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Good tips ffx2net. One more tool that you can use to reduce system drag is Sissoft Sandra Pro - It's aSystem Analyzer tool that will perform some rigorous benchmarking of all your system devices and then come up with a combined report of what all you should do to cut down on excessive resource utilization. This includes unnecessary background processes, startup files, those visual effects you mentioned and loads more... I've been using it for sometime - and I must say its an excellent tool with an extensive report generator.

Umm.. not quite Ploforia.. Even if you are using a single OS you might want to partition and split up your data into similar categories. Coz, it's a proven fact that with windows NTFS/FAT32 there's a HUGE performance degradation for partitions above 8GB (NTFS) and some figure around 4GB for FAT32... so you cannot afford to have one huge 160Gig partition split into folders of your choice unless you want to have a HDD with a response time exceeding 20seconds to read each sector

Lol... all right cryptonx, you convinced me... Have we had enough of this topic now ?? I believe we've had about a 100s of different threads going on exactly the same topic - Browser War !!! If you guys don't have any more views to add in, can I please lock this thread ?

I agree with the rest. If I were you, I'd change the background IMMEDIATELY. This is from an advertising and online branding class I'd taken in my univ. long back - what was drummed into my head there can be summarized in a few words in this context - DO NOT TRY TO PUT BRIGHT TEXT ON A DARK BACKGROUND UNLESS YOU ARE VERY SURE OF THE COLORS, particularly WHITE on BLACK - that stares out so hard at your readers that it takes away 90% of the fun immediately. While your content can make up for really humorous reading, you'd loose out on a lot of reader base because of your colors/theme... try take all this in an constructive criticism and come up with something really cool... there's always a hidden TALENT lying in everyone - and I'm 10000% sure you're no less... you just got to bring it out and show it to the WORLD...All the best

High hopes buddy...

I think I'll go along with that too.... their present rate slab @ $6.95 if you register for 10 years - is hardly anything when you consider the long term benefits of registering it for a period like this... plus don't forget to count in all the great control options they throw in - complete control over your nameservers, domain forwarding, secure locking (so that no ones able to modify your domain settings), domain parking etc... need I say more - see for yourself

Did anyone ever explain to you the term "Biased View" ?? Why is it that everytime you decide to sing praise of, it involves something that has its roots in IE - besides as far as I can recall the folks@firefox never sung in praise of any other browser that had it's roots in firefox !!! If Microsoft was so smart why would other browsers improvise on IE and become much more adept at their task while IE still crawls on in the STONE AGES ?? Does that tell you about something really LACKING in IE or is it just some figment of my Imagination Extreme ??

Waaaaaahhaaahahaaaa.. STOP nils.. u are going to end my life prematurely very soon... Indeed lognhorn drives a similar kind of image into my head... that of MS trying to gain complete control over your life by butting into everything possible with its oversized horns... where on earth did the term "Big Bully" ever originate from ??? I really can't imagine a life where YOUR Operating System OPERATES YOU and you are left with no choice but to sit tight with this massively powerful brain of yours - with no control over whats going to happen whatsoever... You just become this mass of ?? with no thinking/acting capabilities of your own. Is that what MS is trying to achieve ?? -- Replace Destiny and play GOD ??? Errrr... someone's not going to take that real EASY

Fdisk is real good till you limit yourself to ONE Primary Partition and allot the rest to logical drives in an Extended Partition - thats the point it fails MISERABLY. The windows FDISK was never meant to split up our HDD for installation of mutilple OS. Microsoft probably always worked on the assumption that you'll never have another OS on your system as long as you had some version of windows running !!! I always relied on Fdisk till I had multiple OS-es on my system - and then things began to run out of control. Then of course I'd to resort to Partition Magic. The Linux based fdisk or DiskDruid (also PartEd) did it as well, but the visual representation that PQMagic offers you is still lacking in most of them... but mind you, NOT the ability to perform the same objective. That was always present in all these softwares right from day 1. So I believe, those who want to split up their hdd under a more user-friendly environment should resort to PQMagic (it's even got a PQMagic for DOS version, that doesn't need ANY kind of Windows to boot up into) and for the power users - there's always an assortment of tools like good ol' fisk, diskdruid & parted to choose from....

