Date: 02/23/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

After 12 months of trying to survive on reader contributions, Weblog Award winner ends micropayment experiment.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6042536.html

Date: 02/23/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Does anyone know of/have any good scripts for password protecting a section of a webpage? Or even know where I can find a good tutorial on how to do it? I've been looking around the net and have yet to find one that I really like. My client wants to have a member's section that will have bonus features to the site, and it needs to be password protected. All I want is for them to be able to login and then be re-directed to the member's section. There will be one username and password that all members will use. Any help and points in the right direction is appreciated. Thanks guys!

P.S. I just wanted to say that this community is awesome. I have learned so much from all of you over the past few months, and I just want to say a big thank you to everyone.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1069465.html

Date: 02/24/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, microsoft

ZDNet has compiled a list of best of breed Web 2.0 applications which includes two from my compilation. In other words Microsoft Office alternatives for Web 2.0. Here is the list in brief along with some comments and suggestions. Email - GMail (invitation) WordProcessor - Writely. Spreadsheet - NumSum, iRows (new) Calendar - 30 Boxes, CalendarHub Project management - Basecamp They [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/best-of-breed-web-20-products/

Date: 02/24/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: java, web

Gautam Shah has written an interesting article in Javaworld where he discusses ways to use SOAP over MOM (message oriented middleware) implementations, instead of default HTTP, to build reliable web services. The premise is simple. HTTP is not reliable. Message bus is. SOAP over MOM offers the application integration capability of SOAP with the reliability [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/reliable-web-services-with-soap-over-mom/

Date: 02/24/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web, google

This is not really PHP related but I know you're all smart and someone will be able to help. :) It's to do with .htaccess and rewrite rules and stuff..

I've got a website with a page structure like this:
/page.php?p=page_name_here

I want the urls to be this:
/page/page_name_here

It has a category structure like this:
/cat.php?c=1

I want the urls to be this:
/category/1

A friend suggested:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page/([A-z0-9-_]*)/$ page.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/([0-9]*)/?$ cat.php?c=$1 [QSA,L]
..but it's just giving me Internal Server Errors. Any suggestions? I've googled like mad but can't see what's wrong.

Resolved. Used this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page/(.*)$ page.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)$ cat.php?c=$1 [QSA,L]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/418277.html

Date: 02/24/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, google

Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern. So it is with (now withdrawn) Google Pages. Google Pages allows you to create Geocities style static home [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-pages-introduced-and-withdrawn/

Date: 02/24/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Hey guys. Wondering if you all would mind taking a look at a couple of layouts I've made. My company is re-doing their website once again and I have a couple of ideas in mind. Wanted to get your opinions on what you think is best as far as design and layout structrue. I'd really appreciate it.

Test 1

Test 2

No links are working except for Members. If you want to access that please use username: aacamember and password: aacaparts to login. ( Thanks to malantha and kaydee_c for helping me figure that out. :) )

Any and all criticism is welcome. What do you like? hate? etc.. Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1070539.html

Date: 02/25/06 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: web

I recently posted a how-to on my webpage, detailing five easy steps to crack windows passwords. This isn't news - it's a widely known procedure.

However, one thing that bugged me was how quickly one can brute-force relatively secure passwords. Using the meathod described on that page, I was able to break the passwords “pr1ntm3!” and “c1g@r3tt3s@reb@d” in under 5 hours. I don’t even want to think about how fast one can crack passwords that don’t use symbols or numerals.

Does anyone have any thoughts about this? I’ve always accepted that physical access to a machine is the equivilant to compromising that machine; one can always boot into safe mode, or run a liveCD. However, actually figuring out passwords is a whole nother story: many people use similar, or identical passwords, for many different logins.

I’m just curious to hear what other people thing about this sort of thing.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/ms_windows/60302.html

Date: 02/25/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web

I'm trying to install Zen Cart on my site, which is hosted by Go Daddy. Everything was going fine until I got to the installer, but then came the problem. It says "PHP Session Support is required. You need to enable PHP Session support on your webserver. You might try installing this module: php4-session"

I know nothing about PHP and have tried to find info about this for over an hour, but nothing makes sense to me. You will be a life saver if you can help me. Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/418502.html

Date: 02/25/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: css, java, web

I was just wondering, what ways are there to include JavaScript inside
CSS files?

For example, if I wanted an "onhover" rule any time you hover over a DIV area, is that possible?

I noticed on one website (lost the URL, damn!) that whenever you hovered over text, it suddenly got "bigger". I was trying to understand how it worked but couldn't quite figure it out. It seemed like some of the javascript was missing from the "view source".

