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I have installed Ubuntu 7 on a computer which does not have internet access. It was a bit of a pain because I am not experienced with Linux and I could not count on real-time web support while configuring it, anyway I overcame most of the problems and it now runs smoothly with its basic features...Now I'd like to make my installation a bit more complete thus adding a few packages which you normally get through apt-get... I browsed through the package directory on the Ubuntu official website but there are so many packages it'd make no sense to download all of them one by one! moreover I only realize which packages I might need while I am using Ubuntu and at that time I don't have internet access...so I was wondering if there's a way to download the whole package collection (or at least big chunks of it) so that I can burn it to cd/dvd, whatever it takes and take it to the internet-less computer to be installed when needed...any help appreciated

yeah that was my first thought as well (see my previous post where I talk about patents), then I thought that not all "inventions" or ideas are patentable because they might be refused by the patent office or the inventor might not have the money / the knowledge to file a patent application... so a platform like this where people can share their applications would be a meeting point where people can discuss and maybe work something out together... sure there is the risk someone "steals" an idea but generally speaking I think not everyone is ready to take up someone else's idea and develop it into something successful, just like that... rather I see two or more people working together on an idea, maybe putting their pieces together and maybe come up with some better idea, something that can be turned into the next step... besides inventors don't have to reveal all the details when they first post their idea, just outline it and see if someone looks at it... then develop it together in some sort of distributed team, sure this process will not always been just and there would inevitably be people taken advantage of, but keeping your idea in your drawer won't get you much further anyway just to be clear, i am not the one who originally proposed this, that user hasn't showed up ever since... I just found the idea of some interest, which doesn't mean I am looking for someone investing money, rather some people contributing their expertise and share ideas on the topic to find out if anything can come out of it... sorry you lost your job anyway thinking about this idea won't cost you anything

so has anything happened with this project? clivec have you put the site together? mmm maybe not an active member, anyway anyone else picked up the idea and want to share some thoughts?

Something that bothers me, and for which I think there must be a "cure", is the fact that in Windows XP every time i open a certain folder it shows up in a seemingly random view, in most cases either "icons" or "tiles", in some case "thumbnails" if we are dealing with pictures. While the latter makes sense I don't see why I shouldn't be able to set my preference for a given folder, so that for example the folder c:\apps always shows up in "details" view which is the one I usually prefer...I haven't performed a detailed study on the matter but it seems to me that doesn't happen since 98% of the times I change the view to "details" and when I return to the same folder some time later I find it in a different view!Is there a way to save the "view choice" for each folder? or at least to set one default view for all folders?thanks

just wondering... is "copy and paste" generally not available on mobile systems like, say, those running Windows Mobile? I have never used one but thinking of buying sooner or later and well that is a pretty basic and useful feature if you are used to a desktop environment...

What is ultimately the difference between internet on TV and internet on a computer? the fact that for the TV we are running a much simpler operating system I suppose... how would you connect to the internet? with the same line you already use for cable TV?on the other hand I can expect TV and computer will gradually come closer and eventually be merged in the same device, in fact many people (including me) are already using a computer to watch TV, being it internet streaming or terrestrial digital TV... sure one of the annoying points in this case is the fact that you need to be slightly more active on a computer and maybe wait some time for starting up the OS, you cannot lazily hit a button and see your favorite channel! so I think a computer with a very simple and fast loading OS would already be close enough to a TV, maybe it'd be hard to use this computer for other more requiring tasks, so in the end it may still be necessary to have two or more devices/computers...

Hi guys, thanks for your replies... good trick Saint_Michael maybe you can even get some useful hint from posting on trap first, like other users giving you advice or so, in this way you can improve your article before posting it to your website...About article directories, yeah I had the same feeling as well, that is not useful for you but useful for them... that's always the case anyway, there's no free lunch But if something can make your lunch even a little bit cheaper (or tastier...) then I think it is worth exploring

There are dozens of articles directories on the web. These websites store thousands of articles from various authors and encourage people to republish those articles on their websites as long as they cite the source, i.e. the article directory and the author name. It is surely an attractive way to fill your newly created website but I wonder what the repercussions on SEO are, and which side is more vulnerable (i.e. the republisher or the article directory?).Another thought regarding this issue... say I have a website/blog on which I regularly publish things that I myself write. If I am then posting in Xisto (or another forum) and I find a request/topic for whom one of my articles fit perfectly, I do copy and paste and create two copies of the same articles on two different websites (my site/blog and the forum). I believe this "self-plagiarism" is legitimate as I am the copyright owner for that piece of work, but again is it good for search engine ranking of my site/blog? I'd expect the forum receives more hits (if it is a popular one like trap ) and thus outweighs my site in search engines.Any insight on this matter?Thanks

