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As you may know, I left Xisto last month.I've decided to come back here, not for hosting but for the forum! I'll be posting around again.So hey everyone, you're stuck with me again!

I heard fish...Seriously, we were watching a German disection video in Science a few weeks ago and aparantly we come from fish. That's why we have lungs in front of everything else.

Well, bye, I'm really going to miss you all and this place.I've terminated my hosting and now there's one last thing to do, click the logout button, for the first and last time (lol never logged out before)Bye, I'm going to miss the place!PS, if you happen to want to read anything about me or from me, http://www.itsstephen.com/ should be done in a week or 2.Cyas

Yeah you may like it while you can use it...Messenger plus is packed with spyware, I learned that the hard and expensive way.I wouldn't ever recommend it to anyone.

Then why post?And for god sakes when you're quoting someone KEEP THE QUOTE TAGS AROUND IT

Well, my time has come... Tomorrow I'm leaving Xisto, I'm not going to cancel my hosting just yet, I still need to backup my site.Today I bought hosting, I just can't seem to find anything to write about here anymore.I'd just like to say thanks so much for the great hosting, I'm still going to recommend you for free hosting. I'd like to thank everyone for their help and their support and giving me something to do!Also the admins, you're so helpful, remember that problem I had last year? Not sure if it was my fault but OpaQue fixed it! And way back last June or something when BuffaloHELP accepted my application when I seriously thought it wouldn't be accepted. Vujsa for being nice and making my appreciate Joomla (lol). Never talked to m^e before though.So, goodbye, I'm going to miss the great community! The forum and the people, I've learned alot from here. It's actually really sad to leave. Good luck in the future everyone!After tomorrow I'll be leaving and cancelling my hosting (please don't do it yet for me, my internet is going too slow to download a backup), I'll probably come visit every so often.Don't miss me too much

Why are you trying to get the word warez out so much? UBB is a forum, not just for warez, my school uses it. Zip, it's a compression type which almost everyone uses, I have thousands of them on my computer which happen to not be anything warez related. Winzip, it's used to create zip files, not warez. It's an illegal copy of a commercial program that someone has uploaded and is available for free. Please don't tell me you just go downloading playing with warez 24/7. You mentioned Gozilla. It destroyed my computer a while back... For some reason, I don't trust you, sorry.

Habble, you make a template, or if you don't know how, you use someone elses. Do you actually even know what "joomlola" is and how to use it? If you don't understand it, you're not going to get far with it. I made a site (along with the template) that uses Joomla, http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ except I made it months ago and since I've gotten better with Joomla. I'm not going to help you, I don't have time and before you do anything you need to actually make a template for a site like normal first with XHTML and css.Skekad, Joomla is nothing like dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is just for creating website with a WYSIWYG editor or code, and puting it all together and adding content manually. Joomla is a CMS (content management system) which handles most things for you. You create a template, set it up on a server and write content with the editor. It's quicker than using Dreamweaver.I'm thinking of making a Joomla resource site, my components/modules/plugins, my templates (free and commercial ones) and help/tutorials.

When you are quoting someone, you actually keep the writing in a quote and not make a post before it with the quote in it.In all your posts you don't actually use the quote, you just copy and paste, so you get credits for it.Hacking is stupid if you ask me. People who have no heart just go doing it and have a little laugh, not realising they may be destroying someone inside. Usually it's the like freak nerd nerds that do it, because they think it's cool. 1 thing for them, it's not. It's illegal, it's mean and it's stupid.

I'd like to some day be a web designer, I'm interested in the graphical side of making websites and CSS and XHTML.I myself don't really want to work for a company or own a company, I just want to make websites for small and large businesses for a few grand (you can get that and more, it pays well). I'm not even in college yet though so I still have a few years until I can really start anything and do more with myself besides working at maccas, LOL.Also I'd like to use Joomla where possible, great CMS and I'm quite good with it.Thats all just me though and it sounds like you mean hardware stuff, insides of computers are boring if you ask me, and like I've always said, I'm a software person!

Yep! It's getting cold down here now, winters coming soon!

I used to use this all the time, it was a great program!I mainly used it when I was downloading Linux distros.The only thing I don't like is that it uses almost all of your internet speed whether you have it on high, medium or slow. I didn't like using it because of that.I only used it when I had dial up, since I got broadband about a year ago I don't use it anymore, it's faster and easier just to download things straight through Firefox!

I'm from Tasmania which is that state/island down the bottom of Australia. We were attached once, lmao.

