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The Search Engine Crawlers interprete URLs like https://www.eurodns.com/ ( Non-www version) https://www.eurodns.com/ ( www version) as different urls containing the same content. With recent Google drive to track pages containing duplicate content, there is always a possibility that your website may be penalised. So if you have the same problem ( just make a site: query in Google to see whether both www version as well as non-www version of your webpage is indexed therein), you need to resolve it at once. If you have access to your .htaccess file, you can simply do so by adding the following lines of codes in your .htaccess file. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomainname\.comRewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ [R=permanent,L] The above two lines redirect a request for http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ to https://www.eurodns.com/ Thus the urls https://www.eurodns.com/ and https://www.eurodns.com/ will be treated as two urls pointing to the same locations . If Google has already indexed both of the www as well as non-www version , making a http :301 PERMANENT REDIRECT ( as cited above) will help the crawler to correct the indexing. It usually takes two to four weeks to see the changes in Google Index. Tips: Always create a backup copy of your existing .htaccess file. Never use Google's URL removal tool to remove the non-www ( or www) version of the url. Regards, Sid

In my PHP Script I have used a name/value pair to pass the value of certain variables into a new window. For example: I have used code like : <a href= "show_image.php?image_url=$current_image_url">Click here to see full size image!</a> The value of $current_image_url is substituted by the actual url of the image file. Now when I validate that page I'm getting the following error message : cannot generate system identifier for general entity "fs_image_url" Can anybody suggest how to resolve that error so that the webpage passes w3c validation test? Regards, Sid

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Dear Admin, I apologize for the inconvenience, but is there any chance you could change my forum username from Djetamun to isMobham? I usually use the latter, and I have no idea why I joined up with the former! Or, if it's not possible, I could simply create a new account with the new name. Of course I refrained from doing that because I thought it might be against the rules. I'm not sure this is the right section for such a request, but I couldn't find a better one. I'm really sorry for the trouble, and I hope it's not too much to ask . Warm regards.

Bring back the browser wars!It may have been messy but at least there was competition and going head to head and seeing who was the first to do such and such.Cheers,MC

Where did most this information come from?The earliest of Operating Systems, existed in the 1950s and definitely was not created with C since it hadn't even been developed yet (1970s, also the time when the UNIX kernel was changed to C). DOS did not even exist at this stage.Most Operating Systems were created in Machine Code (Binary/Assemby) and was specific for the CPUs that it ran on so it was not portable across different architectures. All hardware of the computer had to be controlled by your program, which is why the only users for computers had knowledge in Programming.Nowadays you would find operating systems are created in higher level languages, although they still use ASM for bottleneck optimisation and speed improvements. C and C++ are languages that would be used in modern operating systems, due to it's level of control, being able to be a low level language and still make use of the higher level. Other languages could achieve similar results but you'll know whether it's suitable or not by whether it can be low level or not. There are device drivers still developed in ASM.I agree that MS-DOS was the first operating system for "personal" computers (IBM PC), being easier to use. It however was developed for the 8086 (80x86)/8088 which is not 100MHz but more like 5MHz or 10MHz. Also Pentium was the successor to the 486 processors, which the 486DX4 and Overdrive could run at a clock speed of 100MHz but was not really stable. I still have an Overdrive Server computer with a 5MB SCSI hard drive which still runs, also got a few 286s and 386s as workstations, but more historical than for use.When deleting files from your harddrive, basically what happens is the operating system writes the data area with a certain symbol which tells it this area has been deleted and can be written over, it does not remove it fully but it can calculate how much space you have freed up with it. So even though you may think it's taking up space, the operating system knows that it can write over it, so it's considered free space to the operating system.Also there was Windows Version 1.0 which was a GUI based operating system, but popularity only came in Windows 3.11 which gave better networking, anything before this was quite buggy to even consider.Cheers,MC

