michaelper22

The MySQL server can be accessed from your site's address. Example: My domain is nyceducated.info, so the server address I would use to access it would be nyceducated.info. Alternatively, you could use gamma.xisto.com. either way, remember to allow remote access to the MySQL server from your IP address in cPanel: Log in to cPanel, go to the MySQL Databases page, and scroll all the way down to the bottom, where you see the Access Hosts section. Type in either your IP address (if it's static; which I bet it isn't), or just '%', which acts as a wildcard. (See the attachment below for reference.) But as BuffaloHELP mentioned above, it is perfered that you only access MySQL locally, for performance and security purposes.

Microsoft Frontpage can't handle the building of full dynamic Web scripting that you want to implement. It doesn't support any dynamic languages (to the best of my knowledge) like PHP or the framework of ASP.Net. You could design the pages in Frontpage, and then rig them up with PHP code afterwards.

I don't know if this will really help, but I am trying to buy Photoshop Elements. Someone told me that it's very limited, but I am sort of getting annoyed by Gimp's interface, and I want to get a glimpse of what Photoshop is so that if I one day decide to buy CS2, I'll know what to expect.

I am thinking about buying a new MP3 player from Geeks.com. I read the site's reviews on resellerRatings.com, and many have reported that they have good service. However, there is about one review per page that comes up negative, saying that they had problems returning, and didn't get their money back and things like that. Does anybody have any first hand experience with Geeks.com? If in the opinion of any moderator this was posted in the wrond section, please move it.

Now it's true that ads bring in a bit of revenue, but the real backing behind Xisto's income is ComptingHost sales (or at least as I view it). The credit system does make sense, because you are forced to constantly come back to the forum and see (and potentially click on) ads. That may lead to users being annoyed with coming back, which leads to either the member leaving, or going up to paid hosting. I am one of that 10%, even though I still hold my status as a hosted member (shhh, don't tell BuffaloHELP).

Cron jobs can be used to schedule backup scripts (or just about any script or program for that matter; I'm not a linuxhead so don't quote me on that), but the backup tool in cPanel does the job quickly and easily.I have yet to experiment with domain backups, but I suppose it could hlp you get a quick download of just one part of your site.

There is a tool in cPanel dedicated to organizing backups of your account. From the cPanel home page, click the backup icon in the Site Management section. There are a few backup options; you can have it make a backup of your whole site, download backups of individual domains, and, just what you are looking for, individual MySQL databases (see the attachments I posted for descriptions of these option). And all of these backups are zipped up in the .gz format for you to download.

Fortunately, I didn't get hit by mosquitoes too much. The food was good, but was given out in (mostly) large portions, so I think I gained a few pounds over the summer. The camp is pretty big (somewhere around 250 acres), so getting almost anywhere is a nice shlep, especially for about 2/3 of the campers, whose bunks are located in the somewhat far corners of the camp. Here's something that will sound funny/cool: All of the bunks have air conditioners. Now get a load of this: they are on a timer in a locked box located on the front of a bunkhouse, and it's controlled by the care taker and maybe one or two other high level administrators. The A/c is only on at nights after hot days, visiting days, and a few other times. I think they were originally going to leyt us control them via a switch in the wall, as indicated by a junction box with some wiring but no switch, but obviously they changed their minds. As a CIT, we got an old, and completely different bunk than the rest of the camp, with an air conditioner that we control (and are responsible for if it breaks from being on 24/7, which it wasn't; it still exhibited problems). The camp is a luxury camp. one indication of that is the bringing in of a limo for color war breakout. They gave each bunk aa minute-long ride around the camp. You are laughing huh? That limo was pretty nice. It was a stretch Expedition, with comfy leather seats, a mini-bar with fancy lights around it (no drinks though ) and a TV and fancy stereo. It also costs much less than other camps in the mountains, due to the fact that it is backed by a Federation, so they get lot of dough (aka $$$) from the board and everything. I did have a good summer, but I don't particularly want to go back. If I had to go back though, I would probably either go with the Zipline job mentioned earlier (not so hard but tiring work = no cash, or at least until I hit 17 years) or being a waiter (quite hard work = lots of $$$ from tips).

After a long and slightly boring two months away at camp, I am finally back home. I spent the summer at Camp Dora Golding (http://www.campdoragolding.com/), a religious camp in the Pocono mountains (in Pennsylvania, my second favorite state). In the books, I went there as a CIT (counselor in training), which is little more than a normal camper, but also worked at the zipline (at which campers climb up rock wall, or a wood wall, and zip across the lake; all of this involves various safety equipment, so that the camp doesn't get its rear-end sued off) to avoid complete boredom. Overall this was my best summer there (of the five that I was there, including this year). Back to the real world. I am very happy to be back here at the Trap. Even though I am now using paid hosting, I will continue to post for as long as I can. If you notice that my writing style changed at all since I left, don't worry; I will still try to present my down-to-earth approach to posting (am I exhibiting that right now?). I'd like to personally thank OpaQue for his outstanding work on keeping this forum going, and improving it in many ways, and especially for providing me with the super-cheap yet awesome paid hosting (only 1&1 can beat him ).

