Posts by samaru

Ent, Treebeard --> Santa Clause

(The "beard" reminds me of Santa Clause.)

function --> i_want_to_be_rich(int i)

(Hehe, Aelfinn, you made me update the rules. No posting twice in a row.)

serial --> serial port

barley --> cereal

Dualies --> What the heck?

(Yeah, I really did think what the heck.)

Jones Beach --> Son of the Beach

(That show RULES!)

Hey, you forgot to add the arrow in between the words! hehe ;)

Hoosiers --> Indiana Jones

comic strip --> Calvin and Hobbes

(Calvin and Hobbes, my all time favorite. Then comes Dilbert =) )

Cat --> Garfield

lemonade --> Green

These Are A Few of My Favorite Things --> Iced Tea

ants --> aardvark

Mr. Bear --> Yogi Bear

sandwich --> yummy

Penn Station --> Subway, eat fresh

in the sky with diamonds ---> Sean Penn

Is everyone familiar with this game? Just reply with the first word that comes to your mind when you think of the last word posted. You can't respond to the post with a comment, just the word that comes to your mind. It can only be a word or a short phrase.

Also remember to use the arrow --> in between the previous word/phrase and the new word/phrase you just thought of.

Also, You can't go twice in a row.

I'll start it off with:

Lucy

Probably because they're used to. You also make it easy to register, which is a good thing (you have the registration form on the home page where it's very accessible). Some forums that I visit, you have to register if you want to view certain articles, which is kind of annoying. Or sometimes I get the teaser - where first you see the first page of an article then when you click on "next" to see the next page of the article, then you get an annoying form to register. Builder does this as well as ColdFusion Developer's Journal (two sites I often visit).

Also, for a lot of the sites it's too much of a hassle to register. Usually you have to go to a different page to register, and have to fill out more than 2 fields (I hate filling out more than just userid/pw and bothering with the rest - address, phone, etc). Then you have to wait for a response from them to confirm, which can sometimes take hours or even days.

Maybe if you put a message that the user doesn't have to register to view content or even post stuff. But then again if you do that, they probably won't register and miss out on all the other features. Hmm... tough one. ;)

Definitely a good forum. I can see it maturing. I still remember the yellow layout it had. Every time I see the slogan "where cool techies unite" I grin. =) I haven't had much time to post as much as I used to, but I do check it moderately. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for sending me the icon! ;)

The code works for me. Send me the icon.

I've had this problem in the past with Visual Basic 5. It's a pain. It was with an icon I created. When I tried another icon, one that came with Visual Basic, it worked fine. Try using another icon and see what happens. I get the feeling that even if you set the icon at runtime, you will get the same error (at least I did). Send me the icon, let me try it on my machine.

If you want to load an icon at runtime, you can try something like this in your form_load():

Form1.Icon = LoadPicture("c:\x.ico")

or wherever you icon is. Let me know how it goes. My e-mail address is in my profile.

I'm still waiting for you to implement the feature where I can read new forum threads through the LCD on my microwave. Come on, what's taking you so long! It's easy! =)

That's a weird question. It's like asking for a book on "Windows 3.1 for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server" users. =) Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit. I did use C though a long time ago when I was trying to create a Doom clone. I had most of the source code (which was in C) and it helped me out a lot. I have a book on C/Unix programming if you would like to take a look at. Very good book if you already know the basics of programming which I know you do. Let me know if you want it.

Here's two sites that I referred to when I was taking Unix Programming. They're ok, but they're the only ones that I can come up with at the moment (the ones I had saved on favorites):

http://www.cecs.csulb.edu/~tayek/326/c4cplusplusers.html

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~iancooke/osstuff/ccc.html

http://henson2.salisbury.edu/~dxdefino/CS450/IntroToC.htm

I still don't know which one. I think I modified a few of them. Maybe you got a link. I just read what I wrote a while back and laughed my ass off.

Which one?

Haha. Yeah, I remember modifying a few Alice posts... could you tell? ;)

I better get my act together and setup some sort of forum. It seems that everyone is doing it nowadays. ;) If I do set one up, I'll probably create it myself. It won't have all the same features as the popular ones, but just to say I did it from scratch. Heck, I might do it in Flash... hehe... that will be the day. =)

No problem. Your webmail link seems to be having some difficulties too, if you didn't know already. =)

http://www.roberdin.com/squrrielmail

Roberdin, just checked out your site. Nice. One thing though, I don't know if you knew already, that that link you have from your main logo image "web design redesigned" takes you to a 404 page. More exactly to: http://www.roberdin.com/index.php?

