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I'm confused as to what the point of this is?

 

You mean just so that someone can use one registration to join a multitude of forums, but only one at a time, right?

 

If so, why not just register there directly?

The point of my program is that its a client/server program that is the primary communication application for my

clan. People already have user accounts on the server/client program with avatars, affiliations to inter-clan teams

and more. I want instead of them registering on the forum and the program, for them to be done in one form.

I would set it up to try and block anyone from registering without having an account on my application that I designed

(the communication application) and just link the forum and the program together.

 

Theoretically you could, i think, connect to the remote database and go from there. However the problem is you are skipping all the validation of the signup page. This might not seem to big a deal if it will be only you that uses the program but you would need to have some validation in your VB to prevent you accidentally entering wrong data and to check if the chosen username already exists (same goes for email too) otherwise you end up overwriting data. You also need to find a host who is willing to allow remote access to the database. That might not be so easy to find.

 

If i were you i would go for loading the signup page within an internal browser in VB. You would need to create custom HTTP headers to include the POST data though, so you'd have to read up on that.

 

To do the PHP page version you would just create a hidden browser element in VB, have a radio select box or something for each forum and then depending on which one is clicked/selected it changes the address of the inbuilt browser to https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ etc.. with the custom HTTP headers.

I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with doing advanced HTML or PHP. I've read through a lot of code but I don't really know what is what.

Could you give me an example of how a HTTP header works with POST to change things inside the signup.php page?

The only thing that comes to mind when you described that is the index.php?variablehere=something&variable2here=something would it be like that?

And how would I combine that with the page (if that is the correct way). Sorry if this is confusing at all.

With the addition of the new myCENT system, instead of credits, users will be receiving myCENTS. When you create an account on the Xisto Billing Center,

after a few hours your Xisto account and your xisto billing account will be linked. You will receive an initial payment for your previous hosting credits earned

(or so I believe). Instead of free hosting through Xisto, the myCENTS you earn on Xisto will be transferred to your Xisto Billing Account, where you can

buy ANY Xisto package. That means you can purchase a Logic Plan (similar to Xisto's hosting) for 1-5 dollars (100-500 myCENTS). Domain names will be

the same way, domains in the Xisto Billing Center cost 9.99/per yr. That means 999 myCENTS on the Xisto forum.

Wow OpaQue and Buffalo...you both have been working hard! Nice work.

 

One problem about my myCENTs....I did have 60, but it was decreased for some reason. How come that happened?

 

-Sky

Your myCENTS only go up to 100, after 100 they are automatically deposited into your xisto billing account.

If you went and checked into your xisto account (click on the mycents link next to any post) and you should

see a few dollars in your account already.

Im part of a large multi-gaming clan, so ive played hundreds of online games (mainly client based).

 

Some of the best games I've played I'll list here;

 

S4 League:

S4 League is an online client based 3rd Person fighter/sports game. It features cartoon style graphics and a quick movement style.

Players can customize the style of their fighter through hundreds of unique equipment and items, including Cabal Online looking

robes. Guns are all lazer based weapons, including lazer sniper rifles, lazer machine guns, lazer shotguns, etc. Game modes include

Touchdown (U.S. Football type game), and Deathmatch (standard eliminate the other team to win).

 

Luminary Online:

Luminary is an online MMORPG, also featuring cartoon graphics. Its best part is a highly user based market. Virtually every useable

item in-game is manufacturable by players, by using resources that come from fighting monsters. Players can also be voted into

leadership of towns or the entire 'goonzu' world. The game is launched from a browser and is available at ijji.com

I can see how this would be extremely annoying, but it sounds necessary.People pay companies to repeatedly search for certain terms and use googlein ways to raise their pagerank. In order to stop this, google has smart codeto keep the pagerank companies from abusing google's ranking system.

Radicaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!

Crds plz

Ok, I have another question, this one probably a lot more complicated.I have a server/client system with user accounts all set up. I want to be able to dynamically create a user on any typeof forum, IPB, SMF, etc through vb.net. Im assuming this means going through one of two ways, the first being able tolink up with an online mySQL database with the forum, and how would I add users that way, or a second way of is therea way to open like the registration.php file with certain conditions that would automatically register the variables in theconditions to a user account. I might have to post this in the PHP section if I can't connect with the mySQL/similar way.But im hoping somone knows how this would work.

