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I myself use Ubuntu. I have used it for about a month, and I must say that it was easy to install and not too hard to setup. Aside from a little hassle having to type sudo modprobe bcm43xx every time I started my computer (fixed now), my wireless networking mini-pci card, a broadcom one, required no work at the command line. It was simply a matter of downloading two files and running one, and selecting the other within a program. I learnt very quickly how to use the command line with Ubuntu and generally it was a good experiance for me.

I have to say Opera. I'll give a little story here. Back before October 2007, I was using first IE6, then FireFox. I was satisfied with FireFox until it started being problematic with my layouts. It also used far too much memory and even crashed my PC sometimes. When I was forced to reformat my hard drive due to extremely bad malware infection, I tried out the then new Safari web browser for windows. It proved good for a week, after which I stopped, as it was slow, irritating, and generally not very good. I decided to use Opera, since my mobile phone was using Opera mini, the java version of it. I was very pleased with Opera whilst using it, and decided to switch to it and not go back to firefox. Ever since then, it's been good with layouts, firefox and IE6 often both fail at many where it goes by and does them. I suggest using Firefox and Opera to try the acid test, a test of browsers rendering abilities. Opera passes it fully, although firefox produces something recognizable. Summarizing my post, I have used Opera for a while and it gets my vote.

Astahost, of couse. Geocities is past it's time, it's no longer 1999, Freewebs instantly sets a bad impression for your site, even if it's coded properly without templates, Gatorhost has had bad reviews, 50webs has low specs, haven't heard of the rest. Though I shall give my opinion on my old host, Core-Fusion. They were a perfect host for a period of time, however, they decided to remove their old system, similiar to that of Xisto, in favour of one based on postcount. With it, a decent package cost 65 posts a month. I stayed with them for a while, then (for the better, I'll explain later), a hacker attacked our IPB 1.3 boards whilst going through and defacing many other small boards. I removed him, but decided to move to AEF, a different forum system. A day was spent on a temporary board on a very poor free host, in that time, I gained hosting credits here and started an account. A few uploads later, and I was on Xisto. I was extremely pleased with it, downtime was low, speed was high, and it had a nice community, so posting on the forums wasn't a chore, unlike the inactive core-fusion forums.So, to summarize what I've said, Xisto wins my vote.

Like Sten to an extent, I mainly used download managers on dialup. They were a definite must for me back then when I needed to download large programs (10mb or so was large for me at the time). When I switched over to broadband, I removed Free Download Manager, and starting downloading with firefox's, and later opera's, built in download manager. I use FDM for very large files though, upwards of 200mb.

I do the same as Rutu. I see little points in homepages myself. In most cases, there isn't a routine of site's to visit when one is on the internet. Google is ok, but the best, in my opinion is opera's "Speed Dial" homepage that let's you click a link to go to a site.

I live in a small town in the highlands of Scotland called Lairg.No, I am not a farmer/crofter.

This is quite impressive for a browser using IEFRAME.DLL, as most I see have only got the bare minimum of features and are very poor, this is certainly better, the best IEFRAME.DLL based browser I've seen.

It works, but in general, it is quite old, and most people would rather use a proper ftp client, though I imagine those with less experiance probably love this, and it's good of you to post this, since many don't that it does FTP, I actually needed this to jog my memory.

I've used several ftp cleints in Linux and Windows, and my opinion is that, despite it tending to screw up and crash a lot, CoreFTP is one of the best for windows. It's quick and simple and does the job. I rate it 7.5/10. For linux, FireFTP seems the easiest to install and use, also on it's favour is that it integrates with firefox, hence the name, it's simple but works well. I rate FireFTP 8/10.

I myself have to choose ubuntu. Whilst I am capable of setting up more complex distros, like Red Hat, with my hardware, Ubuntu has a huge win in that respect, as when I installed it, it simply wagged it's tail and all my hardware was automatically set up, except my wireless card. Unlike when I had to use ndiswrapper on other distros, I was able to follow a tutorial with my Windows partition, download a few files, put them on a partition which I can look at with linux, then simply selected the file, set up my wireless network WPA Passkey and so on, and I was online.I rate ubuntu 8.5 out of 10.

