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It is utterly pointless.I bet there main target for doing this is to scare ignorant users into taking there computers in to be fixed every time they see a "red" screen because it will feel much more serious then the regular blue screen.I could imagine them just putting on the red screen - "Your copy of Windows Vista is permnantly damaged, please buy another one" - That wouldn't surprise me.

Zone alarm has some built in protecting software for ebay.It has some settings in the Overview tab under preferences.It is labeled "Online fraud protection"There you are able to "protect" your ebay password. Mess around with that and see if it helps any.Also make sure that zone-alarm trusts your browser to act as a server.

If you are behind a router a firewall is not 100% necessary. The windows firewall is almost sufficient for normal users as long as you are behind a router.There are several other free firewalls out there that can perform just as well. Try googling for some.Also, make sure you do have the latest version of zone alarm in case you have not upgraded in a while.

Nice job.BF2142 is my new favorite game I absolutely love it.I would like to make you aware of one thing however.Video cards are improving at amazing rates but you are limiting yourself.You should start a new computer build that carries PCI-Ex16 ( PCI Express ) instead of AGP.PCI is faster and more reliable then AGP which is why newer video cards are not available in AGP.I'm not saying you need to hurry up and upgrade but when it is time to upgrade a video card again I suggest you go all out and get a new Motherboard with a PCI-Express slot.( Also, overclocking is much safer with PCI Express )

Google may have its questionable policies but their support for the Linux community is undeniable.The Linux OS will continually become more and more appealing with major corporations like Google supporting them and developing applications that will run without the use of WINE.

Yes I read the article on slashdot and everyone in the blog just laughed and pushed it aside.In my opinion it would be suicide for Microsoft to pursue this nonsense.How can Linux infringe upon Microsoft's "Intellectual Property" when they still have code in their kernel dating back to Windows 95. If you ask me its the other way around. I think Microsoft is just crying over the fact that Linux is steadily gaining power in the OS world and they can do nothing to stop its progress.

Its already been done.A company started a project to see if they could somehow modify the Vista kernel.They figured out how to turn the lock off, make any changes to the kernel they wanted and were even able to turn the lock back on.Not only did they install a virus, but they made it so it would be impossible for a virus to come off without a complete drive format and reinstallation.Vista's "kernel lockdown" has already created a major security threat if they are able to write a virus that will do all this automatically.On top of that Microsoft failed to release source code for the Vista kernel and OS until just a few weeks ago to major anti-virus companies. This might cause a major problem when Vista is out for a few months and anti-virus companies are still developing their programs specifically for Vista. Microsoft was at first not going to release the source code at all but companies threatened to take it to court.I will try to find this article, I read it on slashdot a week or so ago so I will browse through my emails a little later and see if I can find it and I will post the link.

Hey guys I have purchased an account at Xisto - Web Hosting.comI paid the extra $3.5 a month to get a dedicated IP for SSLNow that I have it does anyone know how to set it up and make it work?I tried messing around with stuff but I can't seem to figure it out.

This explains a lot.I had assumed that the server issues were due to either a down server, causing Xisto to cram are accounts on less servers for maintenance or that the number of free hosting accounts has just grown so large that the servers can't handle it.Now that I see this thread though I completely understand what happened.If I may make a small suggestion, thats if a system similar is not already in place.These problems were easily forseen and it would have been nice to recieve some message/warning that the servers might be experiencing problems due to this kind of stuff.That way we would not freak out when the servers are going down.You should have seen my face when I realized all my files were permnantly read-only no matter how I applied CHMOD. I was completely baffled, after a few days of it I was almost ready to buy a hosting account sooner then I had planned.Anyways it would be nice if we could be warned of future possible problems like this. Another example was the CPANEL update, I had no idea that cpanel was updated until I realized my php mail function stopped working.I completely understand if you prefer to keep this information confidential, because they are your servers and you are providing us free accounts. If you already have a section like this well you can reach through your monitor and slap me in the face for not paying attention.

In my opinion anything "sacred enough" to be completely protected from right click and protected from view source shouldn't be on a website anyways. Its pointless.

Well I use PHP-Nuke on my site and about once a week I send an email to about 150 people or so ( thats a mass email in my opinion ) I just use the PHP-Nuke built in email thing. PHP-Nuke

not only is it working it seems to be working much faster now then it used to beWhen i send mass emails to all my members it usually took like 5 minutesnow it takes like 30 secondsits insanewell whatever you did it works great now so thx alot man

Well the MySQL issue seems to be resolved as my website is back up and running with no data loss.I would like to thank the site administrators and anyone who contributed to getting this done in a timely fashion.As for the cron jobs well the best of luck to you on that.

I use Operah but I would prefer Firefox over IE.IE has too horrible a history for me to trust and Microsoft still has some screws loose in their heads because they just released IE7 and they have yet to get rid of ActiveX, which is a huge security risk. Of course they say ActiveX has "increased security" but thats a load of crap.On top of that I try to stay away from Microsoft products in general because I like to support companies other then Microsoft to try and help diminish the monopoly Microsoft has in many markets.

Yes of course I have backups but the problem here is I can not even make a new database to put the backup on.The MySQL service for me is completely shut down, and even if I did manage to create a new database the PHPMyAdmin is also not working so there would be know way to upload my backup file to the database.