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Many of us, during the course of computer's life will need to reformat our computer for various reasons. Whether it be your computer is so slow and you just can't figure out why, or if you have a very persistent virus that you just can't figure out a way to eradicate. Though i'm sure there are countless number of reasons, many will fall on the solution of reformatting your computer....or more specifically, your hard-drive. Now what exactly does this involve? To put it simply, reformatting your hard-drive is like reformatting any other disk like a floppy disk or a usb drive. It will cause the drive/disk to be completely erased and for the most part, completely fresh to be used again. The only exception to this is when the disk has some physical damage.....nothing can fix this. The main difference when reformatting your hard-drive is your operating system is installed on it, and when you erase your os, you will have nothing to boot up to. What will you need? - some-way to back up your data - installation cd for Windows XP *****VERY IMPORTANT - copies of installation for all the programs that you need to install - a working cd drive What do you do? Back-up all your data that you have a remote chance of needing in the future. You can copy files to a cd/dvd, to a usb key, a portable hard-drive, any other external means of data storage you have access too. Back-up documents, multimedia, and anything else you deem important. However, you cannot copy programs as they have information stored in the registry;which will be deleted in the reformat. Let me reiterate a point:Make sure you have installation copies of all programs you will need. Check once more that all the data you could potentially need is stored. Put your windows xp installation cd into the cd-drive and restart your computer. Check your boot device order and make sure CD is first on the list. To do this, press the key specified on the first screen when your computer turns on. Often it is the delete key or F1, F2 or F12..however it varies per computer. When a BIOS dialogue comes up, find a menu for Boot devices. A list of devices should come up in order of priority. Make sure your CD drive is the first on the list, change it if need be. After you are done, save changes and exit the BIOS set-up. When the computer starts again, a dialogue asking you to press a key to boot from disc will come up. Press any key. When a screen comes up with multiple options, choose the Set-up Windows XP option (usually by pressing enter/return). A screen will come-up asking where you want to install Windows XP. Using the up/down keys, select drive C to reformat and press the D key. On the next screen, press the appropriate key to confirm deleting the partition. Once you are back at the installation screen, choose the "Unpartitioned Space" using the up/down keys and press C to create a partition. On the next screen, make sure the maximum size of the drive is selected to be the partition (unless you want only part of the drive to be partitioned). Again, you will find yourself on the installation screen, choose the "New Partition" using the up/down keys and press enter to continue. When asked which file system to format the drive with, choose the appropriate one. Generally, NTFS will be best as it is the most secure. Choose FAT32 if you will be sharing files with older versions of Windows. Finally, Windows XP will install, follow the dialogues carefully to finish the process. Congratulations, You're Done!

If so, what is the latest standard for wireless technology....and while i'm asking, what is a recommendation for an internet connection of 128kbps? I have a wireless G router/card is that good enough?

Hi there, I was just wondering, what is your experience in e-commerce? Like do have you studied in this direction before or are you just interested in it? Also, I was wondering if you know of any free "shopping cart" type applications which can be used on a website?

I'm not sure if this is entirely possible....but I'm pretty sure that you can just copy the portable app directory that you need to use off your usb right onto the computer.....since there is no installation needed and no registry keys to be added/changed you can run the program right on your computer....

This is very cool....The seemingly "novelty" screen actually serves an important purpose: It lets you diagnose connectivity issues quickly and allows you to see who is on you network at any time. The 1600 feet access radius is pretty cool as well....that is nearly half a kilometer or one third of a mile.

Lets face it...... all these things that have been described are afflictions of first time web designers. Usually people who have just learned basic html/dhtml and are copying codes from other sites like dynamicdrive.com. The cheesey color schemes and other design problems are reflections of what the web-designer thinks is cool rather than what is pleasing to the eye. A tip for up and coming webdesigners.........If you are making a site which you want other to visit.......look at the site from their perspective, make sure it loads nicely, it is pleasing to the eye, and doesn't disturb the users other activities.

I was thinking about this shakeable batter esque thing...I wonder if it will work. Many of you must have heard of "Faraday's flashlight." Essentially it works around the concept of electromagnetic induction. In other words, if you have a copper coil and get a magnet to pass through it, a magnetic current is induced. It then can be stored in a capacitator for later or immediate use. Now.....imagine you had a AA battery set-up so that it had a copper coil and magnet inside......then, a capacitator that stores the energy routing it through the Positive and Negative terminals of the battery........essentially you could have a battery that runs "virtually" forever and can always have electrical energy to be used. I realize that this is farfetched but is it remotely possible?

So most people have USB drives.....and many of them use them on multiple computers. Also, installing simple programs that you need on computers on which you don't have administrator privelages is a huge drag. However, I was surfing around and came across this website: http://portableapps.com/ This website has a whole host of programs which run right off a usb disc. This means you don't need administrator privelages! It includes office programs, games, utilities for your computer, accessiblity software, programming clients, graphics and sound editing programs, video/sound players, internet programs like browsers, email clients, and ftp clients, but the coolest of all: an OS - Mac OS Classic 7. It also has a suite of programs which can be downloaded all at once and include the most commonly used programs. Pretty sweet eh?

So guys, this is my little poll about port 25 blocking. For those of you who have tried running local SMTP servers and failed simply because their ISP is so worried about so called spammers.....For those who don't know what i'm talking about: Sending mail requires an SMTP server. Most SMTP servers transmit data through port 25. However because of alleged spamming risks, many ISP block port 25 so you cannot run these sort of local SMTP servers. Personally, I believe that they do it so you can't run a very useful/succesful webserver. If you are not sure if port 25 is blocked, do this:Start->Run->telne http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ it connects succesfully, you are not blocked....if not, obviously you are blocked on port 25. GAH Anyways does anyone have any free work-arounds if port 25 is blocked?**Edit: Actually I Just Noticed that I made a mistake above.....there are more ways to send mail then smtp.

