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Oooh, thanks! Today you are my hero I forgot to mention that I don't use the standard Firefox, but instead the SVG enabled version. SVG is an XML based vector image format. You can get the SVG enabled firefox here. That's the only difference between standard and my version though, mine can show SVG images, normal Firefox can't. There aren't that many sites using SVG to be honest, but it's nice to have it when you stumble across one site that does.

And I mentioned (re)naming files, it doesn't take an incredible amount of thought to come to the conclusion that it might not be naming and renaming through saving with notepad, no? No need to get angry about it.

Posting here, because it seemed the best place for it. If you do some programming yourself you might want to check out this site, it's really quite funny: http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/ It has 621 variants of a program that writes the song "99 bottles of beer", in loads of different programming languages. Everything from PHP to Java (OO variant) to Fromage. I think the Java one is funny, it's OO to the extreme Also check out Whitespace, that's always a nice one

That's funny, because I have the same reply!

Forgive my ignorance, but what does Acrobat have to do with graphic design? Are you sure you aren't thinking of Photoshop?

I'm not quite sure if you mean admin of the adtabase or admin of the forum. If you mean of the forum you will probably be able to find it in the documentation of the forum you've installed, or perhaps you can find it just by browsing the tables of the database in phpMyAdmin. If you mean admin for the database itself, you can edit permissions in your cPanel, just click on the MySQL thinggie and the rest should be rather simple. Just create an admin user if you want that, and give the user you've made the permissions you want it to have.

I'm not sure if you are talking about the cache or the search results now. But if you really don't want outdated versions of your site in the google cache you can make it so that the googlebot doesn't cache your site, by adding<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">to the head of your html documents (you can replace 'robots' with 'googlebot' if you only want to stop the googlebot from archiving).If it's the text in the search results that are outdated you'll just have to wait until the bot comes by again.

Bill Gates is incredibly rich. I doubt he accuires software for his developers. He probably mainly sits around deciding MS's "strategy" and focuses on hoarding money. Bill!=MS

Try this on your desktop. Right klick > New > textfile. Write '.htaccess' as the name, hit enter, or klick somewhere on the desktop. You'll get an error message. As I said, it's probably some stupid function that gets called when you (re)name a file. Apps writing to files aren't restricted by it. It probably went something like this: Microsoft boss person: Hey, dev guy. Write a function for renaming files Dev guy: Okay DG thinks that the easy thing would be to set everything before the first full stop as name and everything after it as the extension (since Windows has to warn if the user changed the extension to something weird). DG writes the function. The result is that because there is no text in front of the first full stop, Windows thinks you haven't written a name for the file. And so it gives an error message. Instead the dev guy should of course have done something else. Like allowing any name with at least one character. Or checking on the last full stop instead. Edit: It happens on both newer (XP) and older (98) Win systems.

You can do it with CSS. You don't even need javascript. Your best shot is probably the demo from CSS/edge: Pure CSS popups (note that what he is calling popups is really just changing content on the page, not popping up new windows. What he basically does is putting images (or text in this demo) inside the anchor tags. You could also try using the techniques mentioned in this mad cow webdesign page. The second one only changes text, but it's always nice to have more than one example to look at, right? None of them change background images though, so if you want that I'm not sure how to do that. If you want to do that you could do something with javascript. So you set a onMouseOver action no the tabs and write a function that changes the image you have set as background. But as long as you only want to change a image you don't need javascript. Good luck!

Shouldn't this thread be moved to the "Pay-per-click" sub-forum? Because this has nothing to do with pay-per-lead.

Well, PageRank isn't dependant on traffic, like your Alexa rating is. Page rank is based on the PageRank of people linking to your site. It might be that some of the more popular sites have stopped linking to you?

Hey, that's really weird. I hadn't noticed that before. It's not like windows can't handle files starting with a full stop (I'm fairly certain of). I think I've had apps that made such files. Probably just some stupid function that gets called when you (re)name files that interprets everything after the first '.' as the extension.

To get GMail you have to get invited by someone who already has GMail (and has invites to give away). There's a sub forum called the Google Invite Exchange here on the Xisto forums: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/129-games-what-game-are-you-like/ As far as I can tell a number of people are offering GMail invites. Good luck!

You know, I really wonder how it happened. As much as I would like to think so I doubt that Bill Gates stole a pirated copy from radium and then gave it to his employees shouting "Hahaha! I haev stolne teh piraet softwear!111eleven. OMG Im teh 1337!1".It's not even certain that any MS employee has touched a pirated version of Soundforge. The files could have very well been made by someone else and pulled by MS from some public domain sound clip library.Of course, it's not unlikely that a MS employee just didn't want to go through the hassle of applying for money to buy SF

Keen. My list of "Things I want to try out" is starting to get very long now though. Xisto has sooo many features (I'm not complaining of course ), way more than many paid hosting plans. I'll definitely have to set aside some big chunks of time for reading about mod_rewrite (and using it of course).

