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Oh, and one thing I almost forgot: if a light source travels faster than light, does it create a "light boom" (like a sonic boom, where waves build up like snow on the front of a snowplow and then explode)?

I like the way they do it now, although I wouldn't mind a few ads at the bottom of every page. That way they are there, but not annoying regular forum-goers.

It probably would have helped to have pictures. Sorry. I spent hours doing this and didn't know it would actually work. The next time I go through the process, I will document it more carefully.

 

Oh, and the point of having XP and Vista on my machine is not just to show off (although that is DEFINITELY part of it), it's to test software and websites on different platforms. I like to know that my websites work everywhere. It can also be to have all your Windows stuff work (on XP) and show how much better-looking a good Linux distribution with Compiz Fusion is than Vista Ultimate with its eye candy. But it's mostly to show off.

In one simple word, "Gmail". Firefox 3 has blazingly fast speeds on Gmail. I like the upgrade to script speeds that version 3 offered over version 2.In two simple words, "web design". I have two websites. I make them compatible with Firefox by simply making them W3C compliant. Then I spend approximately two hours on every other browser (well, maybe not Opera) trying to make a non-XHTML fix to display it properly.In many other words, "extensions, open source, popular, cross-platform, ease of use, etc."I just love Firefox 3. Opera is all right, and is usually my second choice. Safari will do, and IE is HORRIBLE. Why would anyone use IE without being "Microsoft-forced" to? I even have a Firefox extension called "IE Tab" so I never have to leave Firefox to test a site.

I completely disagree with onscreen. There is a tremendous difference between 32- and 64-bit Windows. For one thing, the drivers are completely different. I would check all my hardware's drivers online to make sure there are 64-bit drivers available if I were you. Also, 64-bit means that twice as much data is being pushed through at once, although you will not notice any overall speed difference unless you are a serious tester. Some applications speed up slightly, while others slow down (because of on-the-fly 32-bit to 64-bit conversion). You will see 64-bit becoming more dominant soon, though, so I would consider it a good idea, as long as the rest of your hardware supports it.As for software, most 32-bit software should run well on a 64-bit processor. Some software is also made specifically for 64-bit hardware.The RAM limit for any 32-bit processor memory addressing is 4 GB, not 2 or 3. You may encounter difficulty with getting all 4 to work in Windows, and you may need to do some BIOS or Windows system edits, but it mostly depends on your system. The limit for 64-bit processors is 16 exabytes (16.8 million terabytes) of RAM, although most operating systems make an artificial ceiling (perhaps 32 GB for some, like onscreen said). Most motherboards can only support 8 to 16 GB anyway.As for using a 32-bit software key on 64-bit Windows, I really don't know. I would imagine not (knowing Microsoft and their business strategies).I almost forgot: onscreen was right about being able to use 64-bit Windows if 64-bit Linux works.

Okay, you have to change the domain pointing from where you BOUGHT the domain, not from your current hosting.

Hey, I'm 19, and I haven't even dated yet. I personally don't think I've missed out on much. All through high school, I saw how much "fun" people that were dating were having. It pretty much amounted to clinginess, jealousy, hurt, and time-wasting. I decided I would rather have friends than a girlfriend. I think I made the right choice.As for a first kiss, well, that's still to come for me. I think you have plenty of time ahead of you.As for geeks and nerds... we will soon rule the world, so what are you worried about? Anyway, there are plenty of nerd/geek girls out there.Oh, and, room2593, your roommate is the better looking one in your animated GIF avatar.(his roommate is me, in case you didn't know)It's surprising you didn't mention me (the guy room2593 is talking about is another guy I know... I JUST turned 19). Of course, I haven't really tried to have a relationship like that. That's probably why.

It's decent. I do like blue, but none of your shades of blue match the other shades of blue very well. Also, why would you use Blogspot? You should use Xisto's subdomain or just cough up the $10 it takes to buy a top-level domain and host it here.

