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It's a fairly popular CMS system. There's a demo of it here (along with some reviews). When you don't know what something is, it's best to google for the source site for more information. In this case, it's https://www.drupal.org/ .

I don't smoke, but my aunt (whom I live with) does. When I was little, I tried to get her to stop, but she won't. (Actually bought her patches one Christmas when I was very little.) I guess I've sort of given up on her. I still dislike smoking, but I'm not going to waste my time on her anymore. That might sound a bit heartless, but she is simply not going to quit and I'm not going to waste my time on a lost cause.

*pins on a Trapoholic badge* I also joined Xisto just for hosting, at first thinking I wouldn't like these forums very much and would find them boring. *shock* I was quite nicely wrong. I now come here at least once a day and have spent several times more time on these forums than actually working on my site. :$

I have a PHP book (SAMS Teach Yourself in 24 hours), but I've barely cracked it. Everything I know about PHP is from using and looking at open source coding (mostly phpBB forums and mods). Actually, if you can stand reading through it, you can figure out what a lot of commands do and teach yourself just by looking at some open source. I can't really write much blind yet, but I can look at code and sort of understand what it does. (And I can write code if I have references. I just don't have many commands memorized yet.)

Yes. I used to read a lot more too. I read over hundred in just one summer about five years ago. Mind, most of those were children/young adult books. Right now, I really need to read all these books that I've bought but never read. *tends to buy books for the sake of buying books... and reading them a lot later nowadays* And, yes, LiveJournal's wonderful. I was on hiatus for most of last year, but now that I'm back, I'm thinking about going paid again.

The internet has been escape for me. If it didn't exist... I would probably still be reading books voraciously and/or spending a lot of time on adventure and simulation PC games. Would I have been satisfied with that for six+ years? Maybe, maybe not. I might have been a bit happier overall, or I might have had less joy. Something that happened to me two years ago rather embittered me. But several things came into my life at the same time that have given me a great deal of laughter. And I don't know whether I would have survived just on books. (I was rather depressed about five/six years ago.) I like games, but Sims did get a bit boring. Maybe certain life-changing choices would have been made earlier or not at all.

I agree with most of what no9t9 said. Other than that, it's a bit redundant to have the links twice at the bottom of the pages. The bottom links on the Support page don't work. On the front page, I would definitely move the complete feature list to another page. The short list on the right should be enough. I'd move the Plans to the top (Those 'more' links don't work either.) And whatever you do, the lengths of each column should be about the same, unless a column is navigation. (There's a lot of white space in the left column right now.)And a bit off-topic... If/when I move to Xisto - Web Hosting, what if I want to change Plans mid-year? For example, what if I got Plan C and later wanted to upgrade to Plan E? Or if I just needed more of one or the other, how much would additional bandwidth or space cost?

I am against human and animal cloning because of the soul/spirit thing. Would a manmade 'human' have a mind, soul, concience? Or would it be just like an animal? And the first 'experimental' clones could turn out unimaginably wrong too. (The first few would almost definitely turn out somewhat wrong.)And what Xedos is talking about (if it ever became possible) is incredibly inhumane. Can you imagine being told you were created only to be killed for your organs? Or a future where there are 'factories' filled with clones in stasis ready to be harvested for organs? There are tons of science fiction stories about it, and how it goes horribly wrong. Better and safer to simply clone the organ alone. (organ/tissue/blood cloning, I will support if it doesn't have side-effects) And if you used the same person's DNA, you might even make the chance of rejection non-existent.

phpBB is at https://www.phpbb.com/ (Completely free) InvisionPowerBoard is at https://invisionpower.com/features/apps (Free trial) Both of them can be installed on the Add-On Scripts page in CPanel. (phpBB 2.11 and IPB v1.2) I've always used phpBB. I think it has a reputation for being easy, but I use it because I'm used to it and I know 'where' everything is and how it works. It is easy to mod and skin (especially with EasyMOD), and I know enough to write my own mods in and edit templates and such. But I suppose that's the same with most boards after months and months of experience with them. I'm also a bit adverse to most other forum admin panels. vBulletin looks good, but I am not going to pay for a forum. (Although if you really can make money at it...)

