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Lol @ cassie - if not MySpace - Orkut is always there. I like it way better than MySpace or Hi5 - coz it's way cleaner, faster, bug free and hey... it's from Google

Joined too.. come on people - we need a little more attendance there

Cool Always good to have oldies around. Welcome aboard and have a great stay !!

Write back to Google immediately with your log - telling them someone's trying to get you out of the game :unsure:It works.. if you give them the logs. Also, make sure you ban that IP from your cPanel.Just write to Google and see what they've got to say. Worst comes to worst, you'd loose it anyways - so why not give it a shot ?

Out of this the shared folder thing is TOTAL CRAP. The transfer is infamously slow MSN transfer - and for every single contact you need to create a shared folder. Which means, if you wanted to share a file with 5 of your friends, you're to drop that file into all 5 shared folders. Waste of time - waste of diskspace and wastage of internet hours. Worthless !!!

Use stack man - that's how they do it normally. Push every paranthesis you can find and for every closing one you find, pop one. But to locate it exactly, umm... lemme think about it a bit. Might be able to do it using a combination of stack and hashtables.

Welcome aboard Reikimaster. Which city are you from and which paper do you work with?

Lol.. nope Chesso. It's surely some problem with the credits system. Normally your account gets suspended once your credit level travels to the -ve zone and gets deleted once it's below -30. All this happens automatically without Admin intervention. Infact even admin intervention cannot stop it from working this way, unless you can convince an admin to stuff your account with enough credits to let the system get you back up and working again.So this has to be some problem with the script.

Patience my friend I lost everything - every last drop of it after reaching very high yesterday and building up a terrific tool collection...Well that didn't deter me I'm back in business stronger than ever.. that point of time it looked damned hopeless. I just reset my ip, changed my pass and went off to sleep. Morning I started with a fresh head and worked my way up and here I am again, strong as ever

"Table napkins" to you too Welcome aboard..

Yep - if you want to change your username, then you'll have to PM one of the admins with your desired nick.. Your displayname, however can be changed by yourself in your own profile, which can be reached by the My Controls link.

Well, it's like we had a couple of forums on our board where our members would announce hacking challenges cooked up by them.. They'd come up with small single page sites which you'd have to employe various real-world hacking techniques to reach.. Unfortunately this caused an influx of certain undesirable characters who started messing around with our paid member sites.. and hence we were forced to close the forum down.. I guess it has had a lasting impression on our members Apart from this place being a pretty hardcore technical forum visited mostly by a bunch of geeks , I'd attribute all this enthusiasm to their innate hunger for the darker side of computing.

Yup - I got mine too in Thailand.. Came around a month back and I submitted it too.

So am I .. totally hooked onto it Been playing whole day and half the night. You're right - the delays do help you get other stuff done.. And once you explained the bit about not running two counters simultaneously - that helped avoid a lot of confusion. I see seec77 and pawitp have joined up too See you around !!

Wohooooooooo.. downloaded and installed. The CONTROLS got thousandfold better. Instead of having a thick ugly control panel occupying most of the lower half of your screen - now the image of the earth occupies the whole right panel. The controls (left, right, up, down arrows and zoom) - are transparent and floating in the upper right corner - in a totally unobstrusive manner. WAY TO GO In fact, the control buttons appear only on mouse-hover.. other times you just see a small circle indicating the axial tilt of earth. On mouse hover the directional buttons pop-up surrounded by a circular scale which you can drag around both ways to change the axial tilt. So totally cool

Yep.. you got it all laid out mitchellmckain. Nothing further to say on this except that I don't think any amount of genetic engineering can mutate us to such a degree that we can magically transforms parts of ourselves into steel blades or produce fire out of thin air.. Such modifications can at best help us get rid of certain congenital diseases for good.. or say make us cancer-proof.. which is what is really needed rather than all the fancy weaponry growing out of our bodies

I've already registered and am enjoying quite a bit. Been moving up the ranks :(But the time-delays you have between actions are WAY TOO LONG. I wish you'd reduce them a bit - specially when you're operating stuff on your own computer. It makes NO SENSE whatsoever for actions to take so long on your own computer. The waiting kills most of the fun. You should consider reducing the overall delays in almost everything.

Yeaah - UPLINK was one of my old favourites.. though its runs out of variety soon. Nevertheless good excercise. What I didn't like about it though, was the point and click interface - which was kinda silly. There are 2-3 other good hacking games, which employ consoles.. so you actually type stuff out and experiment with shell commands to complete your missions.. Street Hacker was one of them.However, I'm yet to find a hardcore feature packed hacking game that throws a multitude of diverse missions at you and really test your skills... Haven't come across any so far.

