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a thing I'd like to express about burning of ISO's back into cds/dvds. Because ISO is an exact copy it can contain information like boot sectors, but because it is an exact copy if you have cheep cds and there is a small error your burner would have normaly skiped over the ISO will tell it to write there and the drive can't thus making a shiny coster! Use more expensive cds when burning ISO's particularly large ISO's, I've lost about 10cd burning 3 ISO's! (Incase you didn't guess, they were very cheep cds)

I aggree it is very annoying, not so much even the yahoo, or msn results, but the ones that are there to make money like landing domain results, they look helpful, but really only are payed results, just more people who want to get rich quick with the internet. I believe those are the results refered to as SPAM, google tries very hard to keep these results down at the bottom of the list, but I believe they don't do it manualy so it is only by a series of rules that this happens so it is bound to take some other sites down with them, and then that makes those people mad, and results in google not making to many of those result altering changes very often!

I am using a live cd of linux and would like to know how you would use the cp command to make a copy of a windows drive from internal to external for backup purposes, I would just copy and paste from withen windows but then things like pagefile.sys wouldn't be included, any thoughts?

It depends where you're from, Canadians only have 2 offers!

Like BuffaloHELP said 99.9% of ISO's are illegal, the one's you find on the internet anyway. Infact there really are only one kind of legal ISO and that is the Linux ISO (there are a few exceptions) To get them rather then using p2p I would recomend something like linuxiso.org

Perhapse I still didn't explain, all those programs rely on one thing, aside from the 1/3 overlap, that is that the actual position of the camera doesn't move, however I want to take a picture that is longer the what rotating on one spot can accomplish, like I said a street. But when I do there is the perspective of the building to take into account, when you look a a building head on you see no side, when you swivel a camera on one spot you still don't see the side of the building, however when you start moving parallel to the face of the building you can see the sides and they present a difficulity in stiching, as it doesn't line up anymore. I wouldn't expect to find a program that would do it, just advice as to how to get around the building perspective. It may be easier then I think and I'm just not thinking right.

I supose I didn't quite finish my question. That is what I planned to do, however when you walk down a street and look at it you see the building right in front head on (only the door and windows) however the rest of the building in your view you can see the side of them, but when you move to the front you don't see the side anymore, so if I were to even take two pictures they would both have the side views and the front views of each buildings now how di I stich that?

If I were going to use a CMS I would have to build the CMS myself, I think that using a cms is a good idea if the website is not just for you, like forexample a business and the site were not really part of your job then updating it would be best if it was done quick, otherwise I think you should build the site yourself using whatever software you see fit (Dreamweave, notepad, HTML Designer, ect)That's what I did, and now I'm planning a rewrite perhapse with a little Database, in the background for easy updating but otherwise I will build it myself.

When you taks a series of images to stich to make a panorama you stand in one spot and spin, that way the perspective is the same, but what if you wanted to take a picture of say a city street where you couldn't simply stand in one spot, how might one make a long panorama then?

I'd like to jump in here, you asked can I?, the answer is yes, even if you can't right click you can still print the screen or (if you really want that image) browse through your cach, However I believe the question was can I 'legaly', well in most cases no. As was mentioned if it says, may use without concent, then yes, if it doesn't say, well that is a murky subject, I'd say yes, you know the argument, there might not be a law suporting it, but there also isn't anything against it! But if the webmaster were to contact you if they found you using there image, and ask for its removal, I'd say you pretty much have to. But if it copyright, not to be used withoug the authors permision, then the answer is NO! Copyright is really a murky subject, and it depends who you ask, so people say if you modify it then it's alright becuse you made it, but would that not be plagerism?, can you take a book and rearrange some of the sentances and call it yours? That being said can you quote a gook using footnotes in an essay? Yes, then that is in effect linking back to the origional work, and when you do it in an essay you don't ask the origional author, it is just assumed.I'd say ask, if they say no respect it, or trace it (with a brush in photoshop, or Fireworks) then it is yours, you made it!

Yes, Perhapse, if you're lucky opaque will be willing to keep you're Xisto hosting up simply as a re direct page"We have moved and can now be found at yaddayaddayadda.astahost.com, please click here if you aren't redirected in 15 sec"You know the default, or perhapse he would be willing to simply redirect you're sub from Xisto to Xisto, I know it is possable that is after all how the free domains Buffalo is refering to work!

With all the diffrent borwsers and the restrictions placed upon them, like Safari only works on mac, it is hard to build a site that which will work well on all of them formating and javascript wise, even just the age of the browser could affect which tags work, or maybe you rely on a tag that won't work elsewhere but you don't know that.So I am proposing not a review site, but a place where I could post my address, and an image of what I want it to look like (a print screen from my browser of choice) then all the people with there diffrent OS's and Browsers could post something like tested:IE 6.0 worksFireFox 1.4 banner covers first line of content.Then if they wanted to a fix.that way I, and all the other users as developers could get a feel of what there site looks like on diffrent platforms, then if possable a close thred button could be made available to only the person who started the thread so when there were happy they could close the thread.This form would also help users make there site known and more public plus increse page rank and such in google!

