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i certainly would give a pat on the back to whoever at microsoft fired the old gui designer and hired the new one for vista / office 12 / new ms stuff.windows xp style has been the bane of my eyes for years now and finally ms products may be able to looks good, even if a bit of a rip of mac osX.however you will have to try very hard to make me pay any money for and office suite. im quite happy with a slowly improoving OOo

MIght that attitude not be the reason that coalition troops are still fighting increasing insurgents who hate them and wish to remove them from iraq? as previously pointed out the fighters could also leave. making carpet bombing [which would almost be a violation of the rules of war laid down by international law, btw] a compleatly pointless and mindlessly dis-structive was of money, time and resources. sorry to flame so bad but that was a misguided comment. do not get me wrong, al qaeda and all similar groups are the ememy of the iraqis, the usa and all of mankind. and i feel for the lottery of the draft for you. i had no idea recruits were selected on such a basis.

these are the best political cartoons i have ever seen. [most are] absolutly hilarious. [but dark and also using swearing etc. so dont say i didnt warn you.]

its was the forums for knoppix i believe. it was just a question about root passwords and using super user. i didnt understand that the password needed to be set, etc.

yeah. the servers are down. xisto server status if that loads it will tell you the status of all the severs. as far as i remember gamma is the asta server. my paid hosting is down as well though which is pretty annoying.

heres my linux story.i am quite a young person [17] but have been around computers for quite some time. as my parents ran a business they had to have accounting PCs and i always used to play on them. mostly just simple games and the like. we also got the internet early on but that was back when the net was a bit rubbish for media etc so we didnt use it much. so i was always using computers. then i found a very simple book on html in my school libary. as i had notepad at home i started making websites. so from html i knew a bit about coding. time passed and i got my own computer and other things happened. then one of my family friends introduced me to the other side of computing. he was doing proper programming and learning how to make simple games in visual basic. [thats proper coding to me!] he also showed me qbasic on an old win 3.1 computer we had lying about. i played with that and even made a few text based games.but i soon got bored and went outside and played in the woods or something.the next time he came down he brought a cd with certain goodies on it. number one was firefox. number two was a crack of flash 5 but that is fairly unrelated. firefox was open source and i liked more and more about it as i found out. i had heard of linux but knew very little. i started to find out about it. then a friend in my maths group started really installing linux. he had decided on gentoo! i liked the idea of fast and cared little about easy [how hard could it be!]. so i installed that on an old 98 pc we had lying about. but it was networkless.recently i felt i really needed linux for security and ease of working with ftp and web hosting. so i installed a kubuntu system on another old pc. that was incredibally easy [especially after learning through gentoo!] recently i am reinstalling windows so i took the oppitunity to safely partition and i am now working in kubuntu as a dual boot on my main pc. and with that decent spec it flies.future things are going to be possibly a gentoo install on this good pc, and definatly a linux fileserver from random old parts. however i am afraid i may leave all that behind as i intend to get a mac next upgrade so i will have all the advantages of unix on a flash, supported and expensive machine.p.s. thanks for all the advice so far i have recieved about linux from these forums.p.p.s xboxrulz - i bumped into a post by you on another linux forum somewhere today when i needed help. and it was the only reply to the topic that made sence, thanks for that.

thanks for that. i was struggling with some program called imgSeek. i didnt realise that google were porting there software across. i personally wouldnt have thought it worth their while. i wonder if it is going to be a policy across their software.coincides with my theory that google are gonna make a linux based distro and release it free with all the software they are developing.

i have done a bit more research and i now have only one question left. when i reinstall it is likely that windows will overwrite the mbr and leave me with no grub. i want this as i still want linux so i think i can use grub4dos. but i dont totally understand what it's website meens. is this a program that i install in windows and then boot using the windows boot loader? therefor i can reinstall linux without worry for my linux install. can i?

im not totally sure about where this should be as it encompasses many different catagories, linux/photography/software. but this seemed best.are there any programs that i can run on linux that are similar to iphoto or picasia. i need something to organise, do minor edits, resize and export photographs. [like those programs]. are there any that might be good. if not does anyone think that picassia would work in wine. [dont worry i'll move to that catagory if i go down that route]thanks in advance.