Switching to Linux improved my productivity but the real reason I switched was I didn't like the direction Microsoft was taking. You weren't in control of your machine, you were limited to what you could control, and it was dumbified to a point that if you did want to do something you couldn't. Now a lot of their resources go towards preventing piracy, etc. These things they introduce can and sometimes do break your system, yet all the mistakes Microsoft does, it still manages to maintain their loyal users.I remember when Microsoft asked how Windows was productive for you, and remember this should not include programs that are not part of the Operating System, but many people liked talking about Office, etc. I answered with "it is not productive at all", Wordpad, Notepad, Paint... what do you expect, you can only do basic things with them and that's not productive at all nor is it going to make you successful, you really need the arsenal of programs to do what you want. Windows is only to help you control your computer, it should not take over it, nor should it try to do other things that aren't considered part of an operating system.It's also quite costly especially since Windows just kept slapping a coat of paint over the top of it and selling it like a new version, if you want to believe that it's built from scratch, then obviously changing the kernel and still maintaining the same old files isn't much of a change, there was little improvement and minor optimisation but it could have done more. It continues to support obsolete devices that no longer exist or would not even run on modern computers now, especially when Windows forces you to use modern hardware.I'm quite happy with Linux, I can still do mostly what I would want to do, although there's some areas that is lacking, but I find that as an opportunity for me to improve those areas with software that suits my needs and would most likely suit others who'd feel the same.To have a secure Windows machine, you have to rely on third party software, some which could cost you more. In the long run, I will continue to stick by Linux and it won't be long till it surpasses Windows in every way.Cheers,MC

Excellent catch, Viz . Truth to be told, whenever I tell anyone that sometimes 1MBit actually equals 1000KBits and not 1024, they tell me that I don't know squat and that I'm full of it. So much so that I stopped doing it altogether. But I'm honestly glad that there are people here who know better . I'm also glad that, at last, someone confirmed this information for me. Thanks a lot Viz and finaldesign .

A very important criterion in choosing a host for your Website is bandwidth. Most of us will ask about it, right after they ask about "space". But do we really understand what bandwidth is, and why most hosts put a limit on it? First, what is bandwidth? Put simply, bandwidth is the amount of data allowed to occur between a certain computer and the rest of the Internet. As such, there are many types of bandwidths. For example, I use DSL service to log onto the Internet. My DSL subscription has a bandwidth limit of 1024 KBit/second. This means that the maximum amount of data I'm allowed to recieve from my provider at any given second is 1024 KBit. Now my DSL provider access the Internet through certain channels. The higher the number of these channels, the higher their bandwidth is. Let's assume that my DSL provider is also a Web host, and that it has a bandwidth limit of 1024 MegaBit/second. This means that the maximum amount of data this server can handle at any given second is 1024 MBit. So if we assume that all other DSL users such as myself are accessing this server at 1024 KBit/sec, this means that the maximum number of users the server can handle is 1024 users (since 1 MBit = 1024 KBit .. you do the math ). But wait a second! Web hosts offer bandwidths that are as high as 2GB and even 5GB a month. What's up with that? That's a good point, and it should be easy to explain... When a host offers 2GB/month for a certain Website, that means that the maximum amount of data this Website is able to send in any given month will be only 2GB. Some sites have low traffic, small pages, and few graphics, so they won't use a lot of bandwidth. Others are huge sites with millions of visitors and thousands of images, which will probably consume the 2GB in 2 weeks or something. But why do hosts put a limit on bandwidth? Because, if you remember the 1024MBit/second example, hosts can only handle so much data per second. As the number of Websites they host increases, the 1024MBit/second is quickly approached. If too many visitors are at a certain Website, this site will take a lot of that bandwidth, decreasing the performance of other Websites. So how do hosts solve this problem? Well, they can't put a secondly limit on Websites, so they make the limit a monthly one. If a certain Website consumes A LOT of bandwidth, it'll eat up all of the 2GB very quickly and get suspended afterwards, giving the other Websites their fair share of bandwidth. Ok, another question, then? If this is the case, how come hosts charge more money for more bandwidth? That's because, in order for them to increase their own bandwidth, they have to buy access to more channels. This way, they increase their bandwidth, which enables them to increase their customers' bandwidth. Now, to be perfectly honest, this is my own theory. The question of bandwidth has been plaguing my mind for so long, and after searching for informatino about it, that's all I could come up with. If any of you guys knows a truer, more precise theory, please let me know . Warm regards, Djetamun

Wow thats an awsome tutorial! You could make some very intresting stuff with this tutorial.I'll go and have a go at this now...

