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Looks like a layered piece (or feathered) of random graphics that complement each other, with a black mask over it done with a custom brush. I like stuff like this, but never got around to just doing it. One of these days...

That's funny that I saw this after I just posted a link to a money-making thingy. :XD: I'm too lazy to type the whole thing out again so I'll just [copy and paste and] post it here too. - - It's a legitimate deal... slow and gradual (or that's what I think, anyway). Don't expect to make tons here unless you have a lot of referrals. Notice from rvalkass: Anything you copy and paste must be placed in QUOTE tags. Again, referral links are strictly banned here at Xisto. Please check the Xisto Readme and the rules.

I still believe I'm fresh on creating cash flow on making money work for you, but I have a few tips (coming from a newbie). There are a lot of programs out there that pay a percentage of revenue for participation and referrals. These are known as MLM's, for multi-level marketing. The basic system is that you participate in the program and you get paid... however, you are paid a larger percentage for each referral that you have, PLUS all of the referrals that your referral makes. I explain this better in a bulletin I just recently posted on MySpace about a social network called Yuwie that relies on this concept: - Yes, I'm spamming. No, I haven't been infected by *BLEEP*. (You might see this reposted from time to time. It will be more frequent when I myself actually see results, which come biweekly. I'll keep you guys posted.) Copy and paste the following link into your browser: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (Yes, that's a referral link. That's how this system works.) Now for the description: Summary: Join yet another social network, but get paid for each page view and each referral to the social network. Full description: Yuwie is a social network just like MySpace and Facebook except for the fact that a percentage of its advertisements will be paid to each and every person that has a profile on the network. The whole system is very similar to multi-level marketing (MLM), which basically means that you'll earn more for each person that you refer, PLUS everyone that those people refer, and so on. (Look at it like a tree.) This would be the part where I'm referring you and adding you to my tree. =p That's a chart of how much you COULD be making. If you have any questions and/or are interested, just message me. I won't bore you anymore with my spam. =) Thanks guys. - As you can see, it only works well if you can make referrals. Which is why I have it now as part of my signature block a referral link in case anyone's interested... but if you have any questions, just message me. I may create a topic that I will bump from time to time to let you guys know of my progress. But that's MLM in not-so-much-a-nutshell. Another great cash flow source comes from investing. I personally throw my money into various mutual funds and let the blue chip trend carry my profits upwards, provided that the market doesn't suffer too much. (I just recently lost almost $1000 because of China's pull-out of the stock market, plus the 200-point dip of the Dow Jones. However, I'm still up $300, so no money lost yet.) Mutual funds are safer, and as a younger investor I go for aggressive growth, which holds greater risk but at my age group we can afford to lose some, as the long-term trend will ALWAYS go up (unless the fund itself sucks.) You can also invest in bonds and other safer securities, but these are not as great and usually just keep up with the rate of inflation. Of course, there's stocks... but unless you actually pay attention to the market with a hawk's eye, I recommend that you put your money elsewhere. (The potential revenue is outstanding, but the risk is also not worth taking in my opinion.) Real estate is a safe bet, but you need a LOT of money to begin with to invest. You can either buy land and sit on it, or purchase houses and either flip them, do some home improvement, then sell. Look for desperate sellers, buy low, and immediately sell a little higher. Again, you'll need quite a bit to invest in the first place. Same concept with cars, if you're into that sort of thing. Buy an abused classic, restore it, and sell it shiny for a great profit. I hope this helps out for starters. Notice from rvalkass: Referral links are strictly banned here at Xisto. Please check the Xisto Readme and the rules.

That still doesn't make any sense... Why not just optimize one? Then make two profiles?

Interesting. I would think that Windows would keep you from accessing write privileges to a file if it were in use. I'm not a programmer so I wouldn't know about this. Maybe I'll look it up and try it out one day when I have to do a reformat and reinstall again. :XD:

This is what I do to speed up a comp:1.) Back everything up, wipe the drive clean, and reinstall Windows. Then put all your crap back on there again.2.) Use MSCONFIG to disable any applications that aren't needed that eat up valuable resources. This is under your discretion...3.) Use SERVICES.MSC to disable any processes that is not critical to Windows or to what I use the computer for. Descriptions are available within the utility but I recommend you Google for a list of essential processes... there are a number of good websites with this information.4.) If you run an anti-virus, keep it updated but TURN OFF AUTO-PROTECT. Automatic scanning is great if you want to dummy-proof a computer, but if you are careful you can get away with never using it.5.) When setting up Windows again, create a partition dedicated as a swap drive. The capacity of the swap drive should be two times the amount of RAM in the machine. When setting the page file, get rid of the one on the system partition and set it up on the swap drive from 1.5x the amount of RAM to 2.0x for a page file size.6.) Defragmentation will not improve performance noticeably UNLESS your file system is that badly fragmented.Hope this helps you guys out.

