shadowx
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i did this once too except abit lamer! what i did was the content was stored as a SEPERATE html file and numbered eg 1.htm or given a proper name if i could be bothered! using php i just did something like this: <a href=modules.php?mod=1>item 1</a> then in the php file it was basically: <?$module = $_POST['mod'];$module = "$module" + ".htm"; echo "<HTML>all the html stuff goes here <start content area>";include($module);echo "<end content area> finish html stuff </html>";?> there was more to it than that because of giving people access to only certain files but that is a basic way of doing it. Your current html stuff from your template will go between the quotes where it says: echo" "; and the "mod=1" will change to whatever the file name is, for example if the filename of the html file is friends.html it will be <a href=modules.php?mod=friends>Friends</a> i dont know if that made any sense i hope it did. its really not too complicated it might look it but thats just because its pretty untidy!
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after installing big games i found that it does help quite alot with stopping lag and increasing hte loading times of the maps and as already posted the same goes for big application installs/uninstalls. if you game a lot and do get lag you should try this as a simple solution. if it doesnt work then its probably due to low RAM but it did increase loading times for me as everything the game needed was in one place :rolleyes:its a good idea but its not the ultimate solution to every problem in my opinion but still worth doing every now and again.
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Tracking My Stolen Laptop please all read and reply if you can
shadowx replied to shadowx's topic in General Discussion
humm i was afraid of that...if i do notify microsoft what happens if it is recovered? can i just ring up prove my ownership and get it unlocked again?the stuff on there isnt absolutely vital, i can get my coursework off my tutors again easy enough to work on, still annoying tho, had some good programs and loads of pics of my stuff and more annoyingly all my site backups but i can make them again. had to go and change all my important passwords just in case, ive got my history on it and all my passwords are saved on it but i changed those. i would go buy another one but im a student at college so only get ?30 a week and it cost 600 when my dad got it for me just hoping that it gets found in great condition or the insurance pays for another one. ill keep looking out for it with the software though...gah! cant wait to get my hands on the guy that done it, now that would be fun! -
Well 5 am arrives and instead of being fast asleep im awake worrying about where my laptop and loads of othger stuff has got to... what a great day this is turning out to be, oh and the police dont seem to think were being honest they think were tryin to do a dodgy insurance claim...fantastic!!! My laptop dual boots windows and linux the default being windows so the ******* that stole it will most likely use windows if they use it atall, so what i want is a way of pinpointing its location, i have remote help installed that is activated whenever the laptop is turned on into windows and i know i can use this to control the laptop if it ever comes online. but thats not helpfull as i forgot to install robotic legs so i could tell it to walk home...(my attempt at humor on such a crappy day...) so anyone know how i can do this? if i can find out exactly where it is ill be able to send the police there or ... well you get the idea. Any ideas? i was thinking of using the remote help software (found at logmein.com if anyone is interested) to install a backdoor program as my firewall only has one day left anyway and then i can use that whenever i want access hopefully. I doubt it will stay around for long itll probably get wiped and ill never see it again but its a bit of hope ive still got so any feedback would be very very helpful in this.Thanks
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thanks for that electriic ink it makes sense, i think ill use a database and some of the functions below to strip the HTML and then do it that way.i learn something new every day! stil lhave no idea how i got the whole 255 character limit thing from though...it puzzled me how forums worked i just assumed they used some kind of file to store the data in, now i know differently!
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Humm...i might give the database idea a go it would savea lot of hassle i guess it just made me think also with this forum that it seems to have each post stored as a HTML file, if you look at the address bar its topicname12345.html where 12345 is a random number. I shall try using the database and such i think. God knows where i got the idea of a character limit then! thanx
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Well im bi and to be honest i think MOST men and women are not worth my time, most men are selfish, unfeeling and inconsiderate people who only seem to think about sex, maybe its my age group (teenage boys that are so obsessed by sex though!) they are agressive and dont seem to treat other people properly. Now understand that im talking about most men i know that there are a lot of men out there that are the total opposite and are fantastic people!Women have bad thnigs too though, they can be so damn vain! i mean you really dont need to take 3 hours to put make up on! The more you put on the worse you look! also as said sometimes women shift the blame a lot to men whereas men just blame it on the tools or the dog next door! And yes women can be so hypocritical! with my mates (mainly girls!) they like to take our phones and go through our messages and change our little welcome notes or our bluetooth names for a joke, all taken in good fun untill we try to do the same to them! They go into their whole little 'let the whole world feel sorry for me' voice "oh no please dont, if you were a true friend...blah blah..." now that really annoys me! if you can do it to me i can do it to you! and yes they can be pretty sexist sometimes but most of the time they are putting it down to the experience theyve had of guys so far as there are a lot of sexist guys out there. Just to make it clear i know that not all women or all men are like this. im only going on what my friends are like and the people ive seen in the media and on the streets and such. i know that a lot of people are so nice like my friends i think they are great but we all know that there are a lot of bad people, meaning men and women and to be honest i think that there are just as many bad men as women. but if anything the women are slightly better as they have a brain and dont need to hit each other to sort things out, and women are so much fun to be around and talk to!im a guy if any one is wondering!
