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Here's some more followup I found on this: Read more: http://www.goobuntu.com/

Space Adventures Ltd., is going to develop a commercial spaceport in Ras-Al-Khaimah in UAE hand-in-hand with the Govt. of Ras-Al-Khaimah. The spaceport project, which is to be located within an hours drive from Dubai has already drawn in commitments in excess of $30 million. This is but a minor part of the global spaceports programme that Space Adventures has initiated. They plan to expand globally and have such space-tourist oriented spaceports in almost every contitent. Read the full article at: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Oh CRAP - get ready to see showers of empty chip packets and discarded soda cans from space...

Did you set the access host mask ? Although by default, localhost should be permitted to access any PGSQL dbs. Sorry can't shed much light on this as I haven't used PGSQL much. Maybe one of the more enlightened ones of our brethren can help you out

*BUMP* It'll be fun to see the final results I mean after the actual contest happens.

Lol. I told you - the credit system works in unprecedented ways when membership groups are switched manually bypassing it. It completely screws up the way it calculates credits.. But with that amount you shouldn't be having any problems - would you I mean you're the highest credit holder on the board now. B)All right - problem solved I guess. Topic closed. Please PM me to reopen this if you've any further questions.

Yup Houdini is right - you should look at the Chipset and any other cryptic numbers/codes you find on your soundcard and try Googling for them. That's your only way out now. I'd found the correct drivers for my GEForce card the same way.

HOLY .... What's wrong with everyone on this board - or rather what the hecks wrong with me ??? Everyone's turning out to be such excellent graphic designer.. save rotten old me

Hey it's quite a cool place actually .. I just joined after reading this post. Same username as here if anyone cares to spot me

It could very well come from another computer on your ISP's network - it doesn't have to be one on your own LAN. When it struck me - it always came from a different comp. on my ISP net. Yep - the behaviour was always kind of inconsistent. Sometimes it stopped bothering me altogether for days and then it'd pop-back suddenly one fine morning and then bug me for the whole day. I don't know what exactly determines it's frequency of attack. But once I used that patch, it stopped for good. Umm.. I don't think so. At least I never faced such a problem. Dude - one thing I suggest, you buy a copy of BitDefender. It's an excellent AV though still relatively unknown. I've been using it for over 2 years now - first time when I bought it, I paid $45 - which is hardly anything when you consider the amount of security it provides. Renewal every year is for $24 - which again in NOTHING. It's got an integrated firewall and an anti-spam module apart from the Antivirus. The most notable factor is how dedicated their team is - you'll find it updating it's virus database almost REGULARLY.. sometimes even 3-4 times a day. Any new threats in the market, and they'll have a patch out in no more than a day. Go grab a copy man.. it'll save you from immense headaches later on.. At least this AV is a thing that I never compromise on

You forum account is always safe. It'll never get deleted, unless you've got only about 10-15 posts and haven't visited the board in over an year. Unless you're really getting bothered with your ticking-down credits counter, i suggest just let it be. However, what I can do is put you back in the Members group. That might help. Infact, that's exactly what I'll do. Let me know if the counter stopped ticking. Sometimes the credits system behaves in ways - which are totally alien to me, as I've no idea how it's been coded.

Dude I've faced this same problem with both Win2K and XP even with the service packs installed. It had something to do with the Sasser/Blaster worm - someone has an infected computer on your network which keeps broadcasting it and it keeps killing the LSASS.EXE on other systems. Even if you reinstall XP, it just keeps coming back in and messing around with your lsass. I'm not quite sure about the exact methodology. But I'd found this standalone patch - which totally blocked it. I forgot the link to the site, but the name of the file was Windows2000-KB823980-x86-ENU.exe if I remember correctly. This was the Win2K version - but am sure they've got the same for XP too. Just google for it.

Dude - your articles have always been admirable - and this one even more so. I've always thought about how to face such questions from my future kid(s) and I'm pleasantly surprised that on quite a few occasions my viewpoints so tally with yours. It's like hearing from someone else how I'd like to describe the world to my children. Nice one man... Keep 'em flowing in.Best regards,m^e

