michaelper22

I don't know whether it will increase your PC's performance, because Vista itself requires twice as much hardware power than Windows XP. All of that extra power is for the Aero interface and such; sevral of the new features are nowhere near essential for using Windows (that's not stopping me from using it ). I'm also sure that DirectX 10 will be available as a download for Windows XP, so there ain't that many reasons o upgrade to Vista (unless you like havingthe latest and greatest running on your system).

Yes there is. You can request it from Microsoft's web site (go here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/), either as a CD shipped to you for a fee, or a nice big download. I think you'll need a DVD burner to use the ISO download.As far as system requirements, Microsoft suggests that you have a modern PC; I interpret that to mean like a 2.8 GHz or better Pentium 4 or like an Athlon 64 FX, 512 MB or more of RAM, 15 GB of hard drive space (that's according to Microsoft; they say that you should have at least 20 GB available), and a good graphics card that is DirectX 9 ready. I'm pretty sure that most current computers can stand up to that.

Oh man, I looked there too. That's where I made at least one of my first things. But I didn't feel helped there either. I'm a lost case. The thing is, I want to learn about all of the GFX terminology and such, but there is only on place that comes close to it (http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html), and even that's a bit freightening.

Since someone 'revived' this topic I feel it's safe to post.The whole thing behind the Gmail for Domains program is that you change the MX (mail exchanger) records on your domain to point to google's servers. Thus, all emails sent to an account on your domain (which you set up through the Gmail for Domains site) will go to Google's servers, not to the Xisto servers and then the google servers as forwarding would do.I signed up for the service, and you can do basically everyting a normal Gmail account can do, except for sign on to Google Talk.

This is an interesting issue that's been raised.When Windows Vista comes out, we will see all sorts of new things. A new version of Paint might just be one of them. What new features will be in it are impossible to predict. I would expect a bunch of more advanced features, maybe approaching The Gimp, but not equalling it or any other product.I'm losing my writing style (but that's another story).

That website design is so 1990's, especially the background. I'm guessing that the web site has not been updated since the 1990's either. I also agree that $10 webhosting with a paltry 12 Mb of storage is like a joke. Just go here, get more for free, or Xisto - Web Hosting even, or 1&1 - anything's better. But this is one of few hosts thay have their contact information displayed somewhat prominently; at the bottom of each page is pretty good.

I should have mentioned Deviantart too, I downloaded a whole bunch of brushes that I think are pretty nice. Anyway, I made something else with The Gimp today, see the attachment. I made a brushed background, a pixel grid, and a drop shadow on the text "Unite NYC's Buses"

I looked through there, and I can't really make much out of some of the tutorials. Are there any other good places to find GIMP tutorials? I would like some easy to understand guides to making some of the more popular types of graphics.

I decided to go into some GFX stuuf before I go to camp. I am starting out with The Gimp, since Photoshop is way out of my price range. I found a couple of tutorials and managed to make something really basic out of them, but it's not much. If anyone knows where I could find some good beginner Gimp resources (brushes, ptterns, tutorials on how to use Gimp in any and every way possible), please tell me about it, because I sorta want to make something nice.

The typical NYC idiot: An old lady who gets on the bus, stands to the side (or worse, in front of the farebox), starts counting $2 of change, puts it all in slowly, and then like 5 minutes later (while everyone's been waiting) asks the driver for a transfer.Similar example: Some lady gets on the bus, and doesn't have her MetroCard ready. The bus was about to leave the stop, when she comes running up (I'm dead serious; I have seen this mainly by women; nothing against them). She steps over to the side, starts looking through her purse for hr wallet, then pulls out the MetroCard and dips it into the farebox way after the bus started moving.Next idiots: People who ring the bell for getting off the bus while the front door is open, which will just result in the "Stop Requested" sign turning off one second after it goes on.People who talk on the phone the whole bus ride. They are so annoying; I even heard talk about the MTA instituting a rule against talking on cell phones on buses. No wonder people like airplanes.Notice how all of these incidents occured on the bus.Something else: Less than half of the people in my school believe in holding doors. Like in the morning, when we get off the bus and walk into the building, most of the guys just walk in, and leave it to the person behind them to open the door for himself (one kid in particular does this; he has almost let the door close on my face).People who smoke directly in front of other people. They go about their own business, just standing there and smoking, as if they were just another person in line. But they don't reaize that non-smokers (like me) are standing nearby. Meanwhile I'm coughing and weezing because of all the smoke around me. I feel like grabbing the cigarette and throwing it on the floor and stomping it out, along with the rest of the pack, and any other packs they might have on them. This most frequently occured when I would be waiting in line for the second bus in my previous morning commute (specifically, the Q10 stop at Queens Blvd. and Union Turnpike, for those of you New Yorkers).

