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Nope, actually, it's not strictly forbidden by most coutnries. In fact, most countries laws' are pretty vague about this. The only thing you might have grounds on, is violating someone's privacy. Also, I can do with my own machines whatever I want with it. Next to that, using tools like these is pretty interesting and educational. It teaches you both how winXP stores it's passwords, and how they can be recovered from it. rraallvv seemed like he was merely providing an informative post.

So yeah, apparently, google is aiding Yahoo into stopping MS form taking power. It's funny hwo everyone fails to understand how MS is a business just like any other. Just like google is, by the way. Do you honestly think that google all-in-all wants to cover for Yahoo out of solidarity? I assume google doesn't want to see the market share being consumed by Microsoft by absorbing another competitor. In the end, it's business, just like any other. HAs anyone ever witnessed how Altavista was bought and sold in between companies like it was a game of ping-pong? Compaq, CMGI, Overture and eventually Yahoo, have had ownership of AltaVista at some point - even though Altavista was considered to be one of the first, all-out, full-blown search engines on the web.As for Microsoft. It's a decision any healthy company might make. They see an opening, and they're going for it. Can you blame them for it? Yes, I agree, it does suck out the genuine feel of things, it does take away the edge and it does inject a big corporate feel into it. Did you know that internet explorer was in fact developed by another company? Back in the early years of the infamous browser wars, Netscape navigator was one of the bigger players. Spyglass Inc. seemed to have a promising browser themselves, so MS bought it. Years later, Internet explorer is considered one of the most standard (not the best, not at all) browsers out there.

I didn't take me too long to understand the basics. I learned to understand the basics of it through posting on forums a lot when I was 14/15 years old. BBcode et al.My first experiences with HMTL were with frontpage, so it's probably not the best way to start off, but regardless, I learned a lot from that. I can't sy I learned HTML and now consider myself certified or anything (for as much as anyone COULD, anyway), but I can HTML away in notepad. but like someone else mentioned earlier, when table/div tags kick in, I'd rather head over to dreamweaver and css. HTML is just a mark-up language and isn't too hard to learn, but it can serve as a decent basis to start looking into low-level, decent programming languages.

Sounds purely hardware, to me. If you had an average of 25-30 degrees, and just recently went up to 70-80 degrees, then there's something seriously wrong. Something seems to be out of orde on the cooling part. My old laptop had never been "un-dusted" after a few years of daily use. When I started noticing performance problems as well, I decided to install Notebook hardware control. My average temp. of around40 to 45 had also run up to 80 and up. Opened it up and the entire area around the PSU was clogged up with dust. Cleaned it out and used canned air to clean it out. put everything back together, booted and it ran smoothlier than ever before.

I've got my own intel centrino pro santa rosa HP laptop(2ghz):2 gb RAM, 128 dedicated mb Nvidia140 GB HDwin vista home premium15 inchLaptop have from work:Intel core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.20 GHz3 GB RAM256 dedicated mb gfx 160 GB HD17 inchWin Vista BusinessFamily computer, not quite sure. Just has 1 GB of RAM, 120 HD, 128 mb memory card.Then there's the remains of my old desktop, which has been pillaged and plundered for parts and stuff. Thinking of turning it into a small time homeserver. A NAS server if it's too difficult to turn it into a server.As for preference, I don't really care. I just want quality for my money. I have nothing against macs, but I absolutely LOATHE the fanbois that come with Macs. You kow, the kind that sits at starbucks with their shiny white expensive MAC. The kind that looks down on a PC user, because they're not as fasionable.

Awesome. I once accidentally deleted my desktop icon thingum. I tried to restore it by making a new icon, and redirecting it to the document and settings/desktop folder. Alas, it only opened the desktop folder in explorer. Never really found out how to restore it. Drove me nuts because I figured it would be a -somewhat- easy to find function. Thanks for sharing!

Install a stats plug-in. Look at your visitors. Look where they're from. Is it really just your friends? Do you plan to put your blog "out there" in the world?You'd be surprised how people might wind up on your site... an essential piece of software to go with adsense is a visitors status checker. Something that logs where your visitors are from, where they came from (backlink, page, search engine...), how they stayed, what pages are popular, etc... And through that, refine your google adwords. Not just letting them "sit there". What I find frustrating though, is the wait time to be accepted into google adsense. They say " one, to two working days", while it usually took more than a week in my case. Makes you think your request got lost somewhere... However, as to the OP, I'm really curious as to how much people actually earn per month. I'm not asking what the average is, I'm asking what people actually earn and on what site...?

