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I don't think you have to do anything in the CPanel, except set up the email address. Inside CPanel, the (default) configuration data for the account I am using is:Mail Server Username: mymail+mydomain.comIncoming Mail Server: mail.mydomain.comIncoming Mail Server: (SSL) gamma.xisto.comOutgoing Mail Server: mail.mydomain.com (server requires authentication) port 25Outgoing Mail Server: (SSL) gamma.xisto.com (server requires authentication) port 25Supported Incoming Mail Protocols: POP3, POP3S (SSL/TLS), IMAP, IMAPS (SSL/TLS)Supported Outgoing Mail Protocols: SMTP, SMTPS (SSL/TLS)Looking at it now, I note that a "mail" subdomain appears in the description, but I don't use it inside Thunderbird. Note also that only port 25 is mentioned. Inside Thunderbird, at Tools | Account Settings... | Server Settings, it says Port 110, but it works! At Tools | Account Settings... | Outgoing Server, it says Port 25. I have tested both incoming mail and outgoing mail, and they work! I am using POP, not IMAP. I specifically want to download my email to local files, so I can delete them on the server once in a while, and not accumulate there. As I understand it, IMAP also has the "feature" that if you delete an email message in one place, it gets deleted everywhere, so you'd better be sure you're not going to have second thoughts. Yes, in fact that is how I typically use it. In Tools | Account Settings... | Server Settings, there is a pane called "Server Settings" in the lower middle of the window. I check "Leave messages on server." That way, if I log in from different places (using the same username and password), I get one copy of the email downloaded at each place. When I want to clean up the server, I make sure every computer is current, then go to one, uncheck "Leave messages on server," and tell it to read the mail. I have deleted over 2,000 messages that way in a couple of minutes. The only risk is that some mail comes in while that process is going on. The just-received incoming mail will be only on that one computer. If that's a problem, just mail it to yourself after you are finished. Hope this helps!

I just set up outgoing mail through the server, and it was equally easy. The process is as follows:1. Thunderbird Tools | Account Settings ... | Scroll to the bottom of the left pane and click on Outgoing Server (STMP)2. Click "Add ..." I put "Xisto Server" in the description, and "mydomain.com" in the Server Name field. Again, no "POP3 or "STMP" or "MAIL" subdomain is needed. The bare domain name is enough.3. The only slightly tricky part is User Name "mymail+mydomain.com" and "TLS, if available" for a secure connection.4. Close out the window and go back to the line in the left pane of the Account Settings window that corresponds to the email account you are setting up. When you click on the "mymail+mydomain.com" main link, you will see a window on the right that includes "Outgoing Server (STMP) with a pull-down pick list to the right. Click on the down-arrow to the right, and your new outgoing server name should be there. Just click on it.5. Then compose an outgoing message and send it through this service. It will prompt you for a password. If it accepts it, you're done!I forgot, and put just "mymail" in the User Name field. The result was that I was prompted several times for my password. I went back and provided the correct User Name "mymail+mydomain.com" after which the password was taken on the next try.

In 2050, the Arab world will be in a severe depression. How the rest of the world will fare, will depend on the adaptability of communities. Many non-oilwell sources of transportable energy are presently in research and development, and will soon be proving themselves. For example, Coskata Energy has done bacterial genetic engineering and produced an end-to-end process for producing ethanol from biowaste. Argonne National Labs has determined, according to General Motors, that for every unit of energy used, it generates up to 7.7 times that amount of energy, and it reduces CO2 emissions by up to 84 percent compared with a well-to-wheel analysis of gasoline. This kind of advance in technology can make drilling for oil obsolete. The question is which communities will adopt such technology. The U.S., for example, appears to have a very corrupt Federal government at this time, and may be unwilling to challenge the special interests. My guess is that the intelligent people in the world will move to where the communities are willing to provide what central governments are increasingly unable to supply.