Absolutely coder2k: What I posted over here were articles on programming models which I never thought, would be of any importance, till I landed up with an actual software firm and started writing code oriented for specific objectives, on my own. It was then, that I found out the real importance of following such object models and discovered how much simpler they make life for you.... Any serious coder would realize the importance of designing their code, ground up, based on such models in order to reap the benefits of the immense extensibility it provides + the amount of repeat work it saves up on...

Yaah, you are right. By default all the tables setup by MySQL are in the ISAM format unless explicitly specified otherwise. But as I said, this sample is to get you started with a decent working .cnf file - but configured for really heavy MySQL usage - I think I'm going to get back pretty soon with explanations of each syntax and what specific changes they bring to your system. That should help everyone to configure it according to their needs. Till then....

That was a really short and SWEET explanation of FTP Nils I couldn't have explained it any better in so short... mincoo: If you want further details, refer to: https://www.wikipedia.org/ and search for the term FTP. This is what they've got to say about it... Or else, just do a google search on FTP and you'll get loads of information as to what FTP is..

Here's something to help you out. I'm really satisfied with the results. So I'm posting my dosbox.conf here. Replace the one that you have with this and it'll work for sure. Also try the new D-Fend Frontend for the DosBox. It'll make your life a lot easier. Hope this helps. I'll come back and add some more explanation as so what each parameter does, maybe, tomorrow. Have fun with the DOS Games.

Would you care to recall & come back and fill up the 8th and 9th steps with the precise instructions ?? That would be a lot more helpful for the readers.

Ok.. first of all this method is very very inconvenient. So apply for a SSH Shell in the Hosting Request Forum. Once you get SSH Access, download PuTTy - a secure shell terminal from: a. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ OR b. http://www.putty.nl/download.html Use that to login into your Xisto account. Once you are logged in and reach the shell type the following: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -jailshell-2.05b$ mysqldump -u YourUsername -pYourPassword --all-databases > YourBackupFile.sql =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Notice the underlined parts above. In the statement above, you should replace YourUsername with you own cPanel username, and YourPassword with the corresponding cPanel password. The YourBackupFile.sql should be replaced with an appropriate name for your backup file. Also notice the fact that when you are specifying your username with the -u option, there IS A SPACE BETWEEN "-u" and your "username" BUT THERE IS NO SPACE BETWEEN "-pYourPassword" i.e. between "-p" and YourPassword. Now all you need to do is, download this .sql file onto your local hard drive and run it through MySQL - and you'd have an exact replica of the MySQL database that's residing on your webhost. NOTE: This will backup ALL the MySQL databases you have into that file. In case you want to backup only a few selected databases, use the "--databases" option followed by the database names instead of "--all-databases". The statement then, would take the form: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -jailshell-2.05b$ mysqldump -u YourUsername -pYourPassword --databases database1 database2 > YourBackupFile.sql =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Hope this helps. Believe me, there's not a more convenient way than this to back your MySQL databases up.... Have fun

First go to a site with flash games and load one.Second: Get yourself this software called "Flash Saver Gold" - that enables you to save flash content for offline viewing later onThird: Get yourself yet another software named "Sothink SWF Decompiler" and use that to decompile this saved Flash Game. That will break down the flash file into all the individual components(sprites, movies, scripts, sounds etc). Study the structure of the file very carefully and see how they've achieved the desired effect and try to make one on your own on similar lines....Very soon you'll have your first ever flash game up and running...It doesn't take much.. All the best

