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Try updating Fedora through their update utility - I don't know the exact location of the patch - but if you do a systemwide update this problem is known to go away. As I said, this is a known problem - check this thread: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

It's quite easy to do this actually. All you've to do is to get PHP to read your IP & whatever other Browser Stats you want and create a JPEG/GIF/PNG image dynamically and send it back to your browser. Here's a simple code that will display your IP address as an image. <?php$img_number = imagecreate(275,25);$backcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,102,102,153);$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,255,255,255);imagefill($img_number,0,0,$backcolor);$number = " Your IP is $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]";Imagestring($img_number,10,5,5,$number,$textcolor);header("Content-type: image/jpeg");imagejpeg($img_number);?> You simply need to add on whatever other stats and graphics you wish to include. Modify this code and save it as a .php file and you'll get the desired results. If you want to see the sample output of this code, visit: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

It's quite simple actually. Lets assume that your first drive is /dev/hda1 and second drive with Plan 9 is /dev/hdb1. Another assumption is you've got Linux+Lilo installed on the either drive with lilo being set to boot from the first drive. In your /etc/ folder you'll find a file called lilo.conf. It looks somewhat like this. CONSOLE boot = /dev/hdavga = normal read-only prompt default = dos timeout = 30 append="hdc=ide-scsi" image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux root = /dev/hda2 initrd = /boot/initrd This configuration is set to boot DOS from first partition of your drive and Linux from a second partition. The first line here, boot = /dev/hda tells lilo to install itself on the MBR of the first drive and boot using it. Assuming you've got Windows and Linux on the first one, and Plan 9 on the second, your config file should look like this: CONSOLE boot = /dev/hdavga = normal read-only prompt default = WinXP timeout = 30 append="hdc=ide-scsi" image = /boot/vmlinuz label = Linux root = /dev/hda2 initrd = /boot/initrd other = /dev/hda1 label = WinXP table = /dev/hda other = /dev/hdb1 label = Plan9 table = /dev/hdb Once you've made these changes to lilo.conf, save and quit. Now you've to run lilo once to read the config changes. It resides in /sbin/lilo - so simply run, CONSOLE shell> /sbin/liloAdded Linux Added WinXP * Added Plan9 The * beside WinXP tells you that it is the default boot OS. To make Plan 9 your default OS, you should type: CONSOLE shell> lilo -D Plan9 That should do it for you....

Man.. what wouldn't I give to get myself an old-timer like that... keep it safe & well.. it's going to be an invaluable mesuem piece in no time I don't need to say much about my system specs - it's always attached with my signature.. but for bragging's sake, I'll embed it in the message body here:

Lol.. don't worry about the title. It's not about being good or bad - we're just modifying them a little bit - to make them more search engine sensitive. It's got nothing to do with your titling abilities Besides we do that to only interesting threads - the rest remain the same. The earlier title simply read Operating System Problem - that didn't say much about what kind of problem you have or what platform you're using. In order for this thread to get a good ranking on search engines, the title must contain a few keywords that can relate to the body of the message - thus I snipped it a little bit. Don't be offended.

Luckily we didn't get affected by the Tsunami's at all. I stay on the easter coast of Thailand facing the Gulf of Thailand. The tsunami's hit the western coast (Andaman Sea side) - which is around 100kms across the land from here and 500 kilometers down south. I was out in the middle of the ocean snorkelling with my family when the tsunamis came... I still thank my lucky stars - there's no telling where we'd have landed up had it hit this coast.Thank God !!

There's a shareware called Proxy Switcher that can help you resolve this issue. This software maintains a list of proxies that you feed into it - and then makes your browser switch to any of them upon demand. No need to mess around with the Connection Settings all the time. Easier, cleaner, simpler Now it works with FireFox too .. so there

Good question - but you've to keep one thing in mind, i.e. this forum is visited by a LOT of young kids and thus using foul language isn't advisable. I understand your point, but still if you think of it as I said, doesn't it strike you that it's for the better to exercise some restraint. If absolutely nothing works out, why don't you try what most ad-flicks do.. e.g. What the <beep> is wrong with you, you <beep>. lol.. think about it !! Besides as of now, the Vent's description reads as: So there

Wouldn't your Boot Order Options be in your Laptop's BIOS ? That's how it is determined on all systems - and you don't really need to boot to get to your BIOS. For most systems, right after the POST (Power On Self Test) Screen, pressing the Del key or the F10 key takes you to your BIOS Setup - and you can make the system boot from CD again by changing the Boot Order in there. Just set the first boot device to be your CD/DVD Drive. Try this first - this is the most likely solution. Also you need to let us know what exactly did you do to your system - i.e. how far did you go with your linux installation, which partition did you install it to and what your present partitioning scheme is. Without all these information it won't be possible to help you recover your data.

No problem. Even then, for future reference of those seeking to change their domain or subdomain name - make your requests in this forum: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/103-forum/

Yup - it's possible - if you make a post in the appropriate forum. It can't be done by you from the cPanel - only the admins can change it. But all subdomains that you might have created under the first one (e.g. sub1.doggie.astahost.com or sub2.doggie.astahost.com) will most likely get deleted.

