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Well if the laptop is old enough NOT to have a cdrom built in so it uses that outside the box cd solution ( I had a toshiba the same) it will NOT have any kind of support in the BIOS for anything apart from booting from a floppy or a HD. Been in the same situation with older laptops having to make driver boot floppies to get cdroms to be recognised. Hope you can find an answer! Marky;)

Nice one ME..been using Opera notes for this type of use for a long time..I tried a clipboard manager also about 5 years ago orso but its not as good as Ditto.Whats cool in the folder option..ie group content together in one folder..just copied all my standard mod posts into Ditto in their own folder...very handy indeed.!!Thanks for sharing this one mate!Marky;)

Cool! the specs look pretty good for that money!But Im trying to work out why it will only accept upto 512mb from the Sd reader I dont get it!! Ive looked at thier other products and this doeasnt seem to to be a problem on other things they make..Btw those sunglasses/mp3 player is funny

HMM!!!Why is this post attracting SOO much abuse today? Ive deleted 4 replies now banend one person and warned two others for posting spam on this thread!~!

Good Work Niran.Thanks for sharing these with the members here.Marky;)

Not really a refferal system.What I was talking about with Bakr started off as that but then went off on a wild tangent :PWhat I was thinking of was a Best Post of the Week.This would be the most popular thread measured on how many hits and replies to the post.The winner would get an extra 5 credits transferred to their account.I think it would make the forums a little more active and some people would really try to get a good post up to gain the 5 credits therefore theres more and better content in the forum.It would be up to the mods and admins to decide the winner, its as easy as have a sticky on the mods area and each week we post the possible winner and then choose.What does everyone else think?Marky;)

MAD!!Would you belive I actually worked on that report for Gartner!!!AHAHAHI work for a partner in research for Gartner ..we covered the European part of the stats and analysis :PI love it when my work is in the press or on TV ...

Bling Bling!!Haha the worlds most totally useless mobile? your right it should come with a private army to protect you when using it!!I get paranoid enough sometimes taking my smartphone out on the Metro..too many people look at it !!LOL

Ok well I work in Market Research for about two years at a manager level so I pretty well qualified to give you the low down of online panels etc. One of the biggest companies in the world for providing Market Research is TNS and they have online panels in many different contries in the world. If you subscrube to them or in some countries you can only be recruited by another company into the panel they will send you emails to complete surveys for them online. Depending on the Demographic that the TNS client is trying to hit you could be available for the survey. Some of these surveys can take up to an hour to do ( you can save them and come back to them) and you will be given a specific date of when you have to complete it by. Surveys can be on anything..a lot of time time maybe the survey is linked so that if you said you like Microsoft products in one survey maybe next week you get an email about survey to do with Windows Live or another MS product. Another time they might be interested in sending you thro the post a sample of a new washing powder for you to try out for a month then at the end of the month fill out a 20 min survey about the washing powder and everything to do with it. At the end of the "fieldwork" period ie the end date of the survey TNS will collate all the results and present the findings to the client..the client would then pay TNS and then the panel members are credited with doing the survey. The credits could be anything like shopping vouchers for Amazon..vouchers for your local supermarket..all of these things depend on which country you are from and the deals made with certain suppliers in each country. So how do credits work out to the time spent on filling out the survey? each survey can be different and different lenghts so its hard to guess..and again varies in each country. TNS are a very well thought of company in many countries and in a lot of countries handle the voting polls and lots of TV stations and newspapers will use figures provided from TNS about many trends that they are talking about that day. So if you want something "Free" but have to do something for it!! Give TNS a go..I have only but good things to say about TNS.The best way to find the TNS branch nearest to you is to google it in your location. Other survey sites include.. https://www.surveyspot.com/ but i think its US and UK only. This one pays out via Paypal http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://www.surveybounty.com/ is another. SO thats my breakdown of online surveys and market research online.. Theres money and vouchers to be made..you just have to go with reputable companies not ones that spam the net with banners advertising everything for free for nothing! Good luck and I hope this helps out! Marky;)

