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Righton thanks for clearing it up...it got a little fuzzy seeing so many quotes flying around

See from your query, I figure you are trying to match up the contents of the variable $no_ficha with the table columns participantes.No_Ficha and sancionados.No_Ficha. the query is perfectly fine and wouldn't even need the open-close quotes (``) around the table/column names as shown here. My guess is where you are going wrong is the open-close quotes ('') around the $no_ficha.... if you want to match the contents of $no_ficha with your table columns, then you have to enclose $no_ficha in double quotes ("$no_ficha") for PHP to be able to parse it as a variable and extract and use its value. Between single quotes, $no_ficha is treated as a string and you query is trying to find a string called $no_ficha in your tables... Try with double quotes and see.... I think breaking up the query like this would help: $sql="SELECT count(*) FROM participantes,sancionados WHERE participantes.No_Ficha =" . "$no_ficha" . "or sancionados.No_Ficha = " . "$no_ficha"; ... ... And next check your syntax and add what mastercomputers wrote... - coz it seems from your syntax that you aren't doing to query at all...

Linux ever has freeware p2p clients - try: http://qtella.sourceforge.net/features.php It hooks up to the Gnutella Network. All the best

Good one Greetings to the Tux World !!. Dont worry, nothing really can go wrong - at the most trashed partitions or complete hard disk wipeout - if u are careless with the linux fdisk (use disk druid that comes with all the distros) .. hehe.. naah, just kidding.. unless you delete the windows partition (assuming you are going for dual os boot) manually - nothing can go wrong. ::: SSShudders ::: Try the following sites as reference. What you are trying to do is quite feasible... 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/ I'd say, YEAH PRETTY MUCH because of the way linux handles execution rights - but still now we have quite a few nasty linux viruses lurking out there... you can get a freeware console antivirus for linux (a damned good one at that too) from BitDefender (http://www.bitdefender.de/) - go here and choose LinuxDefender As I said, unless you manually delete the windows partition or overwrite it with Linux nothing can go wrong. And since you are using Mandrake - it's quite end-user friendly and will spit out quite a few grave warnings when you try to overwrite the windows partition. Most likely, your windows partition will show up as: /dev/hdaX where X is a number (if you have only one partitoin - it'll be /dev/hda1)... Here's the linux way of dealing with hdd's in brief... All your physical drives are listed with alphabetic concatenations to /dev/hda... i.e. if you have 2 hdd's they'll show up as /dev/hda and /dev/hdb .... your cd-rom drive is most likely to show as /dev/hdc ... btw, /dev - stands for Device... so fair it should be fairly evident. Now partitions on each drive are show by adding one more number to this device.. i.e., first partition on first drive /dev/hda1 second partition on first drive /dev/hda2 extended partition on first drive /dev/hda5 logical drives in ext partition /dev/hda6..7...8....so on first partion on second drive /dev/hdb1 .... similar to above Depending on how your drive is partitioned right now - if you have the complete space alloted to windows in ONE SINGLE LARGE partition - you better get hold of PartitionMagic or some other similar windows based partitioner which can resize partitions. Then free up some space at the end of the partition... say if your hdd is 80Gig, pull out at least 5-10Gig for Linux at the end...leave it as unpartitioned free space. When you start installing Mandrake - at one point it'll take you to Disk Druid - the linux disk partitioner. You can either choose Auto Partition (recommended for first few times) or if you care to mess around a little bit - choose manual and make TWO(2) partitions - try to make them both primary. You can choose the type of filesystems to mount on these partitions - make one of these partitions exactly double the amount of RAM you have in your system or a little less (but not more than twice your system RAM) and select the filesystem type as "Linux Swap"... now allot the rest of the free space to another primary partition and select it's filesystem to be "Linux Native" or "Jounalized ext3fs" or just "ext3fs" - they're all almost the same except different versions of mandrake might use these different terms to refer to the same thing. That's it - you are set... Oh yeah, couple of more things to keep in mind.. when you create the second partition (ext3fs) - you'll see an option to set a "Mount Point" - click on that and in the texbox, type just "/" (backslash without the quotes) as your mount point. Second - one point in the installation you'll be asked to choose your BOOT LOADER - between something called GRUB and LILO. Choose GRUB - it's graphical and easier - and then you'll be asked where to install GRUB to : 2 options - a) Master Boot Record and First Sector of Root Partitoin. Select a) MBR - this will make grub boot first and present you with a selection menu to choose which OS (Win or Linux) you want to boot into. That's about it - the rest is "read and follow instructions". If you go past the stage mentioned above - NOTHING CAN GO WRONG. And yeah, all those quotes above about being "presented with options" - you gotta keep a watch out for those options, i.e. they come up every now and then and might be hidden in a jungle of other options in the same page... so keep a sharp watch on every installation screen till you reach the "Package Selection Screen".. then you can just click on OK and go for a nice little stroll of contentment Cheers and all the best..

