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Yes, and that was a smart decision. Back-ups are necessary because you will never know when anything will implode on you. Granted, back-ups take a lot of time and are sometimes a real pain in the *bottom* but I have heard many sob-stories about people losing a @#$%load of information. In a world filled with hackers, freak-accidents, and people you can't trust, back-ups are the most imperative, essential part of a site. And if you're a lazy bum and "don't feel" like making back-ups, when your server gets hit by a hurricane then don't come crying to us!

Hello, I'm GuardianGA. If you think that's too long, you may call me Guardian. And if you think THAT's too long, you can call me GA. Anything shorter is just plain ridiculous...If you want to complain or just feel the need to nitpick, you can contact me at GuardianGA@hotmail.com.Astahost seems like a high quality and sophisticated community at first glance. I look forward to staying here and enjoying the company of everyone else.

Hey stusrud, If you or anyone else hasn't contacted support@Xisto.com then please do so, this will reach our technicians and they will have a look, make sure you provide your username and website address. (Never hand out your password). As far as I know, no one has been suspended by the technicians or the administrators, although we were informed of some strange activity going on a few days before this, yet the technicians assured us this activity didn't affect our servers. Sorry for the inconvenience, I have limited abilities when it comes to the hosting/server side of things and the admins who do are working on these issue as we speak. So do email support and tell them what you think has happened. You should get a response from the technicians/administrators this way. Cheers, MC

Nintendo seems to be doing better now I guess. The dvd remote looking controller might seem odd at first, but I think it's more confortable when playing, since you don't have to put your hands that close to each other I guess. Also, Metroid is one of those games I'm looking forward to because I like that type of game. I hope the system has better online capabilities so these damn games can be played online. Same for Zelda, I hope they announce a new one after the Twilight Princess is out, I'd like to see Link in uber graphics and gameplay too.Hopefully Nintendo is on the right step again, and falls between Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, or at least gets close enough to them. Nintendo just needs to think more on their plans on how to catch the attention of us gamers, and finally breakthrough and expand that to make it a more lively community. Which once again calls on the online play. The future for console games are with online capabilities now, so if Nintendo doesn't have a good online server, it will most likely be doomed again. But I think Nintendo will pull through this time around

If I understand correctly, you want a friendly <img src="images/banner1234.png" alt="banner" />Which really is a link to images/banner.php?action=1234Is that what you want?I don't have time to show you how we do the banner.php page, but it's similar to how I explained above.The .htaccess file may go something like this:RewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^banner([0-9]{1,})\.png$ banner.php?action=$1I hope this is something close to what you want, I just don't understand why you would have a banner.png?action=1234 file, because png is an image extension and should be used as images, not text files. Don't confuse the web browsers, since they understand the mime-type of .png file, yet to come across this, they will need to automatically detect it's type because it wouldn't appear correct to them.Cheers,MC

<FilesMatch "^.*\.png"> SetHandler application/x-httpd-php</FilesMatch>I don't like this above code. PNG image files are binary, PHP files are ASCII.What you are doing however,is making the extension of PNG act like PHP, so that means we could write PHP inside a PNG file and have it work just like a PHP page. We should not however do this.I see why you would do this, is with your next code:http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ forward to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ should work on doing:http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ extension should be PHP and handled by the PHP interpretter, not PNG and handled by the PHP interpretter.We could then call this image using <img src="images/banner.php?action=4736514" alt="banner" />in our banner script we would then $_GET['action'] refers to the image. We could just do If(isset($_GET['action'])) { $image = 'banner' . $_GET['action'] . '.png'; }That's not a safe way, just an example.We would then output the image correctly with the correct mime-type. Which vizsky has showed how it works.There's plenty of scripts available to do this, I may show one I created which randomised the images in a certain directory and displayed it, however I'm working on a better randomisation for it so that the images per user are always different until they've gone through the whole image list which is why I won't show it yet till I've finished it.Cheers,MC

