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If it were my site, I wouldn't cancel until after the domain name resolves correctly to your new site. If you cancel too soon, and the old hosting company removes your site from their servers, there is a chance that for a day users won't be able to see anything if they go to your site. A little bit of overlap here will ensure you don't lose any visitors. Welcome to the family!!

I'm not sure what exact problems you are experiencing, but with the latest release of PHPBB, they added a security feature that requires the administrator to log in a second time when they click the Go to Administrator Panel link at the bottom of the page. I'm running 2.0.15 (that I downloaded from PHPBB's site, since 2.0.15 wasn't available in my cPanel) and I log in once to browse/post to my forums, but must log in again (using same username and password) to access the administration panel. As I understand it, this prevents malicious users from faking a cookie and getting access to the admin panel. If you are experiencing an issue where you must log in twice in order to post to the forums, then you will probably want to do another installation. But you should be able to use the admin panel (in PHPBB, or you could use the one in cPanel) to back up your database, then uninstall your forums, then reinstall your forums, then restore your database. Best of luck. Let us know how it goes.

I was browsing the Firefox extensions page, and I came across the "NoScripts" extension. The extension has the following features: 1. blocks scripts from all websites except those on the "whitelist", which you can configure yourself (so you can allow TCH forums to use javascript, or your bank, while disallowing them for all websites not on your whitelist). 2. alert bar (like WinXP SP2 pop-up blocker message) when a site that is not on your white list contains a script. You can click on this bar to show a menu that will let you allow scripts for that site (adds it to your white list). This alert bar can be disabled. 3. Import/export whitelist. (They have a website with more information.) In any case, I was wondering if this is an extension that Firefox users would find useful. I have read talk in the forums about the importance of disabling scripts in your browser, but have been hesitant to do it, because it seems like such a pain to keep turning it on and off for separate pages. Do you think this is a good solution to that problem? Do you think it aleviates your security concerns about allowing scripts in the browser (as long as you are careful about what sites you whitelist)? Disclaimer: I have no relationship to the creators of this script. I just found it today while surfing the Firefox extensions page.

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I'm curious to know how other TCH customers (like myself) found TCH for the first time. What is your TCH-find story? I'll start: I had my domain hosted elsewhere, and one of my co-workers came seeking advice on creating a personal website. I told him how I had done mine. A couple of weeks later, he came back and said he had signed up for service with TCH, and he thought I should check it out. I came to the TCH website, saw the prices, features, and service, and joined right away! I've never looked back.

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Would it work if you created a subdomain for your classwork, then password protected the subdomain folder, and then created a separate FTP account for the subdomain? That would make the FTP password only work in the subdomain for your class work, but wouldn't give access to any other directory on your server.

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I agree with Raul; Coppermine is completley within its rights to request that you leave the footer intact, but if they claim to distribute under the GPL license, then it is unfair that they demand that you leave the footer intact. I use Coppermine, and I don't mind the footer. It just rubs me the wrong way when a company says one thing in its license and another thing in its documentation.

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There are some freeware email cloakers on the internet; you can google search "email munge converter" for a list. I downloaded and like the HTML Email Cloaker that is located at: http://notepad.com/web-tools.htm. You type in your address and it provides the HTML or JavaScript code on the clipboard that you can paste directly into your HTML code. Hope these links help.

Do spiders convert "munged" addresses? For example, if you instert the following into your HTML code: ><a mailto="paul&#64;&#100;&#111;omain.net"> users will see the following in their browsers: paul@mydomain.net And if they click on it, the email will be sent to the correct address, because the browser interprets the HTML character codes &#64; as @ &#100; as d &#111; as o Anyway, this is a way I have hidden my address in the HTML code when I wanted/needed to show it on a webpage. I'm sure it isn't foolproof, and it takes a little work, but it seems to have worked for me! If this sounds interesting to you, you can find the HTML character codes at the following site: h*tp://www.lookuptables.com/ (PS: It is tricky to even inlcude this in the post, because as soon as I save it, the forum is converting the HTML characters to regular text, so I have to double-change it; but that won't need to happen in your HTML code!)