Goto Sun's Java site and you'd surely find a link. Here are some articles and links containing supportive docs about Java on OS-X. 1. https://developer.apple.com/search/?q=java 2. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html 3. https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp 4. http://www.javaworld.com/ 5. https://developer.apple.com/search/?q=java

This isn't an ideal partitioning scheme but this is what I've used for years with a good amount of success (as in against data loss, os crash etc.) with windows. Of 120 GB,Windows --> 10-20GB (max. 20) - make this NTFS for better performance of the OSRest of the Space, create one big extended partition spanning the whole free space and then split up into 15-20GB logical drives - as many as you want. Peferably partition type here is FAT32 - for easier data recovery/backup in case of OS crash. But dont keep any of them larger than 20Gigs. That causes considerable slowing down of read/write. I distribute all my data uniformly over these partitions - I label them according to the kind of data going into each - say, all my MP3's go into a logical drive labelled "Music" .. all programming stuff goes to another drive labelled "Development" .. "Graphics & WebDesign" on another.. and so on.. Advantages are: firstly all your programs+work is neatly categorized into several different logical drives - in case of a windows crash - only the first NTFS partition is affected and that doesn't contain any of you important work-data. Only pain you've to take up is while installing new software you've to redirect the installation to an appropriate drive. Also I'd recommend (if you use the My Documents folder i.e.) - to move the My Docs to one of these drives and fix the shortcut to refer to this new location. This way all your files going into My Docs automatically gets saved on a different drive and isn't affected by any win crashes.Lastly, get a good defragmenter and fix a good defrag schedule on each of these drives.. make sure it runs at least once a week on all of them.

That is not possible directly without the intervention of any admin. What you're asking for is a change of the subdomain associated with your hosting account. If you want the lbi.astahost.com - you won't be able to create or operate anything under caseray.astahost.com. Later on when you add more secondary subdomains to your account - they'll take the form, sub1.ilb.astahost.com, sub2.ilb.astahost.com etc. and so on... You cannot have multiple primary subdomains here at Xisto. When you get your hosting account, what you get in actuality is one subdomain - and the ability to create unlimited sub-subdomains under it.

Yup will be done soon enough. Think it's high time and all the good posts have travelled to the bottom of the list and become obscure due to lack of proper categorization. Give me a list of OS-es that you want in there.. How about this for a starter: Windows (All) Linux BeOS Free/OpenBSD Rest of your suggestions..

Here's a cool tool that helps you in situations like this. When you're unable to kill a process directly through the task manager and your process spawns back as soon as you kill it - what you need to do is kill the process and remove the executable file at the same instance to stop this repetitive behaviour. That's where KillBox comes in handy. All you need to do is locate the rogue process using taskmanager and then type in the process name you see there into the killbox window and press the big red "X" button and your job's done. It's an extremely handy tool and a must-have for your toolbox. Here's what they say about KillBox: KillBox Download Link: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/windows/

Where do you get these games ? Can you please point me to the site..? I've played games on similar themes - Uplink & Street Hacker.

Hi guys, I was on my way out to gather my army for the Thai New Years water fight - the event is known as Songkran and takes place around 14-15th April. This is the day when no matter who - rich or poor - all alike get out on the streets and get drenched in ice cold water. Count in frequent patchworks of this fiery Menthol Powder on top of tham While you are out on the roads, your choices are: a. Get dunked in a drum of ice cold water every 5 mins b. Run for your life when 15 people with really menacing appearance attack you with these ultra-powerful water-jet guns. Try taking that standing straight !! (lol) c. Occasionally get dumped in life-size ice-coolers filled with the same menthol powder d. All of the above Anyway, my whole point of dropping back is to share this hot news I received just now. MandrakeSoft isn't MandrakeSoft anymore and thus the well-known MandrakeLinux isn't going to be called by it's old name either. In this news flash I received in my email just now, I found out - it's going to be called Mandriva from now on - in view of their merger with Conectiva - as also to escape the clutches of a huge lawsuit by Hearst Corporation. Thus their product Mandrake Linux is going to be known as MandrivaLinux from now on. Will this change of name bring about any of the much needed changes in their OS ? Who knows (I'd give them a very bad rating on their packaging - coz their version of desktop linux comes with utilities some of which haven't been updated over past 3-4 years !!!) Here's what came along in my newsletter: All right I'm offfff - to get recruits for tomorrow as well as pile up the much needed guns & ammo Happy Thai New Yeat to all of YOU April 15th, 2005

