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Jeps, I use livecd's almost exclusively for debugging and repairing computers . I have livecd's of many different linux distributions, a live cd with windows on it and a live cd with dos-like applications with many low-level tests and diagnostic tools

It's probably cheaper to buy a new laptop than sending it to a disk repair service. Anyway, it' sounds like a hardware issue to me. Could you download Prime95 and let it run for a couple of hours ? (after starting Prime, just say 'Just stress testing', choose the 'blend' option and press ok. If something is wrong with your memory or cpu, the test will stop. Btw, your laptop might be unresponsive while stresstesting, just let it roll

At this moment, running Android on a netbook would be like running Windows Phone 7 on a netbook. The current releases from Android are made to be used on a smartphone with a touchscreen. It's made for low-res touchscreen devices. The next release, "Gingerbread" would be the first Android which is also designed for use on tablets. This is a step closer to netbooks, but still... Android isn't made for netbooks... It's just too lightweight and useless (it's a bit like Win 3.1, lightweight, but useless on a recent pc).

Nice tutorial ! Code tags and a smaller font size would be very nice tough. I would like to point out that using threads isn't straightforward, when multi-threading, you have to be sure that you don't write to the same variable from within multiple threads. Reading a variable to which is written from another thread might cause a lot of problems too. One thread is okay, more than one thread is extremely hard to manage !Be carefull, check everything twice before you start coding .

Indeed, a clear warning notice on top would be very nice, people, this will kill your drive.Anyway, would have been nice if the guide would go any further, this guide just explains how to remove the cover. Removing the platters is extremely hard, even with extreme brute force it was impossible to do for me (read: hammer, axe, throwing, beating with rocks, throwing from 2nd floor, ...)

I used Google years and years ago because then it was clearely better than Yahoo! and they only had one business: hosting a search engine. Nowadays I feel less safe using Google as a search engine because I'm using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs, Youtube (which is now owned by Google). Occasionally I use Google, not because it's faster, just because it's better. What I'll probably never use anymore is Google Image Search, it's slow and it's horrible. The front-end for the regular search engine has been bloathed too. It's not what it used to be. 10 years ago, Google refused to put anything distracting on their search page, the only important thing was the input field and the submit button. Nowadays, it has more crap on it than Bing or Yahoo! . Since Live search was crap I started using Yahoo! and to be honest, once you're used to Yahoo (and you know how to phrase your queries) it's actually pretty okay. I get what I want, which is not always the case at Google (where you get a lot of 'sponsored' results). Searching images with Yahoo! still works the best, it's the old skool method: nothing fancy, just a page with 10-20 results and a simple filter. Searching images with Bing is nice too, the infinite scrolling works well, especially when you're used to things like tumblr or soup.io

You can fix this with some simple blur/sharpening, you'll have to do it manually. A little bit of effort can do a lot: Uploaded with ImageShack.us I totaly screwed up his forehead, but the top-left corner and the white band in the background could be fixed easily in less than 10 minutes .

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I did read it, but what I try to say is that a strong password won't protect WEP or even WPA as there are other, faster methods to break them

I must agree that the content manager in Dreamweaver is extremely handy as it also keeps your local content synched with what's on the FTP server. You do mention those pesky div's and believe it or not, those are the main reason I don't use a WYSIWYG because those usualy can't handle those div's very well and if they don't work I'm screwed because I have to find errors in code I've never seen before.

Try double backslashes in your string

First of all, it's a fact that Frontpage generated crippled HTML. Try making a simple page and run it trough the W3C validator, you'll get plenty of errors. Frontpage also tends to rely on using meta tags for describing your webpage, but most search engines ignore this information and even ignore you if you've overdone the information in these tags. If you're still using Frontpage, I'd suggest you to buy something new. Frontpage does not exist anymore, it has been replaced by Expression Web. A better option would be to get Dreamweaver, it's more expensive, but also more powerfull and it creates more standardized html (and it supports newer HTML standards).The best option is still to write your own HTML, if you're willing to learn HTML and CSS

I hope you're talking about WPA2 and not WPA because WPA is easily cracked as it was a quick fix of WEP. When companies started to realise that WEP was absolutely insecure, they needed to find a way to upgrade old hardware. However, the older access points did not have the headroom to allow more advanced and more computational expensive encryption methods and that's how WPA was formed. It's was designed to be harder to break, but it's cripled by the fact that it could only be 10% more computational expensive than WEP.

Small detail, a touchpad is that thing on your laptop that replace the mouse :)On a phone/tablet it's a touchscreen (the difference lies in the fact that a touchpad has a solid background) I have a phone with both a touchscreen and keyboard (a regular phone keyboard, not a qwerty one) and I'm so glad that I have the keyboard. It's very hard to write something using the onscreen keyboard as there's no feedback and absolutely no 'feel'. There are tools that allow haptic feedback (it makes the phone buzz when you touch the screen), but it's not as great as they want you to believe. There's always a delay between touching the screen and the moment you feel the vibrator.I'm not sure how it works on bigger screens like the iPad or the slate, but I suspect it'll be a lot better than on a small cellphone screen.When it comes to using the phone and it's applications, I must say that it works a lot better with touchscreen. It's just so much faster, instead of scrolling or looking for a key, you just tap on the thing you want. Same goes for scrolling on webpages, instead of pushing a button 1000x to reach the bottom of the page, you just give it a quick slide and you're at the bottom in no time .Next phone I'll buy will be a touchphone with keyboard, if at least some dares to release one

