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@seec77, I think miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG's point was that because of the way Firefox/IE7 was designed, when you do visit one of those phishing sites that try to steal your password, they can directly access your password manager the minute they ask you to fill out a form. So basically it's like you go to that fake Neopet's site, attempt to login with your username and password, and then your Neopet's username and password along with all usernames and passwords stored in your password manager are sent to the phisher. Browsers in this case can be blamed since it's their password managers that the vulnerable ones. If they somehow changed the architecture of their password manager, then maybe people would feel safer using them.Anyways, I guess I'm now kind of scared, so maybe I'll start deleting my passwords from my password manager now. And I'm seriously beginning to doubt the Gmail Manager. I mean, sure, it looks great and all, but maybe it'd be smarter just to download the prestigious Google's manager.

Eh, the weird thing is that its still a read-only server for me. I don't know what's going on, but every time I try to upload something, I always get an error message saying it's read-only. Perhaps it stops me from uploading if I upload too many files at a time? *not sure what's going on*

Yeah this is indeed useless and just a waste of bandwidth of whoever thinks that this is really cool. Saint-michael said it was done somehow, but I don't see how it could be done (the disable of menu view source option) by a server side way or php.. I would like to see a website like that with my eyes, only then I would believe you, but if you browsed with IE it might of been something what only works with IE.

Well, if you really wanted to turn people away from looking at your source code, you could just appeal to their laziness and parse your source code for all newlines so that the whole html file is all on one line. Of course if they had the patience to put in the line breaks and examine your source code, kudos to them. I sure don't.

There is no reason anyone to use this site because I think Wordpress is really nice and offers free hosing too.But you can't insert your own ads in it.I was first a blogger.com user now a wordpress.com user.The problems I am facing with the hosted blog is that I have to limit to the given templates and I can' edit the page to include java script and like things.

Well, the main problem with Wordpress dot com is that it lacks ability to customize the css. I mean, users are not going to be very happy when they discover that they must pay to get the custom css. But I've never seen any ads on Wordpress dot com sites, so I suppose that's an advantage. And not allowing Javascript has good merit behind it. After all, I doubt Wordpress wants their servers to be hurt by some malicious Javascripters.
I'd recommend the full version of Wordpress though. That one's customizable up to a great extent. Blogger is nice, and Livejournal is okay, but really, your own host pwns all.

Powerful, yes. Too powerful (implying an abuse of power), not yet (yes, emphasis on the yet).

 

I have a pretty hard time trusting what that guy (Daniel Brandt) at Google Watch says. It seems that the site he originally designed (NameBase.org) was given a low Google PageRank. It's very possible that he was just angry and went on a rant-fest that soon grew to something a lot bigger. Then there was that IMHO very childish fight with Aaron Wall (check out an explanation here: http://www.enthalpy.net/archives/000365.html). If he's an activist (aka doing something for the good), then going extremist won't help him. It's just like those animal rights activists that go around threatening polluters. A bit pathetic in my view.

 

Back to the topic of Google. It's good, that's why I use it. No brand picking muckery. I do, after all, admire Live Maps as those are clearer than Google's maps, so it's not as if Google has a total monopoly for me. Freedom of choice is everywhere. The one day that Google says, "Google only!" is going to be the day I claim it's a monopoly. Or the day it strikes some deal with an ISP saying that the ISP should charge more when the visitor attempts to view/utilize other search engines. But until that day...

Google has a really good way to implement AJAX. They have a service called Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT takes Java code and "translates/compiles" it into JavaScript and HTML. It makes making web applications really easy. Sure, you aren't coding the JavaScript yourself, but that makes it better. Java code is much easier to maintain and it is easier, with the help of GWT, to make it work on "all" web browsers. I haven't had much time to play with it, but I am working on a project that I will use it for.

I've messed with the GWT quite a bit and can't help but admire it. It's great how compatibility isn't really much of an issue anymore with the GWT. There does seem to be a small drawback--the files can be really huge, even if what you want to do doesn't necessarily garner such a file size. Coding the Javascript yourself probably makes for slightly cleaner/clearer code, but if you're like me and are lazy, using GWT is great.
And...if not obvious it, I've definitely heard of Ajax. When I first found out about it, my reaction was, "What's some ancient Greek soldier doing in web design?" (Yes, Ajax was a dude in Homer's Iliad). But I learned to admire Ajax after seeing Gmail and a number of Ajax intensive applications. And Ajax does make pages easier to deal with; I've never liked waiting for a page to load. Now if only all browsers could support Javascript in the same manner...then Ajax would really be on its road to success. =)

It's up and running indeed, but it still won't let me edit/upload files. Ahh well. Guess my hope to release Wordpress themes will have to wait a while.

