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  1. Given that hydrogen is notorious for igniting (the Hindeburg for example) I am surprised they think a hydrogen gas powered car is viable. What I would prefer is more research on E35 ethanol powered cars. GM also had an electric car some years back that they wouldn't sell, only lease, and then they decided to call them all back and scrap them. I wonder if GM wouyld do the same with H2 powered cars once they saw their huge margin on gas powered cars declining.
  2. If you have a web banner you need centered you don't need to use a table. Too many pages rely heavily on tables for layout. Use this: <div align="center">bung your html here</div> It works fine like this. No tables needed either
  3. I think the service discussed is called "Urge", and if you install Microsoft Media Player 11 it appears as an option by default. Personally I cannot see people flocking to use it, as the main competitor Apple's iTunes is more seasoned. Ultimately you are downloading legal music to listen to on your computer or burn to cd, and I have never liked Media players appalling inability to burn playlists with out first converting mp3s to its own proprietary format.
  4. I use Netscape 7.2 daily, it is probably the best browser out there for posting on multiple bulletin boards at the same time using the tab feature. Seamonkey is similarly based on the GRE and I would use it for everything apart from viewing wmv files as it cannot cope without using a huge amount of memory.
  5. For sites with no php/mySQL but with cgi-bin and perl, one option used to be iKonboard, but since the company got taken over there is almost no chance of finding the software. If you do have an html based site and want a simple forum, maybe some sort of guestbook script might work, where the entries are written to alog that is then parsed when the guest book is viewed. I'm afraid its beyond my programming knowledge to code thsi, but maybe someone else could help you.
  6. Thanks for the tutorial vikki, but have you tried building a web site yourself using the tutorial you have posted? While it is possible to use notepad, the html is going to suck big time. I think if people are going to start coding for the first time, then they should visit some simple pages online using Netscape or SeaMonkey and look at the page source and the page info. Then they can open the page in Composer and look at the page in normal view, the page in tag view and the page in code view, make some changes and then see how the code changes. If you want a better html editor, then try Nvu here
  7. I would avoid a programming site for the time being. Your text based game site sounds very cool, and I would certainly be more interested in seeing how it develops than perhaps in say a straightforward programming site. I have enjoyed playing text based rpgs in the past but it is rare to find anything worthwhile. Keep working on the text based site.
  8. After looking through this forum, I noticed nobody had commented about PC-BSD, which is in version 1.2 based on FreeBSD kernel 6.1. I have had some very good success with this system, admittedly using vmware-workstation, and I didn't even have to install it, as they provide a downloadable hard file that works with vmware-workstation as well as vmware-player. The GUI Desktop is KDE 3.5.3 and the site for further information is here One overrriding reason to use this system is that they use PBI files to install applications so you don't have to worry about dependencies and in all it is more stable than Ubuntu Dapper Drake, which I have also used.
  9. I think the story posted by the OP illustrates the difference between Americans and the Brits when it comes to suing for defective products or indeed any kind of personal liability. British courts will not listen readily to such cases they tend to throw them out on the grounds that it is a spurious case ( a case brought by someone for quick financial gain on a very weak grounds for complaint) -- if such cases are progressed the judge tends to find in favor of the plaintiff and awards a token amount of damages, which means the plaintiff wins but maybe only nets $10.So far as hearing damage is concerned I think there is a very real threat to kids hearing. They don't realize that non-stop listening on earphones is going to, over time, affect their hearing
  10. I was using version 1.5.4 of Firefox, and it upgraded a couple of days ago to version 1.5.6. I also have BonEcho installed on the same machine, since it installs into a different folder I don't have problems with the profiles getting mixed up. However, the version of Bon Echo I have (an early beta) doesn't work properly -- bookmarks don't work and it frequently crashed and refused to accept 1.5.x plugins that I found very annoying. There was absolutely nothing in BonEcho that SeaMonley couldn't do, and that is why SeaMonkey is my preferred browser.
  11. Take a situation where a woman's father is dying of an incurable disease. The father also is a surgeon and is very good at his job. Then consider a man who has just broken up with his girfriend. Both individuals might have perfectly valid reasons for wanting to clone someone, but which should be allowed?
  12. I can see only one advantage for Blu-Ray -- reducing the need for multiple DVDs in a box set. For example you could put 5 Alfred Hitchcock films on the same bluray disk. People only move to another player if they can see some sort of distinct advantage and that wouldn't be it. Another factor is cost, OK so the HDDVD is out at $930, but you can buy a basic player for ordinary dvds for under $50, then you have the video library, each bluray is going for abotu $30 as opposed to $20 for anew movie and $10-$15 for an older movie.One day manufacturers will cotton on to the fact that nobody wants to keep upgrading the video collection.
  13. If you have a licensed copy Of Windows XP it will only work on one machine. The best option to run Windows XP on multiple machines is to get an action pack subscription which allows you to run XP on up to 10 networked machines. It is not that expensive, about the same as one Best Buy full Windows XP Pro licence and media.Another option is to buy MSDN operating systems subscription and then use the same machine with Microsoft Virtual Server.
  14. This is a common problem with the dvd iso image. I have read so many times that it will not boot or if it does install completely it will fail to boot into Vista. The explanation seems to be that the dvd image is corrupt, you shouldn't get any errors, and given that time is money, paying 11 bucks for a Microsoft manufactured DVD is a better option.For those using vmware hard disk files, you should have better success. NB Microsoft Virtual PC only supports DVD images up to 2.2GB in size and the Vista Beta 2 image is around 3.5GB If you try Microsoft Virtual Server however, this supports the Vista DVD, but don't even think of trying to run Vista unless you have at least 512mb allocated for the emulated machine.
  15. I am a computer engineer. The problem described in the OPs post is not a common one but usually indicates:a) limited user account not being able to save settings to the registry:D a roaming profile ** this could be the issue as when the machine logs on it will download the users profile for the session and remote sessions tend to be in 800 x 600 modec) the operating system has not been correctly configured: unless there is a group policy in force, no home pc should be set up with limited user accounts, they don't work properly and even Microsoft have admitted they don't work (they say this will be fixed in Windows Vista which will be more akin to Unix in that it will run users unprivileged unless they "elevate" to super user (administrator level)d) from what has been described, I would log in as an admin on the computer, create a new user with admin privilege and migrate the user data to the new profile.
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