Browsers do? I am quite sure that most Linux and Mac Browsers DO show the page as it was meant (of course I can not check this since at the moment I am only running Win 2000 Pro)

You may end up hating me , but remember you offered LOL. No, I actually always wanted to learn php, but just never had the ability to. I mean why would one learn a programming/web language if you can't show it, if it only sits on your own computer, on which you can not run a webserver other then to test pages. Until now of course, I do have the space and database to work with php. (thank you OpaQue!!!!!) I just felt that sites written in php look better and are easier to maintain, which is what most designers look for. Who wants to create a huge website in static text?? I did try to achieve a similar effect with Flash, but I got stuck. I tried to use a listbox component as small menu with links, which would load external text files (with externall css styles ) into a text area. I got it to load ONE txt file into the text area, but couldn't get the listbox links to work. So I stopped the project for a while to prevent myself from trashing the puter LOL Now I am hoping I can get similar lay-outs with php

Normally I work in Dreamweaver, which gives you the basics to start off from (talking about HTML here ), I don't know the doctype declarations by heart If I am feeling lazy or impatient, I use NotePad++ which gives you nothing to start of from LOL. But then I or look up the Doctype in a quickie, or don't declare one. The rest of the code I write by hand. I do write out the contents first, before starting a page, so that I can copy paste the contents, I like to keep the contents writing and coding seperate Even if I had M$ Word installed on my pc (I use OpenOffice - Long live OpenSource ), I would never use it for any sort of web design. It adds so much unneeded code to the source, same as FrontPage, that it actually makes me cringe. Yes, I cringe when seeing poorly coded sites, or horrid colour schemes (ever tried reading bright blue text on a bright red background???). Now I don't mean to sound nasty here, although I can be pretty passionate about my dislikings (I am a woman after all LOL ), If you like the way you design pages, and it is easiest for you, then by all means stick to it Now the only thing I do in HTML is the outline and contents, the lay-out, look and feel of the site, I declare with CSS. I generally use external stylesheets Which like vizskywalker said in the previous post, makes it easier for multiple pages to look the same. At one point I did toy with WEFT (Web Embedding Font Tool) and since it automatically insert CSS into your page, an external CSS seemed to conflict with it. I stopped using the program LOL besides, you're best off using the standard fonts in sites anyways. (another one of my petpeeves)

Well, I just tried it with basic HTML, no CSS or nothing Basically you can do it (the easiest way) with a frameset with a nested top, and the the lower part split vertically. Then the left would be another frameset which has an horizontal split. This is of course without graphics As I said in the Shout Box, I made a quick lay-out (that's how I do it LOL - I make a rough draft myself LOL So if you want that code, just give me a holler in shout). As far as using tables and Photoshop, in all honesty, tables in HTML are my weakest point (even though I was blessed with a presentation on nested lists in CSS like they work on Eric Meyers' site (this will not work in IE) ) As soon as I figure out how exactly to do it, I'll give you a shout Php, like you, is not my thing *yet* (yet being the imperative word LOL), I intend to learn php for my site here . Edit : So I'll throw the link in LOL (mind you I'll remove the pages from the folder soon LOL ) main page (big frameset) topframe (the one with friso in it LOL) content/mainFrame left frame (which will be split horizontally and thus is another frameset ) the top part of leftside bottom of left side

I know I am late in replying but I wasn't here yet LOL... Anyhow, I was wondering about SSH, I do use FTP for my ISP's webspace, but that's only because they don't allow ANY other kind of access. I used to use SSH (even from Windows) just because as you said, it *is* way nicer. But I do want to stress that even though SSH is faster because you are working on the server and not on your own machine and then connect to the server, but it also means you can make mistakes way easier if you don't know what you are doing. So if you wanna try SSH, first take a back up of the original setting (and files) on your lil nest on the Xisto server (Thank you Nils for that piece of good advice) FTP-wise, I've mainly used WS_FTP pro, however; I have tried AceFTP, which I thought had a very nice interface and was easy to use. Also I felt it was faster in uploading than WS_FTP. I also used the DOS FTP way because for some reason I like command line.... must be due to my years in Linux LOL. On Nils' advice I am giving SmartFTP a try too. But I may just completely switch to SSH now.

