Posts by samaru

Welcome to the TTF community Soundman! If you or anyone want to check out what others are like (or share more about yourself), please check out the post "Tell Us About Yourself" found at http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread115.html

You guys are missing my point. If you're a mind reader, you have to know who's mind to read. An alien from out of space could easily launch a bomb the size of the sun to the earth and you would never have expected it. Ouch.

I didn't know you were a BSD user. Seriously, BSD sounds like a drug. "He just overdosed on some BSD."

The lights went out exactly one second after I turned my computer on. Freaky. Maybe it was all my fault.

Absolutely Fabulous --> Me

:p Well Homer Simpson never really passed high-school he has recently confessed to his son about that.He's popular too.

Trying to decide who's more of an idiot. Homer or Peter Griffin. I think Peter wins. Man, do I love Family Guy.

Well, not all my professors were bad. Some were just "OK." It's up to the professor to make it interesting though. I don't care if you're teaching quantum mechanics, differential calculus, or even Rock Staring 101, it's the teacher's responsibility to make the class exciting. People like doing things that excite them and have fun at. The same reason professors do what they do. They chose something like Bubble Gum Chewing 101 because they like it. I think colleges are hiring professors strictly on credentials that have nothing to do with teaching, wish is a shame.

If you could control minds, then you could make everyone else *think* that you had all the other superpowers. I'll take that one.

Well, what if they still threw a building at you? Or worse, if someone you didn't even know planted a bomb in your city and you had 10 seconds left... hard to do anything if you're stuck at home doing the dishes and you need to get/find/diffuse the bomb without teleportation/super speed/intelligence/strength. :cool:

Oh, that avatar is freaky.

Unterminated string constant

/tutorial/guestbook.asp, line 21

strProvider = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};

Well, first of all, that error has nothing to do with the location of the database. You're getting that error because you're not closing the string with a quote. Just put a quote a the end that string, like this:

strProvider = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};"

Then you will probably have another error now. :cool: That string defines the connection and you have not provided the location of the database, just what driver to use, in this case, a Microsoft Access Driver. Look carefully at the sixth post of this thread where I show an example of how to access a database. Look at the second example.

If you have any other questions, ask away! :cool:

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Can be done in php, when yuo name the form's field, then you can export that as a $name variable.

Hmm? What do you mean? What's the other way to do it? I can't think of any right this minute, so maybe you can clear it up. :cool:

Starbucks --> Mocha

Been a while since I've heard anyone uttered the words "SafePerl." :) What it boils down to is it's a restricted version of the Perl language where your scripts can't screw up the system is running on. Lots of things are limited. It's used in schools. If you're going to develop an app, I recommend regular Perl, mod_perl, and Embperl for your apps. That is if you MUST do something in Perl. I would never recommend anyone to do anything in Perl unless it's a system script where a lot of text parsing is needed. The only thing I like about Perl is how it handles files and its regular expression engine. Everything else sucks for me.

Anyways, here's some basic info on SafePerl:
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/faqs/www/safeperl.shtml

SafePerl is pretty much the same as regular Perl but restricted. There really isn't a central place like CPAN for it because it's not as popular. If you want to find some premade scripts I'd only be giving you a google result so you can search them yourself. :cool:

Huh? What does that have to do with what I said?

MoveToEx(startoffilex+4,startoffiley+4);
LineTo(endoffilex-4,startoffiley+4);
LineTo(endoffilex-4,endoffiley-4);
LineTo(startoffilex+4,endoffiley-4);
LineTo(startoffilex+4,startoffiley+4);

That's to draw the frame. To get the bigger picture, just make a new bitmap with 8 pixels more width and height, and bitblt into the middle.

I could probably do it in a day, but I'm too lazy to, and he already said he made it output HTML.

Yes, you could, like I said before, if you use premade libraries. I've had to do this from scratch in Turbo Pascal and let me tell you, it didn't take a day. :cool:

And he doesn't have to make it CGI accessible. He can just use it to make the pictures with frames, and use <img> tags to place the framed pictures in.

How else would he access the C++ program from the page to access the modified images? I don't think he meant to say C++ though, but I could be wrong. It would just be overkill for what he wants to do.

Ape --> Donkey Kong

(That movie rules!)

