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See even if you don't use mysql and prefer to use ms-access, you can create a system DSN (Data Source Name) and link it to this access file. Next you can easily connect to this DSN using one of the standard SQL Manipulation packages - like SQLYog ( https://www.webyog.com/ ) and work on it as if you were working on a proper RDBMS Server.. On Windows XP you can easily create a DSN, by Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC). Next you click on ADD and select the proper database driver (mdb in case of access) - and specify a name for that DSN.. Just go through the help files in case you get stuck there.. or better yet, post back here. Regards, m^e

Not really - you can use a SSH client to connect to your account (not Telnet - SSH, the more secure version of telnet) .. That is perfectly allowed - only that it's not enabled by default. If you request for it in the misc. request forum, you can get it for no additional cost. If it has stopped working for you, you can place a request again. Now, when it comes to Chat Rooms - unless they're the Shoutbox kind, I'm sorry to say, it can't be permitted.. There are quite a few varieties of chatroom software out there - some like the shoutbox are slow and use MySQL to store the messages.. these are all right, as they consume very little server resource.. On the other hand, there are proper chat servers, which if installed will eat away a good part of the asta bandwidth and cpu power. These are not PERMITTED. If you're trying to install the shoutbox kind of chat room - you SHOULDN'T need shell access. It can be uploaded along with your web-page.. As for the second type, as I said, you're not permitted to install.. You mentioned in your first post you've to run: java -jar -server bribble-1.5.34.jar to start your chat room.. This sounds very suspicious to me... as for the shoutbox kind of rooms, you don't need to run any java code directly through the interpreter.. This will most likely start some service and open up ports for users to connect. Ya I checked on your chat engine - it's called Bribble (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) - it's actually got a separate server that runs on a webserver and opens a specified port for users to connect with a chatbox client. This kind of chat room is certainly not allowed here. You should look for some other alternative... I'd seriously suggest that you try PJIRC and host your chat room on some IRC Server.

Cool - will do so. And actually - forget about the JS Code. When I went to sleep last night I had a dream of an alternative ( I know it's weird - people dream real sweet dreams - and I dream coding solutions .. and when I wake up in the morning - THEY WORK.. I get most of my solutions in dream). Anyways - I wrote of a XML-RPC script using PHP - that'd serve the data in XML format and was able to read it off using the XMLHttpRequest class of JavaScript. So... the Firefox Credits Reporting System Extension is FINISHED and FULLY WORKING. It's under thorough testing now.. hopefully I'll be able to release it simultaneously for Xisto and Xisto within 4-5 days. Only feature that hasn't been implemented yet - is auto-refreshing of credits at a preset duration. Right one, it refreshes upon a single click with the left mouse button. Other than that you obviously have to set your own username password into it - otherwise it won't fetch credits. This user/pass combo is stored in the central Mozilla PasswordManager Safe So no worries about that.. this part took a while to figure out. Earlier they're getting saved in plaintext to prefs.js - which of course is visible to everyone. Upon finishing this extension I realized how poorly documented (and explained) are extension tutorials. I couldn't find a SINGLE GOOD one on the net - ultimately I had to rip apart every possible extension and study them whole night till I started seeing light. Other than that the Mozilla Extension API references helped to a certain extent - although their Examples are by far few and poor. I gave the extension FOUR Distinct States - i.e. it's got this Xisto Icon (also Xisto) .. converted to appropriate format+colors by twitch/guy .. Sneak Previews The basic idea is: Credits 30+ : BLUE 15 <= Credits < 30 : GREEN 1 < Credits < 15 : AMBER Credits <= 1 : RED Any bright ideas, any UI considerations - let me know for sure, and I'll see if it can be incorporated using my limited knowledge

Would you be kind enough to provide us with a little more introductory content - such as who you are, where you're from, what are your likes and dislikes.. The fact that you're new here is quite understandable - but to change that to not new, you need to let the community warm up to you and vice-versa... So a brief introduction please.

Hey hey wait wait wait.. not so fast.. what was all that Translation please.. you see my knowledge of japanese is limited to Arigato and Kanichiwa .. that's where it starts and that's the end too.. So please.. translations - "Hajimemashite. Akijikan desu. Doozo Yoroshiku" or I might get angry and start speaking in Hindi

Because it's for a firefox extension - I need to be able to connect to a certain Asta page and extract a "certain" info lol..See the thing is javascript has a really cool XML Client Service - a class known as XMLHttpRequest - which is extremely painless, as it's asynchronous. That means it will connect to the server on a separate thread, without slowing down the main code. It even has a callback delegate, which receives the reply upon termination of the request.. but anyway, for that you need something at the server end that serves the data in XML format. What I'm looking for here is any other alternative by which I can fetch a page and extract certain info out of it.

Actually it won't work in all cases - I tried this out recently... Some extensions get through but some don't. Starting from FF 1.5 onwards extensions are packed in a little different format (folder structures) - which makes extension designing wayyy more easier and painless, but makes a bunch of the old ones incompatible with 1.5. Anyway, I'm writing an extension to view the Asta/Trap Credits in your statusbar - autorefreshed at a certain preset interval. I'm 70% done with it - the UI is complete.. the part that's remaining is fetching the actual data and displaying it back. If anyone want's to help me out with this - you're most welcome :)Regards,m^e

Maybe IPB won't get full score if judged by ease of use, but as far as the amount of features and stability goes - I don't think any other board software comes anywhere close to it - specially with the new release.

