Despite rumours to the contrary, I am not a forum software expert. lol

Can anyone recomend a good robust and easy to set up forum software package and/or advice ?
Has to be free as I am on a budget of zero...LOL

I have webspace with a dedicated server running apache, sql 4 and php 5.

I have looked at PHPBB but how far has that come since those data base error days ??? ...LOL

Only legitimate free software please...
Thanks

 

Dont make me beg..LOL


Been looking at this http://www.joomla.org/

ALthough its a content managment system with a forum add on.

 

a good cms is nuke evolution
http://www.nuke-evolution.com/

stand aloneforums are usually phpbb or invision but they arent that secure

 

Simon, Can you hack facebook poker and sort me say 50m in chips plz

Cheers

 

Thanks Nigel, that looks pretty good !

Cam, I would do that if I could but its not as if you need the extra pocket change...LOL

 

Newer versions of phpbb are much more stable with large user volumes, even the older ones like PF used to be are absolutely fine for anything except mega high traffic sites.

 

Chip,
I did consider the latest PHPBB and infact am as we speak trying it as an experiment.
Was just worried if our resident hacker ever got in..LOL

Not looking for high volume handling as it will only have 2 open rooms and the rest will be topics created by administrators only.

Just seemed an very easy way of presenting information and integrating user chat.

 

lol at not a fourm expert, yet quite capable of hacking this site

 

Proof or shut the fuck up

For the record... I may be "capable" but I do not posess that knowledge !

I am very miss understood..IMO LOL

 

Whatever Simon

 

Rich,

I appreciate you thinking I am that clever but you are mistaken.

Just because "some" people say I hacked the old PF website doesnt mean its true.

There was never any proof it was me and how could I prove it wasnt ?
I was just a convenient name for thsoe with a grudge to use.. end of story.

You c*nt

 

no need to resort to name calling Si. Was merely saying you are capable of hacking

 

Rich,
Just friendly banter as usual with you

 

You dont need to be mega clever to be a good hacker, you just need to be reasonably clever and be a sad cunt with nothing better to do as it takes time.

I have the skills but lack the free time!

 

i know. i was meant to put a after my sentence.

 

Could you do it for a price?

 

I'd go with SMF.

 

PMSL @ Chip

 

That looks good.. I will have a play... Thanks

 

Yes my standard rate when doing IT work on a contract basis is 60 pounds per hour.

Could easily take hundreds of hours, or I might fail to manage it depending on what the actual job is, but as its on a payment for time basis, that wouldnt effect the invoiced amount.

Impossible to estimate in advance the number of hours required for tasks like this.

 

If you failed would I still be charged? Ha.

 

Yes of course, you would be paying on a per time basis.

With a task like hacking, its impossible to know up front if you will succeed or not, there has to be some form of vulnerability for you to exploit and you dont know if that is the case or not until after you have either found it, or spent an infinite amount of time trying to find it.

 

PS

There would be an increase in cost if the system being hacked didnt belong to you, as I would have to undertake the work from a country which doesnt have hacking laws, as otherwise it would be illegal if the system didnt belong to you, I dont know the costs involved in that, as Ive only ever done hacking on systems that were owned by the person paying me to security test that system in the first place.

 

LOL, this thread is now doomed.

Talking about hacking is against the rules and I bet I get the points..LOL

 

Its only illegal to be hacking if it is a system that the person paying you to hack doesnt own, so with no specifics, this thread isnt illegal.

Its like if I asked a question how best to make 100s of copies of a music CD, it could be priacy or not depending on if I owned the copyright, so without any details of it I was the artist or not, it wouldnt be beyond the rules of the forum to discuss it.

 

Simon,

why have you got infraction points? Because of this thread? i hope not

 

Thats between him and mods rich, but he had them before this thread started anyway mate.

as did i, lol

 

i didnt notice he had them Chip at the start of this thread, i only noticed when he said he would get points for talking about hacking. It was me that bought up hacking

 

No mate

Its because I posted a wanted advert for peoples broken/unused "items" and the moderators mistakenly believed I was trading for profit even though I never mentioned any company name past or present and have never ever sold or bought the said items myself before for any reason.
I stated it was for R+D purposes and never offered any kind of monetary reward. This is for my free software project.

Yet around the same time a moderator (not a trader) who is also in the tuning/motor trade posted his car for sale including the name of his company.
No infractions.

 

the gestapo have got you Si rofl

 

OK, I have decided to use PHPBB.
Seems pretty secure now and as I will only have low volume traffic it should be stable enough for my purposes. (Le critical erreurs..LOL)
Easy to maintain and install and the base code is easy to modify if needed.

Thanks for help everyone

 

I'd be gutted if you couldn't hack it; waste of money. Well, in my case.

Benni.

 

Some things in life are expensive, some things arent available at all essentially, life's hard.

People like the CIA no doubt spend billions on hackers, much of which will be money spent for no gain.

 

they should have gone to simon 1st