Yay! Easy answer! This is something I can actually help you with.First things first... get approved for hosting here. This site will give you the correct "nameservers" to point your domain to. I'll get to the details in a second.If you want to keep your current files, download them from your current host to your computer. You always want a complete backup.Go to the website of the company you bought your domain through (e.g. Godady.com) and follow the directions on their site to change the "nameservers". Type in the addresses supplied by Xisto. The whole process should take 24-48 hours, so be patient.Your website will now not work. Don't panic.Go to yoursite.com/cpanel and login with your Xisto username and password. Have fun configuring stuff. That's pretty complicated, and you may not need to do anything there. Maybe you'll want to add an SQL database. In that case, just reply here again and I can help you with all that jazz.Get an FTP program. I use FireFTP, a plugin for Firefox. Login with your FTP program using what Xisto has provided (or what you chose). Transfer all your site's files to the public_html folder.Personally, I would redo the site completely, no offense. Another suggestion I have is that you NOT put your email address on the site. You're just asking--no, begging--for spammers to start flooding your email. You should put in a "contact me" form with some sort of security picture device (e.g. CAPTCHA).By the way, good choice with Xisto. You say you want freedom, and here it is in a fashion you will find nowhere else. Seriously.

Yeah, it's okay. I agree with the other two on their ideas. I wonder why you would have a website that you don't benefit from. Maybe just for fun, eh? Or maybe to learn more about website creation....Good luck!

Maybe you need to find a girlfriend, just find some girl you interest with, since the gender is different, she might interest of you. Though not in a girlfriend relationship, but as a close friend is already enough. When times come, this girl might know some friends.
Girlfriend method is usually work and the best, that's what I think. Beside that, she can also cure your problems, give you attentions and help you from something that you never think of.

I COMPLETELY disagree. That's not fair to a girl. Maybe you need to find a friend, but just a friend. A relationship needs to be give-and-take. Oh, and you're too young. If you don't date until college, you won't miss anything.

As far as not being popular, well, I know what that's like. It can change. It can also be a good thing, though. Being popular can come with being an idiot. What you need to do is just keep talking to people and finding out who is actually a decent person to make friends with.

About your home life... sorry, man. I can't help you with your dad situation. However, your mom sounds like she really cares. Maybe you should talk to her. Whether you mean she babies you or whether you mean she just treats you like you always need direction, perhaps she just doesn't know what you need. Tell her (in a nice, tactful way, mind you) that you wish to be treated differently. Tell her how you feel. I know it's difficult to do.

I agree with the others about confidence. In a set environment, nobody will go out of his/her way to make friends with a new person. You must take the initiative and start your own conversations and sit at a table with only one open seat left for lunch.

Another great idea: if you're okay with taking a religious turn, go to a church. Seriously. I always love going to church because it's full of people willing to talk to/with you. It does depend on the church, though. Sadly, there are some bad apples. I would suggest going to a Sunday/Sabbath school with about 20 people your age. Any less and you'll feel uncomfortable. Any more and you can get lost in the corner again. Even better, find a Bible study group. You can't go wrong there.

If nothing works, throw yourself into schoolwork. Help others with problems. Make sure you don't just start letting people take advantage of you, but at least let them know that you can be a good study partner.

I hope it works out for you. Maybe this is just a bad year. Everything could just change one year. I don't know how, but it does and has for many people I know. "Keep your stick on the ice!" as the wise Red Green would say (a Canadian show that not many non-Canadians ever watch).

What is light? Is it particles? Waves? Both? Something completely new? Nobody can really know without experiments at the speed of light. Which means we'll never know. However, I like to have my own philosophy about light.If a star moves away from us (or we move away from the star) at the speed of light, can we see it? Do we see it as a still photo, without ever changing phases? I think we wouldn't be able to see it.If we were to face away from a star and move away from it at double the speed of light, would we see it changing phases backwards? Would we see it? What if we were facing the star? I happen to think we would see the star "going back in light time" as in the former proposal.It's fun to take wild guesses, but perhaps someone else can shed some light on the subject (pardon the pun).