I think voice recognition techniques are quite reliable by now and adding it to a wheelchair shouldn't pose a big threat to safety, not anymore than any computer controlled vehicle already has. The issue in case is with the controller itself which has to be tested in the harshest conditions and pass several tests before being considered reliable enough to carry someone on the road, being it on a wheelchair or in a car. I remember reading something about a computer controlled car, that is where everything including steering is done through a controller and actuators rather than mechanical systems, in that occasion I remember someone wondering if such a car would be MS Windows powered and stating it wouldn't be fun to see a "windows blue screen" while traveling on a highway. Certainly the choice of OS is crucial in such a vehicle and it shouldn't be anything we have on ordinary PCs, rather some "industrial grade" tough hardware with a simple and highly reliable operating system. In one occasion I worked on a computer controlled wheelchair and we used a Linux-based OS for that.Where will we go next? To me the idea of voice recognition alone doesn't seem to attractive, I find it faster in most occasions to click something or move a joystick rather than spelling out word by word what I would like the computer to do. Sure if the user has special needs voice recognition could be a useful solution. Even better the idea of connecting directly to one's mind by reading the electrical activity in different regions of the brain, I think experiments of this kind have already been done.

The excess heat produced by the engine is normally use for heating up the interior of the car in cold weather, or to get rid of condensation on the windscreen... it is hard to get anything useful out of that "trash-heat" because its temperature is quite low (it is some time defined as low-quality heat). We could store that heat for later use, for example carrying around some heavy heat-sink (like a tank of water) to be heated up or transform that heat in some other form of energy through a physical or chemical process, but again I think the temperature would be too low to be used in any useful process. I agree (almost) nothing is impossible and if there were no choice we would do with anything we have, including driving at 30mph as someone suggests. But even without compromising our lives too much we could already use many technologies that could improve our "overall efficiency" and lessen our dependency on fossil fuels... but apparently there is still too much oil in the world to do so.

I can't agree with most bad comments appearing in this topic. Maybe I am just lucky but I haven't experienced many issues since I started using FF3, not more than I have with FF2, which I still use. I think FF3 is faster and works better for most pages, but I must say I don't use so many extensions so i can't say anything about that!I have tried Chrome but gave up after a few days, that was really bug filled in my experience, the thing I liked though is that it had a different process for each tab, so in case of crashes you'd only have to "lose" one tab. That was a few months ago anyway, it might have improved by now...About the infamous "awesome all-in-one bar" in FF#, well I like it I find it very convenient the way I browse... but yeah occasionally I have to use IE for certain sites whose designers still think in terms of IE first...

Two good points, Mandarin Chinese is still used by many in China the way Europeans use English to communicate with each other, the Chinese government is putting efforts into flattening language differences across China but this process is obviously not easy and not even desirable in a cultural sense as it will signify the loss of many other dialects. The introduction of simplified Chinese characters has already meant that several characters have suddenly disappeared, after thousands of years of evolution (traditional characters are however still used in Hong Kong and Taiwan). The example of China could be extended to the whole world if a common language were to be introduced, although in this case there would be even more challenges and "losses". And yeah, I agree, it won't work. Nevertheless if everyone has a sufficient knowledge of the same language (let's say English at this point) things are much easier, and I believe learning a language is not such a daunting task if all we need is some "working knowledge" that enables us to get along with fellow workers/students/businessmen from around the world.

Ok, was looking at this other topic Unable to access CPanel and figured out two causes for my ftp and cpanel access not working: port 2082 might be blocked by my corporate firewall, but I don't see why because it's always worked from the same network, besides doesn't the block apply to incoming connections? (more likely) I opened too many ftp connection from the same IP when playing with that firefox extension and got blocked by the server as if trying to hack, according to that other topic I should wait a few days... any more suggestions? thanks

Thought I'd add that when my CPanel stopped working I was playing around with a firefox extension which stores bookmarks to an ftp server and was using my xisto/trap hosting for that... wondering if that might by any means have caused the problem.

The browsers just prompts the message "the server is taking too long to respond" and ftp clients (either filezilla or browsers) return "server offline"... still my site works, from the same IP and quite fast too! the password is correct but anyway it doesn't even prompt for password in the case of CPanel... probably just a temporary glitch, will wait for a while and then submit a ticket in case

For the past 15-20 hours I haven't been able to access CPanel or connect to my domain through FTP but my website seems to work correctly.I was wondering why is that happening when we are talking about the same hosting account? I figure that a non-working CPanel could be due to problems in the CPanel framework but how about FTP access? shouldn't that be a direct access to my domain regardless of CPanel status?Right now the http access to the site works but the ftp access doesn't...thanks for any hint!

that is a good one! you rarely find such site that works and doesn't spam... moreover it doesn't require any download or registration, in fact it just provides links to the actual streaming provider in a very streamlined way...

That's right MyCent is only a few weeks old and will soon displace the old system (second url you mention), all new users should go directly to get an account at xixto billing as you did. Right now existing users are allowed to use both systems, i.e. accumulating "hosting days" with the old system and earning MyCents to be used to buy hosting and optionally domains at xisto. Later on in my understanding all users will have to use xisto while still posting at Xisto. As for setting up your co.cc domain I think all you have to do is inserting the nameservers provided by xisto once you get your hosting plan approved or you can probably put the nameservers in already if you can find them... I have not setup a co.cc domain before so I am not aware of any arrangement specific to it.

