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after realising this i now use Safari in winows and i it is better than the rest those of you who hate it cant have ever used this software as it is the best browser on the internet.
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Nick

What specific aspects of safari do you find to be superior? What does it offer that other browsers do not?

I too was confused as to why anyone would want safari on windows. It is understandable to use it occasionally on OSX, since it is bundled with the OS and uses less memory on that platform.I would never use it on windows, though. It lacks the versatility of browsers like Firefox and Opera. It is just sort of a plain old web browser. The browser renders pages oddly, differently than all other major browsers. Although some people seem to like the interface, I don't. I don't like the brushed metal tecture or having space-hogging close buttons on every tab. All of these things could be achieved in firefox if I wanted them, though. I also here that on windows it is hogging a big chunk of memory (but I realized that it is still beta).

I don't know if that is a translation error. It may just be some form of jabber bot. Either way, it is hilarious. That reminds me of the postmodernism generator. Every time you reload the page it will compose and completely meaningless essay in postmodern gibberish. The funny this is that it can actually be somewhat convincing at first glance. Postmodernism is notorious for having very abstract, vague, pretentious writing, so the site is a form of satire.

you can see it in action here:
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

I think that the attitude toward communism has changed a little for the better since the cold war, but it's still feared and looked down upon by Americans.Not everyone here in the US is against it, but there are still lasting impressions from the cold war. The US had so much propaganda demonizing communist ideas and I think that resulted in a distorted view of what communism is. Many people fear things that they are not familiar with, or things that contradict things that they see as the right way, even if it is no threat at all; Furthermore, the US government/economy/culture is supposed to be based on ideas of freedom, individuality, capitalism, etc. The idea of "the American Dream" is based on being able to make a successful future for yourself in a your own way and distinguishing ones self from the rest. People come from all over the place to live in "the Land of the Free". I suppose anything that contradicts that "freedom" could be seen as anti-american.I think that communism is a beautiful ideal, but I it has it's flaws, just like any other social structure. Ideally I would think that communism strives to make everyone equal and that is great, but it seems in reality, many time it ends up with a few very wealthy people and a very large amount of lower class people. I think that one ofthe problems is that there is less personal responsibility involved. Correct me if I am wrong, because I will admit that I am not extremely knowledgeable in this subject.It seems though that there is not much incentive to work harder because it doesn't benefit the individual directly. If many people took that attitude it could bring down the success of the community.Capitalism makes people work harder, because if they do, their is a better chance that they will succeed or be rewarded. The downside is that people are not quite as equal andyou have some very poor people, some very rich people, and many middle class.

I guess i'm worse then. I'm still using gaim 1.5. Maybe because i was following the gaim forum for a while, and notice quite a lot of changes and breaking change from 2.0b3 to 2.0b6. So i guess i would prefer to let it settle down first before taking the risk. I really love gaim, so hope pigdin will do the same in the future

Yeah the last gaim was very unstable, but pidgin seems to be very stable. I haven't had any problems with it.

Yeah I am really happy with Pidgin. It is more stable, elegant, and just plain better than Gaim was.I don't think I have had any problems with it yet. The last release of Gaim was always crashing on me.

I was trying to download the latest version of OpenOffice for Mac via bit torrent. It was going to take a few hours so I set it up and everything was going nicely at about 60 - 90kbps so I went to bed. When I woke up this morning, it was stuck at 99.8% no up and no down. So I reset the computer and still nothing. I was using the offical Bit Torrent Client and it came back with:
CONNECTING TO PEERS - in the amount of time left. So I took a shower, ran some errands and came back, still nothing. So I reset the cable modem and router (but surfing wasn't a problem) and iChat connected, etc..

In the lower corner of the client it said connected to 8 peers. But still no up or download.
so I switched clients to Tomato and it just sat there for half an hour trying to connect to the tracker. So I went and found a couple more torrents with a lot of seeders and none of them connected with either of those clients. So I tried Azureus and still, nada.

Thoughts ideas on what's going on?

I have had issues like this before and sometimes it can be solved by stopping the torrent, then doing a force re-check and then starting it again.

Other times the seeded folders have been messed with. Sometimes windows adds those thumbnail files to folders with images and things like that,
but if there are plenty of seeders I don't know if that would be a problem.

Aniki, I have noticed you tend to blame religion for so many things. If you ever actually studied Christianity you'd see Jesus never advocated violence and support kind exchange of ideas.
I suggest you blame men for their actions and not blame an ideology for its actions.

You seem to believe religion is the great problem in the world. However for a lot of people its a coping method to deal with other problems like poverty, death and despair.

Enjoy your one-sided view of religion...you have proven that your close minded to anything other than anti-religion. Way to Go Buddy!