Hehe it was the longest post I ever did here and I got 10 credits for i think!! Alomost a tuturial on Music law there Yesterday I forgot to add a section also which is very approriate to what your trying to do... In the Netherlands in the summer a site called zoekmp3.nl (lookformp3) was hit hard in court by BREIN which is kind of the copyright police for The Netherlands.They were forced to close down and faced 10K Euros each day they were back online. What was thier crime? doing what you want to do..to "deeplink" to content not on your server and ofc in this sites case it was whole cds live sets etc of copyright material. The judges did not buy the "Im only providing links to content elsewhere" line that every torrent/warez site hides behind. BREIN had taken them to court in 2004 and zoekmp3.nl won and the judges allowed thier defence. This was the appeal by BREIN and they won allowing similar rulings in the rest of the EU cos lawyers seem to hop rulings across borders very fast these days in Euroland!! so expect to see more of these cases in more countries. A bit off topic but a site i REALLY want shut down is http://blogs.allofmp3.ru/ these guys are Russian mafia guys trying to fool people that they are legally downloading mp3s. What they are expoliting is the fact that Russia has no copyright law as such..So they say in their defence that Ok well the servers are all located in Russia, its legal here and its a legal business model in Russia. So as a user according to thier shaky defence your actling legally by downloading it to another country cos the payment and the mp3s themselves are in Russia. In Russia PPL means nothing! so they dont pay ONE CENT to any band/artist etc.. So in effect they go on Amazon buy up ONE copy of each new Cd..Rip it and then store it on thier servers and them sell off to thousands of people. Imagine thier business overheads!! I would imagine about 2-3 servers and a test server..half a rented rack in a datacenter in Moscow..a nice big fat connection...about $300 Amazon bill to pay..and 2-3 people to maintain the site and 1-2 to rip cds.. These guys have made millions from this alas ;((( Ok then Back to the Question... Cover Versions..Ok well again it comes down to licence and control of copyright.. Ive heard tales of places with a PPL licence or similar for Live Performance being busted cos a band played a cover version and it wasnt covered in the Venues Performing Licence..even tho the band were covered cos they paid more to be able to perform covers.. So if you get paid in anyway for performing and you include a cover..legally you should get a licence to play that tune. If you are going to record covers then you dig further into the rabbit hole.. Ok its like this..if you do not gain any profit at all "technically" you are allowed to do it..Ive seen small bands sell T shirts for 10 pounds and give a FREE CD with the T shirt..so NO money is changing hands for the CD..Clever ) So what if I want to make profit from it ? or put the cover track on a cd with tracks I have written and performed myself? Ok you will need a "Mechanical Licence" and this is basically permission by the copyright holder..most of the times these days the record company..to record it..it gets odd if its a shared ownership copyright..Ie the band wrote it together and now dont exist as a band any more. As I belive the law its this..you would have to chase down each person written down with a writing or producing credit listed and get each of them to give thier permission for you to earn money off thier creation. In the UK I have seen an ABBA tribute band who played covers but not...they didnt pay for a licence for ALL of the tunes only some..so they changed the tune and the words slightly to some really well known tunes from ABBA..all the crowd were singing along to the real tune and screwing up thier faces..they didnt understand why. So like last nights posts about linking and Djing ..playing covers is full of pitfalls and traps you can fall down ;( Hope this helps!! Marky;)

An alternative would be to install one of the CMS packages that Xisto provide you with inside control panel?You can choose from 11 different CMS packages including Xoops, Nuke, Siteframe, Drupal and my fav Joomla.Also you have 4 different Blog only CMS programs to choose from including my fav for this..Wordpress.All of these systems have FREE templates to download..so many script options they will make your eyes bleed..soo much documentation on support forums to make your fingers bleed reading them all.In my view if you know very little about making sites and what to get something started fast ...with endless possibilities of new templates...script options and the ability to learn soo much like making your own templates..doing this you will have to learn basic HTML PHP and CSS skills.In a years time who knows you might have enough knowledge to make your own scripts to use in the CMS system.But the great thing is..you can start with a very basic knowledge of site design to get started..for instance adding a new page in Joomal can be a simple as this^^^ Ie writing a forum post..the input box and everything are just the same in Joomla..I say to people if you post on a forum and reply to emails..you can use a CMS system to host your own site!All of these products can be found in your control panel inside your account then look for Preinstalled Scripts and then FANTASTICO from the menu..you just follow the instructions and it will install the CMS for you..If it doesnt work out..you can just uninstall them in the same way..I played with a few different packages before I settled on Joomla as my weapon of choice for CMS :PGood Luck and happy hunting!!Marky;)

