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Glad that you guys liked 'em. Indeed it's one of the best pleasures of life to actually be there and shoot 'em rather than just viewing them off the pages of some glossy magazine. But what's even more enchanting is being right there and immersing all your senses into the beauty of the whole thing. That I'm sure - no camera can ever capture. Hehe - don't worry about copyright.. I don't believe in holding back onto them. These are for sharing - coz that simply increases the joy of the occasion. The whole Himlayan belt - whichever side you go to - India, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet - are filled with breathtaking places like these. You could spend your whole lifetime travelling around there and never be bored for a single moment. The cybershot I was using gave me far better results than I expected - coz the apperture was pretty limited (only upto 5.2). Although it's a 7.2 megapixel camera, for most part i didn't use more than 5megapix as I was running short on my supply of memory sticks. The only good part about is it's lens - which is an authentic Carl-Zeiss ED.. although the zoom is rather disappointing (only 3X optical).. So I couldn't get very clear closeups of some extremely stunning ice-capped peaks. Wish this one had lower apperture ratings as that'd have given me crystal clear visuals of the distant terrain - if you notice carefully, in most of the pictures the mountains far off didn't come out very clear. But whatever came out was quite satisfying nonetheless :PMore to come soon as soon as I manage to shake off the laziness and resize them. These pics came out around 2.8Megs apiece. :DRegards,m^e

Dude X-ray scanners earlier on were like that. Since films get destroyed when exposed to some light source - and x-rays essentially are an invisible part of the same spectrum, they can indeed destroy films. But nowadays you'll notice - they've done some modifications to the scanning beam (not sure what - frequency, amplitude - whatever) - but on most scanners, you'll find a label in BIG YELLOW AND BLACK, saying FILMSAFE. If you notice that label on the airport scanner - you can be more than 100% sure that your films are going to come out without a single scratch. As for X-rays destroying CDs (as finalesigns friend said) - it's utterly impossible. CDs would be destroyed only if you were directly casting some high frequency laser on them - enough to heat up the polymer and destroy the pit orientations. Regards, m^e

Hi guys, Am on a long well-deserved vacation back home in India after 3 years. As soon as I landed here, I was whisked off to a high-altitude trek around 15,000ft (half the height of Mt. Everest) up in the norther mountains in India - the Himalayan Range, of which Mt. Everest, K2 etc. are a part. The places we visited are parts of the state known as Jammu & Kashmir very close to the Indo-Pakistan border. The trek took us over massive ice-fields and glaciers and pristine valleys way high up on the mountains. Felt nothing short of awesome/awestruck to be back in the lap of Mama Nature. In some places the roads were terribly bad as no proper roads can be constructed due to continuous landslides. These stretches mostly were covered with 8ft thick glaciers which have flowed down and covered most of the road before spilling into the ravine right next to it. Extremely treacherous - a slight mistake meant you'd land up right at the bottom of the ravine some 14-15,000 ft down. But all in all it was the most thrilling & breathtaking journey I've ever undertaken. It also took us over the Higest Golf Course in the world as well as the highest Tee-off point in the same - in a place called Gulmarg in Kashmir. Unfortunately, I was armed with very limited resources - i.e., a measly Sony cybershot, which nonetheless came up with some really cool snaps. But not what I'd expect out of my own SLR or some high-end SLR digicam. Still.. here are the snaps. ENJOY A couple of sneak peeks Full Gallery https://imageshack.com/ Comments in my photoblog much appreciated. More to come soon... Regards, m^e

Yes - there is indeed an option like this. You'll have to use the feature known as Custom Profile Fields for IPB. This can be found in the admin control panel. See under the section titled: Users and Groups > Custom Profile Fields. Once you get there, simply click the button called Add New Field and add some field named say, Community/group and select Dropdown as the style of the field. then you can add the desired options. N.B.: Keep in mind that you cannot link this field easily with the real IPB groups system (with which all access rights are alloted to users - like Members, Mods, Hosted in case of Xisto) - this will act as an independent entity - although i guess it'll serve your purpose of custom selected groups to quite an extent. Regards, m^e

Damn cool trick man Good one.