Heyyy.. that's old stuff really If you've ever been into the phone-line based dial-up Bulletin Board Systems that were prevalent in the 80's and early 90's (prior to the internet boom) - then you'd have encountered this kind of chat. There were a whole bunch of such good BBS software available for DOS and Unix those days. I can't exactly recall their names - but I remember two of them. One was MaxBBS from IBM (an immensely configurable one from ground up) and another one called RIP BBS. Both ran on DOS and all you'd need is a COMM Port and a modem and people could simple start dialling up to you and downloading files and/or posting messages. You could do real-time chat too. The forum systems you see today on the web are DIRECT Off-shoots of these BBSes. I've used them extensively at one point of time (around 1991-95)... Anyways, crux of the matter is that these BBSes had a realtime chat system built in. You could see EACH CHARACTER as they were being typed. If the other chatter made some mistakes and started deleting his word(s), you could see the words vanishing from your screen letter-by-letter That was GREAT FUN I tell you... and looked ultra cool. This was possible coz in reality the BBS just acted as a centralized hub and infact you and the other chatter(s) were connected directly COM Port to COM Port and hence streaming the text as it was typed was not a problem at all. Unfortunately this isn't quite possible on the internet as of today unless you're somehow directly connected to another person. Trying to transmit each character realtime (and then waiting for each packet acknowledgement) would increase the traffic millionfold. And it'd shoot up exponentially with every single chatter joining in... as in group chats, this won't be a one-on-one transmission anymore.. but rather broadcasting of the same message to all... But it was great fun while it lasted, though I did burn a huge hole in my dad's pocket dialling long distance and connecting to such BBSes for downloading stuff and chatting up with ppl

Whosoever came up with the adage - "History Repeats Itself" was oh-so-right !! Look around and you'd find so many of such examples..

Dude - come right back here and tell us how you fixed it That'd be an immense help later on to others facing a similar situation.

Is it a specialized font at all?? Looks more like a normal Arial type font to see with Photoshop after-effects...

Yep - BitShift spelt out the correct installation method for you. There are plenty of free installer software around - one of the best being NSIS Installer, which is immensely customizable using it's own powerful scripting engine. You should include a copy of the required JRE on your installation CD. You can easily detect the presence/absence of the JRE on the user's computer using NSIS and then fire up the JRE installer automatically if needed. You can grab NSIS at: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

See don't take everything I say literally - coz ultimately its YOU who'll have to decide based on your situation. I can just suggest alternatives. Anyway, when I suggested Webster, Thailand - I had two things on mind.. first of all very close to India and secondly, relatively low tution fees. You can find out all the details by mailing to: admissions@webster.ac.th. Once you get a rough idea from them, you can always talk to banks for educational loan. There are a whole lot of banks offering that now - payable once you get a job after finishing your course. But anyways, in the end if you dont have any other options open - then don't ignore the NIIT courses either. They'll at least set a basic stage for you to build upon.. at least better than having done no course at all.

Yikess.. hmm.. you really are in a fix. See from what I saw of the job market back home - the good companies don't pay much attention to the NIIT degrees. They only work are a supplement to your core degree. Even stuff like the Microsoft Certifications don't ever count much on their own. They're good addition to your main degree but don't serve any purpose alone. I know for a fact coz I had a bunch of certifications which didnt get me $hit.. (you can measure my certificates by the KILOs ) Of course, a BSc would rank higher in preferrence than a BCA - but it depends where you get it from. Rather than doing it from a local college - if you can get a BCA from BIT Mesra it'd certainly count more, coz the reputed companies tend to trust colleges like BIT and all more. I know of some of my younger friends - who've done BCA from good colleges in Pune and Bangalore and have landed up with companies like Cognizant as Analyst-Programmers... It all depends on how good a place you graduate from - apart from your course-work of course. You can hold back for now and do nothing for a whole year - and study for the JEEs again - but that'll have to be a calculated risk. Anyways - you'd have to crack your brains insanely over the PCM part the whole year through and probably take 7-8 hours of tution everyday, coz cracking the problems in the JEEs is no childs play. One option I can give you is to do what I did - run away from India.. Go study elsewhere in some foreign univ. That'll open a lot of doors for you rightaway. You can even land up in the univ. I did. They've got a branch here in Thailand ( http://www.webster.ac.th/ ) - and offer 4 year proper degrees in Comp. Sci. Think of it - you'd be spending somewhat more than you'd do in a good college back home and yet study in an international environment with extremely small class sizes (20-25 students max) and way more individual attention from the teachers. I'd really recommend this one to you. If you need more help on this front, let me know.. They've got sessions starting 5 times a year - and you can join in anytime. Moreover, once you graduate - you'd be exposed to a wide variety of MNCs to try for your job.. certainly wider exposure than back home with much lesser competition.. Here Indians with computing skills are valued WAY MORE as they're a rarity (than back home where you can find them in plenty - in every nook and cranny) Talk to your parents and see..