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Everytime I'm asked this question, my answer has been the same for quite a while . The best P2P application I've used so far is Shareaza. It connects to the Gnutella 1 & 2 AND the eDonkey networks, which are basically top-notch as far as P2P networks go, in terms of availability, stability, and richness of sources and downloadable stuff. Not to mention that Shareaza can actually handle torrent links, magnet links, and a couple other protocols. But still, for torrents, I recommend Azureus. I haven't tried many torrent application, but among the few I used, Azureus has proved to be a shining star in this genre. I personally love it. Cheers.

As a former Muslim, my current belief is that all the so-called scientific proofs of Quran being a Divine revelation are either fake, misleading, or at least mistaken. And the same goes for every other religion I've come in contact with till this time.But aside from that, even though I believe the poster has an agenda which he/she is trying to apply here (and I have nothing against that, really ), I'll answer the subject question...As an agnostic, I don't know whether a god exists or not. I believe that the human mind at this time is not capable of reaching a definite conclusion regarding this matter, either intellectually, philosophically, or scientifically. Every time I have a discussion with a believer in the existence OR non-existence of a god, I find critical flaws in the logic used, which strengthens my aforementioned belief.This is my quick, to-the-point answer to the question posted. I might come back for a detailed discussion if this subject gets heated up .Cheers.

In what way?I'll bet we have more fun over there, what with all the warnings to issue, Spam posts to move and the shoutbox activities going awry all the time. Nope, as much as I enjoy visiting here, I like the Trap.Besides, we have Saint Michael.....

Hey! Why isn't Xisto.com on that list?That would've gotten my vote.

When you created the Joomla on your web space, it asked you about the folder/directory which you wanted to use for its implementation. Instead of trying to connect to the Admin panel using : "http : // mafamba .astahost. com / administrator", try using the name of the folder you named on install, like this:"http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ joomla; ; where joomla represents the name of the folder and needs to be replaced by the actual name you specified. If this works correctly, you should then be into the Joomla CMS and it requires that you "log-in" as the Admin from inside the CMS. Loging in as the Admin will present the Admin Control Panel for Joomla, which is very different from your Cpanel for the site account.And there are some pretty good tutorials over at the Joomla site. Look at their Support Forum and Documentation. If you can't find them, post here and I should be able to locate one for you.Got it?

A website needs be validated for: 1. Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML 2. RSS/Atom feeds (if any) 3. CSS stylesheets So, if you are implementing changes in HTML/XHTML documents, RSS/Atom feeds or in CSS Stylesheet - you need to check for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards - each time you make such changes. So far as Yahoo is concerned, it allows you to submit urls from your website through site feed. As suggested by Yahoo, the format is And it is FREE.

Thanks for your replies. The post is back. Probably, as pointed out by Voyma, it required sometime for the moderator to approve the post.

Actually, sid, I'm confused too, because I just read that topic . I read it 7:15AM GMT, and after I read this post, I looked for it and read it again. It's working just fine for me. Perhaps you chould try refreshing the page or maybe even clearing out the cache?

Just now I posted a topic in the forum Websites and Web Designing entitled Website Maintenance Guide - Why And How , however, soon after my post I just can't open the page. The requested url returned the following error message: I am confused.

