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I might understand the need for AJAX-based DBMS because it's just nicer than having to load the page every time you want to look at something different, which can just take more time, and it's nicer to the eye, to me at least. Flash GUIs are just over-doing it. I'm sticking to phpMyAdmin! It's not like I use it that much that I'm going to start complaining about how it loads data or whatever. It does everything just right, and does not disrupt your work like Flashmyadmin.

Sorry for the delay!Actually, one of my band members somehow managed this, but this is still interesting to me. I tried using the direct stream copy thing in VirtualDub[Mod] but the thing is, the movie is in MPEG2, and VDM exports back into AVI, which can't handle the MPEG2 stream. Is there any other option?

I know that this may sound stupid, but I think it might contribute to the discussion. I am a Windows user for the mere technicality of installing a distro, which has never worked for me, so I can't really say what the best Linux packaging is! Nevertheless, I can say which distribution seems the most promising, which means it has the best public relations: Ubuntu. Most definitely. From what I've heard and seen, I am just so sure that Ubuntu is the best, just like I'm sure I don't like my grandma's spinach casserole without having tasted it. I'm sure that their advertising is targeted at Linux newbies like me, and that advanced users will not see it the same way as me, but I hope that I still contributed something to this thread.

Yes, I just saw this on Slashdot a few minutes ago.Well, I think we can all see why all these products never made it to the golden stage. I mean, Apple is known for its high-usability and innovative products, while these are just clumsy and not well thought out. Besides, most of them aren't even that useful.Still nice to look at though!

@theking648: I'm sorry, but I do not agree with your idea of "rating" his template. We're here to make things better.. this is not some sort of competition! Even though you provided a few bits of constructive criticism in your post, the number "6" without any justification or reasoning is worthless and even degrading from the overall purpose of this topic. @black shadow: Very nice and aesthetically pleasing template! Seems as though for the purpose it will serve it does a great job. A few things that caught my eyes are: The borderline between your anime character and the black background is sometimes not smooth enough, like at the bottom of the tail or at the right side of the picture where the white patch is totally out of place, in my eyes. I don't like the font faces you chose for your template at all. The main content font is reasonable, but the fonts for the white headers (on the pink background) is horrid, and so is the one for the links! The only font that I like is for the "some content" title. The links seem a bit unevenly spaced, especially at the top, and they could use a bit of a margin at the bottom to separate them from the rest of the column. Oh, and speaking of columns and margins... I think you would be better off spacing out the columns by a few more pixels! Sorry for being so picky, but it just comes to show that I appreciate your template and I find that it has potential! Good luck!

I'm not sure, but I think you can also do something like this: var aVariable;function firstFunc() { aVariable = oneValue;}function getVariable() { trace(aVariable);}I don't have Flash right now to test this, but I'm guessing it should work (it works in plain ol' Javascript, so I don't forsee a problem - it's nothing special to Flash, merely programming semantics). Setting the variable as a member of "_root" is OK, but not necessarily that "correct" programatically, and I think that this method is better.

I might be missing something big here, but from the way I see it, miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG is spreading lots of FUD! Phishing is a long known phenomenon that involves crafting a fake website to look like a legitimate website and thus lure (or "fish") naive users into logging in with sensitive information, such as credentials or billing information, to the hacker's server, thus basically giving him away your bank account or whatever else. Let me expand on this concept with an example. Imagine you have an account over at Neopets. For those who don't know, NP is a virtual pet site, where you can raise your pet and collect money and items. Say you have been slaving over this account for ages, accumulating vast amounts of "neopoints" (the site's fictional currency) and other valuable items, and training your "neopet" in various activities. Now, say some immature kid is trying to deceive you into letting him access your account. He will create a page that looks exactly like the Neopets login page, and give you the link to it, but when you log in it actually sends your password over to his computer, which he can then use to steal your account. There are many ways to "phish" users to a fake page. Many include tricks and psychological games that will only work on computer users who are not very tech-savvy. Obviously, browsers can not defend against this phenomenon in 100%, because how can a browser know if a page is legitimate or fake? Maybe Cross-site scripting can be found by a piece of software, but that's just one of many methods of phishing. This is not a "bug" in Fx or IE, because it is the user's naivity that leads to ingenuousness that leads to the vulnerability that these types of attacks cause. Apart from the fact that you really can't blame the browsers for these problems, Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 both feature phishing protection in the form of validating websites against a list of known harmful pages (Fx actually gets its list from the all-mighty Google). So don't go denouncing any browser for their "vulnerability" to phishing! Oh, and by the way, for all you Opera zealots: Opera will only feature fraud protection in version 9.1 which hasn't been released yet, and it will be turned off by default. Maybe I wrote this whole post just because I didn't understand something in this topic, but from what I can see a lot of critical information has been missing here!! Sorry.

