WBHoenig

What version of MySQL are you using? Any mods (STORE mod, possibly)? [and before going any further]: You are running a legal copy of IPB, right?

...or session variables. To do this with session vars, just put the following at the top of each page: <?php session_start(); ?>. Then, set what you want to keep as a session variable, just like a post variable. <?php $_SESSION['var_name'] = 'whatever'; ?> You can then reference it from any page, as it is passed along on the server. <?php echo $_SESSION['var_name']; ?> Of course, this isn't exactly the most safe method in the world; nor is it perfect feature wise. But it works for starters.

Haha, kinda like this, or this.

Haha, wow. I know that it is OT, but check out this.

Amarok does all of that, too Although on some Linux distros with some codecs (e.g. wma) you have to type in about three lines in terminal for it to work

Okay, just wanting to make sure that it's not a bug.

Personally, I use GNOME, too (Ubuntu), and Amarok (from the apt repos) seems to work just as stable as it does under KDE (or more - KDE's not exactly the most stable piece of software out there). I've read horror stories, but it works great for me.

Just wondering: I created the poll a while back asking people to vote on their favorite media players. I'd like to vote in it... but I can't Is there a way that I can? P.S. My vote is Amarok.

Frankly, I'm surprised that they are giving out licenses for free at all. There's nothing stopping me from using it in VMWare on Linux (VMWare will read Virtual PC images) for other purposes.

Haha, I agree. What do I want? - An MSDN subscription so I can get Vista and Office '07. - Parts for a new computer, including but certainly not limited to: Intel Quad Core (okay... Core 2 Duo Extreme is okay, I guess) A second Intel Quad core (if the motherboard supported it) 32 gigs of ram (okay... 4 is fine ) Two nVidia 8800GTX cards et cetera, et cetera

I'm surprised that this hasn't been published yet, but... http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsv...-a-new-day.aspx

I am one of those beta testers; you might want to go into Connect and see if you can enter the program

I have a question here for anyone who knows Java (not JavaScript; they're two completely different things). The only language that I am fluent in right now is PHP, but I'd really like to learn Java. I don't have that much time to learn, but how big of a step up is it to learn? Obviously OO is much more advanced in Java than in PHP, but I've read a tutorial on Sun's website and it looks really cool and fun to learn. I like organized code So basically: is it worth it right now? And do you have any pointers?

I don't know of any tutorials; I was just brainstorming a bit and kinda-sorta thought of a possibility. I haven't tried it, though, and haven't come up with any real code to back it.

Hmm... do you want eye candy? If so, I'd use Kubuntu, but if not, I'd use Ubuntu. Or Xubuntu's not that bad either. Sorry for not being decisive Use Edgy, the latest version, though, instead of Dapper.

Gnome first, but KDE is pretty good. I felt that I was just drowning in eye candy, though, when I ran Kubuntu for a while just to test it.

Actually, I've dualbooted since 5.10, and it is easier than you would expect. You can do in now without clearing Windows. In the install wizard, go to manual partitioning, and resize the NTFS partition to a smaller size. Then, create a 1 GB partition (if you can) and select 'linux-swap' as the FS. Finally, create one using ext3. It's actually very simple and safe.

Amen, although I substitute Firefox for Opera. They're both top notch browsers, though. And might I add: Use Linux.

Common Sense Antivirus. And the best part is that it is completely free, but hard for many (including myself at times, lol) to acquire. I haven't (ever) gotten any sort of malware, at least in recent memory, and I don't usually run an AV scanner. Sometimes Windows Defender, though. Two other tips are to reinstall Windows every month (like I do, but for other reasons [not because I run a pirated copy; I don't]) and: and/or

Tell me about it. At my school, teachers are always requesting for this software, copyright © 1998, to be deployed on every computer on the network. We have a very strict active directory system where one teacher on the campus gets admin rights, but most teachers and all students don't. Our problem is that when the software is running, it's trying to swap out new XP/2000 dlls with ancient win95 ones... but they can't because they are running without admin rights. Anyways, it can be a mess without proper backward compatibility. Notwithstanding my above comments, I agree 100%. They need to pull an OS X.

The problem with the music logic is that every time you legally get a record or download from iTunes, the majority of the money goes to Apple and the record company. Probably $0.20 of $0.99 goes to the artist. It's completely sad.

Nah, it's about the same as 2000-XP.

I can think of a possibility, but the problem is that HTML has gotten so varied that getting data out of HTML would take a lot of time and effort.

gzip or bzip2, via the *n*x command line Or on Windows, I use WinRAR. Close second. And 7z is a pretty close third.

Oops... Sorry