Posts by pty

whoever hates rpms have u tried debian

go to console
apt-get update
apt-get install xxxxxxxxxxxxx

its installled and so is evrything it requires, all from the net!

rpm is more the equivilent of debian's dpkg

redhat (and fedora) both use a apt-get like system called yum; so in the same way on debian you use

sudo apt-get install abiword

on redhat you can use

su 
yum install abiword

I dunno why I'm posting in this thread cos MS would never buy RH.

Hi
In my company networking department has block msn messenger. no one can logged in on msn messenger. Neighter msn for web work nor msn messenger. They have block all the site of msn messenger. But some people use Trillian to logged in to msn messenger and they got succeed. They may be by pass the server IP but I dont know how they do this. when i try to logged using Trillian. I couldn't . anyone can tell me how can logged in.

Regards
Shahzeb

meebo

no, too much compiling - it needs gui admin tools too

thaugt opensuse but i hear that its broken

and it comes on 5 disks. And the gnome on SuSE distros is kind of bastardised.

I know you said no Debian derivatives but have you tried Ubuntu? I find it to be the best all round distro for desktop use (in terms of hardware detection, organisation and just general goodness).

i find ie7 so much easier to use than ie6, especially the tabbed browsing, by using ctrl + the number of the tab, you can easily flick to the one you want.

darren :cool:

Doesn't it annoy you that the file menu isn't where all file menus should be?

I need a distro for an x86. It must come on 1cd or have a netinstall and it must have a decent package manager and gnome

Any reccomendations?

P.S My machine hates debian and redhat derivitives

Gentoo?

To be honest, I don't know how the webspace thing works on Freeserve; they may limit ftp (the thing dreamweaver uses to upload your pages) to people who actually dial up.

Do you still have your easily.co.uk account details?

I strongly suggest uploading your web pages to your current ISP's webspace and changing where easily redirects to, so it will point to your site on telewest instead.

This way, your old site would stay there but could only be accessed by typing http://plasticus.freeserve.co.uk and typing http://www.plasticus.co.uk would direct people to the new (telewest) version of your site.

I had a quick look

It appears that your site is still hosted by freeserve however I'd assume that your freeserve(/wanadoo/orange) account is now closed; that is probably why you can't log in via FTP and therefore cannot update the pages.

A quick whois showed that you registered the domain with easily.co.uk. They will forward visits to your site to freeserve. My suggestion would be to try to log into easily (if you still have the details) or give their customer services a call. Change the forwarding settings to point to your blueyonder webspace and host the site there.

Hope this is some help.

may be typos here but you should try not to use square brackets in your sql; makes it much harder to read

also it is easier to join tables in the from clause rather than where, it makes more sense. I'd look in the documentation for more values but something like this may be easier :

SELECT top 5
uf.user_friendID as friendID,
i.name as friendImage,
ub.id as bulletin_id,
ub.title as bulletin_title
FROM
user_bulletins ub, 
join user_friend uf on ub.user_id = ub.user_id, 
join images i on ub.user_id = i.user_id
AND
(uf.user_id = 64 or uf.user_friendID = 64)
AND
i.display_photo = 1

An female team won yahoo's hack day recently

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/01/all-women-team-takes-yahoo-hack-day-top-prize/

What distro/version of Gaim are you using?

Does anyone know a console program runnable from DOS that prompts user to input length/width of rectangle then prints rectangles area/perimeter ?

That was the original question, which I answered.

I have no clue why he is posting under web development.

Sorry but I only know C language..THx a lot for trying

"i only know" basically means "my tutor will only accept projects coded in.." ?

try koders.com.

Ok, sorry for that, I will try to be more specific. I have installed it, but I cant find how to start it, i searched for it in the directorys you said but I still cant find it.

if you can't find it try

whereis irssi

or

locate irssi

I've not used Delphi for a while but is it something like

Length(anArray)

I actually solved this the day after I posted but forgot to update it,

just needed to change

server.error-handler-404 = "/var/www/bc/public/dispatch.fcgi"

to

server.error-handler-404 = "dispatch.fcgi"

console program written in 20 seconds. obviously you need to install ruby (unless you using linux or mac on which its already installed)

#!/usr/bin/ruby

puts "Width :"
w = gets.chomp.to_i

puts "Length : "
l = gets.chomp.to_i

p = (w*2)+(l*2)
a = w*l

puts "Perimeter = #{p.to_s}"
puts "Area = #{a.to_s}"

What db are you using?