Wow... no. I've done a ton of drive wipes. What you just said doesn't make any sense, because Windows won't allow you to delete files that are in use... which would be what you're doing if you even successfully do it that way. Then again, I've never tried that way because it doesn't make any sense for it to work. :XD: If you have malware that's not going away with a drive reformat, I recommend that you Google for a program like XDelete (I forgot the name of it) or some sort of executable that basically writes 0's to each and every sector of the targeted drive. When you "delete" things from your hard drive, the reason why they actually remain is because the OS simply replaces the first byte of that file with a 0 (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong), which effectively "turns it off." This is why you can "undelete" files and recover them IF the data cluster that it's currently on hasn't been overwritten yet. Software that completely wipes a drive clean will actually write to each data cluster a 0 (assuming what I said above was correct, but the concept is still the same), eliminating any chance of file or data recovery. Many programs can be thorough enough to do this up to seven times (which is what the military does to wipe their machines according to SOP). (I have no idea if that previous statement is *BLEEP*, because I don't deal with information with that high enough of a classification to justify such a wipe.) Most of the time, you can get away with just doing a full reformat of the partition/drive by booting from the Windows CD. But if malware persists, utilize one of the programs that I've mentioned to completely kill the disk.

That doesn't make any sense at all to me. (It already doesn't make sense to dual-boot TWO Windows OS's... but yikes.) May I ask why you're doing this?

Back up all your stuff. Then wipe both partitions clean and reinstall. Or just wipe the other one clean and reinstall on that one. You're trying to dual-boot XP and Vista, yes?

Boot from the CD. :XD: Set Vista up again, making sure you do a full wipe of the partition you just made. After that's all fine and dandy, you can focus on fixing your boot sequence. What error messages do you receive when you try to boot from your system partition?

This is a great post! The gripes that I have with staying healthy nowadays though is the fact that it's very expensive and almost inconvenient. (Yeah... America relies on convenience to stay functioning. Which is why we're all fat. ) Herbal supplements and organic foods are just rather expensive when you look at it in the long run, and although the long-term benefits do overcome what you invest into your own well-being, not a lot of people think about that from that perspective. Everyone's out for the "lose weight NOW" and "eat healthy NOW." It sucks... but it's true. :XD: I could possibly eat a clove of garlic, a teaspoon of honey, a tomato, some blueberries... all of these have great health benefits in the long run. However, I don't think this way on a routine basis. I don't really cook for myself (otherwise this could be easier to achieve if we just cook our own foods and add all of the above into our dishes); I do what most people do and snag easy-to-prepare meals and *gasp* TV dinners like Lean Cuisine. It would be nice to have a single economic-friendly supplement that includes just about everything you could have to benefit your well-being, but I don't think one exists.

Get either a Wii or a 360 first.The Wii is a great console... mad fun, IMO. More of a novelty than anything else, but for $250, it's not bad at all. The innovative method of play is outstanding when you're doing Wii Sports, but I wish there was more interactivity with other games (it doesn't seem that most games take full advantage of the motion sensing). There's not much of a great game library yet, but the future will bring better games. Also, the graphics are actually not that bad, but it's noticeably inferior when you compare a game like Zelda: Twilight Princess to something like what Halo 3's going to look like. Then again, remember that the Wii was made for fun, so to speak.Also, remember that (if you're a classic gaming fan) you can download stuff from the Virtual Console. It's like $5 for each game, but being able to play Super Mario Kart can be a priceless joy with friends. The 360 is also a great choice too, since you get the limited-backwards compatibility factor and the rivaling power second to the PS3 (but not by too far) as far as graphical potential goes. There's a vast gaming library open to you if you go with a 360, and I hear great things about a lot of games for the 360. There's also XBL for ya. This would be the console of choice if you're looking for a good time with great eye candy... and HD-DVD support. Just don't turn the console while you have a disc in it... and keep the ambient temperature cool. :XD: And of course, there's the PS3. The concept of it sounds outstanding... but even with the $100 price drop it's still rather pricey. If you want to do the whole Blu-Ray thing, this would be your best choice... but I actually haven't heard anything really great about PS3 games. I'm loving the trailers for KillZone 2, Resistance: Fall of Man, and a few others. But apparently the console has been bugging out. I'd wait for this one.I'd get the Wii first, since it's cheaper, it's fun, and I haven't heard anything bad as far as firmware or hardware goes aside from the flying Wiimotes.Then again, people are retarded.

