abhiram

Hi everyone,Well, my free webhosting has been deleted cause I've had negative credits of 30+. I'm no longer a student and am now in Mumbai trying to earn a living. My new job keeps me busy from 9 in the morning till 9 in the night (usually) and I can't surf the net at work. I'll probably get broadband soon in my flat (rented of course) but I don't think I'll have time for posting in the forum anymore. Once things ease up a bit, I'm gonna buy paid hosting at Xisto - Web Hosting, because if the free webhosting at Xisto is so good, paid hosting definitely has to be better.It's been a great year at Xisto, and I'd like to thank everyone at this community for being so helpful and generous with what they know. OpaQue, m^e, dhanesh, qwijibow, CaptainRon, xboxrulz, vujsa, viz, szupie, MasterComputers, Vyoma, techocian, twitch, yordan, jeigh, moonwitch, pyost, weaponX, cyborgxxi, nightfox and everybody else on this forum ... wish you all the best in life and hope you have a great time.CheersAbhiram :PPS: My apologies if this topic title has already been used .

On another note, bruteforcing a password to Windows may be enhanced by using a large number of nodes, but bruteforcing email passwords is capped by the bandwidth and the response time of the website. The only way out would be to have different computers try different sets of combinations on the website simulataneously. So, the power of the computer you are using has no effect on the cracking. It is different from bruteforcing an md5 hashed password protected local file.

You know, I kind of agree with your point of view. All this hype and push about piracy is mostly done by companies trying to get the most out of their record deals even when they're doing quite well. I don't think piracy is such a big issue that the government needs to encourage kids to act as vigilantes for huge companies that make a whopping profit in any case. Of course we hear about Millions of dollars in losses by the record companies because of piracy, but no one talks about how much these companies are already making in regular sales. And by governments backing up such schemes, it sidelines the more important issues, as already said, like human rights.

I don't think this counts as Advertising. TavoxPeru stands to gain nothing from us visiting this site. It's a pretty neat site with some good features. Telling people about something new/cool doesn't necessarily have to mean advertising.

Hehe ... Laughing my pants off! Dude, this stuff is awesome. I'm not a fan of Star Wars, but this stuff is really cool. Can't believe the effort put in by these people.

Wow ... no kidding there. Real ... um ... nice . Lucky stiff Dhanesh. Hey dude, how about introducing all of us to her, share the wealth?

Well ... depends on what you say are social events. The only thing that's absolutely true is I'm a Narcissist. Well if you don't praise yourself who will? Paranoid? I'm not paranoid at all. I'm only paranoid that someone will occupy the computer when I get up, but that's something that comes with being a geek. Histrionics ... I should say I'm quite given into sudden outbursts, although for the past 2 years I've been bringing it down to once or twice a year. No outbursts this year yet, except when someone wakes me up for no reason early in the morning. End note, I'd say this is a silly test. Not to be taken seriously .

Whoa ... what's this about a chick on Dhanesh's list? Let me in on a piece of the action too guys ... everybody knows geeks are despos, and this forum is loaded with them [].

Here's mine . Funny test ... takes some time, but I don't even know what half of the things mean. What's Histrionic?

It isn't a good idea to try to bruteforce email sites, especially sites like Yahoo! and Hotmail. These sites get more than their share of people trying to force their way in. Also, I would guess that they've got security measures installed which detect whether a person from a particular IP is trying to force his way through ... like so many number of failed attempts within so much time. Your IP will be logged and the host will notify your ISP, if not report you to the police if you repeatedly attempt to get access.Also, bruteforcing can take ages. Since most email providers require that you use a password that is atleast 6 characters long, allowing alphanumeric and special characters, IMO there's absolutely no good in trying to use a bruteforcer for getting access to an account.

You've got to be kidding. I can't believe there is someone who charges so much for webhosting, basic webhosting at that! Maybe these guys are still in the stoneage when webhosting used to cost a bundle .

I've been learning to use Maya for quite some time now. I must say that it isn't as easy or as intuitive as I thought it to be. Got myself some video tutorials and a big fat book on Maya and started reading through. The number of tools and features is huge. There are tools for almost anything you need to do to manipulate vertices, edges, curves, nurbs, polygons. I can make some decent inanimate objects, but still need to work a lot with it to really be good at it. The best part of Maya is the Maya Personal Learning Edition (PLE) which gives you all the features of the full fledged version of Maya for free. Of course, just to practice and learn on, but it still is pretty good.I haven't used blender. I wanted to learn something that had some good resources even if they cost some money. I don't think blender has as many resources to learn from as Maya or other more popular 3D software.