The cake the cake.... where's the cake..?? email us a slice each. Congrats anyways and keep up the good work

You need to do something in a hurry - go to Gotlinks.Com or some similar Links Exchange site and add your site to their directory. Then create some blank page in your site (linked from your index.html) and embed the link that gotlinks gives you in that page. I did this and my page had come up in the listing to the second results page on google within 3-4days (there were about 800-900 sites linking back to me).Also goto some MetaTag analyzer page and check out how your page meta tags evaluate against the content and title of your page. These are two prime determinant factors... there of hundreds of others too - but I'm no guru at SE optimizing your pages.. OpaQue's the pro at it. You should ask him.Regards,m^e

Lol.. okk.. wait up fixing that.. that happened coz your account creation process was broken - you were alloted diskspace on the webhost but you weren't placed in the HOSTED group. When I did that manually you lost all your credits. Don't worry - it'll be fixed.

rapco's issue resolved. topic closed. jcguuy - you can either pm nilsc or copy you post and start off a new topic. it's easier to address individual problems that way.

You guys might also want to list your site in the Xisto links directory - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Nope.. the problem is that you haven't been placed in the HOSTED group - no wonder you are unable to post in the upgrade section. Anyways, that's fixed. Shouldn't be a problem anymore

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You can delete all else EXCEPT:public_htmltmpmailpublic_ftpand any file or folder that begins with dot "." Rest are all unimportant.. even files/folders under public_html.. can wipe all clean

I don't think it can - a PPC can run only software designed for Windows CE. So you should look around for software which is WinCE compatible. With VB - I'm unsure, but if you're taking advantage of the new .NET framework, ie. using visual studio.net to develope your software, you should utilize the .NET Compact Framework components to develope your application. The compact framework is meant for creating WinCE apps. I don't think so - other than causing undue stress on your Power button and eating up a good chunk of your battery, this shouldn't adversely affect your ppc. But make sure, your switch off - switch on cycles are a little spaced out, i.e. at least with a gap of 1 min in between... Constant cooling and heating (off/on) causes stress on the solders of the PCB components of most electronic devices resulting in cracks.. this is applicable for desktop systems too. This I'm unsure of... maybe someone else can help you out here. Not really experienced in using a PPC and thus cannot comment on it's ram usage.

Heh - what you are describing here struck me Oh-So-Familiar . Infact, it's a part of my everyday life too - me being situated in a place about 1 hour off Bangkok, named - Ratchaburi. I'm sure you've heard of it... My work takes me down to Bangkok very frequently and having travelled extensively all over Thailand, I can say that the situation you describe is so very common not just in Bangkok but in any of the larger cities anywhere in Thailand. What I follow under these circumstances is a simple advice that my mom had taught me when I was a li'll kid - in order to effectively deal with begging back in India. I hand out my loose changes ONLY TO PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND/OR AGED PEOPLE. These are the really needy ones - having lost the capacity to lead an active working life - either through accidents/sickness or out of just plain old age. As for the rest 99% of them - I think begging is just an easier way out because they are outright lazy to go out and find some job for themselves. For most part my anger flares up - when I see able-bodied men/women begging by the roadside.. They are able enough to go do some physical labour that'd fetch them enough to get decent daily meals (I mean comeon - a full fledged Thai lunch would hardly cost you more than 30-40baht = $1 ). You don't even need any qualifications to take up such job - and such helping hands are much needed everywhere. If I was ever forced into a situation like that and I was able-bodied, I'd definitely go do some sort of work - however "lowly" (if you don't believe in the dignity of labour, that is) it might be, rather than go around begging. I'd rather starve but not beg - as long as I'm capable to doing some work, somewhere..

I can't comment on your particular broadband service - but the line I use (1Meg ADSL - TOT, Thailand) handles both phone and internet without any hassle. Of course, the phone company has to come and installed thicker high-grade copper-core cables for this service. The phone line and internet run independent of each other through the same cable without any kind of interference whatsoever. Phone calls come through all fine without hampering the internet connection speed in any way - the process is extremely transparent. Only additional device you might have to install is a Noise Filter for your phone line (usually comes prepackaged with many broadband routers). Without this noise filter you might encounter nasty static on the phone line. Fax too, works without a hitch, as it employs only the carrier of the phone line - the adsl carrier operates at a different frequency and as said earlier - doesn't let you feel anything. It's as if - your internet and phone are two disjoint lines running parallely.

