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I use javascript for that same type of thing... <script>function checkField(value) { if (value == "examplevalue") { alert("You cannot enter '" + value + "'"); return false; } else return true;}</script>then in your form tag you place an onSubmit call... where formName is the name of your form [as shown] and inputName is the name of the input field you want to check. <form name="formName" onSubmit="return checkField(formName.inputName.value)"> This will not let the form submit if the value of inputName is equal to examplevalue.

I bought Forza Motorsport for the Xbox on Friday, which is why I haven't been posting in here over the weekend.Make no bones about it, Forza is definately a simulation racer. There are hardly any walls to bounce off and with damage set to 'simulation' you quickly find out it isn't a good idea to [bounce off walls, that is]. One of the funky things about the game is the inclusion of a 'sugested racing line'. It really helps those that are not quite as confident in racing by not only showing them the line to race but also when and where to brake, to safely get around the corner. The other second feature that I have wasted a lot of time on, is applying 'decals' to your cars. There are various manufacturer stickers but also various generic shapes which you can colour, move, resize, rotate and then layer on your car to create almost anything.The ability to upgrade and tune cars is also phenomenal. Tuning up a lowest class Mini Cooper to race competitively with stock-standard supercars like Ferraris and Porsches is quite a sight to behold.I know a lot of people try to compare Forza with Gran Turismo on the PS2, but having never played GT myself, I will not make any judgements in that area.Well, I could go on and on, but I'm having too much fun playing.

Your console is also out of warranty, I assume. From memory, the Xbox has a one year warranty. Is the 'lock up' more like the game failing to load or simply freezing during game play?As for replacement parts, there are always people selling Xbox parts on Ebay, otherwise I can't help besides suggesting buying a new Xbox [or possibly wait for the next-generation box].

To find out if it is 'locking up' because of getting too hot, take it back out of the small area and see how it runs.I haven't heard of that type of problem before with the Xbox, so I think it would be some other kind of problem like the components eg. DVD drive, hard drive, processing unit or even the game disc may be badly damaged.

Well, I said that it was a surprise to see then down the bottom of the ladder - I haven't written them off yet. Although, perhaps the Bombers seen as I'm watching on the TV and Hird is out injured and down almost 50 points with only a quater to go against Brisbane when playing at the Dome. I still think the teams like Brisbane and Port Adelaide will still likely make the finals by the end of the season. Of course, the other surprise is the Kangaroos, apart from their unbeaten run being broken by the Crows today...

Hey there Mak_E... There is a lovely place here for us talk about Australian issues. Unfortunately, there isn't many of us and therefore not much action. I have started an AFL thread but everyone has disappeared . I wouldn't mind starting a political thread either - but only if at least one other person is interested. Anyway, welcome aboard Mak_E, and hope to see you around here more often.

Being Australian myself, I would say that Australia is as 'Americanized' as any other country. As in, we have the fast-food outlets, the high budget Hollywood movies, etc...You have to remember that Australia is only a very 'young' country compared with the rest of the world, only being colonised by the British just a bit over two hundred years ago. Although the closest neighbour is Asia, Australia seems to try very hard to keep up with the rest of the Western World [like USA, UK and Europe].

Is it a problem to install over a current installaion of Firefox??I noticed the update earlier today and installed it straight over the top of v1.0.2. I didn't even think about uninstalling the old - it doesn't mention anything before the install about previous versions.Anyway, I haven't had any trouble so far (for only half a day anyway ).

I would not be the first person to suggest that the results so far this season are very unpredictable. It has been making the footy tipping very hard indeed.No one would have expected to see West Coast and Adelaide at the top of the table and to see teams like Essendon and Brisbane do so poorly. But, of course, it is still early in the season and I am sure things will even out by the end.My biggest suprise of the season so far, was the Adelaide Crows winning by a very comfortable margin over Port Power. I even tipped against my beloved Crows...