This is hardly what I needed... Not only does it require a monetary investment, it is not specialized for movies and cannot cut a video at a certain frame. Thanks for trying though! Well, I'm glad you're showing interest. I think you'll enjoy it! Me and my two co-members are working right now on trying to split this video and post it to YouTube, and I might open a thread about it the moment we manage this task. Exporting it to AVI (which is a pretty standard format) is no problem... even VirtualDub can manage it! But I haven't yet found a program to cut any type of file this big! Do you have any program which can split a video of any type? I will manage to convert it if needed, believe me. I think the greatest limitation here is the cost of the software (preferably none). The drummer of my band tried to do the task before us with Pinnacle and said it was just too sluggish to work with. Besides, I'm not basing this on any specific experience with any of these programs, but I'm guessing that trial editions will not be able to export more than a limited number of minutes, and will probably have some features disabled. In the worst case it will feature watermarks, which is definitely not good for what we're trying to do. Thanks for all the help and the interest so far, but we've yet to come to a conclusion!!

Wow! That's amazing! I hate gifted people . Nah, just kidding, I'm really just astounded at how good this looks, especially for the trivial amount of time it took you! It doesn't seem that realistic, but on the other hand, it doesn't have a cartoon-ish look to it at all! To keep it short: keep up the good work, and I'd love to see more of your stuff! Especially some finished and texturized creations!

Well, it seems as if the majority of the people in this forum, myself included, are not native english speakers. I have never programmed in an English speaking environment, and if I'm not mistaken I never even touched the subject with someone else speaking to me in person (as opposed to writing to me on IRC or a forum). In conclusion to all my nonsense rambling (), I pronounce it "kar," and always had, because it seems the most logical to me. After all, "character" is pronounced with a hard C!

I really can't see why normal every-day computer users would need more than 2 computers, at most, and even that is a bit exaggerated! I mean, of course, just like any geek, I too feel the excitement of owning as much gadgetry as possible, but a computer is not just a green laser or something of the sort, it is an expensive piece of equipment. Most people here could use two computers for all their needs! Maybe one computer for more CPU-intensive tasks, and another one for general simple use. And yes, you can even merge your P2P-specific machine into one of your two workstations by use of proper protection. If you have enough money to invest in so many computers, you might as well have so money for a decent anti-virus program. Sorry if this comes off as really insulting and critical... but I'm just a bit jealous, that's all. Just kidding, even though I am jealous, but I really think that owning so many computers is a waste. I have one computer for myself, while my mom has a laptop, and my dad has a desktop at home and another laptop at work (and wherever else he's at). All of our computers are really old. My personal machine is about 3-4 years old, while my mom's laptop is a big younger, but for some reason it's the slowest computer I have witnessed working. Opening Microsoft Outlook takes about 5 minutes! My dad's computer is about 5-6 years old, but still working quite well, and he even does a bit of video processing on it! So that's all we need... Oh, and by the way, all of our computers are running Microsoft Windows XP, some of them even legally. And again, sorry to have come off as really harsh!

I have a long (20 minutes) video encoded in MPEG2 (I believe), and weighing about 1.3GB. If you're interested, it is the footage from a big concert in which my band performed at the beginning of this month. I want to first of all, split all the different songs into different files, and then upload them to Youtube or a similar site so as to prevent myself from having to send out huge files in many directions. I've tried many different programs. Windows Movie Maker keeps freezing when I "import" the video into it, probably because it is not used to such large files. Even if it did work, the program is really not easy-to-use for such tasks. VirtualDub could obviously load the file, and could do what I wanted it to do, but it took a bit of tinkering, and in the end when I wanted to export the different sections he wanted to re-encode them, which apart from taking a lot of time, threatened to produce very large files (sometimes a 2 minute section in AVI would take more than the big MPEG2 file). I could not ask it to just use a direct stream copy type of export because it was exporting the MPEG2 file into an AVI file. So first of all, I want a recommendation for a program that can easily split a large video into smaller videos based on predefined markers. Preferably, it would allow me to keep the MPEG2 encoding that the video is currently encoded with, or allow me to encode it in a format that would be easier and more efficient for uploading to Youtube. I'm sorry I have so many demands, but if possible, I would really prefer this program to be free, and even more so if it was open-source. Any help will be really appreciated! Thanks, guys!