Immediately before or after changing the nameservers of your domain, you should change the settings for your website. Then new nameserver change should take full effect within 24-48 hours (in English, come back again tomorrow, and it should be updated).

Micro$oft is offering an ea$y way for small businesses to make a web site. Now let's remember that even if you don't code in PHP, it's not a really easy way to make a website. And don't forget the fact that Micro$oft wants everything to be ea$y! (I'm sorry, I had to do that.) I'm sure that their web site templates aren't that bad, so if you really want their hosting, go for it, but don't expect much.

I saw that video, and it's not nearly as funny as the video of the same guys smashing an iPod, partly right in the store. They say they hate these products. Also, they aren't spending $500 of their own money, they are collecting via Paypal (well, they were anyway, before they actually smashed the things) YOUR money. Basically all I have to say about this is that some people have nothing better to do with their lives (hence the partnership with PlanetBoredom.net).

Yeah, I see the same thing. To see what's going on, go into cPanel on server Gamma, go to server Status, and you will see that disk sda6 (/tmp) is running at 86% load. I'm guessing that this isn't really a problem because temporary folders/partitions would be sued a bit, but I'm surprised because I've never seen it at that load before.See the attachment below.

Any time. I absolutely love skiing and felt I should share the joy with the rest of the world. My favorite place is Camelback Mountain (http://www.skicamelback.com/) in Tannersville, Pennsylvania. They have 33 trails, all of which are lighted for night skiing (although personally I like the snow better during the day), and 13 lifts (not all of which are always used or available to everyone). The trails range from easy to hard (they have like 7 different trail ratings), and the mountain is easy to get around. I learned how to ski there, so oviously it's my favorite. See http://forums.xisto.com/topic/34441-went-skiing-again-even-bigger-success/ and http://forums.xisto.com/topic/33614-first-time-skiing-need-some-tips-on-top-of-lesson/ for more info on Camelback and about me skiing. But really, this guide is only a fraction of actually taking a lesson. I strongly suggest that you get one of those beginner packages the first time you ever go skiing. I can't sow you how to make all of the manuevers over the Net (unless I had a good camera and lots of space and bandwidth).

I am not comitting a crime; I am paying 7 Eleven good money for those refills. Let me rephrase that: I am paying 7 Eleven full retail price for refills, not the disocunted refill price.

At the 7 Eleven near my school, you bring your own Gulp cup and get it refilled for $.89 plus tax. I heard something about how the wholesale store Costco lets you buy a cup and get free refills while you're there. I don't know what they do about bringing the cups back again some other day; I think they use different colored cups every day or something. But my point here is that if 7 Eleven would let me refill for less $$$ at one store, why can't I do the same at another one?

I have my old machine set up with SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional (which set me back $89 plus NY taxes, totaling me about $97). It is slow running, but that's the computer's fault since I am running KDE on a 350 MHz AMD K5 with 160 MB of RAM. I like Linux, it's much 'quieter' than Windows, but then again you have to do more to get things done, things that are typically vey easy to do in Windows. I'm not going to be a Linux convert anytime soon, especially not until I get a computer that's faster, has more RAM and a bigger hard drive. But overall, I like working in a Linux GUI, and even terminal prompts aren't terribly scary .

