Posts by pty

if you want yeah, i made the first one using fyre on debian, and the second under GIMP btw.

That looks a lot like one of my old ones also made in the gimp (thats probably why!)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7098496/

Hi all;

My question is which IDE do you recommend for editing Python codes on WindowsXP???

I've installed its interpreter(2.5) but I don't have any idea about the IDE.(except ActivePython)

Thanks for your helps...

Vim is all you will ever need.

Hi,

My question is on weather it is possible to move the mouse on a page after it has touched something. For example: Lets say some one moused over an image, after which the mouse would move down across a certain part of the page.

If it is possible how would I go around to doing that?

Thanks,

I don't think it is possible; javascript has no control over the cursor.

4MB is fast enough for gaming (I still ping the same on Counter Strike on 4MB as I did when I was on 512k). The only thing people would use 100MB for is downloading television shows or movies.

Out of interest what are all the Mac/Linux folks doing now the BBC and Channel 4's decision to use Windows DRM on their download services?

I still get stuff from Bit Torrent; not really legal I know but until they provide me with something that I can use I'll continue.

Einstein's theory of relativity has absolutely NOTHING to do with your theory of a 30 second old Universe. The speed of light, velocity, displacement, and the laws of physics also have absolutely NOTHING to do with a 30 second old universe. The simple fact that we would not know only means that your theory is completely irrelevant. It is incomprehensive to think the universe is only 30 seconds old, and unless you have some kind of reason for introducing this idea to us.. quit referring to it.

Back to the start of the thread. Can you prove the universe is not 30 seconds old? No.

Can I prove it is? No.

We just have to look at the OVERWHELMING evidence and make our own decision based on it. Same goes for evolution, gravity, global warming.

Just because Science hasn't yet answered some questions conclusively doesn't mean that god is the answer. Until Darwin and Mendel's work people thought that 'evolution' (or design) was god's work; now most (western) people realise that it is not the case.

This guy has the right idea.

There is evidence for both sides.. There isn't much, and it may not be very reliable.. But perhaps someday we will be able to end this dispute.

Out of interest, what is the evidence of a god other than holy texts (which aren't really evidence)?

Nothing can provide evidence for or against the existance of a god. It is a question of faith; some people believe and some don't. Attempting to prove the non-existance of something that has no evidence for existing is impossible.

I cannot prove that we don't all live in the matrix. Does it mean we do?

I really don't like to see children taking part in religious activities before they have had chance to make up their own mind. Its a shame that most, by the time they are old enough to have opinions, have had it so drummed into them there is no decision to make - they just do what mummy and daddy do.

I need to change a logo to the vector-graphic - format. What can I do? Who can help me? regards from Austria...happy easter...

Itrenner

I presume you mean SVG. You can use a program like Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator, Xara Xtreme etc but these are expensive) to create your logo.

As a PHP coder with an honest question:
Can Ruby interface with MySQL?

Yes. In fact most Rails folks use MySQL

Yeah I got one of those cds in a mag and thought this looks interesting.

It promised very little set up, autodetect my graphics card and come with all the codecs for dvds etc. But when I put the cd in the drive it only gets to 35% then crashes.

But apart from that has anyone else used it? Btw I've gone back to ubuntu since open suse 10.2 was just too hard to get to work.

At the mo, I got my internet and my printer working.

Xandros is based on Debian (like Ubuntu) but uses KDE instead of Gnome. I'd guess that installer crashes/problems may have been fixed in later releases. As far as I know the full version of Xandros is not free. If you want a free Debian based KDE distribution I suggest trying Kubuntu or MEPIS (or the latest version of Xandros which I think has a 30 day free trial).

Thanks, pty!! I took your advice and am now using Firefox. I love it! IE is okay but I ran into too many problems trying to upgrade it. Now my web browser troubles are over. Thanks for your help.

janda5

Glad you like it. Please help spread the word if you hear other people complaining about IE.

Are these something similar to Dreamweaver?

No. Dreamweaver is an editor.

These are frameworks written in PHP that help simplify the web development process; especially interaction with databases and keeping your code organised (MVC style)

I'm developing a site using mysql and php.
For the backend database I use mysql and my htm page consists of both HTML and PHP scripts.
It was suggested that I use 3 tier architecture to seperate the business logic and the presentation layer.
My problem is , how do I use a 3 tier architecture to build a site using php and mysql.