Hi all, Does anybody have ideas about writing trainable anti-spam mail filters - that you can add onto any web-mail script ? Looking for something written in perl/php that'll allow me to just check the checkboxes beside spam mails and click any button (say, "mark as spam") and the script studies the mail headers and creates its own list of originating spammer domains/ips & blocks out mails from 'em ? Thanks

Hi all, BIND is already installed on my server (am using Fedora Core 2) - can anyone help me in setting up the DNS Zones and configuring the named.conf - preferrbaly the NON-GUI way ?? I'm more comfortable with the console and vi way. I've tried in uncountable ways and all it has given me are uncountable bad hair days... Thanks

This ISP email thing is nasty... Not possible to use the ISP email everywhere - like me, a non-thai living in thailand - my isp email is in thai and theres no way I'm gonna learn how to read & write thai to be able to use my isp email. Flip side: I was buying some activex controls online through the ShareIt.Com payment gateway - and even though I maintain a paid email account at Runbox (https://runbox.com/) - ShareIt kept on rejecting my email quoting it to be from a "Free Service", just because runbox has that 1 month free trial going on. What a mess - you can't even use your goddamned paid account to buy stuff ?? I had to sit back and try almost over 50 different free emails till I got one that worked at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (probably wasn't listed "free" on shareit database). But it took me the whole day and useless registrations at over 50 diff sites - not a very pleasant experience. Anyway, for those who keep facing these kind of problems and are willing to go to the lengths I did (in short, the Height of Desperation & Frustration) - you are most welcome to check this site out - http://www.emailaddresses.com/ - that's where I got the list of my 50 different email hosts. Nice site and updated very frequently with good reviews. Lots of other goodies too. All the best.

I'd go along with the others - console access is way much faster and easier than any of the GUI's. Alternatively try the new MySQL Administrator + Query Browser from mysql.com - the deprecated mysqlcc has been now broken down into two components. Ummm... other than that - you do have a few good ones, for example, EMS MySQL Manager/Importer/Exported/Query Browser - a suite of 4 very handy tools - unfortunately they are not free. But if you are desperate enough, you could try downloading them from https://en.usenet.nl/?utm_medium=AFSI&utm_campaign=408878&utm_source=AF_TA_83028&utm_content=0_1 (do a search for 'SQL' once you get to the site).

Hey tattopunk - I dunno how you are going to present the page contents - or about your overall color scheme - but this is from a particular online branding (adv. management) class i had done once - we were repeatedly told to avoid creating sites/banners with black (or very dark colors) background with bright text in foreground. As told before "black is extremely overused" and, besides such a page causes opthamlic trauma (eye stress) due to the boldly colored text that stands out against the dark background. I'm sure you can fiddle around with the colors and come up with something nice... here are some tools that might help you in the wrong run. They consist mostly of color picker and color matching softwares where you can lay two or more different colors on top of each other and figure out the best combination. Some of them even allows you to save these color schemes for future referral. 1. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - look down the page or search for "color" 2. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - shareware but good one. 3. http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/colortoolswin/ - color pickers/tools for win 4. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - Visual Color Picker (this is one of the best & is freeware) - I use it all the time for designing the interface for my softwares, not just web design. You can move the mousr cursor and select any block of the screen (shown in a magnified windows) and pick out colors of inidividual pixels. The sw spits out the color codes for the same in about 7-8 different color formats (html, rgb values, photoshop color value, vb & vb.net color vals, delphi etc...) 5. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - another list of free & sharewares to choose form ummm.... thats it I guess... I highly recommend the 4th link and the 5th... in fact all of them. Just look around and take your pick. .:: cheers ::.

