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    I can't really put my finger on what got me thinking about this, but I remembered how much time I had spent on Astahost now more than 10 years ago, and wanted to see if it was still up :) Obviously, Internet trends have changed significantly since, and forums are not as populars as they used to be, but I'm glad to see that this is still up, and that I could actually log in with my old account :D

    I do also see a couple of familiar faces usernames (@OpaQue and @yordan to name a few that are still active, @miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG who hasn't been around for a while but with whom I've had great chats on MSN, @MarkyMark who I think at one point shared a great indie song mix) who have persevered, so I thought I'd say hi, and actually recognize that the forum, free hosting, and the community played a significant role in me learning more about web dev and programming, to the point where I ended up studying Computer Science and making a career our of it – 10/10 would do it again.

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    I would also suggest Lightbox (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/), which is probably the most well-known script used for this.

     

    However, bear in mind that these scripts (usually) do not actually resize the images. Instead, you provide the script with both the small and the large image, and they display the large one when the small one is clicked. The following HTML code would usually be used:

     

    <a href="path_to_the_large_image" rel="lightbox" target="_blank"><img src="path_to_the_small_image" alt="Small image" /></a>

    Another good thing with these scripts is that they work in such a way that allows people without JavaScript enabled to open these images just like any other, in a new (or the same) browser window/tab. Of course, nowadays it is a bit unnecessary to talk about people with JavaScript disabled, isn't it?

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    Just like rob86 said, it is more often than not a inexplicably difficult problem to setup Samba to work properly - I have dealt with it too many times myself - but I still believe it is worth giving it a shot, since it is the "preferred" way of setting up an Ubuntu-Windows file sharing network. Since Ubuntu 10.10 is the latest version, this might even prove to be a bit harder, as it usually takes some time for quality tutorials to emerge, but I am still going to provide some links which should give you the general idea of what you should do:

     

    http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

    http://www.unixmen.com/-

    http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/


    If in the end you don't see you Ubuntu computer from Windows, try opening Run and entering the computer name (e.g. linux-desktop), it worked for me that way.

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    Why not give Lord of the Rings Online a try? Take a look at the official web site and the Wikipedia page. While I did not try it, it sure looks like the next best thing after Guild Wars - okay, and World of Warcraft, too. However, it is not completely free, it just has a recently added "free to play" option. Of course, if you do like it, you always run the risk of having to pay afterwards, so it is really your choice whether to give it a shot or not.

     

    Or, you could just wait for Guild Wars 2 to come out and save some money until then :)

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    Besides saving bandwidth, I do not think spaces/tabs/comments should be removed. Those who wants to steal your code most certainly have at least some experience with coding, and can easily find a program to auto-format your code again.

     

    However, neat code is much more important when writing applications or scripts, and not HTML. While you might be able to deal with your (poorly formatted) code, some other people might not. If somebody asks me to check their code because they have an error or a glitch, I simply refuse to do so if the code is ugly - put tabs, spaces, align brackets, and only then send me the files.

     

    Many IDEs make this quite easy to do with their automatic formatting options (e.g. Eclipse), but I would still go for writing indented code in the first place. And do not avoid comments. Or long variable names. Be as descriptive as possible, because you never know who will have to continue work on your code after you have left the company, and there is no reasong to make it difficult for him/her.

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    It would also be a good idea to take a look at the topic from the other side - what if you are the one whose pictures are being used? And I am not talking only about the Internet. People's art is "stolen" way too frequently both online and offline, even by some major magazines.

     

    As I am an amateur photographer, I browse many photography forums, and people regularly have to deal with art thefts. Luckily, if you can prove something is really yours, the law is on your side, even if you had not written "© Blah Blah"; if you had made it, it is yours. Those that have their art stolen by influential companies usually get a fair amount of money without going to court, because they would have probably gotten even more had they decided to sue the mentioned company.

     

    This is why you should never, and I repeat, never publish the original file anywhere online - keep it only to yourself. If you shoot RAW, upload only JPG files. If you shoot JPG, crop them at least a bit, so that no one has the full picture. If you do vector art, rasterise it. And so on and so forth.

     

    While you might think "who would want to steal my art, even I do not like it", you never know what could happen. That is why you must always make sure that you can prove something is yours.

     

    Now that you know how bad things can get, it is fairly obvious that under no circumstances should you use anything without permission. And there are no exceptions.

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    Really great photos :) Nikon D40 might be the cheapest dSLR out there, and therefore the worst one, but it easily beats all compact and prosumer cameras, especially in the hands of someone who knows how to use it. The same goes for 18-55 - a mediocre kit lens with nothing that would blow your mind, but it is all about how you use it. I also sport a Nikon D40 and 18-55, with a few more lenses, and it is definitely nice to see that someone is using everything that this camera has to offer.

     

    However, I will go on and say that the waterfall picture should be warmer, the white balance is wrong. Unless, of course, this is some weird place and those are the real colours :)

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    Everything said here is true - if a picture is watermarked, it is a rather clear way of saying "This is ours, and we do not want you to use it. If you, however, do so, you better leave the watermark, so people would know who the rightful owner is". I would avoid using such pictures. With the Internet being this big, I am sure you can find something similar that would suit your needs.

