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Moving to XHTML from HTML is such an easy and logical move really.. I'm sure there is going to a be a wide adoption of XHTML with web designers because from now on one can trust that the page he is designing will look like he wants it to look, independently of the browser they're looking at their page from. Besides, XML is such a smart language. I mean, seriously... if you're going to code crappy HTML and put in lots of blinking text and other unaesthetic crap just stick to MySpace, and let the real web-designers code in XHTML. This is the dawning on a new WWW!

The power of computing has been utilized in the music industry for quite a while now... beginning with the mandatory Cubase installation in every self-respecting studio, and going up to music that is created solely by a CPU. Music helps us express ourselves, and machines help us create music. The prices of various types of DSPs (digital signal processors) for guitarists have been sky-high since the dawning of effects. They will also continue to be expensive because the technology that enables them ain't cheap. So you're paying quite a lot of money for a GFX-8 which, with all respect for the box that's been serving me loyally for the past two months, can not do that much. A normal computer processor, even a really slow one (about 133Mhz) can serve as a great DSP unit, I think, if programmed the right way. All this led me to thinking about creating an open-source multi-effect unit for guitar players. I think it should work like a Line6 POD, where there is a processor that can be accompanied by a foot-switch board. That way production costs can be quite minimal (delegating the foot-switch to 3rd party companies), which will leave us with a really cheap multi-effect. But! More than that, this DSP unit will be very extensible, seeing as how it is pretty much a normal computer. A few megabytes will be enough to store all the effects you might want, and it will also be able to process sound signals with a number of effects (unlike my GFX-8 which can't put tremolo and chorus together). It will also be advantaged by the open-source community of musicians which, I hope, will help by creating numerous effects and posting them on the internet! I've seen numerous signal processing programs lying around, and if we the unit will support the Nyquist standard for audio effects, it will have a vast array of features not found in any current box I know. Besides, if a GP32 can cost less than $200, we might be able to pull it off with the same price roughly, which is less than what I payed for a 2nd hand GFX-8 (which usually costs about $300-400). I really want to actually get this project off the ground! I was hoping for assistance here. How do I go about creating something like this? I will need to buy a processor, but how do I program it? And will a Linux-based operating system be light-weight enough for something like this, or do I have to program my own memory/hardware manager? (I really hope not!) What memory should I be using, and do you guys have some examples of open source DSPs? And besides... what do you think? Would you buy something like this? I don't think this endeavor might generate any revenue for anyone, but maybe through things such as ads, sponsorships and licensed effects I will be able to not lose any money over this. I don't think this'll actually come through at the end, but I'd really like to try! Thank you all for listening to my rambling.

I actually wrote a thread about it here but maybe I posted it on the wrong forum... Whatever, yeah, the new version is great and is working really stably up 'till now and I've been using it for I think almost 48 hours (which included an abnormally large amount of browsing)! And yeah, I really think I should try out the newest Opera version as well.

The newest beta version of the upcoming major revision of Mozilla Firefox has been released today! This new version takes us one step closer to the plethora of new features expected in the second incarnation of the browser that is currently holding about 10% of the market share! The big news was posted to Slashdot in the last 24 hours and it seems it has yet to spread too far. This article on DesktopLinux.com describes the major changes between this beta version and the previous one. The new version can be obtained in a lot of languages and for a lot of platforms right here. I am actually typing this thread from the new beta. I must admit it looks great! I'm not one to generally zealot browsers, so I'll try to be objective. I've tried both Internet Explorer 7 and the beta versions of Firefox 2.0 (I have yet to try the latest Opera) and I must say that the fox greatly over-performs the E. Some stuff you can notice straight away when installing Firefox 2.0 beta 2 is the updated default theme. The major idea of the look is intact but some little things are enhanced. This is supposed to be an increase in accessibility for the application, but not being a disabled person I wouldn't know. All I can say is that I just have an even better time looking at my browser now! Haven't noticed that many new things other than previously mentioned (except that now most of my favorite extensions are not compatible, but oh well... ). The configuration panel changed slightly, mainly the RSS feeds section, which now lets you open your favorite "Live Bookmarks" with any program you choose (or any web-based syndication program). I urge you all to check it out! I've been browsing the web with it for nearly an hour, and no special bug popped up to make me thing to myself, "oh yeah, I'm using a strictly developmental version!" Oh yeah, just one final warning! I think most of the forum-goers shouldn't care, but you mustn't forget that this is a beta version after all, and should not be used for everyday life. Stupid warranties. Good luck!

