Jump to content
xisto Community

wedjarl

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    77

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by wedjarl

  1. Posted · Report reply

    Opera is faster and its a true cross platform browser. It worked perfectly fine in every OS. Firefox on the other hand is quite buggy especially in older versions of windows, specifically on windows98. The Firefox icon doesnt show up, update icon doesnt show up, and often Firefox shuts down without consent. I know 98 is obselete but a good browser for me should work well on every type of browser. Firefox is a source hog. It eats a little bit resources more than Opera do. Anyway, Firefox is free..no ads, thats the best part of it. But if youre willing to spend cash on a reliable browser (no ads) Opera is the best choice!

  4. Posted · Report reply

    Phpbb is the best free forum board for me. with exceptions to those commercial ones. Most will probably raise their eyebrows on phpbb because its "unsecure" as some conned it. But for me exploits are normal things in life. we have windows exploited, linux and even mac. Just keep these things updated and everything will be fine.

     

    phpbb's inteface is better compared to other free boards out there. Ive tried out SMF, its good, features are good indeed, but its default interface is cluttered, default graphics are not good, organization of fonts, tables etc.. is not good. If you want a professional looking forum, or a midblowing forum interface im not sue if SMF would fit to that requirements You could cuztomize it, but for those who dont have any idea how, you will be stuck up with the "not so good" default ones. SMF templates are still limited as of now.

     

    The edge of phpbb i guess...is its current widespread community and development team. You could download tons of skins, mods everywhere...customized for your site or for your community. Plus its user friendly site (phpbb.com)..compared to the cluttered unfinished one of SMF.

     

    More reason for me to like phpbb is the upcoming PHPBB 3 Olympus version.

     

    http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/index.php

     

    The Olympus is very advance and quite comparable to Invision. Very good user management:preferences:user control panel. Well you could join the test forum to see it for youself.

     

    User Control Panel is good, manage atachments, profiles, friends, foes, graphics etc... The Olympus version even supports flash signatures. plus Very advance administration controls. I hope they release it soon.

     

    Anyway if youre willing to spend cash for a message board, the best one is V Bulletin. Stay away fro from forum boards which cant keep up its promise

     

    Back in 2002 IPS said "Invision Board is completely free for both personal and commercial use, no catches, no "spyware", no hidden costs anywhere.

    Apache, PHP and mySQL are all free, why should you pay for a bulletin board?".

    Its still true now. Apache, PHP and mySQL are still free so why not IPS. It seems like you have lied to us.

  5. Posted · Report reply

    Now I remember the express tools, unfortunately I dont think its free. I havent yet touche 2004 or 2005, so im not sure id these tool is inclusive in these versions. Im going to extrude name of an establishment (font type is script)..and chprop didnt worked our well.

    2. Transparency: If transparency is set to 1.0 the solids are simply invisible. I didn't understand what's the problem. I've never noticed it.

    (renders) Transparencies doesnt work out on objects perpendicular and close to the line of sight (camera)..they appear as hollow objects. Transparencies on Objects far from the camera works out, but as you draw closer to it...it will appear as a simple opaque solid. Very annoying. Ive searched the help files that adviced to set the transparcency to 1.0, but the object will be invisible it that manner, setting the transparency to .90, the object close to the camera will lose its transparency again. well this is in the older ADT3.3-2002 below versions, im not sure maybe they have fixed in in 2004 or 2005.

    A concrete winding stair. well not actually circle, a winding one. I was fund of escaping the view of winding stairs in interiors before, :) but lately someone requested an interior view, included in that area is a winding stair :(

    Well for me ADT seem to be very good in drafting (2d wireframe) but ArchiCAd has little edge on 3d modelling. Many have been arguing with me that ArchiCAD is better but somehow I refuse to believe. Just seeking others opinions on what software to focus. :wink:

    Thank you!

  6. Posted · Report reply

    ok here mine..mostly 3d modelling..currently im using an old and limited ADT 3.3...I havent seen yet the 2005 although I have touched up v2004.1. is it possible to extrude those texts in autocad? well just the write (plus any command) and extrude it. none of those polyline lengthy process...someone told me you could extrude it is possible (but didnt bother to tell me how :D)2. in materials (rmat) transparency seems to disappear as you draw close to solids applied with it. (or perpendicular with the line sight)..this is very annoying especially when working with interior projects with lots of glassworks..well creating those glasses on 3D Max will solve the problem, but im just curios if it is possible to fix this in acad. setting the transparency of the material to 1.0, the object will simply vanish upon rendering.3. how to create a concrete circular stair in a very fast way...I usually create them step by step, thread by thread, riser by riser...which takes so much time. is there a fast way for that?4. lastly, AutoDesk vs. ArchiCad..which is better?