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/94059.html

Date: 02/26/06 (HTML Help)    Keywords: html, web

Hey everyone, I'm new to the whole HTML coding thing. I'm taking a class right now and we are to make a simple webpage with html tags. I pretty much finished but I have one problem. On one of my pages I am having trouble with the text fading into the background image. So I was wondering if there is a code or something to put a background on the text so it stops doing that, or somehow highlight the text. Thanks in advance for any help.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/htmlhelp/2264355.html

Date: 02/27/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: web

I'm looking for a way to track websites for changes. I know when AOL was king back in the 56k days there was a website that woud e-mail you when changes were done. Then when I got my iBook I remember IE for Classic had a feature where you could 'subscribe' to bookmarks and be notified when there were changes from your last visit. I never had much use for itthen however now I find it would be /extremely/ useful. However I don't see this feature anywhere in Mozilla (WinXP) is it there and I don't see it? Is there an extension which would give this ability?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/352702.html

Date: 02/27/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, spam, google

Google has newly introduced Google Pages which allows you to create your webpages with AJAX interface (Web 2.0?) . It is quite a slick product, provides 100MB of space, file uploading etc. However it also exposes your GMail email address (which it requires for signup) to be harvested by spammers. Google Pages creates your home page [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-pages-allows-gmail-email-harvesting/

Date: 02/28/06 (Security)    Keywords: web

New Internet Threat Meter provides information on problems related to Web surfing, e-mail, IM and peer-to-peer file sharing.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6043873.html

Date: 02/28/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Many see price hike for dial-up services as part of its metamorphosis into a broadband Web portal.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6043910.html

Date: 03/01/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: database, asp, web

Newbie...

Hi guys, I am new to asp, and frankly, it scares the hell out of me. I manage to muddle through for the most part, but I admit, I am floored by the following.

I need a form.

Requirements of said form, are as follows:
- Capture information (name, address, phone, email - the usual) where I can access it (database, email, whatever)
- Redirect once information has been provided to a download link where they can access a paper

That's it. That's all. And being a bit clueless, I cannot figure this out.

ANY advice, directions to help/how-to, advice et al would be receieved with outrageous gratitude. Hearty scorning will also be weathered gracefully since I thoroughly deserve it.

The website in question is Galkal.com.au

Thanks in desperate anticipation!
Dominique

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/302045.html

Date: 03/01/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus, web, spyware, microsoft

Putting this out to a number of folks, in the hopes that someone can provide some insight:



Getting the following message, inconsistently:

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*** STOP: 0x000000A5 (0x00000006,0x00000000,0x00000000)
The ACPI BIOS in this system is not fully compliant with the ACPI specification. Please red the README.TXT for possible workarounds. You can also contact your system's manufacturer for an updated BIOS, or visit http://hardware-update.com to see if a new BIOS is available.

The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor or visit http://www.hardware-update.com for an updated BIOS. If you are unable to obtain an update BIOS or the latest BIOS supplied by your vendor is not ACPI compliant, you can turn off ACPI during text mode setup. To do this, simply press the F7 key when you are prompted to install storage drivers. The system will not notify you that the F7 key was pressed -- it will silently disable ACPI and allow you to continue your installation.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Okay, now..

The platform is a Dell Latitude C610, about five years old, with 1024M RAM in two parallel chipsets (512M each) -- this is the max. cap. for the stock system; HDD is an 80G (nom.) Hitachi. System is set up with triple boot: 1) Ubuntu (Breezy) -- default, 2) Knoppix (also 2nd-to-last stable build), and Win2K/Pro (heavily patched with Dell and MS). I mostly use the Win, because it supports my wifi card, as well as most multimedia. I usually do a complete purge and reinstall each year; this is about two months overdue right now, so there's some evidence of Windows artifacts I'm having. (I'm not including any of those here, since I don't believe they have anything to do with this issue, and because I don't see how Windows artifacts could affect the BIOS or system startup.) The multiboot is available through a selection interface provided under grub, which was installed under Ubuntu; grub replaced lilo, which was installed under Knoppix, as Ubuntu was installed last. Grub was installed in the MBR.

The message comes up most often on startup (or reboot), but sometimes without warning during use. The system halts completely, puts the message up, and that's it. It always requires a hard boot to get past it.

The issue may repeat a number of times in a row, and downtime does not seem to make any difference. Letting the system rest overnight may or may not work, and restarting it without rest over and over eventually results in a stable session. Just by example, this current session came after multiple restarts (most of them automatic, but quite a few also called, using the hardware switch), and this cycle of errors occured after many hours of downtime.

Following the instructions, I went to Dell's website, which provides excellent support. Dell confirms that my BIOS is fully up to date, and I would be awfully surprised if anyone other than Dell had a more current version.

Possibly related, I sometimes get this error, which only occurs at startup (or reboot):

"Memory write/read failure at [ADDRESS], read [VAL1] expecting [VAL2].
Memory address line failure at [same ADDRESS], read [VAL2] expecting [some other Value]."