I can't speak for him, but even when religion does not advocate violence, there is no denying that religion-related violence occurs.
It has happened all throughout history and still continues today. The way that I understood his post is that if people were open to peacefully
discussing their differences in beliefs, instead fighting or imposing ones beliefs on others, violence could be avoided. I know not all religious
people use violence or impose their beliefs on others, but some do. One way or another, many religious people are going to want to tell other
people about their beliefs and many religions tell their followers to do so. It is a much better way to sit and have a nice open discussion about it then
to shove it down peoples throats. I know that I would be more receptive in a positive situation like that. That way you have an exchange of ideas
and maybe you will learn something from the other person. It isn't always against one religion to adopt morals and ideas from another. Also,
sometimes when people learn a little more about another set of ideas and debunk certain myths, those ideas are less foreign and intimidating, which
may encourage a bit more tolerance.

I used to participate in a religious debate forum, but it just... wasn't there one day. They were always talking about how they didn't have enough christians... perhaps they finally gave up. Too bad, was a really great forum...
Anyway, one of the members described himself as a 'Syntheist.' He said a Syntheist is someone who exchanges ideas and believes with others, and then incorporates this new information into their belief system. No fighting, no arguing, no hatred. The two parties simply share, become a little wiser, and walk away. A Syntheist doesn't have to use the new ideas, but even if they don't they're still better off than they were before, because they've just learned something they didn't know before. And that's always good, you can never know too much, I say. You could take this knowledge and store it away, or use it, or mix it with the knowledge you had before and make something entirely new. Knowledge has no limit.

I just thought this was nice... perhaps in the future we'll have something like this, and there'll be no more deaths and pain on account of religion.

I have always believed that you can learn something from everyone. That goes for wisdom outside of religion as well.
If people would practice a little more tolerance and stop imposing their beliefs on others, the world would be a much more
peaceful place. I have friends from many different cultures and religions and they all have unique wisdom to share.
It seems to me that some people are afraid (maybe even subconsciously) to listen to challenging views, because it may
disrupt or change what they believe. They are comfortable, spiritually, and they don't want to come out of their comfort
zone. Why else would people become so defensive when those views are challenged, even in a nonthreatening way.
If they are know they are right, then listening can't do any harm, and if they are willing to listen they might even learn
something new.

To be more specific, I have Windows XP Home with Service Pack 1 currently installed on my main (but old) 20gb hard disk.
I have recently installed Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2 intergrated on my other primary hard disk (I made a new partition for it of 20gb's, meaning this hard disk has 2 partitions, D:\ and F:\, F:\ has the new WinXP Home SP2 installation).

If I remove my main hard disk, and hook up my other hard disk as the only one (which now has WinXP Home SP2) will it boot up just fine? or do I need to do anything special.

My plan is to fix up the second one like my first one without all the bloat and crap, and on a more reliable hard disk and then just chuck the old one away and get another good one.

This way I can eventually have and retain all my configuration, drivers, software and there settings, all work related data setup etc.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

When you installed the new installation, did you install it from a windows CD? Well I think you should be able to do it. If it doesn't work, it shouldn't hurt anything, so there isn't any reason not to try.
If it doesn't boot, you can plug the old drive right back in (unplug the power cable before doing so) Just make sure that when you hook up the new drive that the little jumper piece in on the pins in the
back of the hard drive is set to master primary or cable select. Usually there will be a diagram printed on the drive to show you the placement of the jumper for the different configurations. You may
have to hit the del button when booting up to adjust your BIOS settings (Hit del every second or so until you see a menu pop up, pick the new drive as HD 0 save and exit). If it works, GOOD, if not,
put the old drive back in how it was and figure out what you did wrong.

It might be a bit more complicated though with the different partitions, because I don't know if having the installation on the second partition of the drive would prevent it from booting.
You might be able to adjust that in the BIOS but I am not sure.

Looks Great...
What Operating Systems does it run on ?

I too would like an invite if anyone has any spare.. Thanks.

chris(dot)stones(at)gmail(dot)com

Just sent one.
At this time, I think it is only available for Windows and OS X. If you are running OS X, you have to be running it on one of the new Intel-based systems.

So far I have just tried the Photoshop beta. So the Illustrator beta won't even install?I'll have to give it a try later after when I have some time and a full pot of coffee

Well I just logged into Joost to see if I had another round of invites and apparently they have granted me unlimited or 999 invites.So, if any of you want one, then either post or send me a message with your email address and whatever you want me to put in the First and Last name fields (doesn't really matter).

Yeah the beta is really bloated and slow to install. I do really like the way that the new interface works. It makes things easier to organize on screen. There are some very cool new features and small changes too. Overall though it hasn't made any HUGE steps forward from CS other than the interface.

I would recommend one of the Unbuntu projects (ubuntu, kubuntu,xubuntu). They are made to be very user friendly. They have added a graphical installer and they have very good hardware support. Their apt -get front end makes program installations and upgrades very quick and easy. There are forums and wiki pages available to help with any problems and questions. The package comes with a whole suite of useful software, too.

