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Looks like a solid compostion to me. About the cooling... You'll never realyl know until you've got the computer together inside a case. I've always thought that using the boxed coolers is the best way to go for starters It's safe as you've got the manufacturer's promise it should be enough and if you feel like you want more silent/effective cooling you can easily upgrade. And at least the last time I was processor shopping, the price difference between sole processor and the boxed one was marginal.

That's really cool looking car. Good work there. I agree with Mirdux that a slightly longer hood would look better. Anyways really well done.

It doesn't really help here... If there's a virus you get it encrypted, nothiong more. The encryption has been implemented in Azureus and ÂľTorrent and few other Torrent clients just to go around ISP traffic scanning and limiting programs. I have to use it to get torrent traffic though. The security issues with p2p networks is mainly just people sharing infected files. There is a lot of talk about how p2p is dangerous etc. and I bet a lot of the rumours have been started with RIAA, MLPA or other anti-p2p organizations. Just pay attention from what kind of sites you get your torrents and you'll be fine. And don't forget to scan the files and for CD images like Linux distros, check the MD5 checksums!! That's the easiest way to make sure you get the real deal and also saves you from the burning a disc from a corrupted image.

Yes, file_get_contents() was added to PHP 4.3. Needless to say, what you need to do is write the part in the old fashioned way where you read the data to a string. Basically implementing file_get_contents yourself. By the wasy, if your luck is anything like mine, you implement the function today and tomorrow they'll upgrade to PHP 4.3...

No Firefox 2 final yet... I keep the site open and keep checking like once per hour.

Those are good things to keep in mind. Although there's a few things that I don't agree with: First of all, PHP and ASP are not the only server side languages. What does the user care how the server does its business... I'm guessing Java here refers to applets. I don't see problem with using Java applets today, as long as they serve a purpose. Java is something that should really be installed on every machine intetnded for www use. Naturally alternative for browsing critical items such as menus should be offered but IMO Java is just fine. And XML... Semantic web is never happening if we dear webmasters don't start using XML. Remember, xhtml is XML and it's created for old browser compatibility (just gets intrepereted as HTML) but it's machine readable as any XML document. And pure XML with HTML transform or stylesheets is not an anathema anymore, few years old browsers handle it just fine. Granted, mobile devices will have problems, but why not convert it to WML for them? Not that different and not that hard. Anti-flash attitude is so 2002. I used to think so but after having some really nice sites implemented completely in Flash has changed my mind. It is really good technology to do things that html and Javascript just can't handle. I agree that Flash animations on homepage are sometimes annoying but can also work well.

Way to go Firefox! Next stop, the world's most popular browser.

Google has just acquired YouTube.com website: The founders of YouTube posted a video (what else?) where they talk about the acquisition: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Check out the grins on these guys!

Opera is great! I actually use two browsers regularly: Opera and Firefox. In Opera I keep open sites that I visit regularly, like my own site, some forums, auctions and so on. I typically have around 10 pages open in Opera. Also I use Opera for reading newsgroups and as an feed aggregator, it actually has the best feed aggregator there is! I like to have the important pages always open and get them all opened quickly when I turn on the computer. Opera has this fantastic feature of saving and reloading open tabs on program start. Firefox has some features that I like better than Opera. First of all the NoScript plugin. When I browse for something new, do searches or move in sites that I'm not regular, I prefer Firefox and blocking scripts and cookies. I am slightly paranoid about security and privacy Also it's a fact that more sites work better with Firefox than Opera. I think the best known examle would be YouTube with which my Opera has problems with full screen video. Oh and even better than the desktop Opera is the Opera for smart phones and PDAs. I've got a series 60 cell phone and I bought Opera browser to it. And man it rocks! It really does miracles for rendering normal websites to the small screen and the designers at Opera software have done incredible job with the usability. The cell phone Opera has saved me from a lot of trouble.