As one of my many jobs I work part time for a market research company.Im learning so much about refferel schemes like this and online surveys that give you shopping voucher points etc.I write the surveys and deal with users problems with them. Like many things on the net theres bull**** and theres quality!So many firms are offering FREE this and FREE that..the reason your reading this board came from a FREE webhosting advert or recomendation so guess what guys your hooked into it!!But ofc Asta and Trap are QUALITY not BULL**** most of you have tried the others and ended up here, again it works. So yes a lot of these free refferel programs and online surveys are crap and you waste time making them money for nothing..but there are some companies out there working with good intentions and a good way of paying out thier free items to thier users..So look around theres money to be made..fun things to be had..but at a price!! normally spending hours at the pc filling out endless surveys and signing yourself up for every site they promt you to go to.Or endless visits to forums and bugging people to sign up for stuff so you can get points.. Theres NO such thing as a FREE lunch!!!! just remember that Marky;)

Hi and Welcome! OK I will explain how things work around here to you... You have to earn credits here to get and keep a hosting plan. We have two hosting plans on offer. Package One - Starter Package 20 megs of space 500 Mb Monthly Control Panel Admin Support CGI, PHP Credits to apply for account: 10 Credits. Package Two - Basic Package 150 megs of space 5 Gb Dedicated BW Control Panel Admin Support CGI, PHP Credits to apply for account: 30 Credits. So you need a minimum of 10 credits to apply for the Starter Package and 30 credits for the Basic Package. Before you start can I suggest you read the board RULES A full explaination of how the credits system can found HERE We have a great FAQ system here for you to read HERE When you have enough credits then go HERE and fill out your account request form and the moderating and admin team will proccess your account request. Follow the rules, earn the credits for the package that you want and you will be hosted in no time at all. Welcome aboard Xisto! Marky;)

Did you by anychance turn this on from the menu after installation?At the install phase you get a chance to "intergrate this into shell" which is basically giving you the option to right click on things and enque them.I kinda think if youve turned it on afterwards this is the problem..I dont think it writes the registry entry correctly I had the same problem turning on Winrar to interact with the shell.I would uninstall it and turn in on from the install and hopefully you should be fine.If not you will have to unistall again..reboot and delete any winamp related folder and search the registry for any winamp entries and delete them..but PLEASE be carefull with this is you dont know what your doing!!Even more so than any other app because I think winamp shifts some crucial entries over to its control..you may find you are unaable to play any sound file till you reinstall winamp properly again and it re writes these entries.Good Luck!Marky;)

