The Gate Keeper

i am actually on my holidays. I have had all my end of semester exams, and i have a month off. Though, i wont be doing anything till a week and half away as i'll be busy with other things till then.

to get rid of the vertical scroll bar, you would need to write up the html code for the page, and load that page into the nhtml dll. This is the only way to get rid of the vertical scoll bar. what appears inside the nhtml is a web page, and all webpages by default have the scroll bar.

it is the similar stance that MSN has wasn't it? MSN OCX was an offshoot of IRCx, so it was still capable of being tapped into by IRC clients. If they are saying its java based, if someone can get a hold of the source code, i could probably re-engineer it and make a mIRC socket connection.

welcome back. Some of us old folk are still around... So come join the veterans

well as mentioned on other topics, you deserve to be hit if you go around clicking on stuff that is bad.

speaking of speed, time, and rendering... I found this online: http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/software/i...earch?source=ig but it can be seemed somewhat outdated now as the article relates to beta versions of both Opera's Latest and FF's Latest browsers, but its still an interesting read.

from what i'm aware, maxthon is IE.

i am an IE user, and the main reason is because i do not do much more than browse the web. I do have IE7Pro as an addon to IE which gives IE some of FF's capabilities, such as ad blocking. Ultimately, you should try IE, FF, and Opera for a couple of weeks each. See which you prefer and are happy with. As much as people diss IE, it will do the job for the majority of people, and being that microsoft do release updates on a continual basis means that even as holes are found, they are patched. No product is without flaws or faults. Just because it hasn't been found yet, doesn't mean it isn't without them.

I think Mozilla 3 is being released and it should pass the acid2 test. This is has forced Microsoft to follow trends when it releases IE8, though IE7 should have really been the starting point. Though IE7 has several more issues, it is more because of its wide scalability, in comparison to FF and Opera. But just from reading around, I see a lot more critical and harmful flaws in Firefox than i do in internet explorer, which is not to say that IE doesn’t have them. I agree though that with the product not being used as much as IE or FF, it would be less likely to have targeted attacks, even if they have been around for such a long while. I believe that is the opposing point being made here X.

as for getting windows programs to work, look at "WINE" (or Linux wine). It helps get windows applications onto linux.

Linux are used by alot of IT professionals. Linux has a lot of powerful features that windows doesn't, straight from the terminal (bash screen). And with built in applications like awk, grep, and other commands, you can do quite powerful stuff text based. Linux is quick because of the fact that it doesn't have a huge interface driving it like windows does, and it is designed to be more IT friendly, and not so user friendly. Where as windows is "suppose to be" user friendly over IT friendly. It's a powerful tool, and there are heaps of unix tutorials online. If you want something that has a strong GUI and is linux, try Ubuntu. It's quite popular around university, and is relatively quick.

you have to think about how to use a mobile phone to get it's full functionality as well... and as for dirty comment... do you guys even look at your phones? how much dust does it collect in all the gaps and holes? you can't tell me that a pda will get any more dirtier. sure, you'll get prints from your "oily" fingers, but that is also what the stylist is for?

yea, tak is completely right. they are pretty expensive. though in australia, the prices seem to be decent. Vodafone has 5gb for $39 a month. Though you guys are probably LAUGHING right now, considering i hear that with a lot of places, you get UNLIMITED for stuff all. over here, there is no such thing as unlimited. our plans are very pricey for the amount of bandwidth we get. travis, i wish our rail network and/or bus companies were that up to date, we are probably 5 to 10 years off that. Though australia has the most computers percentage wise to population, we are significantly behind compare to countries like UK and US.

they most likely have what they call a wireless broadband modem. You can easily get them and connect it via USB or your PCMCIA slot (that rectangle slot on the side of your laptop). This is how most people do it with their laptops as it means they have internet almost anywhere, and it's just 1 little extra thing they have to carry around. You will notice on the laptops that have it, a little device just sticking out the side of their laptop, that is their modem. A PCMCIA card broadband modem, come in a lot of different ranges, but all about the same size/look as this (some have aerials like this one, others just a little bit that sticks out the end [without aerial]. A USB portable broadband modem, again, come in a lot of different ranges, but all about the same size/look. Though, sometimes modems are specific to ISP, so check with your ISP for what modem they require (if wanting this type of thing) or even... Hope this helps.

i'm not too sure. Try typing "//window -c $active" (without ") in the channel window and see if it closes. However, closing a window, normally indicates "part", so it is weird that you are trying to do this? What are you trying to do it for?

i've tested sparkpea and buzzen, and i like both of them quite a bit. They are good in their own ways. And i have strong ties with peoples on both networks. It is definitely a biased opinion though, because of my ties. But yea, if you are looking for a server, either one of these two are recommended by me. vSIXc is good as well, but i have not used it as much.

This was part of an alias that hixxy helped me with... Hopefully you can work it out from that... alias listfonts { ... if ($com(fonts)) .comclose fonts .comopen fonts WScript.Shell if (!$comerr) { .echo -q $com(fonts,ExpandEnvironmentStrings,3,bstr,$+(%,windir%)) | var %d = $+($com(fonts).result,\Fonts\) | .comclose fonts } ... }

i think they are trying to merge things into it. Which is good. It's great to see others getting involved with the system. However, maybe you should bring this up with buzzen so that they can allow for "scripts" or "plugins" to be made with their ocx/chat system. This way, their system can be upgraded, and all the addons/plugins can still operate without modification needed for each plugin.

i'll explain this a bit better... If you are using a connection to connect to a server (meaning that someone has made a socket connection and you have it in your script, to connect to that server), you CANNOT use the auto reconnect on disconnect feature, as it will try and reconnect to "localhost", which is actually your laptop, not the server. This is because the socket connection script is making the connection for mIRC, not allowing mIRC to do it itself. The options given above is merely if you use the "/connect <my server> [<port number>]" (<> = required, [] = optional). If you use the /connect method, you will be able to use the internal mIRC auto reconnect. It will just continually try and reconnect till it can. X is right, i did have a feature like this is my connection, DogCollar, which made it VERY handy because you could ensure pretty much maximum time in the room, and with the AUTO CREATE feature, you would pretty much always have your room open (as MSN didn't have a "register my room" function). But this was something i made in DogCollar. The creator of the connection would need to implement it, unless you are good enough to make it yourself.

yep, it's heaps do-able... if you refer to the help file and look at "on disconnect", you can work it out. Though here's the code... on *:DISCONNECT: { splay Page.wav }

the thing is, we do help. But we are also aware of some things that you may not be. Just be open. There are alternative streams that you can try, not just having your own IRC server. And trust me, these alternatives can save A LOT of time and money if used properly, which can be very easily done.

there are people here who know how to make IRCx servers, but they run their own server. You can wait around a few days, see what responses you can get.

make one? you kidding right? Seriously, look at all the posts around, there are A LOT of chat servers out there. And there are also A LOT of ones that show that people have closed theirs because they simply CANNOT manage one. You would be better of using a play like vsicx, and using their SDK, so that it can be templated to your website and still work fine.

lol, well it's using MSN clone software. From what i've seen of official virgin websites, they don't rely on others to make their website. This website looks like it's template'd. And besides, why would virgin use chat control software from MSN? I can't wait to see how long it takes for virgin to kill the server...

GD5 was massive because of the dialogs... Anyways, dialogs are always going to be more time consuming and more demanding. They do look pretty, but if you don't have the time, you should really just stick to basics like menus and that, as it would faster to code, and less troublesome prefecting it.