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Ok, this is quite interesting. I've spent about the last half an hour trying to dig up information about this, and have only been very mildly sucessful. As I understand it, this just enlarges the cache in which interupts sent from the harddrive(s) are stored. That probably didn't mean anything to you unless you're a hardware geek, so i'll try to elaborate on that quickly. The simplest way to sum it up would be to say that an interupt is a way for one piece of your computer to get the attention of another piece (the latter usually being the CPU). Origonally this was acomplished by a process called polling. In polling the cpu would ask the various other components "Hey, you got anything new for me?" a couple hundred times a second. Needless to say, this was a cosollal waste of resources. Interupts allow the various parts of the computer to tell the cpu (or other center components) that they need attention...which is a much more effecient way to do things. That's about as far as I got. The weird piece is that IRQ14 differs depending on what sort of architecture (cpu build) you're running...so this hack probably wouldn't work for everyone. Still, it seems interesting enough. I'll give it a shot, and try to remember to post back in a day or two with my findings.

I humbly beg to differ. On some websites, such as the political work I have hosted here at Xisto, ads would be completely inaproprate. It all depends on your intent, content, and audience. In some cases it's great, but in others it can undermind the entire foundation (and respectiablity) of a website.

So true. I'm a guy, and that still anoys me (I've litteraly waited for over an hour for a girl to get out of a bathroom because the line was so astoundingly long before. I tried to suggest that various trees around the venue might be a better choice...but she didn't like that ). It's crazy when you head twoards the bathroom and see a line stretching back 800ft from the door of the womens' room. Makes me glad I can pee standing up. (though, in all fairness, many of the girls I know can pee standing up as well, they just don't usually bother unless we're off camping someplace). As far as the cleanliness of girls' bathrooms go...well that obviously depends on who is using it. I've been in a decent number (being dragged in for various conversations during highschool...and then by the time I got to college I was friendly enough with most of the girls in my dorm that they didn't really care if I used their bathroom instead of having to hike up two flights of stairs...which can be rather obnoxious if you have to do so every ten minutes due to being drunk as hell). On average I'd have to say that girls' bathrooms actually tend to be dirtier than guys' bathrooms. Lots more toliet papper strewn everywhere. More toliets left unflushed (eeww, though some guys deffinatly do this as well). Sinks left running, etc, etc, etc. Not to mentioned used tampons (ugh). I concider myself to be a pretty open minded guy. Peroids/menstral blood don't bother me in the slightest. But no one wants to walk into a shower and find a used tampon in there, and all the sorounding walls smeared with blood. That's just not sanitary (not to mention rather inconciderate for everyone else). Then again, I have seen guys defficate on the floor in their bathroom...something I've yet to see in a girls' bathroom. I guess there are some pretty sick puppies in both genders.

A quick update:Weeeee, the jazz fest was fun. The part of the international fireworks compitation I caught was presented by Argentina. It lasted for about forty-five minutes, and probably ran in the tens of millions of dollars. Really crazy stuff...though certainly not the best one i've seen there (not that I'm complaining mind you! It was still encredible).

Argh, I know exactly what you mean! It gets to the level where it's basicly visual pollution (really obnoxious, especially as an artist).I have found one good solution though (i'm sure there are others out there): If you get a copy of firefox, and then get the 'adblock' plugin you can remove all of those obnoxious types of ads. Plus you can get rid of banner ads, javascript pop-ups, etc, etc, etc. The one thing that it seems they havn't found a way around is one specific loophole in java. But the 'faster fox' plugin has an option to fix it (as well as providing all sorts of nice proformance tweaks).P.S. Wouldn't this be more relavent to the vent section? Just my 2cents.

Yeah, hijack this is a good one. Spybot: Search and Destroy, and Ad-Aware are also really good.It could be a bunch of other stuff though. I'd check to see how fragmented your drive is (My computer, right click on drive --> properties, the tools tab, defragmention). Also one of the programs that you are running might have a big memory leak in it. Ctrl-alt delete, and then see if your memory is being used up more and more.

I'm going up to the Montreal Jazzfest later on today (saturday). It's going to be a blast. There is also a part of the international fireworks compatition, taking place sunday night. Really good free music (not just jazz), and lots of chill people.Have a fun one!