I should add to my reasons against trying Vista that it has a million features that are simply unneeded. Many of those features are nice to have, but they A) gobble up system resources, and give me more things to waste time with. I don't think I will get vista until they start shipping with new computers.

I know that what I am about to say was probably already said above, but here it goes. Windows XP is actually based on the core of 2000, sharing many features such as the NTFS file system, sophisticated user controls (although Windows XP Home doesn't give access to a good majority of them). However, windows XP has a bunch of new features, the new skinable interface, and a few other things. In the end, both operating systems are much the same, but XP happens to be the later release, and packs a few new things.

My pick was SMF, A) because it's free because it provides the most features for the price, and C) they have a great community. I would pick IPB, but I since I don't own it, I am not going to express any major comments on it, although I do admit it's pretty good. I perfer anything over phpBB; it's too simplistic, too unprofessional, too limited in my view, too insecure, and too popular. I want to help build up the SMF user base, since MF is a very powerful forum system, despite its slight downsides.

You could ask the SMF team to make a converter for that forum. I don't know whether they could make it or not. If possible, give them a copy of the install package (ie. the original forum files), or a link to the forum system's web site.

I'm leaving to sleepaway camp tomorrow. It's my fifth year there, but by now I have realized that camp isn't for me (no computers = no happiness). I like the place because they have food (sometimes more than enough, sometimes not enough), but otherwise, I will be totally bored. Most of the activities are sports, which I despise; I will spend most of the summer sitting in my bed reading computer books and magazines. I am bringing many of the comforts of home, including my projection alarm clock, which eveyone loves to look at. Wish me luck eveyone, especially with preping my web site for my 8 week long leave from the Trap. I'd like to wish a personal goodbye to OpaQue and BuffaloHELP for running this place so professionally .

Let's remember that the current Vista beta is, well, a beta. Betas are never the most reliable software in the world, so there will always be problems with it (there are few exceptions to this). I generally don't mind using beta software, but I would not go for the Vista beta, A) because my dad would never let me install it because I have read everywhere about the instability of the Vista beta.

Welcome to you too. You should really be thankful for a forum like this - excellent moderators and admins, excellent members, and the works. A tip: a lot of your posts in this topic might be considered spam, so you should make posts that have some good content to them, not just saying hello, good night or whatever. Just trying to help.

Hey, your not really a Xisto elder - I joined a bit before you. Anyways, welcome to Xisto. This really is a wonderful forum. I met a bunch of friends here, so I can imagine how you would do. Just remember that copying posts without quoting is like a cardinal sin (one of the Xisto Aseres Ha'dibros if you know Hebrew - that's a bad comparison). Anyway, enjoy your stay at Xisto - hopefully it will be longer than one night that sme people made it to.

As mentioned above, Joomla is an open source content management system. It is similar to Mambo (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) in that Joomla is a fork of Mambo, and shares similar features. I have seen professionally made sites in both Mambo and Joomla, and I can say that although they aren't nearly as sharp as Microsoft's site, they are still pretty nice.

I would tend to agree with you. Nvu is a pretty decent HTML editor (from my limited experience with it, about 5 minutes). The best part about it is the price - there is none (for the uneducated folks out there, it's free). But Dreamweaver stands out from the pack. It has a well justified price tag, since it has so many tools for site design and development. I hear that it supports ASP.Net, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, Flex and a bunch of other formats. I wish I could get Dreamweaver, but for now I'll stick with Mambo (leave that for another topic).

The SiteAdvisor site allows you to look up the security aspects of many web sites. go to http://www.siteadvisor.com/final/index.html, scroll to the box at the bottom of the page, and type in a random, existing domain (like Xisto.com for instance). It will bring you to a page with information on the domain you entered. Note to moderators: Change the second image to a link if you want.

I stumbled across the SiteAdvisor service from the SiteAdvisor plugin I installed in Firefox (not that I use Firefox or anything....I truthfully like Opera). It can give you a general security review of most sites on the Web, and you can easily submit one that isn't (like for example, Xisto.com is listed and reviewed, but nyceducated.info and mesivtaofroslyn.info aren't - I submitted both). They analyze the number and content of emails that the site sends, the safety of downloads from the site, the safety of other sites that the site links to, and displays a nice summary of it all. I would give this site two thumbs up .

One feature I'd love would be the announcement feature of IPB. I have a whole megillah on this over at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. I don't know how complicated it would be. Also, could you try to come up ith a credit sytem like the one here? I might consider using this forum package.

Where have you been all these months? Vista has made it to the papers! Anyways, Vista is Microsoft's latest incarnation of Windows, which they promise (it will be broken within a week, I can guarantee that ) to be the latest and greatest. I don't really feel like typing out all of the huge improvements in Vista, so head over to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ to read about anything and everthing that's in Vista.

Well, I would say that OpaQue really dedicates himself to Xisto (he's said in the past that he gets like 2 1/2 - 3 hours of sleep). I noticed the bugs with the hosting account management scripts; I look forward to the affiliate program. Good job Opaque, and keep up the good work!

I'll bet that it's from some client who closed down their site, whose domain was registered by Bestwebhost. Now let's all go figure out why the heck they would actually keep the domain (let alone redirecting it to their site), instead of just cancelling it.