would anyone [you yordan?] know enough and want to spend their time answering stupid questions from me so that i could get this sorted? im not too urgent at the moment becasue linux is my only distro for a few days and i dont really want to break it.i read what i could from that link and from a xorg.conf readme and didnt get very far. what i tried to do was to replace the parts of the xorg.conf file with what was on the nvidia page and change a few parameters. i then saved and rebooted and all i got was a bash prompt. whatever i did was useless so i restored my back up.i can post what i had and what i changed it to if anyone can read X configuration files.

hi again. im midway through the process but im a bit stuck. i'm very sure that someone here can answer my question.i want to reinstall my installation to a clean fresh start. im using a windows xp disc that the people who i bought the pc off gave me. but it is not the specific one for my pc [it was a display one and no idea where the oem disc is]. i booted from it and tried to repair my installation as that was what i though i was doing. all that did was reinstall certain files. do i use the option to install a fresh system to get a blank windows? and if so will that acept the code on the back of my pc as the correct code?also on a linux question: if i install a fresh windows will that affect my partitions + grub? especially grub as i dont know how to reinstall that in the mbr from windows.thanks in advance.

from my research i have installed the lastest nvidia drivers. i also installed something called nvidia-settings which does almost nothing. i basically have got as far as this page on their website. i am pretty sure this is all i need to do now. the only problem is i have no idea where i put this stuff or how. could anyone help with this. all i know is that it is to do with X configuration files.

there is only one feature that i really lack when using open office: thesuras. it is such a useful tool on ms office and i really miss it on oO. other than that i dont really find very many differences between the two programs. that makes oO better as it costs nothing.when i reinstall my windows in the next few days i dont think i will be bothering with ms office even though i own it - so there you go.

i have finally got a linux installation on my main computer. it's kubuntu becasue it's easy and i started late in the day and did want to stay up all night on gentoo!anyhow i now have a pretty nice os. and it runs so fast. [1.5gig ram makes a big difference]. i have a dual monitor set up in windows and i want to try and get it for linux. i have a nvida card in becasue they have better linux drivers apparently.where do i start in trying to get this to run? i know enough about linux to just about find my way around and do simple stuff but ive not got much experience so i may be a little slow. thanks in advance.

i am very doubtful that film will ever die. it will most likely continue long after it is finantially viable purely through the support of die hards. and it is likely to stay viable untill the cinema industry goes compleatly digital, which though happening is a way off.as for the original question. although the quality of the lense is very important i feel that megapixel is more important. purely becasue it would be very hard to find a 8mp camera that could even take a bad lense. the stock lenses on the lowest range DSLRs are still perfectly adequate. obviously better is better.megapixel size is very important if the images are every to go to print. not publication is likely to use any image at any good size inless the size was at least 5/6mp. right now i am about to go out to take some images for promotional purporses and i am just going to use a 8.1mp EOS 350D. this camera i feel has adequate megapixels for the job, but any lower would be a problem.i think that we will se very large mp sizes in the furture and this will only be a good thing because general image quailty will improve. it is very likely in my mind that the resolution of digital will soon exceed the grain of film. however film will always have its own quality.

i have a slightly different opinion on the institution of marriage. i dont particually want to discuss gay marriage much because i am not a fan of discrimination and i think that homosexuality is fine and not mine to judge. but i will give an example of a gay couple with adopted children that i have met. they are my 2nd cousins or something and i think they live in new mexico. they have adopted 2 orfans from india. while this seems quite bizzare in one way these children are happy and enjoying to love of parents. they are only young and too young to understand how 'different' they are but they are happy. now i cannot see any problem with this set up. two people in love looking after children in their protection that they love. this is far better than having no parents.but on the issue of the institution of marriage i think things are getting better not worse. there is no way that it is possible to say that marriage was a pure institiution up until the 20th century. ever since the invention of matrimony patriacal societys have married off their females for status and power. this goes against all that marriage stands for. many people, men and women, were forced into marriages against their will. in today's society that is illegal. this is progress. i believe that today there are less 'fake' marriages, more marriages are based on love not circumstance. however this does not account for the amount of divorce and the breakdown of many marriages. i think that this many be related to the fact that our genetic ancestors didnt mate for life. most species of moneys do not, however some do. so that couild be a possible reason for the problem of marriage breakdowns. it is only that today it is more possible to divorce and frowned upon to stay in a bad marriage.these are my points today. i would appresiate discussion

no its not the start up. it's the speed in the internet. i just find it strange as it is only on my friends with AOL that firefox doesnt work well. on everyone elses it is better than I.E.

