Posts by Aeonix

There's isn't a shorter way? If I'll sort them manually it will take ages, and... welp, it seems I'll need to rewrite the problem, but sort them first.

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$numbers = array(THE AWESOME CONTENT HERE);
sort($numbers);
var_dump($numbers);

I don't know what it did, but it did nothing, it didn't get sorted.

Still Googling on how to sort these arrays. I think PHP sorted them alphabetically, which they already were.

@edit2: ksort(); does sort by key and it worked, just need to find a way, to get it in descending order.

@edit3: They made entirely new function for that, krsort();, I don't get why wouldn't they add option to previous function. But well, it does it's job. Thanks.

$replacedString = str_replace(array_keys($array1), $array1, $externalVariableString);

I have an entire array above that called $championToIdConversionArray, it has about 650 switches, it looks something like this

    $array1 = array(
        "1" => "Banana",
        "12" => "Monkey",
        "2" => "Apple",
        "121" => "Human"
    );

Now if I let script parse numbers "121", it won't say "Human", but "BananaAppleBanana". Could someone help with this? How could I force the small one-liner above, the swap only entire matches, not just parts of it?

This isn't actual example, as I said, I made PHP script which generated gigantic array saving me lots of time, it swaps ID's for names and it has around 700 positions. So instead of "Peter" I'm seeing "JackJoshJohn". Because Peter is let's say 123, and Jack, Josh and John are first in the array, before Peter.

No, it's not what you have in your first sentence

Is there something I could put onto Linux LiveCD and run that will defragment entire harddrive?

Man, really?

To get you started how about SHAKE?
http://vleu.net/shake/ notes how to add/install in a few distros.

Seems like I good shot, will attempt.

the "lots of effort" described above, is about 3 seconds

It takes me solid 20 seconds to do that >:D, but even you have to admit, it takes a couple more clicks than just right-click and "Save Image", it tends to turn people down quite easily, not all of 'em of course, but majority.

I'd probably choose to allow only POST'ing to the script (die on a GET request), and when rendering the page add a token which needs to be sent in the POST header.

Very smart, haven't thought of that. It solves the issue. Just one question, how do I die(); on $_GET[]? Could you shake some small example?

I'd like to create /admin.php page, which would have AJAX request, sent over to /core/adm/index.php, that's easy, basic AJAX request will do just that. But I don't want any direct access to /core/adm/index.php, I want it to be accessed only by AJAX request from /admin.php.

Is there a way to forbid any other access? Answer is not, it's never possible to fully block someone off, while you're connected to internet. But is there a way to make it cost quite some effort? If it will cost 5 minutes of effort and jungling through the code, it will probably block off 90% of people out there.

For example, if I want to make someone pay lots of effort to get my logo. I make <img src="pixel.png" id="thelogo" /> and then in CSS, I would assign base64 based image with background-image:;.

Back to my case, is there a way to make someone take lots of effort to get to /core/adm/index.php any other way? Something that will say "Do not let ANYBODY see any data from you. Except, exclusively from localhost/admin.php's AJAX ONLY $_REQUEST[]."

It's not like page itself contains something that can't be revealed (SESSION's will solve that).

These are Windows MSVCPP or .NET programs, of course they will work on Windows 7. But I already have one.

But that's still not what I'm asking for. Actually, that's way off of what I was asking. The very first sentence of my post, did you notice it?

• Type in msiexec.exe to your search bar in Start Menu.
• COPY the file on your desktop.
• Upload the copied file to Virus Total
• Look for SHA256:, the strings after this. Is it anything close to:

82ef3b124362b701ac146fffe8c6d2f5a932417bd7011a887665df6f09797a60

?

If not, your file has been tampered with.

When I scanned my file, it said that it has been scanned recently. That means that many many people have the same file as I do.

After you upload your file, it should redirect you to website (in eventual cases, just relaunch the scanning on the website).

My clean file's report: Virus Total result, 0/55, compare it to yours.

