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I might have to check out typekit and google then

I can't see how the physics would be possible without using some form of energy field or heat resistant reflector. Projecting a beam of light that is so intense it can cut through nearly anything would produce a constant lightwave that would simply continue travelling until it hits another surface. As far as we know, it isn't possible to control the light waves to prevent them from going any further. So really you would need an energy field projecting from the handle as well which is designed to dissapate the heat, but then the lightsaber would be useless as it would just be light trapped in a container (so to speak). I suppose you could also use a heat resistant material that travels up the inside of the beam and at the tip have some form of heat resistent reflector which bounces the light back down to the handle. This however poses the problem of, if you saber doesn't cut through an object right away you will hit the material inside the middle of the beam and maybe snap the reflector off, causing you to have more of a constant laser cannon than a sword.

Have you ever found someone who makes your heart beat faster when you look in their eyes? or even when they walk in to the room?In my opinion I think through history this increase in heart rate along with a shortness of breathe from that feeling you get in the middle of your chest is why the heart is so commonly associated with romance.

I really like your essay, it shows a lot of wisdom on your side and has several interesting points that are rarely brought up. Personally I am all for the development and advancement of science and technology, but only as long as we don't become dependant on it. It's when we are no longer capable of producing our own food, building our own homes and surviving as a species without medical advancements that we are truly slaves to science.

That is a unique feature in the version of internet explorer you are using. It is actually the ownership information of the site, like a digital signature. This is achieved via your web host and not through html tags.

Yes simply login to the routers control interface via the IP 192.168.2.1 (might be different but thats the Belkin default) either through your browser or via telnet. Once there you can go through the Wizard which will help you select the mode you want your router to run in. Now to get back on topic, G has become a very common band to use today but reduced wireless speeds can also be caused by wireless telephones and similar equipment (especially if you live in an apartment block) so if you keep finding your connection isn't as good as it can be try switching the channel of the router over to different channel numbers and test each one out until you get a speed you are satisfied with.

Well if bad sector recovery software fails then you probably need to create an backup of the current system to a new drive first, then attempt a complete format of the drive with bad sectors. Perhaps even try formatting it then running a live cd with sector recovery software on it to confirm the bad sectors have been removed and then restore the backup on the other drive. If that doesn't work however then you will just have to create a backup on a different drive and use the new drive until you have found a way of restoring the old one.I'm sure there is some software out there though that can deal with these bad sectors. Can you list the different software you have used?

I reckon sites like facebook will calm down a bit in the next 10 years. I remember when I first started using the internet back in the 90's, I was instantly hooked on a website named The Gamers Inn. It was a simple chat room with an active role playing community. There was no profit to be made from it but I remember how excited I was about it and other sites and would spend countless nights online click click clicking. Anyone remember shockwave? That was all the rage before flash games and they became very popular very fast which prompted the introduction of advertising on the sites that hosted shockwave.Anyway my point is, to the rest of the world they are only just starting to get online more than back in the 90's (back then it was only geeks and nerds who really knew how to use the internet). These internet newbies remind me of myself when I was a kid and had discovered the internet. Once I had a good 5-10 year dose of being online my addiction finally subsided and I was able to properly limit my exposure to mindless click click clicking. I think in the next 10 years people will soon calm down online and the business opportunities will also begin to die off.The main exploitation online today is companies that offer someone payment in exchange for doing all the work of putting their advertisements out there. All these companies need to do is gather the advertisements then offer the masses a fraction of the profits for slapping these ads all over the web. It's an ingenious idea, but has superseeded the older advertising practices online of a single fee for a months advertising rights. At least the old way you could make some money, these new methods seem attract a lot more people with the promise of "easy" money and as a result the profits become thinner and thinner as they are more spread out. It has gotten to a point where you are doing all the work for these advertisers and earning practically nothing from it. You could put in a weeks work of 9am-5pm and the return would only be $10 if you were lucky. Once the attraction of the internet has started to subside amongst the general population though then I can see these practices becoming fewer and fewer, returning to a fairer distribution of advertising profits.

In my experience it takes a lot longer to receive the MyCents from tutorial topics than it does outside the tutorials section, but you will get them.

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After click this topic to read it I went to read the replies and they were all just spam posts, irony it seems is not without a sense of humour ;)There is only really one active moderator on Xisto which is yordan. I haven't really seen any activity from the others in some time. He is usually very good and comes on at least once a day to go through each new topic and sort the spam from the real stuff however he cannot be a super hero and manage it every single day. When yordan is on the job though not a single spam post gets by him so reporting isn't usually necessary. I'm assuming every single post made is reviewed by yordan even though they are dispalyed immadiately (except the tutorials section of course). The report button is more for reporting posts and topics that violate the terms and conditions of Xisto like plagiarism, racism, and many other types of ism.I know from experience once the spammers have your domain address it is hard to keep them at bay, and the frequency of spam increases constantly. The amount of unethical SEO companies using Xrumer blasts I have had fired from various websites is amazing. Most of the websites being advertised do not have any idea that they are being advertised in such a manner. I used to follow the links and threaten the person on the other end with legal action. That usually resulted in them firing their SEO company and issuing a formal apology. Eventually I moved away from public forum packages and created my own forums with a unique anti-spam method. It is would be possible to break the anti spam with a hell of a lot of Java design and trial and error, but nobody is going to go to the trouble of writing a program specifically for my single forum when there are thousands more vulnerable to Xrumer blasts.