My choice is not in the poll. I personally think it is natural. I think that sometimes there is a chemical of some sort that spreads out in a circle from its source. Maybe rings without a damaged center happen when the chemical in the middle has disappeared while the chemicals still crawling out are still there. I also think that some of them are made by humans, either by spilling chemicals or by going out with a mower and wreaking havoc. Whatever it is, though, must be human- or nature-caused. People's obsession with aliens is quite entertaining, though. I'll be the first to admit that "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is an awesome movie (and I'm almost convinced to read the books when I get the time).Mythbusters should do something on this subject! Maybe they already have...

Interestingly enough, I'm skipping class right now. I do have an excuse, though. I can barely move. I pulled two back muscles yesterday. Stupid hereditary bad back.Anyway, I don't usually skip class. I only ever skip when I need to finish a project for another, more important class. That's rare for me. Last year, though, I skipped too many classes. I had an 8:00 a.m. class that I missed a lot. Even when I was there and on-time, I would fall asleep in my chair. The class was boring and long, and I hated it anyway. I guess that's really no excuse, but it's all I've got.My advice: don't ever skip class. Also, don't sign up for classes before 9:00 a.m., no matter what you think you can handle. When you start college, you automatically lose about four hours of sleep every night. It just disappears. Seriously. And finally, pick a major you enjoy so the classes don't all suck. As for general classes, just focus on living through them.

Why are there no good distributions of Linux for Macs? I have a MacBook with Mac OSX Tiger, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and OpenSuSE 11.0 on it. I wrote a post here on how to accomplish this. However, OpenSuSE works horribly on Mac. Is it completely Mac's proprietary fault, or is it just that most Linux users in their right minds would never pay for a Mac when they could build a Linux-friendly machine for pennies in comparison?I use a Mac for many reasons. First of all, I love it. Secondly, I have a website that I like to check with a variety of environments. Thirdly, it was a gift. Fourthly, it is extremely nice. ETC.I have tried Ubuntu. Don't like it. I have tried SimplyMEPIS. Like it, but it is developed slowly. Also, they never update their website. That's a big deal to me. When their latest version came out a while back, I was disappointed to have to search for a while to download it. I have also tried a few other distros, but I like OpenSuSE currently. I want it to work, but the hardware and software conflicts are just too much for a college student to work on. I have no time. I need something that JUST WORKS. Oh yeah, and that's another reason I like my Mac.I would love to get some suggestions on what some good distributions are for a MacBook. I'd like to mention that I want KDE 4 (it's awesome, and so is Gnome; I just have my own preference, thank you) and Compiz-Fusion (what better way to market Linux to friends?). At least the latter can be installed easily on just about anything. I also want the distro to work with a popular package type: RPM or Deb. This way it can have almost any program made for Linux. I don't want Ubuntu-based because it really isn't compatible with .deb files.I know there is a distro out there specifically for Mac, but it was last updated a couple of decades ago (maybe an exaggeration, but the point stands). Maybe I should just switch my major to computer science with an emphasis in Linux distribution coding....Thanks for any help you can offer.

Actually, Mavreix's bit about recording songs is a great idea. I have "written" a bunch of songs for the piano that I have never actually recorded. It would be a shame for my family to try to remember my music without it actually existing. I just think I should do that sometime soon. This is morbid.

I suppose I should update everyone on this, just for closure.My website is just fine now. I figured everything out. I was given the incorrect nameservers to point to. After a good amount of searching, I found the correct nameservers. It all works fine now.Apparently there are two links to follow to gain hosting. One is in the "credit system login" at /manage. The other is a link in the FAQ that directs you to some weird place with a lot of white space and directions. Anyway, the first one is the better idea. But I'm wondering why the FAQ is so outdated. I think a wiki would be a cool idea. That way it would stay up to date and many people could offer help.I am very satisfied with hosting here. It's quite wonderful. Besides my OpenHisWord website, I have been working on one with my roommate (technically his hosting account, in case you're wondering) called room2593. I couldn't be more happy with the hosting here. And I don't mind the occasional forum posting at all.

