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Hey thanks for the runlevel tip. I didn't know that one..

Dude, it's from Douglas Adams (a technological Alice in Wonderland) book named "HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or The HGTG. Refer to it with as much respect and veneration as you can sum up It's my BIBLE .. lol.. believe it or not I sleep with it under my pillow and own about 18 different editions of it. You should READ IT RIGHTAWAY or better yet grab a copy of the radioscripts/broadcast tapes and listen to then when your psychoactives are just setting in lol Originally it came out as a trilogy and then one more was added to it.. In the final publication all of them were combined into ONE BIG HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE. In etymological order, they are: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Life, The Universe and Everything Mostly Harmless In short, NOTHING like it has been ever written and you'll find plenty more quotations like the one in my sig - in fact EVERY SINGLE LINE in the book is worth quoting. Here are some more excerpts from it for all of you: More at:1. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 2. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 3. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 4. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 5. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 6. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Douglas_Adams Have fun

lol.. dude, nice thoughts but if it was so easy we'd have as many OS-es in the market as there are text editing tools How I wish, I could though...

Sorry. No idea. I never used VB6 that much - coz i didn't like the constraints/limitations of the language. I only started using VB.NET and C#.NET because of the new framework and far far more flexible and improved OOP based design with support for collections, custom events/delegates etc.. now I can see the language reaching a certain maturity. If you need help with .NET UserControls - I'm right here I never touched the usercontrol stuff as long as it was VB6 - but with .NET I'm creating usercontrols away to glory Cheers P.S. You might want to look at the CodeProject Archives & DevX.Com

While I'm downloading SMF, I'll try make the syntax of the JOINS a little simpler for you: Lets say we have two databases DB1 and DB2 And couple of tables in each - but what we have in common are two tables called say, tabxyz - which server different purpose but have the same name in both the databases.. Now, if say, you have changed the active database to DB1. When you do a simple select, say SELECT * FROM tabxyz - it will fetch you the columns from DB1. What IF, you wanted to match one of the columns from the tabxyz of DB2 ?? In such a case you can: 1. Either switch over and make DB2 your active database - which is a very inconvenient process, coz then you just keep switching between the DBs to everytime you need to fetch values from the other db... OR 2. Use the explicit dbname.tablename declaration to pull values out..In this case, even while your active database is DB1, you can do a select using the following syntax: SELECT * FROM DB2.tabxyz Now, lets consider two columns, residing in these tabxyz-s of the two databases... in DB1.tabzyx there's a column called ColA and in DB2.tabxyz, the column name is ColB. You watch to match the values of these two columns and IF they match, you write some value into yet a third column in say, DB2.tabxyz named ColC.. what you do is set up a couple of aliases to refer to ColA and ColB to make life easier for yourself. Thus: SELECT ColA from DB1.tabxyz AS ColumnA SELECT ColB from DB1.tabxyz AS ColumnB UPDATE DB2.tabxyz SET ColC='SomeValue' WHERE ( ColumnA = ColumnB ) Do you get it now ? ColumnA and ColumnB act as aliases (you can say, almost variables) pointing to ColA and ColB of the corresponding tables.. Thus, when you match the values, you avoid a lot of unnecessary headache of calling up each db and tables - instead you have two very handy aliases ready to be used... My whole point of writing all this is - that this kind of aliasing syntax is very common in JOINS and you'll encounter them in almost any code that involves JOINS... The process of JOIN itself is what you'd make out from it's name - joining data split over multiple tables and dbs and producing the required output.. Just keep this syntax in mind and it'll help you a lot in understanding joins.. More on the actual joins later have fun...

Site layout and graphics is really nice, but one thing I couldn't figure is why does the Intro Page load into your main browser window and when you click on the "Enter" Logo, the main site loads in a much smaller pop-up window. I don't know if you want it exactly that way, but maybe you should look into it and make it load in the main window itself.. enlarge your background and make it full sized.. - the main site in a small window isn't really an attractive idea...All the best

Have you considered coming up with another one - except that make the baby a "little" cockeyed - not much, just marginally ?? That'd make it ultra-cute if thats what you want...give it a shot - am not joking

Oh no.. another lin-win war.. lol.. just how many threads are we going to have on this ?? anyways, lets see how far this goes... I love Linux & OpenSource too What I always keep saying: Linux: What Windows will NEVER be

Lol.. Ok.. here's the deal. I'm going to grab a copy of SMF and try it out and see if I encounter similar problem. Or else I can try to simulate the exact db/table names that you've set up and try again.. In that case you need to paste here the db and tables names that you were using and a little more details about the table colums..