On top of that, in setting of Avast!, there should be option where you tell "this website, don't notify me, just block it".

I did an online scan of my computer and this is the result I got....

Well this is what you shouldn't do. Don't download random programs on internet, or launch all Java applets you're told to. Internet is based on 99% malicious intent.

Uhm, not PHP, but JavaScript.

Create a function. That will get triggered each time someone pressed "Submit".
Retrieve the content of input field.
Write the content of the variable in wished place.

If you feelin' like stuck. You know where to find me ;)

Other side, using PHP, involves either reloading the entire website, or using AJAX response... but even then, it's still JavaScript or jQuery (it's library).

Is there something I could put onto Linux LiveCD and run that will defragment entire harddrive?

I know there's a lot of softwares that do that, but it results in something like:

Fragmentation before: 25%
Fragmentation after: 24.5%

Might there be an application, that I could run on Linux LiveCD and tell it to absolutely defragment harddrive, so that fragmentation rate moves from 25% to for example 15% or 5%, or the best, 0.0002%? (I know certain files can't be moved, Windows goes crazy).

Something that will take 4 days to fully and "cleanly" defragment that small 80GB (75GB) HDD.

I need to defragment NTFS partition with Windows on it. For my ADHD's sake.

Seems like a great ambitional project. And you seem you got everything in hand from server-side to client-side and even the design I get to see on screenshots looks tidy.

Good luck on the project.

Yes, thanks. I do gather idea on how VPN works. :P

But I wanted to find out if program's data are getting rerouted to their remote network. They didn't exclusively deny running programs that require internet. But I would like to know if t... you got it.

yo mama named herself as Aeonix

screw you :D

the root drive or HDD containing OS has Drive0 which has a reserved 100MB for the OS to use, this is taken from the main HDD and is kept private so that nothing except OS can access that portion

You can access the partition, it's called "System Reserved". If you grant it a letter in Windows, it appears in "My Computer". I don't think Linux has any hidden partitions.

Suppose I write a file to a RW DVD/CD and the file is "test.txt", is it theoretically possible to keep this file permanent on a RW white it is enabled for modification? Like I want to add some like to it or remove some line to it but not removing its self from a media?

Couldn't you try writing and burning test.txt with regular "read-only" mode without finalizing disk (there is option for that in couple programs), and then add files you'd like to modify later? Brutally, you can burn test.txt using very old operating system, pre-2010 and force it to write the file, then move to your original system and attempt to create regular modifiable files on the drive.

Look, I'm just trying to make best out of it. In these cases I mostly recommend buying 40GB HDD or 8GB flash USB and encrypting them. CDs/DVDs were just meant to hold data, something like floppy disks back in the day. It is even a wonder they somehow managed to make CD/DVD rewritable.

I hinted out something …

How can I verify if programs that I'm using, if their traffic is going through VPN?

I know I can go to random website using browser and check-up my IP. But it's a browser, I don't know if "my VPN provider" also "censors" traffic for/from all other programs besides browser. My program(s) may be P2P reliant, some of 'em may be blocked. I'd like to be sure.

@edit - These aren't my programs, but programs made by other companies. That should be using currently running VPN. Want to check if they do.

If you correctly included CSS, you can just right-click on website and Inspect Element. If something displays under styles (on the right or bottom side). It is included.

The code works in the html file. Does any know of a test tool which will tell me if my path to the external file is correct. Thanks

But I don't understand, if your code works well in HTML, why do you worry if the external file's path is correct? If it works in HTML, that means path is correct.

Are you simply seeking for a tool that would help you write CSS code? I don't think there's one, although you can install Brackets, which can hint you options for every role you choose. For example typing background-size:, will bring up 100%, 50%, stretch, cover, inherit. That might help you in learning.

In my opinion though, there's nothing better than learning it the hard way. On top of that, CSS isn't that hard that something bad will happen and if something does. You'll see that it's very easily noticable. And it's quite fun to play with it in order to fix it.

