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Dear FriendsI need solution to a problem. The problem is as under:I am creating certain files (playlist) in server disk when user selects some songs. The files are created in ram format. What I want to do is to delete these files created during a particular session. Is it possible to do so? Now I am deleting these files using on Unload event fired by JavaScript. I am using PHP.

Thank you very much..!Sir Hercco, Today I would try to explain the problem.I have created a system for playing music online. When a user clicks the link of the music file a pop up window appear and plays the song. I send the id of the song using query string and receive it and then get the link of the song from database. It works fine. Then in my last post, I mentioned that I want to provide my user with the facility to select multiple songs which would be played sequentially. For that, I used checkbox and send ids in the same manner I did previously. I then queried the database and received the links to the songs.Now, how to play these songs in a sequential order? This is the base problem. I have employed various methods but failed to achieve the goal.One of the methods was to use PHP header function. Using it I got very near to my goal. I could play the selected songs sequentially but in an external player (interface). I want to play the songs within the web page (in the pop up window mentioned above).If you want to know what I did please let me know .I would post my codes here. I hope to hear from you very soon.With Regards

Dear Friends I want to stream music from my website. The file format is .rm. People say that one need a Helix Server or other media server to stream. I have found a solution to this problem as well. I read an article about streaming music. It tells that if the size of the media file is small and the byte rate of the media file is lower than that of the user internet connections byte rate, the file get streamed automatically from HTTP server. In theory, any file is "streamed" by a web server that is, sent back to the client in small pieces. What makes media files special is that a media player can start playing the file even before it receives the full file. However, supposing the media player downloads one second of music, and plays it, and the data for the next second has not yet been downloaded, it will stop immediately. You will have to click Play again. However, if the bit rate of the media file is less than the bit rate of the connection, the player will always be able to download faster than play, and so, while there may be delays in playing the media, it won't stop. I have uploaded couple of files on the server and they are working. But in my endeavor of making a contemporary online music website I am facing many problems which are as follows:- I am using object and embed tag to play music in WebPages. I have created a RAM file which contains the links of the media files i.e. RM files. The RAM file is embedded to the web page e.g. <embed src=âhttp://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ â>. Up to this point everything is under control. Now I want to let my users choose multiple songs. To do that, I used check box to select more that one song. I used query strings to send the links or id of the selected songs and retrieved the urls on the page where the songs would be played. Here the problem arises. How can I add multiple url to embed tag. I found out a solution but it did not work. My idea was to create a RAM file (Many of you guys may already know about it yet I would like to explain the phenomenon. One can create a RAM file which may contain more than one media file links. For example, aramfile.ram may contain both http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. If such a RAM file is embedded to a web page multiple songs can be played in a random manner) dynamically which would contain the list of links we received from query string. But with PHP, one cannot create a file on web server nor can open a file with write option. According to me it was the best possible solution but it is not feasible. I know that many professional personal employ this method. How they do it is mystery to me. Then I began my search to find a way out. Fortunate I found out a way. Answer to my problem was HTTP HEADER. I would like to share what I understand about HTTP HEADER before I proceed. Using headers server and browser communicate. Server sends headers before sending any other data. Headers can contain many types of information and instructions that the server and browser use to help each other know what to do next. Further PHP can be used to manipulate headers to get desired output. Using the following the codes one can create a ram file. header("Cache-control: public"); header("Content-Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio ram;"); header("Content-Disposition: filename=a.ram"); echo $fres; exit(); It did work. But in external player. I could not play the song inside the web page. So, friends I would be very grateful if some one helps me out âŚ..

Dear FriendsToday I would like to discuss an issues regarding bandwidth and data transfer of which every one here is accustomed to. So I am drawing a scenario for the said issue. Say for example, I have a free web hosting account which supports PHP, MySQL, and many other server side technologies. But its server space and bandwidth are limited, further if I have a file hosting account which provides unlimited server space and unlimited bandwidth which does not support server side technologies. If I upload a file to my file hosting account and provides the link in my website and if a user access the link which account’s bandwidth will be calculated. If bandwidth of both the account is calculated than whose bandwidth is consumed more, web hosting or file hosting account? I have found answer to these questions. Though I m not sure about it. In this particular scenario, when the page containing the links for the files is viewed, the bandwidth will be calculated at the web server. When someone actually clicks a link to download a file, the bandwidth will be calculated at the file server. If no one clicks a link, no bandwidth will be consumed from the file server.I would like and welcome every ones comment and more appreciably comments from administrators and moderator team because this is part and parcel of their every day’s job. Thank you..