Well, .wav files can get huge... I once recorded (in win sound recorder) a song (me singing LOL) which was about a minute long. The file was over 15MB. So I recorded it (same song) in mp3 which was only 1,5MB. That should give it away mp3 is not only better in quality but compresses te file way smaller, which does make it ideal to transfer over the net I don't have any experience with the iTunes mpg audio, the only way I do know mpg is as movies, but you can't really compare movies (not full movies, but video clips, bloopers etc) with audio. Personally I think mp3 would be the smallest of the possible extensions you've provided, however; I do want to add that as someone in this thread mentioned, wma is the smallest compression format. I don't like wma (personal dislike for M$ products even though I do use windows ), so I use mp3.

Well, I have MSN Messenger 6.2 with the mgs plus 3 addon. This tells when someone opens a conversation window with me, when they close it (however I disabled that feature, it's annoying as hell), when they delete me of their list, etc. I don't really like it that much LOL, I only have that plugin for a few handy features like the advertisement removal, the ability to use more emoticons, and the contact list cleanup (it's also handy to have your contacts nicely grouped, if you want to not talk to that particular group, you can block the entire group). http://www.msgplus.net/ I've used GAIM which I do enjoy, however it crashed pretty often on my puter so I uninstalled it, on Linux I swear by GAIM though (Yahoo may cause issues). I also have Trillian (the newest version FINALLY supports voice and lets you transfer files irregardless of the used client) which I mainly use for AIM and IRC. Yahoo doesn't work that well on Trilly, why I don't know, but it doesn't display my Yahoo contacts as being online (the ones online are shown as not on your list). http://www.pidgin.im/ http://www.trillian.im/

Well, it depends on what type of game you want. But I think http://www.onrpg.com/ may help you some on your search. There are ways of making an rpg in Flash but it would take ages to actually have good graphics, not to mention the amount of ActionScript it would take to generate such a game. This is a very very basic tutorial on an RPG in Flash (the graphics are horrid honestly), it starts off with explaining how to plan the game in that aspect I really do like this article/tutorial. You could also look into a MUD, which is an online text based RPG with what you've just listed as things you wanted to incorporate in your game. However, I do think it requires you to actually purchase special hosting for this. But it is worth the look. I've looked into it at one point, but then decided against it, mainly because most *is* coding. http://www.mudconnect.com/mudfaq/mudfaq-p2.html In case you don't know what a MUD is.. No pun intended, I just recently learned what is is And then here, to find out more about the servers, which are the games.. http://www.mudconnect.com/mudfaq/mudfaq-p4.html

I have FireFox, it works sweetly with Shockwave and Flash This may answer a few questions http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/flash.html Basically all you do is install the Flash Player after you downloaded the installer When you install I believe it doesn't list FireFox as Browser though, but you can select Netscape (FireFox and Netscape run on the same Gecko engine if I am not mistaken). The main thing to remember is to make sure to select the FireFox Plugins folder which normally is under default user I believe. (I am so going by memory here) I hope this helped at least a little bit

On my father's pc we had a Maxtor (Diamond I think) and it was pretty ok, although I have to admit that after a few years of use it got very noisy. Nowadays I don't see my dad anymore so I don't know how his puter or HD is doing (maybe it blew up?? Wouldn't be a great loss in the world either)On my old pc, which I tried to overclock - for gods sake never try your first overclocking on AMD LOL - and blew up, had a Western Digital in it, 40GB at 7200RPM. Now that was a sweet drive... Even though it's size was small (at that time, which is a few years ago, it was pretty ok), the read/write speed was excellent. I ran a dual boot on it, with 3 partitions, one NTFS (Win XP Pro), one FAT32 (Data to access from Win and Linux) and one EXT2FS (Red Hat 8). I never encountered ONE problem, the only thing that did mess it up for me was fried RAM (I learned a harsh lesson here, to not buy the cheap RAM but look for quality). Now, on this laptop, I have an IBM 12GB drive, it is slow as a snail and makes more noise than I have ever heard coming from a HD. But I blame it on the age of the disk, after all this puter is I think from 1996 or so. (IBM THinkpad 390E)

