Date: 12/17/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: web

well, here's the thing.. i have been dealing with this issue for about a week now..
maybe someone here knows something of anything that can help...

the irrelevent part? my little brother was on the family's computer running photoshop and internet explorer at the same time, and the computer crashed.

the important part? when we restarted it, there was an error message:
a problem with explorer & something about KERNEL32.DLL
many searches later..
and many attempts later,
we still haven't fixed that computer.

we have tried EVERYTHING. and even tried messing with it in safe mode, as some tutorial website said to do so.

so now.. not only is the KERNEL error continually popping up...
but now the computer is stuck in safe mode.
and yes..i have tried everything there too.

so why not system restore? because my parents are artists, and photos of their stuff is on the hard drive, stupidy not backed up... and we are too afraid certain things would be lost.

when it comes to computers, i usually lick a problem super fast...
but this is kicking my butt...

any suggestions?
anything?
please...help!!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/54016.html

Date: 12/18/05 (HTML Help)    Keywords: html, web

I used to have a website bookmarked that helped me with HTML. Somehow I lost it. The only things I can remember about it are that it had an orange-ish background, and I believe the color of the print was blue. All of the different sections were in rectangular boxes on the top of the page.

If anyone nows the site I am thinking of, I would love you forever.

Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/htmlhelp/2221618.html

Date: 12/18/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, web

I have a website that I need to move. Where is a place that can host all of my pictures, plus the .html files that I have?

Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/836944.html

Date: 12/19/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

Del.icio.us website currently presents you with: Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. We've taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued patience. Updates will be posted on our blog [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/delicious-down-whiff-of-things-to-come/

Date: 12/19/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

New rules for tallying Web traffic could draw more ad money online--and cost some sites dearly.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6000365.html

Date: 12/20/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Blogs, news organizations to offer Reuters video feeds on Web sites under pilot program.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6001968.html

Date: 12/20/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

Lo there everone, I done a website.

http://www.superstringdesigns.co.uk

Only problem is that it looks perfect in Internet Explorer but just plain bad in Firefox. Does anyone with experience in these matters have any ideas why? I know it's my fault because IE is worse than Firefox in all respects so I've done something wrong somewhere, but I've fiddled and jiggled away and I still can't get the content div to cover all the... err... content in Firefox.

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!

.::Andy::.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/280075.html

Date: 12/21/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: web

I'm unable to use the Rich Text version of Journal Update on the LJ website.
I'm using Firefox v. 1.0.7, running Windows XP Pro v. 2002.

Any suggestions? (I have the Deepest Sender extension, but sometimes I want to post from the website. Just wondering why it doesn't work.)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/343524.html

Date: 12/21/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, web

Web site security flaws could have enabled phishing scams, accounts hijacks and other attacks.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6004471.html

Date: 12/22/05 (Algorithms)    Keywords: web

Hello,

I ran into a combinatorics problem in a website I'm developing. I can't for the life of me figure this one out... I'd be very grateful if anyone could help me with this.

You're given n lists of elements, where an element consists of a unique identifier and a number. These lists are of various lengths and are all sorted from low to high based on the element's number. You want to generate all sequences of elements, where each sequence contains exactly one element from every list. The catch is that you need to generate these sequences in sorted order. The sort value for a sequence is simply the sum of all numbers from the elements in that sequence.

For example if you had just two lists:

List 1: {A-10, B-20}
List 2: {D-1, E-2, F-100}

You would return the following order of sequences:
{A,D}, {A,E}, {B,D}, {B,E}, {A,F}, {B,F}
as that would give you the sort values:
11, 12, 21, 22, 110, 120

I can't just calculate all combinations and then sort them, as my application would typically have billions of combinations and I only need the top 100. I need to do this in sorted order.

Thanks for the help!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/algorithms/68721.html

Date: 12/22/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: web

Using WinXP SP2 on an Averatec 6220. I typically use AIM as my main instant messaging application. A couple of hours ago, I was talking to a friend and AIM lost its connection. I tried reconnecting, and it can't find a network to connect to -- hangs at step 1. I didn't make any changes to my settings. I didn't download or open any files. It just quit working. I rebooted, I turned my firewall off, I reset my connection manually. None of my instant messaging programs work -- AIM, YIM, and MSN messanger. mIRC will connect. I can obviously connect to the web. Suggestions? Thanks much.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/550744.html

Date: 12/22/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, html, sql, web

I am learning classes (trying to anyway).

I have class called photo. It contains two functions:

create_folder()
sterilize_text()

In the create_folder function I want to clean user uploaded data before creating a folder based on that data. I have a few special rules so I wanted to put this in a seperate function instead of regexing all over my pages.

I read that using functions within functions in classes is easy, but I don't know how and the tutorial I'm using doesn't touch on using nested functions.