What ever happened to copying from the kid next to you in computer science class? Oh... the good ol' days... sniff sniff...:cool:

Howard Stern --> Babbabooie

No, I have no clue who he is or what he does. Is he real?

Have you ever seen this movie:

[img]http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000K3CL.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg[/img]

Which is why I responded with "Kevin McCallister" when someone said
"Alone." The kid's name is Kevin McCallister played by Macaulay Culkin.

Hi CSCgal

R u working with CSC?

Cheers

Ahh, I see you're contributing to our political conversation. Good for you! :cool: Oh, fsn, I heard've heard that same line before. Same type of people like that that want to wipe out Christianity all together from this country. Seriously. Every week is something new. It's just disturbing. I'm sure you guys know what cases I'm talking about. The removal of the 10 Commandments monument in Alabama's courthouse, banning the word "God" from the pledge of allegience (or not saying all together), removing any reference to Christianity in Christmas, people getting offended when others wear a necklace with a cross, or when they say "God be with you" or "God bless you." Serious, it's absurd.

I wouldnt mind if someone were to start a thread in polotics! I can go all night long on this country and its left wing radicals.

I'm sure you could, but personally, in my opinion, it'd be a waste of time. The people who engage in them are smart enough to never change their views no matter what you say to them. I guess if you want to see who agrees with you and who doesn't, go for it. Also, if you want to get posts, then you can do it, but it's not really going to contribute to this techforum. I've heard just about every view and idea for current events, just in different words that I have no interest. I could go as far as two posts, but that's it because it'll revolve around the same thing. The only thing that changes is frustration.

Oh yeah, and this is a tech forum, which is another reason why I'm not going to spend too much time on it. :cool:

I hope no one takes offense by what I said. A difference in political views is always one of the first ways to get into an argument. :cool:

I remember Oreilly stating his father made about 30K in his time and how borderline poor he was. Too bad that converts to about 80K in today's time. Yeah... 80K... poverty.... I don't think so. Used to like him but now he has joined the ranks of the great hosts-found-out-to-be-hypocrites catagory.

Every person is a hypocrite to some extend. There's not at least one political analyst on any news channels that isn't a hypocrite. If they're not a hypocrite, they tend to ignore the topic, that way they're safe politically. To me that's pretty pathetic. Even more pathetic is dodging the question, where they go on and on about nothing. Bunch of cowards. This really irritates.

I don't see any of these problems with O'Reilly or Hannity and Colmes (I agree more with Hannity than Colmes by the way). True that I don't agree with Bill on all topics, but he's the only person that can really interrogate these high class posers who all they want is more power. In my opinion, his ideas are more down to earth than any other newscaster and so is his attitude. He covers a lot of issues that I'm interested in hearing and I agree with a lot of what he says. He's not like Larry King who let's his guest practically say whatever they want and give a wrong interpretation of himself, or an overzealous hothead like Al Franken, who's too preoccupied hating O'Reilly and Hannity. Seriously, I can't hear Franken …

That's good that they made it open source. The only reason why they make it is so they can say they have an open source product. They should make Windows open source. :cool: At least make VS.NET support PHP. I've seen a few extensions for VS.NET that support PHP but are weak. Microsoft is really the king for making GUIs/IDEs for development tools.

Welcome to TTF! :cool:

The easiest way is to submit the form to target="_blank" - here's some sample code in HTML/PHP. The PHP code is just so the form doesn't get displayed:

<?
 if(isset($_POST['something'])) {
  echo $_POST['something'];
 }
 else {
  echo '
   <form action="'.$_POST['SCRIPT_NAME'].'" method="post" target="_blank" >
	Input Something: <input type="text" name="something">
	<input type="submit" value="Submit">
   </form>';
 }  
?>

Any questions, just ask.

C++/.NET languages are more in demand, so I think he would benefit more from them.

Read terry pratchetts book : "small gods". That will teqahc you moe about phjillosdphy or regligion

Does it teach spelling? :cool:

Another guy? Could you blame him?

No problem. But yea, I loved the TMNT. I think the hardest figures to come across by were Usagi Yojimbo (I messed up the spelling before), Bebop, and Slash.