Sadly I am on an old laptop with ONLY 12GB HD, I do have the drive bay etc, but I am not using it. And to be honest 12GB is too little, yes, I have some free space left, but I am deleting things fairly often. On my old pc (Which I "blew" up) I had 40GB, but even that's pretty much nothing. But I live on hope, good hope, if I save for a while I can assemble a spiffy desktop *hopes mom will contribute* I am going for a 160GB or 200GB when I assemble a new one. Now this topic brings a question to mind, I'll go make a poll for it I think :)Edit : I noticed there is a poll for that already

Since I am on a laptop, with a 15" TFT that is my screen size. I used to have a 19" CRT monitor which gave me a massive headache after a few hours of working on the pc, with the TFT that issue seems to have gone away (I once made it to about 14 hrs with only bathroom breaks, getting coffee - loads of it LOL - away from the pc). So when I finally save up the money for a decent desktop, I am going to get a 17" or 19" TFT. I did discover one big disadvantage with TFTs, maybe it is because this is an older model (1996 laptop). For some reason when I make banners or any kind of graphics, I heard people with CRTs say that the colours were different. I don't really know how that works or why it is. I always thought that using HEX codes for colours would make it straight forward LOL, but then again I can be very wrong. As far as the HTML goes, just stick with relative width and height, and keep graphics like banners at 480px or 600px width max I think. The background (of the frame or tablecell) can be kept at a colour closely matching the overal colour of the graphic that way you cover up a smaller graphic for those with bigger screen resolutions That's how I do it anyway

I always firstly learned the languages myself, before I used editors like that. (Ok, I never used Frontpage but this once, and I really disliked it - haven't even looked at it since then). I mean, if you're going to use a WYSIWYG editor, you don't really learn the code behind it. And yes, I will admit freely, I do not know any php other than <?php echo('hello world')> or something LOL (I know this is wrong, I am going by memory ) rkage, I went to that site with the phpbook, I love it, thank you. You've just provided me with something really neat, so I may end up actually learning php

Wow Nils, you just provided me with some fun links :)When it comes to spyware and adware, I always felt that prevention was the best solution. Of course I do have Adaware 6.0 (the personal version though), Spybot S&D and from time to time AVG 7 Pro picks up a few things too . Before I became a FireFox addict, I had loads of spyware and it was a daily routine to remove all this nasty stuff from my poor lil puter. With the use of FF, spyware is rather rare, so is adware. Maybe because I stay away from sites that launch these things on your puter? I don't actually know. I do run scans, virus scanning happens daily. The Adaware and Spybot run every other day, or when I have reason to feel that something happened. The worst I at this point get are tracker cookies. I once let my nephew use my puter (unattended) for "his school assignment". When he left, I had about 50 pop ups open already, had 2 virusses going at it, had the gator thing, weather bug, something with a dog in it's icon. This told me that FF WAS part of my solution, since my nephew always uses IE. It took me hours to get everything back to normal, I went through EVERY folder on this machine and looked through all files manually, just in case the scans missed something. In the end I ran scans again, they seemed clean and I did a defrag. Then I rebooted and the issues were solved. :)And in case anyone wonders, yes I nearly choked my nephew next time he asked to use my pc, and no, I don't even allow him close to it again. (so I am protective over my machine LOL)

Well, I have to admit that I do download templates for full flash sites and now for the PhotoShop lay-out. I don't use them for a site, but look into the code and how it's done to learn how to do it myself. I did make my own graphics for my old site and a site I manage for a group I belong to. My old personal site only had flash buttons and the rest were gifs or jpgs made in PSP (I hadn't discovered the joys of PhotoShop yet ). The site I manage has a flash menu driven by xml, for which I did use a template since I had no idea how to do it (ActionScript wise) and has a Flash banner that took me so long to make and doesn't look professional at all. But since I am a flash newbie, I am cool with it. We all have to start somewhere afterall