I don't think you're allowed to run own java code on the Xisto servers, specially a chat server. However, you can run your own hosted Java Applets as well as JSP Pages with Tomcat. One alternative would be to use an IRC applet such as PJIRC and use one of the existing IRC networks to host your chatroom. An example can be found at: http://forums.xisto.com/misc/irc/

Hi guys, [tab][/tab]Am trying to come up with a Javascript function that can load a given URL and fetch part/whole of the web page and hand it over to my parser. Any ideas on how to do it ? One way I figured is to use XMLHttpRequest - but you need the server-end to respond by sending the required data to you in XML format. What if the page I want to extract data from is just an ordinary static page ... say I know the required data is a word that can be found at second paragraph of a page.. So how do I go about getting that page and extracting that info. Any help will be much appreciated Regards, m^e

What guestbook are you using ? Third party code or one written on your own ? If you wrote it, you can easily introduce some GD tricks, and make the addition process be accompanied by one of the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) diagrams .. the images generated by GD containing numbers/letters which one has to enter to verify human presence... Most of these stuff are added by spam bots - no one has the time to go around on millions of pages and add these manually. If you can implement the CAPTCHA Verification that'll get rid of it for once and all.

This goes out wishing you a VERY VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hope you get to the peak of fame & be successful in all your endeavours. May all your wishes come true. God bless you And oh yeah - have the most wonderful year ahead and many many more happy ones ahead All the best, m^e P.S. Am waiting for my slice of cake - should be in my mailbox under 5 mins

Oh yeah ?? Try performing simple maths on 20-30 digit binary and hex numbers repetitively, esp. try figuring out the demon that lurks within the full range of UNICODE CharSet and say that again ...

Yup - that's means articles awaiting in the moderation queue, which cannot be viewed till a moderator approves them - forgot to mention that. Thanks ruben.

Why dont u give that a try man - that's a damned good idea.. for real Joking apart, you could mint a handsome lot of $$$ with that kinda hot stuff I'd call in such a beer-wagon everytime I threw a party ..

Lol.. what happened to ur old nick dude ?

Most likely that link leads to a post that is in one of the Non-Public forums (like Xisto Staff) - it's quite tricky to write more code to effectively filter out such posts from the top20 list below - so opaque just let it be. I don't think there's any simple mechanism to avoid this.

Try this link: http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/108 This is what I found on their site: Just google for "os from floppy" or "os on floppy" and you'll find plenty of more links to similar stuff. Regards, m^e

I've had it for a while - and I must say, the UPDATE process (for extensions) has become WAYYYYY smoother. Unlike earlier that obstinate update window doesn't pop-up, instead all the updates happen within the extension window itself - and much faster.Also those extensions which refuse to work can be made to work, if you open up the .xpi files and inside in one the XML files (which contain the basic template for that extension) - you can modify the MaximumVersion data to 1.5 and make them run here...

No it doesn't support SSH for IRC and you are advised NOT to connect to IRC from your hosting account AND/OR run an IRC server. Any such attempts can lead to premature termination of your account.

Great going guys - I don't think I need to add anything further

Oh awesome.. just last night I spent till 4am is utter frustration trying to get the confounded DIV tags under control - well, of course I didn't quite succeed.. They're just leaping around the page as if they'd a mind of their own - and an sure they do.Maybe the Garden of Zen can provide me with a weapon to dominate them..

Another way to make money - write you own mega-selling software That way you just sit back and enjoy of the satisfaction of earning as well as selling something that you CREATED, that you can call your own invention ... This I find a lot of attractive as an option.

Lol.. nice thought James K.. don't you wish you'd a dollar for everytime you had that thought

I dont think this should happen, unless you've somehow instructed apache to handle ONLY ONE REQUEST at a time from an IP range. Other than that, it should never happen like this. By resource, I don't mean bandwidth here - but rather CPU load. While the servers here are all Dual Xeon, even they happen to have a maximum load limit which they can comfortably handle. Also consider the RAM - with every poxy connection a certain chunk of memory is blocked - which otherwise would be used to serve/process pages for everyone. When one sets up a proxy in his account - keep in mind that he's NOT the ONLY ONE accessing this proxy.. He might have mentioned it to his friend, who passed it on further and further...and soon we have over 100 ppl using Xisto's link to bounce their connections to other sites. Also by BW - it doesn't mean that with multiple connections, the speed wouldn't drop. It WILL. Because, BW explicitly refers to the AMOUNT of DATA that can flow in and out of your account on a monthly basis and NOT the speed at which incoming links will connect to the server. So in the end with hundreds of incoming and outgoing connections using the proxy - the overall speed of the link will drop, making all of us suffer. People who're running this sort of script should be more considerate - this service is being offered free doesn't mean you abuse it to the fullest extent. You should realize that there are thousands of other members here, who need their site up and running as badly as you - or even more. By running these scripts, you'll denying them the rightful share of their link speed. Thus - if anyone's found to be running such Resource Hogs - those scripts will be immdiately removed - no questions asked. And depending on the severity of the situation the account might also be terminated along with an IP ban - so whoever's doing it - be careful.