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Yeah they all include about the same features. Wordpress however is, I think, most improving one. The design team is constantly doing it better and better and there are also quite promising mod scene starting up. I particularly like the PN gallery mod which allows you to easily include images from Coppermine photo gallery to your blog posts.

NFS Ug2 is pretty cool game. Customizing the cars and street racing is very cool and the city is done really well. But my problem is that the actuall driving bit in the game is quite sucky... Yeah it's arcade game and was never meant to be realistic but even in arcade spirit it could be better. Especially I dislike how cars slide in the game. Without knowing the car, you can't really tell is it front wheel or rear wheel drive. Or 4wd. But nevertheless I've spent like 10 hours with the game. It kinda hooks you. If I win one more race I can get that engine upgrade... You know what I mean. And although the handling is a bit dodgy, the actual races work quite well.

I am a better programmer but I believe only because I've had more practise and experience in it. However if I had the time to learn graphic designing I believe I could master it more easily than programming.

<quick notice>nForce is not a motherboard, it's a chipset</quicknotice>

Well PCIe has physically faster bus than AGP. So naturally it is faster. But how fast , say, a graphics works depends how well it takes advantage of the faster bus. PCIe is not a bad choice to buy. As long as money is not an issue.

I don't suggest flashing your BIOS. Never ever flash your BIOS unless you need a new version. Flashing has been made a bit too easy nowadays. People might not realize that there always is a risk.

Juts posting this to make sure that no one gets the wrong idea... Hyperthreading doesn't really make the computer run two processes at the same time. That is impossible as long as there is only one CPU core. Hyperthreadining almost does it.

I use Wordpress at my site http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I have only changed the CSS and added my sites logo.

I think what Kellafab means is how to process form data with PHP. It actually is easy as pie. Form variables are stored in global variable arrays called $HTTP_POST_VARS (for post variables, ie. the ones you use if you use post as your form submission method) and $HTTP_GET_VARS (for get variables. For method="get" forms. The difference between POST and GET is that GET variables are sent using attributes in the end of the URL. Ie. what is actually done is that page "form.php?var_1=val_1&var_2=val_2" is requested. POST variables are sent in the HTTP request and thus are not at the end of the URL. So if you have a form which in HTML looks soemthing like this: <form action="form.php" method="post"> <input type="text" name="username"/> <input type="text" name="email"/> <input type="submit"/></form> In your form.php you would access the variables like this: $HTTP_POST_VARS['username'] $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'] $HTTP_POST_VARS is quite long to use so also $_POST_VARS and $_GET_VARS work too.

Now 6GHz is really possible. In one well respected finnish computer magazine was an article of some overclocking gurus overclocking P4 to 5200MHz. And that was several months ago so it is really no wonder someone has done 6GHz by now.

Shouldn't that be the other way? A>B means A is greater than B. You did quite bold choices there... Especially sayig that Intel processors are better than AMD. Prepare to get flamed And to hand drive you could have mentioned popular brands as IBM and Samsung. And I don't think Intel and AMD manufacture motherboards. However MSI, Epox, VIA and Abit, to name a few, do. LAN cards or NICs. How have you compared these? I'd say that all well known manufactuers do about as equally good job as possible on NICs. That is unless we go to the very high end performance cards or non ethernet cards. RAM. Where's Corsair? I'd dare to say that their high end models are better than Kingstons. Digital cameras. Pentax, Olympus, Nikon... I don't want to sound like an *bottom* but are you 100% sure that advertisements of these companies hasn't affected your picks?

I'm a fan of Irfanview too. Actually with plugins it is lot more than just an image viewer. Heck it can play mp3's, show video and do operations to images. And still it is ultralight as an image viewer has to be for quick loading and shut down.

There are usually reset jumpers in the mainboard. What you simply need to do is remove the jumper and put it back in. With computer shut off. To locate your resut jumper, check your motherboard manual. Manufacturer's website could also help.

That is amazing... Actually sounds too good to be true. Have you or anyone else used this service? And how fast is it and is there much downtime? The usage policies page mjentions that you may not use freesql.org database for a forums system, which is understandable as those are quite a resource hogs.

I either get the rough idea how the site should look immediatly or I won't even start doing it. Usually it's not a problem to come up with the design. Sometimes I just start my doing some graphics. I'll mess around with Photoshop, use different colours, fonts, brushes filters and so on. If something turns out to look neat and fitting the site topic I'll base my entire design to it. Sometimes all I get is crap. What results closing photoshop and trying again tomorrow. Messing around with Photoshop is also a good way to learn new tricks.

