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Something like that. Anyway, it's a copy from http://www.addme.com/newsletters/issue180.htm (it was down so here is a link to the google cache copy). But instead of being just negative about the source, let me also point out how wrong the article itself is (or at least part of it). Point 2: When you browse around you are already giving out a lot of information, like which browser you are using, what OS you are running, how large your screen is and how many colours it can display and so on and so on. Unless you have a large number of people who register for some reason and you actively collect data they are providing actively (like names, email adresses and so on), you really don't need a privacy policy. Point 3: Don't post your email on your site, definitely not on every page as is suggested in the article. That's just asking for spam. Put up a contact form instead, protect yourself from spammers and scammers. Point 5: Use CSS to set a preference list of fonts. So for whatever element(s) you are setting fonts, do something like: "font-family: palatino, georgia, sans-serif;". That way people who have Palatino see it with Palatino, otherwise they get Georgia and otherwise they get what they have set in their browser as their standard sans serif font. Point 6: Just because you have a website doesn't mean everyone should post things on it. It depends on the site you have and not every site should have a chatroom. Point 7: See point 6. If you don't need it, don't do it. No one wants email from you if you have nothing to say. Point 8: Replace 800x600 with 1024x786 and 640x480 with 800x600. In my experience most sites still get about 30% browsers at 800x600. Those points were the worst. But the other ones were okay-ish. The article is obviously hugely outdated, and it insults me that djleli didn't even bother to change the most obvious points (640x480 screens? get real) when he copied and pasted this article without giving credit. To everyone who copies articles and posts them without giving credit just to up your post count/hosting credits: Just rewirting the article and adding some personal opinions (a bit like what I just did) takes just a few minutes. Doing a little work and making something worth reading isn't too hard. Please don't copy, please post your own ideas. It's alright to copy a piece if you give credit. But ripping someone elses work is just too low.

I tried it on a 800x600 screen with Firefox, worked fine. And then I tested it with IE, worked fine as well. I'm guessing you used a larger screen and did javascript:resizeTo(800,600); which is like having a browser open on a 800x600 screen with the edges of the browser touchting the edges of the screen, not like having it maximized. Most people using 800x600 are probably using their browser having it maximized, and if they're not they are probably having a really small screen size, and that's not really anything you have to take into consideration.

Neat. You've done a good job. I really like it a lot more than the old one. I agree with Round, I think a little more space between the left side of the screen and the menu items would look good.

I have switched my preferences to Elmer Fudd, so I get "Youw seawch - searchthatdoesntmatchanydocuments - did not match any documents. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!" when I search for something with no search results.

Well, Blogger would require me to host it at Blogger (as far as I could tell from their website), and installing "all of them" is just undoable.But I think I will install a few of them, because that seems to be the way to go to find out which is best. I think I'll start with Movable Type.

There's a difference between research and stealing though. What you did was not research. What you did was copying an article and then taking the credit for it. And then you also made some advertising for your own company. Research would be reading up on content management systems, going to the different websites of the systems, perhaps even installing a few and trying them out, then writing an article yourself. Having said all that, CMSMatrix is a good site, and definitely worth a look if you're looking for a CMS.

You can't prevent downloading, because (as has been pointed out) browsing is downloading. What you can do are a few things to make it harder. You can disable right-clicking, which can be bypassed easily. You can use a tool (which I'm sure isn't too hard to find) which converts an image into a huge table, with each pixel becoming a table cell. Of course, people can still take a screenshot. If you really don't want people to use your image, run all images through your favourite image editor and put "SAMPLE" across the image in any level of opacity you like. That way people can still see the picture, but no one will be inclined to use it.

Google checks where you are browsing from by checking your IP. Then if it has a page for your country you get redirected to that page. The cookie overrides the IP check as far as I know. So if you have a cookie for Germany and you browse from France, you'll get to the German site (or so I've been told, I haven't tested this myself). Anyway, you can set the language to any of the available no matter where you are. Try out Elmer Fudd, hacker or bork. They're funny There are lots of languages on the Preferences page, even Klingon.

Interesting. A fetus becomes a human being at 28 weeks. And not only that, but abortions aren't performed unless the fetus is 28 weeks old. Very interesting. Thanks for getting my facts straightened out. Or perhaps the fact that it is human doesn't matter to you, and you think that everything that has a (or is forming) brain should be allowed to live. In which case you probably are a vegan, which is fine by me. Of course, you will have tremendous difficulty with setting a definition for when "forming a brain and heart" starts. But that 28 weeks rule was certainly interesting.

Also, you can get almost anything Microsoft has made ever for $375: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ There are a few strings, but still...

Why are you stealing content from other sites and posting it here? That text you posted was written by Kenneth Li from Reuters. And even if it was your own writing, why would you post that, what would be the point? This is just spamming to up your postcount and hosting credits.

Could some mod please lock or throw away this topic? We already have a browser thread. And there is another one somewhere else. This thread is totally redundant.