Welcome, and good luck

Currently I am unemployed but am putting every second of free time I have in to the development of my new game engine. The original plan was to create a way for those without any experience in programming or web design a means to create their own Text-based MMORPG games easily using a series of web forms and configuration options.Anyway while developing the engine I was contacted by several people who were following the project asking if they could take what had been made so far and create their own games with it that utilise premium subscriptions. I was a bit apprehensive about this as I had originally designed the engine to be free. So I decided to deny their request and had an idea. I am continuing to develop the free version of the engine which is very close to a beta release and decided I would also release a premium version of the engine afterwards which would require the user to purchase a license. This would open the possibility for people to create games for profit and would be fair on me who put all this time in to developing the engine so they can make a profit. It also gives me the opportunity to turn the engines development in to full-time work giving me a reason to develop more and more advanced features in to both the free and the premium versions of the engine. It also offers the chance to develop premium version only modules. So my dream of offering free game design software to the world is kept intact, and if I am able to earn enough per month to cover the bills then it frees me up to develop more modules for the free version.So what started out as a series of simple tutorials here on Xisto is slowly developing in to a large-scale project with a growing community of people already and a potential opportunity to support my son and myself.

Hi there, I've had some experience in game creation in the past so I'll give you a few good starting points. For people who are just starting out, there is a piece of software out there called Realm Crafter. This natty piece of software is built around the blizzard engine, the same as World of Warcraft. It creates a point-and-click environment for creating your new realm and offers many prefabs and entities for you to insert in to your game. The next release of realm crafter has a lot of exciting new features as well, including hosting multiple servers to spread out bandwidth and cpu consumption. Once you have managed to get to grips with realm crafter and are confident in your abilities to use it (it will take some time but don't worry, it'll be well worth the investment) then you can move on to learning how to create your own content for your game. This will require you to learn about 3D graphics design. An amazing program to start learning this on would definately have to be Milkshape. It is very easy to use and great for learning how to design objects in a 3D environment. Milkshape isn't capable of creating high poly entities though although I wouldn't expect you to be able to create high poly objects without at least a years study. (Polys btw are the little points that create the frame of a 3D object, you might have noticed older 3D graphics being fairly blocky, each point on those blocky graphics are a poly). Don't go jumping in to image design too early, familiarise yourself with 3D design before applying textures to your images. Then you can start to learn how to create your textures. A great little app for that would be Jasc Paint Shop Pro although it has now been absorbed in to Corel. It's a bit simpler than using photoshop but with the same advanced features. It might take a little time to properly get to grips with shading your textures to match your 3D object, but trust me you will get there. Now you can use the software to construct and configure your game, create 3D objects and characters to import in to your game and create great graphics to apply them. It's only a rough guide but hopefully it is enough to get you started. If you need any more help though then feel free to ask as well.

Hi there, welcome to Xisto

Lol I think the bottom line is we all agree that backing up your data is essential and such be practiced regularly, although we all prefer to use our own methods. I'll be sticking to synchronising with an offsite backup for up-to-the-minute updated data and online storage for weekly backups.

The same applies if you click your name at the top of the screen once logged in where it says "Logged in as: manuleka" just under the Xisto logo. That will take you straight to your profile as well

When I first joined Xisto I was far too eager to jump right in and start earning myCENTs and neglected to read through the rules for posting. I posted a massive list of little fun facts gathered from various sources and forgot to quote the text. I earned around $6 from the post and immediately spent it on a hosting package. Once yordan referred me to the rules and quoted out the text, my account became negative and I had to earn my way back up to a positive amount. By sticking to the rules and making posts that are relative and useful, I have been able to earn so far exactly $101 in converted myCENTs and am grateful to opaque for providing me the opportunity to exchange knowledge for premium hosting. If you would like some examples of the amount of myCENTs, here are several different tutorials I have written which should give you a broader perspective of the content->earnings ratio. Advanced login - 300 myCENTs 8ennetts Text-based Mmorpg Part 3 - 150 myCENTs Image-Verification-Script - 50 myCENTs Those are approximate amounts from what I can remember, but they should give you a better understanding of accumulating myCENTs. I have a widescreen monitor with 1920x1080 so that description is a little innacurate in my case lol, what resolution were you referring to?