Most distributions of Linux are free and open source, there are some commercial ones which in my opinion are pointless.The pros pretty much are that it is more customizable, free and web things (besides asp and .net and that) are built around Linux.The cons are that it doesn't have any of the better commercial programs for it and you have to find worse equivilents for it. Also it's not widely supported, servers are probably the main use but it's not generally used on home computers because it takes some learning and getting used to.

I asked for this once except it never got replied to. I lived with it, lol.I did tell vujsa once though and he said he didn't see it but he said he would've done it if he saw it so I dunno catch the attention of an admin. He also told me that you can just delete the public_html folder and make a new one, but make a new cgi-bin folder in it.

Sorry but I'm not going kill my computer. It's old and will probably die, and the fact I'm already on my third hard drive says something.I had a friend who was a nerd but all of a sudden I'm too inmature for him or my calculator wasn't good enough or something (lmao) who decided to just turn his computer on and off a heap of times and his hard drive and motherboard died.

Well, I'm sure alot of you have looked at "review" sites for paid hosting, finding a good "reliable" host. The truth is, these hosts may be dodgy crap. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ After you've watched the video you'll know what I mean. I stumbled accross this video on someones blog so I decided to watch it. It exposes web hosting review "top 10" hosts. These sites don't go by best quality, best price, best resources, most reliable and those things, it goes by how much a host pays to get in it. Also by affiliates. It pays to do some research on a host before you buy, not just choose number 1 in a top 10. Find maybe a family owned review site, one innocent and not in it for the money.

I'm not quite sure what you mean.Are you asking if anyone knows any good hosts to host an e-commerce site or just advertising a web hosting review site?Any host that allows you to have PHP scripts and lets you have a database is good enough to host one.

I'm from Australiagday mate, crikey, im going to work in my kangaroo etcwere not like thatlol

My school has some "smart filter" thing that detects what a site is, proxy sites are blocked. Except I'm not sure if it just takes what's from the META tags or the content on the page, if there's nothing actually about it being a proxy it should be fine I suppose, there is this one proxy that works at school.It's really annoying at my school because they have blocked almost every site out there. For my IT extended class we needed to build computers and fing hardware for it. What else is blocked than the INTEL AND AMD sites :lThey are so strict at my school, we can't go on anything that isn't educational, except even the Discovery channel site is blocked, and the abc site, and news.com.au, it's ridiculous. And like teachers give us work to do and we need sites for it and they're always blocked (teachers don't have anything blocked so they don't know).

I love PHP Designer, I download the trial of the pro version and I'm thinking of buying it!About testing your sites in IE in Ubuntu, why don't you use Browsershots? http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ have to use that to test things in IE 6 and see how crappy my site would look because of the PNGs.

As some of you may know, I'm not exactly the worlds greates at PHP, infact I don't know much at all. I mainly like to design websites (the graphical side of it), not code any scripts. I only know x/html and css.So... I've decided to take a go at learning PHP, because as you also might know, I love Joomla and I want to start making components and that for it, I have the basic idea of how it all works, but I've only ever made templates for it before.I have this book here, I borrowed off a friend about a year ago and I'm not sure if he hinted I can just have it or what, lol. Today I've learned how to pass values from forms or something like that, $user = $_POST['name']; something like that, am I right?I also know basics like variables and ifs, elseifs and else and that (oh and echo/print) but I can't do anything advanced. I don't have trouble understanding it, I just have trouble remembering it and know where to shove things and how to shove things in somewhere.So basically, what do you think is the best way to learn PHP? I'm finding the book good but as I said above, I need to get it into my head. I've been trying like writing it straight out of the book, then re-writing it changing bits and then re-writing it again with the book closed, it seems to work if I do it about 5 times, but I was told it's not a good way, so what else should I try?So how should I go about learning it and how long should it take to be able to get started on making Joomla components? I want to make a forms component where people just select what type of field they want, and add the properties and that since I've never actually seen one like that. I also want to make a comments component.

I'm planning on maybe getting a degree in web design as I'd like to be a web designer when I'm older.I was thinking about making commercial Joomla templates, making and selling them. Although it's only Joomla, alot of people use it and buy templates, mainly just for personal sites and small businesses.How do we think I'd go doing that? I love Joomla and web design and of course making money!

Unforunately, I have 0, none, lol.I really want to get one though, I really like all types of macs! The Mac Book Air is really nice too, but I just like normal desktops better.However, I think I'd rather just a normal PC with Windows Vista as you can't get some of the best programs (besided Adobe programs which ARE the best!). There is bootcamp though which I could also have Windows on.

Yeah I just noticed that, lol. Get all your friends IPs!I don't know why it happens, it just randomly does it. I read somewhere that when the server feels like it's being abused it will block IPs or something like that, not sure.