Benefits

Performance is great! PHP runs 5x as fast with similar configuration on my VPS than on my personal computer (3ghz AMD 5000+ Black Edition, 4GB RAM, nVidia 9800 GTX).

This works really well for game servers surprisingly. I can host a 24 person Team Fortress 2 server and still serve up pages with speed.

Support is awesome! All of my tickets have been answered in less than 24 hours and most in less than 12 hours. They will install any OS for you and soon you will be able to use a web admin panel to reboot the server, reinstall the OS and you can currently request for a custom OS to be installed.

I recommend CentOS 5.3 64-bit. It runs great!

You can setup a VNC server as per these directions. I recommend using the following code to make for a much nicer VNC experience (you may need to change 1400×900 to be something smaller than your screen):
vncserver :20 -depth 32 -geometry 1400x900

Cons

Nothing is setup except for SSH. You have to install PHP, Apache and MySQL and anything else from scratch, so you need to be familiar with the command line. XAMPP works really well for a quick fix, but your really want PureFTPd instead of the ProFTPd bundled with XAMPP, but that setup is a whole other can of worms.

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Link: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/7-things-i-wish-i-had-known-about-jquery/

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This is what it SHOULD look like (FF3, click to enlarge):

It works perfectly in IE8 (click to enlarge):

So far so good.

I open IE7 in a virtual machine. I am dumbfounded. It looks terrible:

I need IE6 Compatibility for this project so I was dreading opening up the IE6 virtual machine. It looks PERFECT (well, there wasn’t PNG transparency and the navigation was 1 pixel off, but that’s not bad!):

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I spent hours doing a variety of things that were of no use. But the solution is simple. I thought that the client just wasn’t executing or running it.

When you use sv_downloadurl, for some reason it looks for the LUA cache files there and download the 404 error page, which obviously isn’t LUA.

However your don’t upload cl_init.lua

You upload your cache/dua folder and it works perfectly. You have to do this every time you change the gamemode or addons because this is the LUA cache so you should only really use it when you have gotten your gamemode/addons just the way you like it. Remember that you have to let the server start, then upload the cache because the cache is generated when the server starts.

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Functions Added

$.charcode

$.charcode(input, returnInt = false)

Returns: mixed, if returnInt is false, this returns a string containing the English version of the keycode (‘alt’ instead of 18)

input mixed

This can be an integer containing a keycode, a string containing a keycode or an event object.

returnInt boolean

$.isKey(e, input)

e mixed

input mixed

$('#exampleSearch').keyup(function (e) {
     $('#oupt').html('');
     $('#oupt').append('You pressed: '+$.charcode(e)+', which is keycode: '+(e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which));
     $('#oupt').append("\nThe key alt is keyCode: "+$.charcode('alt', true));
     if($.isKey(e,'a,b,c,d'))
           $('#oupt').append("\nYou pressed A, B, C or D");
});

• PNG
• JPG
• GIF

This class requires PHP 5 and GD2 Library (GD2 with GIF support if you want to modify GIF images).

Download

imageModifier.class.php (9.5kb)

Docs: Functions

__construct

__construct ($imagePath, $memoryIncrease = false)

string $imagePath

This is the path to the image you wish to manipulate.

string $memoryIncrease

If you are trying to modify large images, this allows you to set the memory limit higher. Only set it as high as you know will work because if you set it too high it will revert to 8M which isn’t very much. For most hosts, try 30M. False will leave it at the default.

crop

crop ($output, $width, $height, $cx = 0, $cy = 0)

string $output

This is the location where you want to save the outputted image.

int $width

The width of the crop.

int $height

The height of the crop.

int $cx

The x location on the source image where you want to start the crop.

int $cy

The y location on the source image where you want to start the crop.

centerImageOnCanvas

centerImageOnCanvas ($output, $image, $canvas_w, $canvas_h, $bg, $opac)

string $output

This is the location where you want to save the outputted image.

string $image

Path to the source image. Use $this->path to use the image you initialized the class this.

int $canvas_w

The width of the canvas you wish to center the image on.

int $canvas_h

The height of the canvas you wish to center the image on.

array $bg

An array with 3 integers corresponding to the Red Green and Blue (RGB).

int $opac

1-127 scale of opaque to transparent background (used only on PNG images)

resize

resize ($output, $maxwidth, $maxheight, $quality=100)

string $output

This is the location where you want to save the outputted image.

int $maxwidth

The width you want to resize to.

int $maxheight

The height you want to resize to.

int $quality

1-100 scale of quality for JPEG images.

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Changelog

• v0.1 (6/3/2009)
  • Initial Release
• v0.2 (6/4/2009)
  • Made sure the box didn’t overflow the side of the screen.
  • Made code more efficent.

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I know multiple Tooltip plugins already exist, but they didn’t do exactly what I wanted them to: be relative to the mouse. I found some non-jQuery javascript that did what I wanted, but a jQuery plugin is what I wanted. So I decided to write my own.

Official Demo Page

The offical page is here: http://ramblingwood.com/sandbox/js/jquery/plugins/tooltips/demo.html

Download

For those of you who are too impatient to go to the demo page, here is the download:

• Download (uncompressed) (2.5kb)
• Download (minified) (1.7kb)
• Download Zip with Demo and Documentation (4kb)

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