Some of you know this already but I am a DJ and also used to make and promote parties and I was working with a huge UK party organisation/record label. So I would hire venues and Djs/bands and make the website and flyers and book hotels/flights equipment and then also on the night DJ before the main acts. The guys I worked with are some of the biggest in the business and release thier own DJ mix Cds on the record label. I worked with artists such as Deep Dish, Dave Seaman, Sasha, Hybrid etc etc and thier Dj sets sell a lot of copies and make a lot of money. When they make they they have an absolute nightmare getting permission from different artists/ and or record companies. Imagine a DJ has been playing around in a club and making some really amazing mixes in a sequence and it they really lead one track into the other...They go into the studio to record the mix and then they are told that XXX records will not give us permission to use that track I am sorry.. So basically he has to start playing around again trying to fit the tunes around the missing one..or then choose a new track that again has to be cleared by the artist and or record company. Sowhat happens if I jack my laptop into the "final" mixer and leave it recording a wav file of the DJ thats playing ? how does that work out? (this would be the same as a recording a band live in the eyes of the law) Ok the DJ that your recording should have a PPL Licence..(Phonographic Performance Ltd this is for the UK and for EU but there are links to many different countries in the world) as a performer..it could be a multi site licence or one venue only licence. Then the Venue itself would have to have a licence to cover them for "Live Performance" this includes bands and DJs.. In that licence it will state that NO recording devices are allowed on the premises during a performance..and it will list ALL types of recording devices.. have you ever read the back of a ticket from a big venue? it will state this as well as not bringing in own drink and food etc.. In any venue you can actually ask at the desk (or should be able to) to see thier site licence. Any venue that doesnt have one faces closure and a fine. So any live recording is breaking the law. Also if you think about a band performing live a brand new track thats not been recorded yet..or imagine a live jazz free form concert..thats not covered by a copyright? cos nothing like this exists as a recording... The fact is NO! this is covered by the Venue licence so you are breaking the law... So if you redistribute this recording..your breaking the law even more heavly unless you have written prior concent from the band.. If your selling it..your invringing the laws to a greater degree again. So in respect to the Radiohead site...yes this is illeagle unless a copy of the letter from the band is available to the PPL and us as users of the site can see and they have given prior consent. These guys are probably unknown to the band or record company involved as well as the PPL, it would probably take one person to complain to the PPL about copyright material on the site and it would be given a cease and desist order to remove the content or face court action. And would you belive on the the PPL site theres actually a banner button to report people. So how do you get caught? I have actually been in a club on a few occasions when.. 1. The people from the UK or Netherlands council that cover the venue have turned up with Decibel meters to measure the sound output.You can get fined for breaking the limits;)I know cos one time I got a warning in writing that I was too loud!! Im kinda proud of it 2. The PPL hitsquad arrived and looked at everyones licence that was performing that night or took names down and addresses.. Both times the police were with these guys!!!they arrange hitsquads to go ouy to popular areas of cities with bars and clubs and hit them all on one night with police protection to get them into and around the club or bar. I actually know a DJ who when going through customs in the Netherlands had every single record bag and CD case taken apart and he had some burned discs with him..he could actually prove that he owned the 12inch back home but not at this moment..he had them all confiscated and he had to sign papers which would lead to a fine if he didnt prove in 30 days the proof of purchase.. These days I use a "Digital set of Decks" to play on, this involves a laptop and a midi mixer and mp3/wavs stored on my HD..I sometimes use DVDS with lots of mp3s on also if i am short on HD space. This has lead to a whole new ballgame in copyright issues... The PPL have made a totally new section to the law now to govern mps and Digital DJs.. You wont belive the implications of this!!! So I have to buy a licence for 200 pound a year..I am NOT allowed to record ANYTHING only play..so for me this is a killer cos I like to record really tight mixes of two tunes together and play them live..I break the law each time i do this now..I break the law to a higher degree by making an hour set that I give out on CDs I burned myself as a demo, same if I allow people to copy it. I have bought mp3s years ago legally and 12 inches or Cds I own and ripped?and these are NOT covered by this Licence!!! only mp3s 12 inches or Cds bought since by licence was granted..!!!!! FFS can you imagine that???? I am not allowed to backup tracks to DVD and play them live back again!!! I am allowed to make ONE back up of each track and hold that on HD only!!! So according to this anyone that has ever played recorded music to the public has to have a licence and throw away thier whole music collection and start legally buying it all again even though you legally own it anyway...but heres the kicker!! you dont own it!! you own a licence to play it for your PERSONAL use..This is why any bar, factory,shop, hairdresser, office etc has to have a licence to play music to the public because they make a distinction between public and private use for everything covered by copyright. Imagine a house party or BBQ..if theres more than 20 people present guess what? U NEED A LICENCE!! So how are they enforcing this?? DRM is thier answer!!! As a Digital DJ I have to use thier DRM and let them have access to my computer at anytime. Also if I am on tour and purchase tracks legally these are NOT licenced untill PPL check out my database of tracks and then approve them in the country I live in. I also have to provide at any time a list of venues I have played and the tracklists that I played at that venue!! so they can check the venue has a licence and the artists played are licenced also. So I get sued because the venue is not uptodate with thier licence or I play a tune from someone that doesnt have a record deal..and hasnt got a licence for thier work yet. So playing a tune I made myself or a remix I have made..this is against the law if I havnt got a licence. Internet Radio. Now here again is a whole new ballgame..If I am on a net radio station even for two hours I have to apply for a special licence..the site itself will have to have a pretty extensive licence also. Let me explain the licence for net radio further.. You have to pay a royalty fee for each individual stream of each individual Sound Recording. Also somehow you have to work out BEFORE you apply for the licence the amount of traffic your expecting and PAY for it in advance!! how MAD is that? So a start up netradio has to pay a lot of money upfront cos if they dont they have to pay more and a fine if they get thier prediction of listeners wrong!! Also would you belive this!! you are NOT covered if a user can skip forward or START and PAUSE the stream!! WTF!!! so that rules 99% of net radios for a start. You are NOT covered if you have interactive ranking or voting that determines the playlist. So your users cant vote thing to the top of the playlist. If you copy the tracks onto a central database of tracks..you will pay an extra 15% ontop of the fee per hour of user listening time. Not all countries in the world are covered by this law..so guess what? its up to YOU to deny them access to the stream!! So in effect you will have to build some kinda IP filter for the countries that do not subscribe to this. So with ALL of these restrictions in place, as a DJ you have to ask yourself this question..is it worth ever buying a licence? isnt it going to be easier to wait for the PPL to catch me? Hope this sheds some light on mp3s and broadcasting or redistributing them..I did a bit of research for this post and was a bit shocked at all the implications of it!! Marky;)