Well, I think you should try creating a few games by yourself first. Even though they turn out crappy. This will give you a feel of how much effort there needs to be put in a game. One thing is knowing how much effort is needed and WHAT is needed. The other is actually doing it and completing it. Here, check out this article:

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/design/features/makegames/

Ooh, creating a game. I think I've gone through the urge of creating "the game" multiple times, especially when I was younger (around 14-16). You have no idea how many times my friends and I have attempted to start a game. We would get all psyched up. We would be energetic and ready to dive into the project, but unfortunately all that energy lasted about a week then it just faded. People had other things to do and were turned off. (Probably because they didn't see quick results or the realization of what was needed to create a game and how long it would take kicked in.)

Now, I'm not saying you're not capable of creating a game. I don't know anything about you, so I really can't judge. But let me give you some tips that I've learned from my mistakes (on creating a game/recruiting people).

1. Know what you're doing. At least be really good at one aspect of creating a game, whether it's graphics programming, AI, or any other protocol. Even if you're an expert musician, or animator or graphic designer, you have to show some competence in something. This is so when you tell people about your idea of creating a game, they can see that you have some potential. Just having the energy to create a game is not enough.

2. If you plan on creating a game with a team of programmers, at least have a few games (that you did) …

Come on, you're never too old to be a kid. You gotta loosen up. ;)

January 12. When was yours?

Thanks... aww, someone cares. ;)

Hey how come I never got a "Happy Birthday"? What's going on around here. ;)

Did you get any good presents? ;)

Happy very belated birthday! So you're big man now? How old? I feel old myself (just turned 22 last month) except when I'm with my friends, where I feel like I'm 12. I love it! I saw some of your pictures on your AIM profile. Looks like you had a lot of fun. LAN parties rule.

Article from: securitytracker.com

To view working sample, go to:
http://sec.drorshalev.com/dev/luck/default.asp

Microsoft Internet Explorer showHelp() Domain Security Flaw Lets Remote Users Execute Commands

SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1006046
CVE Reference: CAN-2003-1328 (Links to External Site)
Date: Feb 5 2003

Impact: Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via network

Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes

Version(s): 5.01, 5.5, 6.0

Description: A vulnerability was reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer in the showHelp() function. A remote user can create HTML scripting code that could load and execute code on a target user's system.

Microsoft issued security bulletin MS03-004 warning that a remote user could execute commands on a target user's system. The bulletin describes a cumulative patch that also corrects two newly discovered cross-domain vulnerabilities.

In the first vulnerability, it is reported that a remote user can create HTML scripting code that can access information from another domain when certain dialog boxes are invoked. The affected dialog boxes were not disclosed. According to the report, IE 5.01 is not affected by this particular flaw.

[Editor's note: It appears that this first flaw may be related to our Alert ID #1005747 from December 2002 based on a report from Liu Die Yu regarding a flaw in showModalDialog(). However, Microsoft did not provide enough information in their advisory to confirm this. We will attempt to confirm this.]

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I'm big into SQL Server and can't wait for their new version, code name Yukon (which is a weird name to give to a database server). I'm looking forward to how they will integrate .NET languages (if they're even going to do this) in the server.

You can give XML Spy a try. Definitely an awesome program to do any XML development. I used this for a JSP shopping cart. You can give HTML Tidy a try but I'm not sure of its capabilities (have not tried it, though I hear is good). It's a free program under SourgeForge unlike XML Spy. Here are the web sites:

http://www.altova.com/products_ide.html
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

If you need to convert to XHTML you can try this PHP function. It has some quirkiness at times. This is what I used when I was redesigning the Hofstra CSC web site for the CSC club.

<? 

if &#40;!empty&#40;$type&#41;&#41; &#123; 

 if &#40;$type == "path"&#41; &#123; 
  if &#40;!empty&#40;$path&#41;&#41; &#123; 
   if &#40;file_exists&#40;$path&#41; && is_file&#40;$path&#41;&#41; &#123; 
    $file = file&#40;$path&#41;; 
    if &#40;substr&#40;$file&#91;0&#93;,0,9&#41; != "<!DOCTYPE"&#41; $doctype=0; 
    $file = join&#40;'', $file&#41;; 
   &#125; else &#123; 
    die &#40;"No such file."&#41;; 
   &#125; 
  &#125; else &#123; 
   die &#40;"No file specified."&#41;; 
  &#125; 
 &#125; elseif &#40;$type == "file"&#41; &#123; 
  if &#40;!empty&#40;$file&#41;&#41; &#123; 
    
