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There are many pieces of software for automating the switch from proxy server to proxy server, including an add-on for FireFox - that's not where the shortage is.The problem I have always had was to come up with a list of good, freshly tested, high-performance, highly anonymous, public proxy servers.That's because those lists you find at freeproxy dot whatever are already obsolete by the time you get to them.

Places is a central area for bookmarks, browsing history and downloads in one spot with thumbnails and tagging. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Looks slick, but it could do without the Vista-ness.

So you're sitting there on Saturday morning, sipping on a nice warm cup of coffee or tea. You smell the freshness of the morning, and whipping up some html, CSS and trying out some new AJAX programming. You're stuck on something! You wish you had a quick cheat sheet to get you back on track. Look no further if you're a web developer! This is the Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheet Guide! http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (a loopmounted partition), this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation. The resulting Ubuntu installation is a "real" Linux system, not just a virtual machine. Wubi makes it easy for Linux newbies to play around with Ubuntu. https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop For my own purposes, I don't see the point, since Ubuntu is ridiculously easy to install already, secondly if I want to mess around with Ubuntu on a Windows box, I might go the virtualization way. But I think this is great in order to help your less technically inclined relatives and friends make the transition to Linux more easily. Wubi can be used to install Ubuntu on machines where for some reason or other Ubuntu just won't install. Caveats: - people who are running Vista have reported problems. - it still has some issues that Ubuntu doesn't have. Wubi systems can't suspend or hibernate, and also, they seem prone to weird Windows filesystem errors that leave Ubuntu unbootable. You'll get slightly better hard drive performance and fewer issues with a full Ubuntu install. _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

While it's still a teaser at the moment, John Nack (Senior Product Manager for Photoshop) has confirmed the development of Photoshop Express. It's a free online photo editor that's not meant to replace Adobe's current offerings, but "make Adobe imaging technology immediately accessible to large numbers of people". http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/photoshop_express_ria_sneak_peeked_today.html Premiere Express isn't available as an end user product from Adobe - they only sell it to some of their partners who implement it on their sites. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Some games tend to be so absorbing that it's hard to put them down and just carry on your daily routine as if nothing happened. Every once in a while you'll find that even the quirkiest elements of a game have permeated your mind and warped your perception of reality somewhat. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Britney Spears is a human? Who knew. Video of insane Britney Spears fan going off on her critics: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Easily one of the funniest videos of the year.

I have saved the results in jpg format and included the picture in the post above. The results can also be viewed at: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/404.png

I received this e-mail some days ago from these guys: I for one won't be making any donations, from what I can tell by looking at the forums, the guy running this site is pretty abusive towards users.

The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure. Article "Fgpyyih804423 in 160 seconds. How Safe is Your Windows Password?": https://blog.codinghorror.com/rainbow-hash-cracking/

I looked for this in two of my favorite places, but the first search came out empty: (http://www.viewster.com/?utm_source=filestube&utm_campaign=http://www.filestube.com/&utm_medium=redirect&utm_content=redsky) However, I did come across a small package in the second one - my favorite torrent site - and it looks like this on the inside: (I edited the picture slightly and erased the name of the torrent site in order to stay out of trouble, but it begins with a "d", so that should make it easy to guess)

I ran a rootkit revealer scan on my Windows XP system, but I find it difficult to interpret the output. From what I can gather, the registry key discrepancies might indicate that the registry keys storing rootkit device drivers and service settings are not visible to the Windows API, but are present in the raw scan of the registry hive data, and that the files associated with the rootkit are not visible to Windows API directory scans, but are present in the scan of the raw file system data. The help file says that there is no definitive way to determine, based on the output, if a rootkit is present, but that you should examine all reported discrepancies to ensure that they are explainable. Can anyone with a trained eye look at the output and help me with either a thumbs up or thumbs down as far as a rootkit being present on my system?