Hahahah, brilliant guess man. Though sometimes girls spend so much time in the bathroom that they might be going for long-term endurance rather than speed ;P I mean, seriously, no one should need to take 30 minutes to goto the bathroom (I'm not talking about showers, etc here). On a more serious note, when they goto the bathroom in pairs it's usually because they want to talk privately about someone else that they're hanging out with...usually a guy. Or, atleast, that is what I've been told by numerious women. I guess they could go and talk about another girl...but I think the girl in question would be more likely to catch on than a (mostly) oblivious guy. Some girls also use the chance to put on make-up, etc, or check themselves out in the mirror.

Yeah, the fact that files don't get really "deleted" until they're over written about 4 times has saved my **bottom** a few times. Having acidentilly deleted a number of files, it was great to be able to recover them.The program i used is called rest###...i'll try to put up a link to it when i get back to my own computer. It also has a security shredder that'll make files impossible to recover (by over writting their sectors 5-25 times).

Well, in the real world? Or in my own (mental) experiences?For the former: The craziest thing i've even done was probably crusing down country roads (with 25-35 mph speed limits) at 80+ mph with the headlights turned off. I wasn't the one driving, but it was still pretty scary. We were driving a Grand Prix that my friend had modified to use two engines. Really fun car. Went from 0 to 120 in a matter of seconds.As for the latter...probably too many to mention. Lets just say that psychadelics put you in encredibally weird situations.

Gotta find ways to relax man. Have a few drinks, or what-have-you.Anger is deffinatly no fun. And loosing control of your actions is quite scary. If this keeps up for a while you might want to concider seeing someone about it, as it might possibly stem from a chemical imbalancement.In the mean time, here's an exericise that I use when I'm getting pissed...maybe it'd help you: First I take a few deep breaths, then I think the problem in the larger context of my life. Am I even going to remember that it happened a year from now? In most cases, no. Then I try to tell myself that if other people want to act like morons it's their problem--not mine.

I completely agree. There was a study done (if anyone is interested i can dig up by who, but i dont remember at the moment) showing that "strait" homophobic people were more likely to be gay than their non-homophobic counterparts. Though I belive the research pool was entirely male...so it's not indicative for women. People just get trapped in this mindset that homosexuality is a huge taboo (some religions deffinatly exacerbates this)--so much so that they're willing to force themselves to live lives they don't enjoy. You have provided us with a theory, but didn't bother to include any sort of supporting evidence. Please go more in depth...doubly so if you're going to put forth a "scientific opinion."

I, myself, am a big fan of SmartFTP. It does everything i could possibly want, and is completely free (for individuals...not businesses).The ability to open/edit files in a external editor is always nice...not to mention the fact that uploading 100 files via the cpanel would take forever.

While I think your idea has some merit, its downfall is that it highly impeeds a individual's freedom in certain cirucumstances. As such, it'd probably be deemed unconstitutional if it was ever brought to a court.Perhaphs requiring DUI offenders to talk to the families and friends of people who have been killed by DUIs would sober them up a bit? Then again, there will always be self centered ba****** who couldn't care less about the lives of others they might destroy . . . atleast not until it's already happened.

I use firefox. The absolute best browser, in my opinion. Tabbed browsing, fast rendering, anti-spyware/adware features, popup blocking, craploads of really really useful extentions, etc etc etc. Oh, did I mention that it's 100% free? https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Thanks a bunch for the tip. I could have sworn I looked in that section.

I don't know about other people, but when i choose to subscribe to a topic I always choose the same exact method of notification (in my case, none at all). It'd be rather nice to have an option to set a predefined choice in order to cut down on all the needless repitition. Certainly not a huge problem, but it'd be nice. It'd also be nice if the topics you subscribed to were listed on the mainpage of the control panel. It already lists recently viewed posts (which is kinda pointless in my humble opinion), so why not add that as well? Thankyou for your concideration.

I don't think that you should feel guilty for doing that. Twisting someone's fingers isn't a huge act of violence (no perminate damage, and relativly little pain), and it was in a situation requireing mild self-defence.You seem like a very nice guy who cares deeply about the well being of other people. That's a rarity now adays (in either gender), and so it makes me quite happy to see that other people like you are out there. But you also have to take care of yourself. Don't let people walk all over you. And don't let some obnoxious kid ruin your day with such a trivial incident. Deal with the situation, and then ignore the brat. Focus on all the good things you've accomplished instead. Everyone deserves to be happy, doubly so for nice people.*hug*

