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Well as it goes i tried to define what i understood from the terms hackers and crackers, if i was right then go me, if not then tell us what you take from the two terms and how they differentiate from each other. I thought my definition was right, but judging from your post it might not have been

Hi allIve had this problem for a little while now, i cant say exactly when but it started with sites such as youtube and has spread out from there really, the biggest culprits are youtube and myspace.The issue is that if i was on youtube and wanted to watch a video i would obviously click the link, firefox would then show the loading bar and my page loading timer would start but it would never actually begin loading, the status bar would say "loading" or if i clicked the link again it would show "stopped" yet the loading bar would be there. Needless to say the loading bar never shows any progress and it never loads, its not just lagging it never loads and im on a fast connection so almost any site loads within 1O seconds easily but i have left it fr a few minutes and not even one section lights up on the loading bar. A few causes i can think of are me changing the settings in about:config to allow higher pipelining and max connections or maybe my extensions im using, namely, the IE tab, fasterfox, window resize and the FDM addon. If anyone knows why this happens or how to fix it then do tell!

I wouldnt be so sure.... ive learned many things i shouldnt know from the internet! I also agree that limits are needed. Im 18 and always on the net and my parents dont mind, probably because im 18 but theyve never really given me limits, maybe theyre just kind! Who knows?! Thing is that as other people have said if a 12yr old kid is surfing myspace 24/7 they need to be told to get off the computer for their sanity, intelligence and most of all their safety. I like to think i use the internet for communication and research, im regularly surfing howstuffworks.com or finding out how to do something in PHP, i hate things like myspace so im hardly ever on there and i would be happy for any of my children, if i had any, to follow the same route on the internet. Rather than just gaming and being on IM i would like it if they used it to explore the world and the things that are going on in it and meet new friends, with caution of course!

the HTACCESS method involves a few components, firstly two files, one called .HTACCESS and one called .HTPASSWD and a specific folder you want protected. You chose the folder, say its called "protected" or something and put both of those files above inside it along with any files you want protected, EG all the pages you want protected.now the first file .HTACCESS will have code that will make a little box come on screen and ask a user to login whenever they try to get into the protected area. All the usernames and passwords are stored in the file called .HTPASSWD and if the user's input matches that in the HTPASSWD file they are allowed in. the drawbacks are that only you can register someone, they cant signup to the website you have to enter their username and password manually into the list and it isnt very customizable, all it can do is log someone in or keep them in. the danger is that if someone got hold of the HTPASSWD file they could then see all the usernames, but not the passwords as they are encrypted. Still that is a bad thing, although its not easy to obtain this file.The benefits of this system are that its very easy for someone with no PHP/CGI experience to set-up and maintain.

thankfully i know enough to get me by, i cant imagine making a website without using CSS, so tedious.. anyway.. Following tuts does sound like a good idea and i think ill do that when i get a free moment, i have a rather busy weekend ahead of me! Also downloading and analysing templates sounds good too, working out what makes them look good and such. Plenty of good suggestions, thanks everyone!

I did start making a file upload script... then it didnt work so i gave in, lemmie search google for the tut i was following... heres a good place to start http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php though as the disclaimer says its not secure and not a ghood idea t use it as it is but you can add more security assuming you know some php. and a nice list of said scripts for you to download: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ hope that helps a little. the ones with email notification sound suitable for what you want as they would notify the client that a user has uploaded a job or file.

Technically a HTACCESS solution would do if you only needed to protect a small area of the site and if it wasnt top secret stuff or anything, say if it was a site about you and your friends htaccess would be ideal as it would let them login but hopefully keep others out. Its a a lot simpler but not as good as php/cgi.

Im not sure abut how to send post vars but a word of caution, be very careful about sending personal info such as your merchant ID and PIN as its not hard for a determined user to get a small program to view post variables. I would suggest using a ready-made system such as paypal or something for now because they come with guaranteed security etc...

Well for what you describe, eg writing info to a HTM page for display to a user, it think it would be easier to use variables and ECHO. EG set up a GET variable which is in the URL called PAGE or something eg https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ Now in your script simply get this variable back and check it using an IF statement: if($page == "one"){ echo "this is page one!";} ELSE { echo "this is page two";} But if you wee dead set on using FWRITE and such then its not really a security risk in itself, the danger is that you have to set full permissions, at least i do anyway, to 777 which means that the file or folder which has those permissions is slightly less secure, its not really a massive issue and ive never had any issues from it. I would usually use a database to store information rather than a file as files can be seen by users whereas a database is usually hidden and secured quite well.

Is this the only bit of code you got from the web? the reasn i ask is this, in a login system there are essentially three steps: 1] I enter my username/password 2] The website checks them to see if theyre correct 3] If they are correct i get to see the page, if not i go back to step one.the bit of code youve got there is basically only step 3, so the problem is the user doesnt get a chance to enter their username and you dont have any code to see if its right so step 3 cant actually work on its own!If you have other source code you got from the net then steps 1 and 2 might be in there which is good, otherwise i would suggest finding a better script, i did write one of my own but without any php experience you would find it quite difficult to modify it to fit around your site

Well using crypt wouldnt "hash" anything i would encrypt it as i understand. I would usually use MD5 to has a password, the only thing is once hashed you cant see the original password, this doesnt matter really though as to validate the password you store the hashed version in a DB and then hash the users input so that if correct the two hashes would match exactly. That way even if the site is compromised by a hacker and they get access to the DB they still cant see the passwords either!