Even if you are running a popular website with thousands of hits per month, you need to invest time for maintaining your site. Website maintenance has different aspects to consider and each one of it is important. Why do we need to spend time for website maintenace? Maintaining a website has never been a simple task and some webmasters may be reluctant to get into that troublesome affair every now and then or periodically even. But it is a must to do like thing. The best part of a website that draws visitors is the fresh updated relevant contents. It helps in building trust as well. So leaving every thing behind, you need to consider content improvement periodically to show your visitors fresh and latest information. Your content must change, and that must head towards betterment after each updates. That is the key for getting return visits. But that is only the one side of the story. Actual site maintenance should follow a stipulated schedule and it involves different actions. Check for Broken/Dead links: Think in terms of your visitors. How much frustrated will they be, if they find pages containing broken links. When you are reading an article in some other website and in the references part you find few more urls to explore deep into that subject; you click one and get an HTTP 404 Error Message. You end up with dire frustration and may even decide not to return back to that site anymore. It may happen to the visitors of your sites as well. Whenever they will encounter a broken/dead link, it will stimulate a sense of irritation in their mind, and you can understand the frustrating offshoot. When and how frequent? If you own a small website, once in a fortnight or month will do. There are lots of free tools to check for broken/dead links, so use them with cheers and update links accordingly. However for big sites, containing thousands of pages, you need to employ more sophisticated maintenance strategy to check for presence of such undesired links. You may consider checking each section/category periodically instead of checking the entire site as a whole. This is a tool for checking dead or broken links that you may like to try. Update sitemap Your sitemap should be updated prefferably each time you add a new page to your site. However, you may consider updating your sitemap once in a week depending upon the gravity of the changes. If you are using Google Sitemap.xml or Yahoo-type urllist.txt , update it frequently as well. Database maintenace: Whether you are using a content management system, or you have developed one for your own use, database maintenance is a must if your site stores content in database. You need to optimise your tables for performance enhancement from time to time. You may consider changing queries a little bit to show few more extra information, or adding a field in an existing table or creating a new table altogether to meet up your visitors ever changing needs. Database maintenace, however, requires some sort of technical knowledge and attempting any change without knowing much about the effect, may cause irreversible damage to your site. So you must take enough care. Site Backups: Told so many times in the internet, probably in each forum for webmasters, and there is really no substitute for site backup. Backup your site periodically. Whenever you make some changes in content or in queries, keep the backup. In case there is some trouble, simply restore the backed up files to keep your site running. For each webmaster, site backup is as important as taking up your daily dose medicines. Site backup may be handled in two ways: 1. Script backup : Before making any changes to your existing scripts, keep a backup copy of that. It includes files like CSS/ .htaccess / robots.txt /sitemap.xml files. Infact it applies to each and every scripts in your webpage. 2. Database backup : Depending upon your site updates and visitors activity you have to schedule a database backup. Security Checks: This is one of the most haunting issue in modern day's web publication. If you need/want to learn more about security issues visit this page :http://www.cgisecurity.com/ Even if you are using an existing CMS, you need to keep a watch on the security holes discovered therein from time to time and update patches as and when they are released. You are definitely going to get such security related information in the support forums of the CMS you are using. This is just a starter, Xisto forum members may like to share their knowledge and experience in this topic so that it may come up as a complete website maintenace guideline. Regards, Sid

Yes. But it is more common over at the trap.And it seems to mostly concern itself with the double quotes, so avoid using them if possible and the problem goes away.

In a really tight knit small community they don't need an ICT system to continue doing what they have been doing for all these years.

The price for a 'base' template I viewed was $60 (I assume USD) and a personalizerd one was $2600. I could do a lot of 'fixing' for the difference in price.

The Opera browser is also a good browser to build sites with since it is similarly more compliant with the standards. All browsers display the code a "little" differently from each other, but I have found that the FF and Opera browsers are the most compliant "popular" browsers. And IE6 has a 'few' bugs in it, so only worry about IE after it works as designed in FF/Opera.Another thing, if you download the FF browser, also download the Web Developer Extension for it. There are some pretty handy features included with it. Check it out.

That's an entirely valid argument, Arbitrary . But, assuming I have a question that cannot be answered except on a certain Russian forum, wouldn't be more reasonable that I spend 10-15 minutes to write a decent description of my question in Russian, instead of pouring out the few Russian words I know, and hope that someone will understand? I mean, this is MY problem. *I* am the one that needs help after all. I should care enough to write an understandable sentence in Russian, right? It doesn't have to be perfect, but I should put as much effort as I can. At least, that's what I'd do. And I believe that's what YOU would do, as well .

Even though I'm thoroughly thrilled to read yordan's very enlightening explanation, I'm tempted to think it's irrelevant for this particular paradox. Or more precisely, it's not complete. You see, the source of this paradox lies in a simple rule of mathematics, which is: If a + b = c, then the only way we can keep the equality while multiplying c by 2 is to multiply BOTH a and b by 2 as well, in the form of 2a + 2b = 2c So the apparent mistake in the paradox at hand is that when we multiplied the Kelvin temperature by two, we only multiplied the original Celsius temperature WITHOUT multiplying the number we added to it (273.15) as well. You see, the original formula is: C + 273.15 = K So when c = 0, k = 273.15, and the formula becomes: 0 + 273.15 = 273.15 If we're going to multiply the right side (the K) by 2, we have to multiply both (0) AND (273.15) on the left side by two as well. Which will result in: 0x2 + 273.15x2 = 273.15x2 ----> 546.3 = 546.3 So it's not really a paradox, merely a miscalculation . Cheers.

Even though this opinion is highly debatable, we won't need to worry much about it since BitterSweetDreams.com is already taken . But that brings out another problem. People might confuse the dashed with the non-dashed version. Well, actually, that's not that detrimental a problem if NigaiAmai Yume` will be focusing on online promotions of her Website, since people will simply click the link she provides rather than type it themselves. And if you're going to tell people about the Website by word of mouth, well, make sure you mention the dash . Cheers.

Ok, I'm going to keep this short and sweet (yeah, right!) Before all else, let me welcome you here. As Vyoma adequately put it, it's not so common to find literary inclinations in technical forums, so it's always a pleasure . "Procrastinating writer attempting to force herself to get things done"... I couldn't have found a better way to describe how I look at myself from time to time (except for the female reference ). As for your Website, I wish you best of luck with it. Be sure that you're going to find here all the help you might ever need. And as for your literary works, well, be sure you already have 2 fans, Vyoma and myself . Glad to have you with us. Cheers.