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I don't think there's anything wrong with reinventing the wheel if it has modifications to it. I have seen a lot of validation classes and instead of being as complete as they could be, they opt for an easy method and check the basics, they then rely on another method (usually confirmation email) to check if that address really does exist. If there validation checked it as efficiently as it could be, it would save them the hassle of even sending the email, having it rejected/returned because the address did not exist. if (eregi("^[0-9a-z]([-_.]?[0-9a-z])*@[0-9a-z]([-.]?[0-9a-z])*\.[a-z]{2,4}$", $email)) I honestly believe I have seen this code before. If we follow the standards set out by the RFC, there are quite a few things we aren't making sure that we do in this validation, most notable is this script allows the beginning of an email address to be a number. That's one flaw. It has limited the length of the end of an email. It may or may not work with archaeologist@someplace.musuem which could be a valid email address. It does not allow IPv4 or IPv6 addresses for domain name which are also valid yet RFC recommends using Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN). I should probably update my email validation script that I did on here with my one that I did to meet the majority of what I found in the RFC on the subject. To make use of an email validation you should also use ECMAScript (Javascript) to validate it first and then PHP server side to validate it (double check). At least with ECMAScript you can notify the user that it's incorrect before making them submit the form saving time. Cheers, MC

I actually don't mind if it looks somewhat like firefox >_> I like firefox and yeah...stealing but oh well. If it's for the better than usually it's worth it (unless it's illegal )I hope that internet explorer 7 is much better than firefox too. Sometimes firefox screws up on me and I can't seem to fix it and then it fixes by itself! That's mean I tell you Haha, yeah but anyways, hope 7 is good.

This only works in your internet browser (I have only tried on IE6) If you're on dial-up do these steps: 1. Open IE 2. Click "Tools" 3. Click "Options" 4. Click the "Connections" tab 5. Click "Settings" 6. Tick the "Use a proxy server for this connection (These settings will not apply to other connections). 7. Type in your proxy server (To find a proxy server go to google and type in "Proxy List" then search for a proxy near you) 8. Click OK 9. Click OK again 10. To make sure you changed your IP go http://ipchicken.com/ If you're on DSL (or some other connection I don't really know) follow these steps 1. Open IE 2. Click "Tools" 3. Click "Options" 4. Click the "Connections" tab 5. Click LAN Settings 6. Tick the "Use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections). 7. Type in your proxy server (To find a proxy server go to google and type in "Proxy List" then search for a proxy near you) 8. Click OK 9. Click OK again 10. To make sure you changed your IP go http://ipchicken.com/ Congratulations! you have succsesfully changed your IP address -----Not a full tutorial. Moved to Networking section.-----szupie

Eight hard drives? That's crazy.. You only need 4 at most. And each can just be about 200 gigs at most too. 8 is just 4 too many. I find myself finding it hard to fill up both my 240 hard drives. So if you ever get full... I'll be wondering what you're downloading. Maybe you have the entire internet downloaded there or something. BTW, how much did everything cost, including any thing else we should maybe know about that you're keeping from us. Like the other 2 external hard drives.

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Haha so true. It's weird seeing anything other than humans doing that. I especially hate it when dogs do it around my neighborhood. God someone needs to strike those dogs down. Seriously, it scares people away. Anyways, dolphins are pretty smart, so they know what they are doing...and that is wrong in their case. To be honest, I don't know why I am sayign that O_o Humans are ok, dolphins are not okay. Weird logics by me ...

The game looks interesting... I might give it a try once I get the chance to get it. Hopefully the style is as good as I'm hoping for. Also, those of you who decide to get it, give some ratings, rants, complaints, whatevers, about the game. I'd like to know more of what other people would like to say about this game. Won't cause me to not get it of course. But it is nice to know what other people's opinions are about games Thanks.