This year, my resolutions are to post fairly often in my blog and to read 50+ books (50bookchallenge on LiveJournal). Resolutions just to have resolutions. Except for about a week, I'm doing fairly well on the blog one, and I'm a bit behind on the book one, but there's plenty of time to catch up.

You need 15 posts, not credits for package 1. From the main page: And these two posts are good ones to read.

Oh, yes. Nightwish is my favorite group. One of my friends told me about it last year, but I didn't really start listening to them until last summer. I have all their CDs now (and a good amount of their songs on my computer). My favorite songs would be... Dead Boy's Poem, Sleepwalker, Sleeping Sun, Creek Mary's Blood, etc...sargilla, that CD is new version of 'Over the Hills and Far Away'. I think it's the one CD I would say NOT to start on, because (that I remember) it has the least variety.

I've never illegally downloaded any software. But about the price thing... The people that make games do not make 20 or 30 dollars per game sold. Some of the money pays the price of the materials. Then, there's marketing and things like that. And then, there are dozens of people who helped create the game, and they all need to be paid. They'll still make a lot of profit with what's left over if the game is really popular. But if it's not, they can lose money depending on how much they put in. I do think that the recent influx of 50 dollar games is a bit much though. (30 dollars is the most I'll pay for a game, so I'm waiting on Sims 2.)

I only have one Water spell, but I'm only level 2, so... Most of the bugs are probably in the code itself. So, not much we can do to fix it. I am looking through some of it right now, and it seems like the admin should be able to restock the shops. // -- STAFF PANEL -- //'mod' => "Staff Panel" ,'mod_viewlogs' => "View Logs" ,'mod_allhealed' => "all members have been healed." ,'mod_restocked_shop' => "you restocked the shop" , Maybe later today, I'll try installing it onto a test forum. (It doesn't work on IPB 1.2, I tried that last night.) It does have the potential to be a good game if all the bugs are worked out and more things are put in.

My databases aren't working. Earlier today, I created a MySQL database and now it's just disappeared. I've tried recreating it, but that's not working either. And it's also kind of odd that on my cPanel, I'm using:Mysql databases 0 / 999SQL Disk usage 0.94 MBI'm on the Rhino server, if that helps. I hope it's just me. Database dropping would be a really bad thing for some sites.

I'm trying out Exponent CMS right now. It seems good. I was considering Mambo, but I decided I liked Exponent's WYSIWYG and 'style' better. And Mambo and the 'Nukes seem to be what just about everyone's using now. (Personally, I dislike the Nukes.) Anyway, if you want to look at some different systems, there's opensourceCMS.com. I found it last month and it has demos of dozens of them, including some blogs, wikis, and forums. And someone mentioned the comparison database on CMS Matrix in another thread.

Harry Potter. It hasn't changed my way of thinking, but my life would be vastly different if I had never read them. It led to certain choices and discoveries that have changed my life for better and worse. (Chaos theory) It's only directly influenced one big choice in real life, and joining parts of the fandom online. But both of those have branched out with far-reaching consequences. I don't know whether or not I believe in fate/destiny. But major parts of the last three years, and the rest, of my life might not have been.

'Something From the Nightside' and 'Agents of Light and Darkness' by Simon R. Greene last week. I've since read reviews of them calling them very original, but it didn't seem it to me. All of Greene's worlds that I've read or heard about are very similar. Paraphrased, 'where Gods and Monsters are common sights and anything can be found'. Nightside had a... not-quite-overused plot too. They both have a very noir feel, and there's a lot of exposition/dialogue too (sort of like old detective movie voiceovers).