I'm sorry, I'm having hard time understanding your question. Could you provide an example instead?

Yea, I was told I was too slow at executing it, while my colleagues were chit-chatting all the time doing absolutely nothing.

Have you ever swam to middle of a very deep lake (+30m), and had nice fun (with friends) while not having felt ground for long time (couple hours)?

When I started videogame on my computer, I used i3-3217U with Intel HD Graphics 4000. GPU works at 350MHz (1.05GHz with Turbo). Runned nicely on 50FPS.

When I tried passing this game to a friend, from the very installer, the game has been installed and all it's requirements have been fulfilled. Then when I started it said that the current videocard (the one of my friend's) is not sufficient to run the game. So I looked it up and she has i3-380M which has GPU that has 500MHz clock (667MHz with Turbo). This is where I get confused.

Her videocard is called Intel HD Graphics, mine is called Intel HD Graphics 4000. The game said that it's minimum requirement for videocard in Intel's line is Intel HD Graphics 3000. I compared her integrated videocard and the HD 3000 to one another and they're fairly close.

Would it possible to lie to program a little bit? To change name of videocard in it's eyes to Intel HD Graphics 3000? She would like to try this game, but it doesn't seem to work :|

I know that certain videocards work differently, but I don't think world will explode when some calls will be made differently.

Yo mama so old, she became powder milk factory.

I'm sitting in classroom, trying to find more advanced usage of pointers in C++, suddenly Googling, not suspecting a thing I almost fell of the chair in middle of class laughing like a donkey (I'm young adult, so "immature" jokes tend to be funnier for me than for you likely). It goes as follows:
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A programming language for Real Men. Most languages try to provide a simplified way to solve specific problems well. C++ makes no such concession and tries to be mediocre at everything. It lets you program at a very high level, and a very low level in the same program. It lets you write procedural code, object oriented code, generic code and mix them all up. It makes you decide everything and provides no help if you get it wrong.

It is by far the biggest, most complicated, ugly, down-right dangerous language you can use. But it does run fast. It takes at least twice as long to program in C++ as any other major language (except C).

The men who program in C++ are Real Men. The women who program in C++ are Real Men too. You can spot a C++ programmer from their testosterone fueled swagger, and the unbelievable amount of contempt they inject into the phrase Java "programmer". They'll probably do the air quotes and all.
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Back when I started Notepad++ and PHP.net/W3Schools.com is all I needed. If something didn't work out I sought for error tried to fix it, and if it didn't work out I would paste my topic in every forum there was to be found.

Lately I've swapped to Brackets, which has some decent coloring and some hinting when it comes to variables and functions. It works pretty smooth so I work with that. I don't necessarily need to work with actual PHP helpers. Might continue writing in Notepad++, I work only with Brackets because it looks nice and not so pre-2000 (like many editors) in my opinion.

http://www.javascript-coder.com/javascript-form/javascript-reset-form.phtml

You can't really do it with PHP. PHP is executed before you get any data. Then you receive ready rendered output. PHP has no effect on your browser anymore, you can do it with JavaScript instead. Link above has a tutorial on how to reset values of forms.

This should work:

<?php
    session_start();
    $_SESSION["adminid"] = 1;
    $_SESSION["adminname"] = "Sutarusu";

    echo "Hi! I am ". $_SESSION["adminname"] .", I have ID #" . $_SESSION["adminid"];

?>

And why is this topic placed in Databases > MySQL?

"Corrupt word file", I assume Microsoft Office Word. To check whether the file is actually corrupt and Office hasn't gone crazy.

Change extension from .docx to .zip then extract the files (I recommend using 7-zip). If 7-zip fails saying that archive is corrupt, it's gone, nothing to be done about it.

If it succeeds at extracting. Open the folder and open folders one by one with application like Brackets or Notepad++, at certain point you should meet file that doesn't open up (is corrupt). Tell me it's name, I can search up what type of file it is and what type of function it has. I might mix-up something from it that might be recognizable by Office.