No chance buddy - the new .NET Framework has complete remodelled the code design - breaking all your code into complete OOP based class structures. You can still write code that is backward compatible with VB6 - but even the way vb6 and vb.net handles Form Control "Events" is vastly different with non-conforming method/subroutine signatures. In effect, code written for vb6 can be upgraded for .net - but code that you write for .net cannot be run on vb6 unless you modify large parts of it (in the process loosing all programming advantages that the new .net framework gives you). So there...

Try the following sites: 1. http://www.ibiblio.org/fosphost/exhost.htm This gives you a comparative chart of features offered by all the free open source project hosting sites including the ones in your list. Pretty barebone page - but coverage is extensive. 2. The google directory for the same: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 3. Unmaintained Free Software - another such host: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Lemme know if it helps Cheers

Hi, If you problem pertains to the controls on the form going haywire when you switch resolution - try adding some auto screen/control resizer activex control to your project - it definitely helps. I've had the same problems earlier. There are loads on the net. Just google-ify "vb6 +form +control +resize" (without the quotes of course). I'm trying to list some of them here: 1. http://www.downloadcollection.com/access_form_resizer.htm (For Access Forms - but this is for use with VBA) 2. Try http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - a custom FRAME control for VB6 with lots more extended capabilities and control docking - resizes & repositions your control according to resolution. 3. Download FastForms at http://www.justdosoft.com/ - though shareware, it can help you solve your prob rightaway. As a last option try shifting over to VB.NET - the designer gives you complete control over docking the form controls to certain parts of the form - and they move & resize themselves automatically according to screen resolution. I got tired with VB6 and shifted over to .NET - aside from control docking you'll be amazed at the plethora of new features and complete change in the way the programs are written. So much better and such a vast improvement over the earlier version. Give it a shot. Hope this helps. Cheers. P.S. Another good control - not related to resizing, but a free control that renders nice looking rounded edges to all your form, msgboxes & inpuboxes - and its freeware. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

All right wanhafizi - I got it. I didn't exactly notice the .info.com part at first - seems like the user account creation process reported a wrong ftp address to me.. following up on your lead I tried to ftp to just plain: microsys-asia.info with my cPanel user/pass and it worked rightaway...Thanks for all the help :)Best Regards

Naah.. I used http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ when I requested hosting.. hold on I'll paste some of the text that was printed out when I got my hosting account: ================================= :: Hosting Account Details :: ( Please save it ) WWWAcct 9.2 © 1997-2004 cPanel, Inc. Using Delegated Ips List! +===================================+ | New Account Info | +===================================+ | Domain: microsys-asia.info | Ip: 69.50.168.69 (n) | HasCgi: y | UserName: microsys | PassWord: ******************* | CpanelMod: rvblue | HomeRoot: /home | Quota: 20 Meg | NameServer1: ns1.astahost.com | NameServer2: ns2.astahost.com | NameServer3: | NameServer4: | Contact Email: +===================================+ User microsys added Changing password for microsys Password for microsys has been changed Removing Shell Access (n) Changing shell for microsys. Shell changed. Copying skel files from /home/Xisto/cpanel3-skel/ to /home/microsys/ Using redhat 7.1/mdk 8.0 Using new quota support (uid 329 20480 20480 ): Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes soft hard /dev/hda2 3296 20480 20480 826 0 0 Name Virtual Host already exists Added Entries to httpd.conf (noip) Bind reconfiguring on panda using rndc Bind reconfiguring on ns2 using rndc Bind reconfiguring on ns3 using rndc Added Named File Using Frontpage 5.x! Starting install, port: 80. Creating web http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. Chowning Content in service /. Install completed. Starting chown, port: 80, web: "/". DocumentRoot: "/home/microsys/public_html" Setting Password Frontpage passthough auth enabled! Restarting apache wwwacct creation finished Account Creation Complete!!! Ftp Password Files synced Vhost Passwords synced 1. Access Cpanel at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ or http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 2. You can access ftp at ftp.microsys-asia.info.com 3. Your MAIN FTP username and password are same as your cpanel username and password. Please save all the above information. ============================== You are right about the .info.com address - coz that's where it's trying to ftp to... I checked on the other posts and tried ftp.astahost.com and just Xisto.com too - but none of them allows me to login Web FileManager is fine for now - since I don't have my page ready yet - but soon ftp will be more of a necessity... Thanks again

