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Strykerclan Leader, No need googling dude.. http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en is giving away domains for free anyways - but problem is you never really get control of your domain. Dottk still retains full rights over your domain.. In case you want complete control of your domain you got to opt for the paid service. I tried registering for their free domains - even though it's a lucrative offer - I spent 90% of the time during the registration phase going to Gateway Timeouts - and then <pheww> luckily I got through and managed to register my "free" domain. But that's about it - since then, all the more gateway timeouts whenever I try accessing/setting up my page. Maybe it's better routed from other parts of the world - but certainly not mine(thailand).. so all the best with .tk and their godforsaken "free"!! domains....

Why doesn't the THX site load ? It just loads a blank page & stops. Anyways, RGF - really interesting post. Always does good to spruce up your trivia with this kind of "intellectual" tidbits... Great job.

Hi , For all the dotnet junkies out there - lets all chip in and compile the most comprehensive list of Freeware ActiveX components out there on the net. Kindly make absolutely sure that the component is 100% FREE. We don't want any shareware listings here. Here's one for a starter: Pure Components NicePanel (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) - ever get tired of those boring square panels with limited extensibility (unless you are ready to immerse yourself into the .NET GDI+) that Visual Studio offers ?? Here's you way out: use Purecomponents NicePanel - a 100% free activex component (you have to regsiter with their site to get a free license - no "fineprints" involved). If allows you to make Square, Rounded or Chamfered Panels with inbuilt Gradient Shading, Header & Footer Bars with custom graphic capabilities & the list goes on - and easy to use as hell. Besides for textboxes placed within this panel, you do not need to meticulously place labels besides them - just add the label to the TAG Property of the textbox, and nicepanel with Nicely Position the Label for you beside the textbox. Cool ay ? I'm mighty damned impressed with this activex code and within a matter of a day it has helped medo a complete makeover of my interface - which looks so good now that everytime I look at it, I'm forced to utter..."Damn I'm Good!!" or is it... "Damn NicePanel is GOOD!!" Have fun toying with it n cheers... =========================== Download Link: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ =========================== Don't forget to register with them to get your free license.: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Am back with some more GUI components to spruce up & beautify your application. Here's a description right from their site: =============================== FramePlus - The standard Visual Basic 6 frame control does not support applications using an XP manifest - the interior of the control is rendered as a black 'blob'. Frameplus solves this problem including full XP theme support, and providing a set of useful features missing from the standard frame control. Windows XP Themes: Full support for Windows XP Visual Themes, rendering the look and feel of the FramePlus according to the active theme. Theme support can be disabled or overridden if required - Styles: FramePlus offers a number of standard and custom styles - Child Controls: Depending on the Enabled and Checked state of the frame, child controls can be automatically enabled or disabled - Checkbox: You can display a checkbox to the left of the caption text. ButtonPlus - ButtonPlus is an alternative to the Visual Basic command button control that includes a range of features to give your buttons more functionality and visual appeal. Windows XP Visual Styles: Full support for Windows XP Visual Styles, rendering the look and feel of the ButtonPlus according to the active theme. Visual Style support can be disabled or overridden if required - Formatting options: ButtonPlus allows you to specify alternate positioning alignments for graphics and text and allows border and outline colors to be configured - Drop down support: The ButtonPlus control can style itself to look like a drop down button, including split modes. Using the DropDownItems collection, the button can automatically display dropdown menus. ScrollBarPlus - You've finished your great looking user interface, but something is missing that you can't quite put your finger on. That's right - the Visual Basic 6 scrollbars aren't drawing with a themed effect, and nothing you can do will persuade them to do so. ScrollBarPlus solves this problem, providing full theme support and with the added bonus that the ScrollBars cannot get keyboard focus (a nasty feature of the in-built Visual Basic scrollbars). ================================ Download the 3-in-1 bundle for free at: http://www.innovasys.com/product/freeware?cpid=frpad .:: Cheers ::.