Well now youve fallen down the rabbit hole but just how far does it go down? This is the biggest grey area on the net atm.. Its soo hard to say about links to content posted by others, by doing this you are hiding behind the statement "i didnt upload it and I didnt rip it" Your ISP or hoster will hide behind the statement "we provide the access to the net..not what the customer does with it." and the hoster will say " by providing links the user has not broken our TOS because thier is no copywrite material on our servers" Let me explain a recent case in the UK.. A guy has a soccer blog, really great site with loads or orginal content all about the UK Premiership football. He has a section on site for funny videos and great goals scored this week as well as an archive of these. These are links to Google Video, YouTube etc and its content he has searched for and NOT uploaded himself. In the UK ALL showing of the Premiership is owned by SKY who in turn is owned by FOX who in turn is owned by My Burns himself!! Rupert Murdoch (boo hiss!!) and you have to have a SKY package to view any football. BBC and other chans do show football but its not live and also its a deal made with SKY to broadcast this. So Google, Youtube, whatever is breaking the deal that SKY have with the Premiership.So its THEM that are breaking copyright law NOT the owner or HOSTER of the site and ofc not the ISP. A couple of weeks ago the guy writing the site got a really heavy letter from SKY and FOX's lawyers giving him a STOP now order-this means they give you 24 hours to take down ANY content they are not happy with from the website.They also threatened I think it was 25K UK pounds fine if he didnt comply. The same letter went to his ISP and to Google and Youtube. The guy fought back and put them straight that HYPERLINKS are not content! Youtube buckled and tore down SOOO many posts to do with the Premiership (think it was about 5000 posts) and targetted the links from this guys site especially. I guess this tells the story about music also, in a way you are NOT breaking the rules by linking to pages within someone elses site, but say if you embedd the videos or link to mp3 in a player on YOUR site then you are breaking the rules directly, because the content is coming from somewhere else but is accessed on YOUR site. I would say to you Pyost..make sure the stuff is NOT here but elsewhere Linking to stuff is NOT against the Asta and Trap TOS. Say if Opaque got an email from a music company complaining about you then this section of the TOS could come into force against you.. This is from the Asta TOS.. Its a good TOS cos it leaves Asta and Trap to decide what they deem illeagle and if they got a letter from a company complaining or forcing liability then they could I guess suspend you untill you removed the mentioned articles. I hope this helps clear this up and GOOD LUCK with your site mate Marky!

well this number G54S is also a linksys model number..they change the first part like WHR or WDR but they are all based on the same G54S chassis. So look up Linksys G54S MTU or something like that, Heres a bit of text i found on a linksys page about changing MTU size.. Hope this helps!

Good Link there From TamEr..I have used these articles also, I find them some of the best tuturials on many different languages..Aequitas if your learning about PHP I would suggest using the devarticles.com tutorials for help on PHP also.Good Luck!Markyl;)

hi,Can I add Elancer to the list of good contractor sites...http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ much the same as the others..lots of different jobs categories on there too..Marky;)

Hi and Welcome to the baords, Its no problem that you post a link to Deviant Art on here...theres a few Xisto members with galleries up and running over there and we welcome more people getting involved. I like the pic It put a smile on my face A few thing to do before you can apply for hosting here.. I suggest you read the board RULES A full explaination of how the credits system can found HERE We have a great FAQ system here for you to read HERE When you have enough credits then go HERE and fill out your account request form and the moderating and admin team will proccess your account request. Follow the rules, earn the credits for the package that you want and you will be hosted in no time at all. Welcome aboard Xisto! Marky;)

Hi and welcome from the Xisto Moderators, Before you start can I suggest you read the board RULES A full explaination of how the credits system can found HERE We have a great FAQ system here for you to read HERE When you have enough credits then go HERE and fill out your account request form and the moderating and admin team will proccess your account request. Follow the rules, earn the credits for the package that you want and you will be hosted in no time at all. Welcome aboard Xisto! Marky;)

Please make sure it is in the public_html folder otherwise it will not work.

I can point you to the right direction I hope..I would use a lightweight PERL script to do this..its perfect for the job!Google up some cool PERL scripts and I am sure you will find one that can rename/replace etcGood Luck!Markyl)

Hi, First of all welcome to the forums,I have a dig around and it seems that this router is some kind of Linksys clone.I would go have a look at thier forums and have a browse.I would point out tho that that range of routers comes with one that you cannot change the MTU on..but I am pretty sure that the "S" variable router is changeable.Good Luck and post back any findings so we have them on our forum..thats what we are all about you see :PMarky;)

Yeah the link was in the post but here goes.. I heard about this a few weeks ago.. Read the article here..