Alright, so most of you guys know of the age old Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice debate. In the case of an abortion...no matter how conception occured should the "baby" live or be subject to the choice of its mother. However, recently I heard of a new debate that springs off of this one. It goes something like this.....In the case there is conception, if the father signs an agreement that states he wants an abortion, but the mother carries through with the child anyways, the father is not legally responsible to pay for child support. Now before you start flaming and call me an insensitive **** I haven't stated my opinion and I won't. However think about one thing before you reply. First of all, usually a man in a situation in which he doesn't want the child can say all he wants but in the end he is completely subject to the woman's choice. Is that gender equality? This proposed law seems to ease this inequality formed in situations like these. So....what do you think?

Hi guys, I' back again and this tutorial is about port forwarding. I am going to gear it towards users who want to run a webserver on their computer but cannot, simply because their router is blocking the http port (usually 80). Before we begin, let me give you some background. Usually, when you connect to the internet directly through a modem, a user would just have to visit your ip address (assigned by your isp) to visit your server. However, when you are running on a router, there are a few things to take into consideration. The router gives private LAN (local area network) ip addresses to each computer running on it. This essentially means that external users would not be able to access individual ports on private ip addresses. However, there is a way to go around this. Usually called port-forwarding or "tunnelling," the method I will explain below essentially forwards external users who are on a specific port to a private ip address within the network. For those of you who have no clue what I am talking about, think of it this way: Imagine your LAN is a building with multiple people each with individual extensions. If people within the building wanted to reach each other, they would just have to call their extension. If someone externally called the phone-number (without any extensions), they would reach the switchboard (router) and would not be able to reach a person who is in that building. However, if the switchboard is configured to redirect all calls to a specific extension, people are able to externally access a specific person. This is a basic example of what we will be doing. Lets Begin: First you need to login to your router. Ideally, you should know the address to connect to and the username and password. If you are not sure of the address, Go to Start->Run and type in cmd. Once a command prompt comes up, type in ipconfig. The number appearing beside IP Address is your local private address. To find out the address of your router, remove the last two digits of this number. Please note that this only works if you are connected to a simple one router network. More routers will complicate matters as you will need to enable double-port forwarding. Once you are logged in to your router, find a section for port-forwarding, tunnelling or virtual servers. Create a new setting. Name: Not very important, not applicable to all routers. Private IP: The Private LAN IP you have been assigned by your router. To find this, use the same method as above (Run->Cmd->Ipconfig) but use the whole number.Private/Public Ports Usually, these are the same. For most people, the port listed here would either be 80 for http, 25 for smtp and 21 for ftp. There are exceptions; for example many ISPs block port 25 (for alleged spamming reasons) which is the default SMTP port. Some opt to change this use an intermediary server to reflect sent mail from your server on a different port. In this case, your private port would be 25 but you public would be something else. Schedule: The times you want the port-forwarding to be enabled. Not applicable to all routers. There you have it, some routers require a reset, but after that external visitors can visit your webserver!

First let me start off by saying that this tutorial is not about how to host a webserver on your computer. That was done quite well by swizzeron. This tutorial has to do with those of you who are interested in hosting a webserver on your computer, but are stuck with a dynamic ip. For those who don't know, a dynamic ip is one that is non-permanent; and thus it changes. This is opposed to static ip address' which are permanent locations on the internet assigned to computers. How did dynamic ips come to be? Well as far as I can tell, they were created to deal with the large amount of internet users. To put it simply, there are too many people using the internet to each get a permanent address. Thus, some ISPs (internet service providers) assign temporary addresses every time you connect. What does this mean for people who want a webserver but have a dynamic ip? Well, lets see:- it means that people who want to visit your website (including you) will never know which ip address to visit without checking first - it means that domain redirection services will not work - overall it means that you have a server which is extremely difficult to access My solution involves using a program to update a remote server with your IP every time it changes. People who wish to visit your server would do so through the remote server. For those of you who aren't internet savvy think of it this way: Imagine a city is the world wide web. Each home represents a separate computer and thus, a separate ip address. Mailing a house (visiting the server) would be quite easy; after all you just need their address. However, this particular city has a large amount of mobile homes/rv's which are constantly moving from one site to another (representing changing or dynamic addresses). Mailing a friend who lives in a mobile home would be a problem because it would be hard to tell where they are at any given moment. However, my solution works sort of like a P.O. box. The box represents a permanent building which redirects your "mail" to the appropriate mobile home. This allows you to "mail" them wherever they may be. If you are not sure if you have a dynamic ip, ask your ISP or visit https://www.whatismyip.com/ and periodically between network resets. If you have a changing ip address, you have a dynamic ip. So what is this so-called solution I have? To tell you the truth, it's quite simple really. Lets begin: Make sure you have a working webserver on your computer Visit http://www.noip.com/ and sign-up for a free account Once you have gone through the email confirmation process and logged in, click on the downloads tab. Download the appropriate version of No-IP. Click on the first "Your NO-IP" tab and click the "Add" link underneath the "Hosts/Redirects" heading. Setup the configuration for your redirection host. The domain you create here will be the new address to your website. Install the No-IP program you downloaded and login using the account you created. Allow approximately 5-10 mins for an update and then your website is ready to go. It can be accessed from the domain you specified on the site. There you have it! An easy way to grab a dynamic ip by the horns and ride it. Figuratively of course.