Being a newbie, I'd appreciate any help I can get.

I think that seperating the business logic and presentation, rather than being true 'three tier', is more of a MVC structure. I think you should look into Symfony or CakePHP.

Or Rails of course (but its not PHP)

solaris is proper unix. Thats based on System V isnt it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#Compliance

can any body help me out in my situation ,i want to retrieve some results from database , when i choose a value from the selection box.

thanx in advnce

tc

You need to be using the observe field function. If you google it along with tutorial am sure something suitable will come up

Working with unindented and uncommented/undocumented code is a nightmare.

I think that indentation is essential; it makes reading code far easier and helps avoid simple mistakes matching stuff up.

On larger projects it doesn't matter what set of standards you stick to so long as everyone uses them and produces clean readable (and therefore maintainable) code is produced.

My rule of thumb is after every function, if its not obvious what it does at a glance or isn't a one-liner, add a quick comment saying what it does. If needs be give a quick example of use.

I have an Intel Pentium 166MHz w/MMX computer with 64 MB RAM and I use Windows 98. While attempting to renew my Norton Antivirus subscription online, the following message appeared: "Your browser is not supported because it is not considered secure enough to conduct an online transaction. Please upgrade your browser and then begin your session again." I use IE. Can anyone tell me how to upgrade it? Is that even possible with my old Windows 98 platform? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

janda5 :rolleyes:

Or you could just use Firefox or Opera?

Fade to Grey - Visage

Grey Day - Madness

There is a 1-click-installer available at:

http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

It should get you started. There are lots of tutorials around too; google will provide lots.

I have realized that I should start learning some scripting language from now on. So where do I start? Perl, PHP, asp, javascript etc.
I mean which language would be better to start with?

I used perl and python at ruby but then discovered Ruby.

Try it in your browser. I bet you love it. Even the Kaiser Chiefs love it

http://tryruby.hobix.com/

Bad response pty. Stop playing the smart ass. This is a forum. People ask, answer... Sometimes the time is very short and you need a quick solution.

So, beihkya, please try the following tutorial:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/129/0.php

Good luck!

If people come and ask stupid questions I will give them stupid answers.

"hello..anyone help me to give an example code for search?"

What the hell is that? Search? Search what? And in what context?

This is a PHP forum. There are thousands of examples of search functionality a Google search away.

The original question came from someone too lazy to do anything for themselves - giving them help will encourage them to coast. If it was up to me I'd just delete the one-poster stupid question brigade full stop.

I use http://www.famfamfam.com

I like the cheesiness of the originals. And the miniskirts of course.

Picard was still better though, but it's close.

Hey,

My buddy has a problem, his parents put a password on his computer on startup so that he cannot go on his computer while they are not home. Would the best thing to do is to pound F8 until he gets the screen and just log in in safe mode??? Or would that just be for a Windows Password? He has tried looking for a back door password, but I guess he has found a LOT!!!!! Any suggestions??? He is a good guy and he doesn't know why his parents put a password on it, because he didn't get in trouble or anything with the computer.

Tell him to download knoppix

www.knoppix.net

hello..anyone help me to give an example code for search?

select name
from idiots
where cant_be_arsed_making_an_effort = true
and will_fail_college = true

name
-------
beihkya
    (1 row)

I wanted to know and learn more about Ethereal software. What else can it does other than analyzing the network? My lecturer said by using Ethereal we can crack passwords, is that true? If yes, i want to know how......

I wish people would make a SLIGHT effort. How hard is it to type ethereal/wireshark in google? or in Wikipedia? This isn't do my god damn homework club is it?

JFGI

/my new favourite acronym

hi guys !!!!
if any one can let me knw where i can find a unix downloadable file tat would be really helpful....
i dont mind the version , though would prefer the latest....
plz take immediate notice and help me!!!1
am in a bit of a hurry....
thank u in advance!

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/

A while ago I registered Betfred.se (.se = sweden) on my host. Betfred Ltd., a british bookmaker, is now claiming the right to the domain. As far as I new, the domain always belongs to the one who registered it, even if a company happens to have the same name in their trademark

I've googled it and it seems like I am the one who has the juridicial right to the domain.

"That’s really the key point, just as you have a trademark on something doesn’t mean that you have the right to the domain name." from Domain Masters Radio Show. (http://www.moniker.com/domain-masters/ep-2005-01-12/page-3.jsp)

I'd like to see what you think? Should I give up without a fight? Someone else that have been in the same situation..?