????[/tab]Reading your story I rolled back some 10 yrs and found myself going through the exact same dilemmas as you - although I believe I'd been into programming far longer than you at that period. My first experience with computers was when I was in my fifth grade and my coding journey started when I was in the 6th. ????By the time I was doing away with my H.S. I wasn't just a "weirdo" to quote you - but a wholesome maniac. My parents would have to lock up my keyboard+mouse to restrain me from wasting time with the computer rather than studying for my H.S. papers. Now quite similar to you - I had this belief that I was one of the best non-certified coders - at least one of the better ones. Urrgghh.. Vanity - I tell you. Anyway, my team had won the All India Software Development Competition (school level) held every year at BITM (Birla Industrial and Technological Museum) - that of course had it's own added effects. The Telegraph published our pictures along with a big article on how we did proud to Calcutta. Well - as I said, vanity - the worst and the most silent killers of all But then I thought I was unstoppable. ????What it did to me was to totally neglect my studies - screw up bigtime in H.S. and screw up the JEE even worse. Quite naturally - when the results came out I had a rather tough time (alright - "tough" is an understatement) even getting into a good univ. where I could pursue computing studies - something which I so loved with a passion. None of those certificates I'd won in various competitions ever helped me get into a decent univ. Anyway, I landed up in Bangalore - in an entirely unrelated stream of studies (Environmental Engg.)... as that was the only one I could get with my Karnataka CET ranking. By that time it was a tug-of-war between my dad and me. He wanted me to stay close to home and do a degree in computers - he didn't care how much donation it'd have taken for me to get in one of the good private colleges. But it was a question of my own merit to myself too - so I was pretty adamant about it. I'd got through whatever course in Bangalore with my own merit and that had to be it. The result of trying to cope up with something that you never loved was disastrous - but I realized that only too late, i.e. 2.5 years down the line.. I just didn't get interest in that damned Environ. Engg. thingie.. gave up midway and just came back home. That period was a total loss - and I was at a loss too, as to what to do. Seemed like I didn't have many options open. ????However, all this while, one thing I never lost was my passion for computers. By hook or by crook I continued to be in touch with my "loved" one And miraculously wherever I went (even though my dad wouldn't let me carry my own computer around) - I'd land up with one. Anyway, providence as they say, seemed to have had its own share of fun in store for me. It was a long and winding course - but within an years time I made my way to Thailand - studying InfoTech in an American university here. From then on - things headed for the better. ????By the time I was almost finished with my degree, I was recruited by this startup software firm with a big percentage of its shared as an added incentive to put in my work wholeheartedly - and I've been with them ever since. Now I can proudly say that we've got our own classy sw products here in the market doing quite well. But all that took years of patience, terrific hard-work (sometimes 18-20 hours a day) ... and a lot of encouragements at what seemed to be hopeless break-down points. The moral of the story is that today I stand far more humble regarding my coding skills. All that vanity - even the faintest traces of it are completely gone. Once you hit the stage of real-world coding you'd be faced with unimaginable challenges - and there'll be points you'd have to immerse yourself into long periods of research. The amount of knowledge you'd face is unfathomable - and you'd indeed feel rather microscopic in facing it. [tab]The crux of the matter it - leave aside your messing-around with the computer part for a while and study your *bottom* off for the JEE. I can say that I was EXTREMELY LUCKY in getting out of india and making a life elsewhere. Not everybody gets that opportunity - and you KNOW how hard it's to make a decent living, staying in India, amidst a population of over a billion. In other countries - work experience does count a lot. But in India - the one and only way of proving yourself - is through that piece of paper. No one's going to take you up on word-of-mouth or demonstrations of skills - or even if someone did, the job you'll land up with will never satisfy you. Once you're into the degree course, you'd find plenty of time to exercise your computing skills and prove to the world WHO AND WHAT you are. But till then - don't ignore any of the Entrance tests you might be appearing in. I'm telling you - not everyone's as lucky as me.. Luck might not have favoured me in many different ways, but it sure does believe in giving me second and third and fourth chances. But one shouldn't stretch or test that to its limits - as even luck has it's own quota of endurance. So just hold your horses till you safely sail through the entrances. Till then, study HARD and ALL THE BEST, bro. Best Regards, m^e

Why bother ? In case you're using something other than Firefox or IE - use the GTalk desktop client itself. It acts the very same way. Your chat logs still get stored in your account realtime.BTW - it's been installed in all my four gmail accounts. And I SIMPLY LOVE IT

Next up for the poll will be twito's pic with a single boob That'll draw the most votes I guess

SPAM SPAM. Super SPAM J/k Would be glad to have your articles here. Go ahead.

Didn't check this out - gotta test Reporting back with results soon.

Haa - the title surely caught your attention According to a recent report at NewScientist.Com, scientists have been able to couple a photoreactive slime mold with a six-legged crawler robot. This slime ( Physarum polycephalum ) which can grow upto several metres in diameter in extremely sensitive to light. This behaviour combined with the newly donated robotic legs, makes this unit scurry and hide in cold, dark corners upon photo-stimulation. Read the full article at: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8718-robot-moved-by-a-slime-moulds-fears/

Yeah - all of them are in the exact order as shown in the contest page.

Just hold on for a while - am looking into it. Funny thing is I cannot find anything wrong with your account. If I can't fix it, then we've to fall back to good old OpaQue

Whats wrong with your Forum account ? It looks fine to me. Do you need a password reset ?As for your hosting account, it seems to have been deleted due to long inactivity. Your account expired 5 days back. How come you didn't report it here earlier on?

Ok so there was a major messup by me. I tried merging the poll post with the older thread and the poll vanished. Anyway I'm recreating it with direct links to the respective profiles. Think of this as a second chance you got - to rethink and recast your vote Those who'd cast their votes already are requested to do so again. Original thread: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/88779-topic/?findpost=1064338235 Link to contestants' profiles: http://bmmi.indiatimes.com/newindex.htm Regards, m^e

I'm for No. 20 all the way through Come on guys - now the contest is getting heated up. ROFL. We're having our own parallel mini Miss India right here on this board.. lol But it seems like my choice of #20 is quite unique No one else seems to share the same view. Eh sorry I've messed up. I tried merging the post with the Poll with this and the Poll vanished What to do now. OPAQUE - you come right back and fix this. Ok - I fixed it - I've created a new poll at: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/88794-topic/?findpost=1064338338 Those who'd cast their vote earlier on are requested to re-cast it please.

Now there's a poll too - OpaQue added a poll for this in this thread: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/10581-topic/?showtopic=10581&st= So you guys should go back and cast your vote there.. I know beauty is only skin deep, but here we aren't left with many alternatives other than judging from the shots only.

Hahahaha - good one Have any more in your spooky windoze stock?