krandor

I'm not sure if PHP itself can be a worm, it's all server side (i could be wrong, i'm fairly new to PHP). now, with some malicious javascript you could probably do something more along the lines of a worm. Still why would you want to do that? I'm still confused of what your original question was.

not sure if you've figured this out, but here's how you'd get the IP for the person connecting to your page. <?php $hostname = gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']); echo $hostname; ?> that's straight from the PHP manual. Here

xil, i swear i'm going to start coming to these forums just to watch how you absolutely fail at english. i could make an evening of this. But to the topic at hand. WPA > WEP. Keep an eye on people in your yard, if you see the kid, ask him what he's doing. Talk to him and see how savvy he is. He might just be trying to get online. if worse comes to worse, wait till he's in the yard and then turn the sprinklers on.

do you seriously have 50(fifty) 200(two hundred)GB(gigabyte) drives? omg, can i has ur stuff?

It's a good idea to have anti-virus/malware/adware-yadayada software. I've been a big fan of Avast Antivirus. It's free and it's got a very small footprint (unlike norton or mcaffee) I use Ad-Aware and Spybot:S&D. They seem to do the job. Also not going to shady websites and downloading random things helps too ;)

Hello My name is Dan Favorite game (S): before my break from video games? Eve Online. Favorite OS: Gentoo Linux (OSX and XP are kinda in second place?) Favorite Console (s): XBox 360 / Wii Nationality: US Sex: Male Age: 25 Favorite Band: don't worry, you've probably never heard of them Other Hobbies: hobbies? work-a-holics have hobbies? Computer Experience: I've been messing with computers since high school. Now i'm a DBA/Developer working as a government contractor. So thanks to all you that paid your taxes this year :P

Before i shoot myself in the foot let me say that i haven't had extensive experience with 2008 yet. I still use 2005 for my .NET needs. But i would imagine that they wouldn't take out something as important as being able to include the framework you're using. In your publish settings you can set what 'packages' to include when the person goes to install your application. The installer will check to see if said packages are installed and then if not, install them. So, you could easily add in the Framework and then when people go to install it and don't have the framework, they'd be able to install it during the application install process.

You could totally make that a wicked AJAX App. Which really isn't that hard once you understand the basics. you could either use files on the server or a database in the background for the data.. or hardcode it all in. You could even have Steve8x's php (modified of course) fire everytime someone click a link as well as display the new information. It would be neat as well as efficient as the user wouldn't have to deal with page reloads (dunno about other people, but it seems to break my flow of concentration when a page reloads :P)

LOL! true. The sad thing is that .NET is getting very big, especially in the business world. It's easy to learn, development time is less, and most places use Microsoft workstations. I'll love C++/Java/<insert other cross platform languages here> till i die. but it comes down to what potential employers want. If they're environment is already .NET, you'll either adapt and learn it, or choose not to work there :P Phredsir: There are lots of online tutorials and lessons for C#/VB.Net/etc. I would try those before you shell out 50-60 bucks for a Learn <Programming Language> in 24hrs book.

i'll have to agree with everyone here. HTML in a webpage makes an email nice and pretty, but it also leaves you open for exploitation. Even though you might just be sending your dad an email, it's a waste of time to do this if 1) you're just going to show him an image. 2) most mail clients automatically strip HTML out. Just send it as an attachment. Even a non-tech-savvy person should know how to scan and open an email attachment.

Really it depends on how old "old" is. If you're talking a machine that's about 500Mhz w/ 92MB of RAM, a GUI-less version of Ubuntu would probably work (and since it seems you're new to linux, Ubuntu is also very friendly to use and install). If the machine is older than that, then even some of the newer distributions might be too much, going with something small like DSL (which i love because you can burn it to a business card CD or USB drive). Personally i've been a huge fan of Gentoo for years (back when you'd have to bootstrap the system from nothing). The distro has come a long way and there's a lot of community support. And it's lots of fun to play with. Depending on what your system can handle and what you think you'd be comfortable with should be the big criteria you should be considering for your choice. Ubuntu - easy to install, good community support, easy to use Gentoo - a bit more hands on with installation and configurations, great community support. DSL - easy use (just boot from a bootable device), great if you want to do something like a disk less system