Generic Host Service is directly related to a file named svchost.exe found both on Win2K and WinXP - this file itself isn't a service, but it helps running several different windows services dynamically as demanded by the OS. Normally you'd see around 3-4 copies of this service running if you open your Task Manager and see the process list. If you have more than 4 - it's trouble brewing (or already hard brewed) for you. Since this file handles lots of important but regular tasks of the OS, this is the most likely target for virii and worms. Most such virii attach themselves to this file causing it to malfunction and print out such error messages quite often. First thing you should do is do a thorough virus check of your system again - also check for Worms like Blaster which are known to make this file a prime target. If all else fails, check the file size on your system and compare it with a clean system. See if there's any difference. Sometimes even bad RAM can fire off such errors. If you want to read more about these services, check out this article: Some more articles with similar problems as yours:1. http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/14850-generic-host-process-win32-service/ 2. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 3. https://forums.techguy.org/threads/generic-host-process-for-win32-services-encountered-a-problem-and-needed-to-close.344557/ 4. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 5. https://www.sophos.com/en-us/search-results.aspx?search=w32rbotjr&refine=7edf01e4de3c4c8791a56ba6ce685d09 6. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 7. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I've used QNX (which no longer is free) and OS/2 Warp (for a long time, before '98 came out) and some really obscure OS-es during my first few years of computing experience. Also had a BBC Micro for a long time - which had an embedded ROM OS and ROM BASIC.

hbr - get your hosting account here (you've to meet the Post Requirements first) - but once you get that - we can guide you gradually in setting up your optimized MySQL Database and help you link it with a PHP based web-page that will spit out categorized albums+tracks - the way you want. It's a fairly long drawn process but nothing complicated at all - so no need to worry All the best

I don't think Windows2000 calls any special Shutdown file - instead is passes some arguements to files like svchost, dllhost etc - causing all these processes to shut down one by one and then finally shut windows down. If you'd stated which language you're using to code, it'd have been a lot easier to reply to your query. On the other hand, Windows XP provides you with a file called Shutdown.exe which enables you to shut your system down. Read this Article: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/82716-topic/?findpost=1064295030 But you mentioned that you want this action to happen through a software which you're writing - it's extremely unwise to call or depend on external processes to perform important system tasks like this. Your program should be able to handle this itself. Here are a few links that'd help you with the coding: 1. VB.NET Source Code & Application Demonstrating Windows Shutdown Process 2. Shutdown - an alternative to Windows Shutdown dialog 3. A tool to perform automatic shutdown, log off or restart action 4. Remote Shutdown or Reboot with Telnet and C# I've checked all the source codes on these links and they all work fine. There are samples in both VB.NET and C#.NET - and should solve your shutdown problems rightaway. Happy Coding !

I don't have much idea of Delphi - though I've seen a lot of friends work on it. What I felt is it's pretty damned easy to accomplish your objective with Delphi. It operates somewhat on the same lines as MS Visual Studio - you've a whole bunch of graphics widgets (buttons, textfields, radio-buttons, checkboxes etc.) which you can drag and drop onto a form and rapidly come up with an interface. Linking these to a database is no hassle at all, bcoz Delphi has been specifically designed for that - to create frontends to a wide variety of databases. As far as I know, the language used for writing code in Delphi is Object Pascal - which is the object oriented variety of Pascal. Since you're familiar with programming (PHP) - shifting over to pascal wouldn't be difficult at all. Except for strong types (i.e. you've to declare each and every variable to be of a particular data type like integer, double etc. before you can use them) - the flow of code should be quite akin to PHP. The keywords not quite the same - you'll have to learn all the pascal keywords. I think moonwitch has prior experience in Delphi and probably she can help you out here. Waitup and see who else is into delphi and if we get a lot of interesting threads on it - starting a new forum isn't a problem at all :rolleyes:All the best

Why don't you put up your game somewhere and provide a download link in here ? That'll be cool

If I were back in India - I wouldn't vote for either of Coke or Pepsi. We have our very own megafizz cola drink that's been around for decades - it's called Thums Up (might sound like a misnomer for Thumbs Up - but it was intentionally named so). Believe me or not, tt beats the *hit out of both Coke & Pepsi. When Coke moved into India, they bought over Thumbs Up and tried to shut it down and use it's distribution chain to market Coke. But such is it's demand till today, that they were forced to reopen the thumbs up chain and market simultaneously with coke - or else nobody would have gone ahead and bought coke. Want to read more about COKE-PEPSI-THUMS UP Battle in India ?? Goto: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Here's our notion of our very own Thums Up: Besides both Coke and Pepsi in India have run into major legal problems earlier on because of the presence of shocking amounts of Pesticides, carcinogenic chemicals like Cadmium etc. News: 1. http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/aug/05pepsicoke.htm 2. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ But for now, I'll stick to PEPSI Maybe my tastebuds work in reverse - but I always found coke too sweet and pepsi having more fizz !! Don't ask me how or why - that's how it is The mild addiction that you grow to these drinks happens because of the caffeine content - what you feel (more often subconciously) after drinking these is the caffeine+sugar buzz in your body. Nothing to do with Cocaine. However all these drinks contain Carbonic Acid (HCO3) - which in itself is very harmful to the stomach lining (specially on empty stomach) - and too much of any of the carbonated drinks can cause serious stomach ulcers. A little info. on how drinks like Coke work Physiologically: Check out these interesting links: 1. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 2. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 3. http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcoke.htm 4. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Also continuing on this discussion - if anyone ever want's to find out how various chemical/herbal drugs physiologically act on the human body to produce the desired HIGH, you can take a look at this site: The Vaults of Erowid - extremely informative site with thousands of case report analysis and illustrations.