Dear Friends Last time around I wrote a program named Hello World using COBOL. Today I will try to analyze the program. So I will rewrite the program for your convenience.000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLO.000300 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.000400 DATA DIVISION.000500 PROCEDURE DIVISION.000600000700 PROGRAM-BEGIN.000800 DISPLAY "Hello world".000900001000 PROGRAM-DONE.001100 STOP RUN.A COBOL program always has four divisions and these four divisions are always having the same names: i) IDENTIFICATION DIVISION ii) ENVIRONMENT DIVISION iii) DATA DIVISION iv) PROCEDURE DIVISION In Hello World program, lines 000100 and 000200 are the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. This division is used to mark the basic information about the program. In this program, the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION contains only the PROGRAM-ID, HELLO.Line 000300 is the ENVIRONMENT DIVISION, which is used to identify the environment in which the program is running. Keep in mind that COBOL is intended to run on many unlike types of machines, and this section is used to handle the differences between various computers. In this case, the program has no specialized machine necessities, so the ENVIRONMENT DIVISION is empty.Line 000400 is the DATA DIVISION, which will contain any data that the program operates on. This program has no data, so the DATA DIVISION is empty.Lines 000500 through 001100 are the PROCEDURE DIVISION. This is the meat of the program--the part that does the work planned by the programmer. The PROCEDURE DIVISION contains two paragraphs at line 000700 (PROGRAM-BEGIN) and line 001000 (PROGRAM-DONE). The term paragraph has a special definition in COBOL that will be covered a bit later in today's lesson. All the actual work in this program is done by line 000800.

Hi everyone, I'd like to explain my idea for basic session handling to you guys. I've thought about it, and I can't see any problem with it, but I'd like other's opinions as well, please. Ok, here goes. So basically, there's two base cases that can happen. User visits any page, session class is initialized, etc. Case 1 - User not logged in; no cookie or session info in DB If the user is not logged in, has no cookie, and/or there is no session info in the DB for this user, any specified activities, protected like so: php: if ( $session->loggedOn() == FALSE ) { ... } the user cannot access them. If the user logs in, the session class will attempt to set a cookie containing a random session_id, which is stored in the database. If a cookie is unavailable, the session_id is still stored in the DB, and the SID is appended to the URL. $session->loggedOn() is set to true, and the user can access previously restricted areas. Case 2 - User is logged in If the user is logged in, the session class first looks for the cookie. If it's found, and the info (session_id, session_key) is valid, $session->loggedOn() remains at true, and the last_visited time in the DB is updated. In the constructor is a removeInactive(), which removes sessions that are inactive after a certain amount of time. There is also updateSession(), which does the checking for a session. On logout, all info is scrubbed, and removeInactive() is also called, closing the session.

