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  1. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Search for "robots.txt" on the asta forums. NilsC wrote a two-part series on robots and their methodology - excellent articles. They should help you a lot along the way.Regards,m^e
  2. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    I dunno about the cPanel indexing thingie - my guess is that it writes some code into the robots.txt file with a "nofollow" so that directory wouldn't be indexed by the robots.Webcrawlers, obviosuly index by following links... they cannot start making up random directory names - so in case u have some private folder deep within the public_html which only you know of .. give it some random hex name (like a4b1c8d0) or sumthing - and you've got some index.html/php in place in the root public_html folder (which doesn't have any sort of link to this dir or to any page containing links to this dir) - they no crawler can get to ur folder...Still it is advisable that you place a small index.php script in this folder of yours that can ask for authentication - some password and only then let you into the dir.. that'd be a much better option..Regards,m^e
  3. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    As far as I remember, all you need to do is fire up a terminal window in your desktop and type switchdesk and a little window will pop-up and present you with 3 options: KDE GNOME TWM Take your pick Regards, m^e
  4. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    I dunno about ME but 2000 is certainly the most stable one that MS ever put forward.. Linux is Linux Nothing compares to it.. as the common saying goes, Linux: What windows will never be or hope to be! And what kind of poll is this here? You put up 5 different versions of windows to be compared against linux ? lol.. at least have some uniformity in your surveys.. This is completely biased and will never reveal the true character of OS usage. Anyways - none of the other OS-es you mentioned are even worth putting up on a survey.. Personally I believe anything below Win98 was worse than DOS itself... DOS with the graphical shells that you could find around those times was wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better than any of those windows versions. Regards, m^e
  5. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Curl (Client URL) or as it is commonly known - cURL - is an advanced set of libraries with prebuilts functions for easy URL parsing. Just check on the php site to know more about cURL. Particularly when you write data-mining code - to extract data from other sites and re-format and display it on your site - these libraries come to real handy... Curl supports a wide variety of protocols - so you can fetch data from literally any source... Regards, m^e
  6. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Cron jobs and crontab are the linux version of your Windows Scheduler, i.e. they run certain tasks at specified intervals. Cron comes from the word "Chronology".crontab is the Cron Table which stores records for all your cron jobs.Now, the "commands" that you seek are actually unix shell commands/scripts - for that you need to refer to unix shell commands guide - there are plenty of bash scripting and command guides on the net along with online man pages. Just check them out - there are too many commands to describe in here... We're designing a page so that users can check their credits without logging into the board. Once that is done, you can use that to fetch the values (using perl/php(curl) in crontab) to fetch the value and then plug it into your site maybe.
  7. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Oh how cool I never knew that.. hehe.. thanks runef
  8. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    See the best way to protect these subfolders is to chmod them to +750 - that way no one from the outside world can get to those directories - but your own files in the main directory can call them and read off them...A good way of stopping bots from indexing these is to play around with the settings in robots.txt file ORI'd suggest an alternative method - I find very useful. Create a completely blank index.html file with just <HTML></HTML> tags and place it in these directories. When the bots - or any random surfer gets to your directory by guesswork - they're forced to a dead halt right there with a completely blank page... Otherwise, say, if your directory contains only images, anyone can view all your images in a directory listing format by entering the whole URL+directory in the browser.. but having a blank index.html stops that completely. That way you don't even need to mess around with chmod. Simple but Very Effective :PRegards,m^e
  9. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Yep - that's almost always the case. Maximum downtime - on some rare occasions - is about an hour - unless of course, like recent times when the hdd on Rhino crashed. That took around 4-5 days to fix, with the whole data being shifted to another server (Panda). But otherwise most of the "Site not working" panic messages you'll see floating around - gets resolved on their own under 15 minutes.. and sometimes its a routing problem. Most of us use trashy cheap broadband routers, which cannot map the paths well, if a link between the regular route goes down. That's where cisco like routers excell - by immediately finding alternate routes..Regards,m^e
