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I'm using Sissoft Sandra Pro 2005 - and am extremely happy with it - I haven't come across any other sw that provides you with such an exhaustive array of benchmarking/system burn-out testing tools as well as a great performance booster tips generator. In fact I've been using Sissoft Sandra since version Pro 2001 & upgrading every year

Sorry, but what's the Eclipse look and feel ? I can't help but sound ignorant here ... To me Eclipse is a terrific opensource IDE for Java and several other languages, developed by IBM ( http://www.eclipse.org/ ) .. What eclipse look are you talking about ?

I found a combination of css and tables (and sometimes divs - for floating layers or moving layers) the most useful.. But css rulez... with css you can completely skin your site - have a different theme loading depending on the weekday (i.e. if you are going to put in that much of hard work )

lol.. CHronicLoser.. stop before you kill me.. roflmao. Anyways, you can use that attrib command over entire directory contents.. So if anyone's ever trying to find out where the hidden files ran off to - if you have any idea about it's containing directory - go in there and do a: attrib -GetRidOfAllOfThem *.* naah am just kidding.. doing a attrib -h *.* would suffice Btw, your files never really get hidden this way - they just fail to show up on a diectory listing with the dir command or in the explorer file view because of their +h or +s attributes. But if you have the Tools > Folder Options > View > Show hidden files and folders in your Windows Explorer turned to ON, all such files become visible immediately. The same can be achieved by using dir /a command in console. Incidentally since we are taking about dos based attributes, I'd like to mention one little option that can be used with the "dir" command. It goes like: dir /o:n /p Cryptic ?? /o: X - means the ORDER in which you want to files to be displayed. X here can be replaced with anything from n - for name based alphabetical listing t - listing where files are grouped according to their type d - to group files according to date of creation s - to group them by their sizes The last /p option tells dir to display the files PAGE-BY-PAGE so they don't just scroll off the screen without you being able to see the list completely. If you don't want to specify these options over and over again, everytime you do a dir, then you can include this syntax in your autoexec.bat file. SET DIRCMD = /o:n /p As you can see, this will set an environmental variable that the dir command reads while listing files. All the best

Now I've two systems with 80GBx2=160GB on Raid 1 (Disk Mirroring) - so in effect 320GB and my own workstation with 120Gigs. I'm actively trying to setup a linux cluster so that I can use all these resources as one uniform huge hard filesystem.

There are so many nicely package bulletin board scripts out there - I don't think you need to create a script by yourself. All you should do is download a couple of them and see which one you like best. You can find them here: 1. phpBB2 2. wowBB 3. vBulletin 4. Simple Machines Board 5. Jive Forums 6. Invision Power Board - the one this site uses ..... etc. For a more complete listing follow this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_forum_software All you need to do is download one of these and follow the instructions of the setup scripts. The server you're hosting this script on should have a web-server software with php plugin up & running. Or else none of these will work. Try these board softwares - they come with numerous plugins to make your day-today life much easier and you'll have your discussion board up and running in no time. If you are happy with the end product - come back here and write a good review on your installation experiences. All the best

Glad it helped. But make sure you come back and post in here about your spyware eradication adventures. Am sure it will help the other readers with similar problems.All the best.

Here's a short tip. You'll need to setup 3 things: 1. The MySQL DB that your form data is getting written to. For our example lets just take two fields in a table, Name and Email in table Guests in a database named guestdb. 2. A html page with the form 3. A php file to process the form and write out the data to the MySQL db. Step 1 - Create the form File: index.html This code just sets up a form with 2 fields to enter your name and email. The form post is redirected to your php code when you press submit. Step 2 - Create the form processor php file File: processform.php This shouldn't be hard to understand - it uses the environmental variable $_POST to fetch the form fields and constructs your query accordingly. It's a very basic piece of code...Just make sure both files are in the same directory. That's it. Try and let me know if it works. All the best ----------------------------------------------------------- This topic deals with both scripting language and database - but is more script oriented. So I'm moving it to the Programming > Scripting section - and leaving a link in here too. m^e

I don't think it's necessary to close this topic as long as the discussions stick to as far as you've gone. It's always good to hear different people's voice on the same issue.