Dear friends HTML is the building block of any web page. Without it no pages can be written though there are some exceptions. Even you got to have some knowledge of HTML to write dynamic web applications. An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page An HTML file must have an htm or html file extension An HTML file can be created using a simple text editor HTML is acronym of Hyper Text Markup Language. This time I will discuss about HTML tags. Dear friends HTML is the building block of any web page. Without it no pages can be written though there are some exceptions. Even you got to have some knowledge of HTML to write dynamic web applications. An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags. The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page An HTML file must have an htm or html file extension An HTML file can be created using a simple text editor. Do You Want to Try It? If you are running Windows, start Notepad. Type in the following text: <html> <head> <title>Title of page</title> </head> <body> This is my first homepage. <b>This text is bold</b> </body> </html> Save the file as "mypage.htm". Start your Internet browser. Select "Open" (or "Open Page") in the File menu of your browser. A dialog box will appear. Select "Browse" (or "Choose File") and locate the HTML file you just created - "mypage.htm" - select it and click "Open". Now you should see an address in the dialog box, for example "C:\MyDocuments\mypage.htm". Click OK, and the browser will display the page. Thing or two about HTML Tags:- HTML tags are used to mark-up HTML elements HTML tags are surrounded by the two characters < and > The surrounding characters are called angle brackets HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b> The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag The text between the start and end tags is the element content HTML tags are not case sensitive, <b> means the same as <B> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTML Elements Remember the HTML example from the previous page: <html> <head> <title>Title of page</title> </head> <body> This is my first page. <b>This text is written in bold letters</b> </body> </html> This is an HTML element: <b>This text is bold</b>The HTML element starts with a start tag: <b> The content of the HTML element is: This text is bold The HTML element ends with an end tag: </b> The purpose of the <b> tag is to define an HTML element that should be displayed as bold. This is also an HTML element: <body> This is my first homepage. <b>This text is bold</b> </body>This HTML element starts with the start tag <body>, and ends with the end tag </body>. The purpose of the <body> tag is to define the HTML element that contains the body of the HTML document. Tag Attributes Tags can have attributes. Attributes can provide additional information about the HTML elements on your page. This tag defines the body element of your HTML page: <body>. With an added bgcolor attribute, you can tell the browser that the background color of your page should be red, like this: <body bgcolor="red">. This tag defines an HTML table: <table>. With an added border attribute, you can tell the browser that the table should have no borders: <table border="0"> Attributes always come in name/value pairs like this: name="value". Attributes are always added to the start tag of an HTML element. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Styles, "red" or 'red'? Attribute values should always be enclosed in quotes. Double style quotes are the most common, but single style quotes are also allowed. In some rare situations, like when the attribute value itself contains quotes, it is necessary to use single quotes: name='Vicky "cricket" Ray'

Dear FriendsI have been trying to connect Ms Access using PHP for couples of days. Finally I have done it. It was dome using Open DataBase Connectivity, popularly known as ODBC (pronounced as separate letters). With an ODBC connection, you can connect to any database, on any computer in your network, as long as an ODBC connection is available. Here is how to create an ODBC connection to a MS Access Database: Open the Administrative Tools icon in your Control Panel. Double-click on the Data Sources (ODBC) icon inside. Choose the System DSN tab. Click on Add in the System DSN tab. Select the Microsoft Access Driver. Click Finish. In the next screen, click Select to locate the database. Give the database a Data Source Name (DSN). Click OK. Note that this configuration has to be done on the computer where your web site is located. If you are running Internet Information Server (IIS) on your own computer, the instructions above will work, but if your web site is located on a remote server, you have to have physical access to that server, or ask your web host to to set up a DSN for you to use. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connecting to an ODBC The odbc_connect() function is used to connect to an ODBC data source. The function takes four parameters: the data source name, username, password, and an optional cursor type. The odbc_exec() function is used to execute an SQL statement. Example The following example creates a connection to a DSN called northwind, with no username and no password. It then creates an SQL and executes it: $conn=odbc_connect('northwind','',''); $sql="SELECT * FROM customers"; $rs=odbc_exec($conn,$sql); -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Retrieving Records The odbc_fetch_rows() function is used to return records from the result-set. This function returns true if it is able to return rows, otherwise false. The function takes two parameters: the ODBC result identifier and an optional row number: odbc_fetch_row($rs) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Retrieving Fields from a Record The odbc_result() function is used to read fields from a record. This function takes two parameters: the ODBC result identifier and a field number or name. The code line below returns the value of the first field from the record: $compname=odbc_result($rs,1); The code line below returns the value of a field called "CompanyName": $compname=odbc_result($rs,"CompanyName"); -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Closing an ODBC Connection The odbc_close() function is used to close an ODBC connection. odbc_close($conn); -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An ODBC Example The following example shows how to first create a database connection, then a result-set, and then display the data in an HTML table. <html> <body><?php $conn=odbc_connect('northwind','',''); if (!$conn) {exit("Connection Failed: " . $conn);} $sql="SELECT * FROM customers"; $rs=odbc_exec($conn,$sql); if (!$rs) {exit("Error in SQL");} echo "<table><tr>"; echo "<th>Companyname</th>"; echo "<th>Contactname</th></tr>"; while (odbc_fetch_row($rs)) { $compname=odbc_result($rs,"CompanyName"); $conname=odbc_result($rs,"ContactName"); echo "<tr><td>$compname</td>"; echo "<td>$conname</td></tr>"; } odbc_close($conn); echo "</table>"; ?></body> </html>

Dear FriendsHow to scan data into applications with a barcode scanner?Hi, I need help with the barcode scanner and reader. I am new to visual basic programing. Can any one help me with this. I have WCS 3900 scanner from wasp technologies. I need an application written in Microsoft Visual basic which can scan, read and then display it moreover save it in database for later use. Basically i am tring to build a program for a Mobile phone store for that the application need to read the barcode. I would be very much thankful if some one comes to my resque...bye..