     

    That being said, not all images have such restrictions. Just like 8ennett said, only use freely distributable images. If you are not sure whether something is free - it probably is not. However, some web sites, such as deviantART give their users the option to add a license to their work - a Creative Commons license. This license allows you to specify how your work may be used, and many people allow commercial usage free of charge, so this is something you should look into.

     

    Of course, this is the Internet, and there are no strict rules. You can always send an e-mail to the author and simply ask him whether you can use his picture, along with an explanation how you would use it. You'd be surprised what a few nice words could do :)

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    Facebook. Just as sofiaweb pointed out, unlike MySpace, Facebook is not cluttered with plethora of irrelevant information that you usually see in MySpace profiles. Add to that the fact that MySpace lets you personalise your page with custom CSS code, and you get profiles that have billions of different colours and are, of course, impossible to view.Facebook had a similar "problem" some time ago, when all the applications a user uses would be stored on his/her profile page. I almost never use applications, so don't know how that worked, but I know that these profiles load too slow on my computer - which, by the way, isn't slow at all. However, the new design solves that problem as well, giving Facebook a clear advantage over MySpace.And it has more users :(

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    The only problem with the shuffle, is the lack of control over a play list, it is just that, play of shuffle, and it can be very frustrating.

    This is true... But that's the market, there has got to be something for everyone. I find my second generation iPod Shuffle to be a great mp3 player, because I am not picky when it comes to music. I only transfer those songs that I wish to listen, or fill it with music randomly if I want to explore my library, and that's it. Every now and then I do press "next" but most of the time I keep the shuffle option on without touching anything else.

    And now, with the new generation and the introduction of multiple playlists, Apple will surely gain more customers. Many will still only be using just one playlist (e.g. me - if I even buy the new one), and the rest will be happy because of the new option :o

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    How do we can fetch the encrypted password into decrypted form in php,mysql ?

     

     Encrypting Data

     

     

     

    I have inserted a password in mysql database in encrypted form using md5 but if the user forgets his password then how we can fetch the encrypted password into decrypted form ( original password)

     

    -question by sharat khajuria


    This cannot be done. MD5 is a one-way encryption algorithm, which means you can only encrypt it, not decrypt it. After all, this is what makes it secure. When a user forgets his/her password, there is no way to recover it - you can only generate a new password and send it to their e-mail address.

     

    i always encrypted password with plus string

    ex:

    $pass = $_POST['t_password'];

    $en_pass=md5($pass . "string");


    It's always a good thing to add more characters to the password - even better if they are random :mellow:

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    (the small thing with two reels and a tape sliding in front of a magnetic head)

    Priceless :mellow:

    I played the cassette on my sound system and recorded the sound to my computer through microphone with de-noise, which is quite funny.. though it worked quite nice. I was very young at that time.

    The best solution, if you ask me, is this. All cassette players have a headphones jack, and all computers have a microphone jack (those that don't have a sound card really, really need to upgrade). Just buy one 3.5mm - 3.5mm jack which will connect these two, and you record just as if there was a microphone plugged into your machine.

    For this, I think you can even use Sound Recorder that comes with Windows. It creates a *.wav file, but there is a plethora of *.wav to *.mp3 converters online...

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    If I am not mistaken (haven't played it a lot), Counter Strike: Source has had weapon names changed for some reason, thus changing the game... Of course, this is not a big deal, but for those of us that have played Counter Strike 1.3 - 1.6 it is somewhat an unwanted change. Besides that one, there have also been many more when compared to Counter Strike 1.6, maybe even for the better, but it is all about what you are used to.

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    I'm also in the same minority. My professional webmail refuses Firefox, so I have to use IE6. So, I use Firefox at home and IE6 at work. Which means 12 hours per day with IE6 and 2 hours per day with Firefox...

    There are always workarounds :mellow: If you completely happy with how IE6 works, hang on to it - but from my own experience, it is always good to switch to Firefox if you can.

    I have a similar problem as yourself - I cannot access my bank account online through Firefox, only through IE. Since I use Ubuntu, this is quite a problem, as I have to restart the computer every time to get into Windows (luckily, I don't do that often). You, however, are running Windows, so there is still some hope :wub:

    As far as I know, there is a plug-in for Firefox which enables you to use Internet Explorer inside the Firefox shell. In other words, it can be configured to open certain web sites with Internet Explorer, but hidden inside Firefox. You would still be using Internet Explorer for your webmail, but Firefox for everything else - without having to switch between them manually.

    Another solution, one which I would employ, is to redirect all incoming mail (if possible) to your GMail account (if you have one). One of GMail's best features is that you can send e-mail from different addresses through your account. The mail is sent from Google's servers, but the "from" field contains another e-mail address. Those of you familiar with PHP will surely understand that this is easily achieved, but GMail makes it even easier. You just need to configure your webmail to forward everything, and tell Firefox to reply with the webmail e-mail when answering to the mail that was forwarded.

    The system seems somewhat complicated, but it does help a lot - I manage three different e-mail address from my GMail account, and am happy to have all the "letters" in one place :P

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    Of course, doing that way you open a ssh command-line access, it's not fully what we call a "remote desktop access".Are you planning to go further on that way ? Unless being satisfied with the possibility of running Linux command-lines only ?


    Yes, I did forget to mention that this isn't actually "remote desktop" :mellow: But you are not limited only to command-line access - you can also access the server (i.e. your computer) through many different programs, some of which offer a simple way to manipulate files.
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