Yup, I'm inclined to agree with you on this one, pyost I, for one, am not a native English speaker, but I believe my posts are easily read and (hopefully) understood by anyone with a background in English. Yes, I admit that I occasionally go overboard with veritably peculiar vocabulary (), but I try not to make a habit out of it. What I'm trying to say is that not being a native English speaker is not that much of an excuse. It might be a reason, but still it's a poor excuse. Primitive human nature at its best, my friend . Most people only care about themselves. They make an effort to make their message as clear as is needed for others to understand and respond to them. The problem is that those people fail to realize that if we don't understand what they mean clearly, we won't be able to help them in the first place! I'm not saying that people should learn English. That's their prerogative. I'm only saying, paraphrasing pyost's words, that if they're going to join an English forum, then they should know how to communicate properly. I'm not being condescending here; I'm merely being practical. ---------- I have nothing to add here. You said it beautifully, KDEWolf . Sorry for the long post. I feel I might have got a little off-topic, but hopefully I didn't get carried away too much . Cheers.

Personally, I'd go with the English version, Bittersweet-Dreams.com . First of all, don't worry, it doesn't shout BDSM. I should know .. lol. Plus, as a rule of thumb, you should go with the name that is easier to remember for more people. I've already memorized bittersweet-dreams.com, while I had to go up and copy and paste nigaiamai-yume.com. I have a feeling many non-Japanese readers are the same . Plus, you never know. Perhaps one day, your Website will be a great success and you might decide to sell it. An English domain name is sure to sell for a much higher price than a Japanese domain name (or any other language, really). And lastly, remember that we usually make decisions based on our own preferences and preconceived notions. These kinds of decisions are usually very satisfactory for us, but they might not be so for other people. And since you're making a Website, I have to assume you care about what other people think... well, at least you should . Good luck.

First, I have to apologize, because I now realize I skimmed over this part When I said: ... I failed to mention that, even though we could - to a certain extent - stop worrying about seeking incoming links, we still have to work on publicizing our Websites. For example, I've always thought that listing my Websites in general directories (e.g. DMOZ) AND niche-specific directories is a MUST. The point here is that we don't have to focus 85% of our time and effort on SEO, as we once did. But then again, SEO is not the only method of publicizing a Website, is it? Cheers.

Well, yeah, I suppose you're right. But then again, I don't believe there are many "typo-hunters" here . Most of the posts in this topic revolve around exactly what you said. We're not after the occasional spelling mistake or grammatical error, but rather after the chronic mistakes, as you so adequately put it. Mistakes are a human nature. But when we're part of a group, we have to make sure our mistakes don't have a bad effect on others. If 80% of what I write is wrong, then that would be a huge problem in a forum, where the only method of communication is words... (well, aside from the occasional smiley ) Well, they're not actually rules, more like guidelines perhaps. This specific topic shows how much members of Xisto cherish it as a community, and would like to keep it accessible to everyone. Many members here are NOT native English speakers. The last thing they need is someone who makes their life here harder . Cheers.

Not really pointing out to some security hack in the code snippet you have provided Trevor. But if anybody could take little time to explain this line it will be of great help for me. I have little bit familiarity with PHP-MySQL scripts, and I'm trying to switch over to objects. This may explain the need of this post.

With the advent of broadband connectivity, the websites are nowadays loading much more faster than the past without much optimisation. But at the same time, the visitors are probably looking for something more faster. They are not in a mood to wait for more than a few seconds to see the requsted url being loaded. So, in view of this changing scenario one needs to optimise webpages so that they load faster. So here is the brief guideline you may follow to make it load your webpages faster. 1. Load as much information as you can when a page loads for the first time. Use CSS to show/hide parts, instead of loading them afresh each time an url is requested. 2. Use Javascript and Ajax to load requested content. As for example, you can check out how fast content can be refreshed in the home page of Rediff.com. 3. Disable the buttons and change their captions appearing in your webpage, once the user has clicked it. This will prevent them from clicking the same button repeatedly. Captions like 'requesting the server' will help them to understand what is going on. <input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="this.value='Requesting the server...'; this.disabled='true'; return false;" /> 4. You need not reload the entire content each time your visitor has requested for a specific information. You can use xmlHTTPRequest, to query the server for the piece of information requested by your visitor, and display it in the appropriate part of your webpage without reloading the entire webpage. This helps to load the pages really fast. 5. Import your CSS code from an external file instead of writing them directly in your webpages, so that it need not be loaded each time. 6. Make your CSS clean, delete redundant codes and for each selector in your CSS, try to use one line of code. You can try out this tool to do the task for you. Hope this helps the newbies atleast.

its very shocking to think that he risked his life some many times, and then get killed buy a accidental stab by a sting ray. Steve irwin RIP