You should be doing that stuff in the database using a stored procedure or whatever. To count things in a database use something like :

select count(*)
from items

or to add up quantities

select sum(qty)
from stock

Hello,
I'm getting an occasional pop up when I'm on the internet. I have AVG Professional, and have also run a scan with Ewido more than once, as well as Search and Destroy, and ADaWare. I also have XoftSpySE, and I'm running Zone Labs as well. I got rid of some spyware through this process, but I'm still getting an occasional pop up that I'd like to eliminate. Any ideas?

Regards,
Tseygai

Firefox.

I use epiphany primarily. It is gecko based so acts a lot like firefox from that point of view, but has a smaller memory footprint and is better integrated with the Gnome desktop.

Does anyone know how to change the ownership of a view in a postgres database? I have no clue how to do so, and all of the solutions I've seen so far online don't want to work for me.

Thanks in advance,
-EnderX

ALTER TABLE vw_my_view OWNER TO pty;

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/print.php?form=2&forum=27&topic_id=5210&post_id=15555
So no, not really. It would probably be possible, but it will run really slow, and you might get frustrated. Choose something with lighter system requirements, such as Debian.

Joe is right, for a easy to install and light debian-like distro I think xubuntu is a good option; it runs XFCE rather than Gnome or KDE so should run faster on your machine.

sorry about that, I have never really tried editing source code in it so my mistake.

The only gui OSX text editor you need.

Not free, I know, but at €40 not bank breaking

is there a way to install this YUM in redhat9????

No, afaik.

Redhat 9 came out about 3 years ago - a lot has happened since then.

Your best bet is to go with either:
Fedora Core
or
CentOS

If you don't have broadband there are companies who will send you CD images for a couple of pounds/dollars, a quick google search will point you in the right direction.

Upgrading may seem like a pain in the arse but it will make installing modern software easy(/ier).

or

sudo /etc/init.d/servicename restart

or

su
[password]
/etc/init.d/servicename restart

do I need any flags when installing the dependancies? (-Uvh?)

no. you can install them all in one go:

rpm -Uvh package1.rpm package2.rpm package3.rpm

this helps if you have circular dependencies as they should be taken care of without any --force ugliness.

I have a feeling though that the other packages may also have dependencies; and their dependencies may have other dependencies.

Yum(or aptitude for debian users) is the way forward; it takes care of all of this with a simple command

I bought my iPod for about £260 from Apple about 4 1/2 years ago and still use it daily. The battery only lasts about 4 hours now but apart from that everything is fine.

Expensive, yes. Well built, yes.

I'm not a windows expert or anythin but I know that this is bad:

R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - {00A6FAF6-072E-44cf-8957-5838F569A31D} - C:\Program Files\MyWebSearch\SrchAstt\1.bin\MWSSRCAS.DLL
O2 - BHO: MyWebSearch Search Assistant BHO - {00A6FAF1-072E-44cf-8957-5838F569A31D} - C:\Program Files\MyWebSearch\SrchAstt\1.bin\MWSSRCAS.DLL

I suggest you run spybot and/or adaware as it looks like you have spyware on your computer.

maybe blueflops ?

The crapy and good thing about mac is that the processors are alot slower than the ones designed for pcs, BUT the great thing is that mac runs differently than windows and slower processors than pc bult processors dont really matter because mac runs faster with them.

I don't know if you've been living under a rock or something for the past 2 years but Macs now use Intel chips, they are as fast as any other machine and can run Windows just as well.

