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I thought it was just me aswell. It takes like 10 minutes just to upload the full phpbb 2.0.14. Great! This is the third timei go the following error (grr):

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Hey everyone,Techocian first (your question is easier )Charging more for 3rd Party applications, that really depends, if it's quite intensive work, then charge more, but only if that's what the client is wanting, you'll need to describe things that these 3rd party applications can do for the client and whether that's what they want to go with.You don't specifically throw jargon at them, you really put the words into their mouth, you ask them what type of interactivity do they want, do they want to be able to sell products online, have customers email them, get hold of them, view online reports, statistical information, etc.All the behind the scenes, jargon terms etc, you handle and should not speak to your client, unless they ask you what it is, you're going to get paid because you understand designing the web pages than they do, half the time, your clients have no clues about flash, php, mysql, etc... that's why you just talk about what they want out of their site, and you decide on the best methods to use.Again, you should actually form a relationship with the domain registrar you want to use and the web hosting servers (just an on-going commitment really), that way you maybe able to make better deals than what they offer everyone else, otherwise source for cheap alternatives (that cover what you need) and use them until you've made some ground, the client really isn't going to know too much about this, you should have it all sorted with him, and be ready to explain what it all means, since the best way to actually getting the job, is to be very knowledgable and just explaining how it will benefit the customer. Remember, put your client first.As with domain names, the client should own them, but you should be able to sort all these things out for them on their behalf, you'll just have to explain the process through to them, you can add an extra charge for helping set it up for them. With your first setup that's it, if they wanted to pay for a year (should state domain names are mostly charged yearly), charge them a year's price, and then let them know that near the end of their expiration they'll be informed and sent a bill to their email address, asking to whether they want to register it for another period of time. In which you will have no control, so all domain registration will now go through the domain registrar and your client. However you could own it if you want and bill your client every year, but it's better to leave it in the registrar's hands, no hassles what so ever left with you involving the domain name otherwise you'll need to become an official registrar (maybe later you'll look into this, but not when you're trying to get your feet on the ground, give yourself less problems to solve). Your client will be choosing how long they want to renew their domain, so best leave it up to them, but you can provide them with all the options so they may choose what's best for them.As with bandwidth, this usually deals with the amount of traffic you expect, small businesses, depending on how popular they'd be, probably won't need more than 1GB, if however they do require more, they do have the option of upgrading their server. Again web hosting, you should handle the initial getting it ready for them, but they should deal directly afterwards with the web hosting company.Pretty much the main reason, is to lower your support with them and that you only manage their websites and leave all the servers and domain name hosting payments in their hands, also if they have problems with these things, it's really no point in asking you for help, when you can't provide a solution if it deals directly with domain name problems, hosting etc.Although, I'm just saying this when you start out, if you're big enough to take on domain names and web hosting, then by all means take on bigger responsibilities, but for now, just try getting yourself out there, and more active, you don't want to limit yourself to fixing those types of problems, since you'll miss out on generating your income designing sites.Cheers,MC

I've played that text-based game (or now reknowned as Interactive Fiction), on the PC, it came out around the 1980s made by Infocom.I'm positive you can find it on some abandonware site, if you want to play it again. I don't, it'll be too addictive and I'll never get anything done.DON'T PANIC!!!Cheers,MC

I've stayed loyal to Red Hat, that I have been running it for years, although I did try other distributions and am still trying them when I can, I can not turn away from Fedora.Although what I like from a distribution is not really it's look and feel, pretty much it's just the tools, and since the tools are available across most distributions that any Linux distribution would be ok for me. RH/Fedora use to be known for being bleeding edge though when it came to software and updates, but now all Linux distributions have gotten this way.Gentoo is nice too, but quite a lot of configuring, especially if you want a system out of the box straight away, but I wouldn't go pass it without trying it.Cheers,MC

pagefile.sys is a hidden system file, you'll need to unhide it.With 512MB of RAM, you might be just able to get away with having no pagefile, so I'm not sure why Windows creates a temporary one, unless it is indeed corrupted.What I would suggest is that you remove the pagefile settings, restart the computer and boot into safe mode (Press F1 after BIOS POST screen and select Safe Mode, need admin account). From there, remove the pagefile.sys, which if on C: usually resides in the Windows directory or quite possibly C:\ but make sure you unhide hidden files and unhide system files.In safe mode manually delete the file, then setup a new pagefile, I suggest anything from 384-896, 512MB of RAM is quite a bit, and it's faster to have programs loaded in memory rather than storing on Hard Drive. The larger you can get your RAM too the better and the lesser you can set your pagefile size, on my system with 2GB of RAM I would use no pagefile, though programs complain about not having a pagefile I set a minimum 2MB, it's usually because the program is looking for the pagefile and not really verifying whether there's enough RAM to handle it.Cheers,MC

