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I have to say that I agree with the rule, but maybe a stricter system should be in place for enforcing it?Maybe a warning system on the forums, where users can get warned for things (posts violating rules, shouts violating rules, etc.)...and if a user's warning level gets to high, they get suspended for a little while. Or maybe the higher somebodies warning level, the harder they have to work to get points?Just some Ideas i was throwing around (sorry that this is a little off topic)Getting back on topic, it seems to me like I have been to numerous forums where the shoutbox is filled with links, just as described, and that is the only purpose for the shoutbox (or at least the only thing it gets used for)....which pretty much makes it pointless, since it is just advertising...

This really seems like a nice little library thing....What would be nice though, and I haven't seen much on it, is for error handling....shouldn't there be some sort of timeout, with a retry (in case somebody has a wireless connection or some other issue where the request gets lost)....I can't stand that when I am on all these websites that use ajax and my connection stops for a second and so the page is stuck on this little animated image thing that says something like "loading" or "sending"...

Wow, I must say this is a very good tutorial on writing tutorials....I really liked some of the things about the font, because I usually use the standard black font on a white background, so maybe i'll look into changing that around on my website...Also, I have to say that the topic point is very important....the number of times I see tutorials written that don't seem to have a very clear, or important topic is very great. I mean, don't write a tutorial just to try and draw visitors to your site, write it because you have something specific you are trying to teach people.Would anybody happen to have any good scripts that'll place a popup window on text with a definition? Because that is a very good idea, and I have a feeling that it might make my tutorials a little more compact and easier to follow...

All this stuff about reducing the number of credits needed for this if it was to reach Xisto to me seems kind of foolish....i mean 250 credits isn't that much, and keep in mind....domain names cost money....

Wow, i must say....this sounds like a great idea!!!I do have a few questions about it however,If this was to go into effect on Xisto, I would assume that there would be more details about it? I mean like answers to some basic questions such as, are we allowed to transfer the domain to another service at some point? Say if after the year is up, and we don't have the number of credits to renew, and we would prefer to have the domain name transferred to somewhere else?I am not sure if I would use this, as I already have a number of domain names, and I don't really think i need any more as of right now...but I definitely will say that this seems like a way to increase the number of posts and general activity in the forums by a ton as I am sure that there are plenty of people who would love to be able to get a free domain name.

Wow...i can certainly say that the new design for the site is really nice....And, I do hope that the phpbb3 has some default template aspects looking similar to that....I haven't been following phpbb for a while now, as I switched to other forum software, but I can say that if what was mentioned above, about modularity....is true...I will definitely want to be checking that out...I always disliked the fact that phpbb had all the issues with mods, and they took so much time to put in and so forth....whereas other software it was as easy as uploading a file, and clicking on an install button in the admin panel...[sorry, i got a little off topic there]Anyhow, just to get back on topic, the site looks a lot more professional than it did before, and i give it a thumbs up...

I have to say that I would probably suggest using filefront, as they seem to do a really nice job with the files....However, as has been mentioned they don't allow hotlinking of files, so they would be for download purposes only (i.e. you have a downloads section on your site, and would like to allow users to download files).The downside to using these services, is that it takes a lot of work for your sites visitors to go to these sites and wait for the counter to reach 0 so that they can click on a link, view more ads, yet again wait, and finally be able to download the file.

Well this is indeed a very interesting article....I can't wait to see this as it unfolds, hopefully they'll have something that people can see at work sometime in the future. I would assume that they have been working on it for some time now, or else they wouldn't have told people about it....I know that from my experience, I have found that the online translation services are really terrible....in general they are basically the same as going into a dictionary that has both the languages, and then translating each individual word...which in many cases doesn't work, due to differences in grammatical flow of sentences, as well as multiple word definitions...[also, just a side note: shouldn't this article have quote tags associated with it, seeing as most of the text is copied and pasted directly from the original article?]