I must be doing something right! I set up email using Thunderbird Saturday, yesterday, and it worked like a charm! I'll walk through what I did. See if it works for you. First, of course, verify that your domain is accessible (e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/). Then set up an email account and password using cpanel (e.g. mymail@mydomain.com). In Thunderbird, go to Tools | Account Settings... | Add Account... You now go through several screens. Tell it you want an Email account. Give it your name and email address (mymail@mydomain.com). Xisto makes the next stuff simple. You don't need "pop" or "pop3" or something like that in addition to your domain name. It tells from the port address what you want to do. The "server address" is mydomain.com and the username is mymail+mydomain.com. Thunderbird then wants to know about security. When I first set it up, I checked "never" use secure connection. Thunderbird will choose the appropriate default port. Somewhere along the line, I also told it not to use the "Local folders" for this mail. That involved unchecking a box. That should be all it takes. I closed out the boxes and closed Thunderbird. When I restarted it, it prompted me for the email password, and I was in! I then went back into Account Settings | Server settings | Security and checked "TLS, if available" and "use secure authentication." The port changed itself to 110. I have had no problems since. Kudos to Xisto for making it so easy!

A long time ago, some sage said if you want to know why people are doing something, "follow the money." It is alleged that Al Gore is making much more money off his activities in the "Climate Change" scare than he could ever make as President. It has recently been demonstrated that Greenpeace is making a lot more money, now that it has climbed on the "Climate Change" bandwagon. Personally, I find compelling the argument that the sun is the primary driver of Earth's climate. Interestingly, the test of this hypothesis will come relatively soon (the next few years). Both Russian and Scandanavian scientists have predicted an unusually quiet "solar cycle" or two coming up. If you want to track this, watch the sun directly, or take a look at indirect views of both sides of the sun. (Scroll down about half a page and look in the left column. The "Far Side" of the sun is "visible" through internal seismic waves.) The "next" solar cycle has begun, but it is unusually quiet. The first (reversed-magnetic-field) sunspot appeared a few days ago, then promptly disappeared, which is unusual. It will take a while to determine whether this is just a statistical fluctuation or a really quiet solar cycle. Recent astrophysical theories predict that a quiet solar cycle means more clouds, more rain and a cooling Earth surface. This is what caused the "Little Ice Age," related to Maunder Minimum between 1645 and 1715.

I have friends with DELL computers, with paid support. They often ask me to come over when then need to call tech support. That is because:(1) I have spent time overseas, so I am better at understanding the "English" DELL's tech support folks speak, (2) I know enough about computers I can provide some protection. For example:One friend had a computer with dozens of viri in it (he had grandchildren who liked to download every file they could find, and try running them). We called tech DELL tech support. The guy we got said "No problem," and started explaining how to reformat the hard drive. He could not have been less interested in backing up all the data my friend had on the hard drive.We hung up on that "tech support person" and called back a few hours later. The next person explained how to do a "system refresh" that restored all system files to the factory originals (many of which are from DELL, not Microsoft), without deleting any data files.Much of a user's experience with DELL tech support depends on the luck of the draw -- what kind of knowledge the person you talk to actually has with the systems.

I just tried my (under construction) home page: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ in Firefox 2.0.0.11 (the current version). The first time around, it showed my new web page when I didn't use the www. and the Xisto default page when I did use the www. Hitting the reload button in the latter case produced the current home page in both versions. At least in Firefox, it definitely is a Cache problem.

My favorite extension: noScript (but it adds to your workload Pros: By default, noScript disables javascript, java, popups, flash and many other things that are annoying to people who just like to read text and view simple images. It keeps a list of websites with non-default properties for each of them, so that you can allow your bank, favorite websites, etc to have whatever properties you want available to them. I was amazed when I first used this extension, how much of what I browsed did not even need javascript. When it does, noScript provides easy ways to enable what you need, either temporarily or permanently, by website. I find noScript eliminates 90% of the annoyances that intrusive websites try to deliver to your desktop, and it certainly prevents cross-site scripting and other potential risks when you visit an unknown website. Cons: (1) If the website you are visiting wants to do something by scripting, and it doesn't announce the fact, noScript may be preventing something essential. (My domain signup here was probably delayed a day or two because I didn't realize the signup page was trying to popup a window.) (2) If you are in the middle of a form, press "Submit" and nothing happens, you must then carefully copy the material you have entered to the clipboard or another safe place before enabling scripts. Enabling them often results in a reload of the page and possible loss of what has been filled in. It is worth noting here that many (cgi) scripts DO function properly without javascript. (3) New versions of noScript come out about weekly these days. Be prepared to put up with reminders to upgrade relatively frequently. I am fully aware of both the pros & cons, and would not be caught in Firefox without noScript!