FIREFOX. I love FireFox. It's actually changed my surfing habits, my computer habits, study methods, etc... It's not just the program, but the open-source mindset and the community around it that benefit to it to make it better. I'm talking about themes, extensions, greasemonkey scripts, etc... Another great piece of "free software" is Wordpress. I always used Nucleus for blogging, so I was a little impartial and skeptic about Wordpress, but I gave it a spin anyways. What's so great about Wordpress is the same thing I like about FireFox, the open-source, sharing community, themes, plug-ins... that make Wordpress able to become a traffic magnet to be reckoned with. Other than that, I use Ccleaner on a near daily basis and it's kept my laptop running smooth and problem free for the past year.

That'd be a funny sight for a war, because the backbone of an army on a warpath, are it's resources.Without oil, there'd be no war. Perhaps we'd digress to sticks and stones, hehe.

Most of Europe is dependent of Russia when it comes to oil. So, if a European country, organization or whatnot would find the means to create an efficient, water powered car, who'd care about Russia, or the United Arabian Emigrates or whichever-oil-supplying country? I do agree that governments should get their fingers out of their asses, but I don't like people shouting at the top of their lungs that governments are to blame for everything. A lot of Belgian farmers-from what I know-are using biofuel (gases created from chemical reactions of certain grown crops), but on a small scale because the production method is simply too expensive, same with solar panels... The type of energy source that would be the most revolutionary is one where the output > input. (Dune, anyone?) So water is probably fit for this, after all, we live on a blue planet. There are multiple ways to create energy from water, not just from the dynamics of water (water+turbine=power), but merely from the temperature differences in the ocean. In my humble opinion, it's not just the governments that are holding back on the development, but companies that are making this development so damn expensive. The methods and research are out there, the money ain't.

Yeah, the Mythbusters got it narrowed down pretty darn well. They even established a world record by creating the largest mentos-and-coke-induced-fountain ever. It was a combination of both certain ingredients in diet coke and mentos. They simply extracted most of the ingredients from a diet coke, and put them in separate bottles,pulling the old "Sherlock Holmes test of elimination". They concluded that a few ingredients were the cause of the massive reaction, but I can't say for sure which ones. But as mentioned before, it's also because of nucleation. When zoomed into, a mentos has the surface of a golf ball, with little craters in it. A chain reaction from millions of these craters is triggered when cast into coke, causing the ray of water to burst from the bottle. It does take a certain brand, and the authentic mentos though, and a single mentos can be sufficient. The Mythbusters enhanced the effect by adding an extension on the bottle that would narrow the ray, thus increasing power, causing the coke to actually burst up for quite a height. (it blew over their workshop)

Doesn't work for me though. In firefox it just takes me to the google page for search results. Probably a good thing, right? I didn't bother to test it in Iexplorer, though.

Great article by m^e! I love the fact that this community is not only built on providing top nothc quality hosting, but offers rich content on the side. I'm seriously considering placing adsense on my site. I've read dozens of articles and reports on how to strategically place them but none of them cover what m^e revealed. Awesome!

I remember the first years the cell phone entered the commercial consumer's market. Only rich and/or snobby people had cell phones (big ugly huge ones the size of a lunchbox too xD). A phone ringing in public, and someone picking it up and talking to it was weird for a little while too. Now look at this situation. Even my 10yr old nephew has a cell phone. I had one since I was 16. It'll eventually evolve into society.

I don't see ezine is the article link directory? Any reason why? From what I've understood so far, it's an industry standard for article writers, ghost writers, etc...

Problem with this is that Iexplorer is kind of preloaded in the memory whereas Firefox needs to be loaded from scratch, though OS like xp should eventually "learn" to prioritize. Or so I was told. I agree that firing up firefox might take a bit, but after that, nothing to complain about. I usually take newgrounds.com as an example to people to show the potential of firefox over Iexplorer. I usually first install the adblock plus extension along with the filterset. Throw in fasterfox and you got yourself a turbo'd up browser. When you load up newgrounds in iexplorer 6 or 7, it'll be slow and when it's finally loaded, it's littered with ads. As opposed to Firefox, which loads a lot faster and when it's done loading, it's free of annoyances. It'll take a lot for me to convert to another browser. Simply because I support firefox for breaking through the boundaries here.

I have to say I use two popular FTP programs. smartFTP and Filezilla. Filezilla is nice, lightweight, easy to use and has a great GUI. But I often experience time-outs with uploads that has a folder with lots of files in it. Even if they're small or large. I used to think it was due to my FTP account not liking being spammed with small uploads. I then got my hands on filezilla and use it for such tasks. I usually run both programs. SmartFTP to chmod and change around/edit files, and filezilla to upload hardcore. Another feature of filezilla that I really like is that I can run multiple instances and upload two things at the same time. Almost never times out on me, and even IF it does, it usually instantly reconnects and picks up from where it left off.

This is probably a somewhat biased question to ask here. I don't see a lot of rap-music loving people on sites like these, concerning about webhosting and such. I'm not trying to make a general conclusion here, but there's no arguing that most of us listen to rock, metal, industrial, etc... Because I personally kinda, sorta, loathe rap. Especially the ideals that some types of rap stand for. Calling women hoes, starting and ending every chorus with the sound of a 9 millimeter, talking about streetlife and "balling"... Bah. Not my thing at all.

