abhiram

Sorry... I thought the thread was made in Sep 2004. But even then, fotisp88 hasn't made any posts since Sep 1st 2005.

Clagnol already did... no reply yet. So did Kid Saiyan . I'm not trying to be. I thought my post kind of emphasises the fact that I'm as much in the dark about 'Little Annie' (God bless her whoever she is) as anyone else. This post is very old and the user registered eons ago. I don't think there will be anymore jokes nor clarifications in this thread .

Sorry for the double post... but it seems like global variables is 'on'. Because my website is working fine.

Well... I got that fixed. I still can't figure out the reason. After clicking on 'Grant' all privileges to the user, it displayed some code to use to connect to the database. Just by replacing the code with that did the trick. Here's the final code. I've commented out the old code just to show the difference: <?php//tempuser config.php$dbhost='localhost';$dbuser='abhiram_root';$dbpass='******';//opendb.php $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "abhiram_root", "******") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());mysql_select_db ("abhiram_webpage") or die("Error, could not open database");/* $conn=@mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);if(!$conn) die('Error with given username and password');$database='abhiram_webpage';mysql_select_db($database) or die("Error, could not open database"); */ $query="SELECT title,content,time FROM blog ORDER BY id DESC"; $title="SELECT phrase FROM subheading ORDER BY RAND()"; $result=mysql_query ($query) or die('Error1, could not retrieve data from table'); $result2=mysql_query ($title) or die('Error2, could not retrieve data from table'); $row2=mysql_fetch_array($result2); list($result2)=$row2;?> Now, I've got several other problems to address .

I've checked the permissions that I've given to the user I created. It's got 'All' the permissions. I still can't figure out why it isn't working.I guess I'll just have to create another database and write a test script to access it. I'll post back with the results I get. Thanks for your time .

Sorry to say, I'm not a fan of Linkin Park. In fact, I don't like their music (Yes! I've said it!). I've got nothing against Linkin Park. For some reason, I just can't stand the current rock bands... Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Pantera. I'm completely into Classical Rock (and a little metal). Eric Clapton, Metallica, Steely Dan, Judas Priest, Nirvana, Jethrotull.

Well, atleast he can tell us who Little Annie is or why there are jokes about her. People make jokes about Bush and Iraq all the time... that's because everybody knows who Bush is. How many people here know who Little Annie is?

Hi MC,Thanks for the quick reply. Well... what I've used was working on my computer. I've tried changing the code to what you suggested, but am still getting the same error. The first thing I checked was the database name. It's the same ... atleast that's what is shown in phpMyAdmin. For the user I've created to connect to the database, I've given permissions as 'All'. Is there any super-user username and password I can use to connect to the database? Maybe, this database isn't being given access to that particular user.

Hi, this is the first time after I got my hosting to try and use MySQL. My site is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. I created a user in CPanel -> 'MySQL Databases' as root. So, the new user created will be 'abhiram_root'. Similarly I created a database called 'webpage' (which changes to 'abhiram_webpage'). I set up the database and the tables using phpMyAdmin and uploaded the files after making changes to the user name and the database. But it's not opening the database. It's connecting to MySQL without any problems, but it isn't opening the database. Here's the php code I've used: <?php//tempuser config.php$dbhost='localhost';$dbuser='abhiram_root';$dbpass='*****';//opendb.php$conn=mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass) or die('Error with given username and password');$database='abhiram_webpage';mysql_select_db($database) or die("Error, could not open database"); $query="select title,content,time from blog order by id desc"; $title="select phrase from subheading order by rand()"; $result=mysql_query($query) or die('Error, could not retrieve data from table'); $result2=mysql_query($title) or die('Error, could not retrieve data from table'); $row2=mysql_fetch_array($result2); list($result2)=$row2;?> It keeps giving me the error message from this line: mysql_select_db($database) or die("Error, could not open database"); Any Ideas? Also, another question... does Xisto have global_variables enabled or not? Because I've got a PHP script to change the background which works only if global_variables are enabled. Thanks.

Yea... but that's not the point. He used to get a good frame rate earlier in windows... but now he isn't. That's what he says:

Sorry... I thought you were playing Counter-Strike:Condition Zero. In that, you can choose either Directx or OpenGL (I choose OpenGL because I have better performance on my geforce4mx with it) in Options -> Video. But I'm not sure if it's the same in CS Source. Most of my friends play Condition Zero, so I'll have to see if anyone has Source and see how to change it. Obviously , with 1GB RAM, it hardly matters. I think there must be some problem with the drivers.... if it's giving such low FPS, it must mean that the hardware isn't being utilised properly. I'll keep looking around. If I find any solution, I'll post back.

Hehe... got the game just a few days back. It's pretty neat and it's fun to kill time with. Makes you think. Not bad at all.

