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I suppose there must be some like that. But I can say with certainty that the Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist religions, at their core, do not condone attacking other people on the basis of religion, but instead promote tolerance of non like-minded people.

I post frequently regarding troubleshooting problems I run into, and one reason is because I can't find much decent help around. I've made reference on occasion to the lousy tech support available locally, but I just thought I'd show a sample of it. This is from the Sci-Tech world, a weekly addition to the newspaper. It's not entirely technical, but is one of the few in the country, and as such is referred to by a lot of people. It also represents the average technical knowledge of the guy at the computer store, if even. How much more stupid can you get? Both pieces of advice are contradictory, and the guy obviously has no clue what the minimum specs are for XP. And this person is troubleshooting PCs? I almost skip the Sunday cartoons in the paper to read the tech support column, as it's more a humor column than anything else. Please, where can you find something lower on the intelligence scale than this?

I think the original topic posted was way too vague and open-ended.That said, I disagree that nearly every war has been started by religion. It is simply the most convenient excuse to cover human greed. It's not like the crusaders were all that interested in converting the Muslims. It was an excuse for the Pope to increase his prestige and power, and an excuse for the knights to plunder the spoils. And every other war has had greed or a megalomaniac at its helm, not least of which is Bush and his current mess in Iraq. At least he didn't use religion as his main cover this time, he used his WMD scare and "liberation of the oppressed people" tactic, and nobody today doesn't know that the main reason for going to war was the expansion of American military bases, and attempting to secure a cheap flow of oil. Is that greed or not, and what war at heart has been different? So i don't think it's fair to generalize religion as the cause of wars. It does get dragged in, however, by extremists, who use it to justify their means as well. Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, what have you, there will be those who are racist in their religion, and can't tolerate diversity, and those will fight in the name of their religion. But that's only those on the fringe, and isn't representative of the religion as a whole. Plus Darwinism, Atheism, and what have you aren't any better, because they reset the concept of right and wrong to be whatever the individual feels it is, and remove personal accountability from the equation. And that isn't any better than the wrong side of religion.

I don't quite classify as a longstanding member of Xisto, but I have been here since July 2005 and I didn't find it difficult to obtain hosting. My posts have improved over time, but it wasn't hard to contribute or post new topics. I had a whole list of problems and questions that needed answering, and it was a double bonus to get them answered and get credits for asking them at the same time. I've slipped into negative credits a few times, mainly due to travelling, or like the time the SEAMEWE cable got cut by that fishing boat and the country was without internet for nearly a month. I had, again, just returned from a trip and only had a week's worth of credit left, so i was handicapped there. Other than that, even if i'm only able to get on for a half hour or so twice a week, I comfortably maintain 3 or 4 weeks worth of hosting credit, and if i had more time on my hands i could easily double that. I like that Xisto has a more technical focus, which is why i moved here from Xisto. But both hosts were equally reliable.

Windows will remain intact. As long as you don't mess around with the partition you have windows installed to, you can create, modify or delete all other partitions as much as you like. There are other tools of course, besides fdisk and the XP cd, but since they're mostly linux based, I don't need to list them as you know much more than me about them.

In fact we already have this idiotic trend which comes from the states where you can sue or be sued for just about anything. There's already that one group that gives yearly awards for the most stupid warning labels on things. The problem is that if they won't put it on, someone will sue them for it. I read once an article about a bus that had a minor accident. By the time the cops arrived, 6 people had gotten on the bus and were complaining of whiplash injuries. Urban legend or fact, it does make a point.

Paragon backup manager is very good. I used to use GenieSoft, but it has problems backing up PGP disks. It backs them up fine and the hash check says all is ok, but if you restore and try to open the backed up disc it keeps telling you your password is wrong. I lost data once through this, so i replicated the problem several times more and then decided to switch programs, as i couldn't afford to lose another pgp disk

I just happened to get the Top Gear series and as i was going through them, it seemed a constant thread that people were accusing Top Gear also of being responsible for road accidents. Jeremy Clarkson had some fine things to say about that, as usual: http://www.topgear.com/

Applause! Very well put!

But see, the point Paul was making is that it's drinking in excess that's wrong. You also shouldn't drink in front of others if it will stumble someone who does think it's wrong, even if it actually isn't wrong. And here Paul advocates it: As far as what Jesus had to say about it, I don't find anywhere where he specifically said, "go drink wine", but neither is there anything where he says not to. Furthermore, his parables frequently contained references to wine, and his first major miracle was turning the water into wine at the wedding. Why would he have done that if it was wrong to drink it? To Chesso: I would say that your neighbor is a christian in name only, and like that overused cliche says, Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. But it's true. And since Jesus said, "By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another" , he doesn't seem to fall into this category. A christian in name, but he makes a mockery of his beliefs by his actions.

I would definitely agree with you there. In what context, though? Still, let's hear it.

OK. Where does it say in the Bible (which is the basis for Christianity) that you can't drink? Christians are supposed to follow Christ's teachings, we're supposed to emulate him. And it says he drank wine. So how do you figure drinking is wrong?The definition of a christian can be summed up in what Jesus said: "Love God with all your soul, your heart, your mind. This is the first commandment. And the second is similar. Love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments are based all the laws and the prophets." He also said, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." It's the same thing, but expressed more succintly. That is being a Christian. If you're following those rules, you won't steal, you won't lie, you won't cheat, you won't hurt others, because you wouldn't want someone else to do that to you. You love God and keep His rules, which mean you won't do things that harm your body. But even if you do smoke or take drugs, that doesn't mean you're not a Christian. It's just that you're not living up to it. This breaks down into theology, but I believe that once saved, always saved. You can't lose your salvation, no matter how bad you are. But I also believe in a difference between salvation and rewards. You might still be a Christian, and be assured of going to Heaven, but if you've done nothing for God in your life, and you've flaunted all His rules, you'll end up in the basement. As it's put elsewhere in the bible, "in everlasting shame and contempt."Does that answer something, or just add more fuel to the fire?

