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That is a very interesting piece of information... thanks for sharing ;)If I am right that's exactly the way life on Earth evolved through millennia, at least according to Darwinians/evolutionists... I wonder at which stage of the evolution we are as human race and if in some way we are influencing the evolution process itself with our actions

try setting up the network as sonesay describes... if you use xp the wizard should do the job for you as long as you run it on both computers and choose the same workgroup name to make things easier. Since you have a router it's probably best to connect through it, so you don't need to use crossover cables, and remember to share the folders you want to transfer (just right-click and choose Sharing and Security...) If you still can't figure out where the other computer's file are you may search for the computer through explorer (Start Menu >> Search >> Find computer), you can search either by the name you assigned to the other computer (if the two machines are in the same workgroup) or by local network IP address (you can check that in LAN properties / tray icon)aside from that i find an external hard drive a convenient and reliable solution to store and backup data, and keep them synchronized between different computers... you probably don't want to overload your new laptop with a whole lot of (growing) data, even though 250GB seem, and are, a lot

you're right man, I've heard stories like that hundreds of times, and experienced myself as well! indeed it seems like the biggest change happened around the '80 and '90 (after year 2000 things have been pretty steady, which is hard to explain in connection with global warming as greenhouse gases emissions have not slowed down... another interesting point...) I think it's pretty easy to spot these changes if you live in places where you have a daily relationship with nature and supposedly 4 distinct seasons, as in your case I guess. You can definitely tell the seasons aren't in the right place anymore, and as you say it's not just "warmer", it's rather "messed up"! That's pretty much the way I see it! better doing something that wasn't needed, than not doing something that WAS needed... because even if we'll have done it "for nothing" what can help the environment can ultimately help all of us after all, who wouldn't like to live in a less polluted environment?

Hi guys... the fact you don't see any change in the place where you live, well it's a good news for you (or bad, depending whether you like the weather you have or not...) but it does not necessarily mean the problem doesn't exist on a GLOBAL scale (hence the name global warming)what we are talking about is a few (1-2 so far) degrees temperature change on AVERAGE, which means you'll have areas where the change is large some where the change is average and some where there's no noticeable change... besides, unless you keep statistics or you are a weather geek, it is quite hard to "feel" a 1-2 degrees difference what we are concerned is not the temperature change itself, rather the consequences these small changes can have on the global air and water circulation and possible intensification of natural phenomena, for example typhoons, rainstorms, snowstorms, droughts, etc.we've been observing a clear contraction of the ice bank in the polar regions, together with a general decrease in size in most mountain glaciers in the world, those are probably clear further signs something is going on... now, is that due to human activities? that's the big question! as some of you reported changes have always happened in the known history of Earth, a mini ice age was experienced a few centuries ago, and again in the middle age the average temperature was likely higher than today. What raises concerns nowadays is rather the RATE of change, something never occurred in recorded history... and this period of fast changes, well it began right when people started to massively burn fossil fuels and be heavily industrialized! just a coincidence? maybe ;)thanks Echo_of_.... for bringing up this topic, I also noticed it's not that popular on this forum...ps ausbus, if you "liked" the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" you should watch "The 11th Hour", you never know Di Caprio might be more convincing than Al Gore

interesting... something similar to what a wi-fi router does as opposed to connect our laptop to a cellular operator... so does the user need to actively connect to such network or is the connection automatically done as if it were a preferred network? just wondering if, like for wi-fi, one can sneak into these networks from outside the building or in an otherwise unintended way... any secure access technology?I was thinking this technology could be helpful also in remote areas where it's not worth installing a phone tower but, for some reason, there is a broadband connection available...

I agree on that, there certainly are people who are perfectly ok and maybe enjoy doing those "little things", they do not search anything else but security and trouble free existence... yet not all ppl doing "little things" are happy to do so, but are forced by circumstances or maybe by fear to change or objective impossibility... those ppl are understandably angry at the society as a whole and they may react in unexpected ways (I am thinking of a video i recently saw on the internet of some guy smashing his office, wonder if anyone has witnessed something like that...) It's a sad reality, let's see if Vardigon's optimism, there's still a way out of this, will pay off... to me optimism is a key factor in human life, there are so many bad things happening all around, life itself can be hard and merciless and if we don't embrace optimism what is it left to us? I don't think looking down necessarily means you are a 'zombie', but yeah it could be a sign something is wrong unless.... that guy is really convinced he will find a thousand dollars on the floor, let's be optimist //edit: fixed typos

