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Sounds a bit prejudice to me! What people do in their own homes is up to them, for all i care next door could be trying to make babies with a pork sausage. It really doesnt bother me! The point you raised about the kid being bullied is however, valid. Kids can be evil, in fact kids ARE evil. But we dont stay kids forever. I think it depends all on the situation at hand, the bullying is a hard thing to overcome, and could affect the kid severely, turning him against his parents (seeing them as the reason for its misery) or it could do the opposite, and the kid could become very pro gay, become a great person with morals, strength and understanding.

There are HTML WYSIWYG editors that support the XAMPP server i think. But you still need to download the server and it will only show a preview of the site and you cant move things around. My code editor has a nice preview function that allows me to preview PHP, very handy!If you want a nice editor try "PHP Designer" Slightly misleading title as you cant design PHP.... But there you go. The personal edition is free and it has syntax highlighting, automatically adds closing brackets: ) ] } and adds the second double quote to form a pair. Which is handy!

It is indeed impossible. PHP is a back end, or "Server Side Script" which means the PHP code NEVER leaves the server. Everytime you view a php page eg the forum index: index.php the php code executes on the server then sends your browser some nice HTML to chew. The browser (and therefore the user) never sees any PHP code. To run PHP code you need to install an apache server. And no WYSIWYG editor has this. Some can be use with one if you download the server and install it yourself. But even then all you see is some HTML. the PHP never leaves the server so the WYSIWYG editor only sees what PHP "writes". EG: echo "Hello browser, how are you?"; all the browser ever gets sent is: Hello browser, how are you? And so your WYSIWYG editor will only ever see that too. And because its not a HTML file you cant move the text around or anything. So in short the only way to write PHP (real PHP) is to use a text or code editor. Either way you have to manually type the code. No shortcuts! There never will be any WYSIWYG editor for PHP

It is impossible for the LHC to create a black hole. Absolutely impossible. As you said black holes are made by collapsing black holes. That is the only way we know of to create a black hole. So if the LHC can somehow CREATE matter equal to the mass of 2 or 3 times our sun's mass then yes. It could create a black hole. But lets remember that if it did somehow make this matter it would engulf the earth in a fiery hell that would mean the end of life before a black hole was even formed.Then of course, if the LHC made a black hole the pink fairies would grant 3 wishes upon the pigs who would of course choose to taste like dung, be resistant to black holes and be able to fly!

Pain.net aint for me. I avoid downloading anything from microsoft! All my stuff, except the OS is open source and free :)Ill try a PNG later, going fishing today so ill have to try it when i get back Thanks. I assumed PNG was the same as GIF in that you couldnt have a smooth transition into transparency, but ill try it.

Might i ask why you are tying to gain weight?If you feel you are underweight and it is affecting your health see your doctor who may be able to diagnose the problem,several conditions can lead to an inability to gain weight, and these should be checked by the doctor. It probably isnt serious but being dangerously underweight is just as bad as being overweight and your doctor can either advise a diet or sort out the root problem so that you can eat normal food and stay at your ideal weight.Remember that weight isnt the key issue, its your weight to height ration. For example im 6ft3 tall, if i were to weight the same as you i would be seriously underweight and very at risk. Same as if you weighed the same as me (as im taller) you'd be overweight. So my advice is ask the doctor. He knows your medical history and roughly what your ideal weight should be.

Nothing bad will happen! The absolute worst that can actually happen is that the LHC powers down, or some idiot walks in with a metal thing in his pocket and it gets thrown about by the magnets. There is no possible way that it will create a blackhole of any kind big enough to do any damage. I dont even think it can create a black hole. A black hole is simply a very very denser ball of matter. Imagine the earth squeezed down the size of a marble. That is what a black hole is (but bigger and with more mass) Its just a very dense ball of material. The gravity is very concentrated because it has (in my example) the same gravity as the whole earth but in the size of a marble, so there is the same amount of gravity but in a smaller area so it feels stronger, it is more intense. This gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it. The most powerful rocket in the universe could not "take off" from within a blackhole. The gravity is too strong. The reason it is black is because light is sucked into it. Gravity bends and distorts light, and in a black hole the gravity is so strong it pulls light in to, making it appear black and like a hole. The LHC is not capable of doing that. Stephen hawking himself showed us that black holes "evaporate" that is, without sucking in new material a blackhole will vanish into nothing. So even if the LHC did create a black hole (which it cant -- read on) it would evaporate in a micro second. So even if this blackhole was the most powerful on ever seen in the universe (which it wouldnt be) it would only be there for a microsecond because its so small so it wouldnt be able to do any damage. Do you know what the LHC does? It simply crashes one particle (of which there are millions, perhaps billions in this one full stop : . ) into another particle. It will also do this with small groups of particles (eg tens, or hundreds, still so small they wouldnt be visible to the human eye or any optical microscope). When these particles collide they produce large amounts of energy, when i say large i mean relative to their mass. So this isnt dangerous. If the worst happens then perhaps it springs a leak. Big deal. If the absolute worst happens a few scientists die. Not the end of the world (though still not good!). all that happens is the biggest magnets in the world pull the particles around in a circle. So power down one of the magnets and it shuts down. This hype about "oh we are all going to die" is absolute rubbish and its really annoying. Scientists arent retards, they know the world isnt going to end. These experiments have being going on for decades. True this is the most powerful one so far but none of the others have even came CLOSE to endangering the world and neither will this one. Its all rubbish. from: http://press.cern/backgrounders/safety-lhc

It seems if they get past the captcha and other methods they are human spammers, not bots, so keep that in mind.Is there not an option in your forum to approve all accounts before they become active? That way you can manually go through and approve those you know and recognize and reject the rest.