I've been requested to update a segment of a database, and given that it's kind of longish, I was looking for some way to directly write the data I've got from a file into the DB. I know it can be done via a third party; I have used Delphi for similar stuff before, and will probably fall back on it again, since this is time-critical, but I was wondering: Is there anything in PostgreSQL itself that allows the database to read statements from a file and act on them without the need of a third-party product or program?

Mostly Curious,
-EnderX

what format is the file in? csv?

They have bootcamp. They can load Windows and Mac. It's old news boot look it sucks. Why can they run Windows, and my Intel board cant run Mac? When will Mac stop being such proprietary stiffs and let other people who dont want to buy a Mac use OSX?

Apple is primarily a hardware company. If they 'open' OSX and allow it to run on other computers then other companies would produce cheaper machines and eat into Apples profits.

Also, because Apple have control of the hardware, OS and drivers they help ensure OSX is extremely stable and works with other Apple branded hardware.

I suggest you look into FreeBSD (where apple based OSX) and other projects such as Darwin.

Hi Everyone,

I'm stuck in a bit of a problem. I've got a table called sales with a date field in it, but the date is not in the date format, its in the number format and it's too late to change it as the table's got over 70,000 records in it and I also don't have administrative right to change the date. So the date comes up as 20000025. I've got records from 1999 to present date 2006. The problem I'm having is that I need to group the data according to year corresponding to Japanese calendar (example 1/04/05 to 31/0306).
I've already spent a lot of time but can't find any solution. I'm using access 2000 file format. Please help.

I don't know much about access (except to avoid it).

It was SQL I'd suggest you look at the convert() function in tsql.

I don't really get what you mean with your data conversion either but you can use cast() to change the format to Japanese.

By not changing the bad column you are making more work for yourself in the long run.

you really think more people use MySQL than Access?

In terms of web design, then yeah - you're probably right but Access is definately more commonly used in general terms.

Obviously, popularity has nothing to do with quality

FOREWARD: moderators, please read what i am saying before you yell "piracy is bad" at me.........

My windows 98 media was destroyed but i still have all the COA and keys etc.....

Would it be legal for me to procure a pirated version of 98 and use my (legally acquired) licence key with it?

After reading the EULA it kinda implies it should be ok as the media doesnt matter, its all about the licence but its real confusing

Help!

If you own the licence for it you won't be breaking copyright law by acquiring the media again. However, if you do so by methods that upload as well as download (p2p) you would be breaking the law in theory.

You could always look on ebay and probably pick up a copy of the media for peanuts.

So what is the american tech program that I should be looking out for on sky/bittorrent?

I think the reason there are less women in the IT field is that when it comes to higher education they don't want to be the only girl on a course. Same with engineering courses.

My group at uni had 3 girls and 25 guys. Well, 2 girls and one I think was a girl.

Well today my brother and I were able to talk "to each other" - he had sound but now he keeps getting disconnected. Finally he just couldn't reconnect at all. Is it possible it is a problem with MSN. Does anyone who uses a webcam regularly use another service that does not have these problems. What makes Skype different?

Skype is very good at NAT (and other LAN configurations) traversal. I used to have problems with other voice/video programs (my sip client, ichat) and skype worked with no extra configuration/setup.

Its free and will take less than 5 mins to get up and going so I suggest you try it.

I actually remember the net and quite enjoyed it. I also remember .tv (the doomed sky channel with Richard Topping and a few other nerdy presenters).

I just think that the BBC have got it spot on with Working Lunch and Daily Politics and wish they'd do something similar with IT.

Anything more mentally challenging than Eastenders is way above the intellect of not just the TV audience but the producers and hosts employed by European TV stations.

I agree with you 95% of the time however there are some decent programs with intellectual/stimulating content.. generally the ones that aren't on ITV and Sky (well, the non-documentary channesl anyway)

I must admit to my daily Street Crime UK dosage though.

I've been between contracts for the last 3 months or so, doing bits and pieces of work here and there but mainly enjoying my time off (snoozing, watching tv and t'internet).

Considering the amount of people working in the IT industry, the popularity of IT/computing in general, the number of kids learning IT at school and university; why do we not have a single serious IT program?

