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Well, I think a utility cannot determine the usefulness of a service, it depends on use, like printer daemon, workstation, updates etc... these are unnecessary for most of the users.. So we have to determine which is useful and which is not. I am using an utility called Autostart and Process Viewer(APV).. I have been using that for 5 years.. it stays in the tray and watches all running processes. If a new service started without our permission, or a new autostart entry saved it will warn us. So we can kill and remove them right then, or accept it. A very useful freeware. You know, every time I reinstall xp the first software I install is APV. If you want you can download it from here Autostart and Process Viewer. It is below 1MB

Disabling some useless processes is not a bad idea, and sometimes thats essential. Because some processes may conflict with your drivers and will slow down your system. I had faced this problem before. A process slowed down my system upto 4 minutes after logging in. I checked the entire process list and found that one process is in starting state and causing all this delay. Turning off that process speeds up my system again.. I'm doing this every time I reinstalled my XP.

I had contacted them a few times before, and they usually replied to all my queries in 4 working days... so chances are they will surely reply you. I think it doesn't matter how much you earned because, my earnings will be definitely much lower than yours... And a good news (of course, only for me ). I somehow managed to put infolinks code into my drupal website, and its working...far better than kontera.. hurray.. Now I have other worries, how to disable it on my home page etc... Have to find the solutions..

Hmm.. I thought kontera was somewhat useless, but not this much. If Xisto moves to some other advertiser, it will earn much more money... Anyway thats OpaQue's choice. Anyway, I contacted infolinks about drupal integration and their support is very fast and friendly. But unfortunately they don't have any drupal module for kontera. And adviced me to put code into pages manually. What really amazes me with their support is, they replied to me in just 2 hours for my two support tickets. Kontera support people are taking 3 days to reply for our ticket. I will try to put the script manually...

Hey, no no.. All your earning are safe, if you want to know your complete earnings just submit a support ticket asking them your total earnings information.. just read our previous posts about this issue...

Hey, I just read some articles on some forums about kontera and other competitors. And almost all of them are hating kontera. They provided their statistics of their website with their earnings, and horrible results there... I think I also started hating kontera after reading those articles. One person told that his total impressions were around 50000 with 300+ clicks.. Can you guess how much he earned? $4 .... If that's true then, It will take long time to reach minimum payout. And I am not impressed with my earnings either... my last 6 months earnings(at Xisto) are just $0.62 (2600+ impressions with 49 clicks). Now its time to search for an alternative...

It is the distance between two points in a plane, its just pythagoras theorem in a different way and very simple. if you want more details check the following website distance between two points

You computer has a network card which connects your external modem to computer. When you connect to the internet, your modem will get an ip from the ISP (or chances are you have a static ip address too, which doesn't change every time you restart your broadband modem). When you connect your mobile to the internet, it will also a get an ip too. If you connect it through your computer using broadband (that means you connect to internet in mobile via bluetooth, or wireless) then your mobile will get a local ip address. (in the range 192.168.x.x). Or if you connect your mobile directly to the internet via your mobile service provider and use that connection on your mobile, your computer will have different ip.Actually every device that connects to a network(any network, not just internet) will have an ip, to uniquely identify iteself. If your computer connected to a local network of 10 computers, then each of them will have a unique ip even if they are not connected to internet. These ip addresses will be in the range 192.168.x.x These IP addresses are local, the local server assigns them these IPs to identify them on its network.

Though I don't have any knowledge about flex, I had seen a login page of flex and User Interface and functionality is amazing. But the only problem is most users don't have or turned off flash, which will be a problem if we depend of flex. Yes, you're right, its not as universal as javascript because of that reason.

Using both javascript and PHP for validation is a good practice for performance and security. Javascript improves the performance while php deals with security. And using AJAX along with PHP is better option and is a common practice for all websites now.

Thats very nice to hear from you OpaQue, so HDD changing was the reason for this myCents problem. I think the problem is solved now as I can see READY[myCents] for all users who have been posting.

So, they may be load from a faster server then. I think flash ads for text link are much more annoying than the text version. Because the moving objects will distract the user from our site, and we don't want that. And there also chance that most users turned off flash plugin, or doesn't install it at all.. some what problematic case. Is there any settting available to trunoff those flash ads? Actually these in-text ads are annoying, and flash in in-text is ultimate annoyance...

Yes, I think some problem is there with the server, some times forum is not responding at all, and some times giving me an internal server error... and myCents are not updating since 2 days..

