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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.

sometimes the router page works and no other internet connection

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.

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.

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

MinGW (Windows cross compiler) - Fedora 11 provides MinGW, a development environment for Fedora users who wish to cross-compile their programs to run on Windows without having to use Windows. In the past developers have had to port and compile all of the libraries and tools they have needed, and this huge effort has happened independently many times over. MinGW eliminates duplication of work for application developers by providing a range of libraries and development tools already ported to the cross-compiler environment. Developers don't have to recompile the application stack themselves, but can concentrate just on the changes needed to their own application.

For ashish17 the release notes are easily available from their web site.

--Edited because my typing is poopy.

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.

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.

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

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.

One of the things that I hate most is that I just don't understand how people can have conversations for hours about stuff that's pointless, obvious, or stupid. Personally, I can't say much about what I hear. I mean, what is there to say? If someone says that it's hot, I can never say anything but "yup", and yet other people will start talking about a time when it was really hot. I just don't get it at all.
What bugs me most is, just because I'm a man of a few words, I have serious trouble making friends at school. People don't dislike me, I just don't talk to people because from my perspective, there's just nothing to say. And to make matters worse, anything I think is remotely cool (usually something I find on the internet), nobody has any interest in whatsoever. And yet they're entertained by "Oh my god, it was so hot, I was just dripping!"

This also hurts because there's a good amount of common knowledge I don't even have simply because I don't talk to people my own age, which is irritating.

And sports. How can you talk extensively about sports? To me, one team won and one team lost. That's it. Or one team will win or one team will lose. How can there be more to discuss?

So irritating...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is interesting news. Of course Windows 7 is not in release yet so this could change as well. Knowing Microsoft I fell fairly certain that they will make sure all other MS products work best with IE if they work at all on other browsers. I could honestly see them making asp so that it needed IE.

I just wanted to point out that the "Big Crunch" is no longer a valid theory. at one point it was believed that the expansion of the universe was slowing however, that has since been proven to be untrue. The rate of universal expansion, based on current observations, seems to be increasing instead. Hence the need for dark energy. If Proxima Centauri went super nova it would destroy life on earth.

If you have a server with 2003 server installed the users should be on a domain on a work group. Using the domain Directory Services specify a group for the IDs that are allowed access to the internet and a group that is not. Then your internet access is restricted per user as opposed to being PC dependent.

If you just need a cable the best place would likely be your local Wal-Mart. they have cables and assorted connectors so that despite your plug they are sure to have one that fits.

Have you cionsidered an AI for playing a fairly simple game with fairly simple rules. For example an AI for playing black jack or a card game of some sort. Perhaps a Dice game like Yahtzee or Greed. That is all I can think of off hand though all of them are basically a large pile of if/then/else statements.

2) Ease of Use: Well, this stands for the interface. There is quite some competition here. Oracle is good. MySQL has some third party GUI and cli interfaces that can ease out the job. Sqlite3 is just too simple and easy to use

I am going to expand on this a bit for you. For a real DBA the ease of use of the GUI is not a key factor in much the same way a Linux admin may well skip the GUI and go straight to the command line.

In the case of high end database engines the products extension of the SQL language and implements those extensions goes a long way to making the RDMS usable. How the RDBMS handles stored procedures and triggers and the language(s) used for those could be a consideration as well. Reporting tools, of course, greatly contribute to the ease of use for an RDBMS.

Just thought I should add those considerations. I guess you could say that what qualifies as ease of use is greatly dependent on the user in question.

Of course if the Mayans were smart maybe they should have predicted when they would have been wiped out. The notion that same archaic calendar is a reasonable predictor of anything is laughable. Of course the Mayans also used several different calendars. Oh no one of them is only thirteen days long, are we doomed because that one ends? Of course not the calendar simply rolls over. Lets add to this that the Mayans believed that all sorts of rites had to take place regularly for the universe not to end. Though these rites have not occurred were still here. Thus the likely conclusion is simply that the world is not going to end based on a calendar made by people who also thought cutting out someones heart made for a good laugh. Lastly please remember that all calendars are imposed by people. The universe is rather unconcerned with how we decide to track time.

Thought I would update the post if anyone was curious. My buddy basically decided he wanted to get the PC Saturday and have it ready Sunday. So we went to CompUSA to purchase the parts. It workewd out well for us acyuallt as they had a very good stock and some nice sales.

 

The motherboard we got is an XFX GeForce 8200 I was persnally leaning towards an AMD chipset but this is a very good board with everything I needed and a bit more, plus it was on sale for $70. It has Dual Bios and over clocking feature out the wazoo as well as a PciE 2.0 slot.

 

There also happened to be a sale on Ram so we were able to get 4GB of OCZ 800 Mhz (pc 6200) for a mere $25. I was really happy with this Ram and was not expecting to get such good ram for so cheap, it even has heat spreaders on it. He is using XP and now has the most XP, 32 bit, can address.

 

Finally the Processor we got is the one Xboxrulz suggested. CompUSA had it in stock and it was retail so included the heatsink and fan. It was a simple choice. AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition

 

With the power supply our total (including rebates and excluding taxes) came to $202. Only $2 over and we purchased some great parts in my opinion. ant were able to purchase more ram than I expected and a 2 rail 550 watt power supply.

 

If anyone cares I will make another post later with the install information.

Astrology is total bunk. The notion that Earth's very insignificant movement in relation to extra solar objects affects anything is simply illogical. I will give an example I had posted previously elsewhere.

Let's look at the facts for a moment. Selecting the first constellation that comes to mind is Taurus. The nearest star in Taurus is about 45 light years away. The brightest is 65 light years away and the fourth brightest is 417 light years away. For the sake of example I will use the closest star 10 Tauri at 45 light years away. Also to simplify let us pretend the star in question is on a flat plane with that of out solar system, (it isn't). So the star is 45 light years from ours, the Sun. That comes out to 425,732,871,266,136 Kilometers.
Next lets look at Earth. Out planet is about 149,597,870,691 kilometers from the sun. We can round that up to a tidy 150 million. Since we are pretending that earths orbital plane and and 10 Tauri line up that gives us a maximum variance of 300 million Km.

So if you do the math Earth would only vary in distance from 10 Tauri less than 1 one-millionth of the total distance. By comparison saying the tiny distance variance between the two bodies is very much like trying to read a sign 1 kilometer away then moving 1 millimeter closer to see better.

I originally made that statement in response to someone stating "energy" from other constalations affected us somehow.

Sorry I have never seen any study indicate that gravity of any sort affected human behavior in any way. Even the Full moon myth where even typically logical people will swear that people are weirder, more violent or whatever during full moons seems to be a case of fitting the evidence to a predetermined result.

Given the Earth rotates at speeds greater than 1000 miler per hour and the goes around the sun at 67,000 MPH while the solar system goes around the galaxy at about 490,000 MPH am going to have to say No the thrown object never stops. Relative to the thrower the object may seem to stop. But, I must add that unless your object comes down exactly the way it wen up than no it has never come to a stop as the object thrown is also going to have some rotational motion as well. Thus while if very simply expressed via math an non rotating object going in a straight line up does technically reach zero upward motion before descending it serves no real world purpose.