OJB

I run Windows XP X64 on my one and only computer

Hey everyone I just thought that I would try and get some variety of feedback from people on my music. I am currently working on producing my own instrumentals, 90% of the music I make is self composed and written within Propellerheads Reason 3.0 (wonderfuly music production tool IMO) I am studying a one year diploma course in Music Production and Sound Engineering and working on my production is a major step for me. I have been a hip hop fan for many many years but feel my sound was more suited to instrumentation. I was wondering if anyone would like to put their ear to some of my productions and pass comment or whatever. Positive and/or negative are fully appreciated as I am working on improving and wouldnt mind some feedback off people who arent a member on my music forum. Thanks and much appreciated in advance OJB http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=622922 TCH-Thomas made the link inactive

^ that sounds great, bit out of my price range at the moment though, but thanks for taking the time to find that for me

cheers thomas, I am looking into the possibility of skypecast... just need to assess whether people use skype, because we all know how lazy people can be when it comes to downloading and installing new software bruce, again thanks, i assumed as much but thought I would ask anyway i will keep looking around and if i find anything else out I will update this with any details incase others were interested

Hey people, I was wondering if anyone knew of any Audio Chat Rooms which can be downloaded and installed onto my website. The reason I ask is because my website is predominantly an audio based hip hop forum and from time to time there are people who want to, as they say, "battle" eachother 'live'. So i have been searching for audio chats but can only find ones hosted elsewhere like yahoo chat etc... Is there such a thing or is it not possible due to bandwidth usage etc? Thank you muchly in advance OJB

^ ok. thats what i wanted to know cheers... I didnt want to report them if there was nothing going to come of it... i.e. wasting my time... I did not know the ins and outs of what can and cant be said on a website as for blocking the guy at the moment he has only once broken my forum rules, but he is being watched closely now and has been warned if he breaks them again he will be banned indefinately... at which point I will use IP ban and maybe .htaccess

Hi there I didnt really know which section this should go in, so I chose this one. Basically there is someone who posts on my forum, but has a link back to his website. In this website there are articles full of race and homosexual hate. I.e one particular article is about how the owner hates asian taxi drivers and how he thinks gays should be shot. Now this site is NOT hosted by TCH, but by another host. I went to the host's site and was looking for a complaints section to report the site, but i was just wondering (from a web hosts point of view) how this sort of offence is dealt with, or whether they see it as a low-level thing and prefer only to tackle the big offenders. Personally i think the content of said site is ignorant and pathetic, not to mention racist and homophobic. What happens when a site is reported? Does it need multiple complaints to be considered?

yea i am pleased now... I like how you can allow or deny edit access in certain areas.. so for example the main page I dont want any one else touching so only I can modify it... but in the actual tutorial sections members can add new stuff or edit existing topics. for those who are interested here is what I have been working on today: CLICK HERE TO SEE

yep ! alls going well, getting to grips with it all now, i like the way the plugins work with it, you dont have to edit any code, just upload a zip and hey presto!

sorry to flood this forum, but I feel what I have to add to this might help out people in a similar situation to me basically, having installed mediaWiki and going "ooooh, this is the software behind wikipedia so it must be good" for about 10 minutes trying to convince myself I could use it, I really couldnt. It is very difficult to change the layout and administration itself I found very poor too. This is all coming from a very inexperienced WIKI and website design person, so those out there who are good at this sort of thing MediaWiki looks like a powerful tool. I then went back to opensourcecms.com and tried the ones there out again, turns out I had missed one before. DokuWIKI. Dokuwiki was so easy to install, so easy to configure and I was "wiki'ing" before I knew it. Its a nice sleek, simple design. I would DEFINATELY recommend DokuWiki to anyone out there who like me just wants a simple wiki system, which is easy to install and doesnt require any intricate knowledge http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?opt...view&id=459

i discovered the previous stable release of MediaWIKI works on MySQL 4, so have installed this and am testing it now, it looks nice though

haha thats true about the cars i suppose i just wanted to know what peoples experiences were with certain scripts... because iv never used wiki before and so thought if some people recommended wiki-script-x for being good for beginners then BOOOM id be there in seconds with bells on! I tried the 2 in fantastico, wasnt overly impressed with tikiwiki to be fair.. it seemed like overkill with blog, forum, chat, etc etc, i know you can disable them all but i opened up the admin page and was faced with a huge list of tickboxes... kinda threw me a little phpwiki i didnt like the feel of really... i know i know, im a fussy guy...