I agree you should try chkdisk first and, as that failed, you can probably find some lower level tools, those that address the disk in binary mode... that way you can at least create a disk image for later retrieval if your hd condition worsens.. certainly it's a good idea you back up your data before doing anything else if you can do that in a simpler way (i.e. from windows)

yeah, Firefox has add-ons for pretty much everything one can think of 60-90kbps (kilobitpersecond) or kB/s (kilobytepersecond)?? i would say if it's kByte then it's quite good

I've been using LimeWire for some time and found it quite good, then I switched to torrent based software but seldom use it anymore. Anyway i found a browser, called Wyzo, that can download torrents 'on the fly', that is without having a torrent client (like uTorrent and so on) installed... I find it very handy if you do not download a lot...btw Wyzo browser must be some derivative of Firefox as it looks almost the same

well not exactly what that book talks about... that is more "down to earth", laying down facts and scientific discoveries, certainly there are a few open questions left by any discoveries as in most cases we are only to make use of certain natural phenomena but we do not deeply understand what's beyond them... anyway what you mention is certainly very interesting and fascinating... these thoughts always make me realize how insignificant humanity is and how insignificant our problems, wars, politics, anything... are when compared to the whole universe and what's still obscure about it! certainly the Sun occupied different positions in the (apparent) sky at the same period of the year, this is due to the phenomenon of 'precession' that can be justified by geometric reasons. This results in zodiac constellations being shifted from the position they occupied when ancient Greeks gave them the names we all use nowadays, the shift is about "one zodiac sign" so that anyone born under a certain sign was actually born when the Sun was in the nearby zodiac constellation (be it the one before or after, i forgot )

A book I've recently read and I would recommend to anyone interested in science is 'Electric Universe' by David Bodanis. It narrates the history of electricity and how it changed the world in a well-balanced mix of history, narration and science. In particular history and science are intrinsically related as some scientific findings are only possible in a precise historical period and, why not, some historical events may be well influenced by scientific advancements.Some basic scientific and technical knowledge would help understanding the matter but it's not indispensable to grasp the essence of the book, that reads almost effortlessly.edit: fixed typos//

very comprehensive listing.... must bookmark it!

I think these are very good and simple suggestions to work around the issue thanks

I wasn't thinking about privacy issues, however if you install and run portable firefox from a usb drive it is kind of secure, unless you drop your usb key somewhere of course the good thing is that if you want to take your installation to another computer you can do so by just copying and paste the folder, even to hard drive and it'll run (or at least it should!) like before... of course the real advantage is by using it on a usb drive or other portable device...

Thanks Live-Dimension for your advice.... that Cairo project seems interesting, something to keep an eye on!as for the other one you mentioned I had a go and it's not bad, only minor graphical bugs but overall it's quite efficient and easy to use... it has double view pane so you can easily drag&drop files from one folder to another within the same window and also tabs... I wouldn't know about the cab files though

Hi,although it has some useful features and it's (i'd hope so...) well integrated with the shell, the file explorer that comes with windows xp is not the best we can ask for... so I've always tried to use various other pieces of softwares randomly found on the net whenever I've had to intensively work on my file directory...still I haven't found a very good one, all those I tried have some kind of bug or they are not really user friendly in some occasions... would anyone suggest a good FREEWARE file explorer?thanks :Dps I just recalled how much i liked the File Manager on Windows 3.11!! maybe this is just a nostalgic thought and if I looked at it right now it'd look pretty poor but still i remember running it for a while when i switched to Win 98, wonder if it runs on XP....

personally I am waiting for a stable release of the Portable Edition, currently they only offer a beta test...btw I really like the portable edition because it's self-contained in a directory with all files there... though it must have some drawback, anyone had any bad experience with this edition?

thank you guys for your answers! so just to wrap it up, it seems like the possibility of unwanted disclosure of php code in browsers is quite remote, unless we want it to happen by explicitly indicating it (for example changing the extension to phps or txt depending on the server configuration)anyway nothing is impossible and ultimately is up to the server to do a good job and prevent that to happen

I am quite new to PHP and this concern came to my mind after playing around a bit with it... When PHP is not correctly configured on the web server the source code of a php file we try to access through a browser will be shown instead of the result of the code itself. This will normally not happen when PHP is working properly, but I was just wondering if it could still be possible to see that code if a user wanted to or if something on the server failed.This would for example expose sensitive information like mysql passwords and so on...Is anything like that possible and/or likely to happen?thanks!

