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Dear Members, [tab][/tab]This goes out - Wishing all of You a VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR (2006) ahead Have a wonderful time folks and may the new year bring unending joy and prosperity at your doorsteps. Best Regards, miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG On behalf of the Xisto Team. Since you guys were adding it in your own language too.. here's in the languages I know and use regularly: Bengali - Shubho Nababorsho Hindi - Nav Varsh Kee SubhKaamnayen Thai - Sawatdee Pimai

Yeaah most of them can be used as textures and with a little adjustment and filter application can turn into amazing pieces good one. Keep it up

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Welcome to Xisto chelley - and have a great stay with us here I tried out Neopets once - but didn't like it much, although a bunch of my friends are actively into it. Have fun

The days of nasty API Calls and Winsock are long over - VB.NET provides you with a bunch of prebuilt classes under System.Net namespace, and socket related functions can be accessed under System.Net.Sockets. Your best reading in this regard will come from the MSDN libraries which contain plenty of good examples to get you started with the new design model.. You should use the VS.NET Object Browser to study the class structure under these two namespaces and then refer to the MSDN Lib. for documentation on each individual function/class. Some quick references: 1. http://www.nullskull.com/articles/20020323.asp 2. http://vbcity.com/faq/ 3. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 4. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Cool - if you go to their site, you'll notice youre nick is listed as the winner of the $10 Xmas Gift Award.

I'd applied for a .be domain about a month and a half back. The approval/registration mail never came through - even after I drove them crazy with complaints..

Oh yeah - that reminds me, since you made the post in VB.NET forum - the solution provided was in that same language too. Also hatim - if you notice the solution I provided in Method 1 does exactly the same - conversion to string, extraction and then back to integer - and the second method entirely eliminates the need to do that, thus making the algorithm far more efficient.

Some more advice: 1. If you had too much and feel like throwing up - DON'T STOP YOURSELF. Just down a gallon of water and go throw up in the loo. When you feel like throwing up - it means you've had far too much alcohol than your body can handle - and trying to hold back onto it only serves to increase the risk of alcohol poisoning. Just clean you stomach out, drink some more water and throw up some more. Lol.. it sounds nasty but IT REALLY HELPS. Infact, right after that you'll feel WAY better and depending on how far you cleansed yourself, you can even go back and enjoy some more drinks. 2. Most of you won't listen to darkools last advise and will take your car out. Surely you can - but make sure you tag along a friend, whos like abhiram and doesn't drink - but can drive well. He'll be your guardian for the rest of the night.. Lol.. IT HELPS BIG TIME. You won't have to worrry about driving back and can drink to your fill. 3. If you need to break out of the boozey trance for a short while - try Fresh-Lime Barley or just chew of a slice or two of raw lemon. It'll be like a blast jarring through your teeth and shooting right upto the topmost part of your skull - something like the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster of HGTG Fame. But it'll get you wide-awake and capable to taking care of any urgent business for a short duration. Also helps reduce the feeling of nausea. Another thing that helps is Carraway Seeds. Here are some interesting facts from Erowid's Vault: Erowid's vault has a lot of useful information on usage and potential health hazards of alcohol and a wide-variety of other drugs. My suggestion is one should refer to this site before indulging in any such activities - so that you're aware of the consequences beforehand.

You might want to take a look at SharpZLib at http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/Sharib/Default.aspx This isn't about alogorithms - but this site offers you a free opensource library that supports Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 compressions and is compatible with the .NET framework. It's meant to be used with C#. Looking into the actual code might help you understand the various algorithms - and trying to implement and use them with your code will give you an even better understanding.

I don't see how AJAX can be separately built into something ???? AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - and it's not some new language, but a set of standards and new functions that have been adapted into JavaScript quite sometime back. I mean this technology has been around for at least last 2 years- but only started picking up, when Google used it extensively for Gmail. Previously, when you tried fetching data from another site using JScript, if the connection failed, the code would hang right there waiting for a reply from the called site and in all probablity would freeze the browser too. AJAX took care of this by priovidng you a method to make Asynchronous Calls - i.e., you call up another web-site using a separate THREAD and then hand the control back to the rest of the code. The main program carries on execution - so all other stuff on your page functions perfectly. The Caller THREAD lies waiting for a response from the server - and when it comes through, it throws an event, which calls up a specific subroutine in the main program again - and hands it over the fetched data, which is usually in XML format. Next with you can easily parse the fetched data and update specific parts of the webpage using JavaScript DOM. The Asynchronous Calls are made with a newly introduced JavaScript object called XMLHTTPRequester. You can see a live example of this in the Shoutbox we're developing at AntiLost: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ This is an integral part of JavaScript and no extra action is required on part of the called site - except to provide data in a XML format. This incidentally can be anything - ranging from customized data to RSS Feeds. At the receiving end, you simple need an XML parser to break up the data and display it accordingly on the screen.. So I ask you - WHAT THE HECK is there to "BUILD THIS" into Vista ?? Lol.. I think they're just trying to take advantage of mass ignorance and fool people into believing that they've added something new, nice and cool into Vista.. !! Bloody JOKERS.

I'm afraid that the removal method is quite long and tedious and beyond the scope of this article. However you can read a full-blown article on this at: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ What their threat metrics say is that this isn't a very harmful worm - it's got quite a low threat count in all groups. However, the files it infects are beyond repair. As per their suggestion a good standard AV should be able to remove this worm for you. Maybe others can point you to a better and easier method of removing this.