Ok, that makes a lot more sense than what I read on wiki :)Time to go back to reading through all those packages... lol

I don't know really anything about Addon domains or parked domains, but im assuming that with the subdomain, once I get enough myCENTSto buy a domain hopefully in a week or two, ill be able to purchase the domain and change the hosting package over from the subdomain tothe bought domain correct? Or would I need to buy a package with more addon domains or something?

Your right on that as a few people over the Xisto history have gotten the default within 5-10 posts because of how the hosting credits worked based on the credit rate for each group. Of course, that is why 3-4 good posts can easily get the 10 credit package and so I would say that your close on the number of posts, but remember though that a very in depth tutorial can max out the 10 credit limit and so if you post tutorials like that. Then you could easily get a hosting package off that one tutorial if of course it isn't copied and pasted from somewhere.

You mean like the one that took me about 2 hours to type out and check all my facts and then I posted it, its been a week they haven't made it visible

and it was worth like 30 credits? Yeah... lol. But in a post I made in a different topic, I pointed out that after seeing how cheap some of these packages

are and actually having a good use for them, im tempted to go out and get a prepaid credit card or something to buy some hosting. I think this will

widen Xisto's customers because of the mix with a paid system.

If I were the judge, that would have nothing to do with jail time. Anybody could think of a better reason than that.

And that's why your not a Judge. In some states, if you swear, taunt, or provoke in any way, the victim of that

provocation is sometimes is let off if they respond physically.

I think the myCENT system is great. It gives people more potential for customization of their site, and how it runs.

I know some people think that maybe the myCENT might not be good for Xisto as a whole though, because of all

the free money being given out to posters. But look at it this way, even though im a student and need cash for

books and such, I'm starting to see how cheap good hosting is, and how useful it is to me. Using the myCENT program

I think some of us are going to start paying for some of the more advanced features since its only a few dollars more.

 

But so far, I have no complaints... well okay how about taking domain purchases off Xisto credits and similar

products? Otherwise im very happy with the myCENT system.

I'd actually argue that it wasn't anything to do with the Facebook change. Im willing to bet that was just the best excuse

the husband had to try and lower the jail time. He had to have some reason of provocation and that was the only prooveable

evidence. But its still horrific...

Hey,
First of all your question is not a dumb one at all To own a VPS is like owning a miniature version of a dedicated server :-

To picture how a VPS is, you simply look at your own Hard-Disk. You make partitions right? Be it C, D, E, F. A VPS is the same, one server is divided into many drives or parts. Now what they do in a vps is that they first decide the space it requires and then add a barrier to make sure that it is isolated from everything else present on the server guaranteeing security and ability to add a different OS on it.

When the above said barrier is added on a VPS, it acts like a fence keeping outsiders away from your property and it also makes sure that your activities affect only you and no one else. This allows the addition of any software, opening/closing of any port, addition of proxies and so on. This is the same reason why a person logs into his server at super level access (root/admin)

Thus you can say that owning a vps is like a dedicated server because it gives you everything you need except for HUGE amount of space and bandwidth unlike a Dedi.

Ok so I get the part about separating it up into multiple mini-dedicated servers, but I don't quite understand the 'super level access'.
I'm interested in this because I designed my own system in .NET using server/client in Winsock and for users to manage teams and our
ventrilo server dynamically. If what I understand is correct, with the VPS hosting I'd have sort of a remote-desktop type connection
ability to the server so I could remotely startup my server application (whereas I can't with normal hosting). I wouldn't need too much
bandwidth because it uses about 0.2 Kilobytes per second per user, and most likely there would be a max of 20 users online at any
normal time. Thats uhh... 10 gigs... Plus I'm working on a way to load news/user avatars from a URL so that could be hosted on a normal
webserver with more bandwidth another plus for this new myCENT program. But I just wanna clarify the part about being able to
physically start and manage my server application remotely before I think about buying VPS.

