I have a music production software called Cubase 4 installed on my Macbook Pro. The program requires a protection drive (a portable USB drive with license files on it that Cubase looks for before opening) to run. Since this is a Macbook, and I am on the go quite a bit, I would like it if these files were on my computer, so I do not have one extra, tiny and easily lost, USB stick to carry around.

The App "License Control Center" is the closest I have come to figuring out how to do this, and Google fails me due to the wording. Is there anyway to grab the files off of the USB stick on a Macbook and transfer them to my computer in a way that Cubase will still open without prompting me for the program key?

Thanks for all the advice. The 3 minute wonder sounding very interesting, even if you did steal it from another site, haha. At the moment I do not have enough cash to sponsor a competition, but I do plan to in the future. Wonderful ideas indeed.

At 9/6/09 01:36 PM, DanielZ wrote: Simple, just put in some time and make more content. Make it interesting, and users will stay. I'll contribute some, too!

I am still continuing to do that, haha. And thanks.

Content content content. Everyone who visits my website tells me they would stay and register if I had content. But I do not have content. I have added all the content I can myself; I cannot do it alone.

So how on earth am I supposed to get content if no one is willing to stay? I don't know. I need help.

At 9/5/09 10:14 AM, polym wrote:

At 9/5/09 09:26 AM, Relish wrote: That works for me when people ask me stupid questions like "what's an anchor"

You people are bigoted

That is, of course, a one sided opinion. Obviously we have our problems, but admitting to them and trying to at least fix them just shows you that we are not. Also, I urge you to say something constructive. If you cannot, please refrain from posting.

I do have to agree with liljim. We need to be patient, no matter how many times someone asks the same questions. Who knows, we might be pushing away the new super-reg to the programming forum.

At 9/3/09 01:28 PM, kiwi-kiwi wrote: In other news I tried to make some chocolate pudding today, but because I put to much water in it I ended up with some weird liquid chocolate shake

Wow, haha. I enjoy to bake, so I cannot help but laugh at your mistake. Not downgrading abilities, I just think it is humorous that you put too much water in it.

Anyone heard of Cookie-Brownies? There are a cookie and a brownie smashed together. Great combination in my mouth, haha.

Awww, cute cat. Although the mindset of cats is that of gods, and the mindset of dogs is that we're gods.

I do like school a lot. I do dislike some of the way things are done and some of the people, but that is just life. That is going to happen for the rest of my life school or not, so I might as well try to enjoy it while I still can, lol.

Plus, it is much easier to learn without the stresses of making a living on a job that is so easy to lose.

At 9/2/09 05:49 PM, DanielZ wrote: I still have about a week left until that dreaded thing called school begins... Doesn't mean I'll be here less frequently though.

I may just be weird, but I personally enjoy school. I like to learn about everything I can. I don't know, it is just all so interesting to me. Then again, there are those unfortunate parts of schooling we have to endure, but it is so minute in comparison with the advantages.

Ahhh. wreckages: cat pictures? Haha. I have one myself (the lazy puss!) but she is a cute little meower.

The smallest screen size is 800x600. Therefore an 800px wide website will show up without scroll on everyone's screen just fine. In fact the layout you are viewing right now is 790px wide.

I know the way Newgrounds does it, and I did not want it that way.
I also know you cannot have negative padding in CSS. I put it up there to show you kind of what I wanted.
The buttons do not have a fixed width, so I cannot just subtract a pixel.

Thanks for the help anyway guys. I guess what I am trying to is not possible the way I am doing it.

I have the code below

.button {
	height: 26px;
	color: #000;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	background: url(/images/buttonend.gif) 100% 0 no-repeat;
	display: inline-block;
	position: relative;
	padding: 0 -1px 0 0;
}
.button span {
	height: 20px;
	color: #000;
	font-size: 12px;
	background: url(/images/button.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;
	display: block; *display: inline-block;
	position: relative;
	padding: 6px 4px 0 6px;
	margin: 0 2px 0 0;
}
<a class="button" href="/"><span>A button</span></a>

The image buttonend.gif is two pixels wide, the first pixel being transparent, and the second pixel being a color.
The problem I am having is that I want the transparent pixel to shift 1px left, to show only the background underneath it.

Here's a picture. It looks like the left one, and I want it to look like the right one. How do I do that?

Are you sure the url in the mysql database matches up to the image's location? Are you sure you actually uploaded the file? Did you check it yourself?