Uh oh. I think I broke the tie going on here, hehe. I like Niru's design best, because I'm a sucker for vector'ish designs. I can't really help it. I also like how he broke out of the classic pattern of the same light-blue colors. Team destiny's design would've done much better in the poll here, if the banner wasn't in a lower resolution. Idunno what went wrong here, but it looks like it was enlarged from a smaller resolution. Too bad! Good job, all of you!

Weren't there already hard disks being developed the size of a post stamp of 4 - 8 gigs? Although, I'm curious as to what's better. A flash-type memory or a HD? Besides functionality in transportation, what other benefits do flashcards have to offer? I won't complain about larger file capacity. Eventually, if not already, a gigabyte will become peanuts on the subject of file space. Just like a megabyte was huge a decade ago, and is pretty much negligible today. If my phone would be able to take decent pictures, play mp3's and act as a USB-stick, then that would be awesome, though I wouldn't be as stupid to store important files on them permanently.

For as much as I know, doesn't life require a single, most important factor:"Water"? Personally, I wouldn't even want something like us humans, heh.

Perhaps, just maybe, there might be the slight, off chance that, all humanity would finally realize they're not alone in this big universe. The previous statement sounds logical, but I mean this in a different way. If every nation would finally stop seeing themselves as European, Asian, American, etc... but as human, wouldn't that solve a lot of problems? Our ego might be our biggest problem. I have no problem with an American, at all, and I pump battery acid through my veins when someone throws the American "fat, loud and obnoxious" stereotype at me. But I'll get all up in arms when I hear an American say the slightest disapproving thing about Europeans. Up 'till now, it's always been an "US" and THEM" situation on our own little sandbox of a planet. If the scenario changes into and US and THEM on a universal scale, what would the consequences be? What would happen to religion, since many religions are centered around the creation of this planet, and this planet alone, by a superior being. What would happen to our languages? What would happen to the feeling that Man feels divided on it's own planet when he discovers that "Life" extends further than his own little sandbox? I like to think positively, that we'd finally unite. That we'd change our angle on the US and THEM situation. This also makes me understand the people out there that "want to believe". Perhaps their seeing that "Man" needs this little confrontation.

I'm surprised this thread is still alive, hehehe. Makes me happy to know people can discuss this on an intelligent and peaceful manner. Before going zOMG MIB I C THEM EVERYDAY. Or even worse, JEWS DID 9/11 DONT U SEE? (those were ridiculous projections, I have nothing against jews ^^)I agree with Arbitrary that, even though you might be forced to recite something like the pledge of allegiance, most people might have no clue of what they're saying. On another side of this story, as for hidden governments and involvement of the military, I asked a few people, one of which I'm pretty good friends with, what they think about it. They're both in the USAF (United States Air Force). I asked them if they were, at any time in their career (they're still quite young though), given information or a task or whichever, that was top-secret. Something they were not at all allowed to talk about. Expecting wild cowboy stories, of course ^^ They replied that, yes. It happens. In fact, it can be standard procedure. Some of them pointed me to old blog entries of their time in Iraq/Afghanistan, where they were not allowed to share their next destination, etc etc. What they were trying to convey that some of these top-secret high-security things, were just strategic information and that it usually would just be boring as hell. Their replies, which I found very interesting: (can't link, because it's a private forum, that only invited members can read)

Thanks for the links! I enjoyed reading your post. And I'm totally not denying whether it's illegal or not. But you can't be the moderator of a discussion and cutting down the topic to the argument you feel that is valid. This is seriously MUCH bigger than laws. This is a large corporate entity that can bend large parts of the Internet. So all I'm trying to bring into view, is the different angle that could be taken on this. My post was certainly not entirely subjective as more and more companies, copyright owners, etc are using sites like youtube instead of pulling a lawsuit on them. Just like major companies or upcoming movies launch podcasts, "behind-the-scenes", trailers and so on. These generate traffic and any Internet Marketer knows that pointed traffic = money. 24, Lost, Heroes, Prison Break does this. Upcoming movies like Diary of the dead, 28 weeks later, Spiderman 3 did this/are doing this. So when they start talking about lawsuits on youtube, I can't help but frown and find it a little hypocrite. I'm not going to assume things for everyone else, but I know that me and my friends usually order a batch of DVD boxes together of a particular series or anime when we watched it online.

Still, it's a red dwarf, but if I'm not mistaken, by the time the star completely dies out will still take thousands of years, as well as the fact that if the star dies out before it starts disintegrating, the planet will be robbed of all life looooooong before it turns into a supernova. I guess I'm too excited about this to think pessimistic ^^