Its funny how almost all of us already use Open Office.It just goes to show that Microsoft really is hurting and they're working hard on newoperating systems to make money off of. On OOo itself, Its the same thing asM$'s Office product, with a slightly more confusing interface, but its worth the extrafew seconds of confusion for the price.

The Hosting Credits label is going to disappear soon

And that's what confuses me. When the hosting credits label dissapears, how do we know when and where
to renew the Xisto hosting? Is it going to be taken out of our myCENT? If it is I may want to put my Xisto
hosting off and wait a day or two until I have enough myCENTs to buy a Logic package with better bandwidth.

I think its pretty smart what people are doing. They understood there is a large group that values what they do on these virtual worlds, and will pay them.Take a look at the Stock Markets (global), there all going down, investment in the real world isn't a very good idea for most people right now. But the moreyou read into these virtual worlds, the more you see is that EVERYONE recommends investing because they always seem to make a profit. All those peoplewho are willing to spend 10-15 dollars a month on a game, they go into the game and purchase the virtual items for fun, and the people who are selling theitems can make a good profit. The only thing that would worry me with an investment like that is about the buyback. Is it a guarantee? Or could the companywho sold you the virtual cash in the first place suddenly shut down and theres no way to turn your virtual money back into real money. So its a gamble (slightly)But if your constantly buying and selling you shouldn't have a problem, just don't make investments too high, so if they do eventually shut down, you only hadmaybe 20-40 percent of your virtual budget in the game at the time. And you'll always be making a profit (supposedly) so you can be increasing that budgetconstantly.

For the console, I have to say that Nintendo Wii is the best, I know it doesn't have any of the classic storyline games that I'll missbut its the most enjoyable with friends. Before multi-player was slow and limited now you can have an absolute blast with most gamesand their usually pretty quick. But even for the people who don't play with friends, theres the Internet capability on Wii that can alsomake it memorable having ultra-hard matches online for everything. But hey, the backwards compatability with Wii is cool too. Almostany game you played on a previous Nintendo Console can be played on Wii, so you can have all the fun from before and still makesome new memories on the Wii.As for a handheld, even though the DS is a new style of play, I'd have to say button mashing on a gameboy advance was the MOSTFUN IVE EVER HAD. Playing Pokemon late into the night with my lvl 99 charizard was awesome, and nothing can beat it.But then again, I don't know too much about the DS, so maybe its better, but the GBA was still awesome ;D

This is probably a dumb question, but what exactly is VPS hosting?After reading up on wikipedia I found out it's essentially a server with a bunch of split operating systems on it.The article also said generally a VPS hosting service gives its users superlevel-access so they could runany software on the Operating System. Is that true? If it is VPS hosting would be very useful to me and myclan because we need a dedicated system to run a server im developing (writing it in .NET). So I would needan updated Windows XP OS to run it on. But for some reason I'm doubting VPS hosting is really that advanced.Can anyone shed some light on what VPS hosting really is?

You can't reasonably compare Football to Soccer.Football is a game where strength and team strategies are key to winning. You have to be able to physically hold off the opponent teamand then use your team strategy to slowly push up the field. Soccer however is all about agility and finesse, you can't use any physicalcontact at all for an advantage. So really they aren't comparable.

Well I highly doubt it is possible to run an Operating on a sever and design a computer that connects to that server without software that doesn't use an operating system to make that connection. Besides of the extreme difficulty of pulling something that off, I still believe that the operating system will still be installed the old fashion way, with restore CD's just in case you have to reinstall it or a unique back up system that is store either locally or on a server and a person could roll back on. Of course, that is just some crazy idea's that just came to mind and I would say once the Cloud computing starts to age and everyone starts getting involved with setting up these next generation operating systems, then everyone will get a better idea what will be happening.Nah, Microsoft is book to at least 2010-2012 on producing windows operating systems, but I think once windows 7 is out or stable enough, only then will Microsoft will spend the hundreds of millions to start a new operating from scratch again. I totally agree with you that I wouldn't be surprise if they slip in windows aspects into this new operating system, hopefully one of them isn't a registry, the winsxs file system and RAM hogging.
Well it is not fake, still in rumorville and people talking and to answer your question about why Microsoft needs to give up windows, I think the phrase "Most hacked operating system in the computer industry" comes to mind. It isn't a matter of switching to another operating system, but I wouldn't be surprise if Apple is already thinking of a framework to get a cloud computing operating system going and as for linux, I won't be surprise if a lot of free linux versions go to commercial paid versions in order to cover costs, training people and constantly updating cloud computer operating systems 24/7.

