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I think I need to go have a core dump, BRBB)

lonebyrd, since you say you enjoy learning how to code your website (woo!) I would reccomend completely ignoring the idea of templates until you are satisifed with your knowledge. That's why I made sure I knew html and at least a solid understanding of CSS and whatnot before using templates, learning is half the fun. Plus there is nothing saying you CAN'T use a template once you know how to do alot of the stuff on your own, but having the options available is always nice.

My old computer has all WD's in it and they were great but after a couple years there speed's dropped noticeably... could have just been the model though or something like that (I had a couple of the same drive). My current machine is running a Maxtor 120gig and Maxtor 200 gig and both are really fast and working great. The 120 is going on 3 years of heavy use and no noticeable deterioration of speed. The 200 is fairly new so it's still working perfectly also.I didn't read through this whole topic so it might have been mentioned, but Seagate has purchased maxtor anyways, so assumedly choosing one over the other is irrelevant now. I'm betting the maxtor name will stick around but the hardware will be identical now assumedly.

Yea that would make sense. I've been doing some reading and it turns out I missed a few others things I want to have installed so I'll probably still just re-do the kernel tonight and hopefully that'll take care of that problem and a few others I forsee me having eventually otherwise.

I assume the media player issue will be more of a hassle then its worth... the reason they have one without is assuedly DRM related. Hopefully they don't jack the price up alot on version with WMP haha.But yea, things like this are enough to convince me (more then I already am) to not move to vista until necessary. Giving two options for a "basic" and "advanced" version would be fine as you just think ok, I can barely turn on my computer, I should go with basic". But 6 versions? Come on, that's just retarded haha. That much choice will just piss off alot of people wanting to upgrade.I wouldn't be surprised if most stores only carried one or two, from the two extremes so they are the most different, and basically tell people "you either want A or B". Maybe a handful of copies of the others in the back for people who sound technologically competent.

Haha yea I was just reading that article earlier. I loved that line too B)I can sort of see their point though... if you release a free software that people can sell... it would make it insanely hard to keep track of which software is free that stores can sell, which software is free that stores cannot sell, and which software is not free that stores cannot sell without having a legit copy :|Sure it's something they should have known about beforehand, but I can see how this situation would arise.

Dreamweaver, I feel, is the best at what it does. It is a very well put together program, intuitive, and lets someone with little to no web knowledge create a profesisonal looking site. It is what I first used after learning basic html to make my pages go from basic to awesome. As mentioned though there is an inherent flaw in its design, the WYSIWYG idea.Frankly it is an awesome piece of software but all of the editors such as this limit you. Dreamweaver does a great job but it will never be able to give the same freedom as hard coding everything. That having been said it does a better job then any other of these types of editors that I have ever used.If you are in the market for a visual website editor, grab a copy of Dreamweaver

I actually had something similar happen a long time ago (random improper formatting of a drive) and never found a viable solution. At the time I had only one system and one HD in it so I couldn't exactly put much time into looking for a solution as I NEEDED my computer up and running for school related things. Since it was a formatting issue, you can't just install windows on it so I had to format and install the OS. I then used an undelete program to recover approx 25%-50% of my data files. Obviously programs were all shot as they had random files corrupted but that wasn't a big deal, just reinstall everything. Since you have other drives that you can move the recovered data to I would suggest the following. Find an undelete utility on google and scan the corrupted HD. See if the data is still present or not (should be, since data is there until over written), since you'll be able to move it to one of the non-screwed up drives theoretically if most of the data shows up, you could safely recover almost everything without worrying about overwriting as you recover (that was my problem, on the one drive as I recovered some files others got over written). This is not the best solution but if you get to the point where you are just going to format it, it would be good to try this first to see what you can save. Good luck