If you can extract archive and all files are openable that means Office made a mistake while writing the file. Now here's the attitude of how badly you want the file back, because you would need to open every single file and check if the structure of file is right. It would be better if you started new word file, fill it with dummy text and compare the structure of the file.

"text editor"? What?

It's still not bad, it just doesn't meet quality requirements.

Website seems to be developped by SKYiTech.com, but you could pull this website off with PHP-Fusion with custom theme.

About everything there is. I can listen to almost anything. There's no "bad" music, just people's different tastes.

I like music just in general in all genres, to call some examples with songs I listen quite often to, for each genre:

Classical - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o
Orchestral - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AohscTU5PZc
Hard Alternative Rock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzU-9iozmo
Alternative Rock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBr7kECsjcQ
Hard Rock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xd_ntREJMU
Rock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj1sVQ2qdnI
Rap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvLmcRZte78
Jazz Duet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfUD0WhE264
Dubstep - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkime9M4z34 (this is actual dubstep, not just random noises placed under category "Dubstep" just because)
Korean Electric Pop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAbokV76tkU
Hard Dubstep - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNYUQXMH0A (warning: turn down the volume before proceeding)
Techno - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vcgsSJ9MQc

I mean. Seriously.

DOT.TK offers you TK name, for example aeonix.tk if you wish. It is only .tk domain though, nobody will really give you free .com, .net or alike domain for free unless you order something.

Imagine this, (names made up or/and don't apply to current situation, names used/imagined only for purposes of explaination)

There's server called daniweb.com, it's an API server. You can get quite chunk of data out of it. But for some reason, the one who orders the project, demands that we request data from API, on 24 different servers to spread the load. So both alpha.blabla.com and joule.blabla.com and even zulu.blabla.com have to contact daniweb.com systems and request required data. First from Alpha server, then Beta, Charlie, Delta etc. until Zulu and then back to Alpha, simple rotation with letters.

So when Jack requests the data as first user ever, his query goes to Alpha server. Then Elise requests the data directly after Jack, and her requests goes through Beta, etc., but then after some time Jonathan requests data and his requests goes to Zulu server (all others have been used) and then Sally to Alpha, etc. etc., it would be rather easily modify the file or the record somewhere and just push the array forward, so it will move on each time someone requests data from the API.

BUT, let's say this company has 1 billion users (really crazy, but let's go with this) and there's immense amount of requests on initial page. Then editing file would sometimes result in error (cannot access while other programs are accessing it etc.) same for database, at some point error would come out that it's WAY to many changes and server will lag for …

Yea, this is extremely annoying feature of Microsoft Windows 8. When you "shutdown" your computer, it doesn't actually shutdown, it hibernates just like Windows 7 or Windows XP would. Microsoft instead of trying to fight the cause, they fight the effect.

If you're willing to actually shut down your Windows installation. Swap there, log in, move your mouse to top-right corner, swipe downwards alongside the right side of your screen. You'll notice "Power" button with well known icon. Shutdown using this icon, and watch out, starting Windows again, may take some time, as well as closing it.

If you shut down Windows in this manner, it will be actual shut down and Linux will easily access these files.

Watch out though, Linux triggers something on Windows partitions, sometimes when you access NTFS files from Linux, and then you return to Windows, you are able to see all files, system files, boot files, configuration files.

Ah, I see, instead of them going within each other's scopes, you just append the function to an object in order to execute it and it's done regardless it's position in chain.

I got your code, and it's working. It's gonna be a hard egg to boil though. I see how it works and can explain it. But I'm not used a lot to it.

Thank you for helping me.