So what happens is when I invoke the class and use create_function(), php exits with this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: sterilize_text() in /var/www/html/includes/classes.php on line 34
Line 34 is : $brand = sterilize_text($myrow[brand]);

Is there a way to code this so I can use functions within functions, inside of my class? I've included the relevant scripts below.

Thank you.

class photo
{

	var	$model;

	// mk the folder for an uploaded image.
	function create_folder($model)
	{

		global $dbx, $dbxold;
		if (!isnum($model)||strlen($model)>5) {return(false);}
		
		$q = "SELECT brand FROM spec WHERE model='$model'";
		$result = mysql_query($q,$dbxold);
		$myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result);

		$brand = sterilize_text($myrow[brand]); 

		if ($brand=="") {return(false);}
		$webpath = "/images/dirtbikes/$brand";
		$uploaddir = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . $webpath;
		if (!file_exists($uploaddir)) {
			mkdir ($uploaddir, 0777);
			chmod($uploaddir,0777);
			if (!file_exists($uploaddir)) {
				echo "
unable to create directory. :(
";
				return(false);
			}
		}

		$dir_array[] = $webpath;
		$dir_array[] = $uploaddir;
		return $dir_array;

	}

	function sterilize_text($text)
	{
		$hyphen = 	"_";
		$dash = 	"-";
		$text = strtolower($text);
		$text = ereg_replace('[^a-zA-Z0-9_\\,]', '', $text);
		$text = ereg_replace('[\\]', $dash, $text);
		$text = ereg_replace('[,]', $hyphen, $text);
		return $text;
	}

}

create_folder($model); 

	echo "
";
	print_r($dir_array);
	echo "
";

?>

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/382729.html

Date: 12/22/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, web

The web site of the werken company (creator of drools - business rule engine, werkflow - workflow management software etc.) has apparently decided to venture into "Dental implants and dental"; I am not kidding. Their site lists their products which they have released under open source license like drools etc. Along with that they have listed: beep4j: [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-werken-company-goes-dental/

Date: 12/23/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

On this website Internet Explorer users have snatched back their majority share. Internet Explorer users comprise 49.08 % of total users. Within Internet Explorer versions, IE 6 is most popular cornering 96 % of Internet Explorer market. Firefox is at 43%. Mozilla and Netscape comprise less than 2%. What a mighty fall for Netscape who is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/internet-explorer-gaining-over-firefox-in-my-microcosm/

Date: 12/27/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, css, web

Because work was a bit slow due to the holidays and all (just got out of college and working as an assistant art director in a startup magazine) I'm trying to convert the magazine's website to w3c standards (as of right now the page has quite a few frames and i know that's a near arrestable offense) as well as cutting back on all the tables and so on used. Since everyone here at work isn't overly net/code savvy (including myself, but i'm good at picking up on the stuff), I've been trying to figure out the best way to accomplish what I want*, and it seems that along with the CSS I've been teaching myself I need to get a fair enough understanding of PHP as well. Are there any sites available that give good tutorials on how to create a general template using PHP?

(*So what do I want to do? The website itself is pretty minimalist. The magazine title and a menubar are going to be at the top, the main content (an article, info about the magazine, contact information, whatever page they're currently on) will be under that, and to the right of the main content some banner adspace is going to be available. I pretty much want to make it so that if more menu items are added and if the banners change, I only have to tweak one file instead of going and changing each and every file. My original plan was to make one file with an iframe set up for the main content, but after some stern educating I learned that's just as troublesome as using frames as a whole.)

One of the php tutorials I read so far claimed that using include tags that contained things like the menu and banner ads was the best way to go (so each page just had includes tag that referenced a .inc file which could change whenever you wanted) (link), while another wrote about what i see on a good number of sites where your page is set up as "whatever.php?id=007", so the content is flowing onto the template (link). From what I'm understanding, it seems they're both wanting me to have the opposite stuff used as the content to flow in. The first wants me to flow in the stuff that generally stays constant (menu/adspace), while the second wants me to flow in the stuff that isn't constant (articles, contact information, and all the stuff that goes on seperate pages). Which is the best one possible? All that stuff is W3C safe too, right?

Thanks in advance!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1033749.html

Date: 12/27/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, web

Is it high "traffic" that is causing web pages to load very slowly on my laptop or something else? For the past month, I have had loads of trouble getting pages to load at the usual speed. Some do not load at all.Others load to about 45% and then stop. I have to refresh the page A LOT to get them to load but this does not always work and I just give up. This does not happen all the time, but the times when everything works properly are few and far between.

My provider is Wanadoo UK and I have a wireless broadband connection with them. I usually get a speed of about 30 to 56mbps although it should be 1mb. There are 2 other PCs in the house and they also have the same problem so I am thinking it is the provider?? Or the BT line?

Things I have tried:

Cleared the cache, cleared cookies, cleared unwanted "add-ons". Checked and rechecked connections. Done a virus check. Turned off my Anti-virus (Norton), turned off Windows Firewall. Restored to an earlier restore point. Rebooted the Livebox. Contacted Wanadoo support and done everything they suggest. Checked everything I have installed over the last 3 months. Contacted Windows support, Symantec support and now here!

