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I've been considering buying a new computer and at the moments I'm leaning towards laptop and especially Macbook.I'd use my Macbook for graphics editing and web designing and I prefer much screen space. Two LCD screens would be the optimal choice. However Apple's website mentions that you can you external display and the Macbook's own display simultaneously , but nothing about using two screens with the lid shut. So does anyone know if there is a way to use Macbook or Macbook pro with two external screens. And I want to use DVI cabling for both.

Hahaha! :)This is getting ridiculous now. It serves Apple completely right if these companies won't let go of the name easily. If you're gonna be dumb you got to be tough.

5000 MB of disk space sounds like awful lot for a free service. Let alone the bandwidth limit which is way higher I've ever seen for a free host. Basically this means that they're either really great or really crap webhost. It all depends on the uptime, performance and reliability of their servers and support. I'd like to hear what people who have website there think about it.

You just have to wonder how companies of this calibre can do that kind of screw-ups. IPhone is quite a generic name and even if it wasn't you'd think it's a standard procedure to check if your new product name has already been trademarked. Cisco is in position to potentially pump a lot money from Apple. Apple's iPhone has already got a lot of publicity and the big marketing machine has been started. I bet Apple won't be changing the name easily and would pay for the name a hefty sum.

I've understood that the W3C validator doesn't work with custom DTDs. But, as your document is XML you can use any XML validator to check if the doc conforms to your DTD. There's plenty of them validators available just search and grab the one you like.

Yeah, "iPod into full-fledged mixing station" sounds a lot like marketing talk. I don't know much about being a DJ or mixing, but I'd guess someone who is serious about doing it would invest in some other equipment than iPod. Well I guess there's a market for this thing too.

For extra sneakiness you could also capture the IP with Javascript, have it sent vie the form and then check also the address from the HTTP request (i.e. the one you get from PHP. That way you could filter out machines using fake IPs.

It's nice to see alternatives to Skype. Not that I have anything against Skype, healthy competition just usually means better services for us customers. Personally, I've yet to get into the world of VoIP calling. Generally I don't call that much with my mobile (the one phone I have) and calls here are really cheap (we have one of the lowest rates in EU). VoIP just don't offer much savings for me so basically it'd be for fun...

I have a fairly low traffic forum but it has a slight spam problem. Every now and then bot-accounts emerge and all kinds of crap gets posted to the forums. I have one extra moderator besides me and have been able to keep spam under control, but its still a nuisance and useless work. I'm running version 1.0.8. I wonder if 1.1 has better spam protection? Or could you recommend some add-ins to help with this issue?

It's quite possible to do this with just plain Wi-fi using commonly available bandwidths. With WLAN you can do that long distances if you have line-of-sight between antennas and you use directed antennas. Usually law limits the transmitting power, but I've yet to hear that this would be monitored anywhere by the authority. So you can exceed the transmitter power safely and gain more range. This naturally means that you'd need to build the antennas yourself.

No matter who committed and whatever crime, I can't accept capital punishment. Saddam was certainly responsible of the crimes he was sentenced and countless more, there is no argument, but regardless, I can't accept it. I'm not a religious person at all but I don't think man has right to kill someone else. I don't believe in eye for an eye. Death sentence is a revenge and the ones handing out death penalties lower themselves to the level of the perpetrator. Considering Saddam, the most suitable penalty would've been putting him to work for the people who committed crimes against him. They should have made him (and his former allies...) build houses for the Kurds for example.

Handy! It's nice that it works and looks exactly like the Web Google. No need to learn the use the search, which is a kind of weird thing.

Heheh! During the years I've been involved in programming I've leart my lessons about naming. You learn where you can expect conflicts but they still tend to happen, in very unexpected place, just like your case. I was in a world of shite when I started to build an unified front page for my site drawing stuff from various partitions of the site. PHP really needs namespaces

Theoretically: First of all your domain name provider should be allowing you to add a third nameserver (2nd backup) for your domain. I recall mine allowed more than two. Then you should have the third nameserver available from which the address the name converts to would be different, i.e. the one of the "site down" server. But I don't think this'll work. See, everytime someone accesses your site by domain, he gets connected to a same nameserver which caches name-address pairs. If the name-address pair isn't available at the nameserver the nameserver queries another server further in the network and this way tries to acquire the name-address pair. The name servers are updated from other servers with a certain interval. The key point is that the nameservers you have selected in your domain settings are not accessed everytime someone requests a page from your website. Basically it is possible to have different addresses for a certain domain but in your case some of the traffic will still be directed to the address of the server that is down.