On your computer, tens of hidden processes might run silently in the background. Some consume system resources, radically slowing your PC. Other useless processes contain spyware and Trojans - at least violating your privacy. This process and DLL library is a great free resource for anyone who wants to know the exact purpose of every process. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ It's pretty good, but it needs a search feature instead of having to use Ctrl-F. Sure it tells you handy information about processes like svchost.exe but it doesn't tell you why on your Vista you have all of your svchost.exe's taking 200MB of RAM. Also check out: http://www.processlibrary.com/en/ Article "How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation": https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-clean-up-a-windows-spyware-infestation/ Edit: I just found one more Internet resource for this. Follow these instructions: 1) Identify the base name of the suspicious file (e.g. mdm.exe or secdrv.sys) - base name is the opposite of a fully qualified name (which means that the base name does not include the full path). 2) Create a link by filling in this base name as follows: http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/ Examples: http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/mdm.exe.html http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/secdrv.sys.html It's a mix of comments in both English and German, but it's very interesting because even as those comments are filtered and moderated, you still get some useful feedback from people who were burned badly by some of these pieces of malware. I am a little bit cautious about recommending the download of anything from a site that ends in .ru, but today I was in a brave mood and I downloaded the so-called "Hidden Processes Detector - Process Walker" from: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ The site looks like a legit rootkit detection / removal project. I scanned pwalker.exe using my standalone virus scanner and I ran it through https://www.virustotal.com/ - it came out almost clean. I say "almost clean" because out of 31 virus scanning engines, only one thinks it's a suspicious file - Panda. The output of pwalker.exe is a list of processes running on your computer, along with an indication whether it's a visible or hidden process. However, I have to say that this program leaves autorun entries in the registry, which I had to manually go in and remove afterwards.

You finally got your Linux environment to crash. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing, nor do the F-keys. So you reach for the power button. STOP! Using the power button to reboot usually causes more problems than it solves. The Linux kernel includes a secret method of restarting your PC should it ever stop doing it’s job. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Most of these are well-known freebies for Windows, but who knows, you might find a gem. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ A more comprehensive list - http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_software

develCuy, the link is working for me.However, my DNS server reports 72.29.83.205 as the IP address behind http://www.thelinuxvault.net/, but I tried using http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ instead of http://www.thelinuxvault.net/ ... and it doesn't work, for some strange reason. _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

What happens if you type the text below into Google's search box? answer to life, the universe and everything Note this is the same calculator that knows how to do basic arithmetic and knows how to convert pounds to kilograms, feet to meters, miles to kilometers, Fahrenheit to Celsius, etc. For more Google fun, check out this video: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I personally would like the ability to very easily donate credits.I know you can transfer credits to someone else, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops, and it's not integrated within the forum system.Sometimes I have small graphics design type tasks I need to get done, and I would like to "outsource" this work to other forum members who have more graphics design experience, in exchange for ... oh, I don't know ... 10 or 20 days worth of Xisto credits, as a "thank you" gift.Otherwise it's a great forum.

Pressing Alt-PrintScreen in Windows for taking a quick screenshot of the visible portion of a web page works just fine, but when you want to capture the entire height and save an image of what exists both above and below the fold, you need a dedicated tool.I need a free piece of software for the Windows enviroment that does this kind of job. I'm aware that such software exists for the Mac - Paparazzi! (http://derailer.org/paparazzi/).

Aha, I think I have the answer to that - you need to use a so-called "column alias".The SQL ANSI standard allows you to do things like:SELECT table.column AS alias FROM ...Aliases are mostly optional, but not in your particular case. Here you absolutely do need an alias because you are referencing the result of a formula. Therefore your piece of SQL would look like:SELECT current_date_to_days - some_other_date_to_days AS diff_in_daysafter which you would need to use:$diff = $row["diff_in_days"];in the subsequent PHP code.