Hehe... I like your signature image. =p What are those things called? PHP images or whatever? (Those images that change what they display based on what information they snag from the user - IP addy, ISP, etc.) There really is NO competition there. GMail definitely wins with more storage capacity, convenience of use, effective spam blocking, hotkeys, real-time chat that works at ANY computer... need I say more? Then again, I haven't used Hotmail since the late 90's. They may have gotten better... ... but you still win with Gmail.

If it helps, take a look at other web designer portfolios.Visit the HTML Hell page. (Google... don't remember the link.)Visit the CSS Zen Garden page. (Again, I forgot the link.) :XD: I actually have the same problem with "being horrible" at design, because it seems hard (to me) to be imaginative and original nowadays. It kind of stinks how the world follows itself in suit (when sites went from frames to navigational sidebars on one page; when everyone decided to go towards the "gloss" look; when everyone starts copying each other, really).

Just out of perspective, isn't bandwidth actually the CAPACITY of a connection as opposed to its speed?This would explain why you wouldn't receive a boost to your connection speed with the testing server, but you could possibly MAINTAIN that speed with THAT server PLUS maintain a connection with another unique server.Basically, I'm trying to say that bandwidth is to network as RAM is to processing ability. :XD:

Be glad you've got what you have going with you. I wish you the best of luck in results... I'm wicked shy also, and tried the whole Internet dating thing. This girl and I talked for over half a year, so I finally took the nerve to take leave and fly down to see her. Long story short, things got complicated and she ended up sleeping with some other dude she JUST met at one of the parties she hosted. Needless to say, emotionally-scarred and somewhat traumatized. :XD:

I'm very surprised you didn't mention great games like Earthbound and Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Look into learning PHP and CGI. You will need to use these languages to generate scripts for member validation, creating a database, and whatnot. Also, look into a web-hosting service or obtain a server that supports these functions. I'm also sure there are dummy-proof tools out there. Google them. :XD:

I think the first computer I messed around with was a Tandy. I don't remember the specs... but I remember it had a full-blown graphics card able to support VGA! I could play this really cool typing game... it was like Missile Command without the bases or the missiles... haha, you had to type the word that was coming downward before it made it to the bottom.Then I got the Commodore 64. Days of Lode Runner and Donkey Kong and Mario helped build my legacy of geekdom.My first real computer though was a hand-me-down NEC with 200MHz MMX and 16MB of EDO RAM. I remember it having EDO very well because I was stupid and spent a fortune upgrading the RAM to 64MB, because EDO was so much more expensive than the current thing then (I think it was SDRAM?). Syndicate was my game then.Now I'm working off of a 1.8GHz Dell laptop with 1GB of RAM. Crazy... and I'm already upgrading to a 3.0GHz HP. Anyone called for F.E.A.R., C&C: Generals, and Fable: Lost Chapters?Back in the day I remember that owning a laptop was just a crazy dream...

Haha... this is why you wait about a year or two before buying the "latest and greatest."Aside from giving manufacturers a chance to fix their products, you get to view what they have in store for the console, and you might even save $100 or so when they drop prices after E3.I'm personally waiting for Halo 3 to come out. The 360 should be stable by then... if not cheaper.Patience is a virtue... and it pays off! Instead, just go to your buddy's house and be like, "Hey man... wanna hang? At your place? (To play with your 360?)"

Just IMO...I've already beaten the original game as a goody-two shoes... and have begun to play the Lost Chapters as one also.However, I have started an evil character, and it's really not too shabby!You have to start out as a decent guy, though, in order to stay alive as an evil dude, up to a point where you don't get your butt kicked by a couple of town guards.There is more money in being evil when doing silver quests, because you're usually after traders and stealing stuff.When you're very good, you have a slight halo over your head, plus "phantom" butterflies fly around your character. When you're evil enough, you sprout knobs from your head (which eventually grow to be horns), your eyes emit a bit of red light, you become more pale, and later on you will have a bit of red "smoke" that stays present at your feet as if you were a devil.As for the Arena, you need to go to... crap, I forgot the name of it. But it's the rainforest area that you fight the White Balverine in. I believe that from the village, you head out to the next area, then instead of heading towards the Temple of Avo, you go the path less traveled. The arena is SO worth going to... make sure you have plate armor all around and a good weapon. Will is good too, but not exactly necessary. Have Enflame and/or Divine Fury ready.Hope this helps you a bit.