Yeah, and it's expensive, something like 600$/year/server, or 1500$/server, that was last time I checked ofcorse. I did a quick search on sourceforge and found this project https://sourceforge.net/projects/shoutbox/, seems to be what you want, I would also recomend doing the search yoursef, there are many others

If you're building a website the best marketing you can count on is google, and you're page rank, that is the value that determins where your result should be compaired to another person, google recently filed for patent that reviels how there service works: This is a buzzle.com article about this event. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Some of the informaiton is quite shoking

I know http://www.3dbuzz.com/ was a good resource, though it's been a while since I was there.

You know that's exactly what I want except without the menu, but for the user to change the themes. Now I was also looking at his code and sort of came to the conclusion that is isn't all CSS though, because as was mentioned in the above postings that css can't change the img tag src, so I got to wondering how did he change the floating brain image according to the style chosen, I would assume it has something to do with the style variable defigned in the setscheme.asp file, now there is another story I wouldn't have aclue how to set the scheme using an external file, nor how to do it with asp, but I assume it could be done with php, so let's say I have a file that contians a bunch of information recarding what css to use and what image where: //Default theme$css = "default/default.css";$bannerimage = "default/banner.gif";//and so on a so forththen in my site I would have a code that depending on the ?style= command it would include the above file at the top so: if style="default"{include default_theme.php;}//then you would have a bunch of other if's and what to do if there was no style definationecho "<html><head><title>here it is!</title><link href="" . $css . "" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />";and so on a so forth with the rest of the site, so when the style is style=defaule the default_theme.php is called which provides the file with the variables like $css Do you think that might work, also how would I keep that style even through the rest of my pages?

I would have no authority on the subject so this is just a guess, but a 3d program like Maya, or 3d max. A 2d Program like Photoshop, for creating textures, these programs would be used for creating movie sequences that would later be spliced into the video using something like a green screen effect, also known as chroma key. Now this is one thing I do know, some of the scenes were built entirly using the computer, for example when there are thousands of orcs attacking on of the places (I can't remember the name now) those scenes were entirly generated, no filming! Appentrly now this information is just coming from my memory, so it isn't necessarly to accureat, there was a software developer comissioned to do there scenes so unlike traditional computer dessign where each orc (I hope I spell that right) was created by hand and then animated by hand navigating around every other orc by hand, this process you can imagin would take years, even decades!!! this developer (I believe he was from canada) would create, assumably along with a team of artists, a handful of monsters, say 10, then program them so they could walk on there own, kina like in a video game, and clone them over and over again so you have thousands, (Imagine the processor time and RAM) then say "run towards the castle", now in traditional dessign this would all be possable but the guyes in the front would head off and the ones in back would go and because you are using several diffrent models they would travel slightly diffrent speeds, and end up cutting throught each other (which would be bad ) so these bodies were then programed with a fuzzy logic so when they encountered a slow moving orc they could actualy think and decide for themselfs a way around the object in front without obscuring the video, or creating sharp polygons then a camera was placed in the 3d world from the side, and then again from the top and these sequences were spliced together to form the final product. Now you asked about specific programs, my guess would be that you would never have heard of the program, like I said maya, and 3d max photoshop ect, but no single program would be used for the whole production, and many hardware utilities would also be used with editing stations, (I hope I didn't sould rude when I said you wouldn't know of the programs, what I ment was propriety software was probably also used) chances are also very good that a program used by a hollywood director might even be simpler to use then something like Pinnacle studio, why? Because Hollywood movies don't use effecs or built in sounds that consumers expect in there video editors, something very simple like the sequence editor in Blender, no effects, no sounds just an aduio track for background audio, and video tracks, for what else but video!! If you were asking because you wanted to make something simmilar, you probably could do a lot with premier pro, never used it myself but hey it's got the pro in it's name and costs lots, must be good , but serously start out small and learn more programs and eventulay you will have a set of tools and when you want to make something you say I can't do it here, and would be doing it by hand here, but maybe I can use this tool there. My self I don't do much video editing (for lack of a video camera!) but I do like to edit pictures, and use something in the range of 8 or nine programs to do so, just what I am most comfortable using for that pericular task.

After reading this I am very much considering it, and in doing so I have found out how to ask questions, regarding the .net registrations... So from that I gather that for more informaiton you should go to optinom domains, which I did and found they have about 8 diffrent extensions.

I was wondering if it is possable to change the path to an image using CSS, so that I could provide a sort of template system rather then having to change a bunch of thing I could have astandard page and then by changing the external CSS I could change not only styles but the whole image, I soo how I could change the background-color { url(image.gif)} but whatabout an actual image say change the src of an img tag?