Great find ... it's really cool. But, you do need a fast internet connection to be able to use it properly. With my 40kbps, it sure takes a long time. The eyeEdit app looks similar to AJAXWrite. Looks like you can even upload files to the virtual desktop from your system. Heh, it even has Sonic the Hedgehog and PrinceofPersia. This site is going into my bookmarks.

You've got to edit your ~/.bashrc file so that it defaults to what you need everytime you open a console. Technically, .bashrc is called everytime you open a console shell. Here's some more info: Source: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ So, all you need to do is put ulimit -n 50000 in ~/.bashrc and it should do the trick. Hope that helps.

Looks rather interesting. I think I'll give it a shot sometime. I've stopped using yahoo messenger in favor of meebo for quite some time now. Meebo is fast and doesn't need any installation. Also it works well with slow internet connections.

Heh ... glad to hear it Dhanesh. Wouldn't you know it? I've been here exactly a year myself . I believe we joined Xisto at the same time, and got accepted at the same time. Been incredibly active initially with credit count touching 100 at one time, but been slackening lately and struggling to keep my credits up. Slowly, I'm considering to take up paid hosting and buying a domain name. But have been debating over it's usefulness since I'm not that active with my website.

What? It doesn't happen with regular coke? Wierd. I was hoping of trying this out pretty soon, but now I've got to hunt for diet coke cause it isn't all that easily available near my home.

If I'm not mistaken, PS 3.0 comes with every card after 5200. But yea, the 6600 and 6800 seem really nice. I believe we can get 256 and 512 for almost all cards. In my area, a 6600GT comes to around 10,000 rupees (Indian currency) and I haven't even seen a 7900 in any of the shops around. But my guess is it'll cost around 15,000-20,000 rupees (compare that with the 5200 which is 2500 rupees )In any case I'm going to Mumbai in a week or so and I plan to scoop out the shops over there. I think I'll see for a while before buying so that this system can last atleast another year or so.

Well that's good to hear since it looks like I can get my hands on a 6600 without too much trouble. But since AGP is almost gone, maybe it is better to just wait for a little while and buy the latest AGP card right?

I think the 7900 is available for agp ... I'm thinking of going for that one since it seems to be the end of the line for agp. Of course a little expensive, but I think I'll wait till the end of next month and then buy it.

Bummer! You mean HL2 Aftermath? I thought that game was available only for registered steam users and online. Yea, I know how you feel ... HL1 was too awesome. HL2 was good as well, but the puzzles were easier and it wasn't quite as long.

That'll work for sure, but better to not let them have any idea that you're keeping stuff from them ... it's quite easy to reset the password for any single user in XP. That's not a bad idea either. Another way to do it would be to just change the extensions of the files. I use mplayer for windows for playing movie files and it doesn't require a file to have an extension to play it. Or even change the name of the file to something that sounds academic like "L-C Oscillations" (I'm an engineer ). @Sparx: Truecrypt seems very interesting. I've never heard about it before. Downloading it now, I'll check it out. Thanks for the heads-up.

Can't understand anything from the site, so I'll just stick to the layout. IMO, if you're going to use this to get more business, then you better make it more business-like or more professional. This layout would be ok for a personal webpage or a blog, but if you're going to attract customers, I would say you should improve the layout a bit. Also, the thumbnails of the photos in one of the links are of all different sizes and improperly arranged. Try maintaining a uniform spacing between all the pics by padding and spacing them properly (in a table of course).

My kid brother made me watch the goblet of fire in IMAX on the 1st of January! I wanted to fall asleep, but the surround sound kept waking me up. Just my opinion, but I've read better books than harry potter. And I'm not saying that just for the heck of it ... I did try to read 2 of the harry potter books - Prisoner of Azkaban, read it halfway and got thoroughly bored with the book .... Order of the Phoenix, read it till the part where Harry is introduced to the 'Order' (so called) and gave up. I've even seen all the Harry Potter movies (because I had no other choice) and found all of them equally boring.No offense to any Harry Potter fan on the board, it's just my opinion.

Well ... this really is good news. Thanks for the link. But I wonder how long they'll be able to keep up with the service. They'll have to spend quite a bit of money for the CDs, the webhosting and most important, the shipping. I hope they find enough donors to keep them going.