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Yes, you can, but it means you're damned for eternity Bear in mind that tables for layout brings many other problems rather than just difficult to read code, such as broken layouts whenever either the user stylesheet or the browser stylesheet (which shouldn't, but is known to with some of the more cheeky browsers) overrides your 'borders=0'. If nothing else, try using Lynx (a popular screen reader) to 'hear' your site - not only is this how many partially sighted and all blind users interact with your sight, but it makes it clear how your code is semantically incomprehensible. Also, if your code renders correctly in those browsers, and not Firefox (and more conspicuously, Opera) then you are relying on the incorrect display of those browsers. Not that there's anything wrong with catering for IE and its ~80% market share, but it's pretty well known that you can write valid xhtml (even transitional 1.0) according to the w3c specifications that IE cannot render correctly. If nothing else, as soon as you play with margins and padding you can bet your bottom dollar that IE has it wrong thanks to MS's flawed interpretation of the box model. I'm sure you already knew that Alex, but it winds me up sometimes when people code for IE, and then moan about FF and Opera...almost as much as people that spout standards-compliance on one hand, and then code for IE (not that you were doing either of those ). Anyway, I've fallen off topic. Tables are superb for displaying data, and are unfortunately being avoided by many for this thanks to the general bad press they get for layouts. However, that doesn't change the fact that using them for layout is bad practice, and getting into the form/function separation that CSS should teach you is a good habit for the long term. I think this is relevant, because the majority of situations I've seen where nested tables are used are cases where a table shouldn't be used at all - your table either needs additional columns/rows which are 'joined' by col/rowspan as Alex pointed out, or you should have just the data you want to nest in a table located within a div. That's my 2 cents - I do appreciate that the jury is still out on table usage, but I'm not a big fan - I'm sure it can be done well, but not as easily once someone knows an equivalent level of CSS.

Sorry for delay in reply, didn't see that this had been answered! Definitely .NET (since my next course is on ASP.NET, and from there to ADO ), though if there's any benefit to knowing VB6 I'll probably put a bit of time into picking that up.

First off, have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling? Sound obvious, but often if a program's files are corrupted it's the only real way of solving it.

Plus I think that Symantec's knowledge base of virus threats is pretty good - I used it to weed out a vundo threat on my brother's machine recently. Have a look https://us.norton.com/security_response/ The big antivirus companies all tend to maintain similar things, and are often more useful than the programs themselves if you are already infected (your computer that is, not you ).

Always a popular topic :PI quite like using Avira Antivir (as many do here) as my main antivirus, and AVG with the realtime features disabled as a secondary full scan program. I think with the plethora of free antivirus software (of which these two are quite good) around it is a dangerous assumption that one will always be the best, and by using these two in combination I've not had problems - whereas I only installed Avira on my brother's computer, and have been fighting against vundo ever since...Switch when you start to hear lots of issues with your current antivirus package, or that another free one is good, IMO.

Ooh. I like these! Can anyone give more information on what a crypto hash is, though? I like to understand things before I do them (one of my failings in interacting with modern computing ). I vaguely get that it's related to the checksum (which I understand as being a means of ensuring that a file/folders contents have not been altered, and which are usually used to make sure downloads haven't been corrupted), is that right?I think that this is something I may be using to help confirm some my intellectual property in the statistical set-up I'm doing for the school I work for. Many thanks!

Funny stuff. I'd laugh my backside off if that was what the guy/girl intended in the first place - it seems so...crass...to have mentioned the site in that way. I can't see what possible upside this person thought there would be. Surely if you wanted to get their attention, you would make the changes, and then let them know instead?I guess I'm getting too old to understand the mindset, but hey ho

I do wonder, though, how easy it will be to unstick things! According to one of my friends who works there as a nurse, we have enough problems with muppets coming into the ER (or whatever we call it in England, hehe) at our hospital with their hands superglued to themselves as it is. Also, did anyone see the bit in the science central article that MotU kindly provided where they are testing Geckos' pulling power by: ...? Oh my. Seems a little harsh on the poor fellas. Hope they don't pull too hard - I have images in my head of Geckos in a pile on the floor after being 'used up'.

Sure, like any technology you can manage without it if you really need to. Buuut, it makes things so much easier! :DI sometimes leave mine at home if I don't have any need to be contacted, but I must admit I do worry what would happen if someone tried to contact me. Since my sister-in-law is pregnant at the moment, I'm keeping it to hand

Anyone used them though? I get the impression that Pascal isn't taught/used that much now (don't know much about the language, just heard a few references), and I'm quite interested to know if there's any real benefit to this kind of PSP...(not that I'm a big fan of the other ).

The thing about this isn't so much that it disturbs me that much (not like some of us here, I guess!), but that I can't see the point. There's something a little creepy about urns too, so I'm not a big fan of cremation of any kind (and that's basically what this is, burnination with added pressure ), but surely after the novelty wore off (yeah, Uncle Bob is now 4 carat...) you're left with a diamond that just isn't as 'real' as a normal one...it's not fake, but it just isn't right...and a big hole in your pocket to match the already exorbitant funeral fees. Great way for Nunc' Bob to be remembered, leaving the family in debt.Oh so tacky, and oh so pointless. As others have said, better ways to remember people...like using your memory?

I keep hearing that WordPress is a great starter from some people, and that others really regret using it (even in this topic!). Any particular reasons for this? I know it's supposed to be more user friendly, and that there are the usual tradeoffs for that, but it seems quite surprising that it polarises people so much.Bear in mind I've never blogged if you answer

Badminton and basketball here...though most recently I took part in a charity volleyball match.We won, of course No thanks to me, standing around like a useless lemon, but there you go.

Nope, because I don't give my googlemail details away - if I need to use an account for any purpose that even has a chance of generating spam, I give my yahoo one and set up a redirect based on the incoming email address.Yahoo - it's my spam wastebasket.

Useful, thanks. Nice to see some hints on the subject which aren't just telling us 'don't write bad' :PI do wonder where people have got the thin-content values from...don't suppose anyone has any links to search engine algorithm explanations (I know they keep code and specifics to themselves, but there must be some way people know this kind of thing)...else I'd probably not worry the specifics of number 4 there.Cheers.