I used awardspace once when I was looking for a host, a few months before moving to Xisto. It was ok as an intermediate after my forum was hacked whilst preparing the Xisto version, but that was about all. It's not the worst free host, but it isn't all that good either, I'd rank it 5.5/10.

Most languages are hard at first, lingual or programming, but once you've learnt the basics, you can do anything. And for learning the basics of MySQL, I recommend W3Schools, and of course tizag, both of which I used a lot when I was learning php and mysql.

Instead of the common grub-based dualboot setup, you could use a program called HyperOS. It has had support for linux since version 2004 I believe, however I think it costs money.

I use it a lot in Linux when the players included with Ubuntu don't support a format. It's very good, you'll find it on a lot of desktops I'm sure, and it's free so I recommend it fully. With it being free, you have nothing to lose, and in my case, it took a minute or so to install, less than windows media player for sure.

I agree with you, xboxrulz. I too was sad in a way when apple decided to abandon the PowerPC architecture. I believe a lot of Mini-ITX boards use a Via C3 architecture, however, and I am hearing that a new Risc machine may be made.

If it was in the form of an actual program, it would actually be pretty good. In my opinion, these web based tools are not the way of the future, they are mere novelties. Plus, there are other photo editing programs that are easy.

Thanks for that, should've looked a bit more, haha. I'm posting this on Linux right now, and to go a bit offtopic, when installing I accidentally deleted windows (it seems) but I'm able to do so much on linux that I don't care.

Well, I recently decided to switch over all my PC's to linux, and was stumped when I tried to convert one of my laptops. It has a Dell Wireless 1370 wireless networking mini-pci card, based on a broadcom chip. I tried to find a driver on the internet, to no avail. I found NDISWrapper, but despite my knowledge of how to set up a web server on linux, I couldn't work out how to use it. I found a graphic tool, but it was commercial, which ruined any use for me. I was wondering if anyone here knew a free tool that would automatically set it up.A few other things: my distro is Ubuntu 7.10, my wireless network has WPA encryption, assume I know nothing about linux when replying, and I could also use a netgear wg111 USB wireless adapter if that is easier to set up.

The last DVD I watched, was V for Vendetta if I remember right, and I rate it 9.5/10. It's set in around 2020, and is based on a comic of the same name. It is about a future dystopian dictatorship in the United Kingdom, which becomes highly chrisitian, eliminating homosexuals, Muslims, and all other followers of non-christian religion. A character called V blows up first the Old Bailey, then the houses of parliament, at the end of the film. It's very interesting, and that's why I give it a 9.5/10. I never give anything 10/10, or that would make better things impossible.

Very good tutorial, I already have experiance in both C and C++, and these tutorials certainly should do better than what I done, that being trial and error and looking at already programmed programs for assitance, I'm glad Umar Shah has decided to expand on this.

The best and easiest route to learning a language I have found, computer or vocal lanugage, is to just look over it a lot. Do tutorials. Do them a few times and look at your coding a lot. Eventually it'll stick in your head. By the way, http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp (w3schools) is a good site for tutorials, as well as tizag. Both I used when learning PHP.

On my web servers, I usually use the following:1. OS: CentOS, or Red Hat Linux2. Web Server: Apache 23. Database: MySQL 5 Community Edition4. Dynamic page language: PHP 55. Page designer: Usually none, previously NVU6. Graphic Designer: GIMP and Inkscape

Good tutorial, a little basic, but should be helpful to any newbies to php. Also, as FireFoxRocks says, I wouldn't reset the HP count back to 100.

I do not see much point in having a 39MegaPixel camera. Yes, Benfromsac does have a point when he says the difference, however small, is just noticable, I don't think the small difference these would make when viewed at a size other than 50x50 feet would be very easy to notice.

Uhh, this is taken from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ but it's a good tutorial, and I thank you for posting this here, as it brings back memories of a good time ago when I followed that tutorial.