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Man, they have a cool GUI [Graphic User Interface] and tons of monitors with random flashing thing-a-majig.. It looks cool and nicer than staring at thousand of lines of machine codes just to make that piece of IC to work they way you want it to work. Frankly, sometimes making new stuffs makes me bored and I started to give up on my AI software that eats a lot of disk space before I can make it to play tictactoe. GNU and open source systems are a good base for those that are new to programming or have no idea what to start with but have a cool acontribution to add to the existing projects.

As being part of the culture, I disagree that hackers are all bad. More likely it is a culture that are misunderstood. Please dont forget that the online and digital world are created by hackers not by normal end user people. What are hackers depends on what group you are asking. Ask a group of computer gamers and the meaning of hackers are those that uses keyloggers to steal game accounts. Ask a group of computer students and the term hackers goes credits to virus programmers. Ask some security experts and it will diverge into two groups and an introduction of phreakers, crackers and others stuff. Media also plays bad about the hackers reputation blaming all things they cant comprehend as a hacker activity. ***********-************* About air hacking, I normaly use one builtin 500bmps wireless card and a plugin wireless card. it consumes alot of memory and processor time which i avoided by befriending the admin of my target network. From the interaction, i get an idea what is on the other side of the network and what it is worth. Well, most of the time, even a good Network admin leaves some tiny holes that can grow big and the end users lack of skills in online world makes them as the biggest security hole. On my last demonstration with my previous company, I have successfully turned 20+ computers into zombies out of 315 [on my last count] of computers by sending a birthday card to the end users using a spoofed mail. Then the zombies connects to my wireless network. Viola, I was part of the network with the zombies as bridges.. Surely it take me a while to get a zombie that have a wireless card and a lan card connected but i was aware that 15% of the computer population in the company operates on laptops that have both.

What is your website? If the your site is the one in your footer, it is working on mine.Cannot check it on my side for my account since I hit below -6..

Can you provide some more details.. If you like, I can give you the class I am using to access the database. The class is just a wrapper and very easy to understand. Works with mySQL only since I am using mySQL with my webbase needs.

If sendmail was anot activated then you can send emails using sendmail. There are two ways to send emails and one is using sendmail which is a module and the other one is by using apache's mail function. --- It is possible to use sendmail even if your host dont support them, you only need to provide an alternate sendmail server with login credentials. I made mine using gmail as sendmail server.

I encourage you to get https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html but the recommendation above min also works. Just visit both sites and pick the best pack that will work with you. Take a look at this parts. You have the wrong combination in there mate. You have installed mySQL and so mySQL will take over the connectivity of the ports needed by mySQL built-in. And you installed PHP with mySQL built-in support which is mySQL and mySQLi. This versions surely cannot run on its owns since mySQL standalone is already using all the ports and connection that these modules need. When you run Joomla, you did not reconfigure your Apache/PHP to unload the built-in mySQL modules and making Apache/PHP to still use the built-in functions. You should tinker a little bit with you configuration and unload the built-in versions or uninstall the standalone mySQL. By the way the error can also be triggered by a wrong password. Check you Apache/PHP configuration for the folder name of the Session Save Path. Normally it points inside the apache folder and is not initially created. Create that folder and make sure you can write on it. Configuration file for apache is named http.conf, and it may include some other link files. On my version, I got one http.conf and 17 include files. Php configuration is PHP.ini if i am not mistaken, mySQL config can be found in two places most of the time. One in its installed folder and one in %systemroot%/system32

wow. first the increase in hosting and now free domains. am i dreaming here? surely i have never been in a host like this. Buff it that free domain came in asta, can I bug you also at the same rate that I bugged you the first time I got my paid hosting in Xisto - Web Hosting. LOL.

well, having bazillion dollars worth of information does count.. guess i am correct. why would need to have root or control on windows desktops when knowing that they can contain less information. the much logical things i can see on exploiting windoze desktops are the following 1. to steal bank data from users when they type in there accounts 2. create zombies for the hackers other purposes. [free spamming email server anyone? DDOS anybody?] ---------- Now on *Nixes, this is harder not that there are less exploits.. in fact a *Nix install out of the box will have lots of exploits open and lots of vulnerability. however, we do configure aren't we? I have conducted a test between two system. windoze and Fedora, i turn on windows proection and firewall from fresh install and I define an IPtables in Fedora. Fedora turns out to be invisible to nmap and other port scanning software. windoze was clearly visible and ports are replying to nmap. I have succesfully made a DDOS using 20 computers on windoze and it crashed, fedora remains untouched.. No test on mac, dont have money to buy one.