A simple Google search gave me this link, but next time please attach a URL to such a post. Anyways. The product is sub-par right now. The English translation is really not satisfactory! Apart from that, the interface is very uncomfortable, with windows and panes jumping all around when you move the mouse. I think that loading all the data from the DB on-load is quite a disruptive thing to do, because then you would have to refresh and reload the program to look at any changes made to the data. Sorry for the negativeness, but I really don't see the advantages of this over a local installation of phpMyAdmin. Are you the author of said program?

Well, I'm, running Firefox 2 and I must say I'm really not experiencing all the bad things that have been reported by the technological press! It's not a huge improvement over the last major version, but a few really nice things have been improved. I've been running Firefox 2 since Beta 2 came out a few months ago, and nowadays I can't live without the close button for each separate tab when I use the old major version of Fx at a friend's. Anyways, it's really not that bad. Not the greatest and most innovative thing ever, but I'm definitely not sticking to the old versions!

Technically it's 1,024GBs. :PAnyways, I think that for me such a large amount of storage space will be catastrophic. I have a habit of not deleting anything, but then when the time comes (actually, it came a few days ago) when I have no more room left I scan my hard drive and delete everything I don't need. Actually, I usually just delete some old games I've downloaded so I have enough room to live.. but that's not the point! The point is that I usually come upon old treasures, and other nostalgic things, loitering around on the infinite dimensions of my directory array. Some thing I would've forgotten otherwise. Then when I find something interesting I move it around so it is more accessible, and I put it in a place where I will know it's there. Not needing to ever make room would just leave me with a total mess. Try cleaning up a 1TB hard drive full of old Word documents. I'd much rather format and risk losing something that I might have liked to see.

Yeah, I have the same problem at my school. It's really stupid! I mean, I tried to check for my latest comics (using Comic Alert!, a great site!) and the filter tagged Penny Arcade as a gaming-related site, and as such I wasn't able to view it. I mean, I know it's not really an education site or whatever - but students need their break every once in a while (especially me, being severely ADD and undiagnosed for a couple of years), and it doesn't harm anyone at all! It' just browsing the web! I think I'll set up a proxy on my home computer for those special occasions and leave it open when I know I'm going to need it. It's not like anyone will notice I'm using a proxy. And it's not like the computers in our library actually work. God dammit, it's times like this I hate living in Israel, with our extremely low education budget. :\

I second ahender. I stopped using Thunderbird and went back to using Microsoft Office Outlook because of the former's unsatisfactory Hebrew (and right-to-left) support. I set up my Gmail account back on Thunderbird, but nowadays I used Outlook only for my ISP-provided email, and use Gmail's web interface. I've recently really gotten hooked on Gmail! It just works! It's so amazing!

I think that for a purpose of a content management... a content management system should be used. Many CMS packages (such as Drupal, ) are able to handle Wiki-type user interaction. The difference is, CMSs emphasize the point of content management, whereas Wikis delve more deeply into Wiki philosophies. I might have misunderstood the objective for your site, but to me it seems as if you are trying to develop an information repository that can be edited by users, not a Wiki that will contain some information. It is principally a matter of labeling, but knowing what you are trying to do can sometimes make organizing large projects easier.

Well, I gave it a brief overlooking because I'm not going to look at 200 pictures right now. (I'm at work )Obviously when you're dealing with portraits and people there are some factors which the photographer cannot control (I'm sorry, but I don't look like a model myself). Some of the people in your photos are just not aesthetic enough in my taste to allow the viewer an objective judgement of the art. That's the problem with portraits. Choosing to work with such a "controversial" subject requires great confidence, but it shows you have real passion towards your camera and subjects.I liked the photo of Vivi and Katoka a lot, as it shows, to my interpretation a "blurred" image of love and caring, along with the stream of lightning in the background, showing passion and lust. The image of Dandan is also quit appealing to my eyes. I liked the pictures of Renan, Mae and Natasha, as they are simplistic and set on a naturally beautiful backdrop.I think the picture that I liked best from the 5-6 pages I looked at was of Natasha and Vinicius on what appears to be a train. The very confident and outward personality of Natasha, clashing against the simpleton and partly unkept (but in a good way) look of Vinicius. The backdrop of seats gives the inclination of a journey, a sort of methaphore for the road the two have made in their supposed relationship (that's what the picture implies to me)... the road that brings them together from both sides of the world (and their opposite position on the personality spectrum).The pictures of the Orquestra Imperial really capture the essence of a lively performance. I know that as a performer myself, and it really brings me back to my band's show from a week ago. I can totally feel the surreal experience of being up on stage and doing your magic... all the while not really comprehending the situation. Performing is really something that makes you unaware of your actions, and lets your intuition propel you to give energetic and emotional shows.All in all, good work! In my eyes, I would appreciate a bit less "digitized" pictures, and a bit more simplistic and minimalistic portraits. Also, as in the picture of Dandan, let everyone emphasize their most aesthetic features (in reference to Dandan's eyes).