I use SmartFTP,it's fast and free.Though I can't really compare it to outher FTP clients,since SmartFTP is the only FTP client i'v ever used.

I have to say this is a superb piece of code, Houdini. Kudos all around .I'm not a very skilled PHP coder, but I know a good thing when I see it. And I'm sorry I couldn't test the code since I don't have an Invision board, but I can't see anything wrong with it. I'm sure the guys here will give it thorough testing, though.By the way, are you licensing this piece of code, or is it free for all?Anyway, thanks for a fantastic work.

I think that, technically, WMP is indeed better than JPG and GIF. The range of technical specifications is seriously larger, and it's highly in favour of the WMP format. As for its success, I believe it's far too early to judge. After all, WMP is practically just an idea, a part of the XPS specification. There's still no word about its support by cameras, printers, or even Web browsers other than Internet Explorer. The JPEG2000, which was a standard with very comparable merits to WMP's and was planned to replace the JPG format, has vanished without a trace. But if we were to judge depending on the WMP counterparts, WMA and WMV, we'd have to say it won't be such a huge success. After all, even though WMA and WMV were indeed very nice, they're not that popular. So I'd say that WMP has a fair chance of being an alternative to JPG. But if Microsoft is hoping for replacing JPG, I think they might be in over their heads. Either way, we'd have to wait and see. At least until results of Vista Beta-2 are out, as a primary indicator.

I personally think that piracy is great.Sometimes piracy is nessacsery because some programs like Adobe Photoshop have unreasonable pirces, and many people can't afford to pay 100's of pounds for software...

GIMP is the only free graphics design sofware that I know of,which will compare to Adobe Photoshop.GIMP can't beat Adobe Photoshop but is well worth getting,though it does clutter your desktop alot...

I use both Firefox and Internet Explorer but Firefox gets my vote because it's fast,open-source and free.The only down side to Firefox is that not all codes work in there.

This is a good way to earn monny but the only down side is that popup and popunder ads can get extremaly annoying.It would be a whole lot better to just place small banner or text ads on your site,it's less annoying.

Wow thats a very intresting list,thanks for the info! I'v never heard of most of the sites above but i'll go check some of them out..

Even though it's obvious you guys know about this, I'm going to write this anyway for those of us who still don't . Mozilla has pronounced the release of its alpha version of Deer Park, the next generation FireFox browser. It's currently for testing purposes only and Mozilla advises that only developers and people who really know what they're doing use it. But after trying it, I think it can be safely used by anyone. Don't ask me why they changed the name to Deer Park. It beats the hell out of me. But it does have a couple of improvements over FireFox 1.5 and the beta Bon Echo releases. If you want to have a quick peek at Mozilla's release notes for their new product, you can find them here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/ If you're interested in helping the Mozilla community in testing their new browser, and if you want to see what's up with Deer Park, you can choose the version that works for you by navigating through this FTP site: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Now to all FireFox enthusiasts... Go Nuts!

Haha lol! It's old stuff but it's funny ...

m^e: yeah I guss I am a little to young but who cares lol... nikhil: Hey, welcome to Xisto! Here are the answers to your questions,but I don't think this is the right place to post it... Showing images in your posts [IMG= IMAGE URL HERE ]Quotes [QUOTE] QUOTE HERE [/QUOTE] Points: You need to get credits/points by making long,quality posts and once you get a certain amount of points you can request hosting.

You could try http://www.hotscripts.com/ they have many free search engine scripts in php and in some outher languages...

I'v never used OpenOffice but from what i'v heard it's fantastic and alot better than MS Office.But since i'v never used OpenOffice,MS Office gets my vote..

I didn't realize that Xisto had such an intresting history behind it.Though I havn't used Xisto but by the looks of it,Xisto is an awsome web-host just like Xisto!

Yeah, those phpBBhacks guys first invite him politely to their forum and after he has given a lot of tech support to his mods, they chuck him out. Those guys are really unfair.