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Hello everyone Im TRYING to make a forum and obviously for security i need to disable HTML tags being used in posts. i know how to use the str_replace() function but to be honest i think id have to do that for every single tag. I also trued using the html <XMP> stuff </XMP> tag but i need to be able to use the new line tag to make a new line as all the posts are stored as HTML. if this isnt clear let me give an example: hopefully that explains it better. so unless i can find another way of putting lnie breaks into the mesage i need to disable all html tags except the new line tag. im begining to think that html might not be ideal for storing the message data, but i was sure that an sql table had a character limit of 255 characters or am i wrong? Thanx in advanced
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i shall take a peek at reducing the image sizes and such now im on half term ive got a chance :)i wrote it all myself but it was working fine before this. ive just tried loading the index.php several times and still nothingit seems that if you guys can see it all working maybe its my PC or ISP i shall try on another computer in the house and add the results as an edit, see if that will help find the problem**EDIT**I tried it on the other computer and it did work properly so it must be a problem with my laptop.Any ideas? Notice from BuffaloHELP: Please do not double post. Just edit and add to your existing post if it's the last one of the thread. Merging. The problem is still there so does anyone have any idea as to what it is? atleast if i know what it is i have a chance of solving the problem?Anyone? i really cant think fo what it is because its only my laptop thats having the problem, its strange so any help would be great
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So so true. If i hadnt heard things about Vista locking the hard drives and its possible links to trusted computing then i might of considered it, Though IE7 would have been out straight away. I think XP is the last ever version of windows my laptop will ever see providing i can get linux to use my screen properly. From what ive heard there are a lot of new thnigs that you wont see, and not a single one of them will be good. And im sure itll cost abut Ł150 for a peice of software which is stupidity. If the price was about Ł40-Ł50 then i might consider it, and if it didnt have links with trusted computing and encrypting my hard drive then i would probably give it the benefit of the doubt but now its too far gone. Although i do like the graphical interfaces of windows i dont like what goes on behind closed doors. I think Vista will have a great GUI as MS have got their finger on a good GUI for their operating systems lately but i doubt ill get Vista, although i did like the possiblilty of using flash USB drives as extra RAM, not sure how well it would work though or even if its still planned for vista, i know in the days it was called longhorn it was planned but i dont know about now.
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Hi people!I just noticed that none of my php pages are working, they dont have any source so arent sending anythnig to the browser which is strange as it seems like they are working on the server because they are detecting if someone is logged in and redirecting accordingly but theres just no soruce code and no page showing up. My HTML pages seem to be working ok but my site is dependant on php Any ideas to the problem or just the server being difficult like computers do?Thanksps ive tried in IE and firefox and cleared my cache, thought id try the obvious first!
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I used it once before but for some reason it stopped working, something about missing files or soemthing so i gave up on it instead of downloading it again, then i found the gimp whichi think is much more usefull and easier to use in general. I do like it better for creating images though where i use gimp mainly for editing exsisting images. I think dogwaffle is easier for making the images because its tools are easy to use but liek you said it can get very confusing especially if youre not an image editing guru like moi!Its still a good program though but i do prefer GIMP
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Me and my bro had a problem like this and it was to do with the always on top thing as above. Thre was a small virus that kept flashing up a command prompt that went very quickly, so what im saying is that you might not see the program. The best way to trouble shoot it in my opinion is to disable thnigs like norton and such that are actively running programs and see what happens. Things like firewalls, anti virus (just do it for a short period if youre a little worried about doing that or simply take the machine offline for the test) the program you mentioned also and if the same thing doesnt happen again then you know which program it is. Disable/exit the mone at a time of course adn once you find the right one you might be able to fix the problem. Also does it happen at regular times or just randomly?
