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  1. I have been away from Asta for some time and was wondering about returning to Asta hosting. I have been receiving over due notices from the service for several months and frankly ignored them as I have had far more pressing issues. To return and get hosting again do I need to post enough for all the back months or just start posting for this one? Thanks in advance.
  2. To clarify for you the router page is not on the internet, it is accessed via your local network. If you are unable to connect to the internet but are able to connect to the router then it seems you have an IP so the issue may be between the router and the connection be it the modem or or the modems connection. If the router is wireless make sure that the network is secured as others using your network that are not supposed to could result in connection issues.
  3. oookaaayy........I must have mis-read I thought that this section was the "Einstein Factor" apparently i clicked the wrong place and ended up in the crack smoking forum. Jackson made tons of money because he was an incredible performer.
  4. I took a look at at the fedora page and must say Fedora 11 looks promising. I will probably download it later. I liked this addition For ashish17 the release notes are easily available from their web site. --Edited because my typing is poopy.
  5. Greetings, A composite key is a key that uses more than one column to identify the data as opposed to a single column. This can sometimes be more useful than assigning each row an arbitrary value to use as a key such as an auto number field. For normalization I suggest you visit this site. You may also wish to take a look at this post for a list of really useful database links. I hope this is helpful to you.
  6. I just put Windows 7 on a friends machine and was pleasantly surprised by the result. I liked how I was able to add his wireless NIC and Windows instantly added the BroadCom drivers (its chipset), a couple clicks and a password he was on our network. I actually like the taskbar. It is different but i think there is a functionality improvement there.
  7. Since I know Wutske is bright enough to have tried all the obvious things I will suggest a thing or two that has fixed PC's for me before that are far less obvious. Try removing everything from the unit anything attached to the motherboard, including the CPU, but the the power supply connector. Power on for a few seconds then off. Put it all together and power it up. This has worked for me in the past a couple times when everything else has failed. I have no idea why. If the Dell in question is one of the desktop ones and not a tower of any sort it may have the odd PCI car the turns into sideways PCI slots. I had a Dell I worked on once where that card went flaky and removing it fixed the system. Oddest suggestion: Once more if the unit is one ef Dell's flat-ish ones attempt to determine how the unit was oriented previously. (you stated it was second hand) Look at the feet on it to see if it was used side ways or flat. In that position see if it starts. I know that sounds stupid but have seen PC's that will operate in only a certain position. This is because they developed tiny faults in the board for one reason or another and short out when placed in the "wrong" position. I worked at one place installing new units where the in house tech dept. over stacked the Dells (about 20 high) while imaging them. The ones on the bottom suffered this condition. Not a possible off the wall fix but as a trouble shooting step just try powering it on many times successively. If one time in twenty to fifty it actually boots then the motherboard has likely gone to that great Taiwanese factory in the sky (or at least is walking towards the light). My brothers PC did this
  8. Your post title makes it sound as if you have had removable media scratched though it does not sound that way in the post. The way the media feeds into the drive it only touches the disk in the same places you should when removing it or or what have you. Of course if the drive completely spit out the disk that would be a problem with disk falling on the floor.
  9. And yet you ironically just posted two-hundred and nine words with out saying anything. Poking fun aside what you consider to be boring or inane may well not be so to other people and thus they discuss these things. To you only the things you like are interesting. This is not uncommon, particularly in your age group. That is not criticism but simply where you are. To many a sporting event is far far more than one team lost another didn't. I could not begin to describe the amazing game Chelsea had with Liverpool this week in just a few words. Off topic advice: don't isolate yourself simply because you don't feel others are up to your level of discourse.
  10. As a Christian I believe the Bible to be the inerrant Word of God. It is completely God breathed and written by the Holy Spirit through others. It is complete and completely authoritative.