well I think it's quite likely no name in the world is completely unique... sure some are more common, like yours perhaps as a privacy/safety concern, it shouldn't be hard to find anyone in the world nowadays if someone really wants to, at least this is what movies make us believe, and probably the person's name is not even the most important thing to identify somebody (think for example of a registered mobile phone number... that's pretty unique;)) apart from this concern my initial question was more like from a 'business' point of view, and restricted to 'articles' or similar (not blogs, forums, etc.). Does it bring more benefits or make more damage to one's hypothetical online or offline business? I guess anyway it highly depends on the specific case and probably different field might show different behaviors...

I agree with you on that... I also had the same thought! and I think there's nothing more traceable and permanent than online content in the google age What those pro-real-name people claim is that you can actually use your past articles and contributions as a kind of resume to boost your credibility, but yeah I think you can do that as well if you use a pen name, if you need to, as long as you can prove you were the author of that content... I believe you can do that somehow... so should we just create a different 'pen name' every time we change opinion??

This is probably not the right section but I think I'm not allowed to post into the Internet section as I am not Level 1 member...anyway, I was interested in hearing opinions regarding whether it's a good or bad idea to use your real name when submitting articles to websites, obviously I'm talking about 'real' articles, not forum entries or comments to other articles... and of course I'm assuming you are not spamming or copying and pasting!I found various opinions about that on the web, the main reason for using your real name seems to be:- if you are serious about what you write and you know what you are talking about, you may eventually get popular in your field, by then it'll be hard to switch to your real name if you used a pseudonym before and people may wonder why you did it and if it was really you behind those articleson the other hand the most relevant reason for using a nickname/pseudonym would be:- keeping your online and offline lives separate minimizes the risk of 'cross-contamination' if you make mistakes in either one and/or you are not ready to share details between the twoSo what you guys think about that? does anyone have any relevant experience that might help sort that out?thanks in advance

I've been consulting many websites for C/C++ but I wouldn't know what to say if one was to be recommended.... in my experience if you just come across a problem it's faster to just google it and try to find the specific answer to that particular issue. It might not be the best educational approach but it is time saving.As for HTML and other Web Design languages it is even easier to find information on the Web and great tutorials... also I found it useful to read through free extracts from popular books that are sometimes offered on some websites as a means of promotion, though sometimes they tend to be a bit too wordy and don't get straight to the point. But some good advice or new perspective can often be learned in such case

In my experience the way a OS performs depends sometimes on the hardware platform... for example a few years back I was very happy using Windows ME on my PC (AMD Athlon) while most people didn't even want to hear about ME!Also, though I successfully installed and used Windows 2000 on many machines I had problem with it on some computers and found that ME was more stable (?!)I think ultimately it's a matter of "luck" or maybe ability to build or get someone to build a machine whose components are not fighting against each other and with the operating system.As for Vista, well I had to set it up once for a friend and found it difficult to find drivers, but that was about one year ago so it might be better now, however the system seemed quite unstable with blue screen regularly showing up any time you attempted to restart or shutdown... as many have pointed out in this topic I also don't like the look of it so much but that's just personal taste and it shouldn't be what drives the choice (as others said the same thing happened when XP and, for me, 95 came out!)

anyone ever tried https://fon.com/? from what they say it works as follows: you need to have a broadband connection somewhere in the world over which you have control (i.e. you can change and configure the modem/router) you need to buy a router customized by them that provides two wireless signals, one for a "public" wireless network and one for your "private" wireless, I think a few LAN ports are available as well anyone can then connect to the "public" wireless network provided he or she has a valid username/password provided by them the username and passwords are gained by either sharing your home connection in the above way or buy some credit from them So if you are sharing your home connection you can connect for free to all wireless access points in the world whose owners share their connection the way you do. In principal it sounds to me like a good thing, that could work. You don't pay anything on top of your normal broadband (apart from buying their router) and you can hook up to lots of wireless networks around the world! Though a few issues may arise, for example how to ensure users really share their connection once they've bought the router and do not simply leave the router unplugged? and what about security? (they do say the two networks, public and private, are completely independent...) was wondering if anybody has tried it out or heard anything about it and could give some opinion...