Yep, you basically could build an SMTP client with PHP. It's actually quite easy if you understand protocols in general and have some experience in socket programming. What I suggest is that you read RFC821 (for example here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt) and then take a look at PHP manual for sockets. If you want example code, you'll be able to find tons at least in C language. I remember reading about an open source project for a PHP class containing bunch of emailing functionalities including smtp. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find anything on it right now. And I do believe PEAR package has some sort of SMPT implementation.

It would be so much easier if the computer had proper server software. Windows internet connection sharing just seems to be so unconfigurable that it either works or you can't do anything about it. I am not an expert on Windows networking but could it be that the XP's ICS just can't handle the different uplink and downlink or it needs to be configured somehow different?

Your only good option is to use a fixed width page. Just don't do it with a table, but a div block. Checking for screen resolution and handing out "suitable" page for the browser doesn't really work as screen resolution does not equal the browser window width. I don't know about you guys but at least I don't use full screen browsing with my 1600x1200 screen. And people use much higher resolutions too.To be honest, "full window" backgrounds in my opinion are a bad idea. They work fine for websites that have little textual content and you can use a fixed sized box inside the document body to form the page, you know the kind of sites that are in that style. Or sites that open into a small window. Would a partial background be an option? For example, you could use a gradient mask to fade the background image into the background color. That could end up looking cool and be functional for all window sizes. Then perhaps combine the background image design with menus and a banner or a logo?

I uninstalled all the extension, cleared my profile from Documents and Setting, removed and reinstalled FF 2 RC1 and tried different themes. The bar wouldn't dissappear. I finally gave in and went back to 1.5.7. I guess I'll just have to wait for the final release

Nightfox, I think I know where you're coming from... You want to post both GET and POST data at once. Sounds pointless? Well it's not completely. I've used that method for pages that use a same PHP script to present all different pages, varying the content based on the GET variables. Sometimes it happens that you want to use a form on such page and sending it all through GET would get you really messy URLs and it could be that the information is delicate. On the otherhand using POST for everything would be inconvenient as user would not get a direct URL to the page and also because you'd might have to rewrite the page generating PHP script. Oh and it does work, juts put the GET variables in end of the URL in the action argument and use POST as the method. What the... I'm most certain that it didnt.

I just downloaded Firefox RC1... Had a funny incident with the download attempt: when I tried to get to RC1 download page my Firefox (old) just got the 1.5.7 download page. Took me while to realize the NoScript was not allowing scripts for mozilla.org. :PIt looks nice but what the hell is going on with the thick bar at the bottom of the screen? Right there below the status bar. Are you guys getting this or is this something like one of my old extensions behaving badly?Oh my the way, I'm loving the way RSS feeds now work, letting me choose what to do with each one.

Modem drivers can be a real *****. I hope the link Mark gave works... I haven't been using modems for years now (and I'm truly thankful for that) but I used to have a lot of issues with them. It's a huge criss-cross how the modem drivers can go: download the driver that your modem appears to be and it won't work, get something which seems to be for completely different device and it works. The reason of course is that manufacturers use different chips. So just for warning, if that driver doesn't work, be prepared to look for the original driver disc. And if you find it hold on to it like your life depends on it!

I would actually thought it was older. I remember I heard about Google 1999 and I wasn't then the Internet addict I'm today

1. There is a big need for better media searching. There's incredible amounts of media in the web but for most part there's no meta data associated. 2. Solutions: -The current one: try to gather as much information as possible from the context the image is presented. Problem: Doesn't work well as not all media files have context. Also the lack of taxonomies: you can't distinguish sharks as in fish from Sharks as in hockey team. -Engineers' solution: make the web context sensitive i.e. start transforming from current to semantic web. Problem: Would work great except for the fact that it would take years until we'd have a meaningful amount of semantic content available if the change even started really happening. -Common man's solution. Have the data categorized by people. Computers don't understand what's in a picture, for a normal person that's easy. Problem: Won't work because it would be insanely expensive. -Google's solution: Have the data categorized by idiots. Computers don't understand what's in a picture, normal people are expensive, for idiots that's only moderately challenging. Mask it a game and they'll go crazy for it. Make sure you reward them with 'points'. Problem: The ratings of reality TV shows are likely to drop, but what the hell does Google care?

