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I tried going to the webpage you mentioned but it asks me to login I'll give it a try tomorrow, it's really late here (3:52 AM - the Xbox/Treo contest ruined my sleep ) and I have to get some sleep I've seen the picture gallery the other day. I like the tattoo on his right arm! By the way, I thought you were Canibus...

If you're into PHP, take a look at these two functions and experiment with them: nl2br -- Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string htmlentities -- Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities (turns stuff like 'á' into 'á' )

A quick google search found this: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_desc...fid,6170,00.asp

Rickvz, there's really no need to use Trillian. You have Gaim

Lianna, I hope turtle doesn't mind me posting this direct link to his site, here but I thought that (if you haven't already) you'd like to read this: http://thepetscorner.com/home/pcmemorial.h...m#rainbowbridge oops... it redirects you to the main page... click on the "Memorial" link at the top and then click the "Rainbow Bridge" link. Though I still didn't post any pictures of my cats (I have twelve!) and I never talk much about pets here, I'm a hardcore animal lover and I know how it feels to loose a friend. Like turtle said, just try to remember the good moments and she'll live through your memories.

Sorry, this one slipped through... By the way, what kind of music do you play/sing? Do you have samples people can hear in your website?

I forgot to mention one VERY important thing: if you download Red Hat instead of buying it, you only need the first three CDs! EDIT: Hmm... I meant to edit my last post, not add a new one... <_<

Glad it helped Let us know how you get along with it. And if you need help, you know where to post

Well, I dumped windows and I'm quite happy about it! I had been using Linux "just for fun" for about 5 years, I think... Totally switching for Linux was something I wanted to do for about 2 years and a few months ago, I finally had the push I needed: Windows crashed on me, destroying the report I had been woring on for about 7 hours... DON'T say anything about regularly saving my work... I'm not the best person to talk about how easy it is to make the switch, since I already used Linux a lot before switching. Not as my main Operating System but I used it enough to be quite comfortable with it. After I made the switch, I found that the only thing I lacked when using Linux (when I still had windows as my main OS) was my e-mail client! I know this sounds odd but I'm serious! And I know some other people who discovered the same thing. What I'm trying to say is that maybe switching to Linux is easier than one might think. Easier because with today's Linux distributions, you have all the bells and whistles you have with Windows. You have gorgeous Desktops that might even be themed to look exactly like Windows or MacOS X. These desktops follow the "start button" philosophy. You have a toolbar where you can see all the applications you have running. You also have a button (I know! I did it on purpose so you could see that it's not only made for western users) in that toolbar that opens up a menu where you can access all your applications and some other stuff. That said, people should also know that there is indeed a dark side to all this. Linux is a bit trickier than Windows, because Windows does everything for you. In Linux, there are some things that are not so automatic as we would like them to be. For example, if you insert a floppy disk in the floppy drive, you won't be able to access it immediately - you have to "mount" it first. Hard disks are not labeled as in DOS (windows) based operating systems. What would be "C:\" in DOS/Windows, in Linux becomes simply "/", known as the root of your filesystem. Basically, there are a few things that people should know if they want to use Linux. I think the two most important are the way the filesystem works and the mount/unmount stuff for drives (which is part of the way the filesystem works, anyway). Oh, there is also another thing that people usually ask when they want to know more about Linux: "Will my Windows programs run OK if I switch to Linux?". The short answer is no. These are two different operating systems, which means that programmers need to create different executables of their programs for each of them. There are programs that have both Linux and Windows executables available but Windows executables won't run under Linux and Linux executables won't run under Windows. But since there seems to be an exception for every rule, there *is* a way of running windows programs under Linux. It's called Wine. "Wine is not an emulator" - that's what "Wine" means. But to make things simple, we'll call it an emulator. An emulator is a program that alows you to run executables meant for other operating systems than the one your computer is running. Wine allows people to run Windows' programs under Linux. It's not perfect, so don't expect to be able to run every single application there is. But it runs Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, MS Office, Internet Explorer (though I can't imagine why someone would want to do that, so no commets, please )... it runs lots of things. But it has bugs. LOTS of bugs. Meaning that if you use it, you might as well be prepared for frequent crashes or even not running your programs at all. What I would advise people to do is to get a user-friendly distribution of Linux and install it alongside with Windows. I *strongly* recommend Red Hat 9, which is freely available for download. Also, don't go for Mandrake. Everybody says it's great and so much easier than other Linux distributions but from what I've seen, it's not easier to use than Red Hat 8/9. It can actually be harder, since MandrakeSoft thought that making things a little different from everyone else would be cool, so sometimes you'll get an application that just won't work because files are on non-standard locations and stuff like that. So, if you want to try Linux without dumping windows, so you can get used to it, you need to create another partition on your harddrive. It's a fairly easy process. Easier than people usually think There's a few programs that allow you to do that on Windows, PowerQuest's Partition Magic being the king of them all, I'd say. There are others but I've never used them so I can't tell you how good (or bad) they are. Basically, you need a program that allows you to repartition the hard disk without losing your files. If you choose Red Hat 9, make a 5 GB partition. Of course the size of the partition also depends on how much software you want to install but since RH9 takes around 2 GB with a full Gnome 2.2 Desktop, Mozilla 1.2.1 (excellent web browser; easily upgradable to 1.4), Ximian Evolution 1.2 (e-mail client and personal information management), OpenOffice.org 1.0 (replacement for MS Office) and lots of other software... I don't think you'll need much more than 5 GB to start with. Anyway... after having created another partition, you just put in the first CD into the drive and reboot your computer (make sure it's BIOS is configured to boot from the CD first and only then from the floppy/HDD). You should see the installer starting up. Usually you just have to press enter to go into graphical mode. From there, it's just like a Windows instalation. The important part is when you select where you want to install your new operating system. Here, you'll have to chose the partition that you just created. This part is important because if you choose the wrong partition, you could erase your entire Windows instalation. But that's hard to do, since it's all explained right there and whenever you're making some decision that will erase something, you will be warned about it. If you do want to try that, Red Hat has a great online manual about installing Linux in a dual-boot configuration. You can find all of Red Hat's manuals here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/ The first one is the one that interests you: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/R.../install-guide/ Well, this post is getting huge, so I guess I'll stop here... Hope this helps!

