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You shoulden't have any trouble with the activation code. Windows looks at all of your hardware when coming up with its activation code, and changing just one or two items, like in a normal upgrade will not break it (even a brand new hard disk). It's only if the algorithm determines that it is an entirely new machine (and MS doesn't give details of how it comes up with this) will the activation code fail. Make sure you use the original key code from your legal copy when reinstalling. Of course, if you use the same keycodes, windows will happily re-activate with no trouble, even without saving the activation code. MS has done a lot of work on this to keep legal users happy.

There is not much need to pirate anything but Windows itself and games these days. My system is almost all freeware or O/S. Firefox Browser, Sunbird Calendar, Thunderbird EMail, WinAmp, Gimp & IrfanView Photo, CDBurnerXP, OpenOffice, PSPad Editor, Audacity Sound recorder, SharpDevelop C# development, MySQL DB, IZArc zipper, HandyRecovery undelete, CCleaner registry cleaner, AgentRansack FileFinder.... The list goes on and on. Ya just don't have to buy OR pirate to get a great system these days. 'Cept for games, of course. If I play past the first couple levels, I buy it. Windows, always buy. If you want free use Linux.

Hi Macky, Welcome to MSFN! Gee... you picked an obscure product to start learning on. Is there a reason you chose Centura?. I don't know anything about it and a quick google turns up not much. If you are trying to learn database and SQL in general you might be better off with SQLite or MySQL. They are free and there is reams of documentation, tutorials and samples available. It really doesn't matter which DB you use to learn as the concepts of RDBMS and SQL language are very similar in all db's (oracle, sybase, sql server, DB2, mysql, sqlite, postgresql, etc). Once you learn the concepts it is easy to adapt for specific product. http://www.sqlite.org/ http://www.mysql.com/ dman

Also remember that it depends on how many others are connected to the torrent... your download is many others upload, thats why it is polite to leave client running after download is complete at least til share ratio is 1/1.

That will get files that end with "eng". To get all files with "eng" anywhere in the name use "*eng*" without the dot

Hi esas, I will try not to take the fun out of it for you. You already have the code that finds the links and extracts their targets. This code determines if a file exists..... Dim objFSO, flname flname = "c:\test.txt" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If objFSO.FileExists (flname) Then msgbox "File exists" Else msgbox "File does not exist" End If and this code deletes a file... objFSO.DeleteFile (flname) so... get the link name, check if the target file exists, if not delete the link. 1-2-3 have fun post again if you still have questions dman

Hi Indignity, welcome to MSFN! You really don't need to know the drive letter here if you are installing from the cd. Just use the generic "\" without the drive and colon, that always refers to the current drive. Are you doing this to learn how to do it, or do you just want something to use? In either case you might want to take a look at X-Plode util here on MSFN http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=86

Hi G-zus Excellent cites by prathapml and army20. To answer you on a little more basic level, the things you are asking about are not really "database languages". PHP and ASP are "active server pages", meaning that when a user requests a php or asp page the server reads the code on the page and generates HTML output to send back to browser. ASP/PHP and HTML can also coexist on the same page because active components are enclosed in tags kind of like HTML. ASP tags start with <% and end %>, PHP uses <? - ?>. This tiny piece of ASP displays the current date: Today's date is: <%=Date %> The code between the tags could just as easily opened a database and retrieved a current list of items, formatted it as an HTML table and returned it to the requesting browser like this. PHP is used in the same way. <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>ASP DB EXAMPLE</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <% Set Conn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") DSNtest="DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; " DSNtest=dsntest & "DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("test.mdb") Conn.Open DSNtest Dim rs Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") rs.Open "SELECT * FROM Student", conn If rs.eof then response.write "no records found" response.end Else %> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="1" bordercolor="#111111" width="50%" id="AutoNumber1"> <% Do While not rs.EOF %> <tr> <td width="25%"> <%ID = rs("ID") response.write ID %> </td> <td width="25%"> <%Name = rs("Name") response.write Name %> </td> <td width="25%"> <%Major = rs("Major") response.write Cognome %> </td> <td width="25%"> <%Data = rs("Data") response.write Data %> </td> </tr> <% rs.MoveNext Loop %> </table> <% rs.close set rs=nothing End If Conn.close set Conn = nothing %> </center> </div> </BODY> </HTML> As far as the programming languages themselves go, ASP can use either vbscript or jscript (probably your choice if you already know javascript). PHP has its own OO language and can use perl and python. For either you should know SQL. This is your Language to actually talk to the database. XML is something different again. XML is a "data descriptor language" . Basically it is a way to store data in a self describing format as plain text. XML also uses tags like HTML but uses them to describe data elements instead of formatting. look at some examples and it will be readily apparent. a XML file is usually run thru a "parser" to extract the data into a array, cursor or recordset (you will get to that) that can then be processed by your asp or php code. XML files can also be formatted directly for presentation using CSS. CSS I'm surprised you don't know about. It is just a formatting specification that describes what attributes will be applied to different types of HTML elements on a page. CSS has nothing to do with databases and can be used with plain static HTML. Hope this helps a little. dman