It sounds like you want to type and place content on top of the images, and to the best of my knowledge that can't be done with iframe, like they said iframe is dessigned to place a page inside a page, wich if you don't have php can be handy but if you can use php it is better to use include as cmatcmextra said.Umm if you do want to type ontop of the image there are really only two ways of doing this, the first being with a table as you entioned the other with css, and layers. The latter I can't help with but the table I can, post back if you would like me to elborate

This seems like a very good service, I was wondering when you say the domains are transferable does that mean they are registered under you're name? Because if they aren't how is the ability to transfer guranteed, if they are, well then ICANN recently changed the rules forcing provider to offer the ablitly to transfer.

wow that's a lot simpler then what I said

I'm so sorry about the latness of this reply, I hope this input is still of use. You will need to set one computer as the mail computer, I assume that since you use dialup that one computer dial out and the rest connect through it, although I may be wrong, I would use this computer for the webserver. Now I'm no expert in webservers or mail servers, this is all in theory, however you can use this theory and the instructions incluted with the software to make it work.So step 1, install and configure a webserver, you may want to restrict all access to only the computers on you're network, via there IP addresses. You can use a microsoft web server, or something open source like apache, there is a windows install.step 2, like I said I'm no server expert, so I don't know if you need seperate software, or if the webserver includes mailing technology. But you will need mail server technology that supports both smtp and POP3, or SMTP and IMAP.step 3, you may wish to install seperate software on this server that allows for web based mail such as OpenWebmail, or Squirl Mail, but that is optional. Now like a website where you type https://login.live.com/jsDisabled.srf?mkt=EN-US&lc=1033 to get to you would go to the browser and type the IP address of the computer which you installed the software, probably 192.168.something.something. If you used apache and didn't configure an alternate file path you will see the apache welcome page, this is good, and should work from all the computers on the network. Now you go to the mail server configurateion and create a mail address for each user, or in this case each computer, and then configure each computers outlook express settings, in this case if you server was configuted to use POP2, and SMTP it would be POP3.192.168.something.something, and alternativly for the SMTP.So if you did all this properly when you send a message from one coputer to the other you would be sending a message from comp1@192.168.23.68 (we will assume that 192.168.23.68 is the IP if the server I am getting lazy and don't feel like typing something.something) to comp2@192.168.23.68, now when that message is sent comp1 will go out on the network to 192.168.23.68 and ask the server to give the message to comp2, now comp2 won't actualy get the message until you press send/recieve in outlook express on comp2. Now you have a mini version of the internet, if you were to install something like Open Webmail on your server then instead of using outlook so send and recieve mail you could also go to 192.168.23.68 and then login to the email account, it works just like an internet mail account except it won't work outside the local network. That being said there is a much simpler way of achieving something simmilar to this without mail, if the desire is to transfer files you can create a shared folder somewhere and place the files there, or if the desire is chat you can use the dos command net send, or last but not lease for file transfer chat and a whole lot more try microsoft net meeting by typing conf at start run.If there are any questions please feel free to post back.

When I go to a website and enter informaiton in a form my borwser saves this information, this also happens on my site. Now because I didn't do anything special I assume all my visitors have the same functionality, that is remember what they typed on a previous visit. Is there a way using some sort of language in my site to repress the browser wanthing to remember filled in form information?

I?m going to show you how to add a feature I feel Windows should have had from the get go, easy font install, after all what?s more exciting then using a font you have just downloaded in a new presentation or document. I?ll start off by saying that there are probably easier ways of doing this, perhaps even shell extensions you can install, however this tutorial can be modified by the user to do almost anything from the right click using an age old technology known as the batch file, or ?.bat? for short, and what?s better all in 10 easy steps! There is a tutorial on Xisto already that shows you how to install fonts however it is the Microsoft preferred way, which surprisingly enough doesn?t use the right click menu, everything else Microsoft does! The first step of the process is to open a folder so we can access the folder options, so once there we will execute Tools >> Folder Options? No we need to open the file types tab and find the TTF, True Type Font, file (Step2). By choosing the advanced button we now have a whole list of options for this file. (Step3). Now whole we still have these dialogs open (Although it could be done before) we will run notepad and type the following: copy %1 ?C:\WINDOWS\FONTS?ExitAnd then save it in a simple location, I have chosen to save it to C:\Documents and Settings, be sure to type a file name and then .bat, this will make it a batch file. (Step4) Back in the folder options, and the advanced options choose New (Step5), as we want to make a new command, this will show up in the right click menu so call it something like ?Install? (Step6) Now browse for the batch file we created earlier (Step7), and open it (Step8&9) and finaly press Ok (Step10), now close out of all the windows and right click any font file, and when you choose Install, it will copy the file to the Windows font Directory. P.S I know this works under XP, as for other MS products, I can't be sure, although most NT based systems should (I stress, SHOULD) work Notice from cmatcmextra: Fixed image