Talk about surprises! A Portuguese fellow here at the TCH forums!

This is a little off topic but... Imad, maybe you want to take a look at www.sitepoint.com and their two books, "Designing without tables using CSS" and "Build your own database driven website using PHP & MySQL". They're both great. The first one is not the greatest place to start learning HTML but it will give you an advantage over the people that started writing webpages in HTML - you will make heavy use of CSS. HTML has lots of limitations which CSS takes care of but people who are used to HTML find it a little difficult to use CSS instead of HTML to place elements on a website, so if you're not really into HTML yet, consider that an advantage The other one is also very cool for someone who is starting to write scripted websites. It's not the place to learn about PHP. Though it gives you a little PHP introduction, it's nothing special. But it teaches you very important basic concepts! Anyway, go to their website and read the chapters they have available. I bought both of them and I find them great

Go to CPanel, on the bottom you have a link to phpMyAdmin: click it. In phpMyAdmin, open the database (left side of the window) where you have IPB's tables. Then select the 'ibf_topics' and, on the dropdown box right beneath the table list, where it says "With selected:", choose the "Repair" option. If that doesn't do the trick, try selecting one of the other options: Analyze/Check/Optimize... I think it's the "Repair" option but since I never know which one is the right one, I always tell people to try them all...

Yeah, I forgot to mention that I didn't mean to call you newbies nor something like that. I just meant that when you get a computer, all you get is Microsoft and if you don't have the time/will to look for other stuff and learn about it, you'll be stuck with MS forever...

You have a point there, imadsurfer. But still, if people are willing to spend some time looking for anti-spyware programs, spending some time learning how to use and configure them, I think they could also spend some time learning about other options. Maybe the biggest problem here is what Microsoft has made to the computer users over the years... most novice computer users don't know that anything else besides Microsoft even exists. For them, a 'web browser' IS Internet Explorer. For them, an 'operating system' IS Windows... So when people have a problem with some of their (Microsoft) software, they search for a remedy instead of a replacement...

