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Most of the latest versions are doing that, Ubuntu and Fedora 10 do this, there's a tool already to make a live USB if you have it installed, and you can make it through the live CD, just google it and you will find a lot of resources for that. For the best thing I can do in linux that I can't do in windows "didn't try mac for an enough time to judge it" is to live in peace and safe away from threats and continuous system freezes, windows sucks.

My preferred was always Ubuntu since I switched to linux 4 years ago, it's an excellent friendly distro, it helped me so much to master linux since I was a newbie, I think simplicity wins here, this is the purpose Ubuntu was created for.I tried a lot of distros "fedora 10 was the last one I tried", none beats Ubuntu with its free 24/7 IRC support and forums "I learned so much through these", it's the only one that will ship you a free CD if you don't have a fast connection to download it "you can ask for this from the official website", personally I think it's the future of Linux.

I have a VPS which i host some sites on it "for my friends & for free", anyway, some of these sites were hacked and were used for running phising scam scripts, i need to increase my VPS security level, what should i do?, if there are some tips and hints, this would be welcomed!

I think nothing would be better than configuring your site yourself, not to depend on others to do what you want, that's how you will make something you like

I tried to type an article in arabic using macromedia dreamweaver but the words comes in left to right, how to use arabic without mixing up words?

I just made this form in order to redirect me to the page selected by a user, but it doesn't do that, it just reload the entire page: <form name="broker" action="?" method="get"> <select name"select"> <option value="" selected>Select one below...</option> <option value="http://http://www.msn.com/de-de?rd=1&ucc=DE&dcc=DE&opt=0; <option value="http://yahoo.com/; </select><input type ="submit" name="submit" value="Choose"></form> i hope any body can help in this.

Thank you so much, i respect your effort to paste this registeration system here though in fact i do need only to fix some problems in my own script, i already fixed some of them, so i will paste the new edited code, i hope to find some help fixing the rest of my code errors: <?php/// Connects to your Databasemysql_connect("localhost", "my username", "my password") or die(mysql_error());mysql_select_db("my db name") or die(mysql_error());///This code runs if the form has been submittedif (isset($_POST['submit'])) {///This makes sure they did not leave any fields blankif (!$_POST['email']){[COLOR=Red]die[/COLOR]"<font color=red><b><i>No e-mail added</i></b>";}/// checks if that e-mail is in useif (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {$_POST['email'] = addslashes($_POST['email']);}$mailcheck = $_POST['email'];$check = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM maillist WHERE email = '$mailcheck'")or die(mysql_error());$check2 = mysql_num_rows($check);///if e-mail exists it gives an errorif ($check2 != 0) {echo"<font color=red><b><i>Already subscribed</i></b>";}else{$insert = "INSERT INTO maillist (id, email) VALUES ('0', '".$_POST['email']."')";$add_email = mysql_query($insert);echo"<font color=blue><b><i>Subscribed successfully</i></b>";}///now we insert it into the database?><?php}else{?><form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"><table border="0"><tr bgcolor="#6652D8"> <td width="140"><span class="style1"><span class="style1">Get our Newsletter</span>: </span></td> </tr><tr><td><input type="text" name="email" maxlength="100"></td></tr><tr><th colspan=2><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Subscribe"></th></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#6652D8"></td></tr></table></form><?php}?> still that red die above in the code stop loading of the whole page, and if i use print or echo, it will tell the error message but will not prevent inserting to database, the above red die in : ///This makes sure they did not leave any fields blankif (!$_POST['email']){[COLOR=Red]die[/COLOR]"<font color=red><b><i>No e-mail added</i></b>";} stops all the page from continue loading, when i used echo instead, it didn't prevent inserting a blank row to database. the second problem is, i have another form in the same page, when i press submit, it excute both scripts, what should i do?

That's already what i need, i can't get a function to do that, i need a function to show the error message and stop loading the script while loading the rest of the page. Thank you so much, this link helped me so much, specially Houdini's post, he is really a php guru.

