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thanks for the link Xeon

I am all about accessibility so I make my sites as accessible as possible using css. I try to make the site look identical on the major browsers (where css and css-hacks will allow) beyond that, I think any site visitor who wants to enjoy the benefits of eye-pleasing layouts should download a new and standards compliant browser (like Firefox).Pampering users of obscure (and more importantly, non-standards-compliant browsers) causes the vendors of those obscure and non-standards-compliant browsers to keep pushing mediocre merchandise .thanks for the link nonetheless

I agree with MajesticFrog on that. What is needed is an Open Source OS that has the look and feel of Windows (but without falling into copyright traps), that way, most people would not be bothered with making the switchover. Linux seems to have promise and I expect that in the next 15 years, it should catch up enough with non-nerds to make it a reasonable competitor for MS Windows.

I'd say elementary C first then C++, then ADT-type C (for the sake of comparison with the benefits of having OOP paradigm) then Java. C is quite a primitive language that it helps concretize the rudimentary aspectsof coding. It makes nothing too easy so once you know the basics of C, you pretty much just need to learn the equivalents in the other languages. When C++ or Java follows C, it builds on what was once known as intractile and error-prone. This thus makes the programmer appreciate the fact that the newer language takes away some of the mindless stuff that the programmer had to keep in mind when coding in the more primitive C. Furtehrmore, it is easier, at least for me to learn an easier way to do something after knowing a harder way to do it than to learn the easier one first before the excessively less friendlier one.If you are however going to teach someone who does not have enough much time to learn the two/three languages, I'd say then just go with Java to spare them the agony of learning a programmer-unfriendly language and not knowing when to cut corners with more friendlier tools or worse, not knowing what these tools are.

As a rule, Flash is the current most unified form of multimedia authoring for the web so it is best suited for fully multimedia sites like movie-trailer sites, musicians' sites, etc where the site visitor is looking to be entertained (and will presumably have the patience to wait for gratification). I don't think sites like BBC.Co.Uk of Google.Com should use Flash because it just doesn't cut it.If you think you will be changing your site regularly, think of using css, and think of making you site modular. Think about loading your images and audio clips and text from external sources, and think of using vector graphics and symbols as much as possible. Finally, if you must use Flash, think about making it possible for spiders to still be able to crawl your site and in the interest of those who do not have Flash enabled browsers, think of providing an html version nonetheless.

I just browse and look at source code then apply what I see immediately and repeat a couple of times till I know what is going on. Never had any formal training. I think Google is one of the best things that happened to informal education.

I think Flash will triumph when it comes to general multimedia because it allows easier content creation, however, if Flash is to win over Java, then it must beef up its controls and features to be comparable to Java not just in terms of functionality but also with regards to similarity of language constructs. That's what will make it win over even die-hard Java fans. I personally like both.

I prefer Windows, but am warming up to Unix

Although I don't think an application that modifies interrupts will necessarily waste CPU time if its well written, I think your idea is worth pursuing. I don't care if it shows up as spyware because I am the one going to use it and will know what the program does even if it is flagged as spyware. Thanks to CryptWizard for the sugggestion too.

I just started coding in C++ and I need help with this project. The problem is to write a an application that acts like a keylogger which rather than writing what is typed into a file, will be able to intercept a character typed, look-up a hash table and a return what that character was mapped to instead.So that for instance, if my hashtable maps the Function keys to the first 12 letters of the Greek alphabet, I can just run this partial keylogger (or more aptly, key-transformer) while MS Word is running and and not have to use the Insert->Symbol map anymore. For starters, I'd like to learn how to do this in Windows before moving on to *nix or Mac platforms.Thanks.D.

Although I use IE and Firefox side by side, I prefer Firefox because it is standards compliant. I look forward to the day when exclusive Firefox users will outnumber IE users.

The one that comes in Mozilla

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I use Secure FX and CuteFTP

I agree with chilipie. Its frustrating enough to find your site design copied ditto by another lazy person, however, the nature of html on t he web and the fact that it is intepreted (as opposed to being compiled) makes it impossible to make it foolproof from copying.And any html guru knows it cannot be done. I personally learnt most of what I know by looking at people's code. I thus think its cool for people to look at my html code.Anyone who is tricked into buying an obfuscator in the cloak of an html protector has been owned for wanting to be unduly selfish

I think you need a PDF plugin to make Word export to PDF which comes with Acrobat. You can achieve the same goal by using PDF Printer Drivers like PDF995 (http://www.pdf995.com/download.html) which allow you to "print" to a PDF file.

I think its a great idea. If they hadn't done it, I would have tried to do it. Think of the many times you are researching stuff and you don't have the time to read a 1650-page prose to find the one-last quote to seal-off your argument because there is no index at the back of a biography. With this you can search for it (if you know how to write good search queries)Think about the many times you would have preferred to compare a circuit design on page 224 of the Circuit Bible with the ones on page 650 and 821.Now (depending on the size of the diagrams and the size of your screen or screens) you can open three windows and look at all the diagrams at the same time. Its very convenientThink about how it would be easier for people who could not afford/obtain books because they are too expensive or unavailable in their geographic location to get access to the info.Of course I think they would have to make doubly sure that their security system is tight to prevent undue piracy.

Image Slicing If you don't have the Adobe products, you can use GIMP which is Free and sufficiently adequate: Get GIMP from any of the sources listed on these pages: Unix: https://www.gimp.org/unix/ Mac: https://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ Windows: http://www.gimp.org/windows/ Here is a tutorial on how to slice in GIMP: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ After you are done slicing, you can use tables or css (I prefer css) to arrange the images. CSS Layouts I usually start off with pen and paper to get the basic layout right. Depending on the theme of the site, I might then use an image editor such as Photoshop, GIMP or FireWorks to replicate the (portions of the) css layout and thus render stuff like backgrounds and the edge of boxes.

I really laud this move to keep Xisto.com free.