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Hi karen_white and Mcintyre9876, welcome to Xisto!I hope to read from you on the boards, new people, new visions and opinions are always welcomed here.Not so long ago I was introducing myself as you are now, and I can tell you I've found a wonderful community in these forums to share and discuss lots of different ideas.So, have fun!

Sorry man, how long does your phone's keypad last before you can't see the numbers and letters printed on it?I'm writing about 200 txts a month at max, and after almost two years, the keypad is kind of blur, particularly on keys 1, 2 and 3. That means that I have written at maximum 4500 texts with this cellphone.If you write that in 9 days, how often do you buy a new phone???

Got the solution for those people! If they use to Firefox, they can enable safe mode (Private Browsing), which means that you can surf the net as much as you can and it won't be saved anywhere. It's a new feature added to 3.1 I think, though it was called "pr0n mode" while beta testing

Although I honestly think that including "wisdom" in the name sounds like "woo, look how clever we are...", wisdomimpact.com sounds way much better than this Xisto thing! Anyway, I can't think a good name by myself but I do think that having changed the name was not a good idea. For example, if you look at Free-WebHosts' review of Xisto, it says: I don't know how many other directories of free hosts show a similar message, but it in my opinion it doesn't create a good image of the site (especially when they say that most probably it's no longer free ). So, I reckon if we're going to choose a new name, make it definitive.

Well, although I'm not a huge user of url shorteners because I haven't tweeted much recently, I must admit I was very impressed for your site.Not only does it shorten urls, but also has a few more stuff that are great. For example, those tweeter services seem to be quite handy for those who tweet daily.Also, Lockerz invites! I've just registered the invite you sent me and I'm already earning points...However, I'd like to suggest you a few things.First, you need a bookmarklet. One of those links that you drag to the bookmarks bar and then when you want to shorten a link, just drag the link to the bookmarklet. The instant submitter you placed in the top right corner of the screen only directs you to your homepage.Moreover, I like the design of the homepage but you can add more info on the other services you offer, because they are quite useful! Of course, the bar where we put the URL is perfect, it's what we are looking for so it has to be big and centred. But it's not the only thing that the visitor may like. Even more, that Tweeter Scheduler, for example, may be one of the reasons for which a visitor may stick to TinyLX instead of running back to your competitors.Also, another recommendation about design, which I assume you'll already have in mind, is that shorten.php (the "results" page) needs the same design as the rest of the site. And those sharing buttons don't work, which is really frustrating.Well, and finally, as everybody else said, you have to promote it everywhere!

Truefusion has a point there. But if you don't have access to the database, then you obviously need to fetch it from the website. It's a kind of aggressive takeover, and I wouldn't recommend using Xisto's servers to do it. Of course, once you've got the access to the database from your teacher, all the trouble of fetching from a link is unnecessary. If you're still interested in the option I described before, here's a brief description of Snoopy. The thing is that, as truefusion said (and I said in my previous post) it may slow down both servers (the one in which is hosted the info and the one in which you're running this script). So if you tried to retrieve the info of 15 students it may take a while... but if we're talking about hundreds, then that can be a bit complicated. I mean, I don't think it will work before the server breaks down the connection for excessive amount of time to execute the script (that's something I hadn't taken into account before, sorry). I guess that you need to be very proficient in PHP to get to retrieve the info you need from the website in intervals, mixing Snoopy class, cron, regular expression or some other way to separate the info you need from the rest of the pages.... and storing it in your own database of file... It's way too complicated yes, I can't even enunciate it.

I'm not one of those moralists who say "Oh marijuana... that's awful", or those who think that all drugs are the same... Also, in my country, Uruguay, smoking it is not illegal. Actually, it's legal to consume only this drug and to have less than two grams of it, but it is illegal to sell it or grow it. I think it would be better if someone smoke pot instead of using other drugs like heroin, cocaine, crack or cocaine past... etc But there are a couple of things that make me sick about this topic. First, at least in my country, there is like a move for the legalisation of growing marijuana for personal consumption. And their arguments are based in bourgeois' individualist ideology ("ahh... it's just something that people do in their private lives, Law cannot forbid it"), as if the mind state of every people didn't change the reality of a whole society. And secondly, it's said that marijuana does no harm and it's not addictive because it doesn't become a physical addiction... IT IS psychologicaly addictive! This means that it may be harmless for those who smoke once a month, but if you smoke regularly, well you're as much addicted to weed as if you were to crack (I'm not comparing the drugs themselves, but two psychological addictions). Another thing that bothers me a lot, is that there are some youths of political parties in my country that not only do they support marijuana legalisation... but that's their only plan for youth... I mean, I wouldn't mind if they supported the cause! The problem is that they don't have any other IMPORTANT proposal on, let's say, "minor" things like jobs and education! They don't talk about that when the media shows them, they don't have programme on such minor points. But hey! They are progressives, because they want to be free to grow it for themselves. Come on!

