951 Reply by Frank H

(18 replies, posted in General discussion)

ameenullah wrote:

So happy to share somany things, we should be proud to say that we are programmers, not just "script kiddies". Its not that we should not copy or use someone's code. The smart way to do the work is copy paste. but it should be done in a proper way. We should not start inventing the wheel, rather we can give leverage to it.

Yep, and that requires one to fully understand what the stuff one copy and paste do, if not the person is in deep(troubled?) waters (i.e. a "script kiddie" smile)...

Actually, when one think of it ... most, if not almost everyone, has learned to code by other people, their code, and their mistakes ... no matter if you take courses, read a book or look into someones code, it's still learning from another person how that person have done stuff smile

(heh, I don't even use the popular(?) PEAR stuff ... just because I haven't looked into it what exactly it do with everything (and really don't have the patience to do so) ... therefore I'm not that eager to use it ... I rather make my own functions to handle databases wink)

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952 Reply by Frank H

(14 replies, posted in General discussion)

And if you dont want people to register at all, go into Admin-Options and uncheck "Allow registrations", and noone can register on the forum.

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953 Reply by Frank H

(42 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

Well, modify the attachment mod for that, I would say no, better integrate a gallery or something I would say. IIRC there was someone doing it.

(IIRC = If I Recall Correctly)

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954 Reply by Frank H

(18 replies, posted in General discussion)

Well my point was when you go beyond that, I'm not talking about cut and pasting(that's just script kiddies). Coding stuff from the ground up without using other peoples work require you to think.

And then you will start to see similarities, you know how to build up a program or script, when to use switches or for, when functions is useful, how to solve problems, how the program flow must be etc.

I wonder if whining about some 14yo 'stealing' clients isn't more dummifing for the industry. (if you truly do some advanced stuff, a 14yo scriptkiddie wouldn't be able to steal clients)

(and I must say, that I don't feel things like visual c# is so much more n00bie friendly than CPP that I started to program on, 8-9 years ago. Things have evolved, in a good way IMHO (Or, I actually started programming stuff in qbasic on an 8086...waay back))

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955 Reply by Frank H

(101 replies, posted in General discussion)

Well old netscapes also is on a corporate level.
Programs that doesn't mess with the system, will be kept until it really isn't supported any more. At my univ I think it's NS4 that still lies in the web folder in Solaris. Luckily they have installed a new mozilla, so that one can choose that instead, but still, that old NS4 lies in the menu and on the system, and a few still use it, against better knowing. I'm guessing that they still have it there just because it doesn't mess 'with the system'.
So, abit of "don't mess with something that works" wink

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956 Reply by Frank H

(18 replies, posted in General discussion)

Well PHP and C# atm (learning csharp, I'm doing a 3d format converter, that has both little and bigendian, and .NET framework only have one of them, lots of values to flip roll )
but have used C/C++, Java, Javascript, Basic, l-script and Assembler, and know them pretty well

I'm seeing a clear pattern in style, and most languages have things in common, so, IMHO with a 'dummie' book and a function reference one can do alot.

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957 Reply by Frank H

(14 replies, posted in General discussion)

in the Admin-Permissions, you can allow guests to do all the things.

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958 Reply by Frank H

(39 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

glenr wrote:

We are talking nanoseconds here - aren't we. I was referring (although I may not have been crystal clear) to significant delays i.e. whole seconds. If coded efficiently, like PunBB is, then extra features wouldn't delay the loading or processing time in whole seconds but nanoseconds.

No, we're not talking about nanoseconds here, I ran a loop on date("T") ... that command takes 22503 nanoseconds on my computer ... (tested over 100000 iterations)

I don't see the point in using automatic values. Or a bunch of features. If I would like those, I would use something other than PunBB(and I have)...PunBB is extremely lightweight, and that's something that appeals to me.

If you like to have those, then mod PunBB, it's very easy if you know some php to do modifications. People with slim to none experience with php has made mods... and if Rickard thinks the mods are useful or neccessary I'm sure they will arrive to the base PunBB...

Perhaps Janssons PunBB++ would appeal to you?

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959 Reply by Frank H

(39 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

glenr wrote:

With all respect to yourself but features don't slow down boards bad coding does.

Eh?
Every line of code takes time to interpret, and will slow down the final result. More fetures = more code = slower board.
The feature rich boards is slower, due to the number of commands they need to perform, not due to they're coded badly.

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960 Reply by Frank H

(39 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

I never think PunBB was meant to be feature rich ... it's meant to be small and fast, the more features that's added, the slower the forum will be...