It is done...sort of ;)Since you guys were nice enough to help I figure I'll keep you updated on my progress.About 7:30 or so last night I started the gentoo install process. I had my partitions setup mostly before and went in guns blazing. I followed the handbook and everything went relatively smoothly. My network detected and setup automatically and I was on my way. It seemed alot more intuitive then I had actually thought it would be, not sure if I just knew more then I thought or had picked up more skimming over the documentation beforehand.By about 10:30 or 11 it was time to reboot the system. I probably could have even shrunk the time down a bit more but I watched tv while things were happening to wasted a few minutes here and there lol. Getting my boot loader set up was a bit of a pain for some reason... so I semi-cheated and used the ubuntu installer to auto detect my OS's and install grub for me haha. I still don't know why my grub file wasn't working when I set it up myself, as the options were identical in both. Ah well, it works haha.I now have a working, bootable, Gentoo system with a root and a user for myself for everyday use. Currently I'm at a bit of a brick wall as I apparently missed a module upon compiling the kernal required for DHCP so my network isn't being set up properly. Tonight after work I'll hopefully be able to recompile the kernel and add the needed modules without much problem. I should have spent more time when choosing modules to install in the kernal so I guess that was my own fault on account of carelessness and eagerness to see a booting system haha. Regardless other then that the process went well and at least I have a system to try to work on now

Haha maaan you know how to weave a story... everytime I check this post its like "here is a small piece of the puzzle, but wait awhile before I give you the rest" hehe. Keeps me commin back for more tho B)Glad to see it went fairly smoothly up until this point at least. Maybe after you are done with it you can have a bonfire with the install docs haha :|

haha yea I'm with you szupie, if theres a big chunk or something I'll pull it off, but I've never cared enough to clean it off... not like you see it when the mouse is just sitting there anyways and my mouse never seems to glide less smoothly because of it

You needn't know much about computers to do the things listed here really, they are mostly jst picking the right tool and clicking next alot, but they do serve a useful purpose as they all do keep XP running good (well... "good")Personally I've never noticed a noticeable performance drop when I have programs installed (excluding if my harddrive is literally running out of space so it has to work hard to swap files) but having useless **** start on bootup can be evil. Msconfig is my best friend in the windows world as too many programs think they are important enough to always be running.Overall good guide. A nice concise summary of the basics of beating windows into submission and keeping it running as you want it to

I usually pick a template that looks similar to what I want and was coded in a way that I like, and then rape it and make it my own haha. It's quicker for me then coding from scratch but usually eventually the code is like 75%+ my own. Just easier to get a working base up and online using a template. If you want it perfected before testing it online then it'd be the same no matter how you started it I guess.Really it's whatever the individual will produce what THEY want with. If they'd prefer a professional level site even if they barely did anything on their own, templates. If they don't care what it ends up like as long as they code it themselves, obvious solution.

Microsoft mice usually work very well.Logitech mice go above and beyond.That about sums up my views really. I've had a few of each brand, and the M$ mice are always fairly decent mice with no real faults, but they are never amazing. My Logitech mx510 is awesome and was fairly cheap, and is the best performing mouse I've used. Logitech mice just seem to last forever and are a step up above other mice. There is nothing wrong with microsoft ones, there is just more good (imo) about the logi's

I would agree with justjoey. While the game has technically improved an extreme amount, the actual gameplay seems very familiar. I didn't feel the additions really changed anything all that much. To clarify, I haven't played as much as I would like, and plan to give it a second go, so these are just my initial impressions. But I played a chunk of the campaign and a bunch of snadbox skirmishes. The new units and changes to gameplay and the home city all add small variants, but don't make it feel updated enough to be considered a sequel. The reason I didn't play as long as I had hoped was because I had played AoE2 some a month or so before, aso 3 was unable to hold my attention.In the end, it is an amazing game, and anyone who loved AoE2 will love 3, and anyone who hasn't played 2 should try 3 as it is an amazing game by itself. It just felt more like an expansion pack and a graphical facelift then a true sequel. Still, great game though, I don't want it to seem like I hated the game, it just didn't wow me as much as I had expected it would.At least your resource gatherers no longer need to actually run back and forth all the time heh

