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Vystrix Nexoth

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Posted on 05-06-04 02:45 PM, in CSS Question Again Link
there is no color 'cyan', in terms of the pre-defined CSS colors. use #00FFFF, or 'aqua' which I believe is the word for it.
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Posted on 05-10-04 02:56 PM, in Excuse me while I brutally murder AOL. Link
Originally posted by KP9000 @fter$hok
I don't know of anybody who uses dial-up anymore... but thats just me. Dial-up is now obsolete. It has been for the past 5 years.

at least one of my friends online (Thaddeus) is stuck with dial-up. it may be obsolete, but cable/DSL lines aren't as ubiquitous as phone lines just yet.

back on topic: I haven't used IM programs in a long time, or even e-mail (unless required to, e.g. to sign up for something). IRC is suitable for real-time communication (in place of IM programs), and message boards for non-real-time communication (in place of e-mail).

if you do use IM programs, though, then if AIM sucks... *drum roll please* use a different IM protocol! There's MSN messenger, ICQ, a few others, and, IMO, the best of them all: Yahoo Messenger.

as for trillian, I stopped using that when the distinction between "fully-functional version" and "free version" was made.
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Posted on 05-10-04 03:01 PM, in Stupid Angelfire Link
Kitten Yiffer: that comes up with the 'hosted by tripod' image, to me. I doubt I had the original in-cache, so this more-or-less proves that the empty querystring trick (putting a "?" at the end of the URI) doesn't work, not for tripod anyway.
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Posted on 05-10-04 03:13 PM, in VG Analogies Link
Originally posted by Kefka
Yep. The reason you got it right but not Vystrix is because Vystrix was thinking in terms of the sword's strength... well, actually, in FFA/SD, the Mana Sword is rusted when you get it... it doesn't become effective until the last battle. But the Mana Sword was a very fabled sword, and was in many legends. As the Master Sword was in LttP. And there's the analogy.


bah. "master sword" was the very first thing that came to mind. what's with the "think outside the box" clue? I figured "master sword" is dead center inside that very box.

not disputing it. just complaining.

60. NESamp
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Posted on 05-12-04 07:05 PM, in acmlmboard compatability with php5 Link
look in php.ini and make sure register_globals is turned on. it's off by default in PHP 4.2.0 and later. acmlmboard requires it to be on.
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Posted on 05-14-04 08:48 AM, in The Caps Lock Key Link
like erk said, if you know how to type, hitting it accidentally isn't that much of a problem. and if you're like me, you watch the text input box as you type and/or give it a once-over after typing it, so if you accidentally hit it, you'd notice before sending the message/making the post/whatever.

what ought to be done is giving lessons on how not to be a lamer and use all-caps for stupid things. like many things, there are legitimate uses of caps-lock (for example, most #define terms in C programming are all-caps, and it's easier to type e.g. FOO_BAR_VALUE with caps-lock on than to have to go back and forth between shift keys to do it manually).

one key that ought to be removed, though: Scroll Lock. I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to do (I think something along the lines of making the up/down arrow keys scroll the document window instead of moving the cursor up/down one line), and regardless, I don't think anyone even uses it except as an extra bindable key in Q3, or something.

or, on a more pratical level: don't remove the Enter key, but, ban any keyboard on which the Enter key spans over more than one row of keys. that's how it is on my keyboard, and that's all well and good except the \ key, which normally is over the Enter key (below the backspace key) becomes a tiny little key next to the backspace key. and I'm not very good at picking one key out of many in that area of the keyboard (I rarely type +/= or \ correctly on the first try without having to look at the keyboard).

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Posted on 05-14-04 09:54 AM, in New Site Banner Link
looks pretty generic as far as pixel-perfect site graphics go, which is to say, it looks quite nice, but the general style of it is pretty been-there-done-that. I can see the HTML source of the page already, just from looking at the title banner image!
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Posted on 05-14-04 10:07 AM, in Restrictions on users Link
well, gandalf's suggestion seems sound. erk makes a valid point, though; the trouble to implement this may not be worth it, considering that only a few people are bad in only one forum. besides, they could be warned via PM.

as for stifu: if you're capable of locking a user's post layout (which would, presumably, require administrator-level access), you're probably capable of editing the actual layout yourself (if they won't do it themself)
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Posted on 05-15-04 01:28 AM, in The Caps Lock Key Link
Originally posted by BMF54123
I would also like to get the Windows and...menu-thingy keys replaced with something infinitely more useful. Honestly, who uses those?