*looks confused* Didn't you just contradict yourself there? A few quick points: 1) Only marijuana is decrimnalized (note that i didn't say "legalized," which is entirely different) in the Netherlands--no other "drugs" (except ciggeretts and alcohol) are. 2) Most of the marijuana around doesn't come from the netherlands. Ofcourse it highly depends on where you live, but here in the US almost all of it comes from Canada, within our own borders, and from mexico in the southern states. Now that we're finished with that, lets examine the levels of marijuana usage in the United States compared to the netherlands. The statistics I'm going to use (cited below) are from 2001, but I'm sure you'd find very similar results if you looked into the newer surveys. Percentage of individuals, twelve and older, who have ever tried marijuana: The United States: 36.9% The Netherlands: 17.0% Percentage of individuals, twelve and older, who have used marijuana within the last month: The United States: 5.4% The Netherlands: 3.0% Source for US statistics: US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Volume I. Summary of National Findings (Washington, DC: HHS, August 2002), p. 109, Table H.1. Source for Netherland Statistics: Trimbos Institute, "Report to the EMCDDA by the Reitox National Focal Point, The Netherlands Drug Situation 2002" (Lisboa, Portugal: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Nov. 2002), p. 28, Table 2.1. Put quite simply, prohibition doens't work. It didn't work for alcohol, and it's not working for marijuana. All it does is: put those who choose to buy marijuana into situations where they are exposed to harder drugs, jail hundreds of thousands of people for so called "victimless crimes," waste billions of dollars of tax payers' money, and provide financing for orginized crime. Fun. If you want to check out a list of some more scientific studies try http://norml.org/?Group_ID=3383.

Hehe, quite true. I'd be inclined to draw the line at: Any human being who is of legal age (18 in most of the US) and is of sound mind. Of course the exact wording would be left to the legistatures.

As other people have pointed out, the technoligy is highly highly unlikely to exist. If the goverment wants to get info off your computer they usually use keyloggers (they make hardware ones about the length of a dime that plug in between your keyboard and your computer)...or if they don't want to be discrete about it they just seize the computer and crack it. Satalites, on the other hand, are a real invasion of privacy. We have lens so powerful now that, if you're laying outside reading a book they can read the words off the page (ofcourse this only applies if the weather is fairly clear...cloud cover or smoke will deffinatly stop it). Pretty crazy stuff. Learned about it when I went to the Rochester Institute of Technology for a bit...they create most of the lenses used in US spy sattalites.

I'd say the very heart of the problem (besides what I, personally, see as peoples' close-mindedness) is that currently the word "marriage" is used in two different senses: in a legal sense, and in a religious sense. As such, there is a blatently simple solution: extend the seperation of church and state to the process of marriage. This would mean that all couples (regardless of the genders involved) would be eligaible to recieve a "civil union," which would grant them all the legal priviledges now bestowed upon married couples. Then, at the couples' discression, they could also choose to get married--a ceramony carried out by whatever religious faith they choose to follow. Presto, no more quote on quote "violation of the scancity of mariage"...except (ofcourse) by other religious groups that conservatives already dismiss out of hand. And come on, lets face it, different religions (or even different sects within the same religion) will always find ways to bicker and hate eachother, so this isn't exactly anything new. P.S. I can't take credit for thinking up this solution, one of my friends came up with it a few months ago while we were discussing a rather similar topic.

...could you please elaborate on that (e.g. use some actual evidence to back up those claims)? Because, atleast to me, those seem like flagrently uninformed and ignorant generalizations. It's fine to disagree with other peoples actions and opinions--as a matter of fact I'd strongly encourage it (thinking for yourself is one of the best things you can do)...but please make actually coherent well thoughtout arguments; instead of baseless naive comments.

Ok, on the origonal page you need to use php to dynamicly write the username and password into a hidden form. It'll look something like this:<form action="nameOfSecondPage.php" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="username" value="<?php $username ?>"><input type="hidden" name="password" value="<?php $password ?>"><input type="submit" value="Goto next page"></form>Then on the second page you just get the variables that you sent, like so:<?php$username=$_POST['username'];$password=$_POST['password'];?>Hope that helped, feel free to ask if you have any other questions

Sounds like you're having a tough time. I hope things get better for you soon (worse comes to worse you'll be "free" once you get to college). I don't know you or your father, but from what you just said it seems that he really wanted to help (i'm not just talking about the project here, but about your troubles and relationship with him at large) but he just doesn't know how to go about it. Perhaphs you could try to talk to him about what you feel, later once everything has calmed down a little bit more. *hug* Things will get better man, you've just got to give them time.