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This is the supercomputer here in the Physics department at my University: They're generally hundreds or thousands of CPUs working in parallel to complete often repetitive or complex tasks and simulations. For example, that supercomputer has 420 quad-core processors, mostly running at 2.83GHz, with 2.5TB of RAM and 47TB of hard drive storage. And, of course, it runs Linux

If you're not using the smileys then it looks like it's OK to delete them. If you look at the source of that page, you'll find the following: <td valign="top" width="285" height="384"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-****************"; /* 300x250, created 9/4/09 */ google_ad_slot = "**********"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-****************"; /* 300x250, created 9/4/09 */ google_ad_slot = "**********"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> That looks like Google Ads code to me

From Apple's License: Basically, you are only allowed to install their software on computers made by them, even if you go out and buy the retail CD yourself. This is why no-one has done before what Psystar is doing now - lawsuits from Apple. As a matter of interest, Psystar's terms include a clause stating that you take all the legal risks, and you are liable if you get sued by Apple. Good luck with that Admittedly the risk is a small one, but I'm sure Apple will find a way to either detect these installations or prevent them.

Different hosting companies have different folders. If you are not hosted by Xisto then there is no reason to expect the same folders that Xisto uses. Your host might not allow anonymous FTP, so there would be no reason for a public_ftp folder. Not via cPanel. You'd need to send a ticket to your hosting company to ask them whether that is possible, and whether they would be willing to do it. Checking your folders against someone else's is pointless if you are using different hosting companies. They will likely use different setups, and therefore have slightly different files and folders by default. Can you delete them? No! They're all settings and configuration files. Deleting them is not a good idea - it is possible to pretty much ruin your hosting settings by doing so. As a safe rule, only touch things inside the public_html folder. .bash_logout records your logouts from the shell..bash_profile contains shell setting such as path variables. .bashrc same sort of thing, includes aliases and definitions. .contactemail is very important - it contains the contact email address if anything goes wrong with your hosting. .lang holds your language preference for cPanel. .lastlogin contains the IP address of the last computer to log in to your cPanel. .zshrc I have never seen - no idea cpbackup-exclude.conf likely contains files and folders to be excluded when you use cPanel to take a backup of your hosting. There also appears to be a default index file there. Does that use the smileys by and chance? It looks like your host uploaded them by default as a placeholder until you upload anything to your hosting.

The existence of the .part file means you haven't let it finish downloading. The .part file appears while the download is going on. Once the download is complete, the .part file is removed, and you're left with just the .zip file. Make sure the file is actually completely downloaded before you go ahead and open it.I'm not sure where your files were stored, or exactly what Mac OS does during an upgrade, but it's likely that it wiped out anything outside your home directory. Usually files for the web server are stored somewhere like /var/www so Mac OS might have wiped those out. Alternatively, they might still be there, so it's worth having a look!

Generally, don't delete any of the folders that are in your account when you get it. They control things like what domains you have, email settings and stuff like that. Uploading extra files there by accident shouldn't be a massive problem actually As a safe rule, only ever touch the public_html and public_ftp folders. Inside those two you can put all the files and folders you like and delete those files and folders. Even if you have uploaded some files by accident, I wouldn't go around trying to delete anything that is outside the public_html and public_ftp folders. The files for Drupal go into the public_html folder. The Google verification file goes into the public_html folder. Anything that needs to be accessed by a web browser goes into the public_html folder. Drag and drop. I think in FileZilla the left hand side shows files and folders on your PC, while the right hand side shows your hosting. On the left, navigate to the files and folders you want to upload. On the right, navigation into the public_html directory. Drag files and folders from the left and drop them on the right, and they will start to transfer. Applications use different ports so that their data doesn't get mixed up with everything else, and so they can easily identify data meant for them. FTP uploads work on port 21. People accessing your website use port 80. cPanel uses port 2082. Most games use their own ports as well.

If those links are still being indexed then there are two possibilities - either those links are still scattered around your site (especially the forums) and need replacing with new ones, or Google just hasn't scanned your site recently and picked up the new links. As a matter of interest, what action is being taken when one of the 'old' URLs is visited? Is the page served normally or is the browser sent a permanent redirection header? Sending a permanent redirection to the new style URL means that all members will only see the new URLs, and Google will cache the new URLs rather than the old ones. It also eliminates penalties for apparent duplicate content, and the old URL will be ignored by the search engines.