Oh, and I'm forgetting the most important part: you won't have any problems at all with self-installing programs and stuff like that if you use another browser (no, it doesn't even need to be Mozilla ). And they don't even have to be "specially" configured. The simple fact that they don't use all the ActiveX voodoo and all the bloat IE has, is enough to make them far more secure than IE. But if you do decide to try Mozilla (which I strongly recommend to any IE user), you can throw away all those pop-up killers and anti-spyware stuff. Mozilla has an integrated pop-up killer and, as I said, is not vulnerable to those nasty auto-installing programs on malicious websites.

cmuskett, that kind of thing can be completely avoided if you configure IE so it won't let webpages do that. Usually people tell me "Yeah, sure, but I'm no computer genius and I don't know how to configure IE". I usually reply "Sure, but you were genius enough to learn that such programs (anti-spyware) existed, learn where to get them, learn how to configure and use them....." I think the greatest problem is that people don't want to read programs' help pages. It's all there. And if it's not, people would just have to ask somebody.

I was seeing one of lunarmagic's posts and I started thinking that there is a generalized fear of adware/spyware. What I would like to know is: why? I don't use Windows as my main OS anymore, so I'm free from that kind of problems but even when I still used it, I never had any problems with that kind of stuff. Maybe it's just my geek side but I think there are some basic (and pretty logical) things that people can do to prevent that kind of software from getting into their computer, like having an updated anti-virus program, a firewall like ZoneAlarm - which let's you choose which programs can access the internet, and which can act as servers (I'd really like to see something like this for Linux, some day... <_<) and above all, not running software they don't know what it does. So my question is, why do people give themselves to the work of installing anti-spyware applications?

That's one of the things I started hating about phpBB: they take years to release a new version!

Well, I wouldn't count on making a Flash animation with all those effects. I think you could aproximately reproduce the smoke with some ActionScript but I can't think of any easy way to reproduce the lightning or the 3D glow. I'd sugest you take advantage of Flash 6 movie import abilities and import it as a movie. That way you'd be able to keep all those cool effects without having much trouble.

jojo, you should only have one "public_html" directory. There's another folder with a similar name, "public_ftp" but there can be no two folders with the same name in the same place. As to where you should upload your files, it's exactly that "public_html" folder. If you prefer, you can also use the "www" folder - it's just a link to "public_html"

I won't use IE, so I'll never see your sites... I replied to your other post about this: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...t=0entry17101

Twisted, if you're having problems with PNG and CSS, then that's because you've got something wrong with your mozilla instalation. Either that or you have a really old version - which would still support PNGs anyway Mozilla is far more standards compliant than IE or Opera. As for the popup blocker, I don't know about you but I like to keep my work environment as free and organized as I can, so if I can have only one single application running instead of two... great! Not to mention that a popup blocker is running all the time. With mozilla, you can't even talk about a "popup blocker running", since it's not a seperate application. It's all about saving memory, dude As for your sites not being seen with mozilla, well, I'll take an atittude similar to yours (either use IE or forget it): either make it visible in any browser or forget it... What I'm trying to show you is that people may not be willing to use IE just to see your site. Some might not even be able to, like me: I don't even use windows and I'm not going to reboot my machine and load another OS just to be able to see one website... Anyway, if you're not able to see your sites just because of PNGs and CSS, then that's not Mozilla's fault, I assure you. It's probably your code that is not compatible with anything else other than IE. As for the PNGs, there's something wrong with your mozilla, I guarantee you. Oh, and note that if you do use PNGs, there are some versions of IE that won't render them at all - version 5.0 and below, I think. I would also like to add just a little note: Mozilla doesn't spread those *#$%&! viruses to which IE and Outlook are vulnerable. That alone was the motive that made me switch first to Opera and then to Mozilla, when 1.0 came out.

You don't need to create a new user to access the database. Your Cpanel username and password should work just fine. Just a little advice, change the line die("Couldn't connect to MySQL"); into die("Couldn't connect to MySQL: " . mysql_error()); It will provide you with more information on the error.

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground." - Unknown

Have you tried something like this? ><?php $ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; if ( (strpos($ua, "Window CE")) || (strpos($ua, Palm OS")) ) { echo "this is the menu for the palmtops"; } else { echo "this is the menu for every one else"; } ?>