If it is the php code you are having trouble with, please show some code so we are not debugging a ghost.

What exactly are you having trouble with? Please explain in more detail.

Around $8, however I have seen some as low as $6. I would not go lower than that, because most places offering that come with no protection. Personally I like GoDaddy, because of the offers they tag on to the domain.

But the current one I own came free with HostMonster's package I bought. So.... meh, lol.

You need to use an upload form, with a submit button, like the one below, and submit it to a PHP page, which can gather the information through $_FILES['your_file']['tmp_name']

<form id="newform" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/some/dir/yourpage.php">
<input type="file" name="your_file" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

PHP Page

if(is_uploaded_file($_FILES['your_file']['tmp_name']){
     // do some things with the $_FILES['your_file'] array, or....
     move_uploaded_file($_FILES['your_file']['tmp_name'], "/path/to/new/dir/newfile.ext");
}

Those are the bare bones, but they are the basics.

At 8/15/09 12:17 PM, maxxist wrote: Cheers guys, i think i'll try re-writing it all with relative divs.

I don't understand though what i'm meant to do with these?

Max

At 8/15/09 12:17 PM, maxxist wrote: I don't understand though what i'm meant to do with these?

Those go in a style tag inside your <head> tag or in a css file which is linked to the page you are viewing.
I.E.

<style>
#outer { height: 500px; width: 500px; }
#inner { height: 100%; width: 350px; }
</style>

OR

<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="/styles.css" type="text/css" />

ayiyi. Reading PHP: Main just inflames me.

At 8/12/09 06:07 AM, citricsquid wrote: Dreamweaver? eww. Notepad++ is so much better than dreamweaver.

I only use Dreamweaver due to the nice ftp client built in. I am just too lazy to switch programs, lol. However I do agree, Notepad++ is way better.

I encounter a dreamweaver bug and thought it might be useful to pass along, as it is quite the rarity.

8192 bytes CSS file:
http://bytes.com/community/misc/724773-d reamweaver-cs3-closes-immediatly-after-o pening

At 8/9/09 08:37 AM, Relish wrote: Or 15 minutes to edit our post from the time we post it or something.

Oooo, preview and 15 minute edit would be even better. Because who honestly re-reads their posts after they write them? Only 15 minutes later, lol.

At 8/8/09 11:31 PM, DanielZ wrote: Well actually it would seem that Afro posted at 4:18 AM, while henke posted at 4:16 PM =P

Ahhh, it's the small things in life that make the world go 'round. Ahahahaha I am a crazed person, haha.

Random occurrence: http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1091 258

Afro posted after henke37 yet appeared before him, haha.

Hmm. I was afraid of that. In any case, is there any way to get just the first hundred or so characters from the image data, to determine the size out of that?

Is there anyway to get an image's dimensions without downloading the image itself?

$sock = getimagesize($url)

Downloads the image.

$binary_data = file_get_contents($home_url);
$im = imagecreatefromstring($binary_data);	
$width = imagesx($im);
$height = imagesy($im);

Downloads (or creates, rather) the image.
If I am dealing with large images on remote hosts, downloading them on the page will take forever. Is there any way to just get their dimensions without having to download them?

Ahhh piss. Terribly sorry. I did not realize curl_close() existed. My bad.

Because I was dump, I messed around with curl and now I have a problem.

$ch = curl_init(); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    // don't download content
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 

   curl_exec($ch);

I executed that code, where the URL is a remote image url. I deleted the code, but the page still exists whenever the function I put this in is run. How can I get rid of this nasty thing? Apparently deleting it out of the code does not work....

So, I want to delete the dang curl session so it will stop exiting my script every time it wants to execute.

No mean to bump, but I still cannot figure this one out. It has stumped me :o

Use the valid code, and just apply the CSS to the A tag instead of the LI tag. If you catch my drift.

At 8/2/09 02:18 PM, GeneralJ wrote: I'll consider answering this fully when I'm done laughing...

Then why did you post this in the first place?

Even if he is not successful in his endeavor, or was just wondering, I think it would be interesting just to know how to. Think of the leverage.

At 8/1/09 10:01 PM, wreckages wrote: no, we all speak like the queen and drink tea accompanied by crumpets while watching the cricket with our horrible teeth.

Although there was a point in time when the peasants spoke like the queen.

Oh, apparently this only happens when I type fast.