I wont consider something that gives patches and crashes the whole system it patches. Darn windows, and I cant get the needed patches I want without first applying the "required" patches that crashes windoze.. The thing that must be tackled here is integrity and then security. On linux boxes patches came in hundreds per day since linux is made up of thousands of modular pieces. On windoze, patches came regularly, and it silently patch your system and just sent you a notice that you need to reboot. And when I turn off that darn automatic update, an annoying icon appears that my windoze is unsafe. ------ On side note that Linux was not having a good share of exploits and attacks, It does knowing that 80% of *Nixes are running as servers with thousands of data. A good hacker wont aim for the windoze on desktops unless if they want a hord of zombies. A tasty buffet was *Nixes with millions of worth of data. Patches only came faster in *Nixes. Another side note. If windoze problems of security error came from third party programs, you have not landed your hand on *Nixes where almost everything came from third party supplier. Bloody hell, I can't believe that when i updated BCC compiler on my *Nix, I need to figure out what I need out of 37 different variations of the said library from 25 third party websites and developers. ------- Windoze = install once, worry many *Nix = install many, worry once

what printer is this? what brand and model?some printer drivers are not designed to be installed from the network but they will work when installed locally. sometimes you need to do some dirty works to make it work specially if you have incompatible drivers with regards to the current OS and patches.

hey.. you can always open your new topics.. it is not hard to maintain hosting here.. you just need to visit. and old topics that got buried somewhere can have a reincarnation. well, since asta is tech oriented, as time goes by new and newer technology arises. and if you cant find something to post at, then ask questions.. you can earn points and credits doing so.. that is what asta is for.. people asking and people giving answer. ------- pyost said.. you points will drop to 3 after you sign up for hosting.. so better stop accumulating points. accumulate points once you are hosted.

i have come from a worse company than that..--------anyone heard of the Oracle 10g self automation handsoff SysDBA settings?That was good, the way it sounds.. Now in order to do that, the sys admin must let Oracle manage itself up. No problem with that.Oracle gaves specs on instructions on how to make that possible. The minimum RAM, the partitions setups.. IBM came and setup everything. Now everything went smooth until 1 month after, the system crash.--------It was not the hardware, it was not the software.. Neither Oracle or IBM can be sued. Know what happen? Our pretty SysDBALocked out Oracle to get more space. And she, remove access for oracle to utilize Temp location for the IBM AIX.The task was to investigate and in an instance of 5 seconds, she found out the fault. Well, us programmers who dont have anyheck of idea what went wrong since we cannot login to the Oracle system.--------After hiring a $1400 per visit consultant she "admits" that is was Oracles fault by not specifying that Oracle will hang if it lacks diskspace to use. The big picture? IBM AIX base on system spec and current settings have Dual Processor, 5Gig of RAM and 2 Terrabyteof space. Enough to be consume for 10 years. Oracle was only using 2 gig of space from that Terraspace. SysDBA reason? She was not informed by Oracle that 2gig of space wont fit the 10 years of data. And she was not informed by IBMthat Oracle must have write access to get more space.--------Things end up.. all programmers resign.. anyway.. the company can pay huge sum of money for the BS sysDBA and can hire moreand more Consultants, but wont listen to programmers. Programmers = crappy person that complains and complains..

you have been a victim of cyber squatting.. these are the scum of the internet, most start as a free domain registration which is padded with ads.. and when the domain hits a lot of traffic, this signals the cyber squat that the domain is hot and they will try to grab the domain for some fast $$$..i got my nickname cyber squat also for around 7 years, but who needs my domain name.. i can always have anyname i want.. i wont pay 67k for a domain name that will hold open source stuffs..