Don't complain. Be HAPPY the server is doing this for the protection of YOUR DATA! Just wait it out! smile.gif

You know, I was just about to complain. But seeing as this is reason why, I guess it's not such a big deal. Sounds like a nice deal for Xisto though.

Problem resolved!Yay! I can edit my files at last.EDIT: Uh oh, it went back to the earlier problems! I dunno what happened.

I was using CPanel's editor to edit a file and then I attempted to save said file. Apparently an error popped up claiming that there was a fatal error in the directory and that it could not save. I wasn't sure what had happened, so I restarted Firefox/cleared cookies and cache a few times.

Then, deciding that it was not possible to use the online editing feature, I switched to simply uploading the file and replacing the old one. However, after uploading, cPanel continued to return errors, similar to the one below. I'm not sure what exactly is going on; can anyone explain?

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Upload Status move /home/arbitrar/tmp/cpanel.TMP.a5PnYU4FVkEwzfxs, /home/arbitrar/public_html/test/wp-content/themes/greenish/sidebar.php failed: No such file or directorysidebar.php (sidebar.php): upload succeeded, overwrote old file.

Heh...his domain seems to work fine for me--it just says that he doesn't have an index page uploaded. So that doesn't have anything to do with the domain, and the downtime probably was just related to his host site. I'll give it a try, though I already have my own domain, I wouldn't mind having another one. :)EDIT: But apparently in Firefox under the drop-down menu to choose a domain level (aka .com, .net, .org etc) it doesn't work and displays a move cursor. So I had to switch to IE tab.

I agree with most of the posts above. Windows Blinds was nice, especially with all the styles to choose from, but as soon as it started eating away at my computer's resources, it became a big no-no. Great looks don't exactly make up for an extra slow computer. It's probably the same reason I quit using Firefox themes--most of them end up slowing Firefox to a crawl. Once it got so bad that I had to reinstall Firefox. :-(

Of course we'd all hope that the Internet won't have any third parties clamming up in the middle. But shouldn't we have all learned that never works? The government won't support our cause if they find that the ISPs have a more appealing (whether economically or otherwise) incentive. To answer your question, it is a serious issue. No one wants to have to pay more to access certain sites; that's just not supporting the Constitutional idea of equality for all. (Though I suppose if you don't live in the U.S. that may or may not apply to you) If certain sites are available to all users while other sites cost a few extra bucks, the average user would end up forgoing info.Personally, I don't think this would happen. ISPs can try, but they're only going to succeed if the big companies support them. If they only get a few small companies that are hungry for profit to back them up, then they won't get anywhere. And in all truth, I don't see how big companies can benefit from this--they'd generate more income if they just didn't charge their visitors the extra buck.Oh, and by the way, don't forget to quote your post, otherwise it's against Xisto's policies that posts not written by you cannot be counted for as credits.

I don't really see anything wrong with IE7. It seems perfectly fine, especially if you don't want to deal with the hassle of getting used to a new browser. The tabs are great, and I've enjoyed the tab previews. But for me, I think I'll still stick to Firefox, mainly because of the extensions. I can't live without Adblock or Gmail manager these days. And if I really needed IE, the IE Tab extension comes to use as well.

 

And I don't really think the design of Firefox 2.0 is all that great. It's better than before, sure, but it's still a bit plain.

In fact, I'm doing my school speech assignment on Firefox. Since almost no one in my town uses Firefox, I'll bet this will get some news out. I'm going to be speaking about Firefox (for 3-4 minutes). There is too much to talk about. LOL

Seriously?! No one in your town uses Firefox? For me it's like one out of every two people I meet at school use Firefox. And today at school when we were supposed to be working on a project, a friend and I were messing around with Platypus and Greasemonkey (Firefox extensions), which caught the attention of a lot of people around us. So in those nice couple of seconds, a good three people switched to Firefox just to mess with the extensions. xD

VideoDownloader still doesn't work.