I'm unfamiliar with SSL too, but I think you will need OpenSSL or similar on your host and I'm not sure if your domain also need to be able to direct https:// like connections. For your PHP script you will need to use OpenSSL functions, which I've never used. So first, check if your host has OpenSSL installed. Best way is trough phpinfo() If you pay a hosting service, ask the administrator, if you host it yourself, I'm sure download it and install it. Once you're sure you have SSL support in the server, study those PHP functions I linked above. I guess you' can do it that way.

It sounds like it's not your website the one you're trying to pull the info. Brilliant! So you need to use Snoopy class, a PHP class for fetching other websites content. In the same directory to where you upload Snoopy.class.php, create this something.php file: <?php include "Snoopy.class.php";$firstID = 0; // this would be the first number of the range of students IDs$lastD = 20; // last number in the range$urlbase = "school.edu/more2.html?frn=&%2334;; // this would be the URL address of the website, but without the student ID number$i = $firstID;$snoopy = new Snoopy;echo "Beginning<p>";while ($i<=$lastID) { $snoopy->fetchtext($urlbase . $i); // snoopy fetches the pages content print $snoopy->results; // and prints it to the screen $i++;}echo "<p>End."; // bye bye?> Here's a basic idea of the kind of script you need, I think. But no warranties. It may hang up your server, the other server, or both.... I don't know if it works or not. And I'm not going to try it At best, it will show the info you need, but quite messy.

I think this idea is very cool, especially for the people who have lost contact with the forums, it would be great to receive some reminder that they still have a place to post and contribute.Also, another suggestion for KS is to remove that beautiful site in flash... I know it looks so cute, and whoever did must have made a huge job, but people hates having to wait for a Flash intro to load... because it looks like a flash intro at first. And especially nowadays that Flash is no more a discovery and people is already used to it, I think that it's lost that exotic taste it once had. At least, if they really like it and want to keep the flash site, please make so that in no less than 5 secs it's loaded.Just a contribution

Just a hint: make sure you know how to install a wireless card before actually buying one and that if you have a free slot in your motherboard to connect it.I'm telling you this because... if you don't understand what I'm talking about, then don't go for a wireless card. Buy a WiFi USB adapter, as Бојан said, because they are usually way much easier to install and use, just like inserting a pen-drive.Anyway, most chips come with an installation guide, usually quite easy to understand but sometimes hard to take to practise. However, if you are really interested in a WiFi card, as I said, check if you have a free slot in your motherboard. Motherboards have different slots or ports, to which every piece of hardware inside your computer is plugged: processor, memory, graphic card, sound card, network card, modem?... etc.

If you only bought a domain name, I guess that information won't be supplied to you. You have to order a Hosting Plan to get space and databases. There are several plans, here's a list from which you can order. As you can see there, when you buy one of the plans, you get an amount of space, monthly bandwidth, FTP accounts, MySQL databases and subdomains.

Thanks both anwii and BuffaloHelp. I had discarded using an A record because I didn't have any IP address to point to, I only had the servers URL. I just googled that and found their IP address here. And now it works! Thanks :angel:

Hi! I have a blog hosted in blogspot.com, for which I bought a domain name in Xisto with MyCents (let's say mydomain.org). This thing of hosting a blogspot blog in a personal domain means that I had to create several DNS records. Recently, I began using Google Apps with this domain, so that I can have email addresses @mydomain.org and a subdomain to access to webmail and docs. I had to create even more records. Now this is how the lists of DNS records looks like (hiding some sensitive info, sorry): A records (these IPs are Blogspot's) CNAME records MX records Note: name server records (NS) all point to the usual om1.computinghost.com, om2.computinghost.com and so on... Now, after all these changes I'm begging to think that BlogSpot is not enough so I want to have my blog powered by Wordpress and I'm doing some tests. I want this tests to be hosted on a subdomain, like tests.mydomain.org. I have a free hosting account on Byethost. How do I point tests.mydomain.org to Byethost's name servers (ns1.byet.org). I guess I should make a NS record (NAME: tests.mydomain.org VALUE: ns1.byet.org), but it doesn't seem to work and I have tried. :angel: I'm asking here because I don't think it is a hosting problem but DNS records stuff. If somebody thinks otherwise I will ask in Byethost forums too. So, if someone who had to deal with hosting a subdomain on a different server than the rest of their site, or someone who just knows how to deal with that can help me, I'll be highly appreciated.

I really enjoy this film, although there were a few things that really don't fit how I imagined Sherlock Holmes.. but heck, I went to see Guy Ritchie's film, I'm not a big fan of Holmes.For example, that stuff of Holmes pitfighting and both Watson and him in the world of street fights mmmm... it seemed as if Ritchie wanted to add something from his previous films but ended up making it "Van Helsing" style feel- maybe a bit more of mystery and ingeniousness and less of fists may have worked better.As for the cast, well, Downey Jr. plays outstandingly, adding to the character that odd side of himself. But Jude Law's performance was another story... I reckon it's not the actor for the role, too young for it maybe?Not to forget is the awesome work in scenery and bluescreen they did for this film. Really. Victorian London look with that nasty, cloudy, grim feel was much more realistic than in other films portrayed to similar times (e.g. Sweeney Todd).All in all, it was a very good film to enjoy in your free time. It doesn't have the quality to become another "Snatch" but... I guess the director has made enough money to make more films later.