Here's Usagi:

[img]http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/coolstuff/pic/tmnt_card109.jpg[/img]

Slash:
[img]http://www.bigislandtoys.com/tmnt052.jpg[/img]

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How much is a lot space?

Check out the link found at this thread if you haven't already: http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread2391.html

You're welcome. :cool:

Your teacher is right. You don't have to know everything. IT changes so rapidly it's impossible even to know one thing. Things get changed, upgraded, deprecated, domesticated, defumigated... ok, the last two don't, but you get my drift.

It's impossible to know everything, but at least know one or two things really well. Kind of like a specialty. After a lot of research I chose PHP and XML. For a while it was ColdFusion but I decided it wasn't going to get as big as .NET so before departing from ColdFusion, I certified in it. Now I have my eyes set on C#. The only reason why I'm sticking with PHP is because it's high in demand for start up businesses. Most web hosts support it. The same reason why I'm sticking with SQL. In about a year or so, I'll drop PHP/MySQL and dedicate all my time on C# and MS solutions.

Any other advice you need, anyone here will be glad to help. ;)

I remember in high school, every person that was enrolled in computer science, wanted to become a game programmer. The only two that didn't were the only two girls in the class. I guess it's a guy thing.

I hope it wasn't just another "hey let's create a game" craze all of us programmers go through.

I assume this must be a school project of some sort where you have to do it this way. If you want a border or a frame look around your pictures, you can put your pictures in an HTML table and change the thickness of the border of the table. Doing it in C++ is more than overkill. You'd have to read the image as binary, calculate coordinates, deal with palettes, then reconstruct the image file. Even if you knew C++ well, it might require a little bit of work if you had a good library. Then you'd have to make it CGI accessible. Good luck.

You'll have an easy time learning the basics of programming with C++ than any other language I believe. I don't know of at least one good programmer that hasn't had 1+ years of the language. Java is currently more popular than C# but C# is growing. Personally, C# was easy for me, after having nearly six years of C++ and two years of Java, but that's exactly what I'm talking about. If it wasn't for C++, I would've had a harder time learning the language. I don't know how much you know about C++ but if you feel comfortable, then I recommend you go to C#, because I also think it's a kickass language. As a bonus, I also recommend you to learn some XML/XLST, CSS, and XQUERY if you have time.

Bad TV --> Mad TV

Oh by the way, did you hear that Hendriks Institute closed? I just heard it today. Apparently it was a while ago. Sucks for all the graduates and the people enrolled...

http://www.highered.nysed.gov/bpss/Hendriks071603.htm

i had the project done but my floppy went bad

Yeah, the old "my floppy went bad before the project is due" story. If I had a nickel for everytime I hear this before finals...:lol:

I am a 15 year old student in a florida high school...Thanks so much, Nicole

Gotta give it to him though. Nothing says "helpme" than a 15 year old little girl with the name "helpme." :cool:

Remember that learning the syntax and how a programming language works is only the first step in programming. You'll spend more time applying that knowledge than anything else. Don't think because you spend a year on it, you "know c++" or any other language. I thought I knew Perl until I had to write a server in it. Lots of things involved.

As far as databases, I'd throw Microsoft SQL Server in the mix. In most of the IT magazines that I've seen, as far as the best database, it's always Oracle. DB2 beats SQL Server by an inch. Then comes Sybase then MySQL. This is judged on performance, features, security, difficulty of configuration, and other factors. The price range is pretty much in that order I believe. Not too sure on Sybase though, but SQL Server originated from Sybase, so they're pretty much on par. You might want to check yourself on the price. Remember though, that this is and always will be a biased answer. Being "the best" is always in the eye of the beholder. Advocates are always going to support what they use.

What database is used the most? It depends what company it is. In my experience, from meeting CEOs, reading books, magazines, job search sites, tradeshows, actually being involved in the development process, this is what I believe:

Big Businesses: Oracle
Medium to Semi Big Businesses: MS SQL Server / DB2 / Sybase
Small Businesses to Medium: MySQL Server

Thats no joke. I just saw the coverage on FOX news via sheppo

Sheppo? You mean: [img]http://www.foxnews.com/images/1354/8_42_100_bio_shepardsmith.jpg[/img]

Out of all news channels, they're the best I think. Gotta give it to O'Reilly for winning me over. Don't mind getting hanitized once in a while too. They got the best info babes there too. Laurie Dhue, Kiran Chetry, the Skinster. Growl. What's this guy looking at: [img]http://a.1asphost.com/mikky/dari_080603_003.jpg[/img]

I recommend you start with C++. You'll learn good principles any programmer should learn. If you have those principles down pat, learning a new language is really no big deal. Every language I know resembles more to C++ one way or another. Of course, it won't be as fun as Visual Basic. With VB you see quicker results, but tend to learn less I believe.