Backing up media and important documentation is becoming easier in this digital age. Backing up to a USB storage device such as a small key may seem like a good idea, but try not to use one that you use on a regular basis as these items are easily lost and as was stated earlier can be lost in fire etc. It doesn't seem practical however to backup your data to a storage media and then send it half way around the world (or even half way around the city you live in) to keep the data safe. After sending the data away you will then have an outdated backup elsewhere once changes are made to the documents you have sent away. A better option would be to setup a persistent network connection with an offsite system. Say your parents have a computer and a permanent broadband connection, you can setup free (for personal use) software such as FBackup or GFI Backup, you can even use Microsoft Sync Toy to synchronise the two computers so any changes made on one will automatically update the other when both are connected to the web. This method is both simple and easy once setup, and helps to prevent outdated backups. Microsoft SkyDrive offers anyone with a .NET passport 5gb of storage space. This form of online storage is upgradeable for a fee, however if you are storing media such as photos and images then 5gb is generally more than enough. There is no need to worry about spreading out your data across geographical locations as your storage on skydrive is backed up on several different servers at different locations as it is. If something should happen to one of the servers that stores your data then it is automatically retrieved from one of the other backups, and you generally wouldn't find out about the server failure. If some form of disaster were to occur and all the servers and backups were to be destroyed then the scale of the event would render you losing your data insignificant.

I've never used Windows download manager, but I agree with you about IE's download dialogues. Somehow they seem to drag down the speed of the download and fail with the slightest interuption in the connection. I definately prefer to use firefox to handle downloads, even the resume function of broken or paused downloads works great (for none header downloads at least). Have you ever tried using JDownloader? I was skeptical about it to begin with, but once I gave it a try I began to fall in love with the interface and it's capabilities. It's clever how it can be used as an autodownloader for sites like rapidshare and megaupload, but even for general use it's a natty little tool. It's even capable of resuming header downloads. By header downloads I mean web pages that output the download to the content header of the page, preventing common download managers like in FF and IE from pausing and resuming downloads since there is no direct link to the download (index.php?download=123). Also JDownloader acts as an FTP download only client and a torrent client. It seems to handle pretty much any type of download.

KDE from the start opted for integration. A number of programs and services running in the background along with the rest of the system and allow the programs that the user is using to send information. GNOME is made "in pieces", each developer writes their program independently, and then try to integrate. Anyway, we are developing a series of software, basically database servers as the evolution-data-server and some other for programs such as GAIM, which are exponentially increasing integration of the various components of GNOME. Each environment has "star programs" that although they could swing the balance toward one of the two desks, in practice they are used independently. We could cite K3B , the KDE CD burner, or KGhostView , and PS PDF viewer. GNOME has to Evolution , an incredible manager mail and groupware tasks and the GIMP , the best photo editor for UNIX. To conclude, it is fair to mention the program that certainly is the heart of every desktop: file browser. KDE has Konqueror, 100% integrated with the entire system through components such as KParts or kio, to manage remote files as if they were local, web browsing and access to information fully categorized. GNOME has Nautilus, much slower and less integrated, although in version 2.8 and can work remotely without breaking a sweat, is not nearly as advanced as Konqueror. In version 2.6 included the "spatial mode, which basically is to work as with Windows 95. If we stick to the many people who do not use this mode, I think the nautilus guys messed up Having seen, keep one or the other is a matter of taste. We have tons of software for both GNOME and KDE , we can change the appearance of the two desktops and applications can even use each other. I'll stick with GNOME for simplicity, the look and it just works. I load KDE too, sorry. And you, what do you prefer?

Hey LP, welcome to Xisto. Glad to hear your like the posts made here, we are dedicated to providing quality information to the world of the interweb, and to also line our own pockets with free premium web hosting of course

true however allocating disk space for the virtual box and installing an OS would be far more beneficial in terms of memory allocation as emulating a LiveCD inside a virtual environment can be a significant drain of resources, more so than usual than when emulating a fully installed operating system.

As with many different search engines I believe the appeal of such engines will soon die off again once the novelty has worn out, such as websites like AskJeeves (ridiculous, I used it once and never found what I was searching for) and Bing (yes Microsoft, I am blasting your cruddy search engine, you have attempted to create a new google as it stands today from the off, however google is what it is today from experience and practice). I think I will be sticking with google for the time being, they may use personal data to display certain advertisements and such, however all my adverts do not appear on the top of my search results anymore and because of the personal data they have collected they are able to provide me with more accurate search results based on my previous searches. I strongly agree with google doing this and only a fool would disagree.

LiveCD's are great for many different reasons, although like was said before the most common livecd is obviously linux distributions. Wether it be someone using Slitaz (a 2.2.0 kernel aircrack-ng specific distro, even though highly unstable if you open the KDE desktop), Backtrack4 (for more sophisticated penetration testing) or some other version of linux used to recover files and documents from a corrupt system. Sorry to list the penetration versions of linux, but these are the ones I am most familiar with for testing the security of my own systems. I also used to use a distribution of redhat linux on my first laptop after I destroyed the hard disk in it. I disconnected the docking station by mistake while the laptop was still switched on and it wrecked the hdd. I was still able to make the laptop useful for watching movies on and such with the livecd since I didn't need a hdd to run it and I could even remove the cd from the drive and run a dvd after loading the media player into the memory along with the OS. It ran just fine as long as I replaced the livecd before attempting to do anything else after watching the dvd. Even browsing the web was somewhat effortless on a livecd, although I had to disable caching for obvious reasons and occasionally reboot the system after a stack overflow or the RAM was filled, but even then the reboot time would be considerably less than booting WindowsME (the latest version of Windows home releases at the time).