I upgraded last night. I have an 8mbps Internet connection and it took just over 4 hours to download the whopping 4.7GB of data I needed to upgrade all my packages! Pretty much everything has been upgraded to a new release - the most surprising for me was KMyMoney finally releasing version 1.0, and it's looking good. I'm still playing around with all the new features I'm finding, and hopefully I'll post a little bit more of a proper review later on

Two big factors in the great search engine rankings that Xisto has: all of the members and OpaQue's work behind the scenes. No offence to OpaQue and his hard work , but the biggest factor is probably all of us and the excellent content everyone puts on to Xisto Having useful, well written content is vital for search engine rankings, and Xisto has that content in bucketloads thanks to the content we all write. By using good topic titles and writing content in clear and correct English (as opposed to leet-speak or whatever), the search engines can easily pick that content up. Once the search engines 'trust' Xisto as a source of good content, they keep coming back and new content is added to their databases much quicker. A lot of forums don't have the same rules we have at Xisto about the quality of posts. So, those forums may have many more posts but ther aL1 \/\/ri77e|\| lyk dis so the search engines rightfully ignore them - they just don't have decent content. Xisto, on the other hand, has high-quality, well written and informative posts, and the search engines love that. OpaQue's work on the technical side is also vital. The URLs at Xisto are all search-engine friendly HTML pages rather than long strings of variables on a PHP page. This is something that search engines love, and it makes it much easier for them to work out what a page is about, so results appear higher. Also, if a URL contains a word you have searched for (rather than that word just appearing in the page content) then that result will appear higher in the rankings. The second major thing is the pages the search engines see. If you click a Xisto result from a search engine you'll see that you are served with an SEO version of the forums - clean and simple, putting the content first and in a format the search engines love.

When Ubuntu next checks for software updates it should tell you that a new version of Ubuntu is available and prompt you to upgrade. So far I haven't seen any reports on how well the upgrade process works at the moment, so I'd wait for a few people to try it before you go ahead with it.

The latest version of the most popular Linux operating system, Ubuntu, is now out in the wild: https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop The corresponding versions of Kubuntu and Xubuntu have also been released: http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I can't wait for the inevitable *buntu vs. Windows 7 reviews So, who's already taken the plunge and installed Karmic Koala?

It has to be said that most of the blame for wastage lies with manufacturers. For example, look at food at your local supermarket and consider the vast amount of packaging there, and how much of that is not recyclable. As consumers we have no choice over that packaging, and there is nothing we can do about it. The same goes for the manufacturing process and the energy used there. Encouraging manufacturers to use recycled materials and less energy (perhaps by subsidising recycled plastic and paper, or tax breaks or something) would be a good start. I have one desktop PC and one laptop at the moment (although I'll likely sell the laptop soon). All of the parts of my desktop PC are connected to one plug, so I can switch the whole lot off when I shut the PC down, and only switch it on when I need it. I also manually switch on things like the printer and speakers rather than having them on all the time for no reason. I'll admit the reason is mainly to reduce my electricity bill, but still... The best way to get over the use of new materials is reuse rather than recycling. Sell your old equipment rather than scrapping it, or even give it away via Freecycle or to a charity. In the UK we now have the WEEE Directive, which forces electronics manufacturers to take their products back when we're done with them, and they then have to dispose of them safely and cleanly. This has encouraged manufacturers to eliminate things like mercury and lead from their electronics just to save them the disposal costs when the consumers eventually get rid of their products.

