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Okay, thanks Earthling. I'll have a looksie.

I su bscribed to a RSS feed that had ads a while ago. It got really annoying, half way down the feed there was always something like "LOWER YOUR MORTGAGE REPAYENTS NOW!" or whatever. It really got on my nerves.

I was just browsing Google, when I realised that there are two Google directories.

 

The More, More, More! page on Google links to https://www.google.co.uk/dirhp, but if you go to https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=7Jj5VJCzLNeqhQSitYCQAw&gws_rd=ssl you get another one.

 

directory.google.co.uk seems to be in the old style of Google, with the tabs at the top, as far as I can remember it used to be in the tabs with Web, Images, Groups before it was replaced by News and Froogle. Also, at the bottom of directory.google.co.uk the copyright notice reads 2004 suggesting it hasn't been updated recently.

 

The newer one (https://www.google.co.uk/dirhp) fits in with the current Google layout, and has been copyrighted this year.

 

Why have Google got two Directorys? Couldn't they just redirect the old directory.google.co.uk URL to the new page?

I think that http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ would make a really good start page. You can customise it with what you want on the OS X "Dock" toolbar, most of the searches (e.g. Froogle, Local, etc) stay in the site, rather than being links to the Google site, the OS X "dock" animation is more realistic, and if you login to Gmail through it, the Gmail icon notifies you of new mail.

It is (or was) Google tribute to Mac OS X.Can't you see? The buttons move like the dock on a Mac OS X desktop.

To the many people who asked this: Yes the XBOX360 is the confirmed name and the logo is confirmed (hence the topic) it was on the XBOX offical site as well as the MTV preview thing

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Do you have a link to a press release or anything?

I know it was quite a while ago now, but did anyone here see Google X when it went up on Google Labs a while ago?

I've found loads of mirrors and modifications of it, and I just thought is was soo awesome it deserved its own thread.

Someone's made a Google X Firefox start page - http://ww12.hostingproject.info/
There's a UK Google X made by the same person - http://ww12.hostingproject.info/

Here's an exact copy of the original Google X - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

And there's yet another modification (or, perhaps, an enhancement) of Google X with a better OS X "dock" animation, the ability to customise it, etc - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/


Did anybody know why the official Google X was taken down from Google Labs? Has Google made a press release or anything?

If you use the Firesomething plugin, couldn't you configure it to mimic a different browser?

Have Microsoft confirmed that the console is actually going to be called Xbox 360? Is there a press release or anything?

I think he means how to have a php file download another file

 

I think you should use the system() command. (more info on http://php.net/)

 

It works like this

 

<?php

$foo = system('wget http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ~',$output);

?>

 

If i'm correct (im too lazy to test it atm, it will download a file file.exe from asdf.com and give back the console messages to the variable $output.

 

I hope this is what you're asking for

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That's the one! It works brilliantly!

Thank You!

Hello. A while ago, a friend showed me this PHP code (wget) which allows you to get files from other sites. I was a simple one liner type thing.Since my old host (Nytka) went down, I've lost it, as has my friend.Do you know anything about wget, and could tell me it?

anyways, you could get your hot little hands on the alpha release of it, i won't tell you how though (illegal content) so this is just a statement.

 

Sources mostly from wikipedia

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Are you saying that you've just copied and pasted all that from Wikipedia?

Since everyone here are geniuses and I'm a bit of a n00b, this should be easy...All i need is some PHP that will find the current logged in user's username and put it in a textbox. I need to be able to apply formatting, etc to the textbox, and the textbox will be used as part of a form.Could you help me? Please?

Wow! Al of a sudden, there is a welcome forum! Cool!

Its great that we all have a place to introduce ourselves now.

 

Alos, welcome KitKat, enjoy your time here.

Oh flip, I accidently douoble posted! I'm really sorry!

I do hope you did notice the p variable. Try imagining it's use if you see what's behind it, start. This is a challenge for people who know PHP so...

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I tried changing it to things like asdf, etc but it didn't work.

I don't know PHP, so I think I'll stop trying!

That looks absolutely terrible. I could probably mkae it in Paint.Rubbish choice of name, rubbish logo. The console can't support older games. I've got a feeling that this new Xbox is going to be terrible.Even worse than that, my 7 year old brother has been saving up for ages, trying to buy one. I feel really sorry for him

the targeted ad algorithms are a bit "big brother-ish"

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I don't think they're "big brotherish" at all. What you forget is that all the other email providers scan your mail too, for spam and viruses. Google is doing exactly the same thing as a spam filter, except rather than sticking your message in a folder marked "spam" it makes some adverts that are relevant to it.

 

Also, if you think Gmail is bad, AOL's terms of service state:

We encourage you to tell us what your marketing preferences are for your personal data. Unless and until you "opt-out", your name and contact details may be (a) used by AOL Group Companies, such as AOL (UK) Limited, until 12 months after your AOL membership ceases, and ( passed to selected third party suppliers of goods and services and advertisers until 6 months after you cease to be an AOL Member, for marketing goods and services to you.

By submitting content to public areas of AOL (such as message boards and chat rooms) you represent that you have permission to do so. And in doing so, you grant AOL Group Companies a licence to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that content in any form, anywhere, and waive all moral rights (namely, the right to be identified as the author, and the right to integrity, of the content) and undertake that all such moral rights have been waived in respect of the content.

Scary, huh?

This has been happening to everyone. Just wait a while. It'll be back soon. Mine is.

Do you have any photos of it? I would love to see what it looks like.It would be really cool if this one day becomes the norm on all food packaging.

Well... try clicking the 'click here to go back button'

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Yeah, and that only goes to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, displays exactly the same as the previous message.

Google News rocks!

Nanobots would be so cool. But what if there was a malfunction and they started attaking human cells, thinking they were threats? That wouldn't be so cool. Or they could trigger an alergic reaction or something, so your body what start attakcing the nanobots, and then the nanobots would think that your body was a threat to itself and try to kill you...okay that's a bit too much like a scci-fi film, but you get the idea...

Do you have a web address from Microsft, relating to it?

OMG, I haven't got a clue... I really wish I could hack now, I down't know a thing about hacking.Couldn't you give us a tiny, weeny ickle clue? Pretty please?