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This might not fully answer your problem but I just don't like to use Microsoft Outlook. I use Thunderbird instead and ofcourse, Thunderbird and Firefox is the best combination for web surfing

Oh well, that's very true. But the unfortunated fact is that 70% of the traffic accessing my websites are from users who use IE. And even the new version of IE released (I thought that it only compatible with the new OS), people not gonna update it soon :|.

Very true. I used it for all of my camera. Very dependable and many people in dpreview are professional photographers (i.e. they know what they are talking about) . Nah, I always just use such websites for a general ideas of what the price will be. There are other sources (depends on which items you are buying) to find cheaper prices. For example: You want to buy the Canon EOS 5D which generally cost $3300. Pricegrabber or other websites show the best price you can get is $2800+ (without shipping). But I can (always) find the same one from Dell at a price of $2700 (including shipping).

Looks pretty good to me. You've got a nice composition there but it seems to be overexposed. There is so much reflected light over leaves, rocks and water. You should use a polalizing filter here. Also, it looks blurry, you didn't use tripod, did you? If it's hard to use tripod there, you should consider decrease shuttle speed, it will both reduce overexposedness and sharpen the image. Just some suggestion

It's pretty clear that you didn't read other posts before reply. saxsux has answered us what it is (part of Google Q&A) and they were not talking about print screen... they were talking about screen-shots of website in the search result.

I just happened to google around and searched the term "photography online", for short, look at this link Google Search for: "photography online". Notice the first result right after the sponsor link box and the tip thing, is a strange looking result (at least for me, this is the first time I saw such result). Can anyone explain?

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Admins + Mods, I don't want this topic get off its orginal topic, but I have to defend my believe. If you can kindly split this topic and move it into more appropriate box, it would be spectacular. Sorry if I'm (a little bit) rude. But since many people "attacked" me, assumed things that are not correct ("I like FP", "I'm an absolute n00b"...), I MUST defend myself. And I do that by all means. When did I say I know the answer? What I said is I knew the problems -> tried to find them in this forum -> there's no appropriate answer -> I complained here to find the answer I were looking for. Don't convince me when there is no evidence. Give me any credible documents about to support your statement that FP file transfer system based on FTP. You asked "How else would you get those files up there?", FTP is not the only protocol to transfer file over the internet. For the meaning time, Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV), Secure Copy (SCP), SFTP (totally different thatn FTP), RCP (Remote Copy Protocol)... I don't know much about FP but I believe it uses regular HTTP throught port 80 to interact with its server extention. I found no contradiction here. I said I prefer vi. With vi I can see my hidden files. I can't do that with FP. What is "the ultimate nightmare of text-based text editors", did you mean vi? (If it's true, so lucky for you that this statement of yours is not in some kind of linux mailing list) it IS HTTP, not FTP. Jeez!!

OH LORD!!"Frontpage based on FTP"!? this must be a joke of the year and an excellent demonstration of how Microsoft doesn't explain much about their products. I don't want to be rude and get off the topic, but hey, please don't talk about stuffs that you don't know. Google for it yourself or (well, I kindly helped you a bit) look at this An Overview of the FrontPage Server Extensions . Did I mention anything about my website is "static", or "dynamic" (wow, big word)? Pretty sure I didn't. Or, did I mention about "spelling PHP". I don't think so either. Or, did I say that I like Frontpage (I said I HAD to use FP because there's no shell acess).But anyway, thanks for an advice. Since, during my 4-year of using PHP as a major income source, no one taught me how to spell PHP.

First off, I apprieciate all the hard work from admins (and others) who maintain this hosting service. But apprieciation and complimentation do not help the whole lot. The problems they got here can also be the problem they have on the paid service. So, it's worth it to point out any problem arose here. Secondly, I DID research (intensively) before I posted. And if you paid a little more attention, you can notice that what I complained were all correct and reasonable. 1. In most of the previous posts (even the most recent ones) about GD library, people said that GD library is supported. But I did not find that true, so I had to confirm it. And I was right, the reason (as confirmed by m^c and OpaQue) is because the recent change of the server. And now GD has just got supported again (thanks Opaque) 2. A complain about SSH was more like a question because I did't know where to request it. 3. Other complains was not mentioned before in this forum. (Thank m^c for answering them clearly) Read my post again and see if it is what people defined as "slagging". And yes, I took your suggestion and I just had to slag (using your definition) you off a little bit in this post.

There are tons of programs out there that let you skinning your Windows look-and-feel. Before, I used ThemeXP at http://www.themexp.org/ . What you meant by "skinning", in their term, is visual style . However, to be able to install new visual style, you need a piece of software called Style XP form TGT Soft. Sounds a little bit comlplicated, but it's really easy to install. The second software you might want to look at (I'm using this right now) is mentioned by emiles-site above. It is WindowBlinds from http://www.wincustomize.com/ . They also have tons of very nice skin. The only down side of WindowBlinds (compare to Style XP) is you have to keep WindowBlinds process running even though it doesn't use much resource, while Style XP, once appied to your computer, that's your default skin, and you can turn off Style XP. I prefered WindowBlinds, but it's your choice, both of them are pretty much equal

First off, thanks miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG for pointing everything out clearly. I hope that GD will be stable soon. I'm not the fan of Frontpage, because it gave me no flexibility at all. I don't like FTP either because it is insecure, speially for editing file through FTP. But I have to use them for now because shell script is not yet enable for my account. But I am going to request an ssh right now, so I don't have to use Frontpage anymore, I will use vi instead .