Well yeah, its impossible to use cloud computing without having a base system. A network card doesn't know how to operate on its own ;D
But potentially a cloud system would mean a 2MB file on a disc could remotely download the rest of the operating system (effectively
minimizing installation time to your connection speed), and then have the rest of your data stored on a huge raid system for free (gotta
put that $600 bucks for something right?). But I highly doubt storing data would be online seeing the new Solid-State Drives that are
coming out, because they are nearly instant drives, and people will still feel secure by having their data on their own machine.

But as for Windows 7, I think their bringing it out too fast, people are getting confused with the sudden rush of Operating Systems being
released. Programmers are making a lot of money selling programs in all kinds of different languages that support these new OS's,
so as one I guess I should be happy. But before Microsoft released a new OS on an average of 7 years, that gave time for the pollsters
to gather data on what they need in new versions, and gave people time to upgrade (vista had time, but people felt rushed).

As for linux, I believe it will still remain a geek only OS, so I don't think it will grow. Because Windows and Mac dominate the market
and their *ALMOST* idiot-proof OS's, I don't think the general public will ever start to learn how the Operating System REALLY works.

I've been doing some research for my latest project, and I need to get Images from my website into my application (uploaded Avatars).It's all working that the image buffers until its done, then changes the image over once its done. But I don't know if theres a way toautomaticly resize the image once its been buffered? Say my picturebox is 100 by 100, and they use a link to a 350 by 100 picture insteador even a 200, 200. (the different ratios). Would I have to use something like GDI to edit the image or is there a setting I don't know aboutthat does this for me?

If anyone else has other opinions, please do share, I'm writing this review after about 7 hours of gameplay in CB.Blackshot is a FPS (First Person Shooter) published by Outspark.Blackshot is similar to Combat Arms, WarRock, Soldier Front, and Wolfteam.Gameplay consists of SD (Search & Destroy) and TFM (Team Flag Match) modes.Single Player (still need internet connectivity) player mode 'Bunker Defense' isavailable.The feel of the game is closest to Combat Arms I'd have to say, the movementis kind of 'soft', almost like your gliding across the floor. The hit box areas areabout the same as WarRock very exact around the body, although there area few times people shoot next to you and kill you. Graphics are mid-range, highquality textures but no anti-aliasing. The network is Peer-to-Peer, but unlikeother P2P games such as WarRock, there is a dedicated host (not the roommaster) and if they have a slow computer the entire game can freeze onevery person in the room.Items/Guns - (1-10) = 7Game Modes - (1-10) = 8Network - (1-10) = 3Graphics - (1-10) = 5Overall - (1-10) = 6

So what your saying is that with the myCENT feature, hosting won't be auto-renewed?In my mind, your saying that the hosting on Xisto will be converted into actual packageson Xisto, so we'll all be having paid packages instead of the free one. At least thats justthe way it sounds to me. But I got my initial payment linked on Xisto - Web Hosting and itseems like its a pretty sweet payment rate. I think it will definitely make me think aboutmore tutorials and such xDOh and I almost forgot, under Misc, it says you can order Xisto credits, but when I clickon it, it says this package requires a domain name, so I'm wondering if thats just a glitch or what o.O

Been looking the system over for a good 15-30 minutes, looks pretty beast.One question tho, what the conversion rate from Xisto day/points to myCENTS?Maybe someone put it in here but I don't see it. And I'm waiting for my accountto link to figure it out.Edit: And yes, I win the retardation badge, I missed that explanation of cents by SM xD