You don't need PHP 5 for Wordpress. Php 4.2 is enough. PHP 5 is still widely unavailable, for example its not available here at asta and thus requiring version 5 would be a bit silly. Anyways you need PHP 4.2 which is quite usually available and MySQL database (less commonly available on free hosting. Easy way to test Wordpress is registering an account at Wordpress.com and getting a free blog! At wordpress.com they run a full basic version of the system and you get to use all the features. Only limitations are that you can't install your own theme (which is a bit downer) and naturally can't extend the Wordpress. If you like it then download and install it to your own webspace.

That's exactly where people who think that everything except "goth" and metal sucks draws their brilliant ideas... The song, by the way for those who are not familiar with the band, is about Jesef Mengele, the infamous nazi doctor performing hideous experiments at the Auschwitz (sp?) concentration camp. I understand that the modern way of life causes a lot of mental problems and never before people have been more mentally sick. And I completely agree with Jeigh: I understand suicide, the person just doesn't see a way out of his problems and has lost all hope and has no help available or doesn't understand to seek for help. But what the hell drives this kind of person to inflict harm on people who are completely innocent. If it were for revenge, I'd have some understanding but just random killing?!

That's actually in his original post: The file format in which the browser accept the favicon is different. Even static GIF files won't work as favicons in IE. By the way, Opera (9.01) loads the first frame of the GIF as favicon so it's not animated. Something you might wish to consider when you create your icons. I have one problem with animated icons. See I like to have my favourite sites up the below the address field in "personal bar" or "bookmarks toolbar" and for sites that have clear favicons, which I can easily associate to the site I remove the text for the bookmark. So up there I have just bunch of favicons and I can fit a lot more quick links Animated icon on my browser just doesn't sound very tempting..

Wasn't the origianl video a kind of accident? What I've heard is that he just fooled around with a webcam and posted it to his blog for his pals to see. So the guy decided, what the hell I might just as well do some money with this! Ringtones and t-shirts :)Yeah, the newnuma isn't as funny as the original. It's planned and thus less random and also the song is less embarrassing. By the way I wonder if he really now-on answers his phone " 'Allo? ".

Don't use the die() function then. It does exactly what the name suggest: makes the script commit suicide and print out the error message you specified as it's last words. Simply print out the error in a conventional way ( echo, printf) and make the script not to perform the other subscription steps (such as adding the email to the database). For that you need to use a regular expression. There's thousands of examples available online. Here's one thread about the subject: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/80809-topic/?findpost=1064280124

Besides of age group, it'd be important to know a bit more of the target group. Mostly, from where around the world are you expecting visitors? What language will the content be?

That's PEAR code. Basically, DB_DataObject is an API for a database connection. The line you qouted instantiates the class and creates object called $users. Then the whareAdd() methods are called to add conditions to the query. Essentially whereAdd() adds a WHERE clause to the query that is getting performed. You just don't see the SQL code there as its wrapped inside the DB_DataObject class. If you are interested in more detail or this wasn't clear check the PEAR manual at http://pear.php.net/ Regarding the actual topic: encryption the passwords, so that they can be recovered, itself is not a problem and doesn't pose a security risk. Just use strong enough algorithm and the passwords are safe. Well except if someone gets the key... And here's the problem: the storage of the keys. I guess big services (like MSN hotmail) use asymmetric encryption and keep the secret key somewhere else. Just use the public key to encrypt the user inputted password and compare it to the one in the database, essentially the same operation as with hashes. For the relatively rare case of lost password recovery the encrypted password could be sent to the safe place where it can be decrypted with the secret key. As a side note to these password issues... Isn't it funny how people go to great lengths in securing the password in the dabase with multiple hashes or very strong encryption methods and then when we need the old password back or a completely new password it gets sent in unencrypted email...