Hey ^zer0dyer$,Well first of all, ASM is quite far from General Programming to even compare them in thinking they act the same way.First things first, what platform and architecture will you be using, if you really want to get ahead in ASM I suggest Linux x86, the OS is packed with so much documentations and tools to help you understand it in great details. Also, if you did I could help you, I know a bit about Win32 but it's not as indepth.If developing for Win32, radASM is a good IDE and MASM32 is a good assembler if Win32 programming is your aim, otherwise I would suggest NASM. From there I suggest learning from Icezilion's tutorials, or maybe it's Hutch's, sorry it's been a long time since I spoke to any of those guys. You should be able to find those links from MASM32's homepage.You might want to look into HLA (High Level Assembler) but if you want to learn properly I suggest using the above, I've never liked HLA, and I feel it takes away the underlying understanding, especially if you look into disassembling your programs too.Also get familiar with Hexadecimal, Decimal and Binary, just needed to understand values in your program, and also look at Hexadecimal to equivalent ASCII characters, to get an understanding of strings.More things you'll need to look at is the registers of the processor you'll be developing on, Intel supplies good documentation for this but it's sometimes hard to find.Cheers,MC

qwijibow,I like to think of the HTTP commands to be case sensitive, although this may not be the case, I noticed you used HTML/1.1 instead of HTTP/1.1.That could have been one problem, the other was you didn't specify it when you first requested the information.I'll test your methods out and see if they cause any problems.I just tested what you were doing, and it seems you must pass HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/1.0, as it resulted in the quick connection closed, I guess that's where your problem was.Cheers,MC

It might not be an error inputting information:1) Cookies have been disabled2) Cookie access settings too high3) Firewall is denying access4) Not enough space for more cookiesAnd I can't see a spelling mistake in your link Dream. I must be blind

Hello everyone, I'm new. I won't lie, I'm here for the possibility of getting free web hosting. I have a web site I have been working on containing philosophy, artwork, poetry, and other such things and no place to host it, but enough of that. My real name is Kase, I'm 16 and I live in hot sunny Florida.. which I hate by the way. If I talk about my hobbies or about myself much more I'll feel like I'm making a profile.. and that's what I have myspace for . So, to conclude this post, thank you Xisto for extending a warm welcome to me, a new member, and I will enjoy my stay . Happy coding.. or designing.. or posting.. or whatever

I can't say using a plugin is cheating, it solves part of this solution doesn't it?However I didn't use it, nor do we need to use it, we could use Telnet for the whole lot of this.telnet jipman.astahost.com 80GET /challenge2.php HTTP/1.1Host: jipman.astahost.comTested on Windows (at work) and Linux (at home), solved it at work, can still solve it at home as well.Try that out, I noticed by the error produced by Telnet the problem is the method, still believe it's because you're not sending the correct requests, but if this doesn't work for you, I'll eat my words.Cheers,MC

I think learning php and such will be the best bet. Create your own or buy one from premium template sites.

My account is fine. I can login easily and quickly. I think the forums might be slow because of the amount of graphics on it. Plus it registers at the botoom as having errors on the page.

For me the instructions in the phpbb docs is far too complicated. And their is a much more easier way. Please note that the below process has only been tried on this hosting website, the process below may not be applicable for other hosts. 1) Download phpbb 2.0.14 into a folder on your computer (e.g. My Documents\Forums) 2) Extract all the files to that folder. 3) Rename the extracted 'phpbb2' folder to 'Forums' (change it to what you want). 4) Login into your ftp account (yoursite.astahost.com) 5) Copy the 'Forums' folder (or your named folder) into the /www shortcut folder in the root directory. 6) Then open a new browser window and login into your CPanel (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) 7) Go to MySQL Databases 8) in the first form type in a database name that you will remember (e.g. forum). Remember that your login name will go before it automatically (e.g. username_forum). 9) Click Create MySQL Database. 10) Now, in the browser, go to the directory that you copied the folder of the forum to. Remember to put /install/install.php afterwards. (e.g. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) 11) Then follow the form by completing it. When it asks for your databse name, put what you put for step #8. 12) Click install after finishing the form. 13) The next window you should choose download file instead of ftp (choose second option). 14) Once the file is downloaded, copy it to your ftp account into the main directory of your forum folder. And hey presto! You've done. The rest is up to you. If any of the points above don't work for you, then post in your problem and we will try to help out.