That should be fairly easy with the String manipulation routines that accompany VB. There are infact two methods you can follow. Method 1: ????[/tab]To start with, you can simple convert the number into a string - and then use the substring function to find out each character. To achieve this we'll have to find the length of the string - which is 5, in your example above - and then iterate through each position of the string, picking up individual characters as we go. 'Say my number is stored in a variable called NumDim Num As Integer = 54321'First I declare two variables - actually one Array to hold each character'We just assing a random number of elements to the array - having 32'will help us deal with numbers as long as 32 digits longDim Digits (32) As Integer'And one variable to hold the length of the stringDim Length As Integer'I convert it to a String firstDim NumString As String = CType ( Num, String )'This NULL-Check is implemented so that if you use an empty string here, the code'won't crash when it comes to checking for the substring - but instead would'gracefully skip this part altogetherIf NumString <> "" Then 'Now I find the length of the string - Length = NumString.Length 'Iterate through the string, picking up each character For Index As Integer = 0 To Length - 1 Digits ( Index ) = CType ( NumString.SubString ( Index, 1 ), Integer ) NextEnd If That's it - the above approach will give you an array called Digits() whose positions indexed by 0 through Length - 1 will contain the individual digits of your number. [hr=noshade][/hr] Method 2: ????The second method essentially involves the same principle as above - but computationally is a little faster - as the algorithm is based on numerical computations. A few words on the algorithm first. ????Take for example, your own number, 54321 - can you think of a concrete method of stripping the number off the first digit "5" - leaving behind only "4321" ?? What would give you 5 as a result, if you divide 54321 by it ? You'd instantly arrive on the figure 10,000. So: 54321 / 10000 = 5 This is all fine - you've got your first digit. But then how do you get the rest of the number together ? Arithmatically, if you divide 54321 by 10000 - we'd have a remainder of 4321 - that's exactly what we need. So how do you find the remainder. Here's where an arithmatic operator called Mod comes into play. It's known as Mod in terms of Visual Basic - and mostly represented as a % symbol in languages like C/C++, Java etc. So: 54321 Mod 10000 = 4321 There - we have our first digit extracted, leaving behind the last four. Now if you repeat the above steps, except that you divide and do the Mod with 1,000 instead of 10,000 - you'd yet extract one more digit leaving behind the last 3. Next you repeat the steps again with 100 and then with 10 - and you'd have all your digits separated out. How do we implement this ? Here's the code: 'Say Num contains the numberDim Num As Integer = 54321'Once again - we find the length of the number - which gives us the number of'digits in it, and then we declare an array based on that numberDim Length As IntegerIf Str ( Num ) <> "" Then Length = Str ( Num ).LengthEnd If'Next we declare two variables and an arrayDim Divisor As Integer = 10 ^ ( Length - 1 )Dim Index As Integer = 0Dim Digits ( Length - 1 ) As Integer'Here we start the LoopWhile ( Divisor > 0 ) 'Extract the first digit Digits ( Index ) = Int ( Num / Divisor ) 'Extract remainder number - and store it back in Num Num = Num Mod Divisor 'Decrease Divisor's value by 1/10th units Divisor /= 10 'Increment Index Index += 1End While Even in this case, your array Digits() will contain the extracted digits starting from position 0 through Length - 1. [tab]Try out both and let me know - both should work just fine, giving your the same output. Personally, I find the second method more ELEGANT. The first one is a little blunt - doing things by brute force, although is much easier to understand. However, as I mentioned earlier, the second one computes way faster. All the best m^e

YEaaay that'd be cool Just make a post with some sorta markers as to where those graphics should go - and I'll move them back to your first post - making one long and complete tutorial.

A real cool trick I must say. Always wondered how to do that. When you have more time on your hand, can you please get back to this and add some more illustrations and elaborate on the steps a little more please ? That'd really help n00bs like me get going perfectly :DThanks,m^e

I don't think you can get RHEL for free - the Redhat Desktop version and it's offshot Fedora Core are free for downloading. But Redhat Enterprise is a commercial version that costs nearly $2,000 including support and after-sales services and as far as I know, you can't get it for free, unless you grab a pirated copy. RHEL is the real moneymaker for Redhat and they wouldn't just give it away for nothing.

See with resource hacker you can only replace or extract Graphics ( gif/jpg or ico ) and String Tables in a .exe - you won't be able modify the actual code in any way. And if the .exe doesn't employ a separate string table, then you've to hunt down each and every string all throughout the .exe in order to port it to some other world language - it's a hefty task and quite often will corrupt the .exe, as not all character-sets contain chars in the same decimal range. Most of the East Asian languages constitute the DBCS (Double Byte Character Set) letters and numbers, and trying to replace standard ascii characters in a .exe with them will entirely screw up your .exe. Believe me - I've tried this extensively and almost always failed.

Number 2 - Knock Knock knocking on heaven's doors. Number 1 - hmmm.. sounds familiar lemme think a bit

Noooooooo.. You don't need to poke a finger in my eyes and tell me to go get a life Errr. Talking about credits, eh ?? HOSTING CREDITS : 919.79 DAYS. Beat that

Thanks dude - they made real interesting reading. The fact is there are loads of cases like these - who have far outlived the Guiness Record-ed age. But most of them lack a proper birth-certificate - which happened to be a rarity during those times - thus, preventing them from pushing up the Guiness Record limits. Their only proof is memories from two centuries ago.

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Whoaa very strange !! Both should give you the same settings - I mean that's how it's always worked for me.. hmm.. gotta report this to the techs. Thanks.

In cPanel there's an option to GRANT all privileges on your DB to the user you created - did you do that yet ? Without all privileges, even if you have correct username and pass, your login won't be able to perform any action on the database.

From what the error message says, most likely your database name isn't correct. What did you put in as the name of your database ? Did you create it in the first place using the MySQL Database link in your cPanel ?? Supposing your cPanel username is rock - and you create a database called fm from cPanel, your database name would be: rock_fm, i.e. your cPanel username is appended before the name of the database followed by an underscore. Let me know what the name of your database is and we can carry on from there.