Great. Always good to have a precompiled list like this. Good work.m^e

The lack of viruses for linux depends on the fact that linux (and all *nix systems) have been designed keeping user access rights in a networked environment, in view, right from scratch.. Thus, in effect, when a user logs in onto a linux system - he's alloted this virtual space and his home directory - which is completely isolated from other users and the core of the OS. So whatever this user wants to mess around - he's free to do - but he's completely jailed to his virtual space and home directory.. Most of the users/groups with lesser priveleges than the administrative user, are jailed to their shell and home this way - so even if you uploaded and executed a virulent code in you home directory - at most it can destroy YOUR OWN files in your home - but it will, by default, never get the right kind of permissions to act on other user's files/folders - destroying the OS files is a distant though

I'd say, for an absolute newbie - if options were presented in the way you did, all those free OS/software/utils would sound FAR more lucrative than the incremental payup you gotta do on a windows system for anything you wish to add on... i.e. as you said, if one hasn't heard of the MS buzzword... but with all the new linux distros coming up one after the other and with their all new x-based graphical installers, the gap is bridging down REALLY FAST... I know of quite a few vendors here in thailand who've started shipping out with some versions of SuSe & Mandrake. Promising, i must say...

Hi, This is by far one of the most amazing stories I came across and I think it's nothing short of a biological miracle... Read the article at: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Besides this amazing story on how a 1year old orphaned baby Hippo got adopted by a centennial tortoise in a sanctuary in Kenya - the article contains some other equally exciting stories on a group of 5 Oryxes (a type of antelope) once again being adopted by none else than their predator, a LIONESS !! Yes, you heard me right - in fact, she's started growing thinner and thinner coz she spends more time protecting her adopted babies from other predators and neglecting to go out and find food for herself !! Have you heard such amazing stories before ?? Make sure you go visit that link and read all about it.... Are they trying to put through a message of World Peace - to us humans ?? One is left to wonder.....

Can you post some details over here:1. Which OS (Windows/Linux) are you using and which version/brand ?2. What web-server software (IIS/Apache) is installed and running the board?3. What kind of connection does your server run on (ADSL/Dialup) ?4. Which version of Invision are you using ? 5. Finally - check the system logs for unusual outside activity/connections and if you have any idea about the date of the hack, can you paste the logs in here for that date ? Regards..

To be able to delete the forum files, your hacker has to gain access to your server hosting those files with administrative privileges... If it's windows based - there are about a million ways to get in - bt if it is a linux platform, ask your friend and post the version of kernel you are using and whether he has any DNS server namely BIND running on Linux (check if the version of BIND is 8.x) - coz anything below BIND 9 (minus patches) can be exploited using this thing known as Buffer Overflow, that can be used to your advantage to gain root access on the hosting server and remove all files. Just check on your friend with this list of querries and repost in here and we might be able to provide you with some way out... Also whether windows or linux based, ask your friend to check the system LOG Files, specially the connection logs and carefully notice all the incoming IP's - ie who all have connected to his system from the outside world and using WHAT protocol.. That might be a dead giveaway, unless your mysterious hacker was not being stupid and removed/modified those logs.. still its worth a try Alternatively, he might be using some other Invision Exploit. I don't know much about board softwares - maybe the admins here can provide you with some answers...All the best

That was really good work out there Herbert - and the old b&w theme makes the whole thing stand out quite well.. Keep it up - and hope to see more such great work from you..All the best

Here's some info on LOP aka "Live Online Portal" I found through google. Am pasting it here for quick reference. If you want more info follow the links at the bottom of the page... Links: 1. http://www.spyany.com/ 2. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 3. https://personalfirewall.comodo.com/spyware/lop.html 4. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ All the best...

Lol.. nice one szupie. I did the same too - except that I resorted to a Clap-Switch instead of the string way - but the string way results in a far more innovative contraption.. Incidentally, have any of you guys played either of those great games called "Contraptions" and "The Incredible Machines" ?? You can do exactly that kind of stuff in those games - i.e. build up some amazing contraptions with your own choice of cog-wheels, motors, pipes etc... Btw, you can "mod" your CoffeeMaker with Linux and instruct it to come up with whatever you pick from a long list of different types of coffee - did you know that ? For more info see below. I lst the original link - but found several more on the same topic... 0. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 1. http://ecee.colorado.edu/~ecen4610/ expof03/compuccino_pdr.ppt 2. http://www.mindflip.org/x10.php 3. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Among these the Zeroeth link contains a PDF with detailed instructions on how to designing your own circuits and hooking them up with linux to achieve this... Have fun

HI, This is a very old & well-known bug in Visual Studio 2003 and I hear it's been recitifed in the 2005 version. But till I get my hands on it (which isn't hapenning soon enough) I still got to use the old VS2003. The problem is: if you mess around with the code that lies in the region "Windows Forms Designer Generated Code" - the form controls just VANISH when you load it up in designer mode. They just won't come back however hard you try - and all you're left with is a BLANK form. Not that it hampers with your code from running in any way - but you can't see the layout of your controls anymore and kind of grope around in the dark... Does anybody know any solutions to this ??? Urgently needed if there is one... Thanks a lot P.S. A little bit of details as to where it's going wrong ----------------------------------------------------------------- Do you see the last line - that's where I've introduced the keyword "Shared" after the "Friend" keywork - and that's what makes all the controls VANISH COMPLETELY from the designer. If I remove the shared keyword and try - all controls are BACK !!! But I NEED to use the shared keyword there for other modules/classes to be able to access and manipulate that panel. This is very funny and extremely inconvenient at the same time.. So, can anyone suggest a workaround ??