Please move this topic, I made it in the wrong section. I was browsing around the IPS site for fun today (invisionpower.com/, and I happened to land on their Hositng Policies. Among the things in there are an explanation of the Intenet community, spam, bandwidth usage, etc. But on thing that gave me a little kick out of it was which applications you maay not use on their hosting servers. first let's look at the guidelines for which scripts you may use: That's a little amusing, but wait till you see what's coming up. You aren't allowed to use any background processes, persistant or remote MySQL connections (go figure), and these scripts (this is the funny part): Read the whole thing at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. (I always knew IPB had its advantages, but it's starting to look like IPS wants to eliminate competition, ie. with disallowing vBulletin.) Some of these scripts I can understand the reason for not allowing them. But others are just funny to read about. What about PHP Nuke, which they don't giva any reasons for disallowing? You know how many sites on Xisto probably run PHP Nuke? I hope OpaQue reads this, and doesn't take any action about it, because this is just good stuff.

There is a 7 Eleven near my school. The kids in my school do this trick of saving their Gulp cups (usually Double Gulps, youch) to get 89 cent refills. I happened to have saved a Gulp cup that I bought. Today I went to the 7 Eleven that's just two blocks from my house, and got a refill, and the stupid guy behind the counter wouldn't give me the refill price!!! I told him that I am refilling it, and he told me it's the same 1.18 as a new Super Big Gulp. What a ripoff! I'm not a particularly big fan of 7 Eleven anyways, since the stuff is mostly outragously expensive (and I'm a cheap person sort of), and this really put the the icing on the cake! I'm going to try to find a toll-free number to call, and hopefully I'll get to someone on this continent (unlike what Dell does).

I am not very security-concious; I do however keep what ever programs I run for security up to date. One trick I learned from my dad is to use a limited user (under Windows 2000 and XP) for day to day work, and only log on as an admin user when necessary. This is because a program running under your user can only do as much as you personally can, and if you are a limited user, then the virus/adware/spyware/whatever won't be able to do much (if anything) that could damage your computer. I have 2 firewalls behind my machine; the one in Trend Micro PC Cillin' Internet Security and the one in my Linksys wireless router.

Let me start out by saying that the PC OpaQue mentioned looks a bit typical - aside from the garbege can filled with water. I read the thing on oil cooling - it seems interesting, but not something I would want to try. Water cooling is a pretty efficient way to cool down your computer, but sometimes it's just not for the person.

Guees what - The opic that has Opaque's story was in the list of similar topics below. It's time for you to read The Xisto Story, as told by OpaQue himself.

