Animator

I joined not long before Xisto took over. When I signed up, the credits were actually easy to understand. I liked it. The amount of features was pretty good too. Then Xisto came and everything changed. I signed up as soon as I got told of the new system. Somehow my signing up didn't get through and I later lost my account as a result. After jumping through a few hoops, things finally got working, but my account didn't last long.I like the forums, but I absolutely hate the Xisto hosting. I've given up trying to make sense of their "you have to buy eggs if you want bread" service. I never did get my questions about how hosting credits work in plain easy-to-understand english. Honestly - I think it's just random. The whole registration process was an absolute nightmare that wasn't worth it in the end, when credits just seem to disappear for no reason.I'm already hosting with another provider and much happier than I was when Xisto took over. No clue on how to stop them sending threat mail about "pay us or your account will be suspended" kind of stuff. I actually did go in to try and "top up" my account once (financially) but found that if paying through internet bank transaction, they would only accept no less than $100 (wtf!?!), I'd have to fill in this horror form of details and then I'd actually have to email them to let them know the transaction had been made.Xisto: what a #$%^&*$ mess.

Hey, thanks for your post there. Knowing that it happened to someone in positive credits does seem to nail it down more. I've got a few tutorials and such I've been writing for Xisto, but was sure my problem was because I hadn't been quick enough... your post seems to indicate this may not be the issue. Can you please report back about whether "ordering" works and also, a few steps on making that order? I'd thought I'd done it a while back (right when version 3 was just made) but maybe it was something different.

Hi. I've noticed my account animator.astahost.com has been suspended, probably because my cents run into the negatives as I've been really busy of late. How do I go about getting my site unsuspended etc?I'm pretty confused about the whole MyCents, MyEarnings and MyCredit thing. I asked before on various threads but pages of RTFM (and a few being arrogant about "you just have to RTFM" etc) haven't helped in the slightest... just left me confused as ever.I'm not even sure that my xisto account is the same as Xisto or not. When I log on with xisto, it says I have (cut and paste)...Account StatisticsNumber of Products/Services: 0 (0)Number of Domains: 0 (0)Number of Support Tickets: 0Number of Referred Signups: 0Account Credit Balance: $17.00Due Invoices Balance: $0.00Can someone please tell me (in plain English) what's up with the multiple credit thingamies, how much feedback equals in terms of cents or earnings or whatever and what my options are in terms of getting my site up again?Regards - Lancer.

Owch, having made websites since the mid 90's - that makes me feel old. The guy behind weebls-stuff.com has is about the weirdest I've seen anywhere... Example: http://weebls-stuff.com/ Here he is again, with a more "live" take http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ This same guy is responsible of oddities like https://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ and the Weeble and Bob series: http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/pie-weebl-and-bob-ep001/

Okay - I made the contact page image into a background. The solution was to add a style to the <TD> tag... <td style="height: 100%; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: top; background-image: url(img/contact.jpg); background-position: right bottom; background-repeat: no-repeat;" colspan="2" rowspan="2">I'm fairly confident it's a cross-browser friendly snippet.

Thanks for the suggestions. How do I align a background image? It would be great to have things working for every browser of course, though in the case of Konqueror, I based my JavaScript off a CSS menu my friend wanted to use from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, which is supposed to be fairly compatable with what most visitors would be using (IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari). The original code is fairly cross browser but fails Konqueror, and I think the lady I've set this up for would want me to keep the effect as long as things work for IE, Firefox and Safari.

I'd like some help please with a website I've been making for someone. The site is basically done, but there are a few glitches: http://guinevera.com/ On the Company >> contact details page (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) I have used CSS to make an illustration go at the bottom right of the screen. The problem is, as browser size gets smaller, the image overlaps the text. I would like the text to overlap the image instead. How can I do this? Also, while the site looks fine in Firefox, Safari, Opera etc, when it comes to Internet Explorer, the page expands larget than the screen. It's all laid out on a big table of height 100%. for some reason, IE has a different idea of the 100% height. How can I make the table behave for all browsers? Thanks in advance to anyone who can assist.

What's the "Ideal Plan" (the "don't abuse your powers" one)?Why is it insisting I have a domain name? I thought it would always be username.astahose.com

You're not the only one lost. I know I signed up with Xisto, well in advance after one of BuffaloHelp's posts. Yes, I have myCents and myEarnings, and my site runs just fine. My original hosting plan (from old system) was the one I had to earn the most credits to ask for. However, on the "Products and Services" page, it shows a table with "no records found". ...maybe I missed the "order" section and for some reason my old site is up anyway?

Okay then... thanks for the info. As of now the bit I don't understand is how myEarnings adds up to a seemingly imprecise "1.99$ - 5.95$". I would like to derive a formula where I can put the current myEarnings into it and know how much longer my account can stay up.

Okay, thanks for the answers... So I take it MyEarnings is the important one for working out how long before my hosted site runs out of credit... like, if I have $20 MyEarnings, then my site is "safe" for 20 days?

What's the difference between MyCents and MyEarnings and which one says how many days to go before my site runs out of credit?