I think the success of English in recent years is largely due to the development of technologies in the last half century. This language lends itself easily to this world, where new words are created on a daily basis and short concise words are often a definite advantage. Not that all English words are short and easy but most common concept can be expressed in a quite straight forward manner and the grammar and structure behind are also all but complex, at least when compared to most other western languages.Sure, that does not imply learning English is necessarily easy! It might be so for native speakers of another western language who will find some similarities in the vocabulary and the overall construction of the sentence and might find some difficulties when dealing with its not-so-regulated pronunciation. For learners from other areas of the world, for example Asia, this "simple grammar" might still represent a challenge as it differs substantially from their native languages which in turn pose other challenges to English speakers.Should we build a new global language from scratch? While this would be a very democratic and rational choice it has proven hard to achieve when looking at attempts such as Esperanto and Interlingua, both built on the basis of European languages. These languages have their own user community, a few thousands enthusiastic speakers, but are far from being a global language as the fact that they are based on European languages alone makes it clear.Would it be good to have everybody in the world speaking the same language? For the sake of diversity surely not! Although it could somehow sound attractive for the development of a world economy and a world without barriers it doesn't seem to me like the way to go, let alone extremely unlikely. The question here is whether a language is a mirror of a culture or rather just a means of expression, detached from the culture that gave birth to it. Would the world cultures preserve their peculiarities if each one of them were to speak the same language?Finally I think the world already has a number of international languages. Think about maths or science, everybody in the field knows what 5+7=12 means regardless of the way it is spoken out. And how about programming languages? There surely are a few millions individuals in the world understanding C++ or even more knowing what https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl means... technology is in my opinion the real "global language", and it is already there.

Learning a few interesting things from your replies... I'll check that "sidebar calendar" out, will have a look at that "beta story" and I've just learned of a product I never used (i.e. Hello) :lol:Maybe the fact Google doesn't have to have stable products is because most of them are free? although you pay for some services, for example if you want to buy more storage on picasa...As for GMail shutting down, I don't see it likely but I wouldn't be surprised if more ads were presents, actually I'm already surprised they haven't put more! guess that's what a lot of ppl love about Google

Well, you don't have to sign up for spam lists, that's why they are spam I guess a lot of work is done by your contact network, like when you receive an email and you do reply to all, then when a friends sends you an email containing in CC a dozen other email addresses... well somehow spam messages propagate that way although the exact mechanism is not clear to me. But I know for sure if i have an email address I use very little and have limited contacts and no "reply to all" events I almost receive no spam at all!

Maybe I am missing something here but was just wondering why do you need to initialize min_val and max_val to those numbers? wouldn't it be enough to initialize them to the first element in the array num? min_val = num[0]; max_val = num[0]; for ( i = 0; i < n; i++ ) { if ( num[i] < min_val ) min_val = num[i]; if ( num[i] > max_val ) max_val = num[i]; } range = max_val - min_val;

I've been using GMail for almost three years, probably got it a few months after it was launched. I like it very much, the most out of all webmail systems I've tried.When I started using it I was thinking "OK, that beta will be dropped soon", then I got used to seeing the logo that way. Now I wonder what's the reason to keep the "beta" indication? Is it some sort of disclaimer ("if it loses your mail it's your problem") or just that people got used to it and removing it would mean losing users ("mmm it may soon become a paid service..", I know that doesn't make sense)? or maybe they just have better stuff to do than thinking about that?More in general, how does a piece of software loses its status of "beta"? is it totally up to the developer? are there any standards developers have agreed upon?

Thanks a lot xpress and Mordent, very helpful posts :lol:It is pretty much as I expected, i.e. not necessary but highly recommended for many common tasks like validation and user experience enhancement.Good you mentioned the double-validation practice (JS plus server-side) to avoid rare but undesirable results!So next, go learn JavaScript and AJAX! have seen that word many times and always pretended to know what it means, but aside from the intriguing acronym I have no real idea of what it means

So I've built my first PHP&Mysql based website, enjoying it very much Although it's a simple website (still developing!) it includes a decent looking css powered interface, navigation buttons, user login system, session control and so on.Now, I haven't used a single line of Javascript so far, other than looking it up a little I have no real knowledge of it. What I know is that it is a browser side script and as such its instructions are not concealed in a web page source file. Javascript commands are interpreted by the browser and, unless the user deliberately blocks them, he or she has no clue about what's going on.In my browsing experience I find heavy usage of Javascript quite annoying, it clogs up the browser and sometimes the browser itself refuses to correctly interpret the commands (i.e. problems with different browsers). I have noticed (by looking at the Status Bar when hovering over a link) that many seemingly ordinary links have a Javascript instruction attached to them.My question is: is such use of Javascript really necessary? or at least a definite advantage? I figure that if someday I were to put some JS in my design it would be to show/hide things (like the Fast Reply box in Trap...) or open popups if necessary. It seems to me most other jobs can be easily done by a server side script, like PHP.As I said I'm all but experienced so I'd be glad to anyone giving some advice on this matter, like pointing out a few pros and cons of using JS and where it really comes into hand.Thanks