Couldn't you use the nightly tester tools to force compatibility even on extensions that aren't compatible? Of course it's possible that might cause Firefox to crash more often...but that hasn't happened to be so far.
Anyway, I have 2.0...but I've also had all the beta releases before it, so 2.0 really doesn't feel like much of a big leap. Just that it has a nice name on it and lots of publication. Yay for Firefox!

fasterfox is still incompatible

Couldn't many of the elements in Fasterfox be tweaked in Firefox's about:config? If I remember correctly, you type about:config into the url bar, and then change network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to true. Then change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8. (More isn't better I heard, as the max number of requests Firefox will make is 8; it doesn't want to break other people just for you...) Then, right click somewhere and create a bew integer and call it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it to 0. That emulates Fasterfox...though Fasterfox is nicer since you don't have to do it manually.

Well, first thing I do is login, then open Firefox. Then I wait a couple seconds for Firefox to check my email (three Gmail accounts, one for spam, one for friends, and one for official matters). Afterwards, I read/reply to email if needed and proceed to several forums that I go to a lot. Then I open up Radioblogclub and listen to some music as I start working on homework. Then if I finish my homework and still have time to spare, I either spend that designing websites or just doing some random Google/Wikipedia searches. Usually I note whatever I find under a new heading in Google Notebook so that I now have many categories of miscellaneous research there....

Sogou Mail's features:

1)support SMTP/POP3/IMAP , Gmail and Livemail NOT support them

2)NO ads if you use webmail

Gmail doesn't support POP3? Though I've never actually used it, I've always seen it available to chose from under 'Settings'. But perhaps it was just a misleading option on Google's part. And...*glances at Gmail*...no ads currently! JK...that's because I have Firefox's adblock on. Yeah, no ads is definitely a plus. It all depends on what you need (more email storage space or better SMTP/IMAP/POP3 access or no ads) weighed in with accessibility (language issues).

I'm curious. What is the advantage of going through a service like Sogou instead of GMail? GMail offers over twice the mail space, additional services for your domain, and is backed by a reliable company. I'm not trying to criticize Sogou, but I want to understand what attractive features are available in competing companies, so I can best weigh my options.

Sogou is actually a pretty reliable/well-known search? company in China. But considering that not everyone here speaks Chinese, there's no point recommending it as an email service. And besides, isn't there also a Gmail version for Chinese users? If all aspects of the Gmail service were translated fluently, then I would recommend that to a Chinese user.

Your pictures are interesting...it's true that on some of the pictures the color tone is a bit weird, but for the most part, it adds this really warm feeling to it. In other words, on some pics that camera effect turned out well, while on other pics not so much. For instance, I think the effect works well on 'Caroleta' but not so much on 'Lipcia'. Anyways, just my two cents.Btw, yeah, Flickr is really nice. I like how it automatically resizes your photos and doesn't add random borders/ads on them unlike some image hosting services do. Of course, the only downside is that every image must include a link to Flickr. =(

I believe you can get your own domain name for free at http://www.findingresult.com/?dn=hostbidder.com&pid=9POR3TG0A I got mine there after making 1000 points worth of posts. The post system is a bit like Xisto’s except that it’s more about post count rather than post length. (However, only posts over a certain amount of words are counted.) It’s a pretty good service, and the domains last for a year. After the initial year, I believe you can post another 1000 points worth of posts and get it renewed. =)

But yeah, I bet the first guy's a spammer. >_<

bout google ads.. not all region can see google ads.. i guess they have a pretty good ads targetting scheme.. like why would a person in asia need to view peoples ads selling stuff locally in america..

makes sense.. something other ads services lacks..

I never see any Google ads these days. All the result of lovely Adblock!

 

I guess Google finally gave up Google Video. Though I'd say Google Video isn't necessarily worse than YouTube, just that they didn't offer what the common person wanted (to embed them into websites) and lacked the reputation (even if it did come from Google. Ex: if Google were to create an image processing thing like Flickr, users wouldn't migrate to it just because it was from Google. The brand name is Flickr, so they'll use that instead.). And the biggest problem: Google Videos always took longer to load (at least for me) than their YouTube counterparts. It's probably because they have better quality, but it might be better to offer different choices for the high-quality and low-quality version of a video instead of forcing users to wait for ten minutes downloading a video.

 

But all in all...it was definitely smarter to buy YouTube than to keep on working on the not-really-succeeding Google Video. XD

Well, since you're not exactly doing some illegal, couldn't you just ask the system admin? Of course you could spend some time looking for unblocked proxies, but if all else fails and you're not doing something furtive...go bother them. And in the mean time, I suppose you can also tell them to look through their list of blocked sites and see how many of them are silly or pathetic.In reality...I don't use my school's library computers that much; mostly just to print out assignments that I forgot or don't want to print at home. But my school has a second computer lab for those taking programming classes...and by gods are those annoying. We can't check our email; we can't view tutorials (school related) other than the ones hosted locally. I keep on thinking about using proxies...but then they're all blocked, and getting caught means getting a horrible grade in the class.