well, since our host support mod_rewrite, i can just mod_rewrite all https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ to go to https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ i have never tried it yet but i have tested in using all https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ traffic to go to https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/..

most of the times on the XP and IE7, transparency work.. but sometimes it wont.. no idea what happen.. transparencies in PNG graphics is much nicer compared to the GIF version, that thing that sucks is the support M$ gave to the PNG format.

i guess this topic should be close. since the original poster was banned, there seems to purpose to continue this tread.just my few cents..

so i guess that the .htaccess mod_rewrite rule was not written.

as far as i am concern, there was this small thing called download grabber or something in firefox that will override how stuff will display.. i once played with it making all html files download on my computer. i cant remember if it was a plugin.. try to dis able plugins and try to browse again your website.

nice thing for mentioning this one.. Xcable or cross cable can have you a connection speed of 100kbps up depending on your lan card speed while on modem to modem.. most of the time the speed is around 56kbos or sometimes lower.. kbps is the unit of speed in computer transmission.. i guess that you are not going to use modems anyway... ---- if you are only transfering files in just one time setup.. just attached the harddisk of the other computer to into the motherboard of the other computer. then copy files, speed is limited on how fast your harddisk can read and write data.. i am using a specialise harddisk bay in my computer where i just put the harddisk in an adaptor, slide it in my harddisk cradle and all cables snap in..

When running in a domain.. a domain controller can override all settings that a local domain accounts have including the local admin. this phenomenon occur most of the time in active server pages, being a part of the local admins does not solve any problems since as an active server controller.. i can block you to get those access, being part of the local domain admin users only gives you the title to install program files which is beyond that.. nothing else is differrent. even the main local admin account is not immune to some restriction that Active server pages can give. anyway, you can gain them back by messing with your system registry, a hacking way to get all access you must have to begin with. ------------ Oracle needs to be run/install as admin on the local computer. Starting with 10g, installation of Both the server and client on the same machines needs some tweaking that made the Oracle team develop and express edition. I am using a machine with 10g server and 10g client. trick part is stop using TNS names instead connect using direct IP which is your local loopback IP or your network IP if things get a little messy. ------------- I bet you are on NTFS file system, on NTFS file system.. each files have a special NTFS hash keys which prevents programs to read of write to those files that you dont own. But it is still windows, if allowed here.. i can send you a NTFS reader program. It bypass the NTFS restriction but requires you to operate temporarily on DOS shell until you have successfully copy the files you want to access..

i think both have a NIC card and since he is a norm person when it comes to tech stuff.. NIC card is just a plan Lan Card where you put those local access cables. NIC cards are sometimes optional.. if you have two computers and both have a modem.. you can just create a null modem settings or modem to modem setup.. meaning that both modem are connected to each other. just be sure to put a phone line cable going from one pc to the other pc. ------ i am not as good as 'nightfox' but i got a reputation in file sharing and stealth computer share. My specialty are Xcables and network tunnels..

it is really too good to be true.. i dont even want to wakeup and i have killed tha bald guy that keeps on offering me a red pill and a blue pill. --- if only i can enjoy this much.. i am starting to have smaller time as day goes by to visit the board. and i am on a paradox.. if i devote time more on the forum.. i will have less time on my script development which i can test if i got a host. etc..

this is what i like with Buffalo, you keep on helping.. i remember the first day i bugged you too much about the paid hosting.. lol.. cheers, i just pump that credits a few hours ago so i cannot check it..

i dont know about you guys, but i was more happy using google hosted sites and gmail email service. you get all what you are looking for except the IMAP service. who needs them anyway if you got 2.6 gigabyte of space.

m^e! are those menus being pulled from the database by using an ajax call? if they do you need to tell ajax to return the data in utf8 or utf16 format, i go with utf8.. it seems that the encoding of the menu was western ISO as given by the post above this. i use to have that problem too then i explicitly told ajax to parse the data as utf8 since i am storing them as utf8_general_ci... in cases i forget to tell the ajax script about the encoding, i get the swedish charset which is the default on my server and my special chars turn into chunks of ?.. did you check the colation also in the mySQL database that the columns that holds the menu data are indeed set to utf8, i made this mistakes and mySQL uses the default charset.