Hey all Was not sure whether this should go in this forum or the script suggestions one, but as this is not a script suggestion itself I thought I would put it in here. I am looking to introduce a WIKI to my music related forum to allow members to post up tutorials on software/hardware as well as music production etc things like that. I thought a WIKI solution would work quite well for this sort of idea, but really don't know which WIKI software to use. I have been to opensourcecms.com and tried a few out but logging into the admin panel and seeing the front screen don't really tell me about usability/ease of use though. Which do you suggest? Why? I tried MediaWiki as it looked aesthetically pleasing but it needed PHP5 i think, so I could not install it. Any help would be highly appreciated... if you do help me, we can be bestest friends like these dudes

sure... Well my approach was to preload the div tags with the iframe content, but this caused issues because I could not get the content to stop playing. I then came across the div .innerHTML function i suppose where you can modify the contents of the div when you want... however using my method above plus this innerHTML (to fill the div with nothing, i.e. get the content to stop playing) As i had preloaded all the content the div would remain empty once I had used innerhtml to fill it with nothing [really sorry if i am explaining this poorly] anyway, my brother decided not to preload any of the iframe stuff into the div, instead he decided that upon calling the PlayHiTrack and PlayLoTrack functions he would use the innerhtml to fill the div with the IFRAME when the function was called. So essentially everytime the button to play was clicked, using innerHTML the div tags were filled with the iframe and hence the content would commence playing (please note the div was also unhidden upon clicking the play button) Then the close button did what i mentioned earlier it flushed out the div tag by filling it with nothing, this cause the content to stop playing and the div was hidden I can paste the code if this is helpful to people? Sorry if i explained this terribly haha The main code: ><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="sclickscript.js"> </script> <form name ="frmsclick"> <center> <input type="button" value="Play Hi-Fi" name="hifi" onClick="playAudioHi(******)"> <input type="button" value="Play Lo-Fi" name="lofi" onClick="playAudioLo(******)"> <input type="button" value="Stop Audio" name="Stop" onClick="stopAudio(******)"> </form> </center> <div id="******" align="center" style="display: none;"></div> the javascript >/*Music player JS for embedding specific tracks + info. Code by Hygor*/ var passVar; function playAudioHi(passVar){ document.getElementById(passVar).style.display = ""; document.getElementById(passVar).innerHTML ="<iframe style=\"border:0px solid black\" width=500 height=365 "+ "src=\"http://www.******.com/single_player.cfm?songid=" + passVar + "&cache=******&q=hi\"></iframe>"; } function playAudioLo(passVar){ document.getElementById(passVar).style.display = ""; document.getElementById(passVar).innerHTML ="<iframe style=\"border:0px solid black\" width=500 height=365 "+ "src=\"http://www.******.com/single_player.cfm?songid=" + passVar + "&cache=******&q=lo\"></iframe>"; } function stopAudio(passVar){ document.getElementById(passVar).style.display = "none"; document.getElementById(passVar).innerHTML = ""; }

yea IE is a bit of a pest hahah Well, my brother is a web developer so i recruited him to the cause and he has fixed the problem for me, by basically approaching it from a different angle All seems to be working now but i appreciate you taking the time for me bruce

Hey all I have been working a script for my forum which allows me to use an IFRAME within a DIV tag which can be hidden or shown upon pressing an appropriate button. I.e.. if you press "show frame" the iframe pops up if you press "hide frame" the iframe gets hidden i have managed that successfully using javascript and a few lines of code too however, within my iframe is an MP3 streaming website... so when the iframe is shown the streaming commences and you can hear the song playing in firefox when the iframe is hidden the streaming stops however in IE this is not the case... even though the div containing the iframe is hidden the content continues to be played. i really wanted it to work so that when the iframe was hidden the content didnt play and when it was opened the content did play.... Does anyone know how I can do this.... I have pasted the .js file and the code i have used below (please forgive my terrible html and javascript coding) The code: ><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://www.*******.com/sclickscript.js"></script> <form><center> <input type="button" onClick="ShowTrackHi('sclickwindowhi')" value="Play Hifi"> <input type="button" onClick="CloseTrackHi('sclickwindowhi')" value="Stop Hifi"> <input type="button" onClick="ShowTrackLo('sclickwindowlo')" value="Play Lofi"> <input type="button" onClick="CloseTrackLo('sclickwindowlo')" value="Stop Lofi"> </center></form> <div id="sclickwindowhi" align="center" style="display: none;"> <iframe id="hifiplay" style="border:0px solid black" width=500 height=365 src="http://www.*****.com/single_player.cfm?songid=******&cache=******&q=hi"></iframe> </div> <div id="sclickwindowlo" align="center" style="display: none;"> <iframe id="lofiplay" style="border:0px solid black" width=500 height=365 src="http://www.*****.com/single_player.cfm?songid=******>&cache=******&q=lo"></iframe> </div> The javascript file: >function ShowTrackHi(tid1) { document.getElementById(tid1).style.display = ""; } function CloseTrackHi(tid1) { document.getElementById(tid1).style.display = "none"; } function ShowTrackLo(tid1) { document.getElementById(tid1).style.display = ""; } function CloseTrackLo(tid1) { document.getElementById(tid1).style.display = "none"; } All the streaming works correctly, the iframe shows up and disappears fine, its just in IE the mp3 continues to stream even when the iframe is hidden... can anyone suggest how to overcome this? Cheers, OJB

