276

(3 replies, posted in General discussion)

microsoft has several open source projects (and have for a while).  they're also in the business of making money and open source isnt a good model for "average" propritary software (which they have a lot of).

it really boils down to the point of what is open source used for?  is it used to run your website because you cant afford the time or cost of a purchased solution, or is it because you want to learn how to do this or that, or is it something else.  a lot of open source software is public because it is good and the author felt that it should be shared with the world so people dont go re-inventing the wheel.  IMO microsoft has never invented a wheel to begin with, so whats the point of publishing or being involved with that movement?  actually I cant say that they havent invented a wheel, because they have, just not in the way most would expect it.  their wheel is people buying their software.  they'll do whatever it takes to pimp their goods.  open source (on their technologies) is a good means of promoting their products. 

If you were to take the volume of open source projects built with C, C++, PHP or perl, and suddenly move them to C#, you would need windows to run them (or mono / portable .net... but lets face it, microsoft's implementation of .net is far better in most aspects).  That is serious revenue for them, and thats the motivation behind the current movement.  It is not the genuine feeling that the world can benefit from what they're offering, its that they have a lot to gain by driving developers to their brand of wonderful.  They're building a community of skilled developers who develop on their technology, and they're making their development technology easy and powerful to use.  it would be like apache costing money, PHP being free and all the projects that run on apache/php being open source and free.  that would make the apache foundation quite a bit of money.

in the end, with microsoft, it will always be about the money.  look at how badly they hate google.

277

(16 replies, posted in General discussion)

the best thing about forums is that you get to read posts one at a time without seeing replies (if you do it right wink).  I had to LOL because I saw the "how can I download it" and though exactly what you posted.

spot on.

278

(16 replies, posted in General discussion)

@$x = mt_rand(0, $xsize);
    @$y = mt_rand(0, $xsize); <--

279

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

most apps hash passwords.  they usually use something like md5 but some actually encrypt the password.  you'll have to check out whoever put the passwords in the database to see how they do it.

280

(16 replies, posted in General discussion)

so where is the star drawn when y's random value is 1201?

281

(16 replies, posted in General discussion)

elbekko wrote:

What? A nice random starfield tongue

except you're using the width for x and y.

282

(16 replies, posted in General discussion)

    @$x = mt_rand(0, $xsize);
    @$y = mt_rand(0, $ysize);

yikes

my blog uses smarty, which I find to be a pain in the butt (but works good). 

I dont know what they're talking about degrading performance, because it compiles your templates to php files, and should run just like standard php scripts.

284

(99 replies, posted in Programming)

hrm... its always ran fine for me.  having numerous large files open it does tend to get weighed down (as does dreamweaver), but I really like its debugger functionality.

I did recently see a demo of phped (which looked promising), and would love to own it, but its not in my budget at the moment.  I love zs's code insight, and phped looked even better, but I wonder if you can debug w/ phped as good as you can w/ zend.

285

(99 replies, posted in Programming)

I like eclipse for java, zend studio for php, dreamweaver for pure html, and visual studio for windows development.

286

(16 replies, posted in General discussion)

if you're wanting to use a microsoft product (which why you'd want to do that is beyond me), dont use frontpage (which is not free) try visual studio (which is) http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expre … fault.aspx

287

(4 replies, posted in General discussion)

vmware started giving away their virtual (something) and microsoft followed suit.  they also released linux extensions so that you can run linux on it as well (as it didnt used to do that).

I've havent figured out how to enable hardware excelleration for my video cards in vmware either (vista looks like crap with the default vmware setup).

288

(4 replies, posted in General discussion)

its been free for a while now.

I'll still use vmware.  I've had to use it before for my job and vmware runs circles around it.

289

(24 replies, posted in General discussion)

my main dev box did the same thing about 7 months ago (lost every piece of code I'd ever written and all the pics of my son since he was born).  I ended up getting the top of the line computer (mmm battlefield2 in hi-def).  my system cranks out heat like the sun (and its even liquid cooled).

290

(4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

http://www.czinetworks.com/

291

(19 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

md5 is not considered secure to most security firms.  I used to work at a company that stored credit card info, and to pass the security audit data had to be hashed in something stronger than md5.  we ended up using sha 512.

md5 is md4 (which has been broken) with an extra round.  it is def. crackable but I wouldnt worry about someone taking the time so they can get into your forum.

if you're very concerned about it, write a script that iterates through your user table, generates a new sha hash, stores it in the database for their passwords and emails the new password to each user in your user base.  then modify the punbb code to use sha instead of md5.

also you can call eval on the output to execute the php inlined in your templates.

I've seen that mod out there for snitz.  I'm sure you could download the mods for the other bb's and add it into punbb's image bb code parser.

294

(12 replies, posted in Feature requests)

lol

if you limit it to that ip nobody will be able to admin your site (unless you're sitting on the machine that hosts your website).

thats the loopback address of your local machine.

http://bindmaker.org/_ipaddress.php  <- thats your ip address

I just exported a 125 meg database using mysql's mysqladmin.  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html  but if your host is anything like normal hosts they're not going to restrict connections to their servers only.  if 2 meg is a php setting than nobody is going to be able to export / import your database regardless of who they are or if they normally would be able to do that.

export the database in smaller segments.

296

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

in the css file of the style you're using find body & change its background color to black (#000000)

body {
    background-color:#000000;
}

297

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

well, for starters, you have multiple head / body nodes in your html.  maybe thats throwing it off.  try putting your <pun_head> in the actual head of the template instead of in the body.

298

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

place the files in a folder and add a deny all rule to its .htaccess file.  from your website, the user selects the file they want to download.  you store the path to that file.  add the content type to the header: header("Content-type: ..."); and then readfile("path_to_file");  that will send it to the user.

yall seem to get quite a few of these types of posts.

i'm always surprised what people expect.  folks find a free, open source--developed at someone elses expense--software distribution, and complain when it doesnt function like other products people pay for.

maybe it's because I have several foss projects myself that I say this, but if it were me, and I wanted someone else to take time out of their limited schedules to code up some solution for me, you better believe I'm dropping $50-100 bucks to their paypal for their troubles (or for motivation), depending on the depth & breadth of the request.

300

(16 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

I finally got it "really" integrated w/ bblog... until now I had just copied the generated layout and copied that into the main.tpl and went with that.  now I'm acutally generating the template from bblog (the left hand navigation is generated in bblog) to punbb.

only thing left is to do the url rewrite, and possibly move the navigation to the left hand side (we'll see).