Have you bothered to check your bash history and such? Grep your php files for functions like unlink(), curl(), etc... ?
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#227
General Chat / Re: Halloween
October 06, 2007, 11:35:53 PM
You should make Xepher's avatar one of them with a mad scientist outfit. 
#228
Announcements / Re: Xepher's Trip
October 04, 2007, 04:51:39 PM
Oh, evil time!
*runs off to write a self running php script to eat resources and preform DoS*
*runs off to write a self running php script to eat resources and preform DoS*
#229
General Chat / Re: Boobies!
October 03, 2007, 07:05:42 AM
It's no different than Feb being "Black History Month" despite how many year have passed. 
#230
General Chat / Re: The Circle of Life...
September 29, 2007, 07:12:18 AM
The long pauses in between must be them getting their wits back together after whacking their head against the other so hard. Retarded.
#232
Announcements / Re: New Server Coming Soon
September 08, 2007, 04:36:52 AM
Don't they grandfather? Kinda bad business to just raise your rates and charge people more without notice, is that even legal?
#233
Misc. Content / Re: PHP Scripting Help please~
August 26, 2007, 06:41:39 PM
and if it's not, you can write your own session handler using MySQL and PHP. Frankly the default session stuff is extremely limited anyhow. All a standard PHP session does it take data in an array, serialize it using the php serialize() and stuff it in a file under a unique identifier.
#234
General Chat / Re: Windows Vs. Linux (not what you're thinking)
August 18, 2007, 07:30:59 PM
When I read this article numerous people come to mind for me right away.
I, however, know the advantages and disadvantages of Linux vs Windows in my case. Thus at home I run Windows XP Pro (legitimate copy that I did purchase) and at the office I run Ubuntu Feisty with the nice suite of free office stuff that it has on it.
However, things this document fails to go over are a few other particular downsides to Linux which he fails to touch base on. That's software installation. Linux has this little issue of no standard installer, which makes the learning process for using it all that much harder. Ok so maybe us geeky types know how to "apt-get" or "yum" or whatever it's called in the distribution you use, or if we don't are willing to learn it. But the standard user has no friggin idea how to do that shit. They wanna download an installation program, and it just "work". This is something that Windows does very well, yet Linux fails to do release after release.
Lets not forget the issue of non-backwards compatibility. Ok, yes, it helps Linux maintain that bleeding edge in your face outlook on things... but people WANT their old POS hardware to work on their system. Which is something else Windows does very well in each new release, yet Linux fails at over time. Same goes for running older software.
Finally, you have the issue of how the Linux shared libraries are set up. Yeah you all know what I'm talking about if you've used any flavor of Linux, ever. It at times becomes a total pain in the ass if you have two copies of software which use two completely different versions of a shared library. Ok so we may understand the workaround for shit like that, but the average consumer doesn't, and doesn't want to. Again, they want it to just "work" as they intend it to.
I, however, know the advantages and disadvantages of Linux vs Windows in my case. Thus at home I run Windows XP Pro (legitimate copy that I did purchase) and at the office I run Ubuntu Feisty with the nice suite of free office stuff that it has on it.
However, things this document fails to go over are a few other particular downsides to Linux which he fails to touch base on. That's software installation. Linux has this little issue of no standard installer, which makes the learning process for using it all that much harder. Ok so maybe us geeky types know how to "apt-get" or "yum" or whatever it's called in the distribution you use, or if we don't are willing to learn it. But the standard user has no friggin idea how to do that shit. They wanna download an installation program, and it just "work". This is something that Windows does very well, yet Linux fails to do release after release.
Lets not forget the issue of non-backwards compatibility. Ok, yes, it helps Linux maintain that bleeding edge in your face outlook on things... but people WANT their old POS hardware to work on their system. Which is something else Windows does very well in each new release, yet Linux fails at over time. Same goes for running older software.
Finally, you have the issue of how the Linux shared libraries are set up. Yeah you all know what I'm talking about if you've used any flavor of Linux, ever. It at times becomes a total pain in the ass if you have two copies of software which use two completely different versions of a shared library. Ok so we may understand the workaround for shit like that, but the average consumer doesn't, and doesn't want to. Again, they want it to just "work" as they intend it to.
#236
Knowhow Trading Post / Re: prevent hotlinking
August 08, 2007, 07:37:48 PM
Alternatively you could use an image generation script and store the images in a database instead. Which makes it rather tough to just "link" to and puts them under an easier to control system (I.E. an image load script).
Generally you only do this for content images, not layout images.
As a side note, you can store anything in a MySQL database, including swf's, exe's, etc... it's just a binary data storage. So long as you build the mime headers correctly for the serving script, you'll be good to go.
Generally you only do this for content images, not layout images.
As a side note, you can store anything in a MySQL database, including swf's, exe's, etc... it's just a binary data storage. So long as you build the mime headers correctly for the serving script, you'll be good to go.
#237
Hosting Q&A / Re: What's going to happen to our Forums in the move?
August 03, 2007, 02:10:20 AM
Careful with MySQL database dumps. It's got a nasty habit (though be it very stupid) of being able to do a data dump that it can't actually import.
#238
Announcements / Re: New Server Coming Soon
August 01, 2007, 11:15:35 PM
Things in css are all inherited from their parent element, that's how it's always been. Though it's not supported correctly in most cases.
Technically, if you set a font for your <body> it should transcend to all the contained elements, but for some reason this doesn't always work as intended. The issue is, well... Internet Explorer. Which rarely handles things "to standards" and always ends up doing things the way they think it should be done. But if you write something for IE and don't test it in other browsers, then it's technically broken since you've got Internet Explorer (7 and 6 is still widely in use), Firefox (1.5 and 2.x), Safari (Mac and now Windows too), and Opera. Opera is especially important since most cell phones and things like the Wii use an Opera web engine. So having it display correctly on that is a must if you want people to be able to usably access your site from mobile devices and such.
Technically, if you set a font for your <body> it should transcend to all the contained elements, but for some reason this doesn't always work as intended. The issue is, well... Internet Explorer. Which rarely handles things "to standards" and always ends up doing things the way they think it should be done. But if you write something for IE and don't test it in other browsers, then it's technically broken since you've got Internet Explorer (7 and 6 is still widely in use), Firefox (1.5 and 2.x), Safari (Mac and now Windows too), and Opera. Opera is especially important since most cell phones and things like the Wii use an Opera web engine. So having it display correctly on that is a must if you want people to be able to usably access your site from mobile devices and such.
#239
General Chat / Re: Games with great music!
July 27, 2007, 03:26:32 AM
Frankly I fully expected both Mario and Zelda to make it in here pretty much as fast as it did. Wind Waker had one of the best sound tracks out of any Zelda game, but is now rivaled with Twilight Princess (and to hell with whether it's midi or not it still sounds great).
#240
General Chat / Games with great music!
July 26, 2007, 06:47:17 PM
As a prospective game developer I tend to like to pop some questions like this out in random places for feedback. It helps in getting an idea of what people look for in a game, what catches attention, and what sort of things remain memorable for years to come. So, without further delay:
What games do you remember for not their graphics, not their game play, but their music?
What games do you remember for not their graphics, not their game play, but their music?