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Well, I hope I don't have to do the posting thing again, but if I did I'm sure I can manage with no problems. I did it here. Should I PM OpaQue directly or does he read this forum section?

I am having a hard time keeping up my posts here at Xisto. I think it is a little more advanced than I am. From what I gather, Xisto is less technical in nature. When I went to the websites for Asta and Trap, they were essentially the same except for maybe bandwidth and MB. Is that info up-to-date? Is it possible to switch a hosted Xisto account to a Xisto account without having to go through all the 'post until you have enough credits' thing again?

I thought something about this didnt sound right to me, so I didn't download it. I thought the same as Wutske about the download speed being relative to your ISP. And it just sounded like something that was going to take up space on my computer, and eventually cause some problems down the line.

Well it's sad to see one of the old greats go by the way side. It will go down in my book as a classic. But I also look at it this way: although PS1 games can still be played on next gen systems, maybe their prices will go down even more and I can buy up all the games I've been wanting for so long! And besides, now Sony can focus its energy on making the more up-to-date gaming things that people are looking for.

After reading that, I'm a little confused. I thought M$ was coming out with Vista, where did this Aero thing come from? And from the looks of it, who would actually buy that with the requirements you have to meet. I may just have to learn what all this Linux stuff is all about after all

When I was a teenager I had a portable tape deck that I used to listen to at full volume. People around me could hear it very well. I didn't listen to it all the time but I listened to it often enough for it to damage my hearing. Today I'm 31, but it was back in my mid 20's when I started to get a ringing in my ears, rather loudly. Dr.'s called it Tinitus. Its a condition that cannot be fixed that they say was caused from listening to music to loudly. So I would say yes to MP3 playes causing a form of deafness if listened to too loudly.

The most addictive game for me is Civilization III. I love strategy games, and I love to conquer over everything. Advancements in technology, different era's, Wonders of the world. Civ IV is out right now and I cant wait to get it. Its supposed to be even better than III. The gameplay is supposed to be smoothe and the grapics beautiful. Just a great game.

I got a Photoshop 7 from my sister and I love it. Never used GIMP though I've thought about it when I couldn't find my copy of photoshop. I can't compare the two, but have heard alot of good things about GIMP. But I don't think I would want to use anything other than Photoshop, I'm so used to it. Actually, I'm still getting used to all the features it has to offer. But I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it, I hear it's very expensive, just means I cant register it.

My second computer, which belongs to my girlfriend, died (motherboard). I want to get another one but I'm trying not to spend a whole lot on it, but I am a little picky. I would think $500 approx. to spend, maybe a little more, hopefully not. Building it myself is not an option right now, I don't have enough knowledge on the matter to do so. But basically what I'm asking is does anyone know what would be best for this kinda thing:---I want it to have good speed, she download music alot on it---good sound ---graphics aren't all that important---good amount of memory---Windows XP---CD-RW driveWas wondering if anyone knew the best manufacture to go with for this. I don't know if I even gave good information, but any help would be appreciated.

I don't think it will take to much longer in the game industry to start filling up the bluray discs. Figure PS3 has already announce they are going to be using them, which means they must be starting to think big already. You know XBox and PS3 love the competition. Once bluray comes to gaming who knows what will happen. There was a forum posted somewhere else about the future of gaming, well here it is. They will start by making bigger and better games now that this is here.

That reminded me to put in a new antivirus program. I recently got my computer back and they had AVG installed in it, but I'm not to keen on it. But for some reason it wasn't working anyway. But, I was going to give AntiVir a try. I've heard some good things about them. Only thing I'm not sure about is it was free, but it says it expires so i guess maybe it is just a trial period or I downloaded the wrong one. My girlfriend would go nuts if her instant messenger went haywire though, so I have to make sure I have some sort of protection

I installed a program called EasyPHP because it was an easy install and I wanted to be able to learn php and still be able to down the road learn MySQL. But I can't figure out how to use MySQL. Does anyone out there use this program that could tell me alittle about it. Alot of the product site is written in a different language, but everything on the program is english so that is good. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks so much for that site Samya! I am now on my journey of learning PHP so I can work on my text game creation. I learned some Qbasic in a trade school. I never hear anyone talking about that so I'm not even sure why they were trying to teach it to us, that was about 2 years ago. Anyway, I'm so psyched that I can now focus on PHP and get my game underway, thanks again. And I recommendW3schools to anyone who wants to learn PHP. I'm finding it very easy so far.