Putting banner ads in drupal is easy, but in-text ads are difficult because we have to put the script on every page, which is very very difficult to do it manually. If we have a module for that purpose, it will simply do that work. I think, I have to write my own module, if I want to insert that script. But now a days I am focusing on learning to bend drupal, experimenting with different contributed modules, writing content and SEOing my site. So no time to think about these ads now. May I'll do it later. Just inserted kontera ads for testing purpose. Ads load faster in infoliks? Does that mean infolinks will completely download all the ads they linked to, while loading its script along with our homepage? If so, our website become slower. By the way what type of ads are those? I just hovered on a link at infolinks website to test, and it loaded a flash ad. Are infolinks ads are flash based? What about past 6 months data? is it also same?

Well PHP and javascript are different. PHP works on the server side where as javascript works on client side web browser. PHP is responsible for all the database connection and user validation process. Javascript just works on client side and will help you to check validation of the data like whether the user filled in all the required fields, whether he entered data properly etc.. You can't do anything beyond that. So, you must design your login page using PHP. And it is best idea to use javascript to validate the fields at the client side. It will save bandwidth and quicken the process. Just remember that PHP is server side scripting language, and javascript is client side scripting language.

Just checked that infolinks... looks same as kontera. But no way to try or integrate it on my website, There is no drupal module available to integrate it into my drupal website. May be I'll give it a try later. By the way, are there any major difference between kontera and infolinks? or they both work same? That's a good news for mahesh, he has been worrying too much about kontera, I think this will give him some relief

Well, if politics is a profession then we can implement this professional qualification rule, but unfortunately it is not. The main motive of politics is to serve and lead people. I agree that some people doesn't have minimum educational qualifications, and don't know what is happening in the world. But we should remember that leadership doesn't come from formal education. Education is only an advantage. We had seen many great politicians in the world who doesn't have school education, but served and lead people very well. Politics is for the people, and great leaders come only from people. These professional barriers should not stop them. If the person can't able to talk in front of people it doesn't mean that he can't serve people. May be he has some other capability. But, I must agree that politics in our country (India) is like business, and if we implement a rule that politicians should have some professional qualification, our so great politicians will simply buy and create fake certificates, that is just a simple matter for them. You may think that our electronic media will catch these type of people. But I have seen many cases where these politicians manage to change their Caste certificates as well, and media did nothing. Politics in our country is just a crap, and no one can clean it now. Don't worry, almost all of the youth like us are educated, so future generation leaders are educated. No need to implement a rule in the future... If you want to implement some rule, the first rule I want to put is that two people from same family should not be given highest posts like ministers, Chief Minister, Prime Minister etc in succession... This bad practice is now running in our country, and sometimes I doubt that is our country is really democratic?

I hope, kontera is a reputed company and won't cheat us. But you are right, if they hide the data from users most people don't know that they reached the minimum payout and won't ask for that. And some others may feel that their earnings were lost and simply leave kontera thinking that kontera is useless. In both cases kontera will lose ultimately... Customers are key for success of any company, and once they lost trust in kontera, no one can save kontera...

I am also wondering why kontera is not showing our earnings beyond past 6 months. They are telling in their Knowledge Base that most publishers are not interested in viewing their earnings beyond 6 months, so they are not providing the information. But I didn't see any logic in that. What about publishers like us? And whats the problem they have to show our entire earnings if they are storing that information?

Well, I hope so, though it will take years... Anyway ask about this also in your support ticket to kontera... and let us all know what they replied.

Good News guys.. None of our kontera earnings were lost. They are calculating all our earnings that were not appearing at publisher account. I submitted a support ticket 3 days back asking them about my total earnings information. I just received a mail with my total revenue through 2009. The mail doesn't have full report about all our earnings. It is showing only our total earnings till date in a single line of text. Anyway this is a good news that all our earnings are secure...

Well, if you want to earn revenue from kontera just by using it at Xisto, that will never happen. Since most of us sharing that revenue it will take ages to reach the minimum payout of kontera... You'll have a chance to receive the payout only if you use your kontera account on your website along with Xisto. Of course, your website should have some what good amount of traffic.

Huh, thank god. At least shadowx understood my intention here. I am talking completely in terms of a newbie's point of view. I'm not talking about a developers point of view.

Well no need to worry about that if you want to renew your domain now. I haven't tested that Auto Renew feature. Auto Renew is enabled for my domain too. But I got mails that my domain is about to expire and told me to renew it. So, I just renewed my domain manually which will expire on Dec 25th. Now its period was extended to Dec 25th 2010. So if you want to renew that domain you can do it right now manually.Or if you don't want to renew that domain, just submit a support ticket to cancel your domain registration. They will cancel the Auto Renew of your domain.

I am not saying that XAMPP is complicated, but some what confusing when compared to WAMP. Once you install WAMP server, the only thing a newbie has to do is start WAMP Server. Unlike XAMPP there is no need to start individual service for Apache, MySQL etc. WAMP won't confuse new users, like XAMPP does with different options and modules in its Control Panel. WAMP configuration and user interface is very very easy. But, definitley XAMPP is very powerful than WAMP when compared to its options and features...