Awesome. I don't mind messing around with things trying to figure them out on my own, but I just want to be able to get the install to a point where I can restart the computer and log into the distro so it's officially "installed" before I run into too many major issues. Plus I know I'll feel a need to push forward until I log in the first time after a reboot without chrooting in. After that I'll just work on it whenever I have some spare time, but until then I'm going to probably want to get through it as efficiently as possible until I know everything worked (or not) haha.Anyways, thanks again for the help.

human meat would be super cheap if you lived in a mafia dense city and had the right connections... how better to make a body disappear then to send it out in the form of 100 big macs?But yea, you don't often know what the meat you are eating is for sure. I mean with a steak or something you can tell (well, reasonably) but especially ground meat products you don't have a chance to know. If you have ever seen the ingredient list for hot dogs, you'll know how true this is haha.

That's good in your case m^e, where you are required to have hundreds of username/passwords, but for a regular user it seems kind of overkill.. I mean I goto (almost daily) a good 10-20 sites that require logins and I have different username/passwords for both and I don't have that hard of a time just remembering them... maybe I'm just funny like that :| hahaBut for personal forums and stuff especially I don't see why storing the passwords in a browsers would be a big deal anyways... if someone wants access to your account that badly you have bigger things to worry about then them posting naughty things under your name :|

I don't know about you guys but the dirt on my mouse is called Sammy. He's a pretty awesome dirt to be honest. Always there for me, listening to my problems, never complaining about being moved around on the mouse too much. Really he's everything a guy could ask for in a dirt!

But remember sarah, a nice piece of Jeigh steak wouldn't look all that different from other meats. I mean all meat looks a little different, but unless you were literally chewing it right off of someone, the meat would look like any other meat. Especially if prepared properly "Garcon! I want your best human, medium well, with all the trimmings!"

Alright, tonight is the night haha. Well hopefully anyways.I was reading through the installation handbook so I knew what to expect and I was wondering about one thing. I am going to be installing Gentoo on my second harddrive, and have grub installed on the master drive to boot my various OS's. Would it be best just to skip the grub installation for gentoo and add gentoo to the grub conf file for my current grub loader? I figure since it's not the master drive it wouldn't theoretically ever even load gentoo's grub install, would it?

*shudders* I can't stand avant browser. Not sure why, probably just knowing all the security issues of IE are just hiding behind a shiny new wrapper B)It IS a more enjoyable use then IE simply bec ause it has the built in popup blocker and tabbed browsing, as you mentioned, but I still prefer firefox. It just seems like a futile attempt... if you are going to switch from ie why stay with one based on ie? Plus you'll still get a helluvalot more spyware with avant then firefox or opera, the only reason you likely get less with it at all is the popup blocking.

Source: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/?Nage=1&pagePos=2 Not a virus per say but I figured I would throw it up since it relates to OSX security. Seems like something they'll be able to fix fairly quickly although who really knows. Hopefully they clear this up quickly and don't find any more vulnerabilities (I don't like when people act like OSX is infallible, but I don't want to see it getting attacked. Anything like this is bad regardless of whichn platform its on :S)

Yea I'd say Grafitti hit it on the nose. Those usb hubs often can't put much power out to their devices. I mean logically they usually cut one usb into 4, thus the power from the original usb hub is quaretered when it's pumped to the devices. A full 2.5 drive would take a healthy dose of constant power which a hub often could not provice.Didn't know the cord length affected it though... learn something new everyday (of course, this idea is irrelevant if the drive has it's on power adapter other then the usb cord...)

This seems like one of those techs that is unpredictable unless you are directly involved... I mean I could picture it taking 100+ years to get lunar or other types of non-earth colonies... but then again I could picture it in 10-20 years with the right innovations and passion behind it. We'll have to wait and see I guess, predicting the future is kinda hard... I mean... wasn't HAL supposed to already be killing off crew members a few years ago? hehe