My first experience with computers was an 8080 and then an 8085 that my father was working on in the late 1970's. They came as project boards to be hand-spooled with about a 20 key keypad to be hand programmed directly in machine code. Then, a video game system kit built possibly before they were available in stores in the early 1980's. After that I was fortunate enough to have my on Tandy MC-10 with 4kb then later 64kb of memory, and a CoCo 3 that I much enjoyed. In between I also had a TRS-80 Model III computer with programs to conquer like ARS and Eliza[^], both of I took an interest in even at the tender age of 12. The most important thing, apart from having all of the manuals for BASIC, was the monthly subscription to hardware specific magazines to practice typing and learn programming techniques by examining other people's code. On the 68B09E I even learnt to program directly in machine code, used the cursor interrupt to operate a print spooler, and picked up all of that from one book (possible the one by. David W Harding) having already learned every conceivable command in BASIC. LOGO at school on the Apple IIc computers was quite straight forward. I solved Island and with the assistance of an Atlas from the school library found that it is Haiti. By the time I was second-year apprentice I was teaching the other students ladder logic for Idec Izumi PLC's - shifting into IT ten years after commencing a trade was the most straight forward thing, and a real understatement at that. Now I recommend an early involvement with children and technology. If someone still has all of the Australian MC-10 and CoCo magazine, acquire a free licence and put them up on cafe press to be printed on demand. It does not matter that it is the same editions over and over, just buy one copy a month. I had interests in sport and captained an u15's Australian Rules team, played basketball and was never stuck inside apart from for several hours a week in front of a keyboard WITH NO INTERNET. Later I became proficient in HTML, and then PHP. Currently I am completing a Masters in Cyber Security. The course work is easy, it is just a matter of writing enough to please the assessing facilitat

So, you do not preach holy code?

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I like #1 but actually use #2 in practice.

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Nikola Breznjak wrote:

I believe you will find PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice by Matt Zandstra very usefull.

Downloading it now.

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I do see what you are saying. I am yet to see any tutorial that is perfect or fully up to date, and have not participated in w3schools 'certifications', however the tutorial will at least introduce you to the syntax of the language in a progressive and structured manner - which if you can already code is likely all you will need to get started - although I would suggest (an assumption previously on my part) that each example in the tutorial, or any tutorial for that matter, should always be metered against some other reliable reference source to ensure it is consistent in it's application with the intended outcome, operation, and best practice. The examples provided are after all very simple and limited in scope, not taking into account the wide variety of application (or the exploitability) that is possible. EDIT: Should also say that I agree with shiprat's post that php.net[^] is a great resource for the language which should not be overlooked.

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Personally prefer print myself but I can reference w3 Schools PHP Tutorial[^] which will have you writing PHP in no time!! (REF: DonationCoder.com - PHP Learning Resources[^] << couple more ref links there.)

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AspDotNetDev wrote:

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fixed "inception" media tree bug due to recycle bin auto initializing when it shouldn't

I'm guessing that means the recycle bin was within a recycle bin within a recycle bin. I wonder if the only escape from the bottom level is SHIFT+DELETE. :-D

Sure, everything seemed stable.. that is until we tried to delete the extra one inside the first one.. *pop* :wtf:

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Sure, everything seemed stable.. that is until we tried to delete the extra one inside the first one.. *pop* :wtf:

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I don't understand why everyone can't just stick with ROT13 - it's tried and tested AND has the advantage of being fully based on a prime number. :omg: Cheers :)

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... and there's always LMGTFY[^] for those who prefrer a more hands free approach... ?

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Probably no way to confirm this now on your working system BUT (if anybody else ever has this issue...) was it just screwed permissions on those files / folders?

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I went to a forum like that once... when I looked around and found myself here :doh:

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Should we assume from:

moon_stick wrote:

changing server names etc

that you have also already looked at IP's - either changing IP's, or using isolated subnets? Or your Test / Dev environments are already partitioned on the network?

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These look like real world stats from an actual website. Hooray!

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Wholeheartedly agree with the Vista situation. In testing here, the Weven setups actually performed better on older hardware than XP did once the apps were installed and everything updated - just so long as there were drivers somewhere that worked with Weven, and even with only 512MB of RAM.

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There's a way to do it without even having to delve into the registry editor (or so I've heard) - requires a half install and then an install over (I think) which does sound a little untidy when I type it like that, but I suspect it's actually very neat. Maybe somebody has a link?

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Damn message type radio buttons must have been broken and at a quarter past late at night I just missed it. Oh well.. Next?

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Dan Neely wrote:

0x12=18

Surely your math has failed?

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justfunnin wrote:

I always have my popup blocker on, but every now and then I get a popup for screensavers. Wierd.

I think that popup may actually be living on your PC rather than on the internet

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peterchen wrote:

(2) I have IE7 and googe toolbar, and these two together already make it an adventure to get to a popup I want. So sometimes I have to take down all the shields, and remember to put them on again.

And that is the question - the tools that were built for good were used instead for evil. Imagine if I wanted to preview this post before I submitted it...

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