First of all, for all you SP2 objectors: https://slashdot.org/story/06/10/10/0032245/windows-xp-sp1-support-ends-tuesday I really don't know what there is to object to... And besides, you can't blame Microsoft for wanting to rely on their updates for their newer softwares. That's like asking all mIRC scripters to have their scripts work on mIRC 5.13. What's the point? And I think your (whoever it was that said his machine rejected SP2) computer is having problems with Windows in general, because I don't Microsoft would go around making updates that ruin support for some types of computers. Yeah, you can blame Microsoft for a lot of things, but asking for SP2 is just general industry behavior. And yeah, I agree with Jeigh. The person that started this thread was asking about WMP11, not the alternatives. And of course there are going to be a million alternatives for every piece of software on earth, but you must admit that for the people who enjoy using WMP, it does its job in a satisfactory manner. I am still with WMP10, even though I don't listen to my music collection with it, but it's great for opening audio files that I don't necessarily want to add to my iTunes library... Now I'm going to check out VLC.

It made me smile. Google rocks! Oh yeah, and of course it's not real! It's a sort of Google and the Chocolate Factory fairy-tale.

I don't think it's a quest for the largest prime number there is... Sorry to be so rude, but you would think that people who coordinated such a large project are somewhat of mathematicians themselves, and even that is over-qualification for knowing there is no largest anything in mathematics. It's just a quest to keep on finding prime numbers that are higher than the largest one currently known. Of course this quest will never end. Each time that we reach a large prime number the one above it will take more computational power to find, but at the same time human technology will be progressing and will allow for that extra CPU speed. I tend to think that the time it takes to find each new prime number is pretty static. I tend to think that this is a really useless distributed computing project. I mean, there are things much more valuable to do with those idle CPU cycles, such as finding the cure for cancer, solving some cryptographic riddles, or maybe something else. What will finding large prime numbers help humanity in? I am very supportive of curiosity, and I know that discovery of more and more numbers might actually lead to discoveries in other areas that will help humanity in the long-term, but the term is just too long for my taste. Distributed computing is an important subject! We must all persuade ourselves and others to lend something that is of no value to us (spare CPU time) to the common good!

Wow, that's quite impressive, Google. :PYeah, I remember using Hotbot all these years. How can I compare that bloated slow interface to the slick and charming interface of my favorite web search engine? Google and Wikipedia are the two best things to happen to the internet lately, not speaking in terms of technology. They both (and sometimes while joining powers) provide me with so much information that is so easy to access!I can't really imagine that Google is older than my cousin! I remember the day she was born... I was still in 2nd grade back then. I can't actually believe that back then Google was already operating and I wasn't using it! What a shame! :PAnyways Google! Thanks for all the great time, and all the romantic sea-side dinners... I'll always be your friend!

Yeah.. external hard drives are great and they cost almost nothing!! I've got a 120GB external hard drive right here next to me on which I store all my music and other important files. It's just a backup, so I don't know if it's fast enough to be using it as a normal storage places for frequently accessed files (even though I'm sure you won't notice a problem with loading a few Word documents from it). I do know that the drive is fast enough for everything I've wanted to do with it (mainly copying), and that for the small amount of buck I sure do get a lot of bang. Besides, I can take it over to other peoples' houses and let them in on some new music, or transfer a heavy file (as I'm going to do tomorrow), and it's really quite useful. If your data isn't that sensitive, an external hard drive should definitely give you all you need and some more! If your data is that sensitive, nothing is good enough to store it and you should just create multiple backups. I know I don't have anything that important that I'm going to cry over if it's lost, except maybe some old nostalgic chat logs and whatever (I can practically follow through my first love again from old MSN Messenger chat logs, but that's mainly because she was so shy ). And as for what to use for making backups on the software side, I just use Windows Explorer, even though I know it's not that great for what I'm doing... but it's not like my files change that often that I have to synchronize them every half an hour. For what I want it's just great.

Well.. even though I used to see myself as a huge computer geek, nowadays I could say my most used software would be Firefox, Windows Messenger Live, iTunes and the windows default calculator. :)When I program (which hardly happens anymore), I use a WAMP (Windows, Apahce, MySQL, and PHP) configuration. For C++ programming I used CodeBlocks, as I find it an excellent IDE. Oh, I forgot to mention Notepad++ which is an excellent substitution for the stupid Windows notepad. And.. I think that's pretty much it!