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me too - just that dialup connections here in thailand last more than 36 hours at one dial - damned weird - dunno how.. back in india they'd at the max last for 15 hours....so no hassles here.. besides it's worth it I tell you - since you are doing CS, you'll find this REALLY USEFULL - for any kind of code you compile - since it supports almost ALL.

Hey Ryan, I didn't get a really clear picture from the post, but it seems like you are trying to get a collection of different fields from a set of disjoint tables and depending on the result you intend to modify the column value of a certain table - that's almost what you term as Inner/Outer Join in SQL depending on the tables that you are combining the values from.. There are so many kinds of JOINS (Inner, Outer, Full, Cross, etc.) that if I began to to talk about them the posts would fill up all the space available on any board But one factor that is common to almost all the joins is that you have to explicitly specify, WHICH COLUMN is being fetched from WHICH TABLE/DB, i.e., let me show you by modifying a little bit of one of your querries: Say, your $member_group_col resides in one table and $custom_field resides in another and the tables are titled say, A and B, your query would transform into: ---> i.e., for joins, columns from different tables (that's what join is for) aren't referred to as simply column names, but they have to be refered as, tablename.columnname in EVERY instance they occur in your query. This is a MUST. Or else, you can you aliasing, wherby you can specify a name, sayColumn1 = A.Column1 and Column2 = B.Column2 --> you can probably see, that these two disjoint columns can be refered in your queries as just Column1 and Column2... There's an excellent book on all this named "MySQL CookBook that teaches you all these trick 10 times over in 1000 different ways. It's written by Paul Dubois and published by O'Reilly. You should grab it rightaway. Try eBay -and you might be able to get a second hand one at about 1/10th the price.. I find it an extremely good reference at these confusing points, coz that's where it opens up a handful of really nifty tricks to solve your prob... Have fun.. Hope I could help you, even if marginally - coz even I'm relatively new to SQL - I've been messing around with it for at the most an year or so...my main background is in C++ & Java on Linux.. A useful link on JOINS: http://www.sqlteam.com/article/additional-criteria-in-the-join-clause

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That was a real good and concise explanation kaputnik.. one of the best in the series... Herbert black holes DO release energy as you'd see from one of my earlier posts - coz as you get sucked into one, the intense gravitational force causes your whole mass to implode (read opposite of explode) - i.e. collapse onto itself being concentrated at just one point...in effect, your whole mass gets destroyed as is transformed into pure energy... This energy, at the outer fringes of the black hole, still has enough velocity to escape, and show up as chromatic bands on the particle detectors that we have... But once you are deep into a black hole (how deep is the question) - nothing would escape and you'd be completely left to its mercy.. Another theory goes - imagine the shape of black holes being as that of infinitely long funnels.. I'm sure your can come up with a picture in your mind.. as you drop deeper into the black hole - you keep travelling infinitely IN, while your mass gets infinitely smaller and smaller - it's quite probable, such two funnels are joined back to back at the narrow ends and thus acts as a passageway to some other end of the universe (what we commonly call HyperGalactic Space in Sci-Fi movies) - and your velocity will be so intensely high by the time you reach the connecting mid-point of these two funnels, that you'd shoot right across the median line and carry on, with reducing velocity to the other broader end till that gravitational pull of the black hole is insufficient to hold you back any longer - and you come out at some point which is bizillion miles away from your origin... Of course, all this happens if you somehow manage to retains your mass, shape and conciousness and live to tell us all about it

Hey musichere - I've installed Mandrake without any pain in the wrong place and without a hitch on pretty non-standard systems specs. Do try the grub way, coz it does make your life just a triffle bit easier - but grub won't help you solve it all... in the end, you got to get down to wading through a hell lot of linux manpages to sort it all out.. the bland white on black text is nothing short of SCARY at first - but you get used to it after a while and life becomes far smoother.. believe me - been there, done that and still lived to tell That, itself says something, doesn't it ??