That's going to be tough one to fix To begin with, the picture is extremely blurry and it's almost impossible to restore the details in this picture (without adding details that weren't there before). Second, there's a lot of information that's simply gone. You can fix most of it using a cloning tool (photoshop, gimp, ...), but details like the blue ribbon around your wrist will have to be added manually.I'd like to give it a go, but I'll need a higer resolution picture and I don't want you to expect that I'm a pro, I just like a good challenge now and then It's best if you PM me about this

@aloKNsh: Nice I've just graduated from school and I'm now looking for a job as developer in Belgium. The first thing I've noticed is that it's hard to find a job as developer without being a consultant. Being a consultant is nice because usually you get the nice additions like a company car and maybe even a laptop and/or cell phone, but usually, those get subtracted from your wage. You also don't have to be super intelligent or an awesome developer to start, most companies realise that a junior developer isn't going to know everything. It's more important that you can solve problems and stuff rather than being able to develop (you're supposed to be able to develop, but as there are 1000 programming languages, it's hard to expect that someone knows a specific language, tough it's a plus if you know the language for which they need people).So, as a junior in Belgium, there are plenty opportunities, a nice wage and some extras

Many providers do not allow tethering because computers can generate more traffic and they can do it much faster than cell phones and this could overload the wireless network. Here in Belgium we have a new virtual operator, Mobile Vikings which is probably the best provider ever if you want internet on your phone. For every top-up of €15, you get 1Gb and 1000 text messages for free (valid for 31 days) and tethering is allowed, tough phone calls are a tad expensive (which is no surprise ). I've tried WiFi tethering on my phone, it works, but the power usage with both WiFi and 3G connected is huge, I can literaly see the battery indicator dropping Anway, for Windows Mobile you have to pay for WiFi tethering software, tough I don't see why because you can share internet connection via USB and via Bluetooth by default.

Safari on windows has the same problem

I second that, see if it still happens in linux, as Windows is the only factor that hasn't changed. If the flickering doesn't stop, it might be a good idea to go to Dell and just ask for a replacement laptop as it might be caused by power circuits or the graphics card. I actualy doubt it's the screen because if it's very unlikely that it's immediatly broken after replacement. For the bed usage of your laptop, maybe you could buy one of those laptop cooler thingies with a fan blowing on the bottom of the laptop, it'll keep your laptop cool in bed .

The main reason why so many websites are built in PHP is because it's completely free: there are many free development tools, it's easy to integrate in Apache (which is also free) and it works best with the free mySQL server and all these great things work for free on any free linux distribution. That's also one of thre many reasons why so many free/cheap webhostings have php, but don't support ASP.net .This does not mean that ASP.net is bad or that it sucks. Since I'm almost graduated, I've started looking for a job and I was quite surprised by the amount of companies looking for ASP.net developers (or developers who now ASP.net). Apart from that, I know nothing else to tell about ASP.net as I don't now a thing about it and I've never tried it before Your other questions WPF and WCF. You're not likely to need the latter in the beginning, WCF is an API you use for remote procedure calls, which means that an applications on computer A can do something like computerB.doMyThing() which triggers a function call on computer B after which computer B sends the result of that function back to computer A.The first, WPF, is something you won't be using, as it's only used for desktop applications, what you might be using is Silverlight, which is something like Flash and is only there to make a website look fancy. You don't need it at first, you can just start with plain HTML and CSS and do exactly the same thing as you'd do with PHP.Btw, if you want to develop for Microsoft, then you'll have to move to India, because that's where most MS Developers work. In other countries it's usually just marketing and support.JSP, as mentioned earlier is indeed for HUGE projects only as it's a wacko language and extremely hard to work with ... I've used it once and I can tell you that it took me a few months to do what I could have done in a week with PHP.Hope this helps a bit

I've always built my sites in Notepad++, lovely app I've used PHP Designer 2005 before and I just could not get used to it since the user interface was kinda crappy, that's why I just returned to using Notepad++ . I'm not sure if Netbeans would be the right choice for PHP development, it's a great IDE, but it's more focussed on Java stuff so I'd consider it more an IDE for JSP than for PHP. You could also use Visual Studio (Express) for PHP development, there's probably a plug-in available, but it's the same story as Netbeans, but more focussed on Microsoft products like ASP.net .Eclipse is indeed a good IDE, but it's not lightweight, but it's powerfull.

I've mostly used mySQL, but that of course was because I mostly use databases in a php environment and I don't mind, it's a good, free database and it does what it has to do and the kind of things I do with database aren't realy that complex .I've also worked a bit with MSSQL. I started using it when I was doing a voluntary internship and I must say that it's not bad either. I must say however that the offline front end administration is much better compared to the tools you get with mySQL, but that's probably because you have to pay for them (at least, you're supposed to do so, I get it all for free from MSDNAA ).I now have a small WPF application that works with a MSSQL server and I'm happy with it.

I'm having a slight problem with Google Chrome. I have a fairly straight forward form with only a single text field. When this field gains focus, all text should be selected which should work with the following code: <form method='get' action='/cms/search.php' style='margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: -10px' name='searchform'> <input class='tbox search' type='text' name='q' size='20' value='Zoeken' onFocus='this.select()' /> <input type='hidden' name='r' value='0' /><input class='button search' type='hidden' name='s' value='Zoeken' /> <input type='hidden' name='t' value='all' /> <input type='hidden' name='adv' value='0' /> </form> In Google Chrome however, the field gets selected and then deselected immediatly and it's almost impossible to select the text in that field. I've searched the web, but didn't find any solution . Is there anybody else who had this problem and knows how to fix it ?

No, I was changing folder permissions when all of a sudden I couldn't access my site/cpanel/ftp anymore. There's one entry in the list tough, don't know how it got there. Problem is fixed now anyway, topic can be closed

Very strange, I'm the only one who can't access my website, a php proxy has no problems accessing my site.