Experience is obviously different for each person.It only took ten days for my Xisto site to be listed on Google, where I used the Add URL on the Google site. In the seven days since being listed, there has been 53 hits from the Googlebot with only 10 by Inktomi Slurp and one by MSN. As mentioned above, it really is dependant of what type of content you have and having links to your website (eg. in forums) definately helps. Indexing will not hapen overnight, but it will happen...

I'm quite happy to start an AFL thread in here (I don't think it would go down to well in the Sports section anyway...) as that is what I follow. I don't know whether you couple of Tiger fans are for Richmond in the AFL or the West Sydney Tigers (I think they are) in the NRL - You guys can start your own NRL thread if it is the latter. I only started this thread to hopefully 'dig up' some Aussies from Xisto when I first signed up. Although it took one whole month to finally get a reply, I'm glad us Australians aren't as lazy as the rest of the world thinks we are.

Is this poll open to only current residents of Australia, as you have posted it in the Australian subforum? Or is it open to all users of Xisto??

Daman: Yes, I see there are four pins on the Member Map but only the two of us (daman and I) are hosted. I wonder what happened to the other couple guys..? I have seen a couple other users around that have Australia as their location on profile, but no-one else has been game to show ther face around here. St. Mike: I don't want too much spam in here as I see what happened to the last thread that was made in the Australian forum...:DSimpsonFreak: It's always good to see another Aussie around. If you are working on getting free hosting with Xisto, I hope to see you around more often. :oI was rather surprised that the Prince Charles & Camilla wedding got such a big running with live coverage on TV (on two channels even). But they are technically still royals of Australia as well, so I don't mind that as much.

For my offline web page workings in PHP and MySQL, I use Firepages phpdev - http://firepages.com.au/ It sets up everything on your Windows machine where it runs Apache with PHP installed on that. I'm still using the old version phpdev4, but there is a newer version called phpdev423 which has PHP 4.2.3 included. They have a big support forum if you get in trouble, but I have never needed it as it all runs smoothly even on my Win98SE machine.

You are all free to use it if you wish, that is why I posted it here.You are also free to modify it in any way by addidng animations, etc. to put your site.

Here is a way of having roll over image links without preloading images by using CSS and a table. It's very useful for a list of links as in a side bar menu or header. It also solves not having to make a seperate image for each different link by placing the desired text over the image. 1. First you need an image which comprises of the main link image, the 'mouse over' image link underneath plus you can have another for visited links. As for most roll over images, the images should be the same size. The above example - button.gif is 100x60px with each link image being 100x20px 2. Now you need the CSS styling. This can either be incorporated in your existing style sheet or placed in the <head> tag as shown below. <head> <style> <!-- .button A { display : block; background : url("images/button.gif") 0px 0px no-repeat; /* '0px 0px' tells browser to start at top-left of the image */ width : 100px; height : 20px; /* width & height of individual link image */ font : bold 11px/18px Verdana, sans-serif; /* '11px/18px' is the font-size and line-height */ /* Adjust line-height to center the text in the block height (height : 20px) */ text-align : center; /* can replace with 'text-indent : <length>' for different effect */ color : black; text-decoration : none; } .button A:Visited { background : url("images/button.gif") 0px -40px no-repeat; /* '-40px' tells browser the visited part is 40px down from top */ color : white; } .button A:Hover { background : url("images/button.gif") 0px -20px no-repeat; /* '-20px' tells browser the roll over part is 20px down from top */ color : white; } --> </style></head> 3. Then the HTML for the links. Simply <a href=""> links in a table with the class="button" attribute. <table class="button" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr><td><a href="home.html">Home Page</a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="link_1.html">Page 1</a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="link_2.html">Page 2</a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="link_3.html">Page 3</a></td></tr> </table> The above code will produce somthing like this... The important part is the class="button" attribute in the <table> tag. Using a table helps with browsers that don't fully support CSS to still show a table with the text links. Notes: Important to remember all <a href=""> links in any of the class="button" table cells will have the same image roll over formatting. eg. Always create a seperate table for the list of links. If you do not want the visited link, you only need the two parts in the button.gif image and delete the A:Visited element from the CSS. Instead of centering the text using 'text-align', you can use the 'text-indent' attribute to place the text a certain distance from the left-hand edge (see example below - used 'text-indent : 30px;'). For a use as a naviagation header, just place the links across the table in the one row (see example below). I have used very basic image examples, but it is possible to crate some very impressive roll over image links using this technique. I have tried to explain it in depth if you wish to make your own, but feel free to comment here or even message me.