I dont think you can EVER completely OWN a domain.. you can, at the best, only lease it out for a certain number of years. After that your lease expires and you have to renew it again for a period of your choice.. Why not try the same at GoDaddy.. If you manage to scrape up around $72, go for a 10 year lease - it works out around $7 per year - which I believe, even as for a non-working student is hardly anything. Come on, you're likely to spend at least twice or thrice or that figure on an ordinary weekend night out with your friends (if not more)... It's definitely worth a try to save up some and going for it...I've done it and I can tell you that I'm not living to regret the day On the other hand, you could just get yourself one of those uni.cc or dottk.tk subdomains/domains - they come absolutely free of cost...

Then, I can't exactly figure whats going wrong with the installation, but you can give the MiniApache Server a try.. read my other post @ http://forums.xisto.com/topic/81893-topic/?findpost=1064288697 This will help you avoid a lot of messy config options for apache and php and comes pre-configured for just this kind of installations.. I say, give it a shot and post back here -whether it worked out for you or not.. Would always be interesting to get a positive/negative feedback on it... All the best

Or... I'm being BAD here you could download PQMagic off some warez site - if you are desperate enough and don't have the right kind of moollah to buy it.. I'm a sw developer myself - but I believe in free sw (if not open source) and I think every software should come free of cost to try (without limitations or nag-screens) and all the revenue should be earned from follow-up installation and technical support. So I say, go ahead and grab PQMagic from somewhere and expand your partition to glory :PAll the best

Photography Nils.. I'm mad about that.. That's the only artistic acumen I got. Even though it developed through my own interest - or else you'd still find me spending 99% of the day staring into a monitor sitting in a cold, dark room - trying to figure out how the world works following an object oriented model It just happens to be photography that brought me out into open daylight (even though it pushed me back into the darkroom to a certain extent) - and I ground on and on - till I could see the clear imprints of the pictures shot by myself gradually fade in onto those photo papers.... that was simply worth it.... it's almost as good as seeing your kid being born right in front of your eyes.. By 12 I was a computer freak.. my dad & mom thought they'd never have to worry about me getting married to a "right girl" coz I had a wife already.. my pc !! In fact whoever came into my life would have to really FIGHT for a good share of my time & devotion, against my pc... lol.. that's what folks back at home always told me... My point is that, nobody ever taught me how to take pictures - I learnt it all on my own. I bought thousands of books on photography, read and studied about the methods in depth and then just went ahead and try to emulate the pictures in the books (to whatever extent I could).. Initially I wasted maybe (let me count.. errrr.. none less than 80-90 roll of 35mm films) - and even more when I started developing them on my own. But that was what ACTUALLY taught me what PHOTOGRAPHY was all about... it wasn't like you took 5 pictures and expected 4 of them to come out GOOD; it was more like you took 50 pictures and only 5 of them came out EXCELLENT.. that's what photography is all about.. In a way I am grateful, coz thats my only contact with the outside world I'm a pretty nocturnal creature and my day starts at 2 in the afternoon - ends on most days at around 5am.. I'm sure you know it by now...But whatever free time I get I'm out with my camera, either on camping or trekking -and in the process I developed a really good skill for landscape photography and portraiture.. My whole point in rambling on and on about this is: there's NOTHING that a human being CANNOT DO. It only takes a lot of time and perseverence - and primarily you got to realize where you INTEREST lies. Even though I can claim I'm pretty good at photography (sometimes I wonder why i didn't pursue a career in that) - now, having tried it all, I know where I'm going to DO GOOD and where I WON'T. You should never STOP YOURSELF from doing something you like (as long as you deem yourself to be in limits) coz, that's the ONLY way to figure out what you are good at and what you aren't... it's just this process of self-discovery that makes us HUMAN and different from every other cognizant species on this planet.. In conclusion I'd say that never FEAR to try anything and never HOLD YOURSELF BACK from doing something that you feel you're good at. That is the way of the humans and that is the way way to achieve the perfect balance in you... All the best P.S. God !! Where did I start off all and where did it all end !! Anyways, as they say, All's well that ends well May the light be with you !That reminds me - I gotta put in some pictures to go along with all the big words in here.. soon..tomorrow..