I still haven't received any response. Do I need another email address? Can someone let me know please.

Actually I didnt think it was funny either, but probably the reason nobody stopped is they probably see that person all the time. He probably has some sort of mental illness, I've seen things like that around where I live. It may seem funny at first but it is sad to think that people live their lives thinking that people are out to get them, which is usually why they yell.

Heard this on the radio yesterday and thought it was unfortunate that the man would not be able to see the future if in fact there were to be one for him. I don't know how you get the whole page to come up in a box so I will just copy and paste it.

O.K. I checked that folder but there is no reset to default, but the .job folder has an (x) and cant open and my MD5 is wrong, I know because I was trying to figure it out and I was changing it. Can someone tell me what they are supposed to be?

one more question I have, I ran that zip folder you had, but I can't try to run that Xammp again because it keeps trying to open it in windows media player (because I thought that was where MD5 files were supposed to be opened). How do I redirect it to get it to open right?

I installed php on computer at one point, then deleted it because, well I'm not exactly sure why but that's another story. Anyway, now my .exe files won't open. I've been trying to download Xammp but it won't open. Do I have to edit the registry? And if so how in the world do I do that? All I know is regedit.

I agree Jeigh, these movies do keep you off your guard. I'm not much of a horror movie 1kinda person so I was skeptical in watching Saw, but it wasn't scary. It was more of psychological thriller. I wont give away any spoilers but Saw and Saw 2 (which I think was a great sequal) did a great job of capturing the viewer into the world of what could be, leading you with suspense and some gore along the way. I loved them.

I'm not worth alot, $877,570. They took $50,000 off for being a smoker! I pay enough for smoking and now they penalize me for it too, jeez, . Anyway, the article and the web site were interesting. If I'm ever in need of some cash I can put my results up on EBay.

I installed AntiVir and I liked the look of it. The problem I had with it was I couldn't get it to update... it always timed out. I tried six times and gave up. If I'm going to have an free anti-virus program, I at least want one I can update. I've had AVG before and wasn't happy with it. McAffee pick up alot of viruses on machine even though AVG was installed. So after all this I went with Avast. I'll give it a try. It has a resident shield scanning my machine all the time, checks emails, networks, and IM's. Seems good so far.

This sounds like something I'll definitly have to think about more thorougly. It seems there are more options then I thought. I would probable start out keeping it simple, as I have only done a few simple web pages for my own amusement and would need to practice more first. But if I could get a client base and expand in the future, I might want to check out having my own space. But all that would come in time.

O.K. I feel totally computer illiterate right now. I just downloaded PHP 5 with the installer, and I can't get the test page in the tutorial to come out. I was using WAMP but I couldn't figure that out. Let me explain my problem. When using WAMP, it said to make a directory in the www folder which I did. After doing that, I did a test page from a tutorial in notepad and saved it in that directory then tried to open it using WAMP. That didn't work. Then I tried opening using http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and that didnt work. Now when using the PHP installer, it asks if I want to install with PWS windows 9x or some things called IIS 3,4, or 6. I don't know if I picked the right one. But once again, I did that test page, but when I went to open it, I browsed for something in PHP to open it with and there was nothing. Shouldn't PHP just come up on the screen normally? Or do I have to open everything in a PHP folder? I'm confused and frustrated and can't get anything to work.

No porn sites here for sure! Seems to be all the regular sites I go to. Thanks for telling me it's not always bad. Hopefully it's just a downtime for it or something, because I do like it. It's taking some getting used to, but overall, I can see myself switching if the popups stop.