Impossible if you ask me. The screw needs to do more than just vibrate, it needs to spin. And as you said the frequency required would probably be different for every single screw and the wood or whatever material would dampen the vibration anyway.

Thats very good! If you have VB knowledge you could integrate with a simple program to act as a key and store it on another flash drive or your phone or something so your files are safe. (Vb would give a nice UI) Ill be saving this little tut!

Whats wrong with Avast? (you didnt list a reason and in my experience its reliable, light and very effective.)As for firewall go with comodo (google it) Very reliable, extremely tough light on resources and configurable, and of course free!Why are you doing a reformat anyway?Just un-install your firewall (or even just set it to allow all traffic) and get a new firewall.

Haha the last thing i do will be to buy the damn thing! Out of principal i will never *buy* it 600 is WAY too much for ANY software!Ill just stick with what i have now!

for future reference gmail has custom filters so you would be able to setup your own filter to say that all emails from yoursite.com go to inbox, everything else gets deleted.Its much better than hotmail, ive never had Yahoo but they seem cluttered.Anyway, Gmail is the way to go in future

Oh man i love the "end of the world" conspiracy.... people dont seem to understand the vast energies and masses required to start a black hole. I dont fully either, technically no-one does but i know this: To make a black hole you would need to squeeze the sun down to something that could fit in your hand. Then you would have a blackhole (maybe my numbers are off, but you get the idea) and if you can make a machine on earth that can do that, then yes, you are going to end the world.It started as a joke, a geeky joke, and now people believe it! Its silly! They crash two particles together, create plenty of energy and some new matter, or a particle called the god particle (so called because they think it was the first matter to ever exist) no-one is in danger unless you happen to be sleeping inside the thing.

Ive posted a few topics in the internet forum now, and its really annoying that hosted members (any member in general but i understand about spam protection) need to have their topics approved.Now i understand that to protect from spam and what not some posts need reviewing but at the end of the day, being a hosted member means two things: One is that im probably going to be an active and good member of the forums and not spam anyway and Two: that if i do spam you can just take my hosting credits/hosting away.So why do i need to wait for approval?the mods do a great job but sometimes a thread slips through their radar and just drops off the edge of the forum. If its not in the recent posts/topics list it rarely gets seen so its just so irritating.can we please have all hosted members being able to post in the internet forum without needing approval? Or even those with a post count over 50, or 75 etc?PLEASE?

Hi folks, you may or may not know that i am a website coder by night, fisherman by day. I am teaming up with an excellent designer i met at college and we aim to provide custom, professional and exclusive website solutions under the name of Scorpius Designs. At the moment its a two man team, im the coder and he is the designer. We are based in the south east of the UK and currently work from our respective homes. Primarily we specialize in building custom websites from scratch, no copying and pasting here! We take on the project from the initial thought of "Damn i need a website" through to completion, either handing you over the files needed for you to upload, or by uploading and configuring the website ourselves. Truly taking the hassle out of getting online.We can also offer advertising solutions and SEO or Search Engine Optimization (Getting your site a higher ranking in Google, Yahoo etc...) and individual features such as a new design (but same content) a chatbox, login system etc...We can offer systems such as: e-commerce/shopping cart systems to take your first steps into selling on the web, CMS systems, enabling you to quickly and easily edit the content of your website with no knowledge required (it works very similarly to posting a reply in forums), complete user management systems including registration, login/out member areas etc... the ability for users to upload/submit content, forum integration, paypal integration and custom modifications to existing systems.If you are interested in any of these things drop me a PM or reply and let me know what you are interested in. Our portfolio can be found at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (may have slow load time, there are a lot of images there!)Thanks, all queries welcome

Aye, im not against illegal software, however i dont want to be traced. Of course, in a hypothetical situation i would use my firewall to block all outgoing and incoming requests for the program :)But if theres a legal option id prefer that, i did hear that some companies werent prosecuting students and non-profit people as they know that once they become professionals they will buy the program.But its still a risk.

hi folks, im looking into starting flash and learning it etc....I have some experience from flash at school where they had the flash suites. But i cant afford freaking?600 just for a computer program. Its absolutely ridiculous. For that i could buy two laptops. What the hell. Macromedia has issues.I might not even get into flash and quit so i need a free flash editor, that gives me most of the features from the stupid paid software but for free.Anyone know of one?