I would spend all day on Xisto forums, of course!Not really. But I would probably have a big party for everyone I knew and make things right, etc. I figure that if I'm about to die, seeing the world won't last. When I die, a memory of Taiwan or New Zealand or Italy or (you get the picture) anything will die with me. Making my last day all about others would create a legacy. Making things right would make fond memories of me. Making your last day about yourself will not do a thing. If you are a surgeon, go to work on your last day. Rather than sitting at home sipping punch and chatting it up with friends, you could save lives. If you have a job at a library (like me), throw a party and make everybody else happy. Or go around and do nice things for people. Make it all last.

I am not racist or sexist. I don't care what race or gender a candidate is. I don't think people should just vote Obama because he's black, though. That would be like eating diamonds because they are shiny (poor analogy, I know). If you like Obama because he has beliefs in sync with yours, go vote a Democrat ticket! If you just think, "we need a black president sometime...," think about your priorities.I believe that McCain was very smart in having a woman as a running mate. As I said, I don't care what gender a candidate is, but many people do. People that supported Clinton simply based on gender will suddenly vote for McCain and Palin. Well played, McCain. And Palin is actually good for the Republicans. She is rather conservative (filling part of the gap in ultra-conservative voters) and is very well-spoken (for those on the edge already being swayed by Obama's rallying cry). While Alaska doesn't seem to be very influential in politics (it is rather small in voting influence), we mostly hear good things about her as a governor.Vote based on what you believe will bring America forward, NOT on what demographic area you are from. Vote based on what will help the country as a whole. Vote for somebody with reasonable expectations. Affirmative action does not work in elections (nor in anything else in this day and age, but that's another topic).

Okay could somebody please tell me how writing like this is beneficial to mankind...... i mean it is so hard to read this kind of sentence and i really hate it when people do this......I just have to say I don't appreciate the writing style. The period, semi-colon, comma, and "return" keys were made for a reason.Aside from my angerosities (I'm coining a new word), I shall become a hypocrite and tell you to get over yours. I'm assuming that you are not taking a serious look toward marriage. In that case, you have time to wait. Don't ruin a friendship. Just tell her that you disapprove of her boyfriend, but don't say too much more. You could hurt her feelings.Infatuation /= love. Remember that.I'm not sure I completely understood the post, so forgive my seeming ignorance on the topic. I also realize the topic is rather old, but I think advice lives on.

I have had friends with boyfriend problems like you have experienced. I can only offer the same advice: he's not good for you. I'm a guy, and I know that guys are capable of being wonderful people. You can do better.

Okay, some of these are not facts (some of them say things like "listen to him"). Others are absolutely true (I'm a guy, and I DEFINITELY love my mom). Others are horribly inaccurate (but not many). I think most of these are blanket statements about a certain type of guy. For instance, I am a melancholy introvert that is VERY good at keeping a girl's secrets, and I am NOT open about myself. Maybe I'm just not "most guys".I still think many of these are very well stated. Well done.

Lets see....Firefox, gParted, Audacity, Songbird, Amarok, Rosegarden, VLC, Handbrake, Schoolhouse, OpenOffice, Nexuiz, Scribus, SciTE, phpBB, Wordpress MU, Gimp, Metamorphose, 7-zip, Spybot S&D, Clamwin, to name a few on the top of my head.Sourceforge all the way, baby! I love using open source stuff (though some of these aren't open source). I am always looking for a free and less bloated alternative.

When writing, one can EDIT. It's so nice. I can write a bunch of nonsense, then go back and write larger and more effective language. I can hide anger, sadness, happiness, and even ignorance behind a facade of text. I can take two hours and think of a better answer than what I would say to a friend in the same room. I can reread everything, rewrite everything, and pretend I'm a leprechaun if I want. Nobody will know me. If we all were comfortable talking about anything to anyone, we would all be out talking to real people all the time and forums like this would be empty. This forum provides a wonderful conversation place for everything under the sun.All that being said, I try to be myself. But I don't seriously speak like this all the time. One can be much more eloquent in writing than speaking, or at least more flowing.

I have spent countless hours and done extensive research on this topic: quad-booting a MacBook with OSX, Win XP, Win Vista, and Linux.