I feel like the series died around 4 or 5. It just wasn't scary anymore after 3. I loved the ones with the nurses, that was the best one over them all. I hope part 6 of Silent Hill can find it's way again and do a great job. I'll be lookin forward to it >_<

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instead of knowing the advantages of GMail, Yahoo and Hotmail...Can i know the desanvantages? Because I want to create a new email, but i don't know which one is good. Also this email will be like for the future, it will be with my real name.

is Apple the first one that create an mp3 player? because if it is, that's why it's popular. I do want to get an Ipod Nano. I heard that Sony has just release an mp3 player.... it calls Connect... I guess it release in Japan.

before the SNL, she has another show which she got to sing too.but then in the car, she got a problem with her voice; her voice is getting worst. then, her dad said that she got to lipsync even though that she didn't want to.

Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater is an unbelievable game. I love the expansive environment portrayed inside every location. It's very different from MGS2 and its corridor type locations. The voice actins is amazing. David Hayter does an amazing job as the voice for Snake. Makes him sound like a true killer ~_~The storyline, one of the most incredible feats in a game, is done absolutely right in this game, this SERIES actually. It keeps me on the edge while each story unfolded. I can continue to play this game as much as I want too since it has some very high replay value. I can't wait for Metal Gear (Solid?) 4 on Playstation 3. I hope the new trailer at TGS coming up will be incredible too

The only problem I have with WinXP is pretty much the long startup and I've tried hundreds of performance tuning techniques and it did not make much of a difference.Quite possibly it's one of the services, but it would have to be a service I require running because I've disabled all the ones I don't use. Quite possibly it may have to do with IPv6 which is supported under XP, but other places it's not really relevant to use unless you visit IPv6 sites.Apart from that WinXP Pro SP2 has been mostly stable, there are the few hiccups now and then, but it's probably from my neglect of actually using it. Since I'm mostly booting into Linux nowadays.Cheers,MC

I believe PERL is paving the way for other scripting languages. Ruby, which is another scripting language is still struggling to make it a successor of PERL, from the sounds of it, Ruby is suppose to be better, but not too many people took onto it, so it's still trying to make it's way through the door. Maybe it's a similar affect that happened to C or C++.During PHP 3.0, I use to rewrite my CGI scripts/programs into PHP, not because I thought PHP was better, I just liked using PHP for web development and it was to help me learn PHP, prior to 3.0 however, I stayed with PERL, it just hadn't gain my interest then.I don't think a language will shine on top, because so many proefficient programmers out there can each shine with their language or choice. Recently I was impressed with a programmer who wrote an Assembler in VB, not that I didn't think VB was capable, his assembler worked just as well as other assemblers. I'm not even fond of VB, but I do get impressed by some of the work these programmers do with it.If we combined many different languages into an application, each being standalone using their own interpreter, would we be able to increase the performance or degrade it. This would be something I would like to find out. It may or may not affect the server load at all.This is probably the only reason why I stick with one or the other, however if the program scale is to be large, I would consider PERL.Cheers,MC

Fedora Core 4 is not unstable, it's my main distribution I use and have been using FC since it's first core release, far greater improvement over RH9. I feel Fedora is quite bloated though, but every installation I do with FC is minimal and then I just install what I want via the internet, so I have quite a clean FC4 with only the tools/programs I use in it. When you install FC4, you will need to download the nvidia driver (I usually suggest updating your packages first via yum before installing additional things), the easiest would be grabbing the driver from rpm.livna.org and installing the RPM for it. Have a look at http://www.fedorafaq.org/ which will help you get started, especially for multimedia side of things. Going by memory, you'll get the nvidia configuration tool in the main System Tools menu if running a GUI, there should also be a commandline version of this tool, something like nvidia-*. It will allow you to run dual monitors from what I've seen by looking through it. How successful it is? I am not sure, I've never tried it. Cheers, MC

This has been discussed, quite intensively too.Languages are made for a purpose, and they usually do their purpose quite effectively. Perl has been around for a long time, and languages have taken it's ideas and used them in their language.PERL is in my opinion more powerful than PHP, it's string manipulation and ability to handle large amounts of data, file I/O, etc makes it very suitable for large scale applications, and quite a power commandline tool.PHP shares similarities, and can do the same thing, but if we took both languages to their extremes I would think PERL would come out on top.I'm more to using PHP than Perl for web development. Which is one of PHP purposes it was created for.Cheers,MC