Something that REALLY annoys me about politicians, and particularly the american ones (they do it more often it seems) is saying crap like "oh god told me to do it" what the hell?! If god is real, damn are those guys in for a HELL of time.... But the existence of god is irrelevant.... They are just blaming an intangible, possibly fake, entity because they messed up. Personally if i was McCain and i was standing by her when she said that i wouldve turned on the spot and shot her. Thats partly because McCain is an IDIOT and loves violence and guns and partly because the woman deserves it. then again on the other side you have a black main whos name is very similar to many muslim names, namely "Osma binladen" (Osama > Obama Its all the connection that the average american needs) So to be honest i think there are two candidates with a mediocre percentage of support with the vast majority of voters stuck in the middle, not particularly liking either of them. Still, neither are as bad as that abomination Georgey.. God knows why you guys voted him in AGAIN! The world hopes you learn from your mistakes!

Hi folks. I want to know if its possible to modify the transparency of an image in flash to give a gradual transparent gradient? EG like the T17 banner where the text "Xisto" reflects. I know i can do this in the GIMP but i need the background of the image/text to be transparent, and GIF is the onyl format i can do that reliably and of course GIF is indexed and so i cant have a gradual fade effect. Im really stuck on this one and im no Flash expert so any ideas? Ive attached a screenie. Thats the effect i want (the black background is there so the effect is easy to see, i want it to be transparent) and its fine in JPG format, but in GIF the gradual effect goes away and i just get a sharp line which is no good. If there is a work around for this in the GIMP, that still leaves the background transparent, or a way of getting the same effect in flash (i have a transparent BG for the movie itself from the publish settings, its only this image that i need to configure) then please let me know!

Personally i would have it dynamically created from a database. Store details in the DB like the URL to images, the title to use, background colour etc... and load that into a template, the same way they make profile pages eg profile.php?user=shadowx Its just a template loaded with info from a database.But it depends on what you want the page to be like. This method also means you dont have hundreds of files laying around

using a CMS is a good idea. I can give you a few tips if you want to learn php though. Firstly think logically, think in sequence. So if you need someone to login to see a page think of it like thisUser sees login page> (assuming they are registered) User types info and hits submit > PHP code checks to make sure its not trying to inject code and hack > (assuming its clean) PHP asks the database for the password of the user called "USERNAME" > If it cant find that password the user doesnt exist (give error message) If it does find a password check it against the one entered > If it is wrong take them back to the login page. If its right Start a session > Session is loaded with the user's name and the password they entered (preferably in an MD5 hash) > Redirect them to the first protected page.on the protected page you need to: Load up the sessions again (using an include probably) > check the data in the session variables against the data in the database > If the data doesnt match they get logged out by destroying the session. if it matches they stayed logged in > Use an IF statement to check if they are logged in > If the IF returns a FALSE result they arent logged in so take them back to the login page, if it returns TRUE, they are logged in, then show them the protect page contentsIt looks fairly complicated, but once you know the basics, eg session variables, POST variables, IF statements, INCLUDE()s, Database functions and how to MD5 (real easy: md5("some text"); then you can easily do this.dont give up! PHP is a great language to know!

Too true. I like the UI to be honest, its a bit weird having it full screen like that as i always disable those sort of "remove title bar" settings in all my programs. It feels almost vista like and at the same time slightly mac/*nix so i dont know where they based their UI but theres no doubt in my mind theyve tried to remove the OS from the equation. Aside from the task bar at the bottom there is no indication of operating system and to be hones the task bar seems to blend into the UI of chrome very well. I also like the multi tasking abilities. I have 2gb RAM so a few extra Ks isnt too much worry, and as they explain you have a much lower chance of memory leaks affecting the stability of the system as each part of the allocated RAM is freed completely when the tab is closed, unlike some browsers where it might defrag and get stuck. I can see this being VERY popular in booths and at work places as it is more secure and stable, and if the browser is being used for 5-6 hours straight with no restarting the loss of RAM that other browsers could cause could really be a hindrance. Also if they bring it out on the other OS's itll be a neat and easy browser for all computers, which currently isnt available. All cross-OS browsers look very different, but i think Chrome might well look and feel identical which is a bonus.

I must admit Chrome is slipping from my top list now...on another forum im on when typing the middle of a word (if i missed a letter or whatever) it appears to have INSERT on (all the letters after the cursor disappear as though being written over) but alas, this is not true, the letters simply turn invisible and re-appear a few seconds later. Very odd. Also i have word or parts of words disappearing every now and then. Rather annoying...not only that but it appears not to have a community. The FF community is excellent, sharing bug reports to patch em quick, posting tips and tricks, posting addons etc... But Chrome has none of this.... A VERY bad move. No addons means i wont use it if it stays this way in public release. Not only that but it doesnt have RSS feeds like FF does. And the settings are VERY limited. If these issues are resolved in the full release i shall be an avid user. Otherwise i shant use it.

Damn, if you have no PHP experience you will find this very tough,There are two ways of doing this... One is to have the PHP page as you said and within that page have a login form and some IF statements. The second option is to make use of sessions. If you do not use sessions everytime a user goes away from their page and comes back again they will have to login all over again. So you can have a central login page, which starts the sessions, then they are taken to a dynamic "user.php" page which connects to a database and takes out info that is filled in on their custom page.I cant code you the page myself, im busy at the moment but i think you've jumped in at the deep end here!