SuTree is a social bookmarking and index of free video lessons, tutorials, DIY, how to videos ... in any subject and from all over the web. Their computer section is at: http://www.searchtiny.com/

Mapping the great network that is the internet was never going to be an easy task. There would have to be as many connections as there are in the human brain. But for a group of web architects based in Japan, it is worth a go. Modeled on the fiendishly complex Tokyo Metro map, the latest Web Trend Map organizes some of cyberspace's movers and shakers into an easy-to-read chart. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/untangling-the-web-japan-experts-publish-map-of-the-net-401441.html

Ever wonder what the future holds for the web? This article takes a look at 10 trends that hold the key to the future of the web. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ An interesting point to be made here is that Xisto's "free hosting in exchange for active contribution in the forums" model falls under the "Attention Economy" trend described in this article at number 5.

From now on a Linux upgrade won't involve 5 hours of ATI headache. It is now only a matter of time before you can get full use out of your $430 video card with the OS of your choice. The community made this happen - people who sent emails to AMD's PR department to get at least a binary blob driver from AMD. This announcement will make transitioning between Windows and Linux that much smoother, and proves that in the hardware industry the entire ball game can change in an instant. It opens the way for Linux driver programmers to write better drivers for the 2900XT than those available in Windows. ATI is one of the companies responsible for blocking widespread adoption of Linux, so this could really be a major turning point for Linux. It could lead to Nvidia also releasing an open-source driver, and maybe even hardware manufacturers in general starting to at least release specs. This will also benefit other open source operating systems which lack even binary drivers, and put AMD cards right beside Intel cards in terms of open-source friendliness. I suspect the current binary drivers will not be freed because of licensing restrictions/agreements with other companies. But going forward I suspect they'll probably either refrain from using 3rd party code in their drivers, or make sure to have explicit terms in the contract which allow for open sourcing the drivers. This can in no way be bad news for open source enthusiasts, and now the ball is in NVidia's court. Hopefully it will kick them into doing the same. We need good competition to drive those prices down. More information on their binary announcement is through: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=821&num=1 At phoronix.com they claim that "once our embargo expires (or we're otherwise permitted to talk about it) we will be covering what's up with ATI's open-source side as well." http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=newsm&px=NjAzMw Maybe Dell was in on the conversation. Maybe Dell is thinking of a future where they can sell hardware without needing another corporation to make them actually run. With more open source drivers, there will be more computer vendors throwing open source pre-installed on their hardware. And I guess that is a good excuse for game developers to start doing their job for all their users who aren't their users on GNU/Linux, but wish they were. A lot of people would like to get rid of the dual booting, only for gaming. At least those with an open mind can - if they want - share some knowledge as well as take some from the community. Edit: AMD will be providing NDA specifications, an open-source library, and there is a new open-source graphics driver as a result. AMD will continue producing a closed-source proprietary driver; however, they are opening the source-code to a critical library with accompanying GPU specifications for X.Org developers. Link to article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=artim=826&num=1 Ummmm ... translation? "We can't write decent drivers or even try to compete with Nvidia, but maybe someone else can do our work for us." Open source code, good. Specs under an NDA, bad ... AMD's going to have to do better than that if Intel's upcoming GPU-ish Larrabee becomes competitive. Let's see how fast the open source version catches up with AMD's binary version. It's like chasing a turtle. Will this really be enough for the open source crowd? You give the open source crowd your first born and they respond with "What about the rest of your children?" Link to article "Mark Shuttleworth Talks On ATI's New Linux Drivers": http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=artim=827&num=1 Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth talks about the new ATI fglrx Linux driver and AMD's new open-source work. He is pleased by AMD moves and leadership. The new fglrx driver will be available as an update in Gutsy Gibbon but will be integrated with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

High-tech consumer products and services of all kinds are making their way into the workplace. They include everything from smart phones, voice-over-IP systems and flash memory sticks to virtual online worlds. And as people grow more accustomed to having their own personal technology at their beck and call - and in fact can't imagine functioning without it - the line between what they use for work and what they use for recreation is blurring. Full article: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/