Just a quick question: can we use this on Xisto?

You have to look at the good things as well though. Without this pace of development you wouldn't be playing Halo2. You'd be playing Prince of Persia, and I'm not taking about Warrior Within, or Sands of Time, I'm talking about the 2D one. You wouldn't have Google, or other search engines. You would probably not have free hosting here at Xisto. Nobody's forcing you to upgrade constantly. It's only if you want to be able to run the bleeding edge software using heavy graphics that you will have to upgrade so often. Just my $2k

Webpage favicons are easy. Just put an icon called "favicon.ico" in the same directory as the webpage and add <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> to the head (between <head> and </head>) in the HTML document. There is one really nifty webpage which generates an icon from an image you upload. It's here:http://favicon.htmlkit.com/favicon/ Just pick an image to upload, klick on the "generate" button and download the zip.

You can choose to let the mail stay in your GMail inbox if you want to. You don't have to remove it from the gmail server. Say you want to do some batch saving of emails for some reason or other, you might want to use an email client to download all your mails, instead of copy/pasting them individually Hotmails mail fetching only works with Outlook, nothing else.

1. Someone sentenced to death will probably cost an anormous amount. No one wants to get killed and so they will probably do as much as they can to stop it from happening2. See 1. 3. Decriminalizing everything would also remove overcrowding. Because no one would go do jail. That's not really the issue here though. 4. Except that it has been shown (sorry, I can't name names here) that death penalties actually increse violence. And do not significally deter from crimes. 5. Yep. Also: If someone is executed for a crime they weren't guilty of you have a big problem. And bad convictions are a lot more common than you might think. Of course it was a lot worse say 50 years ago, who knows how many innocent african-americans have been killed in the US because of biased juries. Having the death penaltie says: You can't kill, but we can. Violence and death solves problems. Are those really messages you want to send?

Another few: IUMA IUMA stands for "Internet Underground Music Archive". It has loads of independent and unsigned artists. Lets you browse by genre. scene.org Scene doesn't just have music, but check out music/groups and music/artists. There is a lot of good music there. I quite like Bliss from Fairlight. Especially Rain slows the time. Browse, discover. And you might want to check out iRate radio, which serves you music based on your ratings (of the music it plays). It gets its music from IUMA among others. I also wanted to say that using P2P software to download music isn't necessarily bad, as long as you're allowed to download it.

You should take Gnoosic for a test drive. It lets you neter three bands/artists you like and then it gives recommendations based on what other people with your taste liked. (Check out the small "related bands" link under each recommendation, which shows ... related bands)

Interesting topic. Warning: Post may contain sarcasm. And it's highly unorganized, sorry about that. I'd like to start of with Maddox. Maddox's article has a few points. It also is quite simplistic and has a few false facts. Like This is an obviously false fact. For the same work performed women on average still earn about 80% of what men do, doing the same work. And really, maddox isn't the place or a good source for nuanced discussion. What I really find interesting is the sexist ideas posted in the first post. Claiming that women are better suited for cooking and cleaning than men. Why would that be? Because women have cleaning genetically programmed into them? Saying sexism isn't a big problem is another nice statement. Of couse, who cares if women earn lots less than men. Or have incredible difficulty acquiring top-level positions in academics or businesses, or really any position above the entry level. Yeah, who cares. Next quote: The average woman has less brute strength than the average man. That's a main difference. So work requiring brute force is better suited for strong persons, whether they are men or women. See, the sex of a person isn't really relevant for duties there. For feeding babies the sex of a person can be important, but otherwise? Another one: But this rule doesn't apply to men of course? Oh, silly me, men already had the right to vote before women did, so they are above all this. About the statements "It's Nature". There is nature, and then there is nurture. Men having an active sex drive but women don't? That's nurture. Face it, everyone likes sex, sex is good. But females are taught not to be sexually active. Example: And if she was called "****" because she had sex every night she should take that as a compliment as well I take it?

I came across a similar picture a year or so ago, so I tried to make a picture that worked the same way. I split the image into red green and blue (RGB) channels, that is: made three images out of it. The clue one had the "hidden" image, while the other two had the image that you see normally (there was some slight overlapping the blue channel). Merging the three images created the original again. However, I just tried to do the same with the image you posted, but that didn't work, strangly enough. Not being a picture making wizard at all I don't know how this image was made, but if you want I can send you the image I have (which will split into RGB). Just be warned that the one I have does contain ... mature content. You will need a reasonably good image app, Photoshop or Paintshop should do it, The GIMP probably can as well. (Oh, and it only works in IE)