I really like skiing. It is so much fun that you won't know how you could have survived until your first time. So here are some things you should know before you head over to your lcoal ski area: Dressing: You should get a few basic things: -Base layer: long underwear, especially thermals, keep you warm, wick moisture from the skin, keep your legs from getting irritated by your ski pants -Middle layer: A fleece jacket; or anything aside from wool, which is very itchy. This will keep you warm in cold weather. If your outer jacket or parka (see below) is insulated, you can skip this, unless it's very cold outside. For the legs, you can wear fleece pants or sweatpants; but once again, if it's not cold out or your pants are insulated, you can skip this. -Outer layer: For your body, you will want a waterproof jacket or parka; I would recommend that it's insulated to keep down on the number of things you have to wear and possibly keep track of. For the pants, you can get two types: pants or bibs. Pants just go to your waist, but bibs have suspenders and usually cover up to the top of the chest, helping to keep out snow. Try especially hard to get waterproof pants or bibs. -Gloves: Once again, waterproof. Try to go with something that fits well, meaning that it's just the right fit (unlike the cheap $4 ones I got a few days before, which were quite oversized, even on my large hands). -Hat/Helmet: If it's not cold outside you don't need a hat, but you should wear a helmet anytime (don't wear a hat and a helmet at the same time, or you will be sweating like crazy - it will be hot). Get a helmet that fits properly - if you rent one at the mountain, they'll fit you with one for you. Usually helmets have a liner that acts as insulation. I would perfer the closed-back style, but as far as I'm concerned, that's your choice. -Sunglasses/Goggles: If you don't wear UVA/B filtering eyewear, you'll be seeing green when you get home, and your eyes may be damaged. The sunlight at the top of mountains is very intense, and then magnified by reflecting off the snow. Sunglasses are good for warm days, but I perfer googles since they block out wind (and because I wear perscription glasses, and my googles fit over them). -Sunblock/Chapstick: I can't really say much about this either, but you might want to put sunblock on any exposed part of the body (hands, face), and put on chapstick (make sure it's got UV protection in it). -Socks: I can't really say much about this, but you should get good ski or snowboard socks, that have light to medium cushioning. Trust me, your feet will sweat a ton in ski boots, so make sure you have at least 2 pairs of socks (one normal pair for the drive up, and the pair of ski socks). You can find affordable clothing online (my favorite place is Sierra Trading Post, they have lots of cheap stuff, meaning that it will always be cheaper than the list prices, but their stuff is all closeouts or overstocks, but nevertheless it's all high-quality stuff). Equipment: -Skis: You will rent these from the ski area's shop. When you get into the rental shop, you will fill out a form that asks you for your weight and height; fill these in correctly. The skis have a thing in the middle called a binding, which attaches the boot to the ski. The front of the binding is designed to let the boot come off in case of a fall, and the bindings have to be adjusted to your body, so that's why they ask you to fill in your real weight and height on the rental form. -Boots: The boots may feel a bit strange at first. They will feel firm, and your feet should not move around in them, but they shouldn't feel tight and constricting. If the first pair you try on doesn't feel right, go back and switch for a diiferent size pair. -Poles: They will give you different size poles dependeing on your height. Just do what they tell you to do for this. At Camelback, they colorcode the poles by size. Skiing: I sure hope you will be taking lessons because it is hard for me to explain everything I know here (it could take me a few years to type it out, but I will get a heck of a lot of credits if I do). To get into the binding: Clean off any snow from the bottom of the boot, and from the binding. Make sure that the little clip is down, step onto the binding making sure the front of the boot is in the front of the binding, and push down on the heel of tje boot. ou will hear a click, the little stick things that were previously pointing down will be parallel to the ski, and the clip in the back will go up, securing the boot. The first thing I learned was how to walk up a hill. You stand parallel to the hill (as in not straight up the hill), and take little baby-stps up the hill, moving one ski at a time. It will feel weird because you are not used to standing in skis, and skis and boots are quite heavy. Next, you learn the V-way, or pizza, or snowplow (the names are interchangeable). This is the basic braking method. To accomplish the plow, you point the tips of your skis toward each other (but don't cross them!). This will cause you to slow down. If you increase the angle of the plow, you will stop faster. Turning is based on the plow. Essentially, you make the plow and pres on the foot that is on the outside of the turn (press on the left foot for right turns, and the right foot for left turns). There are other techniques to turning, but this is enough for now. On to getting on a lift: At the front of the line there will be a little line down in the snow; wait by that until the chair that will take the people in front of you up to pass. Then ski up to the next line, where you will get on the chair. As the chair gets close to you, be prepared to sit down on it. It will drag you from there, then your legs will be dangling from mid-air as you travel up the mountain. At the top, stand up on your skis as you get up to the unloaing platform, and follow yourself down the ramp. At that point decide which trail you want to go on, if the lift goes to more than one trail. To begin a trail, just come up to it, and use whatever you learned to get yourself down the trail. Happy skiing! This is my first tutorial that actually made it to the pint where I hit the Post New Topic button. Congrats to me!

I shoul've mentioned this before, but pressing F8 by me will just get me to the windows XP boot menu. Doing that wouldn't accomplish that much. But one of the strange things (I probably did say this somewhere) is that the F1 key is marked Setup, and it doesn't do anything. On my dad's old dell laptop, the F1 key, marked similarly, opened the BIOS Setup, but on my machine it don't. They must have recylced keys or something to save money (another slightly annoying thing with Dell). You know, they say all this stuff about Dell having #1 support and all, but that's only once you pay for it. and for some of us, we don't want, or can't, pay for it. We can do things without their help. And we will do those things without their help. (Sounds like I'm starting a protest ehh?)