Oh, so it's more like escalating warfare than cheating... just like in real life. Ok, thats not so bad. Glad you are not garden variety cheater. Still, as I said before, your chances here are slim and none. The dll itself is compiled encrypted, and lord only knows what was done by the programmer to hide the specific data keys you are looking for. Not that it will probably help but it might be interesting to look at what and where is being sent over the net when you start the game. Try Ethereal if youre interested. http://www.ethereal.com/ Good luck. If you do manage to crack this let us know and I will send virtual champagne.

@psytechnic: I say "unlearn" VB6 because there are just enough syntax differences between VB6 and .NET that almost nothing written in VB6 will compile on .NET. The project converter tries and fails on all but the simplest projects. Some common examples are 0 based arrays and variant data types. Not to mention all of the .net framework code that doesnt apply to vb6 and you have enough incompatibilities to warrent just switching to C#. And yes, for heavy duty development, C++ is the obvious choice, but for RAD C# is much quicker. Don't go with what feels good, go with what will satisfy job requirements in minimum development time (which is why I mainly use VFP)

@n00b The documentation can be a little overwhelming when starting out. Sometimes it helps to just have someone point you in the right direction. That is why I tell him to ask some specific questions to get him thinking about what he needs to do.

Are you trying to say that you need to compile some Pascal source code? You can download delphi personal edition from borland for free which can compile pascal code. http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/...oad_delphi.html

What are you trying to use MySQL for? What specific problem are you having? "It doesn't work" is much too vague. Phrase like "when I try to "X" I am expecting "Y" but instead I get "Z"". Include any error messages shown. I will try to help if you can be more specific.

First, do you understand the general concepts of a Relational Database (RDBMS) and SQL language? If not you won't get anywhere with MySQL. Search for "Relational Database", "RDBMS" and "SQL Language" If you understand the general material in these links then you are ready to get specific with implementing MySQL. http://www.cs.unc.edu/Courses/wwwp-s98/mem...databaseLesson/ http://www.computerbits.com/archive/2003/0...odatabases.html http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp http://www.1keydata.com/sql/sql.html

Floppy controllers still support 2 drives. You can add a B drive anytime. It's just hardly anyone uses one floppy anymore, let alone two (lots of new computers are shipped without one) Maybe your topic should read "Why no floppy drives?"

I agree with jawa. I would have nothing against trying to break this companys code, since their business is built on cheating they should expect it. Cheating other players in the game, however, is uncool to the extreme. Y not just play fair?

I went to the mirlander site and read about the game and I have to say I don't understand it. Rule 1. What is PKing Rule 2. If you are playing this game, don't other people know they are playing too? or is this some kind of hack into another game? Rule 3. no idea Rule 4. Makes the game sound like a piece of junk The rules for firstkiller are just as confusing. Why dont you just get counterstrike and be happy.