The advertisement code has to be separately included in the skin templates - I guess opaque had done it for the curvy skin - but left it out in the lite version.. no wonder you keep seeing blank spaces instead of ads. Will be taken up soon - opaque's city's in a real bad shape. They're suffering from incessant rains and massive flooding for past one week continuously. His city, mumbai's in a complete mess.. utter havoc everywhere.. flood relief going in from everywhere.. hundreds of people washed away to the sea I believe..Sad.. very sad..

I'm going to reply to this from a VB.NET perspective - but it should work with ASP.NET too - coz both employ same libraries.. almost. You have to use the Format function to reformat your date time string. For example, Console.Writeln ( Format ( Now(), "hh:MM:ss tt" ) )will produce an output in the AM/PM format - the tt part denotes the AM/PM. If you omit that, the time is shown in 24hour format. So your code should be... Console.Writeln ( Format ( Now(), "hh:MM:ss" ) )This should give you the desired output. Be careful, the minute part of the time has to be denoted with capital MM - the small mm stands for the month. For example to get a complete date time in the ISO format, you should use a string like this: Console.Writeln ( Format ( Now(), "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss" ) ) If you use mmmm instead of "mm" then you get the expanded month name in english - i.e. to get a display like 27 January, 200 you should use a format string like: Console.Writeln ( Format ( Now(), "dd mmmm, yyyy" ) ) Hope tjhis helps.Regards, m^e

Read the Frequently Asked Questions Section - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

You've to upload your files into the folder named public_html using the file manager - or else, your page won't be visible to the outside world. You probably uploaded it straight to your home drive /home/yourcpanelusername

Oh my oh my, Was I too late ? Or maybe just in time.. Happy Birthday tooooo Have a whale of a time... Finally, The Demon comes of age Many many happy returns dudeeee P.S. Am still reviving from the sores and aches of my long high alt. trek.. be with you guys in a coupla days

What router are you using? You can achieve this very easily by setting up certain access control rules in your router's firewall. But first you need to let me know what broadband router you're using.Regards,m^eP.S. - If you were using linux this would be a 2 min. job

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Several threads on same thing. Topic closed. Learn to USE the SEARCH button before you start a topic.

Haha - don't you worry - we'll take care of you But one advice first - Mandriva or the formerly known as Mandrake Linux is quite pathetic at handling server-ly duties. If you really intend to setup a robust server with all those cool services running, then you'd need something on the lines of Fedora or Redhat Enterprise. But anyway, Mandriva should give you the starting base and you can toy around and learn all the basics before you reach out for the more hardcore distros. As for your Linux server, hosting your web-page is as simple as dumping the pages into the rootfolder for windows. But you need to have Apache webserver (known as httpd on linux) up and running. If you selected the Web-server option while installing Mandriva - it should already be in place and running. Still you can do a quick check and see if it is running or not. Issue the following command: CONSOLE shell> service httpd status httpd (pid 3468 3467 3466 3465 3464 3463 3462 3461 16547) is running... The output, as you can see on the second line, will inform you that it is indeed running (the numbers in the brackets are known as PID or Process ID - a certain progressive number which linux allocates to a service when it is first run. The PID uniquely identifies the service). Alternatively, you can issue the following command too - to check whether Apache is running: CONSOLE shell> ps ax | grep httpd 16547 ? S 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd 3461 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 3462 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 3463 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 3464 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 3465 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 3466 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 3467 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 3468 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 6830 pts/36 S 0:00 grep httpd As you can see from above - its the same listing as the prior command except for this one is in a more tabular format and also provides you with the path from where the service was started. The numbers in the first column are the corresponding PIDs. Now under your /var/www/ folder - which is created automatically upon installation of Apache, you'll find another folder called html - you simply change over to this folder by using: CONSOLE shell> cd /var/www/html This folder by default is the place where apache looks for your homepage, quite similar to the public_html on asta or the rootfolder on windows. This is where you index.html/php should reside. You are free to create any level of subfolders under this and dump whatever pages/images/files here... When you access your server by typing it's IP in your browser, Apache will look straight into this folder, pick out your html/php page and show it to you. This is a very good method of creating and testing your site at home before dumping it on any public server on the net Hope this will get you started at least... more later. Regards, m^e