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You don't need to use a header file for every function that you call (or will call in multiple files). You could just define it in a .cpp file and prototype it in any file you want to call it from. It really depends on the design of your program though.

Netsend!

DSL is pretty neat, amazing that they kept it under 50 megs with X included.

It's far from impossible... lol http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=self-deleting+executable&btnG=Google+Search There's soooo many ways to do it. http://www.catch22.net/tuts/selfdel.asp ^ that was the first one I ever saw, quite a while ago

You've heard of DMA right?

Go to this site, and it asks you a bunch of questions and reccomends a distro based on your answers. http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

None of the major bookstores here (Barnes and Noble, Borders) carry any books on assembly language, and all the ones they can have shipped to the store aren't what I'm looking for. And I won't buy a book unless I can take a glance at it first. TASM, NASM, MASM, and some other ghetto ones

Like I said, you only need the 1 port, but it won't show up on the server browser. And, like I said, there's another port you have to forward on TCP for the server browser connection, and it's between 27010 and 27020. I simply forwarded the range because I'm too lazy to dig through thousands of `OMG HOW COME MY HLDS SERVER DOESNT WORK` posts on counterstrike forums by kids who don't even know what TCP is. I wasn't suggesting he forward the port AND the range. :p AND to get your external IP, easiest way is http://whatismyip.com

z80 is awesome, powers the TI-83 series of graphics calcs and the original gameboy :D I wrote a few very small progs in z80 asm back in high school, was 2000% faster than using TI-BASIC, especially when drawing stuff on the screen. I can "read" assembly to the point where I can modify programs to remove registration screens (by NOPing out function calls, adding my own code to code caves, etc.) and freeze timers in games and stuff, but I'm still hoping to come across a really good guide to learning x86 assembly. I've tried various tutorial sites, none of the code compiles when I perfectly follow their instructions. :P (tried like 4 different assemblers and various guides) Any links to guides you've had good experience with would be appreciated.

In Safe Mode, the admin account that becomes visible on the login screen always had my initial user account's password. o_O (Normally didn't use the GUI login though) I have a disc with http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html on it. I've had to use it countless time on idiotic relatives PCs. -.- Takes about 2 minutes to do once you've done it a few times. You could throw a password onto your bios setup, and set the hdd-0 (or whatever you use) to be your first boot device, but then your brother would probably google "reset bios password" and open up your case. :p I suggest pummeling the crap out of him.

Forward whatever port you want to run the server on to your computer's router-assigned IP address. Start-Run->"cmd"->"ipconfig /all" and look for 'IP Address'. It's probably 192.168.1.xxx or something similar. Go to your router's administration page, probably http://192.168.1.1 or something similar (check manual). Go to the port forwarding page. Forward the port you want to use (27015 is the default for HLDS) to 192.168.1.xxx for both TCP and UDP traffic. For port "range", use 27015 through 27015 to forward a single port for example. And then people will be able to connect to your server. If you want your server to show up on the Steam server lists, there is some other port you need to forward on TCP between 27010 and 27020. I can't remember what it is right now, but you can search for it easily I'm sure. Or you could just be lazy and forward 27010-27020 on both TCP and UDP to your computer. I seriously doubt you're running any exploitable services on any of those ports, so it won't really affect your "security" at all.

Your router assigned IP-address doesn't matter if you're external IP address is banned from a site (packets are delivered behind a router based on MAC address). Requests coming to their server from your external IP are banned, so changing your private router-assigned IP won't do squat. (if that's what you were implying) What you're looking for is an HTTP proxy that will redirect your HTTP requests. http://samair.ru/proxy/ is the most extensive list I know of. Some of those proxies won't mask your IP (they'll forward yours as well), so they won't work for ban evasion.

Name it tempdecal.wad and throw it into steamapps/account/mod/mod ( steamapps/asterix/counter-strike/cstrike for example) and replace the existing one. You might also want to set it to be read-only, that way it doesn't replace it with the default spray if you edit your options in-game.

What happens when it "dies"? Can you still ping the default gateway(probably router)? Or external IP addresses? Isolating what is actually dying might shed some light.

If you already added the cd-key to an account, it can't be used again. Just login to the account you created.

Gentoo, because of the ridiculous optimization you can (via configuring what extra stuff you need supported) achieve, especially on slower boxen. For example, I threw together a 500mhz, 160 meg ram, 80 gig box from spare parts around my house because I wanted to test linux on it. It sits in the corner of my room behind my desk with nought but a cat6 and power cable running to it. It's been running Gentoo for a few months, and acts as a web server (apache+php5+perl), ftp server (proftpd), database server (MySQL and PostgreSQL), IRC server + network services (ircu + SRVX), and I've been messing around with sendmail and other mail-related stuff (spamassassin, AV filtering, etc.). Sometimes I run gameservers for various stuff (Kaillera for MAME multiplayer, HLDS for half-life based games, etc.). I use SSH to administer it remotely, with PuTTY as my perffered SSH client. Only disadvantage is that you compile EVERYTHING from source, although there are binaries available for most of the larger components now (firefox, openoffice, kde/gnome, etc.). Very stable and very fast once everything's installed though.

Hahaha, I'll stick with IRCU. Good luck though.

You didn't mention which OS you were using. :P

P10 or what?

opendir() and then readdir() to iterate through it

Tools->Manage Addons->Disable Windows Genuine Advantage or some BS? You could download most of their stuff (their adware detection crap, sdks + tools) without validating windows the last time I checked I hope you're not planning on using directx to develop programs, :p

PHP running in safe mode?

Looks like chmod (and/or other) problems, at what part of the installation are you getting the error?