just thought I would give an update so any people with potentialy the same issue can see whats gone on i contacted the help desk, explained what was going on they then routed my email to an external exchange server which completely resolved the issue so now I can send email from my invision board forum no problems cheers for the help bruce... i guess a moderator can close this if need be....

cheers bruce, i was going to do that first but thought maybe I should suss out what to ask the help desk first by finding out in here... I will open a ticket now though, thanks again

Hi there gang Recently I had my MX records moved over to google apps for your domain (GAFYD) so I could offer my members email addresses through google... All has worked perfectly fine, until suddenly I started getting mail to me which was not meant for me. I have a catch-all set up so any mail sent to an address @**** which doesnt exist will be forward onto my account. Now my Invision Power Board sends out emails for topic subscriptions, email changes, PM notifications etc, and someone has set their email address for the forum to their new @**** one. Now every time they get a PM I get the email to my account and they don't. I asked about this on the google site figuring it was a bug in the software, but what I have been informed it is is that the php mail() still believes that my SMTP server is with TCH i guess. Someone there mentioned something about making sure that the local POP server is set to a SmartHost. Now I can't really claim to know anything about POP/SMTP/SmartHosts So does this sound about right to you experts, is there any way I can change the local POP server to be a smarthost? I can set up a ticket but thought I would ask here first before (possibly) making an idiot of myself asking for something I know nothing about. Here is a link to one of the google posts about this subject: http://groups.google.com/group/hosted-mail...7b8fffb0b587bc/ Just incase you have to be registered I have attached what is said in a quote below:

this can be closed if you want as I have fully transferred over to google hosted can still send and receive quite happily through thunderbird through changing the incoming and outgoing servers to the gmail ones... if anyone does want to do this they must bare in mind that they will need to create any of the emails they have created with cpanel with google hosted too i.e. i had 2 email accounts: username1@**** username2@**** once the MX records were transferred these no longer existed so I had to make them again in google, which wasnt hard, but its something to note! so a moderator can close this if need be cheers again for the help andy

thanks for your swift response i appreciate it the benefit is that with google hosted I am able to provide 100 free email addresses to my site members with 2GB size limit and various other things, where my members can log in through google... at least thats what i think it is hahah... cheers again buddy

Hey there TCH family i have been approved by google hosted recently to have up to 100 email addresses for my members. Google Hosted have asked me to change my MX Records over to them but I was wondering a few things before i do this: If i do ask the techs here to set up the MX records how will this affect my sending of mail from thunderbird etc because I currently have 2 email addresses already set up for this domain, exluding the main one that comes with my domain as standard. What happens to emails sent to these addresses?? will my server settings .. i.e. mail.mydomain.com .. will those change at all? Will I still be able to receive and send mail through thunderbird as I am doing now or will I have to change everything over to google hosted? Also on a side note, on google.com/hosted there is an option for google page creator... in the instructions it asks to change the CNAME record for my domain so, for example i could create a subdomain : pub.mydomain.com and I have to: Find the CNAME settings and enter the following as the CNAME value or alias: pub.mydomain.com Set the CNAME destination to the following address: ghs.google.com how and where do I do this? Or is this another job for the tech staff?

on a side note.... are there any developers here who would be willing to develop my site for me.. of course i would pay depending on the fee requested?

thats a good suggestion i can see how it would work, having used IPB for years, set up individual user groups etc but i really want something which isnt reliant on a forum because that could constrain what could be done with the site... if it was completely independent of forum software it would mean it is much more manipulable (is that a word) into what I want it to be... i would be able to add whatever fields to whatever tables i want etc sorry if it seems i am fussy or what not, i do appreciate people thinking of things on my behalf... cheers people. maybe my best solution would be to pay for the development of the site by a professional

thank you muchly for the link, was interesting to look at alot of those available software packages however, it is not really a CMS i am looking to implement and none of those really satisfied my needs, i do really appreciate the time though, thanks alot for that... I am gonna keep looking and hopefull someone can point me in the right direction