To get hosting here, I think you need to post some posts with more than one line of comment, with good quality contents

http://forums.xisto.com/topic/3222-topic/ Disregard this LOL - the writer edited the topic and it's now looking pretty ok

Some resources offered on the InvisionFree site Invision Skinning Guide http://ww2.invisionthings.com/?folio=9POR7JU99 http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I know it's not really providing help, but these sites have all the info you could possibly want and I'd feel bad for repeating the excellent advice they give... As szupie said, it's all in the CSS, you just have to know what part controls what Once you've figured that out, playtime can begin

*sits down around the campfire* (yeah, it may get long LOL)It all started 21 years ago..... LOL ok no it didn't...As long as I can remember, I've had a strong affection for the moon and stars, never much cared for sun unless the sun wasn't there to warm me . I am a nocturnal being..And then around the age of 15-16 I got internet (yay!!) and I still have no idea HOW I ended up there, but I stumbled across a website about wicca (this does lead to something)... Some of it sounded interested, some didn't (such is life). ANd I researched some more, until I finally came across a decent, non "the Craft - Sabrina - Charmed" witchcraft site. Read the entire thing, and I felt it described how I saw life and it's aspects to a pretty close image. Several years later, much of that has stayed the same, I found out mom shares my views and feelings about the witchiness... When the time came for me to make a username for several things, I opted for MoonWitch (so yes, that is how I normally write it, however most forums only allow lowercase so that's how this name ended lowercase here)

Ok this had/has me very confused, I thought Nils told me it was 10 credits for starter and 50 for standard package...but if it's posts, then I need to change my app for hosting ...

I would say depending on what your goal is with the graphics design interest....choose the program. For example, if you intend to build a carreer in that direction, you would probably have to switch to PhotoShop (perhaps Fireworks or any other Pro program). But just for fun, I'd go with what is easiest for you, unless you feel you stagnated somewhere and want a new challenge. Chronic? I have a wee question, how did you do those fonts in your sig graphic and av? I've never had that good results (didn't know how else to get this question in than to ask it as a ps LOL)

Well, I don't have much hands on experience in MySQL, even though I do have it on my pc to look around in it. I also have phpMyAdmin which I found to be pretty ok, I tried the MySQL Admin and Query Browser and was completely lost and utterly confused.So I would have to agree to go for the command line option And indeed, you will learn much more about MySQL through the commandline (at one point we did get this course in school - too bad I didn't pay attention )The commandline is also pretty straight forward, and there is a good help function in there as well I just found the GUI made it more complex than it is in all honesty.

Most of those domainregistration services are US based, or UK based. Now I have a small issue there LOL. I am from Belgium and don't have a credit card (which I truly see as a good thing, I would dig a financial hole as big as the Grand Canyon with one I think). Anyone any ideas on getting domains internationally without Credit Card (or paypal - since for some reason they also require a cc to verify the account or get money on it ). Most Domain Registration Services are very pricey here in Belgium...

Well, I hate to sound bad, but fame and fortune do have their toll, and the fans are an advantage *and* disadvantage. Yes, fans are what makes a star (and talent, but that's a whole different topic ). I mean, can you picture uhm Stevie Nicks without fans? SHe wouldn't be so famous... (For those of you who know Stevie - nope, I am only 21 LOL)Of course some fans go over the edge, and turn into stalkers etc. I am sure most of us know the film/movie "The Bodyguard", which is fiction, but those things happen in real life. Of course I am naming the extremes here, but that's just how it is... Everything has a good side and a bad side. To some extend, you choose to be a star, and the fans, no private life etc are also a part of that. Just my 2 cents...Now about the hacker of t-mobile, I think the guy proved a point too, and served a purpose. Even though you *think* it is safe and secure, it isn't. Some paranoia is healthy. (I am paranoid about puter security..and it has proven to be a good paranoia)EDIT because I realized I am sounded pretty nasty here, which wasn't my intention.I am not saying these stars do deserve this, I wouldn't wish the breaching of ones privacy upon my worst enemy. But it is a part of being a star, sadly. It's a risk that basically comes with the job... And I do agree with the fact that these acts have to be punished harshly, even though I fear it won't do much good.