Dear szupieI am very much thrilled knowing about the spiders. It has exited a great deal and I want to know more about the spiders you talk about. How these spiders are built? Which languages are used? I have come to know that it is related to the Meta tag of HTML. It is true? Please answer my queries. I am waiting for your answer eagerly. Bye

Hey TobiasYou said that the book has every thing to get started. Does the companion CD have Visual studio .net in it or Vb.net in it? If yes please let me know. Then I will buy the book. Thank you..

Dear TavoxPeruI could not understand the meaning of the message which you tried to convey. Did you turned on the safe mode in the PHP configuration file, php.ini. You can find it under Windows folder if you are using Microsoft Windows. By default safe mode is turned off. The PHP safe mode is an attempt to solve the shared-server security problem. If this does not solve you problem then you must specify the error you are getting. Till then bye…

Dear champ_rockWhat is Microsoft Virtual Pc? What can be done using this software?

Dear FriendsWhen using WINDOWS XP, and while in Windows Explorer, very often when attempting to drag a file from Explorer to the folder you want to move it to, an error message will pop up saying: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to shut down...which usually freezes up Explorer..and you have to open it up and try to do the function of dragging the file again. As well...in some cases, when that error shows up, almost instantly after closing it, which usually means you have to do the Control-Al-Del thing opening the task list in order to close the folder in Explorer totally and start all over. Do you know what causes such a problem to occur? It is very frustrating.

Yes, you are absolutely right. It’s not at all free. A friend of mine gave me this compiler and I can tell you it a very good one. I would like everybody with knowledge of COBOL to contribute here and I would like to request the moderators to open a new forum for COBOL like there are for other programming language. COBOL might not have any role in today’s world but it was a very effective tool and it will help young ones to know about a very good programming language. Bye.

HiAccording to me you give AVG free a try. It is available for both windosw and linux. As you might already know it is very reliable. I have noticed that you are also looking for a firewall software. I guess ZoneAlarm Firewall may slove your problem, I am not sure about its price though.