  11. Good answer Truefusion. When people say that the Bible can not be a literal work because of (insert argument here) they always tend to forget a few things. Firstly the intent and scope of the Bible; it is a record of God's love for mankind, Man's fall, and God's redemptive plan through Christ. It has never been intended as a science document nor a historical document. It only seems to be in error when one places their own expectations and limited understanding on it. For example the Bible never states that the world is flat nor does it ever state that the sun revolves around the Earth. At one point some with a limited scope of thought believed the Bible said these things but they are clearly not accurate and the Bible never makes these claims. Last example The big Bang Theory. I have heard people state that God could not create the Universe because of the strong scientific evidence of the the Big Bang. Of course never thinking that perhaps God caused it in the first place by setting the laws of physics into place. The Bible starts with the words "In the beginning" interestingly we know that before space existed that there is no time onto the case of Dinosaurs and the history of the Earth before man appears. There are several ways to look at this of course. To me the debate of literal 24 hours Earth days or epochs of time days is rather inconsequential because we do not know the frame of reference. Relativity taught us that time is mutable and strictly dependent on the observer. Remember the twin paradox? So if we are looking at the time frame of The Lord an infinite being we have no idea how infinitely fast He may or nay not move. Thus a 24 hour day to God in his frame of reference may well be a couple billion years to the rest of the universe. Onto Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Here is another case of placing our own restrictions on the narrative. We do not know the location of the garden nor do we know how long Adam and Eve resided there nor how long Adam was alone before Eve was created. Bear in mind that before the original sin there was no sickness, aging, or death for Adam and Eve. Thus it is completely possible that the Earth was going through it's prehistory, meteor strikes and all, while Adam and Eve were living in the Garden under God's care and protection safe from the tumultuous events outside of Eden. The Bible states that Adam lived to the age of 930, I believe that is years measured after the fall when time would be of any significance. Sorry for the long post, I hope it causes some thought.
  12. darasen

    Msgbox Question.

    I am not sure if this has been resolved yet or not. But for the sake of anyone searching the topic here is a resolution. This is VB Script. Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")objShell.Run "%windir%\Notepad.exe" If you are using the option explicit you have to add the line : dim objShell first to declare the variable. Hope this helps someone.
  13. In my experience people who go the vegetarian or vegan route often have some underlying emotional or social dysfunction to begin with. To find that this carries over to eating disorders of form or another is no surprise. The vast majority of the teens (all female) I have seen who decide that they are suddenly vegetarian or vegan (amoung other things) are simply insecure and seeking some way of identifying themselves.
  14. I mostly play Alliance simply because my friends do. But, i actually like the horde side better. I think the races are more interesting from a story perspective. Sure every fantasy game has dwarves and elves but the Horde races stand out a bit more to me. Orcs are akin to Klingons in many ways and the Tauren are simply my favourite race in the game.
  15. This is an interesting article though I must say that there are parts I disagree with completely. The way the eye moves through a design is dictated by good design. If someones eyes are jumping all over the place as shown then the design is not doing it's job of leading the viewers attention through the available information. I took a look at the websites listed in the study and not too surprisingly they were all poorly designed with appeared to be basically the same design on each page. The natural eye movement over a piece is top left to top right to bottom right to bottom left. The writes of the article study or what seems to have no concept of the importance of white space or empty space in an image. Well used negative space is very important in designs. Visual disturbances is an interesting topic in and of itself. Anything moving is going to draw attention to itself. So yes animated ads are going to get a bit more attention though they will distract from the actual site itself. Personally, I keep Flash turned off and gifs un-animated. More than text size should be used to distinguish itself. The lack of decent font usage on the internet is a good example of the mediums limitations. Basically the bit tells how some sites are designed and ignores what constitutes a good design. I remain of the opinion that the vast majority of web site designs are crap. I do realize this is a result, at least in part, of browsers and coding languages still being rather limited in it's design abilities. This is also a result of the "web design" industry that has people who have never studied design designing. I had hoped that CSS would be a way of opening up design possibilities but instead it has simply become another set of coding strictures. Please note I come from a fine arts and design background.
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