Date: 12/12/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: php, software

needed to know some opinions on free bulletin board software.

i know there is phpbb, and my host currently gives me yabb.

i know phpbb has a bunch of holes and stuff. so any recommendations out there? what do you use, links ?

some help, point me in the right direction :)

thanx.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1009266.html

Date: 12/13/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, linux

"As a development model the GPL and other licenses offer the possibility of more rapidly creating network effects around software. Linux has extraordinary network effects. Open source can create a community of developers and users who in turn create features that make software more sustainable.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/60820649/

Date: 12/13/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, security

Serious security vulnerabilities in Veritas NetBackup software could let cyberattackers get into corporate networks.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6143551.html

Date: 12/14/06 (Software)    Keywords: software, web, seo

Question: I visit several websites each day (SEO / Blogger) and all of them have a password. Most of them are saved.... but is there a tool /software /something that I can use so that when I want to change my password (it has to happen someday) that will enable me to put in the password once and it will change all of my passwords for me automatically?

using Foxfire

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/software/68210.html

Date: 12/15/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software, virus, web, spyware

Ok. In the bottom right corner of the screen there's a flashing icon next to the date that is either an exclamation mark in a yellow triangle or switches to a bomb(ball with spikes). I can't right click to try to bring up a roll window to click exit because like a left click it sends me to this friggin website virusbusters.com. I don't have their software, never downloaded it. I cleaned my internet history, cookies, saved text, etc etc. I've also run Mcafee virus scan, spy hunter spyware scanner, and spybot scanner. None of them can pick this up and I don't know where to look for whatever's causing it on my computer beyond add/remove programs and searching my hard drive with *virusbuster*.

Any suggestions? : /

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/724383.html

Date: 12/15/06 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: software

My lead and I've spent the last month bouncing idea's against each other on how to store the entire structure of the United States (states->counties->cities & zips) as well as Canada, Mexico, England, Germany, and Japan.

So far the idea is 2 tables: locations & location_rules.
the location tables would be like so
id, name, abbr, parent, rule_id

so for the USA, a quick example would be.
1, United States of America, U.S.A., 0, 1
2, Colorado, CO, 1, 2
3, Denver County, Denver, 2, 3
4, Denver, DEN, 3, 4


and location_rules is still up in the air, but something like this
id, head, type
1, 0, Country
2, 0, State
3, 0, County
4, 0, City

Right of the bat the problem is dealing with US ZIP codes which often are 1 to 1 with cities, but some cities have multiple ZIP codes and a few counties share zip codes.

The second problem is the current schema used for the USA sucks, but it's been an effective guide to figure out what were dealing with. USA alone has 3360~ counties, 76,000~ cities, and I don't want to think about ZIP codes but it's more or greater then cities in count. So that's a table with 140K~ entries. Doing dirty math, I figured Canada is about 2/3 the size of the USA for something like 238K records total. My experience so far is that life gets interesting when you get near the quarter of a million records edge and this is definately going to go well past that point.

So yeah, that's what I got... anyone know a better way besides making sets of tables for each country, thereby increasing the complexity of the software that uses it.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mysql/107817.html

Date: 12/15/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, security

Aimed at flaws in software that downloads with Messenger, update is called "highly critical" by one security company.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6144110.html

Date: 12/15/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software

Company stops prompting customers to update the software until it can ensure fix for bug works.
Video: Watch this before installing update

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6144286.html

Date: 12/16/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, software, database, web, apache

Was playing with the idea of regEx'ing out the domain of an email address and then doing a gethostbyname() to verify that the email address is valid. I know in some cases this won't work, but was curious if anyone has ever tried something similar. Just trying to come up with more validation measures to protect my employeer and their customers from malicious users.


As for Rails VS. PHP

Rail cons
I am on the final stage of deploying a website built in rails and it's been a fun/frustrating learning experience because I've had to build it with a legacy schema that was mangled along the same lines as scope creep (non-standard keys, non-uniform structure (integer keys here, varchar keys there, variables inside join tables, and a lot of orphaned tables forcing the client software to do what the database should be doing [out of query joins or excessive join tables]). For the most part there is a lot of good things about Rails but it's not an end all, be all tool like some people make it out to be. Multi-page/multi-object (ex. user data mixed w/ purchase data) forms are difficult, breaking the rails way of data validation. Debugging has some nice benefits, but is poorly documented and so far I have not found a Rails equivalent to DBG symbolic debugging.... the best appears to be a rails inline assert/breakpoint object that halts the entire system to allow you a glimpse of the system state at that moment but not the ability to step in/out/over.
Lastly there is no mod_perl or mod_php like Apache component so getting Rails on a current server implementation is somewhere between entertaining to unbelievably frustrating. Further more, though rails has a couple different natively supporting webservers (light, webbrick, mongrel) they aren't as well tested or as versatile as Apache. And lastly there is little to no documentation or guidelines, so if you got to do something out of the ordinary, life gets interesting.