You don't have to learn another language if you want to tackle VB, unless you're more advanced and decide to do things VB can't do. You'd have to write extensions in C++ or a lower level language and call them in VB. That gets more complicated.

I take it by VB you mean Visual Basic 6.0 or lower. There's a big difference between 6.0 and below against .NET (in the syntax and methodology). I don't recommend you learn VB.NET first though. Also, regular VB (6.0 and below) is being used more, but will die in time (probably not soon though) because MS is investing more time and money in their whole .NET tools.

If you're still interested in learning an additional language with VB I recommend SQL along with databases. Data is important and you need SQL to manipulate data in databases.

Personally though, I don't recommend VB or VB.NET as your first language. It's all up to you though. Just find a good book at Amazon.com with good reviews and stick with it. If you want to be …

If you want to save a SWF file that's on a page, you can view the source and look for the file with a .swf extension the do the add the following to the address bar of IE :

about:<a href="URL_TO_SWF_FILE">Download</a>

This will create a mini page with a link to the file. Just right click on the link and Save Target As.... Only works on some versions of IE though. You can run very limited HTML tags from the address bar.

That should be the word about followed by a semicolon then followed by a < sign. The code parser in vBulletin is acting funky.

So a web server is out of the question.

Cablevision is not blocking HTTP requests from home servers on ports except for 80. That I know for a fact. I've heard from other people that they've even gotten calls from running servers on non-default ports.

I used to have a million GI Joes. Actually more TMNT action figures, including the Turtle Van and Technodrome. My favorite figure was that of Osagi Yogimbo... but I digress... =)

I don't even have to look at your code. The images near the middle of the page are too big. The table, no matter how small the width is, stretches out as far as the images. I suggest you put <BR>s after each image so they'll be aligned vertically.

If you're still having trouble, I'll look at the code. Let me know.

It might be because you went over their bandwidth limit or because they restrict your images to be viewed only from your site. Not from other sites. So you can't have your pages running on a different server. Depending on what free host you have, there's sometimes a trick to get around it. Don't even bother, just switch to something like http://www.1asphost.com/

You get all this free:

• 100 MB of Space
• Instant Account Activation
• Online Control Panel
• Online Unzip Capability
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• SSI (DHTML)
• WAP
• Active Server Pages Support - ASP 3.0
• Free Database Connectivity:
  • MS Access databases
• Macromedia Shockwave support

If there's problem on you switching, then I highly recommend it.

He must have good parents.

monster inc. --> The Munsters

Kevin McCallister -> who cares

Do you know who he is without doing a Google search?

How did I know you were going to respond to this? :p You can still program in C/C++ in a non-object oriented way. If it's ASP.NET however, then yeah, you're forced to, based on the four native languages MS supports. I heard a long time ago that they were working on Perl for .NET, but I don't know if it's true. Perl doesn't force you to OOP everything. I hate OOP in Perl anyways. ;)

Alone --> Kevin McCallister

College degrees are a must if you want to climb up the work ladder. It's also an image thing. You make a respectable company look bad if you're the VP with just a high school degree. It's a fact that people with important titles have better opportunities to get paid more.

As far as professors teaching computer science, I hate to say it, but I think it's their personality that destroys their teaching methods. I've had over 15 different computer science professors and they all have the same personality. They were passive, dry, and neurotic about their work. Where they differed was either in their snobbishness or humor. I know it's a stereotype, but it seems true. I'm a psychology minor as well, and in the process of going from one psyc professor to a csc professor, I could feel the difference like a punch in the face. All my psychology professors speak to you like they are willing to help you with anything you need, seem more alive, and involve you more. They make the class interesting and fun.

I don't think the school has anything to do with it because a lot of these professors have taught in different schools where I'm sure they acted the same.