I just coded this e-mail list, it works well for entering data into database, but if user leaves the field blank or adds an already exist e-mail it gives him the error message and stops loading the rest of the page. <?php// Connects to your Databasemysql_connect("localhost", "my_username", "mypassword") or die(mysql_error());mysql_select_db("Database name") or die(mysql_error());//This code runs if the form has been submittedif (isset($_POST['submit'])) {//This makes sure they did not leave any fields blankif (!$_POST['email']) {die('<font color=red><b><i>No e-mail added</i></b>');}// checks if that e-mail is in useif (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {$_POST['email'] = addslashes($_POST['email']);}$mailcheck = $_POST['email'];$check = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM maillist WHERE email = '$mailcheck'")or die(mysql_error());$check2 = mysql_num_rows($check);//if e-mail exists it gives an errorif ($check2 != 0) {die('<font color=red><b><i>Already subscribed</i></b>');}else{echo"<font color=blue><b><i>Subscribed successfully</i></b>";}// now we insert it into the database$insert = "INSERT INTO maillist (id, email) VALUES ('0', '".$_POST['email']."')";$add_email = mysql_query($insert);?><?php}else{?><form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"><table border="0"><tr bgcolor="#6652D8"> <td width="140"><span class="style1"><span class="style1">Get our Newsletter</span>: </span></td> </tr><tr><td><input type="text" name="email" maxlength="100"></td></tr><tr><th colspan=2><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Subscribe"></th></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#6652D8"></td></tr></table></form><?php}?> 1- i need to make it say the error message and continue loading the rest of the page.2- checks for the entered text "if it's a valid e-mail format xxxxxx@xxxx.xxxx."

It's really a very good site, never heared of it before and guess what?, my PC is free of any kind of these s**ts, i was surprised as i scanned windows installed pc, i feel good with zone alarm security suite. but this is not the service i wanted, i want a service that can test a web site security not only a pc, and tells if it's secured or not.

up till now i didn't find one of these sites, i googled it already, but try may you find it hidden in some place, i will search again and again too, if i find it anywhere else, i will post it here as i finally found another one who interested about the idea

It's a very easy question to be answered but: 1- you need to tell us what do u mean by buying links?? 2- you need to specify what these "links" to buy!!! 3- you need to know that Xisto works in a diffirent mechanism, you get credits for a long, non-blah blah post, which doesn't include repeated words, you will not get credits for just posting a single line every where around the forum, please read the rules section.

Sorry for the subject, as i will not give you my website link It is a service i hope to see it soon, though it is so much dangerous but i hope to have it, as i'm a web developer, the biggest problem to me always is to test the website i coded, test its security and how much is it safe, don't tell me try it yourself by trying to hack it, i already know all the passwords , i need someone or a site which could test that and try to hack it, ofcourse i don't like it to be aggrissive while doing it, it's just a test so i can try to cover any hole or so, as we know some sites includes business information and some important staffs. if you had ever saw a service like that, i hope you can post it here so we can test our sites, free or paid, i don't care, security is what i care about.

yeah, you can install it to develope PHP on your desktop, and it's really so easy to be installed, plus it's free, giving it another positive side.as you mentioned above you need a package to develope perl, XAMPP "full package" is doing that, it includes perl, i don't know if XAMPP lite package too have it or not, but XAMPP full package is having it. yeah it's a replacement for XAMPP, it's more lighter in fact, and EasyPHP also has MySQL in the package, you don't need to install it separately. That's how we could learn, ready-made software kill the skill, nothing better than configuring these things yourself, even it takes much time, i enjoy it.

I never felt bored of using my computer or using the internet, wither i work, play, read or just surf the web, i never felt bored, i use it for nearly everything in my life "just some organic processes i care for it myself ", i use it for: My work as a stocks trader in Egyptian stock exchange, also in collecting data about these stocks and analaysis. My work as a FOREX trader, also news, specially business news. My work as a web developer. Playing Chess on gameknot and also playing hattrick. Reading in anything, though i prefer technical, business subjects and some general reading about yoga and other subjects sometimes Reading News everyday. being on Xisto and borsetmisr forums developing my own site. investing money by some online trading and exchanging. That's some of what i use the internet for, i can't handle a day without using it in fact.