  10. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Hehe.. I never trusted this one's DHCP anyways - so first thing I did when I switched on the router the first time, was to turn off it's DHCP. I'd rather trust my Linux servers to handle all kinds of server-ly work So DHCP, named, httpd, ftpd, postfix etc... all run from my Linux servers - the workload split among two servers - one running httpd, named & dhcp and the other for FTP and mail.Infact the linux servers themselves have static IP (for obvious reasons) - and one of them dishes out IPs through dhcp to the windows workstations - which don't run any net servers... Moreover, I've fixed the IP's to be assigned to my windows machines based on their MAC addresses. So every machine gets it's own IP - the same one all the time. The router really doens't have to bother with figuring out where the packet's heading. It just blindly forwards them to the specified IP's in it's config db.Here's the funny thing - first of all it messes up in most port forwards.. but still somehow works fine with FTP/Postfix/Pop3 .. but where it fails miserably is http... It simply wouldn't forward http requests. On a few rare occasions it's even happened so that instead of forwarding the request, it has popped up it's admin console login box to the outside word.. IMAGINE A ROUTER DOING THAT ...lol.. I guess, since it listens on the port 80 itself for admin purposes, it fails miserably to forward the request. Anyways - as soon as I get back from home (in a months time) - I'm buying a Cisco and trashing this one.. tI'll turn this into a Modem-only thingie (it's got a modem mode) ... and let it simply connect.. and I'll put up my hate mail everywhere...lolRegards,m^e
  11. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Okay here's the story - when you FTP to your account, apart from your own folders you'll see a couple of normal folders and some folders and files beginning with a "." Here's what you SHOULD NOT DELETE: public_html public_ftp mail tmp www Any files or folders beginning with a "." Rest all you can wipe out at peace... but don't touch the ones mentioned above - or else your account might start malfunctioning. Other than that, as moonwitch said, next time when you upload your website, either do it in the public_html folder or the link called www. Both are essentially the same. public_html is a real folder and www is a symbolic link which actually points to public_html. So anything you read or write to www gets redirected to public_html. Always remember, www <--> public_html. Regards, m^e
  12. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    First of all - you don't seem to be in the hosted member group. How can you change your subdomain, if you're not hosted here ? Secondly, for subdomain change, you need to make an application in the proper forum: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/103-forum/
  13. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    I've used the VBPowerPack and frankly I find the controls ultra lousy and extremely under-developed. If you're looking for a powerpacked TaskPane control which is immensely customizable, with Icons in the title bar and ability to contain ANY OTHER GIVEN .NET Control inside it's Pane Groups, you should get this C# source code from CodeProject and compile it into a custom control. Next just add it to your VB Toolbox and use it at will on your forms.. It's simply amazing You won't believe me till you see it for yourself. It beats the crap out of all the VBPowerpack controls put together... Here's the link: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ If you want a list of features: The article is named Full Featured XP Style Collapsible Panel. You can download the source and demo directly from: 1. Source: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 2. Demo: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Have fun Regards, m^e
  14. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Thanks for your reply - infact that's what I exactly did, after being told to get rid of the Shared keyword on vbCity forums... it works all fine now. I simply pass this Panel as a parameter named "Owner" of the type Control to the created class and that created class (which is subclasses from Panel again) attaches itself inside this main panel.. that did the trick :unsure:Regards,m^e
  15. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    First of all - how do u intend to implement JavaScript in VB.NET code ? Anyways, what I'm providing below is pure VB.NET code - but can be used for ASP.NET as well - without any modifications. Let us assume that your first combobox containing the year, is named cboYear and the one containing month is named cboMonth. Now our tasks are: 1. To fill up the year combobox with a certain number of years, say starting from 1900 till the present year. This can be achieved using the following code: Dim Count As IntegerFor Count = 1900 To Val (Format(Now(), "yyyy")) cboYear.Items.Add(Count)Next 2. Next task is to fill up the combo for month with the Month names. Best way to do it is have an array containing the month names and then use a For..Next loop to fill up the combo. Dim Months () As String = { "January", "February", ............... , "December"}For Count = LBound(Months) To UBound(Months) cboMonth.Items.Add (Months(Count))Next Now that our boxes are filled up, we need to implement a check for whenever the month combobox item is chosen. When a combo item is selected, one of the events thrown is SelectedIndexChanged. In the code editor of VS.NET, you have to select the cboMonth and then in the events dropdown list on the right pick this event. This will create a skeleton event handler procedure for you, which looks like: Private Sub cboMonth_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cboMonth.SelectedIndexChangedEnd Sub Inside this procedure you have to implement the check - the logic would be: As soon as a month is selected, check if it is current month --> Next, check the current selected year in the cboYear --> If that matches the current year --> print error message or simply force the combo month to jump to the current month. Here's the code: Private Sub cboMonth_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cboMonth.SelectedIndexChanged ' Check whether selected month > present month If cboMonth.SelectedIndex > Val (Format(Now(), "M") - 1 Then ' Check whether selected year = current year If cboYear.SelectedItem.Equals ( Format (Now(), "yyyy" ) Then ' Print error message MsgBox ( "Error. Cannot select above current month of this year") ' Make month combo jump to current month cboMonth.SelectedIndex = Val (Format(Now(), "M") - 1 End If End IfEnd Sub That code should solve your problem - if any month greater than that of current year is chosen, that message box will pop up and as a precautionary step the combobox will be forced to assume the current month. No amount of trying will help you choose a month above that. Hope this helps. Let me know if you need any further clarifications on this. Regards, m^e