I have used a number of linuces, but spend most of my time in SuSE. I have SuSE 9.1 on one computer, 10.1 on a second and 10.2 on a third. I find its ability to recognize a wide variety of hardware, and install itself on a multiboot system very well-developed.There is a caveat. I bought earlier versions (7.1, 8.1, 9.1) for $50 to $70 each. Each came with around 1,000 pages of manuals. Starting with 10.1, since Novell bought SuSE, the manuals are much smaller, and the free version OpenSuSE has only online manuals, so a new user may be at a loss to find adequate documentation.If you just want to see what Linux is like, try Knoppix, or another of the increasing number of "live CD" distributions. They run from a CD, and don't touch your hard drive. You can test them (and verify that they can recognize your hardware), without installing anything on your computer.

The next logical step is to encrypt it, and challenge others to extract the plaintext. It is interesting that encryption goes back at least to Julius Caesar (100-44 BC)! He used a substitution cypher, the so-called Caesar cipher, to protect messages in the field of battle. You will not find "blind" decryption easy unless you have enough encrypted text that you can do frequency analysis on the letters.

If you are new to programming, consider Python as your first language! Unlike C#, it is free, as in $0! Unlike Java, it has a simple grammar (few brackets and semicolons) and few declarations (most variables are automatically declared by their first use). I have been programming for almost 50 years, and Python is by far the easiest, clearest programming language that I have found! The Python home page will orient you to the resources and documentation. It includes excellent tutorials and examples. It runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. The same Python language can generate Java code using Jython, an implementation of Python for the Java Virtual Machine. Finally, Iron Python is a Microsoft-sanctioned implementation of Python generating .NET code.

I am a scientist. I am also a Christian. If someone were to try to put me in a category, the most appropriate one would probably be "intelligent design." I find it very helpful, in preserving a rational mind, to clearly define "evolution." Wikipedia begins the definition with In biology, evolution is a change in the inherited traits of a population from one generation to the next. I find no conflict between that and Christianity. Lets look at some details. There is an excellent book, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, which will leave you with no doubt that there is genetic variation in the human genome, and that it is traceable to natural mutations. However, it will tell you nothing about where the process started. There were studies in the 1950's that showed an electrical discharge (e.g. lightning) in methane can produce amino acids. To my knowledge, there has been nothing since that has shown how these amino acids could naturally combine to form sufficiently complex DNA components and other necessary ingredients of life. It has also recently been shown that DNA is only a part of the story. The human body is made up of more bacteria than "human cells." (See Good Germs, Bad Germs for details.) Something got this process started. I believe the start came from an external intelligence. It has been reported in many places that Marx and Hitler both felt free to murder millions of people because the "Theory of Evolution" convinced them there was no God, and therefore there was nothing to stop them. Whether that is true is of only academic interest. What they did is in an indelible historical record. What is important to us, is that we understand what the "Theory" does, and does not say, and not be misled by people who would use it to change our behavior. Modern (and here I mean for the last million years or so) DNA and its mutations are now well understood. The origin of the earliest of this life-giving DNA and the many other necessary components of life is not at all clear, and "the Theory of Evolution" really has nothing to do with that.

Short answer: Science always creates more questions than it answers.Here is a simple illustration (I am paraphrasing). Near the end of the 19th Century, the claim was going around that all of physical science (speed of light, acceleration of gravity, etc) had been completed, and what remained was to refine the numbers to more decimal digits. This idea was popular, despite the fact that radioactive materials (uranium, radium) had recently been discovered, and their properties were only very vaguely understood.Science is basically a way of looking at the world. It has no monopoly on truth, nor even on valuable understanding. The 20th century showed clearly that powerful personalities (Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Ghandi) can persuade tens of millions of people to move in one direction. This can swamp other human activities.The Egyptians and Greeks knew the layout of the planets, the diameter of the Sun and many other very subtle features of the solar system (like the precession of Earth's poles) long before the birth of Jesus. It was not the science, but personalities, politics and battles that caused this information to be lost for more than 1,000 years.