I'm not surprised that Microsoft uses products of competitors. Now that's just smart, knowing what the opposition is about. But posting screenshots... LOL I bet that was some disgruntled employee who did that. About MS using GPL code in their products... I doubt this, it would be too big of a risk. I'm not all too familiar with the US laws in this matter but if there was reason to doubt that MS uses GPL code in un-GPL product could a court force MS to reveal the IE source to be compared to GPL protected one?

I've been using GetRight for years and years. But the current trila version is a bit annoying... So inpired by this thread I'm gonna fix my download manager. As I type this I'm downloading that LeechGet. BTW thanks for the hint CryptonX.

I just installed Trillian 3 the other day. It is not officially out yet but an alpha release can be downloaded on a certain p2p network. Trillian 3 is absolutely amazing. I would recommend it for everyone, even if you just connect to one network (like msn). I believe it has all what the 'official' clients have plus eveyrything cool that Cerulean has came up with. I especially like the window management in it. You are free to create as many 'containers' (they use this term) as you want and you can position just about anything to anywhere. For example you can configure trillian to open all MSN chat windows inside same container in which different dialogues are tabbed (similarly as in Opera or Firefox). Other amazing feature is that Trillian searches wikipedia for words appearing in conversation. For exaple if your chatting partner uses an abbreviation Trillian might find meaning for it. All you need to move the mouve over the word and voilá!

or die("Insert Error: ".mysql_error()); What that simply does is, in case select_db fails (ie. returns false) the execution of the code ends with printing for the error given as a parameter. Semantically it does just what R3d's code, just looks tidier.

I think the future of Microsoft depends greatly on how well they will do in the media convergence. Will they try to conquer every possible platform or will they settle for compliance with other operating systems. Don't know really which one would be the better option for MS, might even be neither. Microsoft, like many other companies, are trying to get into as many possible areas of business as possible. They plan to challenge google in the web searching business, Apple (and others) in the electronic music business, etc. It is unlike that they will succeed in everything, but equally unlikely won't wind up with nothing.I don't think Microsoft will go down in near future. Most likely they will be able to keep the majority in OSses, regardless of how badly Longhorn sucks. Windows XP sucks but hey, people obey, download SP2 instead of running to the nearest Linux/UNIX store (ok there is no such thing...). The success of Microsofts OSs depend greatly on the gaming world, both PC and console. Will games companies keep on releasing less profitable PC games instead of console games? Also the technical development of consoles and their comparison to PCs (graphic accelerators in particular) performance will have its affect. I believe that for many people who play PC games regularly, including me, a change to console gaming would mean abandoning Windows. I have actually made a some sort of decision already that I am not going to buy 64-bit windows, unless it absolutely rules which is highly unlike. If the OS is difficult to use illegally (yes I'm a big bad pirate), and I update to a 64-bit system I will start using Linux or BSD and for gaming going for a console (be that PS3 or whatver...). And heck the gaming in Linux has been constantly, although slowly, improving.

Juts checked my phpMyAdmin and got no errors. I think that seems that your MySQL is not properly configured. Time to bug the admins.

I did a search at Symantec Security Response and all it gave was this page http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ It apparently uses a file called bla.exe to spread. But it is a ratahr old (as virii goes) so your scanner should be able to recognise it.

I've got plenty of free space at my hard drive and sometimes I like to rip a CD and mount it, just to save time. I also use my computer as my music player (connected to an amplifier and hi-fi speakers) so there's got to be room for CDs.

Bigyan, an excellent thread. The fact that we are not able to find information based on the context, as you expressed it, is the challenge of the web. The problem lies in the HTML. Well not specifically HTML, just the fact the it became the most used document format in the web. HTML is, as you know, a markup languge. Apart from the text and the images (and other such objects)a HTML document only includes information about how the page should be viewed in a browser. What it lacks is meta-information. Trying to avoid writing a novel here I just explain meta-information with one sentence: Information about information. What languege should be used then? Well probably somthing with meta-information. That'd be XML. Instead of sayiong just "bird" in XML there is: "<animal>bird</animal>". This leads to the concept of semantic web, a meaninful web. A web that is not just helluva lot of text but more like an organized database. So when you wanted got information on a person whose surname is "Bird" you wouldn't get stuff about flying animals.

Yeah, hockey rules! I'd say hockey is my favourite sport, along with motorsports: Formula One, WRC, MotoGP.