  16. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Stale news
  17. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Hi there Vorly, Don't you worry about your english dude you'll do just fine Welcome to Xisto and have a great time.. Your english is way better than you think - at least with the horrors we encounter here from time to time Don't hesiste - just pick a topic you like and start posting. We've got a real friendly bunch in here ready to discuss topics ranging from Anything to Life, universe & Everything :PHave fun,m^e
  18. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Any body use this cool tool named 3DTraceRoute ? I've been using it for a long while now. Sometimes, when you get really tired looking at a dull console spitting out hops vs. millisecond response times at you - this is what adds a touch of colours and enlivens your mind I'd say it's always a nice addition to have in your toolbox - more so, coz the lite version is FREE. It does exactly what the title suggests - draws 3D area graphs of your traceroute in realtime (works surprisingly well on even pathetic graphics cards - like mine) and gives you a hop vs. millisecond display - nicely color coded in red/green/yellow to mark out "unreachable hosts" and smoothly connecting links.. The graph can be rotated along any axis, zoomed upon - throw in a bunch of other cool funky effect you can do with it. Besides the basic traceroute client, it can also person Whois, Ping, Port Scanning, OS fingerprinting, Analyze email headers - in short quite a powerful array of tools neatly bundled into a small sack Another tool that deserves special mention is the ability to record and replay domain traces later on - that I find quite interesting.. has lots of possibilities in there Here's a list of features from their site as well as a screenshot: Go grab it right now at: http://www.d3tr.de/index.html Have fun, m^e
  19. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Cool thanks I put "Boffins create zombie dogs" in google and found the article.. reading it now I thought I should add the link for those who wanna read it: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
  20. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Massive electrical surge would be something that's caused either by:1. A lightning striking some electric/telephone pole close to your vicinity - the ground rods would absorb most of it - but sometimes a good quantity is passed on to the neighbouring houses through electrical carriers.2. Secondly, if you live close to some heavy industrial area - when the manufacturing plants turn off power after the days work, there's an immediate and massive surge of increased electricity that flows out to all houses around (this is like a rule)... Unless your system is equipped with good surge protectors (both for the electrical line as well as telephone surge filters) .. then any part of your system can be damaged. Modems/switches/routers are way mroe susceptible to this coz they have very refined circuitry and are not backed up by a goliath SMPS protecting the motherboard of your system - which absorbs most of such surges and would burn out first before letting it damage your board/chipFrom the link you mentioned here, it seems your "Thingy" is a broadband router - since you can connect to the internet still - it might just be working fine. The problem most likely is in your cables or the network cards. You should pray for it to be that way, coz these are the cheaper ones to replace Hardly worth a couple of bucks in case you've to dump them... Well, unless you have a cable tester, it's not possible to say whether it's an issue with the cables or not - the only way you can tell is by replacing them and checking out whether you LAN comes back to life or not. Or get some technician to check out on them. I have enough equipment to do all that in my office - but I live exactly on the opposite corner of the world :PRegards,m^e
  21. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    WTFA ( Where's the Full Article :rolleys: ) ? Can you gimme the link please? I want to read it.. rightaway :PThanks,m^e
  22. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    NetGear - supposedly a well-known brand in Netwroking Devices, specially broadband modems and routers. Well, I'm going to reveal to you all, how horribly bad their after-sales service is. So, I have this NetGear DG632 ADSL modem-router connecting me to the world. The product works all fine - except that it has a lousy web-based configuration interface which refuses to come up at times. Just keeps loading and never comes up... anyways, that's not the problem.. The router uses the standard NAT and Port Forwarding to forward various service requests (http, ftp, mail etc.) to various systems on your LAN. Port forwarding for FTP, Mail etc work just fine - but it simply wouldn't work for http requests - for completely unknown reasons.. I've made so many people on this board log onto my ftp/mail server for testing - but none of them could ever reach my http server. It just wouldn't forward the request at all.. So with this problem I contacted their Support. Now their so-called "After-Sales Support" has 2 plans.. one if for free which they "provide" to any netgear product owner and another accelerated blah blah service for people who purchase their service plan. The http issue seemed to be to be a minor problem - plus I had no intentions of buying an expensive support plan for such a little problem - so quite obviously I opted for their free service - which made me register myself using the Serial Number on my router in order to validate myself as an authentic netgear product owner... I did that along with the usual username password blah blah... Next I filed a complaint/support request with exactly the problem I've stated above - that their router wouldn't forward any http requests. In comes an autoresponder mail saying we've received your complaint.. etc.. this is your ticket number..blah... all crap....and that you'll be contacted "soon" by our service representative.. Fine. Their "soon" first turned out to be a week, then two weeks ..and now it's well over a month. I've written to them several times - no response. Nothing. Zilch. Instead - how outrageous can it get - bloody NetGear sends me a mail after a months time, asking me "How was our service against the support request you filed recently? Was it satisfactory.. bad.. etc. Would you care to participate in this online survery to let us know?" Cool, this seemed to me a golden opportunity to plant a hard kick on their back and make them sit straight up & take notice.. So I went ahead and gave them the lowest ratings possible on their survey - and wrote off a very bad review. Even pointed it out to them that when they have NO INTENTION of providing free service to their cutomers, WHY THE HELL do they have that option of free service on their page? They should very well take it off and replace it with Paid-Only service.. at least the customers are not left off wondering about when they are going to be contacted and their problems fixed!!! I ask you What is the NEED of doing all this DRAMA? Anyways - the kind of review I gave them - is enough to make a cherry loose its color. Any customer service department with the faintest vestiges of shame would have immediately contacted me... but THEM?? NOOOO.. they're completely shameless, pathetic .. running out of good adjectives for them... Atrocious I tell you - worse than MAGGOTS. DO NOT EVER BUY A PRODUCT FROM NETGEAR.... COZ IF YOU DO, AND THEN RUN INTO A PROBLEM, YOU'D END UP PAYING 3 TIMES THE PRICE OF YOUR PRODUCT FOR AFTER-SALES SERVICE. I RECOMMEND AGAINST IT VERY VERY STRONGLY. Its your choice... Regards, m^e ================================================== I even went to their forums and posted this same message there with a P.S. which goes like: Now if they seriously delete my post - they've had it.==================================================
  23. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    NetGear - supposedly a well-known brand in Netwroking Devices, specially broadband modems and routers. Well, I'm going to reveal to you all, how horribly bad their after-sales service is. So, I have this NetGear DG632 ADSL modem-router connecting me to the world. The product works all fine - except that it has a lousy web-based configuration interface which refuses to come up at times. Just keeps loading and never comes up... anyways, that's not the problem.. The router uses the standard NAT and Port Forwarding to forward various service requests (http, ftp, mail etc.) to various systems on your LAN. Port forwarding for FTP, Mail etc work just fine - but it simply wouldn't work for http requests - for completely unknown reasons.. I've made so many people on this board log onto my ftp/mail server for testing - but none of them could ever reach my http server. It just wouldn't forward the request at all.. So with this problem I contacted their Support. Now their so-called "After-Sales Support" has 2 plans.. one if for free which they "provide" to any netgear product owner and another accelerated blah blah service for people who purchase their service plan. The http issue seemed to be to be a minor problem - plus I had no intentions of buying an expensive support plan for such a little problem - so quite obviously I opted for their free service - which made me register myself using the Serial Number on my router in order to validate myself as an authentic netgear product owner... I did that along with the usual username password blah blah... Next I filed a complaint/support request with exactly the problem I've stated above - that their router wouldn't forward any http requests. In comes an autoresponder mail saying we've received your complaint.. etc.. this is your ticket number..blah... all crap....and that you'll be contacted "soon" by our service representative.. Fine. Their "soon" first turned out to be a week, then two weeks ..and now it's well over a month. I've written to them several times - no response. Nothing. Zilch. Instead - how outrageous can it get - bloody NetGear sends me a mail after a months time, asking me "How was our service against the support request you filed recently? Was it satisfactory.. bad.. etc. Would you care to participate in this online survery to let us know?" Cool, this seemed to me a golden opportunity to plant a hard kick on their back and make them sit straight up & take notice.. So I went ahead and gave them the lowest ratings possible on their survey - and wrote off a very bad review. Even pointed it out to them that when they have NO INTENTION of providing free service to their cutomers, WHY THE HELL do they have that option of free service on their page? They should very well take it off and replace it with Paid-Only service.. at least the customers are not left off wondering about when they are going to be contacted and their problems fixed!!! I ask you What is the NEED of doing all this DRAMA? Anyways - the kind of review I gave them - is enough to make a cherry loose its color. Any customer service department with the faintest vestiges of shame would have immediately contacted me... but THEM?? NOOOO.. they're completely shameless, pathetic .. running out of good adjectives for them... Atrocious I tell you - worse than MAGGOTS. DO NOT EVER BUY A PRODUCT FROM NETGEAR.... COZ IF YOU DO, AND THEN RUN INTO A PROBLEM, YOU'D END UP PAYING 3 TIMES THE PRICE OF YOUR PRODUCT FOR AFTER-SALES SERVICE. I RECOMMEND AGAINST IT VERY VERY STRONGLY. Its your choice... Regards, m^e ================================================== I even went to their forums and posted this same message there with a P.S. which goes like: Now if they seriously delete my post - they've had it.==================================================
  24. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP with the stinkiest and rotten-est of all fishes
  25. miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
    Have you tried again recently ? Is the problem still persisting ? Can you try once again and let me know? This is completely new.. well, let me know - meanwhile I'm trying to figure it out at this end. Regards,m^e
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