The ADDRESS and VALs are different from one occurrance to another. I don't know if this indicates failure in a number of registers, or if it's just hitting an error by chance as it comes through some random register. If, as I suspect, a line spike is responsible, then there may be quite a number of damaged RAM registers. However, the inconsistency of the error, together with the fact that I can't imagine why it would seek different addresses at different startups (especially with no sessions in between), seems to argue against this. It would, however, be awfully convenient if the problem could be solved just by swapping out some RAM.

Now, these problems started right after the big blizzard we had. I suspect that a power spike might have frizzled some logic or memory hardware, or possibly corrupted some firmware. (It would be possibly useful, as a troubleshooting measure, to force a BIOS rewrite, but the interface in Dell's update patch detects the current BIOS ver. and won't allow a force overwrite. Don't know if a diff. ver. exists that would allow a forced overwrite, so unable to verify that BIOS is uncorrupted.)

The problem is not Windows-related; Ubuntu also fails on some startups, before the OS can launch, and sometimes after. (I haven't tried to see if Knoppix also suffers, but I have to assume that it would.) The errors occur most often at BIOS startup, before any OS is selected and launched.

Having said that, while the memory error (which is infrequent) always hits right at the very start of startup (before Setup is available), the ACPI message may occur at seemingly any time during system startup, OS startup, or normal use, so while it may involve a BIOS corruption, it's apparently unrelated to the startup sequence itself.

Malicious ware is not indicated: The system has repeatedly passed checks for viruses, spyware, adware, and rootkits.

It may or may not be related, in part or in whole, to some file corruption: I do regular cleaning and defrag, but for reasons unclear to me, there is substantial data that cannot be defragged. Thanks to some genius at Microsoft, more recent versions of Windows no longer provide a standalone DOS, and some DOS processes (e.g., chkdsk /f) cannot be run while Windows is running. I will try to do this from outside the OS, but I don't know how much luck I'll have. It's possible to instruct it to run these processes on next startup, but this is not working for me; I suspect this may be related to the grub multiboot process, which perhaps defeats automated pre-Win startup instructions. I will also try to investigate this, and any pointers are greatly appreciated. A nice chkdsk /f never hurts.

The problem is inconsistent; sometimes -- as now, for example -- the system behaves properly, sometimes for hours, sometimes all day and night, sometimes only for a few minutes. This leads me to some other theories, such as a possible physical circuit fault inside the box (perhaps triggered by some external event, such as atmospheric changes or some kind of vibration of cabinet motion); I can't help but wonder if the battery is involved in this.

I will try some other things to see if I can run this problem down, before I get to swapping out RAM or buying a costly new battery, but in the meantime I want to put this out to see if anyone can offer any insights that might save me a lot of time and effort (and possibly money).

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/886615.html

Date: 03/01/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web, google

Howdy! Does anyone have any idea how Google indexes images for their Image search? I have an artist client who would like her paintings to come up under 'Images' as well as the Web search, but I can't seemt o find any info on how to do this.

Alt-tagging seems to have no effect and - judging by the images that come up when I image-google my own site - they're not catalogued that often anyway (the image is about six months old). The criteria for listing an image seem to be completely abitrary, but maybe there's something I don't know?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1073389.html

Date: 03/01/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: web

I've been assigned to work on a website that implements a calendar to display courses given on certain dates. Using a true Calendar control is out of the question. Basically they want it to look like this:

	January
		3	9-9:30am ET	Rocky Hill, CT	Standard User	Classroom
			11-12 am ET	Melbourne, FL	Content Manager	Webex
		10	1-2 pm ET	Melbourne, FL	Outlook Basics	Teleconference
		16	11-12 am CT	Boulder, CO	Outlook Basics	Classroom
	February
		3	9-9:30am ET	Rocky Hill, CT	Standard User	Classroom
			11-12 am ET	Melbourne, FL	Content Manager	Webex
		10	1-2 pm ET	Melbourne, FL	Outlook Basics	Teleconference
		16	11-12 am CT	Boulder, CO	Outlook Basics	Classroom

What I need is either a Datagrid or view or repeater that would be able to dynamically be able to organize the information like this.. where you have a month header and then below it all the dates of classes in that month will be displayed. I am using .NET 1.1 here so I don't have a DataGridView tool available. I'm just wondering how I should approach this. I know its a funky setup, but its what the customer wants. Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/59005.html

Date: 03/01/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: database, asp, web

Hi guys, I am new to asp, and frankly, it scares the hell out of me. I manage to muddle through for the most part, but I admit, I am floored by the following.

I need a form.

Requirements of said form, are as follows:
- Capture information (name, address, phone, email - the usual) where I can access it (database, email, whatever)
- Redirect once information has been provided to a download link where they can access a paper

That's it. That's all. And being a bit clueless, I cannot figure this out.

ANY advice, directions to help/how-to, advice et al would be receieved with outrageous gratitude. Hearty scorning will also be weathered gracefully since I thoroughly deserve it.

The website in question is Galkal.com.au

Thanks in desperate anticipation!
Dominique

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/58747.html