Hmmm. Curious. Very curious. I tried clearing my IE browser cache and deleting all my IE cookies and deleting my recent history. For whatever reason, that solved my problem. Doh! Someday I'll remember to try clearing the cache BEFORE I ask the question to a forum. But not today! Thanks, David, for checking my site so I would know it was a local problem!

I know you are using CSS, and I don't know enough about CSS to give you much help, but in HTML (not XHTML), you can add MARGINWIDTH and MARGINHEIGHT attributes to the body tag to take away the padding that is preset on an HTML page. More information about these tags is avaialble online. One place is below, but you could google more... http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/body.html I'm sure a CSS guru will come along soon and give you some better CSS advice.

This is weird. I'm normally a Firefox user, but today I was browsing my Coppermine site with IE 6.0.2300 (XP-Pro sp2), and I can't view additional pages in my search results. Steps to re-create the problem. Open photo gallery located at http://www.pehrsonfamily.net/photoalbum Click Search In the search box type: paul (It doesn't matter what you search by; any search result that has multiple pages gives the same result. You can search by paul or christina or rick ---the problem is the same. In Firefox, you can click on the numbers across the bottom of the table to view the additional pages of search results. However, when I'm using IE6, when I click on any of the numbers, I get the following error: No image to display Can anybody else tell me if they are seeing the same problem? If so, what could be causing it? Edit: on a side note, this is why I even considered checking http://coppermine.sourceforge.net for an update; I hoped that if I upgraded to the newest version of the software that I would solve this problem. However, I am using 1.3.3, the latest release by the folks at Coppermine. I'm hoping somebody out there can help me!!

I don't know if this was announced in the forums or not (I searched and didn't find it), so I thought Coppermine users would like to know that a new version of Coppermine was released on April 20, 2005 (version 1.3.3). This release includes protection against Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) attacks. The Coppermine folks suggest that if you are running 1.3.2 or earlier that you upgrade to 1.3.3 ASAP. If you don't know what version of Coppermine you are running, you can log in to your Coppermine gallery as admin, then click on "Config". The version of Coppermine is shown in the table title bar. If this was announced a month ago when it happened, I appologize for telling you again. I just know how important it is that all of us keep our installed software up to date, especially when the older versions have exposed security flaws like this one! Best wishes,

Would this be an easy fix to the PHPBB lack-of-DST support? Oh wait, no it wouldn't, because PHPBB lets users select their own time zone. Does anybody know how to make PHPBB work with DST better?

So another post made me think about Creative Commons. I've heard a lot about it, but don't understand how it works. I went to their website, but didn't find much helpful informaiton about how to get your images indexed in their search. I went to the Creative Commons website and clicked the "Publish" image, and I got the HTML code that I added to my coppermine template. What's next? What do I have to do to get my content indexed by the Creative Commons website so people can find my images? How will they know where my site is if I don't tell them? What else should I know about Creative Commons? Thanks for your input.

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Update: As I said, I had 1.5.1 already installed, so it was a minor upgrade for me. I downloaded the .zip file to my desktop, and unzipped it. In the wp-content folder, I deleted the themes folder (since I'm using a number of customized themes (I've changed all of them to uniformly allow you to change the theme)) so my current themes wouldn't get changed. Then I uploaded the entire contents of the folder to my blog directory on my site. I told it to replace all files with the new ones. Finally, in my browser, I went to my blog's site and went to \wp-admin\upgrade.php and it made the configuration changes by itself. It was much less painful than I imagined! BTW, thanks for the upgrade reminder. I hadn't realized there was a new version!

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Ok. So this is my first WP upgrade (I installed 1.5.1). Is there anything I should know before I do it? Thanks,

I think that if the person who stole your content ignored your creative commons license, then it is likely that she/he would ignore a disclaimer on the site that said that the work requires attribution. Unfortunately, I think you are out of luck here. It stinks, but I guess it may be similar to how the recording artists feel when their work is downloaded without compensation. I guess if you were to be really vindictive, if you could figure out the IP address of the person who stole your content, you could ban them from your site, but in the end, it is probably an uphill battle. You win some, you lose some. I guess that is the inherent risk we all face when we post online. I do feel sorry for you, though, for what that's worth.