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Why is that you take every chance you get to place fault at me? Is it because I could not manage the board like you? Is it because I warned you for your choice of words? A personal comments that constantly finds one particular, singling out one person is not the behavior of a loyal member of this forum.

To quote your words regarding another member you so adamantly critiqued,

in almost ever thread, this guys has slandered peoples names ever since he was a new user here. if it was just talking about a belief and putting down that belief, that is one thing. but people down people over and over is ridiculous. i have talked to other people who feel the same way. at the very least, he needs to be warned about his behavior. everyone is tired of listening to his garbage of insults over and over again repeatedly

Before you do one thing and say another, take a look at your true feelings towards me and decide: does your dislike comes from the fact that I don't drink (because you posted in the chat that you don't trust me because I don't drink) or does your dislike comes from I am not present regularly at this forum? I seriously don't know what's your beef with me.

I don't know your how your life is like but I work 10+ hours a day and travel 2-3 days a week attending lectures and symposiums. While I try to visit our forum on a regular basis, I only log in if I receive a PM these days. All pressing supports were diverted to Xisto - Support but any discussions to problems are handled in this forum. Moderators have the forum cultivated. Members report/PM posts that require attentions, such as this one I received in my PM. I answer, or at least try to answer, all PMs I receive as kindly as possible.

I get the feeling that you have been campaigning against me gathering members at your side who share similar opinions. When I disabled your posting ability for 4 days your claims of being banned caused such a ruckus in the forum. And you did a good job. If a loyal member to the forum wants an admin out of the forum I suppose that's the way it goes.

Call me tyrant, call me "free speech" blocker. I am sure it all true when a loyal member accuses another member regardless of the evidence. What makes a better admin: Is it the way he/she is logged in often and long? Is it how many members have him/her as their friends? You posted such questions and sorry that I couldn't give these to you. My words are not as complex and impressive as yours and my popularity was never that good. I demanded no respect blindly. But I gave as many chances it took to help a member out with his/her hosting issues.

It seems like no one of admins are justified in your eyes. And while I observed your opinions for a while I have stayed away from causing confrontation, yet you continue to let your personal feelings towards me known time after time.

Maybe you take pleasure of making me feel bad. I am sad that I am at the receiving end of your wrath. It causes me great stress knowing that when I log in you have said something malice about me. And each day I wonder why I keep coming back. I thought I graduated from high school bullies but I suppose life is not done with its sadistic joke. And when I have to think twice and check with another admin about warning a member, that's when a member is better than admins.

I'm sure you will be answering my post line by line dissecting it to show me how wrong I am. And you will teach me a thing or two. After all, you are much wiser than what I know about the forum and life. I never doubted that. I never refuted that. All I asked of you was to work with me in making this forum continue to mark its presence in Google's world. I would have never thought that I would become such a thorn in your sight.

Nice and simple, Maggot. +1 for that one.

My golfing buddies used to call those guys, "sparky" along with "farmer" and "no guts, no beer." Farmers till the soil or the fairway and others just come to the green to crack open cans of beer. I would imagine the green fee will be higher to cover the expense of restoring it.

Forum logo will be on a rotating basis as soon as OpaQue gives me the access to the image folder.The forum will always look for an image extension as the logo location (as OpaQue raised the question). Long ago, and far away a moderator names snlildude came up with a hack to "fool" the forum for having the "image.jpg" with php script executing. We will be using that trick again for our banner/logo rotation.I can't find the topic right now but he wrote a nice tutorial on sig rotation that we all used one point or another.

It's impossible to move those huge blocks with today's standards, perhaps due to today's safety measures. Trucks are limited to how much they can carry for the safety of other drivers on shared roads. What if some massive amount of people were used to transport these blocks? Maybe a team of 50 strong men were responsible for moving just 1 block a day. Just guessing here. And that would mean about 22,100 could have worked on the project. If the number is too high, what if 50 men were ordered to move 4 blocks a day?We don't know how many people were put in dangerous situations to complete the project back then. And I'm sure there weren't any union representatives to go against the architect (usually a king or queen) demanding 30 minutes of break for every 6 hours worked Maybe people's lives were at stake and it's either do or die.My guess would be on people first--we have tenancy to do great things if we put our minds to it, and not have to wait for outer space influence.

