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Feb
05

Street Crime menu revamp and feature rename

February 5th, 2009 by Dave Heward

Today we made some slight changes to the menu and adjusted a few features.

Property has been renamed as Real Estate.

We revamped and renamed the selling and buying of credits and as of tommorow morning non paying accounts will be able to buy credits to make themselves a member from other players. This can be done using the credit auctions page, found under the Investment menu tab.

Importantly we have re-jigged the menu and because of this a few of the features names have changed they are listed below:-

Property became Real Estate
Personal became My Account
Users online became Gangsters Online
Player ideas became Idea Box

And we also ordered the menu around slightly differently into a layout which we think is slight better for the game.

We hope you agree.

Thanks
Street Crime Staff

Jan
28

How do i reset my windows xp password?

January 28th, 2009 by Dave Heward

Somebody asked me how do i reset my windows xp password the other day now for me its common knowledge but for others it may not be.

Say you have some really good intentions you set yourself a password to try and keep your laptop or computer secure. So secure infact that even you as the owner cannot remember the password or in some cases the username to log back in then what do you do?

    There is a simple solution

1. Reboot your computer while tapping F8 – > this will start your computer in ‘Safe mode’.
You may wonder what safe mode is, if thats you then look no further:

Safe Mode is a special way for Windows to load when there is a system-critical problem that interferes with the normal operation of Windows. The purpose of Safe Mode is to allow you to troubleshoot Windows and try to determine what is causing it to not function correctly. Once you have corrected the problem, then you can reboot and Windows will load normally.

2. This will now start your computer in safe mode which will allow you to simply head onto your control panel following the below sequence.
Desktop start button – > Right hand side (6 up from the bottom in most cases) Control panel – > User Accounts – > Change an account or create new account.

3. You can now add change passwords etc as normal, this is because when you are logged in under safe mode windows presumes you are the system administrator and therefore gives you full priviledges.

This applies mainly for Windox xp machine, but the same principal can be applied on all windows operating systems.

Thats all there is to it.
Hope some day some people might find this useful.

Jan
28

Remove Extensions from Website pages

January 28th, 2009 by Dave Heward

Have you ever wanted to remove the extension from your website pages such as .php, .asp etc?

Its actually easier than you think. All you need to do is create a file on the main directory of your website called .htaccess, or edit the existing .htaccess file if you already have one.

Once you have done this simple add the following code into the file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

The above code removes the file extension for you, you can still access the page using the extension if you want to.

Advantages of doing this:

- Cleaner, easier to write, easier to remember.

- More search engine friendly.

- If you decide to mix the language your pages are written in the inclusion would be seamless.

HavingĀ  adding the code into the .htaccess file simply remove the extensions from all the file paths on your website, for example change index.php to index.

Jan
27

A long but crazy week!

January 27th, 2009 by Dave Heward

This week has been a really long week for us all here at Bytewire and one hell of a roller coaster ride. Not just any roller coaster ride, one which could rock the socks off of your average nobody (like me) any day. One could not have expected the week to turn out the way it did, never the lessĀ  it has been one awesome week and one which ive gained many new experiences from.

Ever since I graduated from university I have always wondered where abouts would I ever use some of the things that I have been taught and what would I remember if any when it came down to the crunch? ( In hein site this philosophy may have been the sole reason I under-achieve academically, im a sceptic what can I say ).

In Short: Not really! You can never prepare yourself fully nor can you have knowledge in everything. However if your anything like me reading book after book more than likely went straight over your head im more of a learn from doing person. This week was EXACTLY that, chucked in at the deep end clawing for scraps of information and knowledge that I vaguely remember from things I should know pretty well.

Did I remember much? Not really! Your starting to see a pattern here. However we muddled through and came out the other side with a far greater knowledge for the future all from learning intensely by doing.

This weeks been a really crazy week, but also one where I feel progression and achievement. I might even be in danger of starting to feel proud of what we have achieved in such a short time.

The next few months are most certainly going to be a very exciting time for us all here at Bytewire!

So whats next?

Back to the grind and lets hope we can achieve even more in the weeks to come!