Its not like there is a shortage of news stories, scandal, events and general 'stuff' going on.

I'd just want something in the vain of Working Lunch but aimed at the IT industry.

I do realise the BBC already have a show called 'click' but its utter tripe. It is too consumer-orientated and doesn't report on any serious actual IT/computing topics.

The official GUI tools

you probably have a better chance writing to the crew/cast who may wish to give their only fan a copy.

tgreer is right. I recommend the book "PHP and MySQL Web Development", although I have an older copy. I'm sure there will be something at PC World, or definitely on amazon similar. There is a PHP tutorial at W3Schools.com.

If you get stuck ask in the PHP forum or in the daniweb irc channel.

My brother who lives in France and I are trying to communicate by webcam. We both have MSN messenger. We both use the built in mikes on our cameras. The problem is that I can always hear him but he can't always hear me. We started doing this about a month and half ago. The first time was great. The 2nd and 3rd times there was a lot of echo and droning noises. So I decided to return my camera (Logique) and step up to the Logique Cam Fusion, thinking the sound would be better ( I later learned , I believe, that my better camera improves the sound for the recipient not me.) When I installed the new camera my brother could not hear me - he had no audio. Yesterday we talked and it was fine then he lost audio. It seems to be hit and miss. We are very frustrated. I've looked on the internet for this problem and there seems to be many theories but none match all my criteria. P.S. my camera is fine - have done all the tests - everything OK)

Hi, although not really a 'solution' to your problem I'd suggest trying skype.

xampp is what you're after. It is a one click installer for mysql, php, apache and some other bits and pieces.

Once you've got that up and running it should be a little clearer.

There is documentation and FAQs and stuff on the site, if you get stuck best asking back on here or in daniweb's IRC channel

hi, if I were you I'd do a little research into PHP/MySQL; hosting is cheap and there are lots of companies to choose from. It is definately a better idea to back your website onto a database; it will save masses of time and effort in the long run.

Basically you'd have a review table (for arguements sake we'll call it reviews).

This table may include fields such as:
id (the unique review number),
film_title,
age_rating,
genre,
review_text (the actual body of the review),
review_summary (may use a couple of lines to summarise it for a list/menu etc),
reviewer

Then you'd simply have 1 review page and insert the data from the above fields as and when you need it.

The fields above would have to be normalised. This page is a good source of examples of data models.

Thanks A lot.
That worked really nice.
I never really understood JOIN commands, even if i read the books for SQL they only comfused me more LOL.

A join basically combines records from more than one table. This article may help but the best way to understand is to make some test tables and actually have a go at constructing queries that utilise different types of joins.

glad to see a postgresql user

i think what you're after is:

bc_dev=# select current_date;
    date    
------------
 2006-09-10
(1 row)

Problem:
I have two tables and those two table have one field in common which is "S_ID"

first table have 2 fields:
"S_ID", "T_ID"
second table have these fields:
"S_ID", "First", "Last"
----------------------------------

What i want to do is that i need to extract the the field "S_ID" from the first table and order them by the field "Last" which is in the other table.

any one know how i can do that in one or 2 query.
Also I am using php.

select ft.s_id
from first_table ft
join second_table st on ft.s_id = st.s_id
order by st.s_id

if you were to use a recent fedora (from the screenshot it looks like you're on redhat 9 or fc1?) you could use yum and just type (as su)

yum install gambas

and it would go and find all the prerequisite software, install that then install gambas.

as for phoenix object basic i have no idea how it comes. if they supply an RPM then type (again as su)

rpm -Uvh phoneix-object-basic-xyz.rpm

or if as code do as joe said

yum (or apt-get for debian users) is definately the way forward - makes this sort of stuff take minutes rather than hours/days/weeks

edit :

another package you may want to try out is monodevelop with the vb.net stuff. md is a really nice ide

if you install the gDesklets package there is a desklet that copies the OSX dock

here is a screengrab :
http://openarch.net/blog/file/gdesklets.png

there is a similar one for KDE called karamba (or superkaramba) that you'l find on kde-look