I need to edit a post in which I accidentally violated a rule and I can't see the edit button. Please, if a moderator may remove the quoted text for me asap I'd be appreciated... Or if someone posts the URL address that links any EDIT button, I may just change the postid variable and might be able to edit it myself, I don't know... Thanks

I found this piece of news via Digg. My younger brother has asthma, and the improvements in health care coming from this discovery would be really helpful I think... though I have my share of suspicion about how long that would take to be accesible in the third world - it seems like the kind of cutting-edge technology that would only be available in the rich countries.

K550 doesn't have WiFi connection, according GSMArena, which is what I was mainly looking for. Thanks anyway

Hi! I'm considering buying an old phone from an acquaintance. It's a Nokia E51. It 's in good state and has all I want: mainly WiFi access to Internet. The thing is that I have an old computer in my room with Debian Lenny, but it doesn't have a WiFi card to connect to the web through the wireless network my family has at home... (yeah, I know it doesn't make much sense but it's just that I'm trying to recycle this computer) Now, my question is, can I use this Nokia E51 as a "modem" with its WiFi capacity, in order to connect this computer to the wireless network (saving some bucks)?? I'm asking this here, and not in Nokia's forums because I've made some research (googling basically) and found that there is no official solution to this since they don't offer Nokia PC Suite for Linux, only for Windows. So, there's no official solution for this. There are some apps that try to connect phones to Linux, like KMobileTools and Wammu, but the former's site is down and the latter doesn't offer what I'm looking for. So I'd like to know if you people have faced this problem and if you could solve it? Thanks

Thanks for the answer BuffaloHelp.I hadn't take Greasemonkey in consideration before, so I'll take a look at userscripts.org to see if some of the scripts there work for me.However, the script you posted is not exactly what I was looking for... I want to be able to drop down the list of search engines in the search bar at the right top section of Firefox screen, using only the keyboard.I know it's lazy of my part and that using the mouse wouldn't take more than a couple of seconds hehe... Anyway, thanks for your tip!

Hi!I use Firefox, and searching from the search bar of the browser is one of the things I do most. It's useful and simple: Ctrl+E -> type query and enter!However, I find really annoying the fact that I have to use the mouse to drop down the list of search engines if, e.g., Google is selected but I want to use Wikipedia.I'm a big fan of the keyboard, so although I know this question may sound a bit dull for those others who prefers the mouse, I'd be really grateful if someone can give me a keyboard shortcut or any kind of trick to drop down that list.Thanks

I'm not sure about that.I know lots of people who still use IE 7... Public computers in one of the libraries of my university still have IE 6! (The worst of all is that the hard disks of some of them are frozen for security reasons, so I can't install Firefox because the next day it won't be there again )

Sure! Let's wait a couple centuries... that'd be great, so we can really see the trend. But not in numbers, simply coming out of our house. Because THERE is global warming, and the trend will stay there and the planet will become really hot. Of course, let's say it doesn't matter if you live in the Alps, Andes, Himalaya... etc- But I live on the coast. My whole country, Uruguay, is on the coast!!! The highest elevation is 500 m. The rest of it is not high at all. So I care about it. Not only is there a bunch of films about global warming. I saw myself Perito Moreno glacier melting. Guess why?

I can agree with you, but only up to a point. You see, there are no angels or demons, savers or anything as idealistic as that. There are interests. And in my honest opinion, violence is not an option unless it defends People's interests (that is, People, not some people's interests). With people, I mean working and middle classes (and petite and national bourgeoisie in the Third World) defending their common interests opposite oligarchy's.

If that is the description you accept of terrorism... then the biggest terrorist is the U.S. Gov.You can't deny history: Monroe Doctrine of intervention in their "private yard" (read Latin America). We had here as many coups d'etat as the USA agencies could throw, and whenever a national, popular or democratic project arose to power in one of our countries, it was cut down by the roots, whether by killing the leaders or directly training their Armed Forces to use terror against the people, killing students in the streets, kidnapping, torturing and raping people just because they thought differently. So, from a historical point of view, the word terrorist is not associated with fundamentalists. It was a word used by the statu quo to name their enemies. Those young students who once where in the streets protesting against the rise cost of living, to keep the University autonomous from the government, the keep the Army out of the schools and colleges, those who could escape and those who couldn't; they all were called terrorists in my country. But they didn't use terror; people weren't afraid of them. They were afraid of the "gorillas" who were torturing, raping and killing their sons and daughters.