TheComputerdude

I considered doing this with my brothers old laptop

It's generally because it's way too easy to fall into the habit of just always using goto and then you sooner or later end up with practically unreadable spaghetti-code. An experienced coder can use goto, but they know to use it sparingly, whereas a beginner tends to go overboard with it. It's best to first teach oneself the habit of not using goto, and only when one is experienced then possibly use goto sparingly and in carefully-considered places.
 
This is to say, it's nothing to do with exploits, it's all about producing code that is easier to maintain and extend in the future -- especially so, if you're making a large project.

Because you write in Python.
 
 
Write in C.
 
Source: Own experience.

Yes.

I agree so much to quote linus "I thought twitch chat was cancer till I saw this"(may not be an exact quote is from memory BUT he did say something to that effect)

Kinda boring when I want to see what the chat thinks about things Linus says and all I see is "F." @LinusTech

So now Linus is live streaming to YouTube everyday I feel it's about time you guys got your bot connected to YouTube chat just for the spam filter alone.
 
Chat on your live streams is cancer with the F spam, swears and racial slurs all being posted.
 
Please get the Hitler bot from Twitch running on YouTube ASAP.

can you list all of your settings

Your issue isn't that the MySQL server isn't installed, but that you don't have the PHP extension for MySQL installed.

Most people here on this forum have a legit version of Windows, if you wonder.
They are a variety of ways to get a license for reduce price or even free legally (such as being a student in a college/university department that are registered as MSDNAA/DreamSpark Premium/Ignite). Similar to Office (if you have a school/college/university e-mail you have Office 365 for free). Some work places sales licenses for cheap or give it for free as a employee perks as well.
 
Some fully pay it, 'cause to be honest, at $100 or so, considering that this is the software you use the most, for minimum 3 years, then this is a pretty sweet deal. New games are 60$, and FAR FAR FAR simpler software with much less support can cost $300 to even several thousands of dollars.
 
Honestly, there is no reason to pirate Windows:
The OS is the most important thing. Else your computer is a door stop. Latest version of any OS you pick ensure maximum compatibility with your new hardware and support all its latest features. As mentioned, you use it the most... If you play 200h of a game, you use Windows 200h at the same time, as it runs your games. It provides the platfrm for the game to operate. It provides security and protection (ie: the software you use, including game doesn't need to handle that part... well.. yes.. but some levels only depending on its capabilities and it has to be responsible software and not trash your system) Getting it illegally can contain or add undetectable viruses, rootkits, spyware, and/or malware which can compromise not only your system, your identity, but also your network. Not worth it in my opinion. If you can afford a gaming system, you can afford Windows.

Some might say this is not tech related, however since Linus is a prominent member of the tech community I would disagree. 
 
In any case Pulling A Linus was recognized by Urban Dictionary today, here is a link to the entry http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pulling+A+Linus
 
Pulling a Linus
Definition: To accidentally drop a expensive or irreplaceable piece of technology, usually related to computer hardware.
Example usage: Austin almost ended up pulling a Linus when he nearly dropped an LG UltraWide monitor.

Patent Trolls such as this should be thrown in prison for fraud. Should be unable to sell another product nor allowed to sue again. Getting tired of these  shitty companies being allowed to do this.

Whoever connects to the open port on your router gets forwarded by the router to the destination in your network that you select, they can't just access anything so you are pretty safe there.  However if whatever is listening on the destination port has a bug, it might be possible (in theory) to exploit that bug to gain access to the hosting machine and use that as a jumping off point to access anything on your network.
 
My suggestion is, if your router supports it, to create a VLAN with just the minecraft server and your router on it (Your router has to support VLAN's so you can still route your normal network traffic).  That way if someone does get onto the host machine, that's asfar as they'll get.
 
But I'm just paranoid like that

Both are equally bad.
You should use mt_rand or mt_srand
Why limit the characters to only those in the array? There's other characters on all keyboards that can be easily typed:
 
 

 
From "!" (0x21) to "~" (0x7E) all characters can be manually entered by keyboard or safely printed on screen or sent through email.
Sure, you may want to avoid similar characters like ' (apostrophe, 0x27) and ` (grave accent, 0x60) but it's no biggie.
 
so you could have:
 
function make_password($length=16) { $code = ''; for ($i=0; $i<$length;$i++) { $character_code = mt_rand( 0x21 , 0x7E ); $code .= chr( $character_code ); } return $code; } But Honestly, a better password would be to pick 5-8 random words from a dictionary and capitalize some letters and add some punctuation or hyphens, exclamations, would make for better passwords. Then make a sha256 or md5 hash of that phrase and store that in the database (hashes are fixed length, good for DB storage)
 
obligatory xkcd
 

 
 
 
 
 

Linus Tech Tips is massive though.
so AMD would give it to them for max coverage.

yepp, we all build our own laptops. Solder the CPU and everthing...


Read the post before commenting.

Your Over Reactting I Canot Beleive you Would do Such a thing. to a human bean. Its grammer by the way

I'll put it straight out there: I FUCKING HATE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T TYPE NORMALLY. It annoys the fuck out of me. I don't mind 1 small spelling or grammatical error, bt wen ppl tip lik dis i anys th fck outa m (but when people type like this it annoys the fuck out of me). Anyways, I've been on some websites that require a user to take a grammar test before they can post anything. I SERIOUSLY think this should be added. Also, if someone who can edit one of the "read this when you create an account" posts, could you please add something along the lines of "check your grammar" if you haven't already? Thanks!
 

Need more information than that. What is the system is going to be used for? What sort of work is the system going to be doing? If it's just basic office work or for the dyno, a cheap laptop would work fine. I've seen the guys at Haltech do that.

this thread was pointless right  ?
I realized that when I mentioned aesthetics are important

Out in the heat? Will degrade fast.
 
I would go with a refurb i5 from dell/hp from newegg. Theyre cheap and good for basic office tasks.

In what sense? I find it to be outright toxic so I stay well away.

No its not because the OP did not specify fucking anything. So it was sarcastic if anything.
Your post is 'post padding' and a troll post.

yeah budget will make or break this build tbh

This build has multiple issues for a server setup 
1. Redundancy one single archive drive is a bad idea if something goes wrong you are screwed
2. archive drives are so so so so so sooooo slow 
3. The fact that this is not really a server so much as a workstation build.
What you need is a proper server with an SSD boot in raid 1 or 10 and an  HDD  raid 6 with 6 10 tb drives which will provide good speed and redundancy with 40tb of storage and plenty of room for upgradeability if you get a good server chassis with enough drive bays. This may lead to you needing a raid card  .  As far as the cpu goes it is probably ok though I would recommend upgrading to a 10 core variant just to be safe. Also use a redundant power supply + ups  If you are super worried about data security it might be worthwhile to set up another less powerful server to be used as a backup server. This is a good time to use those archive drives in raid 1. If you can put this backup server somewhere offsite. But the backupserver is not super necessary 
 
Hope this helps