One possible way to track down a pc/laptop is to wait for a thief to log into an account that is your client's. For example, if your client made an auto login for a messenger or any social networking sites you can wait until the next time the laptop is turned on and curiously logging into one of these accounts. Once you can confirm that the thief had logged in, ask the service provider (MSN, Yahoo, Facebook or such) to trace the IP address. And then let detectives request IP address information to obtain the service provider, location, customer and customer information.Other than that, there's not much you can really do at this point.Consider advising your client with Lojack for Laptops.

Yes. It's a form of short circuiting. The electricity is flowing in a closed circuit.Usually a computer can be damaged by introducing unnecessary volts. However, some computers may have been equipped with protection such as micro surge protecting circuits. If you have a spare computer that you can afford to destroy, try it. I had an old 486 computer that I submerged in the bath of mineral oil and ran for 7 days. No short circuits, even mineral oil can conduct electricity. That little experiment told me that motherboard was completely sealed. The only thing was not submerged was the AT power supply. The CPU fan created interesting swirl. Had I not done that I would have never known.I searched and obtained this information that the parallel port can produce load up to 2.6 mA at 2.4 v. While this is not enough to fry your computer, other capacitors such as ones near CPU for CPU power regulating can be damaged.

I wonder if you were to upgrade your RAM to 2GB or greater...would solve your issue?I have no plans to upgrade my Vista machine because it's for Excel and few office programs. So people have learned to deal with its slowness. Let us know if RAM upgrade helps from freezing.

myCENT and Credit System seem to be stable for now. This topic is closed.Please refer to this discussion http://forums.xisto.com/topic/72486-mycent-update/#entry490693for myCENT updates and bug reports.

It's been a while since I looked at another language versions of Windows. Many years ago, you had to "get" language preferred version of Windows otherwise it's only translating icons, programs to a specified language. The core language stayed the same.So I have a question. Does this language package actually change the core operating system's language or is it still masking to a language of choice?One of co-worker's Windows XP was from France. And although everything was in English (language pack) when she was installing a program it would show in French. And she said unless she installs English XP, it will continue to do that. Is it not true with Windows 7?

Why is it that the iPhone is finger-sensitive and the NDS is pressure sensitive? Can one or the other really call itself a "touch-screen"? Just wanted to know what you guys thought. In my opinion, the iPhone should have both touchscreen capabilities(finger and pressure-sensitivity). What do you guys think?

I would imagine each company felt their technology/method is/was better for their products. When I work with optics project we had to decide between CCD and CMOS. At the end it came to hybrid of CMOS and our own hardware.

I believe this is just the beginning of touchscreen technology. In just short years we'll see even greater touch computing and multiple touch/gesture devices. I saw a remote operating robotic arms that actually gave pressure feedback to a surgeon using reverse touch technology--causes fingers to feel small bumps and pushing forces embedded inside gloves.

What is the total RAM in the Vista system?The machine I had problem with only had 1GB RAM. It would go to standby and when it woke up the harddrive light wouldn't let up until about a minute or two. Do you have enough RAM?

I just realized how long it's been since my last calculus... thanks for making me count my age :(ha ha

This is the classic example of how Excel can be both complex and simple in database.

What you might be searching for is Excel INDIRECT() function.

Is it correct to understand it that when you enter "D3" in A3 cell, B3 will show the value stored in cell D3?

Try putting this formula in B3 cell:

=INDIRECT(A3)

where A3 is your input cell.

This will return the value in the referenced cell number in A3.


You can take this bit further and write the condition if the input cell A3 is blank, it does not show "#REF!"

=IF(A3="","",INDIRECT(A3))

Take this further and show if the cell referenced is empty or not

=IF(A3="","",IF(INDIRECT(A3)="","Cell Empty",INDIRECT(A3)))

Maggot,Members are just trying to help (I sensed little frustration with your words).The new forum has two places you can upload your picture/photos--Photo and Avatar.Go to My Settings > Profile > Change AvatarI can see that you uploaded to your Photo but your Avatar is empty. That should get your picture shown with your post.Let us know if you need any other help.