Yes, it is possible. Yes, it is a long process, but it is not too advanced. Anybody with a MacBook, an interest in computers that goes beyond Youtubing, an external hard drive, a rudimentary knowledge of Linux and filesystems, a certificate in T3KN0-5P33K (if you can't read that, you probably aren't nerdy enough), a tremendous amount of patience and troubleshooting ability and many other small things can accomplish the status of a quad-booter. Exciting, really.

1. Apply all of the latest updates for Macespecially any concerning firmware. You will need to do this to avoid a lot of hassle (including inability to update firmware) later down the road.

2. Format your external hard drive using Mac's filesystem (HFS+).

3. Download and install rEFIt (open source and free). This is an amazing tool to boot much more easily.

4. Use Carbon Copy Cloner (a free download, in case you don't already use this handy piece of software) to clone your MacBook disk to the external drive.

5. Reboot from the external disk (there's the option in the rEFIt menu).

6. In Finder, go to Applications, then Utilities, and open the Disk Utility. Repartition your MacBook hard drive using the MBR system (GPT will not work; nothing but MBR). Make a DOS filesystem partition at the beginning (you will reformat this for Win XP later). Then add another DOS partition directly after it (only about 5-10 GB for your Linux root; you will reformat it later as well). Make a Mac (HFS+) partition next, but leave enough space for Win Vista, a Linux home partition and a Linux swap partition after it. You will leave the rest of the partitioning for later.

7. Clone your external drive back to the newly created Mac partition on the laptop's hard drive. Shut the computer down and remove the external disk.

8. Boot with a Linux live CD (I would suggest researching for a distribution that works well with Mac; I have tried SimplyMEPIS, which is okay, and OpenSuSE, which is not okay for Mac). You can choose the CD option from the rEFIt menu.

9. Using a partitioning program in Linux (such as Qparted or Gparted), reformat the first DOS partition into NTFS. Then reformat the second into ext3 (a Linux filesystem). Use all of the remaining space at the end of the disk and make an extended partition. In this, make several logical partitions (as many as you want, really, but for my purposes, this is easiest): First, an NTFS partition for Vista, then an ext3 partition for a Linux home partition, and finally a swap partition for Linux (3GB should easily suffice).

10. Install Linux on your three Linux partitions; the root system should be installed on the first Linux partition, the home folder should go in your logical Linux partition, and of course you need to activate the swap partition. Make sure that when you install the GRUB (not LILO, it is more difficult) bootloader, DO NOT install it in the master boot record! Install it in the Linux root folder. It should have an option to do so.

11. Reboot with a Windows XP disk. Install it on the first partition. It's that easy.

12. Reboot with a Windows Vista disk. Install it on the logical NTFS partition. It will need to install a boot manager on the XP partition. This is okay. Don't worry.

13. Have fun (haha, right...) looking for drivers and tweaking your system! It can get interesting, believe me.

By now, you will either be screaming in the vent forum or elating over your newly acquired status of Quad-Booter Extraordinaire. Install Compiz-Fusion on Linux and you can show off even more to your non-quad-booter friends.

Some notes:

rEFIt currently does not have an option to turn off recognition of extra partitions yet, so you will see about 20 bajillion options when booting. You only ever need to use the first three.

A lot of this is trial and error. Do not erase your external disk until you are positive nothing else will go wrong.

Read up on all the software I've mentioned before installing them. For the sake of conciseness, I have left out details on some pieces (like advanced rEFIt settings).

I have only done this on a MacBook (not Pro), but I would imagine this would work on any Intel-based modern Mac.

I am not to be held liable for anything you do. Don't PM me angrily demanding reparations. This is a do-at-your-own-risk project. For me, it was worth it. It's great for not only showing off, but for cross-platform development, gaming and pure thrills.

I am sure you can do even more with this idea, so go have a blast doing whatever you very well please with your beautiful MacBook. Just be sure to post back here when you've become the icosa-booting king (icosa = 20, just for clarification).

Best of luck,

Curtis