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Try the hosts file thing I mentioned above. Found the location of hosts file for WinXP: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc If it's not there, create it. Start with a blank file. A comprehensive guide to what you should put in that file can be found at: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Try through a proxy. Am PM-ing you one. Any luck? Also try this: The shared IP for ur site is: 69.50.168.69. Add this to your hosts file which you'll find under your Windows directory... Not sure where it's located on XP, but in Win2K it can be found at: \WINNT\system32\drivers\etc There, add the IP in the following format: 64.69.35.171????[/tab]Xisto.com 64.69.35.171????http://forums.xisto.com/ 64.69.35.171[tab]differentlyclued.astahost.com etc. Let me know if it helps.

Can't figure what's wrong.. I can access both ur site and cpanel. It's still up and working.Try one thing - clear your browser cache and cookies and try accessing your site again. It happens sometimes because of some cache error.

He he.. objection.. you don't really kick out the veterans unless they are being a pain in the wrong place esp. people who've been around since the beginning days and still going strong. Lotts juice here in these old bones, you see Besides, I presume, after having accumulated credits worth well over 2 years time, this lot here is entitled to occasional long breaks. Other than myself here, you'll see quite a few other mods/admins who haven't been on in a long while - but that doesn't really count @ asta. It's not how regular you are, but the quality of work you do or have done for this board in the past. Note that all mods/admins here are handpicked after being evaluated over a long stretch and every SINGLE one has lived up to more than our expectations. That's something we're really proud of - besides being grateful for the fact that all of them are chipping out big chunks of their valuable time to take care of this board. No one gets paid or gets any "special advantages" in terms of hosting - for the great service they're providing. And as moon pointed out, everyone's got their own life/jobs/families to take care of. So there

Well put, abhiram. I couldn't have done it better myself. :)See, the hosting here is Ad-Free and FREE in monetary respect, as long as you're willing to invest some time in making good posts. What we seek to do here is build up a good knowledge base of article/tutorials and tips & tricks. In most cases it was noticed that people gathered a bunch of credits solely to get hosting (all the more better for them, since, till you get hosting your credit meter doesn't start ticking down) and then they'd vanish for ages. That's not how this service runs. If you are a good poster, you shouldn't have building up a decent number of credits after loosing out on most. It's only the first few days that you have to struggle. After that it's all nice and easy - as for example in my case, I've piled up enough credits to go on a 2 year long vacation And I'm a terrifically busy software developer - if I could squeeze out time enough to do this PLUS my own work - it shouldn't be a problem for most of you ?

Golgothurteen - would you care to share the googled link with me.. not here, of course but PM me.. Thanks,m^e

There are quite a few threads on Ragnarok Online. Please followup on them, and in future use the search button before you make a post on the same topic.Topic closed.

Absolutely so - whichever forum software you use, your posts+associated data (member logins/points etc.) all are stashed in some database. Most popular db for this is of course, MySQL but many forum softwares these days support PostGRE-SQL too. Anyway, storing data in a database itself means that the data is stored on your disk compacted in the database's own format. And wherever you're hosted at, your databases are located in your own alloted disk space. So any addition to this database, WILL DECREASE your disk space. However, how much space you loose out on depends entirely on the database software you're using and also influenced by the table FORMATS. Different table formats like ISAM, InnoDB etc. - all pack data differently and hence their disk space requirements are also different.

Hehe, get Killbox.. your problem is, as soon as you kill the process, another one spawns itself and when you delete the .exe the process rewrites itself on the disk. Use Killbox to kill it from memory and disk simultaneously - it really helped me on several such occasions. Just google for it - can be downloaded from many sites. A search for "ad.exe" yielded mostly garbage results - but this one might give you partially related info: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Lol - you can for sure.. boy, you are so stuck on fooling folks i had a feeling you were onto something, but now i know

Guys guys - have you all forgotten our dear friend Mr. Stork ?? Let me tell you - let me assure you, the first of the humankind was brought to this planet by a Giant Stork from Outer Space. Probably pirched here for a short break, but got shooed off by that comet, thus leaving adam behind. That, my friend, is the pure 100% unadulterated truth Now that you know, go home and let this ever-fuming debate rest in peace... he he..