Dear FriendsA few days back I was looking for a COBOL compiler. Therefore I made a post here assuming that some might come to my rescue. A few help did come but wasn’t very satisfying. Eventually I found the compiler I was looking for. My compiler is Micro Focus COBOL COMPILER 2.4.12. It runs smoothly under Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows 2003 (I have personally tested it on these operating systems). When I turned to this forum for help regarding COBOL I was surprised to see that there was not even one topic written about COBOL. So I decided to write something about COBOL (though I have been learning COBOL for merely two three days).COBOL is a programming language designed for solving business problems. COBOL though solves a lot more than just business problems and can be used as a solution to many data processing problems. COBOL excels in accounting systems and related activities such as inventory control, retail sales tracking, contact management, commissions, payroll etc etc. It is like English and easy to read. This is why people with little programming knowledge tend to favor it. COBOL professionals got a real boost when Y2K problem surfaced. In old COBOL dealing with date math is even more complicated. Dates in COBOL are typically stored in three different locations (a month, a day, and a year). The year is often stored as 2 digits to save space and simplify output problems with pre-printed forms. In some cases, COBOL programs were written with 4 digit dates and 1900 is subtracted from the date to generate the form (1981 - 1900 = 81) so that the form can look like 1981 when it is generated. This will cause a problem since 2001 - 1900 = 101 instead of 01. In other cases where a 6 digit date was used, the problem is even worse since there is no clear indication of which date we are talking with. Imagine COBOL program that deals with county records to record births and deaths. If all the dates are stored as 6 digits soon you will have records which say something like 08/04/54. Let us suppose, a man live to be a hundred years old, his date of birth is recorded as 08/04/54 and if he dies on his birthday 100 years later his death would also be 08/04/54. A casual observer might interpret this as him dying at birth or who knows what. The situation is not limited to COBOL programs, but because COBOL has been the language of fondness for business applications for so long, there are vastly more COBOL programs in existence. The importance of the year 2000 catastrophe has caused knowledgeable software experts to forecast horrible consequences. It is estimated that the cost of fixing the crisis will run into the billions of dollars. The demand for COBOL programmers increases more or less weekly, as more and more companies understand the scope of the year 2000 problem and begin to apportion resources for its solution.COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL), convened in 1959 by the Department of Defense. COBOL compilers were available in 1960. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standardized a version of COBOL in 1968. The language was revised and updated by ANSI in 1974 and again in 1985. These standards sometimes are called COBOL or COBOL-68, COBOL-74, or COBOL-85. Most compilers are now COBOL-85 standard.Some of the advantages of COBOL are that it caters well for business needs and is easily portable to different operating systems or platforms. However, the language is considered to be rather wordy with an overly rigid format. A further disadvantage is that COBOL lacks many of the programming instructions required by the scientific community.Let’s write our first COBOL program. As you might have started learning many languages by printing “HELLO WORLD” in the screen, this is no exception. We shall write a program which would print “HELLO WORLD”.Type the following codes in any text editor, say for example NOTEPAD.000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLO.000300 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.000400 DATA DIVISION.000500 PROCEDURE DIVISION.000600000700 PROGRAM-BEGIN.000800 DISPLAY "HELLO WORLD".000900001000 PROGRAM-DONE.001100 STOP RUN.Save the file. Name the file HELLO.COB. Select “ALLFILES” in Save as type Field. I am assuming that you have Micro Focus Compiler, though the process is similar in all compilers. Create the Directory Called cob1 in C Drive (As I have done) and place the hello.cob file in that directory.Now run the COBOL compiler. It is usually done by changing directory.C:\>cd cobolC:\Cobol>Now give COBOL command and as the following.C:\Cobol>cobol Microsoft COBOL CompilerVersion 2.20 ©Copyright Microsoft Corp. 1982-87Source filename [.COB]: c:\cob1\hello.cobObject filename [HELLO.INT]: c:\cob1\hello.intListing filename [NUL.LST]: c:\cob1\hello.lst** Scanning Environment Division...** Scanning Data Division...** Compiling Procedure Division...** Generating Object Code... No errors or warnings Data area size = 232 Code area size = 38-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Now Run the program using “runcob” commandC:\Cobol>runcob c:\cob1\helloIt will produce the following outputHELLO WORLD.I hope you would like this article. If anybody is interested to learn COBOL please write to me and if some one is an expert please do help me in learning COBOL. Thank you all for your time. Bye..

Dear friendsI have been searching for a COBOL for compiler for a couple of days but could not find one. There is hand full of compilers which works on Windows 95, 98, NT. I want a compiler which should be compatible with windows xp sp 2. It must have support for ODBC and most importantly it should be free. I would be very thankful if someone fined me one. Bye..

Dear Thaiddr I could not understand the question you asked. What I make out of is you want to start programming in java. Assuming that I will give some advices. Frist and foremost we need Java Development Kit(JDK1.4 or 1.5). You can download it from Sun Microsystems’s web site. The url is http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html https://l''>https://l'>http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html https://l Assuming you are using windows XP; run the setup wizard. It will guide through installation process. After installation you need to set path and class path. 1. Click on START 2. Click on run 3. Where is says open type in CMD and click OK. This gets you to the DOS prompt. 4. Type cd c:\ 5. Type notepad autoexec.bat -- this will bring up the notepad editor. In this editor type the following two lines: set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\bin; set CLASSPATH==%CLASSPATH%;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\LIB; 6. Exit notepad. 7. Type autoexec.bat 8. Test your installation by opening up a DOS window and verifying that both the commands java and javac are recognized. There is another mehtod though. It can be done by editing Environment Variables. 1. Click on START 2. Under Settings click on Control Panel 3. Click on the System.( You can also find the System Properties by Right clicking on MyComputer Icon and selecting the properties option.) 4. Click on the Advanced tab. 5. Click on the Environment Variables button (bottom). 6. Highlight PATH (in the top window) and click the edit button. 7. Edit the "PATH" so it begins C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\bin; (note: if you install Java into a different directory, you may need to change the directory from that listed above) 8. For example, the full "PATH" on my computer is: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\bin;C:\Program Files\SSH Communications Security\SSH Secure Shell 9. After you have finished editing the PATH, click OK. You are done setting your PATH. Now you have to create a new variable, called your CLASSPATH. 10. Click on the NEW button below the top window. 11. Under variable name type CLASSPATH 12. Under 'variable value' type . (type a single period(Full Stop)). 13. Click OK. 14. EXIT the control panel. 15. Restart your computer. 16. Test your installation by opening up a DOS window and verifying that both the commands java and javac are recognized. I hope it may help you to get going.Bye

