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okay, I might have forgotten we were talking about children . But I honestly still think that giving laptops to children isn't such a great idea, even tough computers are taking over the world, writings skills are still more important imho. These are my math notes Fourrierseries: Overview of a Daub6-transformation (my pens were dried out a bit, that's why it's so messy ... yes, I know, you can't run out of ink on a laptop) Haar transformation:

Thanks for the hints . Too bad I'm a bit impatient, I went to the microsoft camp, knocked on their door and they've chained me to this beast they call Outlook . Nah, I'm pretty happy with outlook, it's a bit annoying in the beginning and google calendar synchronisation is a hard, but I just try to organise my whole life on my PDA .

That's pretty basic mathematics imho. Just wait until you start working with integrals, summations, matrices ... takes a lot longer to write those on a laptop (I'll post some of my maths notes when I'm at home ).

Untill they make up the rule that all your projects must run on the software that is provided on the computers they have in the laboratoria . The reason is very simple, if you make something, the teachers want to try it on their computer too (when you're not watching so they can take their time to find errors ). It's a very annoying rule imho. I've made an app in Netbeans on my laptop but my laptop has Java1.6 installed whereas the computer in school have Java1.5 installed. Guess what, it won't work in Java1.5 .

writing yes, making notations during classes, absolutely not. As I've already said, you can't easily draw on a laptop, so there'll be less structure in the notes. Also, writing formulas is a lot faster than typing them (in maths I write my notes and I'm at least 4 times faster than my neighbour who always writes them on his laptop).

and what about OpenSolaris ? I have 2 DVDs here at home featuring some distributions of OpenSolaris (Belenix, Schillix, Nexenta and Solaris Express). I haven't been able to get them running (and the LiveCDs are incredibly slow and I'm incredibly unpatient << ) but they don't look like server OSes.Is openSuse realy that good ? I might install linux during the upcomming vacations and maybe I'll use openSuse (cus I don't like Ubuntu either because it boots so slow on my main computer and I do prefer a more mature distribution like Slackware, but I don't want to waste my time on configuring it descently because I have exams after the vacations).

I bring my laptop to school amost every day and I must say it's not such a good thing. For excercises in the laboratoria it's a great device, I have all the applications and settings on my laptop and I don't have to copy everything from the computers back to my laptop (and because having a laptop means having 2 screens, I can easily put a pdf on one screen while working on the other ).In theory classes I think a laptop isn't such a good idea. Whenever I get bored I open Opera and start surfing and because I can't focus on 2 things I quickly forget I'm in class ... Taking notes goes a lot faster on a piece of paper, the possibilities are unlimited whereas you're quite limited when you do it on your laptop. Btw. some people don't like to learn from a computer screen, I myself am such a person; I still prefer learning from a piece of paper .Oh, and don't forget, children can be very creative when it comes to getting what they want. You can install dozens of security systems, children will always find a way to bypass them .ps. it's also very annoying when other people start gaming during classes, I'm easily distracted so my attention is being pulled away to the little gaming caracter flying over the screen.

haha, lol . I'd say, get a dish-washer .If I can give you a tip: make sure you wash them in very warm water (use rubber gloves to protect your hands !) so you don't have to dry the dishes . Because of the heat, the water will evaporate very quickly and you'll have dry dishes in 15 minutes

I don't know why they make themself look so different from other Linux/Unix platforms . They've send me 2 DVDs (for free ) with some distro's on it and one of them is almost a complete Ubuntu copy . Too bad it works so bad on my main computer (and Vmware/VirtualPC), otherwise I might have tested it a bit more thorough.

I've been programming for a year and a half, I basicaly started doing it when I started my high school studies . I've programmed a few things before in C and VB, but those I never got any further than making a few loops and output statements . Until now I've studied these languages (most programming languages knowledge is realy basic) C++ Java PHP (and HTML, but that's not realy a programming language, now is it - ow, and a tad of SQL too) Matlab VHDL (hardware description language) Things I'd like to learn: Cobol (seems to be that IBM is begging for people who know this language) Python more Java, I love it (and a lot of firms require you to have some Java knowledge)

Hey Karmen, there's an online tool that can check if you did something wrong: You enter the link to your site on http://validator.w3.org/ and press validate, it'll check if everything is written according to the standards

1gb is the absolute minimum, at the moment windows has only 1033Mb memory left out of 2048... (okay, I'm running a big Java application, but it's comparable to 2 non-java apps ) and I even have a lot of useless vista stuff disabled (like the Aero interface).Habtastic, you can disable all the annoyances of vista.First thing you can disable is UAC, go to the control panel > useracount. You'll find a link to 'disable user account control' (or whatever it's called in english ), click it and disable it (you'll need to reboot before it's disabled)Next thing you could disable is the security center:Go to control panel > security center. Somehwere overthere you'll find a link with options regarding the messages, the icon of security center (long time ago I've disabled it ). Anyway, you can set it to not notify you about security issues and even remove the security center icon from the system tray).If you now what you're doing, you could try disableing some useless services (there are a lot of them, but be carefull since some useless services will put vista in 'limited mode' if you disable them (one of them is readyboos) .