As for federal law I'd say its fully within the State's rights to legislate in-state grown marijuana.

Are you saying that it should be their right or that they currently have that right? The last time I checked, I think that technically it is against federal law to grow or
be in possession of marijuana. I personally think that it should be handled by the state.

I have used them many times in art school and at work and I think the main issue is size. Just don't get the really small ones because they are very cumbersome to work with.Get one that is more rectangular than square.

Aniki, its an error is to state that deity=polytheistic gods and that new deity cannot be invented.
Deity is any Divine God, Monotheistic or Polytheistic. Jesus is a Deity, as much as Odin or the ones you listed.
Its not wired or insane and who said God made it? ROFLMAO.

Modern English dude has its roots in Middle and Old English that are Proto-Indo European languages.

Religion nor Christians are responsible for those acts--individual people are.
Limitation of worship is failure to worship at all if its set for social reasons.
So a ideology that teaches hate and malice is better thane one of love and kindness? Dude your out there, no offense.

Often christians and even others assume that satanists are hateful/violent/immoral/etc (the list goes on), but many of these asumptions are based on myths.
Movies and literature and other things have misrepresented what many satanists are. People seem to think that they go around killing animals for rituals, when
in reality this is very much against to satanist beliefs (only ok if it is being used for food or if you are being attacked by the animal). The satanists that I
know/met/spoken with are all quite the opposite of malicious and hateful. These people have decent morals and have always treated me and others with
respect and kindness. There are different types of satanists"and those different groups can have dramatically different beliefs. The concept of Satan actually
existed before Christianity, thus, not all "satanists" are directly rejecting the Christians and their god. So I don't see why a satanist is any more threatening to
a Christian as a person of any different belief.

I think everyone has the right to believe what they want and I am generally accepting of most religions. There are good people from many different backgrounds,
cultures and religions. I have met plenty of hateful people who consider themselves Christian, but that doesn't mean that christians are hateful. Religions don't
make bad people. Good people are good people.

Well I don't use the drug (although I did periodically when I was younger), but I don't see why it isn't legal.Alcohol and tobacco are both more dangerous than marijuana and they are legal. So much tax money goes into keeping people in prison on marijuana-related charges. Some of the prisons out here are full from thesetype of crimes. People are going to use it whether it is legal or not. Not far from where I live, in West Hollywood, they have legalized marijuana in small amounts. Although this decision conflicts with federal law, the police can now focus on less-trivial crimes. It doesn't seem like there have been any major problems with this and I know that other cities like (I think Denver) are doing the same.

What you mean? you're talking about Swift on Linux? I think it is a Windows native browser.. but the "latest" news that it will use Mono and some talks about it, as I see their webpage got a little update and a new layout, but a lot of what doesn't work. Anyway of course it might be buggy as the engine isn't even fully ported yet and the software is in alpha stage. ;]

Oh I TOTALLY made a mistake. I was talking about swiftfox. There was another thread abotu swiftfox and I got the two confused. Sorry about that.

Yep, what foolakadugie said (damn foolakadugie knows so much!).

I have been on a roll today, but that isn't always the case

I don't usually go to "Save for Web...", I just lower the quality. But I suppose that I am doing it wrong.

Well I don't know if there is really any WRONG way of doing it, as long as you get the job done The save for web feature can be helpful since it gives you a preview with the compression and
also has more options for getting your images as small and optimized as possible.

I used this browser for a short time a few months ago on my linux partition and wasn't very impressed. It didn't seem much faster and it crashed all the time.

Can anyone tell me how to reduce the size of the signature.I created it using photoshop

In photoshop go to file> save for web. In the window that pops up you can flip to the "optimized" section to see how it looks with the different forms of compression.Gif is good for solid colors and jpeg is better for smooth gradients and photographs and such. Just try reducing the quality as a jpeg until you start seeing a noticeble decrease in image quality and then try stopping in a place that doesn't effect the image quality much. 60 is usually a decent setting for quality/size. Down at the bottom it will tell you what size the file will be with the current compression settings.

I have pretty much been working since 10pm last night and it is 4pm now. I am working like crazy to get this rush job done.Why does this client always come to me at the last minute> and why do I keep giving in? oh, right, he pays well. I haven't sleptfor about 32 hours.

Seagate produces an expensive, but great HDD. We've used them in servers for years. I have a 1TB Western Digital (2x500GB) firewire drive along with several MyBook Western Digital. Mainly because I think "I need more HDD space for this video project" and run out to Best Buy and get whatever they have in stock. The fact that they are Mac OS X formated is a plus, but I run on macs.

Just so you know, if you don't need one right away, tigerdirect.com has them on sale quite often (seagate drives) with really big rebates.I got my 230gb seagate drive for 23 dollars after rebates (I think it about 150 before rebate).