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Seawater Energy? a new way to get energy using seawater.
shadowx replied to sugarplumsistar's topic in Science and Technology
it uses isoptopes of hydrogen from sea water right? now i know theres a lot of sea water but at one point there was a lot of oil...what happens if we use this power for thousands of years? then we get deserts instead of seas. what i dont understand is why they dont use a hydrogen engine to make energy then give off water, split the water into oxygen and hydrogen and reuse it...stil its a step forward -
Is Life A Conspiracy? My theory on life.
shadowx replied to scotty_knows's topic in Science and Technology
Im always thinknig about things liek this especialyl after seeing the matrix, (wait stay with me here...) i mean how the heck can a blackhole be like it is....how can a star imploding suddenly have an infinate amount more gravity than what created it? its like imploding a 1.5v battery and getting 1.5billion volts out. it jus makes no sense to me, i know im not a rocket scientist but it jus makes no sense how it can have mroe gravity than it started with AND! how light can be an energy but also be a mass (photons...) and if its got no mass then how can black holes suck it in...its stupid. also the human and every other living animal's body is not one body...if you think about it its made up of millions of litle animals (cells) who have realised that by sticking together theey can make a shape which will help them get resources like food, water and oxygen and by arranging themselves by their function they manage to make things work. and in nuclear fusion how can two things hitting each otehr with a lot of force create energy? thats just not possible two things hitting each other make a noise and change direction, simple as. ghosts and such (although i belive so many different things about what they are and how they are) could simply be errors in a computer program (yes im back to the matrix but jus listen!) it would make sense. Sony have a patent on ultra sonic technology that will create a REAL matrix like experience where the game would be effectively beamed into the brain and you would be inside it. Say this technology had come out already and we had all been 'plugged in' how would we know? we could be test subjects of sony or something and we wouldnt know, its possible, you know it is.BUT....some sense...what makes me think its not is things like love, i mean how can ANY computer program or any other simulator make love and make us feel it? thats just not possible, and when you can almost feel what someones soul is like and tell how good or bad they are from the feeling you get from them? no computer could make that up and other than the thnigs above everything else in life is pretty much perfect in the way thnigs work.Overall i couldnt say yes or no, sometimes yes and sometimes no, just life and the universe is so strange.... -
As said murderers and rapists basically ALL criminals except petty ones should be tested on in the place of animals, it serves two puproses, one its a great deterrant against crime and secondly we can still perform tests and theyre much better becuase theyre on humans so apply to humans, its perfect.animals dont desreve the treatment they get they really dont and then rapist and such get TV a nice bed someone to sleep and all for free...WTF?! something is wrong there right?!i really hate animal testing and such like. Also we should take care of the earth as otherwise we are a virus, we can easilly save the earth from further damage we all have to try.
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Howdy everyoneI just spent a while making what i think is an alright first sig but i need the background to be transparent and when i save it as a GIF it isnt. Im using the GIMP to do it in and in there its transparent, i saved a copy (so not to ruin it when i flattened the layers) selected to flatten the layers rather then save as an animation (although i have tried that too and got the same result) didnt covner it to greyscale as its in colour and saved it. when i view it it has a white background instead of transparent and i used a little html test page to see if it was really transparent and if it was jsut the image veiwer not handling it well but its not transparent its still white so how do i save it in a form that i can use on the web and also that has a transparent background?Thanks hope someone can help.
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if lycos is actively sending virusses to infect exe files and spy on people then they are in breach of coimputer laws and could be brought down...although the practicality is does anyone have the time and money to do that? no :)Ive never heard of this before and i used a lycos free account once but i never had any problems possibly because i never uploaded anything other than html and php files and much less than 300kb. maybe they use that to track suspected hacjers trying to uplaod virusses and such?But its a good enough reason for me not to log in to my account again. ill keep an eye out for that exe file though, can you remember what directory/folder it was in so i can look easier? maybe it goes into the same directory every time. if i do have it ithink ill be emailing lycos about it.Thanks for letting us know.
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a couple of my mates done this to another mate and said they were some girl, photoshopped some porn images of a girl and said that was what they looked like and asked for some naked pictures of him...and he sent them lolAtleast he did help you abit though and he taught you not to trust anyne online untill you really get to know them and have met them for real. and what Justin said lol that really mightve turned out worse!