Dude, most likely your index.php doesn't have the proper execution rights that are required by the *NIX systems. Or else those files would absolutely refuse to execute. It's a very far fetched concept as far as windows goes - coz, any win* based platform is completely devoid of any kind of execution rights. I think it'd do you good if you read the following articles and undergo a little linux file permissions tutorial: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ For more information of this, google for "Linux file permissions" OR "chmod tutorial". Foreword: Most of these softwares are capable of displaying configuration pages in your browser and autoconfigure the board accordingly - depending on the fact that file read/write/execute permissions have been set properly. In short, the files that you uploaded will get a READ permission by default. But some of them, like the config files or setip/install.php for most bulletin boards need the READ, WRITE & EXECUTE - all three permissions set for them. Check up with the INSTALL or README files that accompnay most of the BBS (Bulletin Board Software) and you'll find instuctions on what kind of file permissions you have to set for specific files or folders. In fact some of the BBS-es even detect and tell you (through your browser) what specific permission certain files or folders need. You just need to set them accordingly and load up the software in you browser and follow the installation instructions. It's not difficult, believe me.. I've got 6-7 different BBS-es running on my office's internal lan server - am still trying to decide which one I should adopt to host our customer support/knowledge base forums - but it's immense fun toying with all of them.. never had a dull night in the past couple of weeks Make sure you read all those articles - coz I faced the same problems as you - and I solved them through those. It just takes a "little time" and a "little patience". In case you still don't go through, make another post in here and I'll try to provide you with as much help as possible... All the best and have fun

That was, in one word, "FABULOUS" Noel.. Describing the conception of an artform is no mean task - even tough I've always wanted someone to go ahead and do it in a way that it would show even a lamer how to do it. And yet YOU had the guts to do it... literally step by step, as any artistically challenged person and a "lamer" like me would prefer. That was simply a brilliant piece of work out there. Thanks for sharing it with us

kaputnik: Thanks for the post. Like me, I think a lot of Indians would be thrilled to know that we have a Indian contemporary of PayPal now. I would have never guessed, primarily because I've been out of my country for so long. I only get to hear - THIS change and THAT change has taken place; unfortunately never got to experience any of them.. This is really cool news. All right... Keep posting and have fun. This is the greatest board to be in Regards, m^e P.S. I don't mean to be negatively critical, but you gotta work on you web-site dude. One thing I learnt (even though I'm no artist - my brain only works when it comes to Linux and Coding - stops at all else. I am the kind of person who'd rather spend the whole evening trying to fight with one of the most difficult-to-configure proxy servers work out all good) that white text on a very dark background makes it really hard on your poor eyes. There are only "so many" sites who have been able to come up with a white-on-black theme that's really catchy and pleasant to look at. So if you are one of those people who want to make an impression of themselves on the WWW, I think you should rethink the whole layout and color concept and come up with something brilliant. I'm sure you can. I couldn't even come up with a site that's half as good as yours All the best....

Hi, Those who don't want to go into all the hassle of configuring Apache with PHP - here's a quick alternative. Grab MiniApache_PHP from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ . It's a much downscaled version of the real Apache server but includes the PHP modules too - very little headache over installation and you can start hosting your own sites rightaway. Good alternative for testing your custom php codes too... This is what the site says about the software: Hope this helps

If you want to do some more reading on sorting alogrithms, go to this site: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ They've got discussions on a pretty decent list of commonly used sorting algorithms, namely: Bubble sort Heap sort Insertion sort Merge sort Quick sort Selection sort Shell sort You'll find detailed discussions on the pros and cons of each method as well as the efficiency of each sorting algorithm. Working code samples in C/C++ are also provided, and judging from your coding style you shouldn't have much difficulty porting them to java. Have you grabbed a copy of JavaDocs yet - I think you need one (it's the Java comtemporary of the MSDN libraries), coz as marjinn pointed out, you should use the benefits that the java framework provides you to the fullest extent. Makes life easier as well as in certain cases it actually optimizes and speeds up your code All the best...

The frontpage extension files are the ones that look like _private and _vti* - they all placed by default into your public_html directory and can be removed safely if you aren't going to use any of the frontpage extensions.. I think even your public_html directory can be removed - only that your files won't show up as a site anymore... the symboliclink that public_html has to www will become dysfunctional. I'm not sure though if you recreate the directory - whether the link becomes active on its own...