It depends. Are you called Fred? Do you gamble? Did you know about the company betfred before you registered the domain name?

I'd imagine you did, its a household name in Britain and has round since the 60s - they sponser Manchester United (if you watch a Man Utd home game the advertising boards say 'betfred says ... ' and give live odds for the game).

Anyway, its not just some name you'd make up. You can try to fight for the name like Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) but with a name like betfred, especially if you're name isn't Fred and you're not a turf accountant) will probably be pretty futile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

I Just Got An Error Saying That The Union Operator Cannot Be Used Inside A Subquery

Limitation of SQL server I presume (I use PostgreSQL).

Here is an ugly way to do it

select *
from t1
where task not in (select task1 from t2)
and task not in (select task2 from t2)

Ok,

For this I've called the tables t1 and t2.

select * 
from t1 
where task not in (
  select task1 
  from t2 
  union 
  select task2 
  from t2
);

Forgive my ignorance, I am new to RDMS and SQL both.
My question is this:
I have 2 tables, one a primary table and 1 a relational table
table 1 has ten rows valued 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
table 2 has 4 rows keying from table 1
row1 = 1 2
row2 = 3 4
row3 = 5 6
row4 = 9 10

row 7 and 8 do not show up in table 2
how would I write a query to tell me that only row 7 and row 8
are not a from/to row in table 2??
I should only get 2 rows back.

Thanks for your help

Hi,

Could you give us the names of the columns? I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're doing.

Hmm... I got both of them fixed, with a little work. I copied the whole directory for Ruby onto my flashdrive, and it works! And for the other, it was SciTE that was hanging it.

Afraid I never tried to run Scite from a flash drive. Have you tried Notepad++? When I was at uni I ran that from my flash cos the text editor installed on the Windows workstations was annoying (so bad that most people just used notepad).

A better question to ask is any programming language worth it? Google suggest gives us a clue. By going to Google suggest and typing in ruby on rails we get around 58,500,000 pages compare this to 21,700,000 pages for python and you can see that by a measure of 2 to 1 ruby is worth it.

Check it out for yourself http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

You cant just put ruby on rails in, it needs to be in quotes so you don't get gems and train related stuff back.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails%2C+python

Good example, look at the news stories assoicated with Python's peaks; all about Monty Python or snakes.

Hello my name is chris. I play Counter Strike and Americas Army ocasioanlly. So I have an Idea that would make playing alot easyer, if I could find or make a program that I could open to run, and use task manager to close. I need the program to run a aimer in the middle of my screen just a red dot this way when using rifles I dont have to zoom to aim, and when I run out of ammo I can keep aim and reload. I tried just making a dot on my screen with a marker but when you move the aimer goes off. So it would be greatly appriectated if someone could show me how to make something like that.

Its just a case of practice and using a low sensitivity (I use 1.25).

If you're sat directly in front of the screen you should have no problem lining the middle up with the enemy.

To be honest though, if you do spot one while reloading you're better getting your pistol out and retreating/hiding (while shooting at him of course)

can anybody tell me how to define multi demensional array in ruby on rails.

thanx buddies for previous replies and for this in advance.

I think narray will do what you need.

http://narray.rubyforge.org/index.html.en

i like the red mousey things on IBM thinkpads.

The technical term for them is 'nipples'.

^

got the wallpaper from http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/index.php?sort=date

BTW, It's not MY PC .. It is my sister's ..

My wallpaper is from IFL too - best site i've found and they have them in lots of different resolutions.

Just wondering (sorry I was being nosey and inspecting desktops) why you use both MSN Messenger and Yahoo! messenger at once when you can now message MSN users from Y! and vice versa?

I was curious so had a look on wikipedia.

Number sign is one name for the symbol #, and is the preferred Unicode name for the codepoint represented by that glyph. The symbol is similar to the musical symbol sharp (♯). Several names for this symbol are used in the United States and Canada. In most other English-speaking countries, it is called a hash.

how to send a mail using ruby..?plz help me

quick example using action_mailer.