Sorry, as soon as I have new logins in order, I would like GFX crew to have the full access to the cPanel. And you can update as you see it. Or, at least have FTP access to the hosting so you can upload files.

I like the 3rd sig. I especially like the choice in font. What's the name of that font and where can I download it?

I thought I managed to work around the issue by putting Vista to Hibernate rather than Sleep. If I was going to conserve any energy by placing Vista machine to Sleep, mind as well turn it off or Hibernate.I find Hibernating very usefully for my traveling laptop. No need to wait for 68 seconds+ boot up time.

Topic is resolved.Please PM any moderator to continue this discussion. Until then, this topic is closed.

anwiii, take a break and come back when you are ready to decide to remain as a member or keep slandering this admin. You once gave warning another member for bringing personal matters between two people discussed in the forum. You get the same in return.

I have read nothing but good things about SSD (now we're going off the topic) :)I replaced one of my laptops with SSD and it does speed up. However, the initial booting time and the computing power, such as creating large PSD or working on fill-able PDF is the same--because it's CPU related and not hard drive related.Retrofitting an older laptop with SSD, with the high price of SSD, does not make a practical upgrade. Majority of netbooks are sold with SSD and they seem to be reliable and making battery last longer. I suppose if your laptop is worth upgrading SSD would be one of the wise choices. I would rather sell the older laptop before it depreciates further and purchase newer laptop with SSD as an option. It's better to have motherboard with SSD connector rather than fitting SATA to SSD with a kit.

 

Whatever happened to learning from the past? Strange it may sound, India's department of telecom could ban BlackBerry devices, Skype and even Gmail services if those services do not comply with the government's law. This law is to ensure that data through aforementioned networks will be made available to security agencies.

 

The story is leaked by stating that the IT laws of India is trying to make foreign companies (like Gmail) that does not need to apply for local license in India to comply fully with security agencies of India.

 

First was China bullying around Google, and now India trying to muscle Gmail, Skype and Blackberry around.

It's tough to balance forum signature and spammers taking part in free advertising... thus the limitation.I place the limit what I felt was enough for the rest of the forum. I also want to limit users from placing too much information. On an occasion I see that signatures serve to enhance the forum. But most often it is self serving (like advertising links and more).If the forum was about computers I can see your signature that displays all of your PC information would be relevant. And I cannot say that our forum is entirely about computers and computers related. If you must place all your computer information, for now, use all in one line instead of putting one item per line.

I guess "height" is a relative term.Yes, 2.5" is also known as the height of the drive. That would make my measurement as depth of the drive. In the hard drive, you have your size (3.25 or 2.5 inch drive) and then you have the width, followed by how thick your drive.Some specific laptops have drive thickness requirements such as less than 17mm or some 15mm drives only.There is no vibration rating except you'll know when your laptop vibrates. Some laptops equip with CD silencer to suppress unnecessary vibration when CD or DVD is spinning. SSD is an excellent alternative choice. However, the price is so high that it may not be worth it. For example, 200GB SSD is almost 3 time the SATA or IDE hard drive's price. SSD has very low power consumption and low heat.

Some laptops have specific hard drive height requirements. Majority of hard drives are about 19-23mm tall (when installed). Some hard drive caddies are only for >17mm and thus not just any laptop hard drive will do. Please search and know the dimension requirements before purchasing/installing.Another requirement can be the spinning speed (5400 RPM vs 7200 RPM). Some laptops have separate drive caddy that can absorb the extra vibration caused by high spinning hard drive. If you install high spinning hard drive it can cause unwanted vibration to your laptop. Consequently there are high speed hard drives with low vibrating ratings. Higher spinning hard drives tend to draw more power so know that your laptop may not last long under battery power.Be careful or be aware of extra heat produced by modified equipment (non-OEM replaced part). You can pickup a software to mirror/ghost your old hard drive to new hard drive regardless of the size difference. That means you don't have to reinstall your programs from the beginning, including your operating system.A good rule of thumb is to always, and I mean always have about 15-20% free space of your total hard drive capacity. Windows (especially Windows) is notorious for using your hard drive for paging. And if you max out your "reserved" space your hard drive can crash any time.