I just have my website hosted for several hours, but so many problem arose and I wonder ... if this hosting is good.At first, I have no negative feeling about the server at all, pretty reliable and stable. But probably, either my fault or the host owner's intention, I got some trouble.First of all, I have no shell access, i guess I have to request it somewhere, could I do that?Not be able to use SSH, I tried Frontpage since FTP and online browsing are kinda frustrating.What I found out is, when I want to upload a whole folder of codes of mine from my computer to the server, the server denied to make a copy of empty directories. You know, not all empty directories are evil, I have them there for reasons. So, I fixed this problem by manually create empty directories. So, that seems fine.And then, I missed some files, they don't show up either on FTP or Frontpage (but online browsing). I figured out that those files was made invisible (hidden) by the server because their names started with the underscore "_" and the period ".", you know they are special files and have some functions too.And finally, I found out that for some reason, GD is not supported? I couldn't get my gallery online.Those might be my fault of not researching this forum clearly, but kinda frustrating. Can any admin or experienced user advice something.Thanks

As others said, my answer is just another support for C++. It is the language you need to learn. If you have time, learning C is also very helpful. Basically there are not so many build in packages that you can use for C/C++, so you have to either write it or own or using others' library. It is good, because you will know how stuffs work.I'm not so familiar with C#, but from what i know, it is the language designed for Microsoft platform only. It is a language that based on C++ and Java to use mainly on .NET application. However, many people expect a premature death of C# because of its limited usage on .NET in Windows system. Not like the languages that it based on, Java and C++ which are compatible to almost any platform.So, the bottom line is avoid C# and learn C++ as much as you can.

You didn't read my orginal post. I said that there must be no additional attribute put in HTML code. `style` here is an attribute, and yes, I can't use it. I searched the internet for the whole 3 days and read the CSS2 specification over and over again... and probably I have to admit that they don't support it (at least for now).

Why do you put that code in your stylesheet? You should not do so. As Google says, it is guarantee that the code will not effect your site's appearance. I just look at the website again, and they seem to suffer quite high demand of this service. But they say that they are working on it and you should have your reports available in at most 12 hours. Mine doesn't show up either even though I know that my site has pretty high traffic.

There is absolutely a place for you. It is Online Judge at UVA. There are thousands of programming problems you can solve. And yes, many them requires very sophisticated algorithm. Moreover, you can use C, C++ or Java to write your code. So, language will not be a problem. There are many online competition going during school year. You probably find it is interested. Oh, forgot, for each problem, you will be ranked based on the time for the code to run, and required memory space. It is tough to be on the top of this charting list. Since most successful ACM competitors out there using this website.

As suggested by quy, use Javascript instead of raw HTML with IE marquee tag. The main reason is, using Javascript makes your page much smaller, loading time will be faster and it can be cross-browser. marquee is too browser specific. Other thing is what is the purpose of this code? Because using flash can make a much visual appealing matrix effect.

Well, I have used several social networking websites, but for me TheFaceBook is the most useful. It has a pretty sophisticated connection settings that allow you to .. connect to many other people. Sounds kinda dumb, but I don't know how to explain it. Unfortunately, it only (or mostly) supports American students. So I can't not connect to my friends in other country. But impressed me the most was the gallery. Basically, if someone on the network has a picture that has you in it. That picture will be automatically in your own gallery. So, it's easy to share pictures. You can find many people who has the same hobbies, movies/music favourites... or even in the same class. I can go on and on with their feature but.. well, just try it. Other thing, if you are in the facebook and want to add me, feel free, this is my linkage <a href="/reg/?_fb_noscript=1 me!</a>

This is a totally new service brought to you free by Google. It is Google Analytics. https://www.google.com/analytics/ . Personally, I haven't tried this (supposedly) wonderful new tools, but since it's Google and almost everything from Google is good. So I think it's worth to let people know. And it does support AdWords. Look at the picture at the front page, it seems to me a pretty sophisticated software. I anyone used it already, please let me know how it is. Thanks.

Well, I always try to avoid as much class and id as I can since along the way when we writing code, once in a while I will forget to put these attribute in. Even though I will eventually figure out where in my code I missed, it's still better to have a "global" setting which will makes sure consistency for me.

I have read (or glimse through) all the CSS 2 specification and google a lot but found no solution for the following problem. Anyone can help? The basic idea is the input field for the type text, password is quite small, so I want to change its width by CSS input { width : 400px;} However, this affects the width of the radio button too (in most current browser). Is there anyway that I can apply this CSS to input field which is of the type text or password ONLY? The tricky part is I MUST NOT use any additional attribute in input field, like class or id...

I compiled this list consists of the most popular searched keywords using on some popular search engine: Google.com https://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist/index.html They also have a list by country, by topics ... AOL.com http://www.aol.co.uk/living/ This consists of a chart of CURRENT hottest search keyword, updated every several seconds Yahoo.com http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ A pretty detail statistics MSN.com http://www.bing.com/search?q=imagine-msn&form=MSDTR1 Flash website, cool to look at Ask.com /en/docs/iq/iq.shtml ... It seems the hottest topic overall last month was about hurricane, specially Hurricane Katrina.

I'm on SBC DSL, not really great but enough for my general usage :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 2563 Kbps about 2.6 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 313 kB/s Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Fri Oct 28 2005 00:34:02 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) Bottom Line:: 46X faster than 56K 1MB download in 3.27 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 25.88 % faster than the average for host (swbell.net) Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/9C3ME2N0R :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 442 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 54 kB/s Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Fri Oct 28 2005 00:36:17 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) Bottom Line:: 8X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 18.96 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 38.13 % faster than the average for host (swbell.net) Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/MZ7JXYPKW

I did use HijackThis and the only "Possibly Nasty" process is that lsass.exe running from C:\WINDOWS\ . But as I said before, no actual lsass.exe was found on C:\WINDOWS\ directory or the entire system except the default place under C:\WINDOWS\system32 .