Try this one... ' GetRAM.vbs, Version 1.10 ' Display amount of memory for the specified computer. ' ' Written by Rob van der Woude ' http://www.robvanderwoude.com ' Initialize error message variable strMsg = "" ' Check command line parameters Select Case WScript.Arguments.Count Case 0 ' Default if none specified is local computer (".") Set objWMIService = GetObject( "winmgmts://./root/cimv2" ) Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( "Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem", , 48 ) For Each objItem in colItems strComputer = objItem.Name Next Case 1 ' Command line parameter can either be a computer ' name or "/?" to request online help strComputer = UCase( Wscript.Arguments(0) ) if InStr( strComputer, "?" ) > 0 Then Syntax Case Else ' Maximum is 1 command line parameter Syntax End Select ' Enable error handling On Error Resume Next ' Connect to specified computer Set objWMIService = GetObject( "winmgmts://" & strComputer & "/root/cimv2" ) ' Display error number and description if applicable If Err Then ShowError Set wbemServices = GetObject( "winmgmts://" & strComputer ) ' Display error number and description if applicable If Err Then ShowError Set wbemObjectSet = wbemServices.InstancesOf( "Win32_LogicalMemoryConfiguration" ) ' Display error number and description if applicable If Err Then ShowError For Each wbemObject In wbemObjectSet strMsg = vbCrLf & "Total Physical Memory: " _ & Int( ( wbemObject.TotalPhysicalMemory + 1023 ) / 1024 ) _ & " MB" & vbCrLf WScript.Echo strMsg Next 'Done WScript.Quit(0) Sub ShowError() strMsg = vbCrLf & "Error # " & Err.Number & vbCrLf & _ Err.Description & vbCrLf & vbCrLf Syntax End Sub Sub Syntax strMsg = strMsg & vbCrLf & "GetRAM.vbs, Version 1.10" & vbCrLf _ & "Display the amount of physical memory for any " _ & "computer on the network" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf _ & "Usage: CSCRIPT GetRAM.vbs [ computer_name ]" _ & vbCrLf & vbCrLf _ & "Where: " & Chr(34) & "computer_name" & Chr(34) _ & " is the optional name of a remote" & vbCrLf _ & " computer (default is local computer name)" _ & vbCrLf & vbCrLf _ & "Written by Rob van der Woude" & vbCrLf _ & "http://www.robvanderwoude.com" _ & vbCrLf & vbCrLf _ & "Based on the article " & Chr(34) _ & "WMI Scripting Primer: Part 1" & Chr(34) & vbCrLf _ & "by Greg Stemp, Dean Tsaltas and Bob Wells" & vbCrLf _ & "http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp" _ & "?url=/library/en-us/dnclinic/html/scripting06112002.asp" _ & vbCrLf & vbCrLf WScript.Echo strMsg WScript.Quit(1) End Sub

First, please elaborate... how does one get "banned" from a game? Have you contacted the author about your problems? I think you are wasting your time trying to crack the dll as any programmer worth his salt would have those keys both encrypted and the code obfuscated. Unless you are a codebreaker you have little chance of success. Even if someone here was inclined to help you, you haven't given any specific information on what you are looking for, like a character name for instance.

If you are asking about what I think you are asking about (vb script) all you need is a text editor to create the program scripts. Everything else is already on the computer. Scripting is the windows version of dos batch files. It is useful for automating tasks in the same way as batch files (although you could write a whole app in script if you were a masochist). Windows scripts can be written in either vbscript or jscript, but vb is most common. Try a google search for "vb script tutorial" or "windows script host" and you will find millions of examples.

For those that don't own NERO, CDBurnerXP is High Quality CD Burner, and its free. http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Yes, C++ in general is not for the faint of heart and MS standards (or lack of) can make it extra fun, but I suspect I would have similar problems trying to work with g++. Everything takes some getting used to. Are you trying to compile this as a Win32 app or Win32 Console app? If the project is a Win32 app try changing it to Win32 console app. If you want a win32 app you have to include windows.h and change function "int main()" to something like "int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, int)" Edit: OK, Just saw your last post. Glad it's working now. Wish I got more chances to work with C++, as I am very rusty. I use VFP mostly because everyone wants their app TODAY and C++ development just takes too long. Pity.

Yes, this sounds familiar. Met with this trying out VS 2005 as well. Seems every function is now part of a "namespace" in the .net world. that means functions need to be referred to by their namespace (think of it as the library name) and the function name. It is specified with the scope resolution operator :: so that "cout" becomes "std::cout" or can be specified in the includes section as "using namespace std;" This page clued me in ---> http://www.softadvances.com/stl/error_c206...identifier.html

Delphi is Borland's RAD (Rapid Application Development) Tool. It uses the Turbo Pascal language instead of Basic, but the IDE and coding style is very similar. During the 90's it was always said if you wanted to see what was in the next version of VB, look at the current version of Delphi. IMHO, blowing them both away is Visual FoxPro. Microsoft's red-headed step child that doesn't even get a mention on MSFN. It is a common misconception that VFP is just a database. It is also the simplest and most powerful general purpose RAD tool yet developed. Too bad MS keeps trying to bury it in favor of that VB.NOT abomination. (not that Visual Studio.NET isnt a great development env in it's own way, but if you use it, do yourself a favor and learn C#, its easier than trying to unlearn the language that VB used to be)

Make sure you know which ones you are deleting first! You usually get a structure like this by installing windows several times without deleting the old dirs. "\default user.windows.001" may very well be your active default user directory, not "\default user"