VoIP is nothing but what almost every Chat/IM client is offering you as Voice Chat these days - one of the best in the whole bandwagon is Skype. I haven't used any in recent times - but there used to be a very good one known as MediaRing, which I actively used about 4-5 years back.Sound Quality was crystal clear - no problem with that. The voice came in a steady stream too - no breaks, jerks or static. Only factor you had to live up to - is that once you spoke or the other person speaks there'd be a time lag about 1-3 seconds before the words start flowing in - kind of like the delay that you sometimes experience with long distance calls. So you got to SPEAK and then WAIT for the other person to complete his sentence and ONLY then speak again. If you try to interject in between, the resultant sound is pretty much chaotic, but this might have got better with the more recent ones.Also nowadays they have the VoIP phones, which allow you to make calls directly by plugging them into your Broadband link - no need for a computer or any software..Anyone else to share his/her experience regarding this ??

Windows 2000 doesn't have any MSCONFIG utility, but WinXP DOES. So you can easily grab the one off XP and run it on 2000. Runs without a hitch. If you're too lazy to take it off someone's XP - you can download it right here: http://www.techadvice.com/specs/files_dl.asp?fnid=3398288 It's only about 147K - very small util, but lets you edit the: Services List Startup List win.ini system.ini boot.ini Let's you select the boot mode for next reboot (Normal, Diagnostic, Selective) Pretty handy tool Have fun, m^e

Yup more or less on track - although it's not the PHP script which would do load based redirect. Instead, say, your https://xyz.xyz/ will be the HUNTING server - to which you connect initially. This server polls all the parallel ones and finds out which one has the least load average and redirects you to that. There's only one slight difference - subdomains can be hosted on any of these servers and then mirrored on to the other ones. So a subdomain like sub1.xyz.com will exists on all the parallel servers. But think of www, www1, www2 etc - as the NAME of the servers themselves and not a priviledged subdomain. That'd help you get the picture.

Yup ! Absolutely ! Any format that is easily read by humans but can fool a bot or spoof it with spurious addresses is worth it Bachdot, welcome to Xisto and have a great stay

Get chastity pants for ur laptop and rope that with steel cables to your windows/doors And if you're willing to go a little further - design a case for it with live wires wound all round Joking apart I don't think there are any serious any-theft devices as such, except for these two. A combination of both would provide you with good security measures, but each independently is worthless. 1. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ This comes into action after your laptop's been stolen - it sends out a singal to this company's control center everytime its connected to the net or the phone. They rent it out at $49/Year 2. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Has options of completely disabling your laptop and setting off audible alarm upon unauthorised motion detection. But none would really stop your laptop from being stolen - I guess the only more or less secure way is the good ol' "under lock and key inside your cupboard" method.

I think you CAN - remember IE6 ?? Apparently you coundn't move the toolbars there either - but if you right-click on the toolbar, in the context menu, you'd come upon an option titled Lock the Toolbars. If you unchecked this, you can drag and drop the toolbars anywhere you like and then lock them again to fix them permanently. I don't think they'll take this feature off in IE7 - coz these toolbars aren't really the old toolbars. Rather they're what is known as CoolBars - a development component you'd come across quite frequently, if you use Visual Studio. Coolbar's are the old toolbar replacements with Drag & Drop capability and FLAT-style icons. That's what makes them so cool I don't think MS would go back to the old fixed toolbars and give up on the drag & drop functionality of the coolbars... after all this allows you to place your bars anywhere on the screen you like - and MS is rather well-known for incorporating such flashy gizmos in their softwares (rather than working on the "better functionality" part) So there..

