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WBHoenig

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  1. ...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.

  2. Haha, wow.

    OT: and I'm only asking this question because I saw it on the site net_user led me to. If you open a new instance of notepad in Win XP, type in "bush hid the facts" (no quotation marks, no period, capitalization doesn't matter), save the file and re-open it, why do you get the results that you do?

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

  3. I'm gonna answer this in terms of music, since I listen to music more than I watch video.

    Winamp!!! There isn't another media player out there that has the same kind of UI as Winamp, nor do they have the same kind of functionality built in.

    Winamp 5.31 syncs with my iPod, manages my music, plays most formats out of the box (ok... no flac or ape by default). What more could you ask for?

    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

  4. 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.

  5. The ridiculously overhyped collection of Apple iTrash is a the very top of my "unwanted" list ouch.gif Unless it also comes with a sledgehammer and glad bags, or a small catapult-like contraption and a box of shotgun shells (add a Beretta Xtrema2 for extra fun). o0o07q.gif

    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

    :)

  6. 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?

  7. 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.

  8. 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:

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    and/or

    opera468x60gu6.jpg

  9. Do you know how crucified Microsoft will be (already is, to a point in Vista) for not being 100% backwards compatible with crap from forever ago? And make changes - what about the uproar about the annoyances that UAC or IE7 changes have brought (for security reasons no less - "we want security but we don't want to be inconvenienced or have anything change at all" :realmad:)? Oh, and our OSes are unstable (baloney), and our products are always late (that part is true :)).

    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.

    When Blackcomb/vienna does come out, it will only have half the features planned, be 2 years late, and will be the most unstable os ever! Microsoft cannot cope with upgrading products, have you seen how many redundant files there are in XP? To make vienna a success they need to start from scratch, and remove the thousands of lines of code that don't do anything.

    Notwithstanding my above comments, I agree 100%. They need to pull an OS X.

  10. I will pay for music just as soon as EVERY recording artist, movie star, athlete, and any other misc. celebrity gets a salary cap of $60,000 a year

    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.

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