If you don't have it already gem install 'action_mailer'

require 'action_mailer'

ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = {
  :address => "your.smtp.server",
  :port => 25, 
  :domain => 'yourdomain',
  :user_name => "your_user_name",
  :password => "shhhsecret",
  :authentication => :login
} 

class Emailer < ActionMailer::Base
  def test_email(user_email)
    subject    "Free C1Alis"
    from       "system@example.com"
    recipients user_email.address
    body	"Get large, #{user_email.name}!"
  end
end

@email_addresses = [ { :name => "Bobby Ewing", :address => "bobby@dallas.com" }, { :name => "Ewing, JR", :address => "jr@dallas.com" } ]

@email_addresses.each do |e|
	Emailer.deliver_test_email(e)
end

I have the same fascination. You can tell a lot about someone by their desktop and workspace.

Here is mine from a few months ago (but its still the same). I'm not a fan of having icons on the desktop - I just use the desktop as a 'to do' list because anything sat on there pisses me of so I do it and clean up.

My keyboard is a buckling spring keyboard: http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/pckeyboards_1922_6667
[/url].

I have one at work and one at home (both unicomp customisers).

Typing just feels so good. I don't think the other guys in the office totally approve but hey

I am looking for a good tutorial oriented towards someone who knows how to program, but is new to ruby. I'd like ruby on rails to be covered. Please let me know if you have any recommendations. Thanks!

If I were you I'd get to grips with ruby alone first, then apply what you know to rails

A really good in-browser introduction to ruby:
http://tryruby.hobix.com/

These are a little longer and have more depth:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
And of course Why's poignant guide : http://poignantguide.net/ruby/chapter-3.html

There are 5 or 6 rails tutorials plus some other info here:
http://rubyonrails.com/docs

I have a problem ; that i can't compile and Run my C files in Ubuntu , so how can i do this??

Do you have a c compiler installed?

if not do :

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Everybody says PHPMyAdmin is how a useful program. I installed it on my computer. And it gave an error like this :
I couldn't solve the problem, so I gave up on it.

Now I installed MySQL Administrator on my PC.
Opening screen asks for some date about the server.
Screenshot :
[IMG]http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/7362/fieldskx8.jpg[/IMG]
How should I fill in these fields?

PS : Database is not on my computer. It is on a real web server.

Is the MySQL server on your computer? If to leave host as 127.0.0.1

Then put your login name and password in. On windows it should have asked you for an admin password when installing; if so leave login as 'root' and put in that password

Click ok and it should connect. If not post the error back here

jbennet unfortunately I have to corect you.

For MySQL to create/delete tables and browse entries in database you are more likely looking for phpMyAdmin http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php. However because of this little tool you will need to install Apache server and PHP on your pc(if working at home/work with limited resources). Many hosting companies have included this tool in their basic package, or you may request from them to include it.
In case you are learning on your home/work computer you may do separate instalation with help of this tutorial http://apacheguide.org/prerequisites.php, which take you step-by-step trough whole process, or you can go for whole solution from XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html which will install everything for you in one go.
Separate instalation = you may learn something new :eek:
XAMPP solution = have everything setup in one go :twisted:

Yeah but MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser are better if have straight access to the database. PHPMyAdmin is ok for the odd job if you don't have access on 3306 or whatever.

but is Rugby wide-spread enough to warrent learning for any other reason than fun.

Its not that well spread yet; still most popular in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

heck. Most people probably never get to the point of wanting a battery replacement.
By the time the battery runs out they've long since replaced their iPod with the next model ('cause you can't be seen with last year's model...).

I'm waiting for mine to become retro!

I think you should use an 'status_id' column and have a table of statuses.

Also, I think you should have a subjects table and a benchmarks table (you have 1-10 but what if in 2 months they want 20?)

Apart from that it looks ok.

If you know your stuff nothing should phase you. If you don't know the answer to a question don't guess, just say you don't know. You'll look less of an idiot.

Questions that always get me are like "Why do you want to work for this company?"

"Erm.. money?"

Anyone here my age (17) and in the UK?

Whats your experience of finding a job been?

I got rejected by Mcdonalds and ASDA :(

Temping is the easiest way to make money during school/college holidays; just make sure you tell them you want office/clerical work. I found I could often do short stints (1-2 weeks) at places covering for people who were on holiday/ill.

If you are applying for joey retail jobs and you have no experience LIE (or at least exaggerate). They won't check. You aren't putting anyone at risk (its not exactly faking medical qualifications). You need to do it the first couple of times to get your foot in the door.

At the end of the day the most taxing thing you'll probably end up doing there is working a till or cleaning up vommit up in isle 4.