Probably up to 8 hours a day, averaged over a week. some days it might be 4, other days 12 or 15 hours. Depends on deadlines and pressing projects.

Right now i switched to Bitdefender 10. It's not a huge hog, and quite efficient at catching stuff. I was a huge fan of NOD32 because of their detection rate, miniscule memory footprint and blazing speed, but it failed me on two recent ones. The Ravmon.E virus, which even the free AVG caught, and the Brontok.C worm, which again, AVG free caught, and NOD32 didn't notice a thing. So after those two viruses infected my entire network, I decided to switch to something else.

if it is spinning ok, you could try wrapping it in a dishcloth and putting dry ice around it. --or an icepack, so long as it's not getting things wet. a cold hard drive can sometimes run anyways, when it wouldn't if it was regular temperature. I'm sure you've heard about people sticking their hard disks in ziploc bags in the freezer. it's only a last resort though, because while it does work in a lot of cases, you've got to get the data off quick before it heats up, and every time is more difficult than the last. it messes with the drive and ruins it eventually. can you still see it in the bios? does it make clicking sounds? try wiping the MFT and the MBR and writing new ones. run chkdsk with the f parameter if you can get it in a command shell, and hopefully you'll get something working.

How do we know they evolved that jaw? do we see early Iwasaki snakes with regular jaws? What if they always had that special jaw, because they always ate snails. Let's put some into a test where they're only fed snails with left-swirling shells, and see how long it takes for their jaws to reverse.

I agree with lonebyrd, it's not like you can blame the games for people's actions. why not television then, and novels, and music, and the list could go on and on. You can always try to shift the blame on to something else, but it's people's personal choice to act on it or not. Plus it's not like there wasn't any racing before nfs came along. True, with Fast & Furious there's a whole new crop of wannabe car racers, but there would still be that same crop without the movie, albeit branded differently. They might not have been so concerned about bling and more into the car handling. It's just that car racing is cool. There's an element of danger, there's extreme speed, there's pushing your car and your skills to the limit. That is cool, and that impresses friends and bystanders, which is why you do it. The problem arises in the choice of location, and that's where lots of people go wrong. It's a pity it wasn't one of those two kids that got killed instead of the taxi driver. Two rich kids driving Mercs obviously aren't short of cash, so why didn't they just rent a track? or go out to some deserted area? no, they had to do it in the city center. hopefully the stupid ones will soon learn or get killed off, so they don't ruin it for the rest of us.

plug it into your system, like, open your computer and physically mount the drive. you'll get better performance than over USB, and a minor advantage in file read & recovery. Use something like disc doctor, or possibly a drive cloning program to mirror your failing hard disk, then recover from that. or something like badcopy pro is pretty decent at recovering messed up files off of pretty much anything.

But still, for the most hit sites that carry spyware and malware, google has the malware warning before you click on the link, so you'd have to be pretty stupid to go ahead and click it anyways, either that or you have a fetish for troubleshooting and reformats.

I like Jeremy Clarkson's comment on Top Gear, something to the effect of "I've cured smoking by taking up smoking (tires)"

not anymore. now you can just fill out the form and get a gmail account without having to have a cell phone. But also, even if they switch to googlemail, and you get stuck with JohnDoe@googlemail.com, you can still give out your address as JohnDoe@gmail.com and it will send it to your googlemail box anyways. then if you use a POP3/SMTP client that supports it, you can mask your googlemail address so that when you send email to people it looks like you have a gmail address extension. --to avoid confusion. Now that i said that, i think it's even right in the gmail settings, where you can specify a return address and sending address?

I think that if it's software-related, it could be a bug in the vista installation. I had a problem once (with XP, not Vista) where somehow there was a glitch in the install, and then my computer processor would run at 100% until it overheated or i shut it down manually. reinstalling worked, not repairing.Either that, or perhaps your power supply isn't rated high enough to provide the extra power the graphic card needs for Windows Aero.

How does not updating Java stop your antivirus from catching viruses???

I don't think frontpage should even be in the same class as dreamweaver. There i think you can draw the line, that Frontpage is a WYSIWYG editor for absolute newbies, but then when you get to a more professional level, you have Dreamweaver or plain coding. I think Dreamweaver is just as good as a text editor, you get the option to only work in code as well if that's what you prefer. But a more visually oriented person who could be just as talented as the coder can use the graphic or the split layout, and get their work accomplished a lot faster, because they can see the project in its final form as it's built.

I had the D-Link 108 Mbps router. I was very impressed with it at first. it was fast, and had great security and controlling features. But after a couple months it started giving me problems. it would freeze every ten minutes and i would have to go and unplug it and leave it for a while before i could plug it in again and get some more time out of it. Sne it back to Dlink for repairs, and they gave me another refurb in exchange. it didn't work from the beginning. they eventually refunded the cash and i bought a US Robotics. It does actually get up to 120 Mbps, of course not over such a long range, and you have to have the proper client cards to utilize the speed boost. Also i notice it has about a 30% range decrease from the Dlink, but i'm fine with that because i have an access point for my downstairs anyways, so it's a non-issue. i wonder though if it was caused because i use it so heavily. i have P2P going 24/7, and i specifically asked the shop for one that could handle it and they assured me the Dlink could. But since i don't have it anymore i can't tell what it was. Also another downside of the US Robotics router is that it only has very basic features, nothing fancy like the Dlink.