Dear friendsYou might have faced the same problem what I had faced couples of day before. I bought a new digital camera and I took some photographs of my friends and family. But when I transferred these photographs to my computer I saw most of the images were ruined because the colour of the eyes of person in the photographs turned red. I never saw such thing. I took internets help and found out that its called red eye effect. I thereafter found out a way to rectify there images. The process to rectify red eye effect using Adobe Photoshop is outlined below:-1. Open the image in Adobe PhotoShop. (Any version).2. Go to Image in the Toolbar.3. There After choose the duplicate image option from the menu and close the original image.4. Now zoom the eye section of the duplicate image as much as possible.5. Now create a new layer. Select the original color of the eye using the eyedropper tool. 6. Using the paintbrush tool paint over the red part of the eye. Be careful do not paint over the eye lids.7. Then go to Filter in the Toolbar. Choose Blur Menu thereafter choose Gaussian Blur. Give 1 pixel blur to soften the edges.8. Now go to layer in the toolbar.9. Choose layer style and the choose Blending option.10. Now adjust the underlying layer using the slider given.Now, I guess, we are done and the red eye effect is removed. If you have any problem or query regarding the method I explained please fell free to ask me. Bye..

Dear FriendsI have come to know the facts regarding Limit Reservable Bandwidth. I am stating the facts below:- This setting applies to applications that use a system called QoS, or Quality of Service. QoS ensures at certain times, some applications get more priority than others while using bandwidth. For example, if you are downloading a big file, and talking using a VOIP application like Skype, at the same time, the download will be slowed down to give more priority to VOIP, so that the sound comes clearly and without breaks. For all this to work, all the applications need to know about and work with the QoS settings.This setting says that up to 80% of available bandwidth should be given to QoS-aware applications, *if they ask for it*. If no application asks for a reservation, anyway all the bandwidth is available. Even if some application asks for say 60%, and uses 20%, and some other application needs bandwidth, the remaining 40% can be used.Examples of QoS applications are Media Player and Skype. If you don't run any of these, the setting has no meaning at all. Even if you run that kind of application, the setting will not reduce the bandwidth for others.In short, you will not gain anything by changing this setting. Just let it be.

Great stuff. Heads off to you. It helped me a great deal. The speed has really increased and I can feel it.

Dear FriendsI admit that Windows user generally know less about the working of things compared to other OS users such as Linux or UNIX. The article is quite right in the sense that the windows systems are less protected. But with all its demerits Windows have brought the computer to mass which is earlier used by experts only. It is quite an achievement, isn’t it? It has given Personal Computing a new dimension. Moreover, windows can be used quite safely if the users make a little effort. Windows Xp SP2, according to me, is quite secured.If a non technical person wants to use computer in his business for keeping inventory records or may be use it for accounting purpose, I guess Microsoft’s Windows OS would be best option for that person.I don’t know how people hack computers rather break into some network; according to me Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition is very much secure. I have heard that in Server 2003 one has to open ports manually. In Windows Server 2000 these ports used to listen automatically and were vulnerable.

Friends you guys are absolutely right. AVG FREE rocks. It is the best free antivirus in the market. I run a cyber café and I use windows xp service pack 2. For last one and half year I did not have to format my machines and my machines are still working smoothly. When ever my machines gets effected AVG gets rid of these worms, virus etc. Its real time protection system is very good. I have no complaints against this very product of GRISOFT.

According to me Microsoft's internet explorer is the best browser. Basically in India you will see Windows operating system every and hence internet explorer.So its very popular and you got have something to become popular.Moreover Internet Explorer supports Cascading Style Sheets very well but in firefox text formatting sometimes doesnot work.I have tested it personally.