I really love Linkin Park! The first time I heard them was when a friend of my brother's sent me Hybrid Theory, their first CD, which was around December 2000. Can't believe it's been so long! I really loved them a lot, and I used to listen to the album on loop. That was just after "One Step Closer", their first single was released along with a video. Then "Crawling" was released as a single and they started to gain wide exposure.Their third single "Somewhere I Belong" was released to a huge reception, and everyone suddenly knew Linkin Park. I was a really small kid back at the time (10.5 years of age), and it was cool being the first to have known LP, but for some reason I just couldn't listen to them anymore after that!A little while after Meteora, their second CD, was released I bought it and really enjoyed it! I listened to it too quite a lot after purchasing it, but at some point moved on. Actually, just a few days ago I suddenly felt like listening to Hybrid Theory again, so I took it out and played it and really enjoyed, and I found out that I still know most of the lyrics by-heart! So yeah, I ripped both CDs onto my computer, and now I'm enjoying the individual songs whenever iTunes decided to shuffle to them.Am I the only one that was thwarted by their sudden popularity (and I'm asking people who knew them before "Somewhere I Belong")?

Took me a couple of minutes and a little search over here to understand your problem. Javascript is a case conscious language, and so you have to write "readOnly" instead of "readonly". A very simple find and replace should solve your problem!

I actually installed XAMPP today on a computer. Brand new out-of-the-box installation. Worked perfectly!It seems to me either as if for some strange reason XAMPP is trying to run Apache twice (did you maybe install another copy of Apache over XAMPP?) or maybe some other program is listening on port 80. What programs did you install lately? Try uninstalling/disabling your most recent programs. You can also try changing Apache's listening port to another port to see if it's Apache's problem or something else interfering with it.Tell us how it goes!

I think no one has pointed out MusikCube yet! It's really a great audio library manager. For people who need correct tags for their music like me (and I have 6 songs short of a thousand ) it's a really great library. For tagging I used Picard from MusicBrainz. It's really great, and it gives you the absolutely most correct tags for songs, which is something that I'm obsessive about. I'm actually using iTunes now instead of MusikCube, even though it is a great piece of software! Much more responsive than the bloated iTunes... and I really can't remember what made me go back to iTunes from MusikCube! Oh well, I must've had a reason.

Wow! That is absolutely amazing! I'm not that much of an artist (in terms of drawing, because I am a musician) so I can't really criticize that efficiently, and I really don't have a lot to say. Just... keep up the good work!

Well, I, so much like everyone else here, use GoDaddy for my domain registration services. Not that I've registered that many domains in my lifetime, but I've registered two, and had no problems with either. The one I'm currently using (the other one expired a long time ago) is set to use my free Xisto account, so I'm really getting a great deal. I know I may find cheaper domains around, but I'd rather pay a few more bucks and make sure I'm buying from a reliable and big company.

About the sewage conveyor belt thing... Am I the only one that can imagine it being used in a scene for Robots 2? Or maybe this... James Bond is on the conveyor belt, tied up, almost at the garbage disposal machine, when he suddenly cuts himself loose and kills the bad guys! Woohoo! I just noticed how I'm adding no worthy contribution to this conversation... Sorry! But yeah, I agree: taking the trash out is just not that big of a hassle!

I used to use DAP a long time ago. :\ Don't have any meaningful usage for those programs nowadays, I think. It's true that my internet tends to unexpectedly disconnect itself which has caused me some grief before with downloading, but it's only really minor grief as I tend to download small files. And BTW, the reason that download "accelerators" actually make retrieving files from the internet faster is because they tend to look for mirrors to the same file, and thus concurrently download numerous segments of the file from different servers. Anyways, the Firefox download manager isn't that great, but it's OK. And yeah, it's pausing and resuming capabilities suck, but that's a whole lot more than you can say for Windows Live!'s (and MSN Messenger's) file-sharing capabilities. Here's a tip for everyone: if you're trying to send your friends some files through the MSN network, you're rather off setting up the FileZilla Server and sending an FTP link to your friends.

I used to use Gaim for all my IMing needs, but at some point I just couldn't take the crappy Hebrew support and all the other little annoyances. It's just not the same as the "official" clients. I personally installed Messenger Live when it came out, and I can't say I'm not enjoying it. I still haven't found any down-sides to it, especially with Messenger Plus! Live which allows for nicer logging and many other little features I enjoy. I especially like the automatic file accepter that lets people send me files even when I'm away from my computer! Messenger Live just has so many advantages to Gaim (for the MSN network at least): apart from the obvious audio/video conversation capabilities, there are many other things missing like games, custom smilies, and proper Hebrew support. I still use Gaim for all my other IM networks, probably because I use those the least, and besides, Gaim really out-does the AIM and Y!IM clients. I have used Trillian in the past, but just didn't stick with it for very long for whatever reason. Oh, and for some strange and quite infuriating reason, ICQ forces itself to run on system-startup, even though I hardly use the network and only connect periodically, usually for specific reasons (and people).