I would really appreciate some advice as it is a problem that is really getting me to my wits end. I don't enjoy surfing at all right now!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/553256.html

Date: 12/28/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, web

I'm the webmaster for Devo bootleg archive Booji Boy's Basement, and I'm converting the whole thing to a PHP/MySQL based back end. However, I've run into a bit of a wall trying to figure out how to implement something.

The DVD pages contain thumbnail screenshot images which link to a full-size screenshot. Here's an example. (Thumbnails are at the bottom.) Some DVD have only 3 shots, some as many as 12. I'd like it to be any number (within reason). However, I've no bloody clue about what would be the best way to implement this in PHP and MySQL.

So, if anyone can give me suggestions and guidelines, I'd appreciate it. What I'm looking at is a second table just for the screenshots, each with an identifier linking it to an entry in the DVD table, but I hope there's a simpler way.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/383988.html

Date: 12/29/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, html, security, web, linux, apache

Greetings all, new reader on the community here.

I'm one of the co-administrators of a small private co-op site, and we recently had our webserver hacked. :( We're still trying to figure out why, but there is some suspicion that PHP vulnerabilities might have been the vector of attack. As a result I am planning to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of PHP, but before we go live again with that, I want to review the PHP that runs on a few sites we host and make sure that I've taken care of as many holes as reasonably possible.

We run Debian Linux, and I've just upgraded us to Apache 2.0 as well. (We plan to upgrade to 2.2 as soon as we have a Debian package for that.) And I plan to put PHP 5.0.5 up off of backports.org.

The questions I would like to pose to the community are:

1) Since PHP 5.1.1 is not available in package form yet, are there any known big problems with 5.0 that might make it necessary for me to build 5.1.1 by hand?

2) I've been reading up in the Security chapter of the docs on php.net, as well as the SecurePHP wiki, and have come up with a list of things I know I'd like to look at. Can anyone recommend things besides these items that I ought to look at?

- Use .htaccess to control who gets to look at source code
- Take sensitive data, e.g., passwords, out of public web space
- Verify that register_globals is OFF
- Validate all user data
- Initialize variables
- Turn off magic quotes
- Use addslashes and stripslashes as needed
- Set expose_php = off in php.ini
- Log errors out to files not in public space rather than displaying them on the page
- Use $_POST, $_GET, $_COOKIE, and $_SESSION for global variables
- Use htmlspecialchars() for hidden form values
- For URL stuff, use both htmlspecialchars() AND urlencode(); the latter should be for specific variables in the URL, and the former for the entire URL

Thank you very much in advance for any pointers!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/384514.html

Date: 12/28/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: web

*This is the first time I actually use Performancing, so apologies for any glitches. BTW: Pretty kewl how it manages to post to LJ, nae?!!*

Here's what I posted this morning. Point is that (ok, I could have dragged and dropped ... which, really, is aweful kewl, but still ...) I couldn't just click to have the item appear the way I can with my blogger bookmarklet. K, here's my post:

bentrem's blog | Performancing.com

bentrem's picture [NB: true drag/drop would have included the source for the img ... and it didn't ... meh]
Submitted by bentrem on Wed, 2005-12-28 12:17. :: Performancing Firefox Blog

Right off the bat I have to say I'm impressed with P/FF's design ... very elegant ... makes me want to get back into XUL.

But, also right off the bat I have to quibble with usability. F8 is handy, clicking the "pencil icon" is handy ... and neither blog the page title and URL. To do that I have to rightclick / select / click ... either on the page or on the icon.

1st, since F8 is there to call up the editor starkly, and since a rightclick menu item could be added to call it up in stark mode, I suggest that clicking the icon should blog the present page.

2nd, in the spirit of Web2.0, I think that sort of functionality should be configurable; since I care, I'm willing to go through to maybe a 3rd or even 4th level of menu ... once ... to have the default behaviour match (for example) the del.icio.us button and blogger.com bookmarklet I click to tag and blog.

[... salutation deleted]

What do y'all think?
[NB: this /should/ have gone here directly, ifmozilla had appeared on the blog list, which it didn't. *sigh*]

Haaaaaaaa ... the list of LJ communities I can post to is truncated [i.e. this one didn't appear] as well as being in very broken alpha-numeric order.

meh

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/344558.html

Date: 12/29/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, browser, web, google

I would like to automatically update my homepage with a list of bookmarks that I find while I surf the net. It should be as simple as clicking a button on my browser such as "Link This!" whenever I find a webpage I like. And a window like this appears for me to add information:



Categories can be added and customized.

The link that is added will be automatically reflected on a webpage.

Does anyone know how this is accomplished? Or what should I google for more information? Is this PHP?

Many thanx for any help! :)

Edit: Problem solved! Thank you!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/281819.html