Well you have to keep in mind several things with this article....First of all, as has already been mentioned, they take the total number of issues, not the number of severe ones.In addition, you have to keep in mind that Symantec sells software for Windows, so they probably want to let people know that they should be using windows.I also have to say, with people who say that linux is so secure....Linux isn't used by anywhere near the number of people that windows is used by, so it isn't necessarily targeted as much by people to find holes in it. Why would a hacker, or somebody who has the intent of doing something malicious, want to try and find security issues with an OS that isn't used by as many people around the world?

So I am just wondering....Do we have to take any more caution with uploading stuff to our sites? Or is all well again?

Well I have to say...i don't know what is wrong with opensuse lately....it won't connect to my wireless network hardly ever....it simply displays "no network device detected"....yet It worked before.... ;)Anybody know of the cause and/or solution to this?

Well, after having installed it and run it for a couple of days (and done several reboots of my computer as I switched between windows, ubuntu linux, and opensuse linux)...And I have to say that there are a number of conclusions I have come to.A) The Opensuse installation is probably one of the easiest processes you'll ever encounter (although the ubuntu installation was somewhat similar, I have encountered a few bugs in the ubuntu install). It was able to detect my wireless card, which is good. Considering that ubuntu is one of the only other distros that I have gotten my card to work in. However, it will not connect to my network when the SSID is not broadcasted....which i don't really like to do.C) Overall it seems to run fairly efficiently on my system, and I don't have any performance issues. I also like some of the graphical features that KDE has.But today, for some reason when I turned on my computer....instead of the normal boot screen that asks me to select my operating system....it was some other one. It had snow falling on it, and a penguin moving with like a santa hat on it....(i don't know why this happened as it was fine the last time i started my computer, and I used windows, not opensuse)....Also when it booted, it didn't connect to my wireless card as usuall....and it stated that there were no wireless cards detected....i tried unplugging my card, and plugging it back in, that didn't fix it. Then I tried going in and looking at my network cards through YAST which it showed as being there, and it showed the correct configuration....So i shutdown the computer, and then waited a couple minutes and turned it back on....my boot screen looked normal, and it connected to my wireless network....so I am not sure what caused those issues....but I have to say it seemed really strange.Other than that, I actually have found that several applications seem to run faster in Opensuse for me than they do in ubuntu...in particular openoffice.

Well I do not have much experience with Drupal, so I cannot help you much in the line of that.However, if I understand your idea correctly, it sound like a great idea. If I am understanding this, it is like a website where you get 'news' based on what you like, and this is based on you rating news items or something somehow?As for crawling data, why bother with that? Can't you try and get rss feeds from tons of different sites, and use them to get the information?

I have tried a number of different linux distros, but I have never tried out opensuse, so I figured that I would give it a try. I am in the process of downloading the installation DVD (as opposed to 6 CD's or whatever it normally takes). But I was wondering in the mean time if people could give me their experience with it. I really like their website, as it seems to be very complete. They even have a HCL (Hardware compatibility list) which seems fairly complete (moreso than many other linux distros): https://en.opensuse.org/HCL Currently I use ubuntu, but I was thinking of maybe installing opensuse alongside it...

I am also going to have to say that this is definitely not a microsoft product. You can tell this by a number of things.... A) as mentioned above. No microsoft logo, or copyright information on the pages. That is not microsoft!!! Look at the job positions available http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I highly doubt that microsoft would be in need of Lead developers, or head of finance.... C) Look at the about livedrive As you can see this is not a microsoft service....

Well I have tried a number of different Antivirus programs....I have used Norton, avg, and McAfee products...Of all of them, I have to say that I used to be impressed with Norton due to its ability to keep the system relatively stable (from a resource standpoint), in that it didn't use a ton of system resources. However, in their newest version I have found that it appears to use up more resources than I would like (particularly at system startup). Going from taking 30 seconds to start my computer to 5 minutes isn't exactly what I had in mind. But once the system is started, it seems to keep resource usage to a minimum.McAfee I have found to be very intrusive at times, especially with its insistence on automatic updates. When you have it installed on an older system (400Mhz) the constant checks for updates bring the computer to a crawl for a couple minutes at a time. Yet, the system can't seem to let you disable them (as soon as you do, they seem to enable themselves again).AVG I found to be ok, however it didn't exactly have the nicest looking interface. Other than that it was ok, although I am more likely to trust a company such as McAfee or Symantec with their reputation, than AVG.

