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I forgot about the IE page! I never see it, since I never use IE I have to update it, some of the stuff I have there is not 100% correct... :\ I'm not sure about what you mean by "a mapped area of a single page"... but if you want to use a random image on a page, you just have to write the usual <img> tag and point the src attribute to the avatar.jpg file, just as you'd do when configuring an avatar. Is this what you wanted? By the way, Lianna, did you find it hard to understand where to click to keep browsing the website? I'm asking this because of the "warning" on your first post. It sounded like you got a bit lost, there, and were trying to prevent others from losing themselves, too. If so, I'd like to know, because although I want people to see that page, I don't want them to think that's all there is to see on my web site

Since I've been asked several times about this, I thought I'd post a little how-to so everyone knows how to make a random avatar: http://borfast.com/random_avatar.php Hope you guys enjoy it

You can get the latest Firebird builds from this page: http://texturizer.net/firebird/download.html On the (vertical) middle of the page there's a yellow section for nightly builds. That's where you can get the latest and greatest Firebird

Amen, Boojum!

I use Gaim. It allows me to use the following protocols: AIM/ICQ Gadu-Gadu IRC Jabber MSN Napster TOC Yahoo Zephyr So basically, I can talk to pretty much anyone I want

I agree with Scott. IMO, those terms are not on the contract so TCH could steal your site from you. It's just a legal precaution so that if a site is deleted for not conforming with the rules of the service, the client doesn't sue TCH for destroying his/her property. Perhaps this could be changed to something that states exactly that the client gives TCH the right to destroy (or delete, whatever) his property (the web site) if the rules are broken? But as Scott said, wait for the answer from the higher powers

PJ, you will also have to use a programming language that allows your web pages to "talk" to MySQL. Here's some good starting points: http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql/1 http://www.mysql.com/articles/ddws/ http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/21/index3a.html You should also use google to search for more tutorials about this kind of stuff.

Alex, right now CPanel doesn't have an upgraded version of IPB, you'll have to install 1.3 yourself, following the instructions that come with the package. It's quite easy, though, no need to be afraid And if you get yourself into trouble, you know where to come for help Actually, if you search for it, I believe there are already a few threads around here, about upgrading IPB to the latest version.

Natalie, in the E-Mail section of CPanel you have a "Email filtering" option. Click on it and on the next page click on "Add filter". You'll be able to specify individual filters, meaning you can block every single e-mail address from those #$%&@%# spammers. Hope this helps.

You are absolutely right, vangrieg. My appologies for my previous words, they were too harsh, even if you would have said what I thought you did - I was a bit upset with something that has got nothing to do with this but I ended up venting out on that post Once again, I'm sorry. Just one thing: I didn't mean that you reminded me of MS. It were the words "lower version" that reminded me of what I had read on that MSDN page. I wasn't saying that it was your type of mentality as well. Anyway, once again, I'm sorry. Didn't want to offend you. Arvind, forget what I said, if it's only IE you're looking for, then that code would work. But I do agree with vangrieg in that you should fix the skin instead of sniffing the browser. Here's the original box-model hack invented by Tantek Çelik: http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html

Then what's the use, if every single browser other than IE 5+ will simply ignore it? Don't you want to show your web site to eveyone who visits it? Then why do you close your eyes to the tons of people who will visit your site with a browser other than IE? Is your mind so closed, are your eyes so blind that you really think everyone has the same opinions about which software they want to use? Don't you think people are free to chose whatever browser they want to use? By the way, when you said "lower versions", it reminded me of the first thing I noticed on that MSDN page, the typical MS mentality: IE5+ is their "uplevel" browser; anything other than that is a "downlevel" browser. "Our browser is the upper level, all the others are the lower lever. We are good. All others... wait, what others?" Duh... This is something that always ticked me off about MS. They think of themselves as the center of the universe and simply don't care about the rest! One of the strongest reasons that made me move away from the M$/Windows world... Arvind, IMHO you should stick with the PHP detection script. You know it will work, regardless of the browser your visitors use and even if their JavaScript is turned off. Tell me exactly what you want to do and I'll be glad to show you the code to do it.

I moved your post to this forum. It was previously in TotalChoice Hosting General Support -> Security Discussions. Please post your messages in the right forum. You'll have a better chance that someone with knowledge about your problem looks at your post and you'll also help us keep some order in out forums By the way, I was amazed at your message. You managed to write a fairly big message and use only one single period ( '.' ) and no other punctuation marks! Though this will not impact our forums organisation, it will surely impact (negatively, of course) your chances of someone understanding your problem and helping you...

I forgot to mention: I agree with vangrieg about avoiding browser detection and being better to write standards compliant web pages. If you want an awsome book about this subject, get a copy of "Designing With Web Standards", by Jeffrey Zeldman. I bought it a couple of months ago and just finished reading it for the second time. It's absolutely brilliant.

Hey that's nice!! That's really nice! I really can't believe that MS has something for the web that is both good and works on all .... err... wait... oops... I guess Microsoft is still the same, after all...

You can access the user agent version through $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] Check out that script I mentioned, it's pretty good!

A better search phrase would be "javascript browser detection" - that's how those scripts are known. Also, a little tip: if you rely on JavaScript, the browser detection may fail, because the user may have JavaScript disabled. I'd go with PHP instead - since it runs on the server, you know you can always count on it. Unfortunately, a good browser detection PHP script is a hard thing to find. I had a hard time myself finding one a couple of months ago but I did find one which is really good. Here's the link: www.apptools.com/phptools/browser/

Well, actually, being hosted on Linux doesn't really matter much. The big players are the server software packages used. If you'd say that we're safer because we have Apache instead of MS IIS, yes, we are safer The OS by itself isn't really that important - still, when it is indeed important, yes, any Unix based server is better than Windows As for the defacement, remember that many times defacers take advantage of weak passwords, not server exploits - so use a good password. It's usually recommended that your password is at least 6 characters long and includes numbers and letters. I'd go even further and recommend that your passwords have at least 8 or 10 characters, include letters and numbers, use capital and regular letters and even some punctuation marks thrown in. Oh, another important thing is not to use known words or known facts about yourself, like your birthday, your nickname, etc...

As Dick said, a link would be usefull; actually, it's the only way for us to check what's going on. But I can tell you beforehand that I really doubt it has something to do with the servers...

Yes, it can. And it has happened some times with phpBB and it's BBCode implementation, and even with Invision Power Board. But it's much easier to fix a bug in the "code-language" implementation than in Internet Explorer, for example. A security threat in the "code-language" is solved by simply patching/upgrading the guestbook/forum software, while a security threat in a browser is only solved if all your visitors patch/upgrade their software - which one do you think will be easier?

Welcome to the team, Robert!

Thomas, if you allow your visitors to use HTML in your guestbook/forums/etc, someone might code an exploit for a known security issue with a specific browser, for example. That's why HTML is usually disabled in guestbooks, forums and stuff that allows user input.

Seems pretty nice! Thansk for the link, webluke! Just a tiny correction: it's not made in Java but in JavaScript

Illegal?? But it has been suggested so many times since I first mentioned it here on the forums, why hasn't anyone said this before? Besides, it's far from a complete shell as it only provides you very basic shell commands, you can't really do anything complex with it.

From Slashdot.org: I couldn't help myself, I just fell on the floor laughing out loud! M$ worried about market dominance? Well, actually it does make some sense; after all, they're not the ones dominating this part! Here's the link to the full artile: http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/01/13/0...tid=109&tid=187

Amen, Rob!!