Try an extremely fast & lightweight but powerpacked replacement for the *BLEEP* old Notepad. It's called Notepad2 (Syntax Highlighting, Line Numbering, Lots of good editing features and only 540K) and can be found with 2-3 other cool freeware utilities at: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/

Hi all, This seemed to be an appropriate forum to post this - coz that's what it pertains to - "What Is?".... Any of you (esp. the newbies) had a hair raising time wading through thousands of TLAs (Three Letter Abbreviation) that most computer scientists love to name their products with ?? Here's a small download to help you out all... Acronym Genie is a freeware searchable Acronyms Database that lists over 17,000 arcane computer jargonry - and it's only around 480K. Written by someone named Prem De, based in Bangalore, India - it even features Anagram based search - i.e., say you search for "SAP" - it will get you a list of all the terms that can be formed with various combinations of the letters S, A and P. For example, PAS, ASP, SPA etc. A very cool & handy tool and free to download. The original page maintained by the author is long gone - but I thought it'd add up as a great download for most of you - so here's it at FortuneCity: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ .:: Cheers ::.

Hi cfusion, Try the following sites: 1: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ 2: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/tex/amslatex.html Hope they help .:: Cheers ::.

Good method - but instead of designing multiple copies of the same page - it'll be more efficient if you use style-sheets. For say 3 different browsers, make 3 stylesheets and use php to make the same page load a different style-sheet in each case depending on the browser. It works !!

Hi all, This hasn't got anything to do with php - but all other compiler based programming languages in general. Try the Aspose Code Obfuscator (http://www.aspose.com/) - it's free and it completely messes up your compiled code to prevent reverse engineering. Works on almost all kinds of compiled .exe-s. It shifts all string tables and embedded resources in your exe and makes it absolutely not worthwhile to decompile your code. Their site even has a Freeware Licensing Engine with which you can make distributable shareware which can be unlocked with a licensing code. Regards...

--> The last post explained successfully why your code couldn't find the command as you didnot declare the exclusive namespace of the package. Another problem your could face here is casting the date from Date type to String. You have to use the toString() method which forms a part of every cannonical class in java. Try the following code instead:========================================== import java.util.Date; public string getSysDate { Date sysDate = new Date (); String sysDateStr = sysDate.toString (); return sysDateStr; } ========================================== There are several other methods to perform the same. Here's the code: import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Calendar; public string getSysDate { Calendar sysDate; String sysDateStr; sysDate = Calendar.getInstance(); sysDateStr = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mmm-yy").format(curDate).toString(); return sysDateStr; } ========================================== Yet, a third method: import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public string getSysDate { // Make sure the Month ("MM") in the "MM-dd-yyyy" is in CAPITALS SimpleDateFormat DateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy"); Date today = new Date(); return DateFormat.Format (today).toString (); } Any of them should do your job fine.... .:: Cheers ::.

Funny situation - never came across it before. Try your luck at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ though - they deal exactly with these kind of situations - i mean, all the day to day annoyances you encounter with the whole windows family. Very likely to find a solution there. Recommendation: Use Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com/download.htm) - which is a two pane file manager (similar to what used to be Norton Commander for DOS) and hell of a lot more convenient that explorer's irrtating Folder | File display. Far easier to view two different drives in these two panes and move/copy files between them. Give it a shot. Regards...

Hi all, Not much about javascript or html can be hidden - unless you break up all your javascript and put them as functions in a separate file - and create user rights such that the .js file cannot be read by any "snooping user" - it's pretty tricky but can be done - on the other hand, if your code is in PHP you can try using Zend Safeguard Studio (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) to encode the PHP files to be non-human readable. Those who would like to get their hands on a fully working copy could post back here. I dont know if it's illegal but I could post a link :)Cheers....

Hi all, This might not seem related to php or this post in general but certainly for anyone dabbling in mysql and .net - either to develop software or asp.net web apps - this site is extremely useful and handy as a reference: https://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