Those are interesting names Seems very fitting for an RPG...can't explain exactly why.. Might I ask exactly what the rules to creating character names are? I can guess at a couple of rules though:

--Giants, regardless of male or female, end in either 'k' or 'g'

--It seems like all characters have at least two vowels in their name.

Well, it certainly doesn't seem like eight years...but that's probably due to the fact that even if it did start out in 1998, no one knew it existed until many years later. I remember using Yahooligans (because it was so pitifully recommended by the school) at first. Eventually I switched to Google for a very stupid reason--I liked their design! To think that it's possible to like Google's very bland design. >_> I must've been a freak back then.

 

Now of course...I use it all the time, mostly for search, but also for other stuff. XD It takes far less time to load than either Yahoo or MSN. It has also turned into my Internet-connection checker--if Google's not working, then my Internet must be down. Never mind the fact that there was one domain-name-switching accident with Google. Hahaha.

 

And of course there's Gmail. I can never forget about that--especially its interface, the storage space, the spam filter, and most importantly, the ability to forward all your emails. XD So, in conclusion, happy birthday Google!!

Many people do not believe in in God anymore. There religion became 'Darwinism', hanging on the evolution theory, thinking that it is based on science.Now I would like to turn the situation, proving the existance of God by using the Quran and starting with this funny but a serious video of an ex-priest. So take a look and have pleasure.

Not to be insulting or anything, but I must say that mentioning in a forum religion is near pointless. Sure, at Xisto you were lucky every person who posted here was respectful, but I doubt that would be the case elsewhere. Religion is about what people believe, and insulting other people's beliefs (as you are blatantly doing here by claiming that believing in science is pointless) isn't so great. Just live and let live. At the end of the day, a single forum post isn't going to change anyone's opinion at all, but might incite a good amount of flame wars. God is one of those super sensitive topics....

As for me, I don't care if God exists, and I'm basically agnostic. If it turns out he/she/it exists, then great. Otherwise, no biggies. If I can't see him/her, I'm going to just ignore him/her until I can.

Not really. If you're going to argue that evolution is science, then you've got to admit that creationism is a science as well. You've got two alternative theories to pick from. While creation, God making the world and all that in 6 days, might sound a bit far-fetched, and incomprehensible, evolution is even more so. At least if we believe that God created the world, then you just have to believe that he created, say, the animals, like snap. Ok, it's not within our mental scope to try to unravel that, but if you consider the alternative, that this primordial ooze became alive, and morphed into everything we see today, isn't THAT also stretching the imagination? Take appendages, for example. --bird wings. You say that it took millions of years for birds to develop wings, feathers, hollow bones, muscular dynamics for flying, and a whole lot more. The only reason they would grow these wings is if they were useful right away. But no. During this whole growth process, those wings were useless. So the evolutionary process would have reversed itself. One generation of birds decides it wants wings, then a couple generations later the bird with these stubs wonders what they're for, and decides it doesn't want them anymore. And we seesaw back and forth, ad infinitum. isn't it amazing how , of all those millions of years, and billions of birds that lived over those supposed millions of years, there are no tranistional fossils?

Oh, they've found some proof for that recently, it was about crocodile fossils, I believe. But getting to my main point--why does it matter if it's a science or not? It's simply another belief. Why can't we just all be respectful of each other's belief's and quit complaining that one is right and the other is wrong? Neither side currently has enough proof to back themselves up, so just forget about convincing others. And by the way, I'd have to say that Darwin's theory is (currently, anyway), more rational than the creationist's theory. So you saying that it's "also stretching the imagination" is only true for you. It doesn't apply to everyone else, so that's not a valid argument.

Well, it's not really god to create a sign up page, because they probably wouldn't be able to handle it. They might have a lot of space, but it would be a big boom if they allowed registrations. They would probably get overloaded.

 

Well, not really. If they really wanted to make sending Gmail invitations part of their business, then they could just make several accounts and send invitations. I have more than one Gmail account, and they all have the ability to send invites. Although personally I wouldn't suggest this, since that means creating tens of thousands of Gmail accounts for no good reason. If Google finds out...I don't know. They might consider it somewhat akin to spam. XP