  7. Posted · Report reply

    Its natural for avast to require much resources because it has more featues and a mind blowing gui. it offers six protections (standard, internet mail, instant messaging, outlookand express, p2p file sharing, web shield). updated automatically/frequently, plus a "virus recovery database". To reduce avast's resource consumption, simply disable those protections you dont need.

    comparing the performances/rate of detection of mentioned free antivirus softwares here...based on the "lab virus" of Virus Bulletin..Avast! has a good detection rate 11/19.....

    + avast! - https://www.virusbulletin.com/testing/vb100/
    + AVG - https://www.virusbulletin.com/testing/vb100/
    + AntiVir - https://www.virusbulletin.com/testing/vb100/

    Antivir is good, but stubbornly updated. It will took them some time to update the virus database of the software, when a new strand of virus appears. (unreliable when you need it the most) AVG on the other hand is good and require lesser resources compared to avast, but crippled with some features.

    If you want an antivirus which doesnt consume lots of memory Clamwin is a better option..

    http://www.clamwin.com/

    Clamwin doesnt offer on access scanning so it doesnt run on the back ground. To be able to detect virus, you have to manually run the scan option. :D Anyway, if you want a legal copy of AV and dont want spend a single cent for it, avast! is a good option.

  8. Posted · Report reply

    Certain issues arises when installing two software firewalls in a sole pc. I guess you better check it out if you have completely uninstalled ZA from your system. Probably checking out you registry and see if traces of ZA is still there. But I doubt it, ZA, completely uninstall everything. I have used Sygate before and my main problem is its so robust, slowing up everything. Im not so familiar with Sygate. When I hit the "anonymous surfing" or something like that... it drastically changed and slowed up everything. So i guess it would be advisable to lower up everything in Sygate.

    Another thing I have observed about Sygate is is doenst uninstall completely, (this was before, i dont know maybe they have updated the program now) leaving traces in your registry. Upon uninstalling sygate and installing another software firewall it would tell you to "certain issues arises when using this firewall with sygate, please uninstall it." so "regedit" and removing it from the start up solved the problem out.

    Last thing I hate about Sygate is its a source hog. It will eat up a lot of your memory screwing up everything.

    If you have something that works like Sygate, I would suggest either Kerio or Outpost. I have used Kerio for years, and personally favors it...but lately I have to uninstall it since my housemates dont have any idea about it. So ZA was the option, its so much easier to configure and use. :D

    agnitum outpost ---> http://www.agnitum.com/index.php
    kerio personall ---> http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

    both are free for personal use..

    Antionline Firewall recommendations..http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?265820-OMG-Is-this-a-logfile-of-me-being-hacked-on-IIS&s=&highlight=firewall+recommendations

    - Sygate – 81 times. *Doesn’t even have to look back to see who’s chasing them.- Zone Alarm – 60 times. *Folks still switching to Sygate, Outpost, and Kerio.
    - Outpost – 48 times. *Really favored 2002-2003 and moving up on ZA.
    - Kerio - 44 times. *More popular 2003-2005 and continuing to increase.
    - Tiny – 27 times. *Really popular 2002.
    - Norton – 13 times
    - Checkpoint – 12 times
    - BlackIce - 9 times
    - McAfee - 6 times
    - VisNetic – 4 times
    - ICF (XP) – 3 times
    - Bordermanager – 2 times
    - Look’n’Stop – 2 times
    - Symantic – 2 times
    - Jetico – 1 time
    - BitGuard – 1 time
    - Gnatbox – 1 time
    - Kaspersky – 1 time
    - OmniQuad –1 time


  9. Posted · Report reply

    So many ways to create that.. but the easiest way to do that is through photoshop. in photoshop you could control the over all layout, the way the site will look, well more like skecthing/painting up, using photoshop as your canvas and its tools as pencil and paints. You could control the over all design and concept of your site...After that simply slice up the image you have created..and the rest will follow, just alter the codings etc..place contents/scripts on areas you wanted them to appear in your design.

  11. Posted · Report reply

    Its not that hard to create a custom built templates. Photoshop is a perfect software to create nice templates and layouts. Before I usually admire templates..how they are done, yet I was hesitant using them, for a single free template, probably there are thousands out there who are using it too. Templates are great web design guidance for me. You could grow and learn a lot from studying layouts made by others.

  12. Posted · Report reply

    Google has a privacy policy, terms and conditions etc.. if the owner of http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ thinks Google violated his/her privacy policy, he/she could file a complaint or probably sue Google. Google has been on the net for years, and slowly they gained and established credibilty, respect, and trust of most netizens. And I dont think they would sacrifice or ruin those looong years of establishing their "Google trademark" for reading messages scraped from gmail or web searches.