I didn't mean it was modded. And it does have slightly more or different features to 2.0.13.I only spent 30 mins on SMF and just got flustered with it.I just installed my forums (not using the Fantastico, as it is 2.0.13, not .14).I don't personnally like frames and strongly advise against it, however, the one used in phpbb I think is extremely adequate and best used. Although, it might be a better idea to use a slightly different method, by using a portal type system.I have had a go at phpbb 3 on the demo on phpbbhacks, and I thought there was far too many seperate pages. Most of them should be coupled together.Although phpbb doesn't have sub-forums (unless you put in a mod) and SMF has (i think) it still seems to have a better number of mods, templates etc.I think that in overall status, SMF and PHPBB are both equal strengths. PHPBB has certain aspects to it that make it excel in certain areas and so does SMF.It just depends on what type of board you are looking for.

Theoreticaly, it does have the potential to wipe out the entire human race, but the problem is....that it kills to fast. Its host usualy die way to fast to even spread it on to another human being. Ebola is like fire burning a field surrounded by desert. The field will burn but the fire(ebola) will die out. Basicaly, it just disapears into the jungle after killing on an average of 100-200 people. As far as being airborne, no one has been able prove it is, but some scientist believe that it has mutated and that it may have airborne capabilities now. No one realy knows that much about ebola, because the US and African governments do not wish to cause a panic. Rumor says, that the US government is trying to wield ebola as a biological weapon.

I would assume that the payout is high, because in my account for example I've noticed that their are some advertisers willing to bid up to 80 cents per ad click. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ uses Bidvertiser.

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As long as you know how to edit files, phpbb is the best. The mods available from http://www.phpbbhacks.com/ and the ones from https://www.phpbb.com/mods/ are very good, however the best mods are already included in phpbb 2.0.14. (well at least some of them). I tried SMF and it is too clustered. The layout of the admin CP is awful. At least with phpbb it loads in a simple frame on the left and opens in the main window. One good point about SMF is that it appears as though you don't need any knowledge to install addons. If that was the case for phpbb. phpbb 8/10 SMF 6/10

Welcome icemarle to the forums. Hope have a pleasent visit ------------------- cmatcmextra-logged-out-posting-as-a-guest ^ME WHEN I WAS LOGGED IN^ How comes you can't start new topics? -------------------

Hey rvyne, There's many ways to do this, not sure why you never got an answer, first of all, string dates should be in a valid unix date format, In your database you can convert date formats to a unix timestamp, you might want to look in your database's manual for a Date and Time section. Here's an example: <?php$today_timestamp = strtotime('now');$expiry1 = strtotime('10 May 2004'); // set expiry timestamp, using valid date format$expiry2 = strtotime('2005-05-02'); // set expiry timestamp, using another valid formatfunction check_expiry($today, $expired) // function to check if expired{if($today > $expired) // if today is greater than expiry date{echo 'Has Expired'; // prints Has Expired}else{echo 'Still Valid'; // prints Still Valid}}check_expiry($today_timestamp, $expiry1); // calls our first check using expiry1echo "<br />\n";check_expiry($today_timestamp, $expiry2); // calls our second check using expiry2?> I used two checks, just to show one that's expired and one that's not expired as well as showing you 2 different date formats we can use, but if you want to know more, then look up Unix Date Formats for more information. Functions in the PHP manual you may want to look at is strtotime which converts our string into a unix timestamp. We should use timestamps in our comparisons as it's a numerical value, string comparisons can be done, but requires a lot more effort, since we got to check the string and match it with it's counterpart, e.g. day, month, year, then we've got to perform a check on each substring, it's easier if we are assigned numbers than strings. Cheers, MC

OK, try this, just use notepad to do it <?php echo 'Testing'; ?> Save the page as "test.php" with the quotes and upload it to your server. Then in your web browser type: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Does anything show? Is it asking to download, is it just showing the string <?php echo 'Testing'; ?> or in Firefox just ?> Any chance of pointing us to your server it's on, to check whether it's PHP enabled or not. It sounds like a misconfigured server if that doesn't work, or a server that doesn't have PHP. Cheers, MC

Is anyone familiar with Bidvertiser? I've noticed alot of sites are using it now? It seems to have a high pay-out rate and i realy like the set-up.