So... you should only have sex if you wanted to make a baby? You must be kidding. Seriously. And really, any of the million sperm that don't make it to the egg could be really "successful" people. Does that mean a million kids are murdered each time a guy ejaculates?

1. There is a lot of sexism.2. That dialog you posted has nothing to do with sexism or feminism.

Well, I can just click on a shortcut, enter my passphrase and have all my passwords, easily sortable and gettable. The program might load a fraction slower than notepad. With your solution I'd have to trawl through who knows how many nested directories in which the password textfile is "hidden". I wonder which method would get me my password the quickest.

Hehe. That's pretty fun to see. I think the earliest version I've done anything with is 3.11. And I think I've used every desktop version since then, except Windows Me, which most of the world happily ignored. I still have to try out Server 2003 sometime.

Depending a bit on what you have you don't even need JavaScript. If you have a form with a form button, you'll have to use JavaScript because of IE's lack of understanding of CSS. But if you have a normal link you can do everything with CSS (I've tested this in Firefox and IE). This would work just fine, put this in the head of your page: <style type="text/css"> a.btn div{ background: url(img1.gif);} a.btn:hover div{ background: url(img2.gif); } a.btn div { height:20px; width:150px; text-align:center;}</style>and have the link look like so: <a class="btn" href="http://Xisto.com"><div>Click here!</div></a>You don't need to have text inside the div if you don't want to, it'll still work. Perhaps it can even be made a bit more compact, but I wasn't sure how to easily set a fixed size for it without having divs inside the anchor tag (and still have it work in IE). Going back to your original question. I assume you meant it should go from being transparent to opaque (or the other way around). Just remove the text between the divs, have one of the images as standard and the other one for the :hover and you'll be fine. Hope this helps

If you by mods mean extra things you can put in blocks, like an analog flash clock or a shoutbox or something like that, you can find it on the official PHP Nuke page in the downloads section. And if you want a counter for your PHP Nuke page you can try Nuke counter, which I think also includes a little statistics thing.

I'm sure a lot of people here blog, and Xisto has quite a lot of different systems for easy installing, but which one do you think is the best? I'm asking because there just so many different to choose from in the "Addon Scripts" section, and I have no idea what the pros and cons are of the different systems. So any personal experiences with good and bad sides would be great. As you probably already have guessed I'm mainly looking for a discussion about blog systems that will run on Xisto. So saying "LiveJournal" doesn't count.

Okay, to be honest I didn't really understand what you are saying, but I'm guessing you meant something like this: "In my opinion IE is good enough, unless you are using Mac OS, in which case IE isn't good enough." If that is what you meant, I agree with the mac bit. If you have Mac OSX, you can use Safari, which is an excellent browser. I'll go as far as to say that if you are running Mac OSX there's is hardly any reason at all not to use Safari.

You should get in touch with your bank, seriously. If enough people tell them that their site isn't working properly they'll fix it. Which in turn will give more people an actual choice when it comes to choosing a browser. Banks is a very good example, but any corporate site that doesn't work in anything but IE is worth sending an email to. They don't want to lose a customer, you don't want to use IE. They fix their site and everybody's happy

So... Which is the best Apache/MySQL/PHP installer for Windows? I know about PHP Triad, phpdev and xampp. The first time I installed Apache et al on Windows I just downloaded them one by one from the respective official sites and did everything manual, it wasn't hard in any way really, but using a package really speeds up the process. So far I've only used devphp, which went well. I know xampp has Perl, which the others don't (as far as I know). But are there any other differnces? Does anyone have good or bad experiences with any of the ones I mentioned, or other packages?

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes. Just search around using Google and you'll find loads. You can also take a look at SourceForge and Freshmeat once you've learned some more Python and want to see the source of some games. You'll notice that I helpfully added some search parameters in the links

I'll teach you not only how to implement the search script, I'll teach you how to uncover more knowlegde than you thought possible! Let's see. We have to get something that uses PHP and MySQL and it has to be some sort of search script. I know, lets try Google! We go to https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl and type... oh, I don't know, what about 'php mysql "search script"'? Without the single quotes, but with the dubble quotes. Hmm. You know what, I'm feeling lucky, so I click on the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Wow! A solution! Who would have thought that ten seconds using Google would have given me a solution. It's incredible! Alternatively you could use something like phpDig, which I have no experience with, but am sure is quite advanced.

I've used the "standard" client. Which I didn't find very good to be honest, quite bad as far as usability goes. So I switched to pretty much the first client I could find which handled multiple downloads well, that client happened to be BT++, which was an okay client I guess, better than the standard one at any rate. But then suddenly one day BT++ stopped working. So I started looking for a new client. For me it came down to either Azureus or ABC. I went with ABC, becuase java apps which have GUIs tend to be rather sluggish. I didn't check to find out if that was the case with Azureus, but I just couldn't be bothered. ABC is a nice client, based on BitTornado actually. You can get it here.