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Steve, I think they're a design company... they don't have "so much time", they *only* do that

lol @ Rob Scott, I did think you had some SEO motives for not recommending the use of HR So what you're saying is that not every browser supports the same attributes for the HR tag? Even with CSS?

For those of you who don't believe it, or for those of you who do believe but don't care... see for yourselves! http://dwd.hu/

Welcome to the team, Bruce

Humm... why don't you recommend the use of <hr>, Scott? You got me curious about this one

I was just about to suggest that. A dedicated virus-filtering machine (be it a computer/server or other type of device) would be the best choice so it doesn't clog the mail servers.

Tracy is right, that's the solution for the problem. I've used it countless times but my brain was probably on vacation, since I didn't remember it

Just remembered another thing: the possibility of exporting compressed data from phpMyAdmin. I think that feature used to be turned on but some time ago the option to export compressed (gzipped/bzipped) data was no longer available. It would be nice to have it.

No problem, I always like to help As for CSB working with CSS: I don't know since I never used it but it should allow you to edit the code manually, in which case you can do it easily

Well, I never heard of the <?xml ....> declaration messing up PHP, even with short tags on... PHP should be looking *just* for <? or <?php, not <?somethingelse. But give it a try, remove the <?xml ...> declaration from the top of the file. I'm not sure it will work but you never know...

A virus filter for e-mails. If an e-mail containing a virus was received by the mail server, the server would detect it and remove the attachment. Or even better, it could act according to the user's preferences. The user may prefer to receive the e-mail even with the virus because he/she knows the attachment is important and knows how to remove the virus from it. And then again, if the virus could be removed from the attachment without harming it, it could be done by the server anyway. I know I've seen this in a few places, one of them being my previous ISP and I think the other place was at my mom's work. Yes, this would be fabulous indeed.

Justin, you must go to ioncube.com and download the ioncube loader. Here's the link: http://www.ioncube.com/loader_download.php If I recall correctly, you just need to unzip the file and upload the "ioncube" directory to your public_html directory. But read the README file that comes in the package. The guys at IonCube should have thought of a more informative message to put in their enconder

First of all, don't use caps for HTML tags, especially if you're coding XHTML, since it's invalid code. And remember to close your tags. In XHTML you *must* close all the tags. Those that didn't have a closing tag in HTML, like <img> and <hr>, should be written like <img /> and <hr />. And I also suggest that you use CSS instead of the old HTML attributes, since all "presentation attributes" of the hr element were deprecated in HTML 4.01. So... you can do it like this: ><hr style="color: #fff; width: 75%; height: 1px;" /> but even with 1px height it still shows like 2px, because it has the top and bottom lines. Try setting it to 10px to see what I mean. By the way, the #fff is equivalent to #ffffff. CSS allows you to pack the colors definitions. A better example would be this: #5b2 = #55bb22. At last, the solution I *don't* recommend: use the "size" attribute, like this: ><hr color="#FFFFFF" width="75%" size="1" /> but remember, this has been deprecated in HTML 4.01 and is not supported in XHTML - I tried using it on a page with the DOCTYPE set to XHTML 1.0, both Transitional and Strict, and the bar didn't show in any of them.

I think the smileys would be nice, too. I know this is not the kind of stuff you're asking about but I know I missed them some times And there's no need to have the edit window infested with smileys. You can leave just a few of them visible and all the other ones will only be visible if you click the link that opens the small "Show all" window

I know this is a silly question but... does the file have a .php extension?

Bill, I wasn't suggesting (or even "suggesting") you'd provide shell access again. I know why you don't and I understand (and agree with) your position. I was only trying to say that there isn't really something I miss. I do have some suggestions which I'll post later.

Well, the only thing I can think of right now is shell access but that has been discussed several times and it has been decided that it won't be available :\

Mike, you started the HTML code with a <tr> instead of a <table>. That was messing up the rendering of the page. I fixed it by adding the <table> tag in the beggining. A suggestion: perhaps a link to a page containing that information would be better?

TinyWizard, what about if your fireproof locked box gets cracked?... Nothing is safe in this world. Nothing. No matter how far you go to protect it, don't think that you are 100% safe. There is *always* a way to break in. It's just a matter of how stubborn/patient the hacker is and how bad he/she wants to get in. I do agree that having a program to keep passwords for you is a Bad Thing. But no more than keeping them written somewhere in a piece of paper. There's an old hackers' saying that goes something like this: "The most secure system is the one locked in a box, burried under 1000 meters of dirt, surrounded by pouches of poisonous gas and has electrified barbed wire, armed guards and dogs guarding the surface. Still, I wouldn't trust my life on it."

Arvind, this started as a post from me, about a little tutorial I made about how to make a random avatar, like the one I have here on TCH forums. Then we started talking about other stuff

Andy, first of all, that's Java, not JavaScript. And I also agree with Nick, http://candywrapperz.com/home/www doesn't even exist on your server. I also tried getting http://candywrapperz.com/digitalclock.class and it doesn't work either, so your applet must be in some other directory. Are you sure you uploaded it to your public_html directory on the server?

Tyler, it's more than OK for you to use it! I'll be happy if that code helps you with your tasks And you don't need to give me credit if you don't want to. Would be nice but it may require you to add ugly stuff to the page, so forget it and just use the code for whatever you want

Bruce, I started my change a long time ago when I first tried Opera. I fell in love with it's tabbed browsing and a couple of weeks later, ditched both IE and Outlook Express. It was my first step to say "bye bye, virus and worms!" and to freedom Some time passed by and Mozilla started to become a usable browser. When Mozilla incorporated tabbed browsing, I made the switch and used it for both e-mail and web browsing until I completely stopped using Windows. After that I still used Mozilla for browsing the web but I started using Ximian Evolution for e-mail. Finally, when Firebird reached 0.6, I started using it exclusively for web browsing. If you dedicate some time (not much) to see the good stuff in Mozilla, I'm almost sure that you too will drop IE

Thanks for the feedback about the hijack page I'll take care of it, just have to think about a better introductory text. What about the how-to/mini-tutorial? Has anyone tried it yet? When are we going to see a flood of random avatars here on the forums?

OK, I updated the page with a tip about using the random images on a web page Lianna, about the hijack page, I guess you're right, I have to change it a bit so people don't run away from my web site Thanks for the heads up About the image, if you have a large image that needs only a part of it generated randomly, what I'd do is slice the image in pieces, join them in a table (or, if you're feeling brave, using CSS ) and randomize only the... well, random part of it There's no need to make your site visitors download a new big file everytime. This way, the static parts of the image are cached by the browser, so they don't need to be downloaded again wasting your visitors' time and both yours and theirs bandwidth. Did I make sense?