From my experience, counter strike shouldn't give you much of a problem in Windows. Have you tried changing the advanced display options to use OpenGL or Direct3D? That improves the visual appearance a lot. Windows XP has a lot of services running in the background which eat up the memory... but from your system configuration (1GB RAM !!!), I don't think that's much of an issue. I had to disable all the services at startup (including the network) when I was playing DOOM3 on a 256MB RAM with 64MB onboard graphics card .The latest DirectX version is Directx 9.0c... maybe you could try installing that. But Counter strike should work fine with any version of Directx.On a friend's computer, to keep him from playing CS, i disabled the display adapter without his knowledge... but he could still play CS and with a smooth frame rate at that.

I don't think it really matters what format you are going to save your images in since all the image formats occupy more or less the same space. ISO is the most widely accepted, but you've also got NRG (Nero) and VCD (Virtual CD) and BIN and CUE formats. You have utilities freely available on the net to change them from one format to another. But if you plan to use them in Linux also, then ISO is the format to store them in. But, since you are saying you need to make images of your game CDs and be able to play them right off from the hard disk, I would suggest you download and use Daemon tools. I haven't used it... but from what it says on their webpage, they support a whole lot of image formats.

Kid Saiyan huh? A fellow dragonball fan?

Thanks a lot. The first one is the first layout I made in CSS that actually started to look a little neat. CSS isn't difficult to learn but being able to use it efficiently sure is . Thanks for the feedback. Yea, the green doesn't really look that good... but it looked ok at the time. The 'Eric Meyers' was done in a bit of a hurry and just to draw attention to the fact that it was done by Eric Meyers . I think you're right about the spacing of the text. But right now, I'm kinda working on another layout. It's almost done, with some bugs in the php code right now. As soon as I get some time, I'm gonna replace the first template with this one. Thanks guys for taking out your time .

Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino ! This is one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen. The entire story is in the dialogues. The first time I saw it, I had a little trouble understanding the dialogues so I didn't like it. Later on, I downloaded the subtitles and watched the entire movie again and I must say... it's an absolutely amazing movie. Of course there is some amount of gore and blood in the movie but hey, this isn't the only movie with bloodshed. It's definitely not a movie to be watched with your family coz it contains a whole lot of abusive words. Nevertheless, it's a great film and I would highly recommend it. The Butterfly Effect Another amazing movie. In the starting, the plot isn't really understood and the viewer is left in the dark without any explanation. But as the story progresses, you understand what's happening. Starring Ashton Ketcher and Amy Smart, it's quite a serious movie but thoroughly enjoyable. Amy Smart is really cute in this movie. Highly recommended for Sci-Fi buffs.

This is one amazing tutorial... I'm surprised I didn't see it earlier. The end results are really amazing and it's so easy. Thanks a lot .

Well....go on ... we're waiting .

Yea Kobe is really cool. I like Metal slug also. Really nice job .

It's great... I like the way you've used different patterns. But... the colors... ummm... it's a bit too girlish (pink).hehe... other than that... it's pretty cool. Great work.

This is what I used to get hover functionality in IE. Put this code in the <head> of your index.html file <script type="text/javascript" src="iefix.js"></script> The contents of iefix.js are: startList = function() {if (document.all&&document.getElementById) {navRoot = document.getElementById("nav");for (i=0; i<navRoot.childNodes.length; i++) {node = navRoot.childNodes[i];if (node.nodeName=="LI") {node.onmouseover=function() {this.className+=" over"; } node.onmouseout=function() { this.className=this.className.replace(" over", ""); } } } }}window.onload=startList; Any element you need to apply hover functionality, specify like this : li:hover, li.over{ background-color:gray; font-weight:bold;} The li.over makes the list element 'hover'able in IE, thanks to the javascript. Finally, use code like this to make some settings specific for IE. This should be placed at the top of the CSS file. Whatever you set here will override what you specified in the CSS file. /* Fix IE. Hide from IE Mac \*/* html ul li { float: left; }* html ul li a { height: 1%; }* html ul { margin-left:0; margin-right:0;}/* End */ This method has been taken from A List Apart. It's been used for various CSS menus. For more resources, I would suggest you visit the site. They've got loads and loads of stuff on CSS and Javascript. Hope this helps you out .

Really nice... I like the switch board a lot with it's curve. Do you design these and then manufacture them?

Tor is really cool. I gave it a try when I was at home for the holidays and wasn't behind a proxy server (in college, I am so I don't think it'll work). One thing that really convinced me that it was working fine was the fact that everytime I run TOR and open google.com, it would give me the page in a different language... rarely english . I got japanese, portugese, spanish... Also, I've heard that it's literally impossible to trace the IP back to the original computer because of the way it branches out while trying to reach the destination IP.

I would say firefox is the best. There were times when I tried other browsers because I got pained by firefox... it would crash sometimes and be slow during startup and so on... but I always came back to firefox. Now I know how to customise it to my preferences and that's a big help. I mean all the plugins, the extensions and the themes, are really great. You don't have this sort of thing for other browsers. Also... there are some subtle things about firefox that make browsing a pleasure... such as when you open a link in a new tab, it goes into the background and loads while you are still on the current page. That's something missing in both netscape and opera.