MidnightVamps post remined me of an advert which says "I see your idea and raise it, thats how real design works." And i guess thats true. I wont copy other sites but i will "borrow" elements like button styles, some colour ideas etcetera and hopefully use them to make a nice logo or banner or something. And Midori, i will definitely go do some tutorials, ill focus on the GIMP though as its all i have for now, i have made some nice looking gel buttons by following a tutorial and i think they're pretty cool! i do have a basic design i made while messing around, i uploaded it here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ the main thing i like there is the banner, it seems a bit plain though but i like the glow effect and will be using that a lt more in the future! the buttons are going to change methinks and im not sure about the headings and the text containers, they dont seem totally right.

Well judging by your member level youre not hosted, otherwise, as im sure you know, it would be like mine and say "hosted" so i would guess at no, its gone!

Well im no expert but while you wait for a better answer have you tried removing the htaccess file totally? i figure if there is no htaccess there can be no restrictions and so it would default to allow?

Ah i see, in that case i shall continue using the GIMP until the give away of the day is photoshop :XD: I did just find a nice use of the Soft Glow filter in the GIMP which i never even noticed before so i guess its all about experimenting with the software till you find something nice

are there any decent free gfx programs about? being, currently, unemployed i dont have the cash to splash on software at the moment.At college they had photoshop and some of the built in effects are brilliant for this kind of thing but i dont have photoshop or access to it unfortunately.

I can understand that we might sound patronising but at the end of the day we have no idea if youre a professional website developer with certificates in website management r a 13 yr old child with no experience s were just covering things from the bottom up just in case you have never used PMA before or something. anyway, try what Jlhaslip suggested, i totally forgot about prefixes

Very nice! Ive left a little message with my feedback but ill add some here too. I like the layout of everything, its in the logical place and is similar to other forums so you can easily adapt to using the AEF forum after leaving anther forum, that makes it very easy to use for newbies to this style of forum which is good! signup is also very easy though if i owned it i would want email verification of new users for security and preventing spam, i dont know if this is an option but if it isnt then it should be! the only negative comment i really have is that the avatar space to the left of each post seems a little small, also ive just realised that the textarea where you type a reply is small on the AEF forum, i assume this is s that users with smaller screens can see it all but maybe it could be made bigger by using a percent value that would then allow it to resize to fit bigger or smaller screens?Either way it looks really good and that skin is very corporate i feel and would be very god the mentioned school's website, i think it wouldnt distract users too much.I would definitely use this forum software if i wanted a forum.

As said by Buffalo, VB does have a control built into it for doing this sort of thing, i think if you go to the controls menu, hot key CTRL+T i think, and add the internet controls one and i think theres another control to, something like "internet" or "browser" or something. Once added you will have a new browser frame type tool which will let you draw a frame which will become a browser. you can then change the address with something like browser1.address or something. I know its not a concise tutorial but check out the internet and look for something like "VB internet controls" in google or "adding a browser in VB"If youre not using VB then this information is irrelevant!

personally i would also add a small section about security as it is a mjor consideration these days and p2p clients arent exactly the best way to keep your machine secured! otherwise its good and informative!

Hmm i hadnt thought of that yet it seems the most logical and easiest first step to take here. Currently im experimenting with the GIMP making a little banner, see how that ends up. That might also be one of my weaknesses, my access to gfx programs, i only really have the GIMP so if theres any other free and good gfx programs then suggest them too if you know of them! Meanwhile ill be surfing websites looking at their colour themes and such. Good idea!

Hi all. In my quest to become a website creator I have a big obstacle.. when it comes to design, eg making things look good i might as well be blind. Im useless! I can code to a decent standard in HTML PHP CSS MYSQL and JS but i am useless at making a nice design. So wha im after is advice on how to learn this, what i fear is a response of "you can *learn* how to design, you either can or you cant.". Its really important that im able to design a nice looking website because not many people have a concise set of drawings from which to code the website. Any advice and link will be greatly appreciated here, ive tried looking through google but most sites just try to teach me how to write HTML which i already know. Thanks in advance, i hope.

Hi everyone, ive arranged an interview with UK IT training who offer a course in web design with a guaranteed 2Ok/year job afterwards. Problem is ive heard a lot of negative reviews saying it costs around 7K to do the course and it takes a long time with the training being low quality and very spread out. What i want is anyone with experience in this company and its training to give a me a review so i can know what im getting myself into and whether or not to go to the interview this thursday, two days time, so if anyone can help please do!

Almost true, the old keyboards on typewriters used to be alphabetical, the problem was typers got too fast using that layout and the hammers, which printed the letters, would clash and of course that slowed things down while they were sorted out so they re-arranged the layout to make typers slower and it just stayed that way ever since. Thats what i was told anyway. As to the alphabet, consider if it started with the letter B and A was at the end, then this topic would still be here eg "why does the alphabet start with B" the same goes for any order, it doesnt matter what order its in someone will always ask why its in that order. So in theory the question is irrelevant because there is no real answer i dont think! Though it does get people thinking. the same goes for all orders, eg numbers, if numbers began with one hundred and continued from there then we would ask why.

First things first, have you created the database using the database tool that is NOT inside PMA?In the cpanel there is a tool called "MYSQL DATABASES" in there are the tools for you to create the database itself, you cant create any databases within PMA on T17, you need to use the tool i mention. I dont think you need to create a new user to use PMA but bare in mind that to use a script, eg PHP with a username you will need to create this user using the tool i mentioned above. Once thats all been done try getting the raw SQL code from your export and just nav to the database you want to create tables in and paste the code into the SQL box under the SQL tab and that should work. If this is what youre already doing then try checking the permissions for your users in the tool i said above, if there are no users then create one and give it full permissions, you could try a ROOT user if it isnt there already, if it is then give it full permissions and try again.