I have been cuddling with OOP programming. JavaScript seemed like a good start. I went to w3schools.com.

function person(first, last, age, eye) {
    this.firstName = first;
    this.lastName = last;
    this.age = age;
    this.eyeColor = eye;
    this.name = function() {
        return this.firstName + " " + this.lastName
        this.capitalize = function() {
            return this.firstName.charAt(0) + " " + this.lastName.charAt(0);
        }
    };
}

var myFather = new person("John", "Doe", 50, "blue");
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "My father is <b>" + myFather.name() + "</b>";


document.getElementById("demo1").innerHTML = "His captial letters are <b>" + myFather.name.capitalize() + "</b>";

document.getElementById("demo2").innerHTML = "His captial letters are <b>" + myFather.name().capitalize() + "</b>";

How can I manage to let last two lines work? So far I get the first line to work because it was actually rip-off from W3S. I get many, many, errors. Most of them are, the problem itself. I know how to make one-layered OOP program execution, like above myFather.eyeColor();. But I would like to learn multiple layered object programming. Something like document.getElementById("id").innerHTML("woa");. Object and two functions. Three layered call. Another example is object.style.transform="rotate(7deg)". Object, 1 method, 1 assignment. Another three layered call.

TLTR: How do I display first letter of first name and first letter of last name using script above?

I've been through W3School's tutorial about how to make one layered object call, do you maybe know a website, where they explain multi-layered object calls, like very long ones and that require many layers, for example el.visuality.ref("material_renderer").color="#000";

How could I save variable in the best way? I need to for my further code to work. I could make it run a function, after answer has been received, but, it's strange that I had to contain actions in a function, when it's not required. Or maybe I could make JavaScript halt for a bit until answer is received?

I tried playing with AJAX a bit. This is just the chunk of JavaScript I got.

// FIRST TIME REQUIREMENT
var interAction = new XMLHttpRequest();
var responseAJAX;

interAction.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (interAction.readyState == 4 && interAction.status == 200) {
        alert(interAction.responseText);
        responseAJAX = interAction.responseText;
    }
}
alert("inside");
interAction.open("GET", "ss-controller.php?req=freshStart", true);
interAction.send();

alert("This is my response: " + responseAJAX);

Firstly I thought that interAction.onreadystatechange = function() encapsulated the variable, but I did declare it in global scope (second row). I do get "testxxx" as response from alert(interAction.responseText); and then I get "This is my response: undefined" from last row.

Wait, you want to combine 3rd word from first file, and 1st word from second file? Can't you put word "play" as first word? Like,

Words.txt: "play, toy, tralala, DaniWeb"
Words2.txt "people, problem, potter, pancakes"

If you can do that, you can read the file one by one and saving their contents into variables, then you can tell VB.NET compiler to take the contents and split words by coma into continuous array. So example[0] will be "play", example[1] will be "toy" etc. . Do same for both files, and then echo each row (something like fileone[0] + filetwo[0]) and but put them into for loop. So it progresses.

Good luck!

Back with some little interview from him. It turns out Mac is just great for him. It happens sometimes that the programs crash at begin and that he needs to relaunch them. Sometimes his network card is just resetting network environment so he needs to reconnect to the network.

As for external applications, he says you need to change certain things in firewall. Because you can easily download items from iStore, but apparently even as big companies like Google, produce apps that can't be installed without little changes in dem firewall.

He is heavily disrecommending Apple Mouse, says it's extremely wonky, that in first 0.2s it scrolls almost nothing and in another 0.8s it scrolls like crazy in any direction you moved the wheel.

According to him Mac is more for productivity, that means if you're webdeveloper, artist, programmer, webdeveloper you could stick to iOS family while if you're gamer, you either buy Windows or dual-boot it. He himself uses "Parallels".

When you watch a movie, don't use QuickTime, he says it for some strange reason. Take the .avi file, and then converts it into .avi file to play it, essentially leaving you with 2 copies of the file. The worst part being that it takes extremely long. But if you install a new external player, everything should work just fine.

Programs work without bigger problems with optimal performance. Virtual machines are supported and are as easy as swapping your three fingers across the touchpad.

That's all I could actually …

mysqli_query("SELECT * FROM musicListThingie WHERE trackTag LIKE '" . $_GET["tracknames"] . "'");

If you already know how to retrieve data, fetch them, display them, the query I provided above is actually all you need. Of course, you need to change this one-liner for couple things.