Yeah, I played it at a friend's house. I totally hate gaming, and I couldn't stand this game for a long period of time. We just loaded up my friend's saved game, and I started killing people all around. Anyways, he said he really enjoyed it, and from what I've seen the graphics are astounding, the game-play is smooth, and the interaction with the virtual world is intuitive. I think if you enjoyed the last Elder Scrolls games you'll enjoy this one... but I'm saying this just from what my friend told me about the game and the little experience I had with it!

It looks really great man! Took me a while to understand that the front part of the car doesn't have a wheel on it, and it's just the left wheel coming through because the body ain't finished. Nevermind, other than that (and the messed up windshield, which I'm sure'll look great with the environment) the car looks really awesome! I can't believe you did this all on your own, on a 433 PC!

Have you any previous programming knowledge? Becuase if so, I think that the best way for you to learn PHP would be by looking at other people's codes (like, try studying an installation of phpBB). PHP is really an easy language, syntax-wise, but if you want to go thuroughly, try the tutorial over at the PHP manual. Anyways, the PHP manual is really the best resource for the language. As for running PHP on your system, I've heard good things about XAMPP. Good luck on your endeavors!

One temporary and sort-of bleeding edge type of solution is to enable PHP5 as a CGI program (you can't have both 4 and 5 as Apache modules), and allow users to bind an extension (either .php, effectively using PHP5 for their whole site, or .php5 for messing with the new version) to the CGI program through the .htaccess file. Or maybe it doesn't matter that much? But yes, as far as I understood they're totally redoing PHP6 so most old scripts won't work, which is definately a good thing, as they were always so careful to be backwards-compatible that they couldn't introduce new features and wipe out the old ones. Maybe they'll introduce namespaces and thus eliminate the whole stupid standard library naming thing? Anyways, I understood they're also trying to make it less prone to security related problems, even for scripts created by relatively new PHPers. Sounds good! P.S. https://www.howtoforge.com/apache2_with_php5_and_php4

The code for the alternate text is something like this: <img src="..." alt="Alternate text here!" />You should give all your images (other than spacer/background ones) alternate texts, so that users with vision impairment or text-based browsers will be able to browse your site easily. Alt also helps when you have a broken image, i.e. an image not loading correctly for the user - the user will still be able to see what was supposed to be in the picture. It has nothing to do with Javascript or CSS!

That's weird. I personally don't have any experience with XAMPP, so I don't know what's up with that. Have you tried logging in from phpMyAdmin? If you can login from there, use the username and password and put them in Drupal (in the $db_url variable) and it should work. The questions is, have you been able to log in into phpMyAdmin with the password you supposedly know?

I love both games so much! I can remember the first time I ever played the N64 game, and got so addicted! Unfortunately (or maybe it was a good thing), my parents never were so inclined towards buying me a console, so I never got any practice at home, and my friends were usually burnt out with games they played so much when I started playing as well, so I never really played that much. But whatever, it's a great game, and a neighbour of mine has a GC with SSB:M, and I played it once, and loved it so much. Of course I played like crap. I used to take Pikachu.

Well, actually, I think you'll have to use a few tables. But about your first question, unless I misunderstood you (because you were being a bit vague), then yes, almost every DBRMS allows for your own table/column names and whatever.And about the stations thing. I think you're going to have to create a few seperate tables, the first being a 'station' table, which must at least contain an ID column (a AUTO_INCREMENTed integer field). Next, you add a 'crew' table, that has another ID column, and another column to write the station ID to which it connects. I hope you get my point...

I think you should build your game around a CMS, like Drupal. I recommend Drupal, apart because I am a huge fan of it, but because it is really built modularly and is very easy to extend, in comparison with other CMSs like phpNuke which can be a health hazard when trying to mess with. Anyways, about using CMSs for single pages, that's not really possible, but the thing is that you can create static pages in most CMS systems, and it's better than creating the page yourself because then the page becomes akin the rest of your site (including the same thing, and the same links/structure).

First of all, it's Rubik. Secondly, I once had a Rubik's Cube solving course at this special gifted children school. I was never really good at it, but some of my friends managed to solve the whole thing in less than 3 minutes, and we were about 11. Well, we were gifted... Haven't played with it in quite a while, and never really liked it either.

Well, you can easily create a new Drupal installation inside a new folder of your site's web server. If you really want you can actually get multiple instances of Drupal to run from the same codebase, but that's overkill for an action such as testing out your theme. Running it on your main site isn't as bad either if you don't have any visitors, because it's actually very easy to change back to the old theme (just disable your new theme and set the default to the old theme). But anyways, I think the best long-term approach would be to just easily set up a complete webserver using XAMPP.

Actually, I think you're better of using the IE ActiveX control, and generating some simple HTML. Oh, and while I'm at it, I might as well recommend regular expressions for this daunting task! I can't remember right now how to use the IE control, but generally you've got to look around the control list for "Microsoft Internet Explorer" or something. And as for regexes, that site also has a very good tutorial on them.