  &#125; else &#123; 
   die &#40;"No file specified."&#41;; 
  &#125; 
 &#125; else &#123; 
  die &#40;"No file specified."&#41;; 
 &#125; 

 # specify html file, check for doctype 
 //$file = file&#40;"file.html"&#41;; 
 //if &#40;substr&#40;$file&#91;0&#93;,0,9&#41; != "<!DOCTYPE"&#41; $doctype=1; 
 //$file = join&#40;'', $file&#41;; 

 # make tags and properties lower case, close empty elements, quote all properties 
 $search  = array &#40;"'&#40;<\/?&#41;&#40;\w+&#41;&#40;&#91;^>&#93;*>&#41;'e", 
                   "'&#40;<\/?&#41;&#40;br|input|meta|link|img&#41;&#40;&#91;^>&#93;*&#41;&#40; />&#41;'ie", 
                   "'&#40;<\/?&#41;&#40;br|input|meta|link|img&#41;&#40;&#91;^>&#93;*&#41;&#40;/>&#41;'ie", 
                   "'&#40;<\/?&#41;&#40;br|input|meta|link|img&#41;&#40;&#91;^>&#93;*&#41;&#40;>&#41;'ie", 
                   "'&#40;\w+=&#41;&#40;\w+&#41;'ie", 
                   "'&#40;\w+=&#41;&#40;.+?&#41;'ie"&#41;; 
 $replace = array &#40;"'\\1'.strtolower&#40;'\\2'&#41;.'\\3'", 
                   "'\\1\\2\\3>'", 
                   "'\\1\\2\\3>'", 
                   "'\\1\\2\\3 /\\4'", 
                   "strtolower&#40;'\\1'&#41;.'\"\\2\"'", 
                   "strtolower&#40;'\\1'&#41;.'\\2'"&#41;; 
 $file = preg_replace&#40;$search, $replace, $file&#41;; 

 # return xhtml-compliant document 
 echo "<textarea cols=\"100\" rows=\"20\">"; 
 if &#40;isset&#40;$doctype&#41;&#41; echo '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML …

Whether it's MSIL or anything else, there's still overhead, even in .NET. Otherwise, why would anyone use C++ or C# over VB? Any development tool that has premade objects, especially drag and drop ones like in VB.NET or VisualFoxPro create more overhead because you're giving up performance over simplicity.

Do you have any proof that it's the same speed? The reason I say this is because the same issue goes with anything else. You're adding another layer of complexity. JSPs are compiled to Java code but have to be converted to servlets first. Servlets are compiled directly to Java byte code but it's more time consuming to develop as compared to JSPs (even though they both run on the JRE). The same comparison goes with C++, C# vs VB.NET.

Well almost as fast. Even though it's the .NET architecture C# and C++ (even more) will always have less overhead than VB.

Yes, it was a tragedy. I was stunned when I first heard of it. I was watching the Fox News Channel during a segment on Iraq, and out of nowhere I heard the news.

I know presently a lot of people are hurt by this tragedy and are mourning (the media makes sure of this). They have every right to and I understand. However sometimes I get the feeling that that's all they think happens in this world. It's a big world and equally herrendous things happen on this planet. It's just a shame that the media doesn't cover it because it thinks it's not important enough to cover. I know it would not be practical to cover every little piece of news that goes on on this earth, but I think more people should be aware of this.

Just my ranting.

Here are instructions from Microsoft and where to download the files for SQL Server 2000 SP3:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9032F608-160A-4537-A2B6-4CB265B80766&displaylang=en

We noticed this Saturday morning at work. Something wrong with SQL Server 2000. We didn't think it was going to be that big. I was surprised how big it was when I saw it on the news and heard about it at CNET News.

It's not a matter of personal taste, regarding why I don't approve of the headlines being on the index page. It's more of an issue of usability. This is supposedly a forum website (hence the name), so a user expects to see a forum upon entering. It's a good idea to put tech news on the homepage but it clashes with the name "techtalkforums." If I go to a web site with the name "sqlstoredprocedures.com" I should be displayed on the home page information regarding stored procedures, not information technology, even if information technology is related with stored procedures.

Of course, techies won't mind, but you have to also think like a simple user (computer newbie).

If you also wanted to concentrate on news in depth (not just small headlines) maybe create news.techtalkforums.com. Just an idea.

Looking good so far. Feel better.

I hope what you want is NOT a client in Excel to insert information into an Access database. There are better solutions than trying to do this, but something like that can be done.