My first website was on Geocities... three years and a few months ago. It was before I knew HTML, of course, so made it with the PageBuilder. It was a Roswell (my favorite show) fan site. Black silk background, a picture of Max, Isabel, and Michael in the middle, and red text on the sides. I had all the back blurbs from the books on one of the pages... I didn't know much about graphics at the time either, so the ROSWELL header was just text in that font.

I mostly just remember my passwords. I have around seven reused passwords, which is a little above average, I think. I used to have a .txt file on my computer, but it was really unsafe, so I deleted it a while ago. I store some of my more uncommon passwords in the browser too... which as someone said above, isn't safe either if someone hacks in, but eh... I'll get around to really memorizing my more uncommon ones sooner or later. I've been rather lucky so far with that sort of thing.

Yeah... Seems like just yesterday that... My family didn't really stock up on anything. We own a restaurant anyway. *laughs* But I think it'd be interesting cooking over an open fire. I don't think any of us have ever been camping. I did join everyone in imagining what it'd be like for all the technology to give out though. I was imagining farms and... something very Amish-like. But realistically, I doubt we'd have to regress that far. We'd just create new 'technologies' before you could blink. Neccesity is the mother of invention, after all. We'd be desperate for all our conveniences. Hm, we were all pretty silly then, weren't we. I mean, anyone have could just changed their computer clock to Dec 31st, 1999, and watched their computer not spontaneously combust at 'midnight'.

I'm pro-choice, but I lean towards being against abortion, because of the 'an unborn child is still a living human being with a soul/spirit' thing. But I'm sort of hypocritical, because if I ever get pregnant, I will probably fully consider having an abortion, especially if I'm not married yet of course. (That probably makes me sound like a **** or something. I'm not; right now, I'm the farthest thing from it.) And there are some things that few people think about... If you're a Christian, the child will obviously not know right from wrong yet, and will have ah... a free ticket to heaven. (I know, it's a terrible thing to think.) But whether you're Christian or not, the child will never know suffering in that (short) life. (But depending on how reincarnation works, if it does, they might be more depressed or needy in their next life.)

In no particular order...Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh - first and second anime I ever saw, I wish I could see the subbed Yu-Gi-Ohs though... I've heard they're a lot better.Serial Experiments: Lain - third, I think, but still haven't finished, because I can't find the fourth DVDHaibane RenmeiNoir.Hack//Sign - Loved it except the ending, which was just terrible compared to the rest of it..Hack//Legend of Twilight aka Dusk - I've only seen the first DVD so far...Millenium ActressWitch Hunter Robin

The only language I speak fluently is English. I took two years of Spanish in Middle/High School, but I've probably forgotten most of it by now. My, ah..., native language is Chinese. I can't speak it anymore though (or I probably could to save myself, but I'm too self-concious about it to really speak it.), but I do understand and can get the gist of most Cantonese and some Mandirin.

I agree with EricDrunkard on what I look for in hosting (+bandwidth and I am willing to pay a little for good hosting.). I agree with Caveman in that Google seems to be taking over the internet. I try not to think about it much because really, it scares me. Google is turning into the internet 'God'. It knows all, it sees all. (Nevertheless, I did follow the 'fad' and get a Gmail account anyway.)Anyway, if Google started doing webhosting.... They'd probably offer something like 1-5GB space... Probably have a long beta phase first (ala Gmail right now). I'm not good at calculating bandwidth usage, but it'd be around 100 GB/mo. (Probably as much as 500 GB... or more.) Insane amounts, basically, especially considering it would be free and all. Ads... To make more money off it, they could require (non-paying) Ad-Click towers. But that'd drive people away, so they'd probably just make it optional with an easier sign-up if you do. We'd probably have an ad-free option, paying Ad-Click option, and 'donation' Ad-Click option. Anyway, I can't say what I would do if they did come out with it. I don't like being a 'sheep', but if the features were good enough, who knows?