I made a very simple 'Hosted by Xisto' image to put on my website a while ago, so I thought I would put it up here if anyone else would like to use it. It is actually 90x35 pixels with no animation. It is a direct 'rip-off' of the top image on these forums, so I hope that is allowed (I'm not making any money out of it, etc...). Funnily though, I see it is similar to the one previously made by darkmecca, which I didn't realise until I looked through the other contributions before posting my image here.

I'm actually a rather large fan of Monty Python. It's very hard to choose which one of the movies are the best, but I would also have to pick The Holy Grail. As for a quote.. well... all of it is hilarious especially the ones already mentioned . One part I do like about it are the songs like the Knights in Camelot "We eat ham and jam and Spam a lot..." and Robin's minstrels singing about numerous ways of dying. I really enjoy the Monty Python Flying Circus TV series, probably enjoy them more than the movies they made. Items such as the Lumberjack song, Dead Parrot sketch, Upper Class Twit of the Year, etc... really are classics in comedy history.

Personally, I don't think there are 'aliens' out there, anywhere. I base this thought around the existance of UFOs, which many [as above] use to justify believing in aliens.If there are intelligent life-forms out there that have the technology to create these UFOs - Which have been apparently been flying in our skys for decades, then I think that these 'aliens' would...1) come along and take us over/enslave us/[or George W. Bush style] liberate us.2) or decide that Earth isn't valuble, and destroy our planet into tiny pieces.

Do people still use 'pmsl' (Peeing Myself Laughing)? When I was using IRC chat many years ago (late 90's), a group of guys and I would use this term if something was seriously funny. I noticed it hasn't come up in the current topic and I don't chat online(IRC or MSN) any more. Also, the big one - 'rotfpmsl' was the ultimate.Back on topic, I agree the use of 'lol' is well overused by those people that seem to think it ts "cool".

One band that I enjoyed listening to was The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) who broke up, reformed for another album but only to break up again. I haven't heard anything about them for a few years but they made some good alternative music back in the late 90's.

Well, thank you for your comments. The Theater 'videos' I made about six years ago and I have never managed to make any more. The whole idea was to base my site around it back then, but unfortunately I just added heaps of other stuff instead...I'm not quite sure about it looking like 'default' colours... I know it doesn't have heaps of graphics and moving images or even bright or contrasting colours. It's not meant to - It is supposed to be functional. Thanks anyway, plus I put your [finaldesign's] old entry in the new guestbook I now set up.

(Argh.. Where art thou Edit button... ) I did put my sub-domain address in the topic description, but for those that didn't see it or are too lazy to type it in your browser - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ While I'm here, the one thing I do know that I need to fix is the guestbook. The old one I used to use, apparently will not let me use it in the PHP pages...

Well, it's not flashy by any means, but it is my home page. I have just finished uploading it all to Xisto for all the world to enjoy again. (Had been missing for three or so months since I left my old host...)I'm not really after any critical comments on it (that's what the Review section is for), but feel free to comment if you want. I just want someone else to visit my home page until the Googlebot gets around to indexing it. I hate the thought of it sitting there doing nothing...

(This looks like the best place to post this.. )What do other users do to 'work-around' the differences in displaying CSS attributes in different browsers? Mainly Internet Explorer which doesn't fully conform to CSS unlike the Mozilla browsers and where older browsers like Netscape 4.x which have only minimal CSS implementation.On my website, now that I have converted it to PHP, I use a couple PHP 'if' statements to detect the user's browser and link them to different style sheets, depending on their browser (IE, N4 or everything else). I did read about using some 'CSS @import hack' to trick different browsers, but I couldn't get it to work. Has any one else tried this method or do you have something better you use?