More about this here. These are called wildcards which are quite essential on your mission. They help you to decide how queries should be distiniguished (conditioning), which spaces should be filled etc.

I don't believe you can do it with jQuery, that's as easy as that.

jQuery is client-side, this is code provided to you by server, and your browser manages what you see by it. If server sends you "move block to left 500px", your browser does it, because that's what website requests.

The database requires server-sided langauge. Which does whatever it has to do and your browser doesn't get anything to see out of it, except when file exclusively wants to show you something.

Up there I have constant Messages (1) counter, but when I click on it, no new message appears. I cleared cache, I cleared cookies, I cleared my browsing history, I logged out, I logged back in. It's still there, I checked my messagebox, no inbox messages that are new.

@edit - I visited this topic, it made the (1) go away.

My classmate has Yosemite thing MacBook, he tried to run virtual machine, Windows 8.1 from USB to his "Bootcamp". It was copied but the setup wouldn't let him through. It kept asking for working .iso, but it was working one.

Not a lot of contribution to your topic, but it is something worth knowing. If I see him tomorrow, I'll ask him for you. He may be able to provide more feedback about this.

It's not about programming language, it's about how you program it, I bet I could make extremely secure website with HTML by just typing "Hello World" inside, that's a thing nobody would be able to break into. I could also take your USER_AGENT and parse it, and make sure it's not breakable and every leak is contaminated.

Once again, it's not about the programming language, it's about programming skill. If you want to start web development, I recommend you learning HTML5 (skeleton), CSS3 (make-up), JavaScript 5 (muscles), PHP (brain).

What is the thing you're exactly looking for? I don't get it. If you're seeking for help with your website, you haven't asked a question, if you're willing to make use of services of people over here, then it's wrong forum. The correct one is Business Exchange > Jobs and Resumes. I don't see direct purpose of your thread.

When you open MS Office 2010 or MS Office 2013 files. It creates this strange file temporarily to manage the data. This is also one of the ways how "Recover Documents" works. It just creates that temporary file which is probably (not sure) realtime clone of your actual file and it is copied every 3th minute (depends on your settings) to a specific folder. So that if your computer (PC standalone) is out of power or your battery falls out of your laptop (how?!), then it has that copy.

As soon as you close MS Office this file should disappear. If it's there without you having any MS Office opened, check your process list on Windows, it may be still running but not showing.

Additionally, wrong forum, so far, yet so close.

Easy: Create physics engine which would take input from user, of current position and applied force, then use PHP drawing libraries to draw it out as easily possible so that our own grandma's can understand.
Medium: Invent encryption system which will encrypt itself at run-time. And it's password will be whatever user inputs, put through "one-way-discrete-logarhytm". But make it reversable (by having password of course).
Hard: Populate your htdocs or www with random files. Create AI which would work with AJAX which will sort them out in very simple and specific order meanwhile remembering where the origin of the file was.

These are nothing of what you may need. But if you're into programming like me (and many people over here). I recommend you going total hardcore in field you understand. All 3 are do-able and there's surely answer of Google somewhere. If you can do these 3, you're officially a good PHP programmer. Of course, it has to be working, clean and secure.

By the way, I'm getting strange impression, someone tries to force you to buy expensive laptop with low performance by making nice pep-talk about how great M-series are. Judging by your: "is intel m type processor is better or normal intel processor". Take pictures of specifications listed and send to me through private message, I might help you out and provide you actual and real performance indiciation, provide you the feedback about which components are good for what or less good for something else. I'm not expert, but if I don't know it, Google does.

Like Rubberman already pointed out:

It is NOT intended for laptop and desktop/server situations, and should not be considered for such, unless your laptop needs to run for many hours without a battery recharge.

So unless you're going for charge-free business-class laptop, you're surely not planning to buy one of these series. This processor-line is not meant for gaming, VM, heavy processing just for portability without charger.