I do. Winkey+E = Windows Explorer, and Winkey+M = minimize all windows. However, it ought to be replaced with a generic special key instead of being the "Windows Key".

anyhow, here's an example of what I mean regarding the Enter Key, Backslash Key and Backspace key:

The layout of my keyboard
What it should be

And as for Caps Lock, mine is "shallower" nearer the A key, so it'd be harder to accidentally hit it (presumably), like so
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Posted on 05-15-04 01:33 AM, in I'm not done will Kill Bill. Link
regarding making it look (more) like a woman, you might:
  • raise or lower the sword so the shape of her breasts is more noticable
  • give her wider/fuller/more womanly hips. you could start with raising where her left leg (the one that's not bent) is attached to her pelvis, as it seems to be pulled out of the socket.


that aside, it's pretty nice.
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Posted on 05-17-04 10:02 PM, in New Ava (widescreen) Link
I think it looks pretty nice. just a couple nitpicky points:
  • it's 200x85, not 85x200
  • 'widescreen' is a 16x9 aspect ratio (roughly 1.7777...), yours is closer to 7x3 ("anamorphic scope"; the wider of the two common movie aspect ratios)


that said, I like it and I like the aspect ratio. it'd be neat if this board used something like that, because, as we all know, wider is better.
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Posted on 05-17-04 10:12 PM, in Coding a forum in PHP Link
Originally posted by Weasel
Make sure you use $_POST[$variable] instead of $variable for HTML forms.


that's $_POST['variable'], not $_POST[$variable]
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Posted on 05-19-04 05:33 AM, in quick : offsite sql database Link
the IP address or hostname where the sql database server is located.
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Posted on 05-19-04 02:13 PM, in site servers Link
well, there are many such sites, such as Geocities or Tripod. however, such sites will put ad banners in your sites, and won't allow off-site linking of images. for example, if you put some of your work on a geocities site, then tried to post it here, it would be blocked by geocities because this site is not geocities.

there are some workarounds to this, as detailed and discussed in this thread.

if your sole purpose is for displaying your artwork, then sites such as DeviantArt may be more suitable.

HTH
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Posted on 05-19-04 02:19 PM, in VG Analogies Link
90. magic?
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Posted on 05-20-04 01:05 AM, in VG Analogies Link
90. magic (I already said this earlier. still don't know if it's right or not)

91. light warriors?
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Posted on 05-21-04 06:52 AM, in #&*($^ Parse Error Link
strictly speaking, you ought to use $poster['weapon'] instead of $poster[weapon] - the latter works but for the wrong reasons (it looks for a constant named "weapon", finds no such constant, and assumes you meant the string "weapon")

it might help if you look at the parse error and see:
  • what exactly is the error? (usually, it expects X but gets Y)
  • where did it occur? (often, the source of an error is before the line in question, but it'd still help to know where it occured)
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Posted on 05-21-04 07:00 AM, in Snes audio possibilities? Link
right. my guess is that the SPC memory is analogous to the name tables in an NES game: while the end-result format is always the same (so that the PPU/SPC700/whatever can understand it), how it's stored in the ROM and how the end-result is generated from that data is different from game to game (and sometimes different from different parts of the same game) -- only the end result is the same.
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Posted on 05-22-04 03:38 AM, in site servers Link
yeah. half a gig is plenty except for hosting large files (or numerous smaller files). for J. Random Website, it's fine.
fuitad's rig is pretty good as well, although it seems contradictory to allow more disk space but less bandwidth (in comparison to 50lbs).
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Posted on 05-22-04 03:49 AM, in #&*($^ Parse Error Link
Originally posted by ErkDog
so ['string'] specifies "string" field in the array whereas [string] just ends up working cause it matches the field in the array ?


not quite. in $foo[bar], first, PHP thinks you're using a constant (defined using define()) named bar instead of the string "bar". since there is (presumably) no such constant, PHP assumes you meant the literal string "bar". if you turn error reporting up to the maximum, you'll get a warning to that effect (but it's suppressed at the default error reporting level).

it works for the same reason you can slap a <title> at the very beginning of an HTML document and it'll work, or using <a href=foo.php?foo=bar&foo=bar> and it'll work in spite of not encoding the & to &amp; like you're supposed to, and so on: it's invalid, but the browser tries to wring as much sense out of it as it can. it works... for the wrong reasons.
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