Here's some reading smile

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961 Reply by Frank H

(101 replies, posted in General discussion)

eh, gizzmo ... mousegestures for FF exist ... cause I'm using them all the time big_smile

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962 Reply by Frank H

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

indeed ... I'll add this one to my board smile

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963 Reply by Frank H

(3 replies, posted in Feature requests)

I tested if an urlnick in a quote would produce a link, and it didn't. smile

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964 Reply by Frank H

(4 replies, posted in General discussion)

that requires php to have write privelegies in the forum basedir ... not everyone want that, or can control that ...

it's probably better to make a pseudo file save, so that you click on a button and php creates a file for you to save ... that you simply can upload to your host ...

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965 Reply by Frank H

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

looks nice smile

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966 Reply by Frank H

(300 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

I think it's good.

And most of all, it's very clean code, no mumbo jumbo found anywhere, and I have been in the majority of the files ... big_smile

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967 Reply by Frank H

(180 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

on the admin page, click the php info and see what it says on _SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]
(I think you still can see this, even if baseurl is wrong)

(it should be your baseurl + "/admin_index.php" )

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968 Reply by Frank H

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

FreeSQL does not host any databases for phpBB, phpNuke, YABB, vBulletin or any other database intended to drive a prepackaged web based BBS

From their "Usage Policies"

Perhaps you should try not to use persistent connections?
(set in config.php IIRC)

but at the look of it running a "prepackaged web based BBS" won't survive there anyhow ... even though PunBB is very small, it's still a BBS wink

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969 Reply by Frank H

(7 replies, posted in General discussion)

Well, different cryptos usually have a statistic 'age'... before one is advised to change key/value ...

Some might have a week of lifetime, other a month and so on ... and xor, well that's so insecure, that it's more like if you have a 5yo you dont' want to see some stuff on the computer wink

But, the age thing is based on statistics, how long one can estimate it will take for someone to have a chance to break it, and then add some safety. So it's still possible to be lucky and still fix the correct key on the first few tries. The chanses aren't that great, they're probably very small, but it's still there, so no cryptos can be considered as 100% secure.

The person that thinks cryptos is impossible to break, need to rethink, defenetly ... but IMHO I don't feel the 'crypto world' needs to change, those I have been in contact that actually have a clue about it, usually knows about the security issues ... it's more people that haven't a clue what crypto is that thinks it's impossible to break ...

Today there are alot of 'secure' cryptos, that people have improved and tried to 'break'... in the interest of security ... and ... as we all know, the US has a max bit allowed for cryptos... so with the computers NSA and similar possess cryptos can still be a bugger to break, the big bit cryptos isn't exactly adored overe there wink

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970 Reply by Frank H

(22 replies, posted in General discussion)

lhere are a few pages that doesn't work in firefox ... so one is still forced to use ie once in a while (at least earlier I tried booking tickets on SAS website ... but I couldn't alter the date ... probably some JAVA or ActiveX stuff that wouldn't work in firefox...)
but ... F6, ctrl+c,some folder, F6, ctrl+v, enter ... that really doesn't take that long when that stuff happens wink

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971 Reply by Frank H

(1,382 replies, posted in General discussion)

kinky big_smile

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972 Reply by Frank H

(7 replies, posted in General discussion)

Well ... considering they seem to have used 'brute force' ... sure, it's possible to find two alike ... but seriously ... 80000 hours is about 10 years ... so I'm not that scared (even if someone has a super duper computer it'll still take a while)... Switch password once a month and they need luck big_smile

I can write a short program that calculate a shitload of hashes, and then put them all into a database, and then compare them to each other ... sooner or later one will find two that has the same hash ... as there are only that many combinations possible in a fixed lenght hash (like MD5's 32 char)

Edit: and there's a reason why I haven't e in my password ... crap now I gave the bruteforcers a hint ...
but ... now I know they know that I know they know...and so on wink

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973 Reply by Frank H

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Chacmool wrote:

Maybe like this?

First impression ... what am I supposed to do? big_smile

but should work smile

I kind of like the readme, but indeed a tough thing to do ... but if you either had a hdiff or two versions (one clean, one with _only_ the mod), then it's not that hard to make manually, as lines will match as soon as you have something different ... (if you start from top of file) ...

The points needed in a mod format IMHO should include:
* Mod info, standard format, much similar to the header in the readme.txt format
* Important notes/Mod documentation, stuff like some directories need to have certain permissions etc. Or like in the attachment mod, that post size, packetsize defined in php.ini and my.ini will influence max uploads.
* What files to upload where, when (not time, but more depending on what kind of bb one have ... if there are many variations, in one pack, who knows that odd mods we will come up with... wink)
* hdiffs for the editing in the files works fine by me ...
* SQL info on changes, and why not a link to the uploaded install_mod.php (that really should do the changes)? wink

and ... why not make it look like the rest of PunBB does? smile

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974 Reply by Frank H

(9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

ericson wrote:

Maybe a small information on the progress could stop these stupid questions wink!

Look at this topic... and you can probably figure out that it will take a while longer ... wink

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975 Reply by Frank H

(1,382 replies, posted in General discussion)

expired

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