Rails pro's
On the plus side, Rails is rich in features, its easier to write C binary packages then PHP, the ActiveRecord & ActiveMailer packages are extremely versatile and thanks to standard Obj. Oriented mantra's, base/parent methods can be supplemented or completely overridden. Otherwise it's a great rapid development platform and practically promotes itself to being used in series with another scripting language if Apache 2.0's mod_proxy or similar httpd proxy service is used. `httdoc/{rails sub-dir/ &| php sub-dir/ & /static content dir}` Prototype and Scriptalicious (spelling) being embedded and wrapped by Rails helpers make Ajax/Web 2.0 stuff a breeze as well. So if you got a simple project on queue and the time to burn stumbling through Rails, I'd recommended checking it out to see if it can compliment and augment your portfolio. Just be prepared to earn your paycheck for the first couple projects. So for speed and minor enhancements to static content, PHP dominates while for complicated, Ajax heavy applications, Rails feels like a good choice.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/522413.html

Date: 12/19/06 (Software)    Keywords: software

A week ago a friend deleted his Outlook emails. It appears to be a misunderstanding of what the repair tool or reinstaller was supposed to do. What fancy abilities exist these days to retrieve deleted information? So far I told him to stop using his computer and keep it turned off. Take it to a high end professional to get back his email worth a hundred dollars of information to him. The idea is to preserve the harddrive in it's current state. When it's off there's still a chance to retrieve old data. As I understand it, it's not really deleted, just marked for future harddrive use to write over those areas.

Really my ideal solution would be any software that simply browses this kind of data. But I'm trying to help him and know nothing in this field. Please advise.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/software/68787.html

Date: 12/19/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, software, html

My Dreamweaver just went kaput, and I cannot figure out how to fix it. OH WELL. It was a bloated piece of software anyway, and I oinly used the text editor.

What would be a good replacement text editor for using HTML and PHP? I just need something that does color encoding and numbers my lines of code for me. Oh, and I would love it to be free. Come on, I know there are some well respected text editors out there that I don't know about.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/377319.html

Date: 12/19/06 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: php, mysql, software, html, sql, java, spam, microsoft

Episode 3 is here!

If folks have ideas or suggestions for content, please let me know.



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News

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Wireless providers prefer MySQL over Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server over both:

http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=196700062


Learning Resource

Artful Software's list of common queries. They also have an interesting e-book available, called "Get it Done with MySQL 5.0".

http://www.artfulsoftware.com/queries.php


DATEDIFF(), DAYOFWEEK() functions

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html

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Feature

Concurrency and Isolation Levels
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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mysql/108124.html

Date: 12/19/06 (Security)    Keywords: software

In a deal valued at $20 million, Check Point Software Technologies gels a new growth strategy: buy others.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6144782.html

Date: 12/21/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, security

Interfaces are meant to help security software makers create products that work with kernel protection features in Windows Vista.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6145285.html

Date: 12/22/06 (Software)    Keywords: software

Are there any good softwares out here for making a 3d platform/rpg game?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/software/68920.html

Date: 12/28/06 (Code WTF)    Keywords: software, java

Путешествуя по просторам интернета в поисках инфомации по одной из программ, наткнулся на описания замечательного, чисто объектно-ориентированного языа Smallworld MAGIK. Приведу цитату, которая может порадовать знатоков ООП:

Java and C# are typed languages, Smallworld MAGIK is not (it is what is called polymorphic).

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/code_wtf/61228.html

Date: 12/29/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, web

If I'm on a networked mac---I live on the campus where I work and my computer is plugged into the school's network---can others see what I'm doing on my computer? I don't have to log in to my computer, but I do have to log into the web. Would spying on me require installing software on my computer? If so, is there any way of figuring out whether or not I have that software on my laptop?

Do you think certain websites would set off some sort of alarm with the IT office---or streaming videos or the like?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me with this!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1015857.html

Date: 12/31/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software

i am in need of some good video editing software. i am sick of having to use like 4 programs to do what i want! i have a digital camera that takes video in .mov format. i need to edit that down (cut off the ends) and maybe lighten the gamma a little sometimes, and convert that into a usable .flv file that's relatively small, like youtube does. i have found that if i uploaded the .mov file directly to youtube, the sound and picture are off so i don't want that.

i installed a flash movie player on my site and i downloaded all the stuff i had previously uploaded to youtube and each file (about 3 minutes) was less than 10mb. whenever i try to use a program to convert to .flv (i have tried a number: riva, winmpgconvert, supersomething) it either doesn't let me edit the file (ie cut off the beginning and end) or the output is huge (50mb or more) or both. sooooooooooooo i would like software that can do all this for me!

sorry if this is confusing! thanks for your help in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1017231.html

Date: 12/31/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software

i am in need of some good video editing software. i am sick of having to use like 4 programs to do what i want! i have a digital camera that takes video in .mov format. i need to edit that down (cut off the ends) and maybe lighten the gamma a little sometimes, and convert that into a usable .flv file that's relatively small, like youtube does. i have found that if i uploaded the .mov file directly to youtube, the sound and picture are off so i don't want that.

i installed a flash movie player on my site and i downloaded all the stuff i had previously uploaded to youtube and each file (about 3 minutes) was less than 10mb. whenever i try to use a program to convert to .flv (i have tried a number: riva, winmpgconvert, supersomething) it either doesn't let me edit the file (ie cut off the beginning and end) or the output is huge (50mb or more) or both. sooooooooooooo i would like software that can do all this for me!

sorry if this is confusing! thanks for your help in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/730433.html

Date: 01/01/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: software

Hi everyone!

Can any of you suggest free Windows FTP client software that, like Cyberduck for the Mac, will seamlessly integrate with external editors?

Actually, can anyone suggest free Windows external editors?

(I use a Mac but I need to help a Windows-user access and edit my site's files.)

Thanks very much. :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1198952.html