I don't trust my code. I really don't. I always have a feeling that something is wrong with it. Every variable looks like an enemy. Every loop, unfinished condition. Every input, possible injection. I'm kinda paranoid so to say.

There's many white hat hackers out there which could make buck or two. Let's say I made program like Steam:

Steam is an Internet-based digital distribution, digital rights management (DRM), multiplayer, and social networking platform developed by Valve Corporation. Steam provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games on multiple computers, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and in-game voice and chat functionality. The software provides a freely available application programming interface (API) called Steamworks, which developers can use to integrate many of Steam's functions, including networking and matchmaking, in-game achievements, micro-transactions, and support for user-created content through Steam Workshop, into their products.

Are there any actual websites, where people who really learnt for this would be able to pentest the application and it's security for "fat stacks". If I paid let's say 100.000 euro to a company, and I would say, "here installer, here's your username and password, try to make manipulations which would let you retrieve data from database, or use something you shouldn't be allowed to use" etc. ? Just, people who will try legally break into software, on legal papers for quite amount of money to test it's safety, security (stability doesn't matter to me, which fool will …

Maybe this could help? It's someone who made a basic webpage and implemented ASP.NET into it. If you click the button the color of what I think is the muslim prayer buildings will change to gray by ASP function that has also been presented and explained. I looked at your code and the code on website, they're similiar in some way, but are not exactly same.

I'd prefer having direct models of the processors. I don't think all M processors are better. Since AMD Octacore gets outperformed by Intel's Quadcore and it's still not always true.

Which processors do you mean exactly? After refering to Wikipedia:

Intel Core M is a family of ultra low-voltage microprocessors belonging to the Intel Core series and designed specifically for ultra-thin notebooks, 2-in-1 detachables, and other mobile devices. The thermal design power (TDP) of all Core M microprocessors is 4.5 watts or lower.

I'm assuming that if they consume less energy and are extra safe about electricity, they should perform less than regular Intel processors. When asking about performance, lightweight and response, it's still matter of which processor do you mean exactly. The best M processor of Intel I could've found is 1.2GHz dual core, while I'm having mobile i3 which is quad-logical-core 1.8GHz.

Therefore I expect Intel M-series to be more of a economic choice rather than hardcore performance choice.

Windows should normally allow such upgrade. That is from Windows Vista to Windows 7 as long as components (hardware) are compatbile and capable of handling Windows 7. There is a nice official tutorial on how to upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 7. Although I wouldn't set my expectations really high. The applications and data may move along with the system, but couple of them might not work directly.

The best that would be in this situation, at least how I would do it. Is just copy the files (Documents, Presentations, Files, Photos) onto external storage (you mentioned another parititon), make lists of installed programs. Then install Windows 7 onto the current partition of Windows Vista. Install programs from the list, and then all the files, documents and photos back onto drive.

So you can't start it anymore at all? Not even before Windows? Nothing appears at all? Not even boot or Windows logo with "Starting Windows"?

In case when Starting Windows does show up. You can restart computer, and before Starting Windows shows up, keep spamming F8 key and wait until menu shows up. Choose Safe boot with Networking, this will allow you access to data. It won't help on your solution yet, but it will let you access your vital documents. Access %SystemRoot%/minidump, in case this isn't working go to C:/Windows/minidump, there should be file, that would give us more perspective of what has gone wrong.

In case when Starting Windows doesn't show up, but logo of your laptop's manifacturer does. You can burn .iso onto a USB and boot from it. If you're lucky your USB may find current Windows installation, and it will let you login onto Startup Recovery Options. Then choose for Command Prompt. Inside there, find the letter of your USB, enter it and type mkdir thedump and then xcopy "%SystemRoot%/minidump" "thedump". Now if you go back to 5 options that were listed, click for Startup Repair, it might help, but I make no promise. After all, send us the log by using working computer.

If you can't even see logo of manifucturer of your laptop. I can't really help you.