That would indeed center all your text. I would usualy not use the center tags, but there good for starters . If you want to set the background and textcolor, you'll have to add some information to the body tag: <html><head><title>My Name Is Karmen</title></head><body style="color: #898989; background-color: #AFAFAF;"><center><h1>This Is My Webpage</h1>Hi!</center></body> The #898989 is a hexadecimal code that represents a color. The first 2 numbers are for red, the next 2 for green and the last 2 for blue. The larger the numbers, the more a color is represented. A few colors: White: #FFFFFF Red: #FF0000 Green: #00FF00 Blue: #0000FF Purple: #FF00FF Grey: #999999 If you don't understand the hexadecimal code, you could use names instead, but your limited to a certain amount of color:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_color_names

I think that the positions are for putting modules in. Joomla comes by default with a lot of position(names) like user1, user2, ... you can use those in your template, but if for example you want some more meaningful names like 'searchbox' and 'newsticker' then you could add them to the list (I run an older version of joomla, but there you could find the list in Site>Template Manager>Module Positions)

You could use SyncToy to sync the data between #1 and #2 . It's a bit crappy sometimes, but it always does a good synchronisation. It checks the modified date stamp and if you want it can also check the file content for changes (some programs have the habbit of changing the modified data stamp when they open a file ). For #3, if you use FileZilla to upload your data, you can set it to only upload a file if it's newer. Number #4; since you probably don't access it too often and probably contains only outdated data I'd say you just copy everything to it from time to time . About XAMMP, check the httpd.conf file. Using the line Listen 80you can change the port on which the server listens. I don't know if this works, but maybe if you change ServerName 192.168.10.1:80to ServerName 127.0.0.1:80 then the server might only work on your computer.

I've just recently started to do some real webdesigning (actualy just finished writing a template for joomla ) and it's realy pain in the *** . Even if you follow the standards, how hard you try, there's always one browser that just doesn't want to do what you ask it to do (believe, me, it's not only IE that gave me headaches, FF, Opera and Safari were responsible too).About the tables, at first I wanted to make the whole design using just tables, but a friend of mine refused to help with the template if I didn't used div's . At first they're hard to use, but now they don't pose too many problems anymore .I think the most important questions in webdesigning are: what do people want to see (visual)how do we organise the website so that it offers a logic structure (logical)what is important and what is less important (structural)Just my 2c

First things first, 'tables' are made for data, not for designing or structuring websites ... you'll need div's as toby already suggested. If you realy want a 100x200 div to place the image in (eg. if you want a border around it, then you'll need something like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Blablabla</title></head><body><div style="width: 100%; text-align: center;"> <div style="width: 200px; height: 100px; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #999;"> <img src="ze_image.png" alt="thiz is an image" /> </div></div></body></html> Otherwhise, this will do the same (this actualy just centers the image). <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Blablabla</title></head><body><div style="width: 100%; text-align: center;"> <img src="ze_image.png" alt="a smiley" /></div></body></html>

I've installed the final version for vista a few weeks ago and I am so happy now . It works a lot better than the beta versions and the new network detection is a great addition (tough I don't see why it notifies me 10x for the same network ).The defense+ system got a bit annoying so I've just disabled it , I don't visit louche websites and I do have a good virusscanner installed, so the need for the defense+ system is low.The only thing I do miss is a feature that the windows firewall does have, and that is a more advanced network detection. Everytime you connect to a wired or wireless network, windows asks you whether it's a public, private or corporate network and based on that information it (de)activates some rules. If Comodo could detect networks (instead if IP-adresses) and would trigger some rules based on that information, it would be the greatest of all

At school they've decided to force us to use a proxy server (a sucky one because it's more offline than operational). As an Opera user, it's just a matter of pushing F12 to enable or disable the use of a proxy server, but IE users and FF will have to do a litlle bit more. That's why I've made this little "script" for the other users at school (in fact it's just a .reg file that windows will import). Set and enable a proxy server (copy the following code into a file with a .reg extention) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] "ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001 "ProxyServer"="10.22.40.6:3128" Set and disable a proxy server: (same thing, copy to a DIFFERENT file with a .reg extention). Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] "ProxyEnable"=dword:00000000 "ProxyServer"="10.22.40.6:3128" If you save them on your desktop, it's just a matter of double-clicking the file to enable or disable the proxy. Firefox users can use a small addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quickproxy/ ---------------- While I was trying to make things more easy, I've made a small script that easily maps network drives (eg. by a single click, I can map all the shared folders on my main computer as network drives on my laptop ). Make a .bat file and copy the following code to it net use z: \\127.0.0.1\z replace 127.0.0.1 by the name or IP-adress of the external computer and 'z' by the name of the shared folder you'd want to map. 'z:' defines to drive letter. So, for example: net use p: \\my_computer\mediaWill map the shared folder 'media' on 'my_computer' to the drive letter p: Happy networking .

How on earth do you organise all those accounts ? I have 5 e-mail accounts (1 gmail, 2 hotmail, 1 school-addres and another one) and I hate that because everybody sends me e-mails to a different address .

I've found an unused Outlook version at home so I've installed that one and I'm quite happy now . Synching with Google Calendar is a bit tricky, but hey, it works .Now I only have to update, re-organise and clean up my contact lists

I'm more looking for an offline thing to organise my stuff. So it looks like I'm stuck to using Outlook as my PIM , ah yeah, it might have advantages I suppose . Btw, Outlook Express is a no go, it's crap .

only Outlook users here ?

sick poll dude, could you please try to limit the amount of option to 1 version, like Opera 9.x, Opera 8.x, FF2.x, ... this will give you more transparent and representative results. Maybe even limiting the option to Opera, FF, IE, ... is the best, because most people try to use the most recent version.As for me, I'm a real Opera addict , I started using it a few years ago when it still had ads (I even still have some free license keys they handed out ). Since then it realy grew, almost every site is rendered correctly, it's first startup is slow, but after that it's realy fast. The mail client is basic, but that's all I need ... For testing purposes I also have IE6, IE7, FF2 and Safari3 installed, but I hardly use them (they're installed on a virtual machine)

It's not because it's officialy not supported that it won't work . You can always try to use drivers made for XP .This is how I got an Artec AM12U+ scanner that only worked up to 2K working on XP, I simply used the 2K drivers