"Just like MySpace" doesn't promise much... I browsed around and found nothing to get excited about. It seems like they've been stuffing things done on other "web 2" sites to a new packaking but adding nothing new or creative. Also the site is a bit confusing and doesn't really "explain" what's it for.

Yes embed is the issue. It's deprecated in XHTML and you should use <object> instead. For syntax check Quatrux's post.

Doesn't Windows XP warn you when you choose to run an non-know/non-trusted executable? I swear I've seen that kind of message at some of our university computers. Or it could just be some added security software.At least in here people are preached enough not to open any email attachments and other such that they're actually getting paranoid. And as this is not a "sneaky" virus in anyway, I doubt it won't be a problem here.

Sounds like an urban legend... I can't believe even Microsoft could make a screw up like this. But what comes to Vista... Well they've talked about paying attention to security with it but that doesn't mean that it won't still leak. And even if there isn't as much security issues as WinXP, there will be error no doubt and for sure you'll be getting your service packs. It remains interesting too how much the service packs mess up this time

Distributed all over the world... Yeah right,,, They'll sell some of these to american hip-hop stars, few actors perhaps, then there's oil millionaires of middle-east and random drug-lords.

No there's a list! Thanks for sharing I could use some new Photoshop tricks for my rather limited arsenal. I hope I'll have time to check some of these out during the holdays,

I used to get tons of comment/trackback spam to my Wordpress blog. I had to close down the comment system until I found adequate spam protection. The best one I've found is Akismet. It works like a charm. After installing no spam posts have got through. Check it at https://akismet.com/. Best thing is that it's free for personal use.

This PCM technology sounds fine from that... But there's no mention on the storage density. How much storage space can they pack in a say compact flash sized card? Or is the speed this technology's only forte? And what about the production costs? Flash memories have been on the market for awhile and there's a huge demand and huge production numbers for them, which has dropped their price a lot. Can we expect this kind of technology have chance in the markets if it will cost multiples of the flash memory prices. Sorry for my sceptism, actually I think this is good news. I believe this technology could have lot of uses with mobile phones for example. The current phones using flash memory are somewhat suffering from the slowish speed of the memory.xboxrulz, could you remove all the off topic posts in this thread. Including the discussion of "offtopic" and spam.

Thanks for the tip. That's something I've never came to think about probably because I've rarely had to process massive amounts of form input. Proof that's it's really worth reading these forums. And where you commented that PHP 4 could fail, I don't think it will. I didn't test the code but I didn't notice anything unfamiliar to me and I've always developed in PHP 4.

Yes indeed, you get the resource from which you can pull the actual data. Mysql_result() is fine function to use if you need to fetch only one row and value from it. However these cases are quite rare and for instance I can't remember ever using the basic function. Instead use mysql_fetch_assoc() or mysql_fetch _row() which fetch one entire row from which you have access to all the values your query returned. The difference between these two is that mysql_fetch_assoc() gives you an associative array, for exmple $result['id'] would point to the id value which with mysql_fetch_row() it'd be $result[0] (presuming 'id' is mentioned first in the query). There's also a third alternative mysql_fetch_object() which doesn't return an array but an object. Nice if you like to work with objects. (duh) Under no circumstance use mysql_result() in a loop to get entire row. I've seen code like that and I nearly had a stroke.

I refuse to compare these languages other that code-style wise. Mainly because I've never done anything serious with ASP...As an C coder with some PerI experience found PHP syntax very easy to learn and in general I like the language a lot. The only negative thing I have to say is the way it handles objects... It's just so loose and "light-weight" if you know what I mean.