  13. Posted · Report reply

    I learned the basics of HTML from Geocities. I was intrigued on creating websites. Ive seen so many websites hosted on it I was informed it was built free if you have a yahoo account. I started using the wizards etc..Geocities helpfiles was good to..and it gave me ideas about html editors like frontpage which leads me to exploring more about those preset templates in msfrontpage. next stage i found http://www.w3shools.com/rg-erdr.php?_rpo=t which introduced me to different languages such as asp, php...etc..

  14. Posted · Report reply

    Im not a big fan of phpnuke...CpgNuke (now cpgdragonfly) is the best CMS for me. PHPnuke is big slug..especially to those with slow internet connections. Most phpnuke portal approximately loads about 5-10 minutes on dial-up connections so personally it isnt that professional. CPGnuke loads way faster compared to phpnuke. Plus the fact that, slowly, phpnuke is heading to be commercialized-propriety (closed source) cms..

  16. Posted · Report reply

    Assuming you have mastered HTML, PHP wont be too steep for you. Books are often very much useful, but if dont have any of them, online resources will do. Google is there to search for you....you could start reading articles about php from websites like http://www.w3schools.com/ or any of other sites listed on Google search results.

    PHP is a flexible language. On a PHP enabled server, altering an HTML document, to a .PHP wont change how the page will look like. PHP can be integrated into websites by simply opening and closing tags (ie. <? and ?>). Everything outside the tags is treated normally. You could start discovering about it maybe by downloading some PHP scripts and see for your self your this PHP scripts work.

  17. Posted · Report reply

    it needs to be more .. .scattered arround you know ? not just a big multi-floor shape .

    A Digital Art Muesum is different from a Digital Art Muesum Complex. The former implies a sole structure while the latter implies a complex, a group of buildings. :P

    You could extract so many ideas from the Guggenheim Museum which you could incorporate in your site development plan, Radial Planning. You could have separate galleries for diiferent digital art, paintings, sculptures (made with different materials), kinetic sculptures, or works made with softwares, linked by a PYRAMID shaped walkways, pathwalks etc..

    You could play so many "modern pyramid" concepts. You could incorporate it interiors. The simple concept of creating a "glass-steel curtain wall" pyramid already implies a "digital + cultural" value. You could also have that Pyramidal form skylight above every museums gallery. Its just a matter of injecting these things to be part of your concept. Just like the way Jorn Utzon conceptualized Sydney Opera house from a simple ocean wave.

    http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Sydney_Opera.html

    Conceptualizing the Pyramids of Egypt for a Digital Museum is a wonderful concept, well for me. :P Goodluck.

  18. Posted · Report reply

    I cant give your resources. (since of course all of them are books)..but anyway just my personal point of view about this...

    A concept for digital art museum...think like Frank Lloyd Wright..he created structures and defined spaces out of simple concepts of mass + function. Well I think Wright's Guggenheim Museum is a great guide for you here.

    http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
    http://www.futurespark.com/

    "Form follows function". The circular gallery of Guggenheim Museum was perfectly designed. (Following function) People will naturally or would love roaming around a circular space, so for your gallery I would suggest either a circular or octagon plan. Containing that circulation in a square, I must say is well bland for me. The gallery of Digital Art is the apex of your design here. I think this is the area should have that impact.

    Now after defining the space for your gallery, define other spaces, and follow your "I want something unsual" instinct for your form. On my personal point of view, a characteristic of Digital Art Museum is...

    1. it should employ new and advance materials...a steel-glass-aluminum/metal fram/cladding stucture

    2. museums should have that "Cultural" and dignified impact..with great respect to the first "master builders" of the world.. I would suggest you to inject and consider the Pyramids in your concept

    3. you could express more a "Digital" Digital Art Musuem through its interior.

    now... circulation, (e.g circular) + employing new materials + cultural impact, or cultural identity of your nation (Pyramid of Gizah) + interior design considerations.

    I think you could create numerous schemes out of that. As for the space/zoning/etc.. requirements of a Museum..Google is there too to help you around.

  19. Posted · Report reply

    As far as I am concerned xeon, Google ads were running here (in this forum- even before the advertisement script existed). As a matter of fact the Google logo is still there..but I think "again" it was suspended. Google adwords policy are so strict...and "famed" to have that "smart cheating" detection.

     

    To those looking for a pay per click program, (something that resembles like Google Adwords) Clicksor is a great alternative.