Thanks for bringing it to my notice. Am fixing it ASAP. Problem fixed. Directory up and working again. The problem appeared mysteriously - the message Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE usually occurs when you forget to close some paranthesis or miss out on quotes (" or ') or prematurely end quotes. Here's what I found in a segment of the code, which is supposed to mail bug-reports automatically: mail( $site['bug_report'], 'Error at ' . $site['dir_name'], 'Error: ' . mysql_error() . "n--nQuery: "$query"n--nPage: " . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ); Notice the part "n--nQuery: "$query"n--nPage: " ?? Now PHP parses variables if they are included between double quotes thus replacing the variable with its content to give us the resultant string. Here the code seeks to parse the variable $query - and NOT the string wrapped around it. So ideally the code should have been: 'n--nQuery: "$query"n--nPage: ' - that's what I changed it to, and it all works now. Funny thing, before I left for my long holidays - all this was working - and now this error appeared out of thin air. Wonder how ??? Anyways, all's well that ends well..

Issue resolved. Topic closed.

Since you brought this up - have you ever noticed that quite often, when you kill the explorer in this way and restart it using New Task a whole bunch of icons disappear from the System Tray - I mean, among the one's that were running prior to explorer shutdown, only about 70% of them are redisplayed. Anybody faced this before ?? This is a good method to release the file-locks and delete them - but sometimes, you'd face some obstinate processes (with corresponding .exe files on disk) - which you'd want to delete. They'd get me stymied completely coz: 1. When I tried to delete the .exe, it would report that the process is running and the file is locked. Hence cannot be deleted. 2. I go to Taskman and close down the process. 3. By the time, I go to delete the process .exe, it had started itself back again and won't let me delete it anymore.. This got me immensely infuriated in many situations. What you need is a tool that'd KILL the process from memory and delete the file from the disk (in realtime - at the same time). Hence I went out on a hunt and found this tool - which came to extremely good use thereafter, particularly for virulent processes - which'd spawn themselves as soon as you shut them down. Here's where you get it: 1. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/windows/ 2. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ This tool ALSO works for the kind of locked files speedy mentioned. Here's a brief intro: It's a MUST ADDITION to your toolbox. Go grab it NOW Regards, m^e

Yup - even if you're running a NetBEUI based system under Windows networking environment (which doesn't require you to set IPs - simply computer names are required for communication) - you'd need different names. And if you're using an IP based network, even then the names need to be different - either way, your system won't be able to hook itself onto the network, if it's name conflicts with that of another one.

I tried signing up for an account there and it stuck to the first account creation screen everytime I tried. For some reason, it just wouldn't proceed beyond the initial signup screen. Anyone faced the same problem ?

You can try what I used to do (when I was selling assembled system during my high-school days). I had this fixed shop I always bought my parts from. I didn't have enough time to give out extensive after sales support - so I struck up a deal with them. I included AMC (Annual Maintainance Contract) fees along with the price of the system - and this I handed over to the shop after deducting a certain comission percetange from it for myself. Thenceforth, the shop took care of all maintainance needs for that person - and since all the parts came from them, they didn't have any problem replacing them, if it came to be. This is the easy way out However others who are actively into this business might be able to provide you with better solutions.Regards.m^e

Hehe - it just might However, the convincing part has to be done with OpaQue

I agree with you all - however, while I won't cry for this guy, I do think that death penalty for this is a little too harsh. In other words - whatever substance he might be trafficking, if you think logically, it's upto the end-users to buy it OR NOT. In a way we too are responsible for indulging in such substances and letting this kind of business thrive. If all of us (invariably everyone knows about the "benefits" of drug usage these days) - were to exercise a good bit of self-restraint, such substances would find no market and flop down as lucrative business makers. On the other hand, I strongly feel that death penalty should be awarded to psycopathic murderers. These guys are nothing short of cold-hearted butchers. While I'm aware that some murders occur under exceptional circumstances, such as self-defense & out of burning desire for revenge due to some harm that came to a loved one, but how do you explain terribly heinous acts where such psycopaths rape teenage girls and them chop them up to pieces to hide the evidence ??? To me, such offenses are completely unpardonable - I don't believe there exists even the least vestige of sanity & rationale in such people. They cannot and will never be converted through whatever form of jail sentence you might put them through. They are simply unfit to live in a normal soceity.