Kewl - someone's thinking of me! Yeah transparent sigs are a bit of a pain really. You either have hard unantialiased transparency (GIF) or one that's not going to work in all browswer (PNG) or you fake the transparency like I've done just matching everything to what the known background is. Themes would alter this, but then if there were themes I'd opt to make it work best with the common default. Thanks for the effort you've been putting into this.

Yeah - this colouring is much more sensible than the bright blue that was up this morning. Hope the Admin don't chance colours too often... I keep having to change my sig image to match each time.

Thanks.Remade my sig for this colour (other one was probably a tad biggish anyway), uploaded replacement avatar for last one which had disappeared....your own Avatar has soft transparency because it's a PNG... am I right in thinking it won't show in some browsers?

Still making up my mind about the changes... Have spotted a few minor issues... It's hard to find my way around the navigation. If I go into my messages (outbox, inbox etc) how do I get back into the forum? The (select forum) "go" button at the bottom links me to a 404. (actually, it does this if "forum home" is selected... but then, this is the default) I wanna see how bankrupt I am. Where are the mypoints / mycents etc? Dammit - I made my sig for the previous colours... can we please restore the default scheme? (The new one hurts eyes)

Well, that's not very fair is it?So you're keeping your opinion closed "for later" after I disclosed where I stood?Come to think of it, why would I spend $19.11 to give you the satisfaction of my reviewing a book which you yourself haven't read yet?

Smart guy. Your Photoshop isn't legal. It's pirated. You are the reason Adobe announced they're not making Linux compatible (native) version of Photoshop... ever*. Because of smart players like you, Photoshop is "justified" for being as expensive as it is for everyone else who wants a legitimate copy. I personally know of people who have ethics and refuse to pirate software "because everyone else is doing it". They are finding it really hard to get their first jobs the right way using alternative softwares (e.g. trying to get by on Open Source such as Gimp, whereas the vacancies demand the "insdustry standard" tools.) They are good, and deserve the jobs... it's not fair. My point is, it's not just the big companies you're hurting when you buy obviously copied stuff. For that matter, when everyone out there is pirating Photoshop, smaller players like Gimp are the losers. Their product should be getting known, but it isn't and they remain outside of accepted "industry standard" as a result. It's against Xisto TOS to bring up discussions encouraging piracy. Your other question: Yes, either package is more than capable of making images with transparent background. Gimp can save just as transparent GIF, whereas Photoshop (depending on version) sometimes hides GIF export under web tools. * I wish I could find the article where I read this. I had a tutor discouraging our class from using Linux stating that "Adobe have vowed never to make a Linux Photoshop" as the justification for not using Open Source Operating Systems. On investigating at the time I found such an announcement where fear of Open Source users pirating the product because they "don't like spending" was literally the excuse used by the Adobe spokesperson.

Thanks. Mine has "Battery Cell Made in Korea" and "Assembled in China" on it, so I'm assuming it is not one of the recalled ones. My laptop overheats (shuts down) if placed on a soft surface, like if I place it on a bed, which is a pretty stupid place for a laptop as you want the air vents to be free from bed covers etc.

I'm not saying whether the church has any more clue than your average street beggar.I'm not denying that my private life does not stack up to who I pretend to be in public.I'm not here to spend countless nonrefundable hours of my life debating who knows more than whoever else and I know that people read different things from the same sentence.But I do believe that Jesus is who the Bible says He is.

Where do I go to see whether my DELL Latitude D620 battery is one of the recalled ones?

Yuk - potential for yet another Photoshop vs Gimp thread... full of Photoshop users who hate Gimp and Gimp users who hate Photoshop. I'm a Gimp user myself, because it's Open Source (with all those advantages) and because it's the one I've spent most time on so am more intuitively comfortable with. Featurewise, from a professional level, Photohop would win hands down. There are certain things that Gimp should have been doing for a long time already but the development is too slow off the mark. (e.g. folders for layers, proper CYMK colour handling in printer friendly manner, better basic brush options such as rotational, true scaling with pressure wacom as default etc etc etc). That said, most Photoshop users don't actually use many of these professional level features to any real respect, and they would then, quite frankly, be just as well off, if not better off, had they used Gimp.

No idea, but sounds intriguing. What kind of "information" does it give? The date that bill was printed? A trace of where it's traveled? Edit: Based entirely on the information you have given, there can only be one possible answer: http://www.trackdollarbills.com/ Gotta love them easy questions.

Yes, apparently so. The severity of this specific bug is particularly high I might add, in terms of it affecting the update procedure itself. Sounds like you are keeping abreast of things, and know of the fixes etc. being produced. One or two circular dependencies are common from time to time, depending on your distro and which applications you choose to run on that distro. These dependency problems do tend to spike when a distro either releases new reivions (some packages are occasionally in limbo as they are slow to be reintroduced into the pipeline), or drops support for older versions (the repository banks freeze)... they do try... it's usually just that there are so many different sources for so many packages. So anyway, what I was saying earlier about this being "normal" was referring to the occasional update hitch. This one, affecting the update process itself, is not as common.

No 3D games etc don't work through virtualization because the 3D is not done within the Operating System but by to direct calls to the 3D card. If you can configure your game / card to work in "software mode" you usually get to see the 3D but it's non-accelerated and not all programs have this option.