Ooooh... you lucky @$@$#@. I've been trying to get my hands on one. I so badly want to try out the 64bit Linux on one. Or even better if I could get hold of a multi-processor board - that'll be worth setting up. I'm still grinding on in the act of setting up a linux cluster and have distributed parallel processing. I'm waiting so anxiously for the day when it'll boot up without a hitch and present me with the power on 6 of 3Ghz CPUs combined into one

Nice categorization there MajesticTreeFrog. Good job

I dont know how to do that to the shutdown button, but if you were ever seeking to disable your Windows Key you can read this article:http://www.pctools.com/guides/ You'll find most of your Windows Registry Tweaks & some excellent Registry Tutorials listed at: http://www.pctools.com/guides/ All the best

Hi all, This article shows you how to switch between Graphical and Text based Login Screens that are made available to you when you boot into either Redhat or Fedora Core Systems. This will work for Redhat 9.x and both Fedora Core 2 & 3. I've two servers in my office - one of Fedora Core 2 and one on Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 3. I'd set the Redhat Server to boot into text login but missed out that option in Fedora. As a result it always started off in a X-Windows based login - which was pretty inconvenient. Linux users will know for sure how a GUI can impede your work flow specially on a Linux system which involves editing & modifying millions of config files to get all the services running according to your needs. Naturally, I started feeling very stifled as the FC Server was meant to be my primary internal LAN server and I was always playing around with the settings to get more out of it. So I had to finally give up on being lazy and went ahead and did the little tweak that changed it back to text login...Here's how... First and foremost you should be logged in as root. The /etc folder on these Linux installations contain a file named inittab - mind you no extensions to the filename. This file contains lots of important parameters & runlevel configurations that the kernel reads while booting and configures the system accordingly. Open this file in your favourite editor and scroll down just a little bit say, till the 18th-20th line (usually) till you find something similar to this: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:5:initdefault: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= As you can see the last line id:5:initdefault: specifies WHAT MODE (Graphical/Text/MultiUser etc) to boot the system into. The number "5" here, according to the Commented out options above tells the system to boot straight into X11 (X-Windows) i.e. the Graphical Mode. Change this value to "3" - which according to the options - is Full multiuser mode - involving all the networking features of Linux, but in a non-graphical environment. That's it. We are done. Save the file and quit. Reboot your system for the setting to take effect. WARNING: When you are editing these critical system files in Linux, be absolutely sure of WHAT you are editing. One SINGLE MISTAKE can render the whole system non-bootable. These are as dangerous as (if not more) Windows Registry. So there.... All the best

I think consultants are a part of a larger consultancy firm or they may work as freelancers. The crux of the matter is when an organization is in a fix and has run out of ideas - they usually hire one of these or a group of these people to "consult" and solve their problem...The consultants visit this organization and look into the matter from a first hand perpective and come up with a report as to whats going wrong & where. The report also contains remedies (sometimes an assortment of remedies according to different budget plans)

Lol.. whats all the joy about ??? 1 Firefox bug against over 50,000 in IE ?? Errr... I can't really argue with that ;)tattoopunk: you are turning into a merciless militant stop butchering the innocents ..lol

Sorry to disappoint you Better luck next time.

Hey nice post Do you have the original Scheme or Lisp code or both ? If so, can you please post them here ??Thanks

Hi all, I just found out this DOS Emulator for both Windows and Linux - in case you still want to play your old Dos games - I tried it out and it works pretty good. The config file for Dosbox has to be edited and setup manually - so they've even provided a Windows Frontend for configuring dosbox to run with a different set of parameter with every dos game. You can adjust the game speed, soundblaster setting, mount a speific directory as a Hard Drive/CD-Rom drive for some specific game etc... loads of really cool features. Get DOSBox 0.63 (Latest Release) @ http://www.dosbox.com/news.php?show_news=1 and D-Fend the Windows Frontend for DosBox @ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Have fun reliving the good old DOS days P.S. Did I mention - both of them are FREEWARE