Do you use outlook or any similar email clients to download mails ?? I'd faced this problem once, long back - coz there's an option in outlook to disconnect after finishing mail downloads - this option was turned on - and I didn't know about it. I tried all of those idle time hangup etc etc.. played around with all the setting before I noticed that it dropped the line right after I checked mails. Till then it made life hell for me.. Make sure none of your internet clients have any kind of autodc option like this...

modded your light switch ? what or how ? could you come up with a bigger post with (if possible) ste-by-step details as to how you did it ?

Welcome to Xisto Satya good one Nils.. I think I mentioned this earlier - but it seems quite appropriate to do so here again as a followup on Satya's post. "Asta" as you would pronouce it - and "Astha" - as we, Indians would say it - means "Trust". What more can I say about Xisto other than the fact that within a very very short time it has become my most "Trusted" Host

There's another one being organized by err... Microsoft - but from the looks of it, it's going to be quite good. I've already registered for it as an individual member - but we can go as groups too.. If anyone's interested let me know.. It's called Imagine Cup 2005. Details: If anyone's interested - contact me ASAP. I'm always hanging around here and you wouldn't have difficulty spotting me

I like both:a. Alluria Spyware Eliminator b. Lavasoft Adaware SE

Hi, This tutorial will be as short and sweet (hopefully) as the one on Changing Graphical Login to Text Based. Those who are using Linux regularly would have definitely come across the system runlevels and all the cryptic looking boot-up messages associated with different runlevel. Here's a short description of RunLevels from Linux Man Pages. RunLevels, thus, are a method of grouping up certain system processes so that they are able to run and peacefully coexist together (probably chipping in for a common goal). So how do you go about finding WHICH process is running in WHAT runlevel ? Of course, you can go for one of the new runlevel/process viewing utilities found in the System Tools folder under the X-Windows Start Menu. But that again, is a slow and cumbersome process - as the real power of using linux can be achieved only through the command line console. So we're going to do it the poweruser way, and believe me, it's NOT at all as scary as it sounds. In fact, this time I found out - it's not scary AT ALL and far more simpler than any of the other system configuration tasks of linux. So without further delay, lets get down and do it Hands-On We are going to use this utility named chkconfig - as you can guess, it expands to Check Configuration. But it doesn't just checks your system configuration - but is able to modify it to a certain extent too. The linux man pages describe it as: Chkconfig - in contrast to the other linux commands doesn't boast a huge list of options and parameters to work with. We'll start of with it's simplest form, using it to get a list of the processes that the system starts during bootup and the runlevels associated with them. In the console, just go ahead and type:=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= shell> chkconfig --list =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The output you get is somewhat in the following format: See you if can spot a couple of the more common processes like the Apache Server (httpd), FTP Server (vsftpd), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Server (dhcpd) etc... You'll notice most of them have 0 through 6, i.e. Seven runlevels associated with them - and most of these processes except syslog - the System Log Generator, doesn't start running before runlevel 3. In fact runlevel 0, 1 & 2 take place right at the beginning of the system booting stage - and very few processes are needed to operate here except for the Core System/Kernel Processes. Those are the ones that load first and then allow you to run services of your choice. So how do we set a process to run at specific runlevels ? Once again, we take a little help of our friend "chkconfig". But first, lets pick a process from the above list. Notice the THIRD process from top in the list - it's mysql - the MySQL Server Process. It's set to run at runlevels 3, 4 & 5 - as shown by the 3:on 4:on 5:on statement. Just for the heck of it, I'm going to disable it altogether and stop it from running at any of the levels. Here's what you do: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= shell> chkconfig --level 345 mysql off =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I don't think I need to explain much. The "--level 345 mysql off" tells chkconfig to modify the entries for MySQL on those specific runlevels (3, 4 & 5) and set all of them to OFF. As you can see, the affected runlevels are put side-by-side together to form a number and passed to chkconfig. Similarly, if you wanted it to run only on Level 2 & 4 and be OFF on all the rest, you'd execute the command above first and then follow it up by: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= shell> chkconfig --level 24 mysql on =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Feel free to try your own combination of runlevels to suit your needs. Right, lets use chkconfig once more and cross-check the results.. So we run, chkconfig --list once again, and this time the result should be somewhat like: We're done for today.. But we missed out on one very important fact - What is the necessity of changing the runlevels for different system processes ? Well, that is a topic that cannot be covered in the span of one tutorial - so we'll come back to it pretty soon, maybe in a series of short tutorials. All the best