Well I have used both in the past....and when I first started using linux I was using KDE (because that is what a lot of the distros that I first tried had).Recently however, I have been sticking with Gnome, as I have just found that it seems to run a little better than KDE on my system (maybe it is just my computer), but I just find that it is a little bit quicker, and it also seems to have just a little bit of an edge on the graphics side of things (with how it looks).

You do point out some nice things about rss: what it is, and why it's great....but you don't get into the details of some possible negatives.For example, as a web publisher, RSS has advantages in that you can get people to subscribe to the feeds in the hope that people will visit your site more often....but if you publish full articles via rss, you can easily eat up a ton of bandwidth without gaining any revenue for advertising. However, one way to counter that would be for example to only give only titles or partial articles. Yet another option would be to get a sponsor to pay to have advertisements in your rss feed (like "extra") articles that link to your sponsor.

This is a nice tutorial, thanks for taking the time to write it.Also jlhaslip, thanks for those links. I really like some of those tables. Athough, usually when i am searching for a color, rather than try and try for it, or look at a table, I go into Paint Shop Pro (just one of the 100s of applications you could use), and i select a custom color, and go from the color selection thing there (just a glorified version of the standard windows custom color selector that shows the hex code in with the other ones, but the standard color selector works as well, and you can use the techniques that Jaskaran provided.

You can accomplish this same task, and several others without even having to go into the registry editor. (Which might I add, you can easily break your whole system in there).Simply click on start --> control panel --> Performance & Maintenance --> SystemOr right click on My Computer and go to properties.Then click on advanced.Then you will see an area that says performance, click on the settings button.From that screen you can select from a ton of performance vs. visual look options.

Well, I have to say this is very interesting....So where is the link to this item? Or has it been removed?I looked around e-bay and wasn't able to find it, so maybe it has been removed?Anyhow, I have to say....people just keep trying and trying to put the strangest things up on ebay, and the fact of the matter is, is that people bid on these things. But seeing this one, they probably did bid on their own item, in an attempt to start off some big thing, by selling absolutely nothing...

Well I have to say that I have had some experience with multiple different drive manufacturers....My experience has been that Seagate drives are the best. They usually come with a 5 year warranty, and the drives seem to last well beyond that point (I have yet to have one fail). They seem to run really quietly, and have really good performance.I have also had experience with maxtor. Their drives seem to work well, and last as well. But they don't boast such a high warranty. Of all these companies, the one I have had the worst experience with is Western Digital. I had two drives from them fail (after being only 1.5-2 years old). These drives were both purchased at the same time (and they were in different computers, at different locations and they both failed within 6 months of eachother), so maybe they were defective, however they were not covered under warranty. And in both cases, it was definitely a hard drive failure. In both cases, the computers were running fine, and then all of a sudden they started giving error messages about data integrity or not being able to read the file. On both computers within about 30 minutes of first getting error messages like that, they gave a blue screen and restarted, on the next boot it had a SMART error about an immanent hard drive failure. After which the drives were inaccessible and would not boot (Simply hear the hard drive spin up (like it was turning on) then click, and then spin up, click, and so on).

I know that you can change the color of the theme, as well as the language....What I was hoping is that there was a possibility that the original default ("dull colored"), theme could be added to the list of theme choices somehow....

I am guessing that something probably got messed up in the installation of vista.What i would suggest doing, formatting your hard drive, and then reinstalling XP and vista. Make sure that you don't install any programs from the time you install XP to when you install vista.See if that helps, if not Microsoft provides free installation support (or at least they used to).

You sould never open up a power supply. That is very dangerous as you could easily give yourself a big zap. If you suspect your power supply isn't working, let the computer sit a while (to cool down), then try another power supply.