i have been looking at getting a new computer for some time. specifically a mac. so no-one try to perswade ortherwise, no point - i work in graphics and film.when i was looking a while back i looked at the powermac g5. they looked really nice and very powerful. they were also what i had seen when on work experience. but then news of macintel came out so i held off.so recently i have been looking again. i dont see the point in buying a ppc anymore, as like it or not, they are the past at apple. so it's either macbook pro or imac. the imac is really nice and cheaper but i do want something professional. i have been seriously looking at the macbook pro 17". it has the advantages of a laptop and i have extra monitors and a 300gig ext hd for at home. then i can pick up and walk out.however it only can take up to 2 gig ram and that worries me. surely that will become a bit dated quite soon. and programs will want more to run properly soon. i am also waiting for the adobe software to properly be rewritten in apple Xcode. what does anyone think?

two of my friends have aol internet, dial up and broadband. and both of them normally get annoyed when i use firefox on their pcs. they normally use the aol one becasue it is 'faster'. i cant really cope becasue it is just so ugly is not a proper browser. but they seem to have a point on speed, firefox does seem to perform badly on their computers. it is far better on mine at home.is there some way in which the aol browser has some way of optimising for the internet. or slowing down ff. it annoys me as the aol browser is rubbish. as proved today when by friend couldnt see page even when he reloaded, some reason it just reloaded a cached page!

i cant say i am a huge fan of what id termed computer art, a bit of a strange name seeing as a photoshopped image in a gallery would be photography. but that does not make is a lesser art form. art is not a definition of format that is what dictionary.com has to say. if you think it is art then it is.

it sound like i'm undercharging. $200 a page! the last site i build was 5 pages and i 'sold' it for about $250 [£150]. it's even easier money than i thought and i am going to have to raise my prices. that said low prices do make me an attractive propersition for a small business. its a bout finding a balance and being resonable i surpose.

i discovered this guy: MC Plus+ through a blog. i rekon you guys you have a listen. its pretty amusing but i dont even get all the jokes. im not gonna spoil it by telling you what its all about but you should be able to guess from the name. go to the download section and you can listen for free.

i am currently in the process of re-installing windows. i have a 300gig external hd which i have backed up all i want onto, but i am still terrified i've forgotton something important. i just had to hack into the system32 to blank my forgotton admin password, thanks to the tutorial i found on these pages. i just have a few questions to ask:* how can i save my emails and my firefox preferences [bookmark and scrapbook]. i use thunderbird if that is important. i looked at the files and settings transfer wizard from microsoft but no surprized it only supports outlook and i.e. what a waste of effort the program is.* does restore to factory defaults wipe the computer back to the windows defaults or to the sony factory defaults. i.e. does it totally blank except for windows or will all the strange sony vaio programs be there?* are there any other tips i might find useful* also i have a partitioned individual drive. will the restore only erase c drive as that it the windows drive. or will it do both the partitions. if not i will probably have to format the d drive and then restore as i am trying to possibly remove viruses [not sure if they are there or not].thanks in advance.

i do this to earn a bit of pocket money and what i have done is used copmuting host but just made a seperate accound for each client. Xisto - Web Hosting is really cheap so i charge my clients a little extra for my time.i would love to hear from anyone how much they could 'value' a website at. i have never really known how much to sell what i've done for. sometimes i really get the feeling that i am undercharging. the problem is that i have no way of finding out how much other sites are worth.

the sans-serif font family is a must for websites. i can't really give you my favourite font becasue it is a selection of quite a few. but i can tell you the worst font ever:comic sans. it must have been invented by the devil or some evil madman purely for teachers to make worksheets with. never use it on a website as it is the most unprofessional font ever. it is best to use fonts on websites that people are not going to hate and that are easier to read. it is better that everyone thinks your font is bland that some people hate it.