Yes sir It is presently hosted on Xisto and that ftp.microsys-asia.info.com address was given to me by the cPanel and Hosting Account generation screen when you click on the new account processing link in your mail from Xisto about your new hosting account.... RegardsP.S. Forgot to add - that .info.com doesn't belong to me - but the domain microsys-asia.info belongs to me - and it's presently pointing to the Xisto nameservers (ns1 & ns2)

Hi, When I received my cPanel and ftp account this is what the last part of the message said:#2. You can access ftp at ftp.microsys-asia.info.com#3. Your MAIN FTP username and password are same as your cpanel username and password. Been there, tried that but this is all that ftp responds as:=======================Finding Host ftp.microsys-asia.info.com ...Connecting to 69.20.9.188:21Connect failure======================= Only web-based upload from cPanel is working ?? What do I do ?Thanks & Regards

Thanks for your support Lets give it some time and see later on if it can be organized somehow....

Hi all, The pile up of posts here would be a little better organized if they were being posted under separate subforums - say, Linux & Windows for now.. and later on extended for other OS-es. Anyone up for it ?Cheers

Guys - those who have gone a little beyond linux from scratch - try out http://www.yolinux.com/ - one of the best hands on linux setup tutorials site. Nicely divided into section starting from setting up a system (workstation or server) and then proceeds to setting up of individual services & apps/packages from the rpms or source distributions. Covers MTUs (Mail Transport Agents), Apache, DNS, MySQL, NIS, LDAP - more or less all of them... Have fun

Hi all, I had posted this same message in the General Programmng Section earlier but though it would be more related here.... so here it goes again. For anyone dabbling in mysql and .net, or learning mysql - either to develop software or asp.net web apps - this site is extremely useful and handy as a reference: http://www.connectionstrings.com/ - the site contains one of the most comprehensive and well covered lists of the database conneciton strings used by vb/c#/asp.net to connect to any of the relational databases. The page lists connections strings for over 22 different databases - including MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Interbase, Sybase, Informix, Access ... the list goes on. Just when you feel really messed up about the right connection string and are about to pull half of your hair off - give this site a shot.. Cheers

Ummm.. could you be a little more clear as to what your objective is ?? A couple of more lines or a little D-E-T-A-I-L-E-D explanation would help us go a long way

-Hi, as you said yourself - you have to design an application or rather (if using windows or linux) - a background process that constantly monitors any change in the databas and commit incremental backups. Instead of that I'd rather use MySQL or PGSQL locally and use their auto-incremental backup feature (the same process thats used to generate incremental binary logs for replication servers) - much easier and much faster - with virtually to user-end programming on your part.

Try making one table in your own format:HorseID; Horse; SireID; DamID; DateOfBirth; Gender;All Sires and Dams would qualify for the same table. Now try breakin up other tables according to functionality..1. Say.. maintain one table with Just the Dam ID and Damn Name2. Another table with just Sire ID and Sire Name Now your Dam and Sire can be referenced by using just their IDs in your main table - data redundancy can be avoided as such. P.S. Could you be a little more clear on the Dam and Sire parts - as to what they do or what their meaning is - I'm pretty much challenged when it comes to horses and their lineage and am kind of groping in the dark. So knowing what exactly is going on would help me help you better..:: Cheers ::.

I have and am presently working with one - thats the whole nature of my job & business - but it's too complicated to explain over here.... PM me - maybe we can fix up a time and contact over some IM and i can show you how to set one up. Be ready for hair-raising-ly frustrating times though .:: Cheers ::.

sorry microscopic^earthling,Unfortunately it's illegal. So I do have to remove the link. I suggest if people are interested contact you direct, but don't link illegal software.Cheers,MC