     

    1. http://www.clicksor.com/

     

    Clicksor will pay you up to 70% of the advertising clicks revenues generated from your website. Contextual Advertising Technology by Clicksor allows your visitors to enjoy the content of your website and bring generous earnings to you at the same time

     

    2. http://adhearus.com/process/route/1666342681.html?refresh=noscript

     

    Adhearus brings the efficency and reliability of pay-per-click advertising to "the rest of the net" by enabling advertisers to advertise their product to consumers on relevant, related web sites. Webmasters can place ads on their web site and earn revenue for every click.

     

    I haven't tried these PPC's yet. So Im not sure how good or bad it is or if they really pay their clients or subscribers.

  21. Posted · Report reply

    Somehow, despite of all the negative steps pushed by atheists and pagans, and anti-Christ skeptics to disprove everything written on it, I still believe that the Bible, the basic foundation of Christian faith, holds the most reliable contents compared to other scriptures of other denominations.

    Before science unfolds discoveries about human health, the Bible teached us what foods to eat and what should we avoid eating. It teached us not to eat so much meat but rather to eat vegetables. Later Science found out that eating so meat is the primary cause of heart attacks and high blood pressure. Science discovered too the unaccountable benefits of fruits and vegetables to human health. The Bible warns us about taking much sweets or having so many sexual partners. Later Science discovered ailments accompanied with it, diabetes, and AIDS.

    The Bible is supported by concrete archeological evidences. It's not a compilation of tattle tales, stories and hearsays. As a matter of fact, it even accounts more information about certain kingdoms and empires, more than history books and archeology do. For years, archeologist tried to disprove several issues about history in the Bible, like the existence of "King Sargon", and the existence "Coin of Ceasar". They claimed that, such king and coin didn't exist, basing on the artifacts they have discovered, but..

    For many years, skeptics insisted that the biblical writer must be mistaken. After all, many inscriptions and archaeological finds from the Assyrian empire had been found, yet not a single one of them mentioned Sargon of Isaiah 20.
    But in 1843, French archaeologist Paul Emile Botta dealt the deathblow to this argument. Acting on information he had received about the small village of Khorsabad, Iraq, Botta began excavating the site and uncovered the palace of King Sargon. The magnificent palace complex occupied some 25 acres. Inside the palace, Botta uncovered reception halls with their winged animals, sculptures, bas-reliefs and many other artifacts with inscriptions everywhere. All of these gave a peculiar insight into the advanced level of art that existed in ancient Assria. Not the least among those inscriptions was a particularly revealing inscription discussing his actions against Ashdod, the very city mentioned in Isaiah 20:1.


    When archeologists discovered a silver denarius bearing the head of Tiberius Caesar, it was found out that the coin was put in circulation about 15 A.D. This is consistent with Tiberius period of rule as emperor, which began in 14 A.D. and it brings added support to the record stating that John the Baptist's ministry commenced in the 15th year of Tiberius or 29 A.D. We can read this in the writings of Luke in 3:1-2: =====
    Other scientific experiments were made to attest this discovery. In the late 1980's, two internationally respected Italian scholars from the University of Turin, Professor Luigi Baima Bollone, a medical examiner and Professor Nello Balossino, an expert in computer-enhanced technology were able to establish that the coin was minted in the reign of Emperor Tiberius corresponding to 29 A.D. in our system of dating.


    I have been reading all of those anti-Christ sites like http://www.atheists.org/ or http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/christmyth.html, but personally they are unreliable for me, they disprove the Bibles contexts word for word, phrase by phrase, without considering cultures and traditions and the "real" understanding of the whole books itself, and how and the way it was translated. Plus the fact that, they don't have any hard evidence to disprove the Bibles authenticity in terms of historical accounts and archeology. They have desperately tried for years to disprove its authenticity in historical accounts, but they end up taking the bitterness of their own medicine. They could disprove archeological, historical accounts and backgrounds of books of other religious denominations but not the Bible as I have observe...the simple reason why I belive in it...Archeology is there to attest its authenticity.

    http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

  23. Posted · Report reply

    few sites I know offers a downloadable "version' or their tutorials.

    http://www.grafx-design.com/phototut.html
    http://ww1.atncentral.com/tutorials.htm

    most tutorial sites simply publish them online...still you could save these webpages by using your browser (save as, full or complete or save with images etc..). Saved tutorial (webpages) very handy offline resources.

    http://forums.xisto.com/topic/81598-topic/?findpost=1064286303

    if saving webpages is a hassle in your case...you could purchase downloadable CD's, ebooks etc...or books of course. (most of them are not free anyway.) Google is there to help you find them.

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Guidelines | We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

  I accept