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the freewebs site builder sucks but you can write your own code which is usefull for absolute beginners who only need html and javascript to begin learning. My space is possibly the worst invention ever in the whole world. it doesnt deserver the three seconds of time it took to create the idea IMHO. and piczo....oh dear god! its good for one thing wasting time. Their guestbooks are possible the worst ive ever seen. and the people that make them generally have nothing to do with their lives so they make a tacky looking cheap and stupid website that makes no sense atall and as already said the navigation is not even worth having there and the fact that they TRY to protect the pictures from being copied by fail miserably makes it worse. Ive never used any of the sitebuilders above properly although i did start with a freewebs template and modify it. Ive only seen the outcome of silly little people begging me to sign their blogs or whatever. These and other site builders do nothing good for this world and shiuld be banned. Some PROPER wysiwyg editors such as fireworks are ok because theyre not like site builders with silly templates and uncustomizable layout and design.I hate them too!
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Get My Pc Files Accessed Anywhere Getting my PC as a server
shadowx replied to BooZker's topic in Websites and Web Designing
Humm...tghe first thing is to check your firewall for its access on port 80 and obviously allow it from any computer as thats what you'd need for a web server type machine. I guess you already have a webserver program installed but you might have to do some configuration with that methinks.You might want to check your ISP info about it aswell, i cant see them being a problem but its worth a check and also remember that as youll be using it as a webserver the bandwidth usage will go sky high so if your isp has an upload limit or bandwidth usage limit then you might want to watch it closely. Also it will depend on your connection speed as to how quickly you can download music from it onto your psp obviously. Other than that i cant see many problems but ive never set up a true webserver, i used my webserver program to make a local server and it worked on my mini network but i dont know about the web. Best thing is trial and error, just remember the security issues of having your port 80 widely accessible by the web make sure your firewal checks traffic and can block it on its own if it needs to and such like to make sure no-one gets past your public html folder(s) -
Sql Injections What are they, and how to prevent them?
shadowx replied to matto's topic in Security issues & Exploits
As i understand sql injections it is a way to send a modifed query to the database, ithink the simplest and easiest to protect against is writing a query into the url of the querying page. eg: the proccessing page is proccess.php the normal query is "SELECT * FROM here WHERE blah=$blah" some pages would store variables in the url or use the GET method so for example: proccess.php?blah=something_else a VERY simple sql injection would be loading the page as: proccess.php?blah=* then all database entried would be retreived, a simple way to protect against that is using the above methods to protect against special characters being used and any sensitive variables being sent from a form using the POST method, that way no-one can see them and use them for anything and if they try entering variables in the url they will be ignored. Also what i have done is because i use POST ive told my php to only load the variables from the POST variables i remember with a previous host i could use the second option of not including the POST or GET arrays as it would select them automatically, i thought that could be a problem if someone submits a bad value in the url and it gets selected over the good variable. i hope that all made sense, just always remember to keep regular backups of files and databases, keep good logs running to track bad users and report them if you need to and let people know you are watching them and will take action. -
do you mean flash as in animations on websites of making flash animations yourself? if you mean installing flashplayer to veiw flash animations online i know there is a linux flash player for firefox ive used before and it works fine, just abit tricky to install..atleast it is for me because i dont use linux much as it has problems with my widescreen monitor but try googling for the download if thats what you need or run linux and try to veiw a flash animations and let it find it for you!
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i must admit i didnt hold up much hope, you understood my question though! maybe itll be possible with php to redirect the request withut the filtering server finding out...Thanx for your input.To google I go!
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I'm like you in that i learn best from doing, i just cant learn from reading and watching i have to do it to know it properly. The way i learnt was to read some things, like with php (its he language i know best but the same ideas apply) i read a few tutorials like variables and writing things to a browser it started with stuff like but i eneded up using that simple command to write an entire dynamic website. the thing is you need to take small things and expand them. I think you should read about every command there is to know. first of all get an idea. Maybe a simple calculator. learn how to add things andf how to output the data in text. Then learn how to make it do more complex things like FORMAT the data then output it. Then move on from that to something more complicated like a spell checker using an external file. Dont bother learning the ins and outs of how to read files just concentrate on the parts you need THEN learn the rest. this way you dont get bored of jus reading you only read what you need to know then use it and modify it yourself rather than reading more. Once you get tired of one command or it just isnt good enough anymore learn about a new one. Thats how im learning more php, im trying to make a forum and to be honest i havent got much of a clue what im doing or how to do it but by doing what ive said aboce i know i can make one. Hope that helped a little bit! good luck and dont give up, infortunately i cant program in C or C++ so i cant give any specific advice but thats worked for me with html javascript php and some VB so it should work for you!