I don't believe an ordinary (non-superuser) account can change the properties of a task not owned by it. It is true that 'kill' is available to an ordinary user (I just checked in SuSE). However ps, etc. have read-only access to the task info except for the "owned" tasks.I appreciate the "heads-up" regarding restricting the Task Manager. I use it once or twice a day, so I would certainly be upset if it suddenly disappeared!

The issue of whether one is allowed to record a phone call varies from state to state. I live in New Mexico. Here the legal status is that, if I am a party to the conversation, I can record it. Other states have different laws. I had an interesting issue last March. My wallet had been stolen, and unauthorized charges were made on one of the credit cards in that wallet. I wanted them removed. When I called the Customer Service number, I was told on the way in (by a recorded message) that the call "will be recorded." Not "may be" but "will be." After waiting a long time on hold, and in the midst of trying to get the charges off my account, I told the person on the other end that I was recording. He replied "You can't do that. If you don't stop, I'll terminate this conversation." I refused and he hung up.A few months later, after closing the account and writing protest letters, I spoke to someone higher up in the company. Her position was that, by using the card, I had agreed to the terms and conditions (about 10 pages of fine print), one part of which apparently includes my agreement that I would not record conversations. Since New Mexico explicitly allows it, and the Terms (of an "adhesive" contract) forbid it, this one would have to be adjudicated in court. Since I had already closed the account and we were arguing over about $40, it was academic, but it is an illustration of the legal complexities that can arise.

I am using Grisoft AVG 7.5, AVG Anti-Rootkit and Spybot Search & Destroy. The AVG program has a "Scheduled Task" button on the left side of the main page. There, you can schedule when it scans the computer, and when it checks for updates. I have it set to check about 9 AM, so I can see it doing it, and know it actually has an update. The update shows the total number of bytes being transferred, and after it downloads them, it shows which files are being updated. Usually, it just updates a "current version" file and one or two data files. About once every 2 months, it also downloads new DLLs.The "improvements" and more comprehensive services it offers are for a fee. It seems to be a good anti-virus package, but I have never had a problem, so I'm still just using the free version. (I have an ancient router which provides hardware enforcement of an equally ancient Zone Alarm. Apparently, that has been enough to keep my computers clean.)

I've installed MediaWiki a bunch of times on my home computers, but I've always had root access. The help pages over there give advice on how to deal with a system where you don't. Many warnings are like the one about gdiff3. That program is used by the software if two people simultaneously edit the same page. When the second person tries to save the page, he is presented with a 3-way diff that asks him what to keep and what to discard from among the original, his changes, and the 3rd party changes. If this program is not accessible, it simply doesn't present the merged 3-way differences, and the user has to look more carefully to figure out what to keep and what not to. One reason that I am here is that I want to experiment with MediaWiki online. I make extensive use of the math formula package in MediaWiki. It requires several less-common packages, one of which (imagemagick [Am I allowed to use cameltext here?]) is mentioned on the home page of Xisto [How about here?]. The other is convert which was also flagged in your error messages. As I recall, it is compiled from Object Caml. Having done it, I can tell you it will probably be better to compile it on a Local linux system and upload it to Xisto, assuming they will let you change its permission to executable. A few years ago, there was an easier way to handle equations, but OCaml has been the "standard" in MediaWiki for at least a year. Convert and imagemagick together take input that is reasonably close to Latex text and generate a png image file from it.

I recommend phpBB, but that somewhat depends on (1) how easy it is to have an Xisto script install it, or (2) how proficient you are with debugging. I have a small home network. I have been running phpBB for about 4 years, and MediaWiki for two. I first installed it on a Windows-95 class machine (400 MHz, 128 MB ram, SuSE Linux) 4 years ago, and spent several days figuring out which of the several userids it asked for belonged to it, to MySQL, and to me. Recently, I moved the data in the board to a much newer computer (Acer Aspire laptop, purchased July 2007), and a much newer version of phpBB. The scripts to update the data (changing the record structure in MySQL, etc.) were all in the package, though it took a while rooting through bulletin board posts to find out where to look for them. Very much to the developer's credit, the scripts looked at the original files, determined the origional (4 year old) version number, and applied just the fixes needed to bring the data up to the current version.There are certainly easier bulletin-board systems out there, but phpBB is very capable, as far as I am concerned. As a bonus, the developers just finished 3 years of work, and came out with a totally rewritten version (which I have not, however, tested myself.