You seem to underestimate the complexity of upgrading, especially when the myCENTs script is also very complex and coded into the forums, and even more complex now that it integrates into Xisto's central billing system. The time spent testing and debugging is colossal. There is also the risk - if something goes wrong then thousands of members are inconvenienced. Moving to our current version took quite a while after the release by Invision, and likely the same situation will apply with v3. Do we need a new skin? What benefits does it bring? What is wrong with the current one? Far from being lazy, the two admins are incredibly busy. Both have key roles running Xisto and keeping Xisto online and working smoothly. Due to these other tasks they don't have the luxury of time to be able to post as much as I'm sure they'd like to. Also remember that us moderators have been granted enough access to be able to keep on top of the day-to-day running of the forums and dealing with spam, leaving the admins free to work on the more difficult stuff. I'm in the UK and notice no speed issues whatsoever - Xisto and all Xisto-hosted sites load just as fast as any other. Which ISP are you using, as the issue would seem to be with them. Having the database in a bad state is obviously in no-one's interest, and the staff at Xisto obviously do their best to keep things running smoothly and as fast as possible. BuffaloHelp was last online on the 22nd. OpaQue was last online on the 26th. Looks like you're just missing them. Remember that neither BH or OpaQue are in the UK, so are in completely different time zones to you. Nope. Despite what people say, we actually have pretty good Internet connectivity (depending on your ISP), especially between the UK and the rest of the world.

As we have discussed before, this is wrong! Following those steps will not improve your Internet performance in any way, and may even make performance worse in certain situations. The system works by allowing applications to reserve a percentage of bandwidth as priority bandwidth for that application. However, it is not constantly used and other applications are free to use that bandwidth until the reserving application requires it. Whatever is not being used is split between all the applications, whether it is reserved or not. Changing that figure from 20% to 0% means that no applications can reserve bandwidth. This results in high-bandwidth applications (such as games and streaming video) not being able to get the bandwidth they would normally reserve, so performance will actually decrease!

What sort of information are you trying to get hold of and why? Generally Javascript is only used to gather information about the browser, such as screen resolution, but can't go much further than that. The only method I can see working is through ActiveX, but that will prompt the user with a variety of security warnings, and will of course only work on Windows PCs.

It depends entirely on the tone of your site, and the tone you intend to have. For example, traditionally people have simply used contact@example.com but that looks a little formal for some non-business sites, and especially if you are using the address for personal emails too. Another popular idea is using your first name, so you get something like dave@example.com, although that can go too far the other way and be a little too personal if you want to have a slightly more serious tone. One I quite like at the moment is hello@example.com - you show friendliness, you can use it for personal emails too if you want, yet you retain that slight detached element that business addresses tend to use. Using Google Apps is free, but you're limited to around 200 addresses. They also offer a paid service with more features, geared at major corporations - this is the 30 day free trial they're offering. Just ignore the trial. To change your MX records in cPanel: Log in to your cPanel (rather obvious, that one) In the Mail section click the MX Entry icon In the Change MX Entry form at the top, enter the following: [select your domain], Priority: 0, to: ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM then click change. In the Change MX Entry form at the top, enter the following: [select your domain], Priority: 5, to: ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM then click change. In the Change MX Entry form at the top, enter the following: [select your domain], Priority: 10, to: ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM then click change.

myCENTs can't be transferred between accounts. So, that $6 can be spent on that account, but can't be transferred to your account. As far as I know there are no plans to introduce the ability to transfer myCENTs and XistoDollars between accounts.If you urgently need the $6 then remember that you can add money to your account in the Billing area using a variety of methods including PayPal.

I'll be honest, I haven't noticed too many sites adding this exact toolbar, but I have seen a general increase in similar toolbars and buttons on sites. Personally, I don't use them on my sites. I've got a new PC with a pretty good CPU and graphics card, so I haven't noticed these toolbars causing me any problems on the sites I've visited. However, on my older laptop, they can cause problems, especially on sites with other Flash and Javascript elements, and sites that are graphics intensive. When there is a delay or jerkiness in the scrolling of a site then you're breaking basic usability, and you're going to send your visitors elsewhere. I don't use Facebook. I don't use Twitter. So I don't need these toolbars. I understand that plenty of people do use these sites, and might appreciate a toolbar like this on some sites, but it certainly shouldn't intrude on other users and shouldn't affect the usability of the site overall. Use small bookmarking links or whatever, fine, but that's all you need. They don't need to be so 'in-your-face' though, especially for those users who don't use Facebook and Twitter and sites like that. Destroying basic usability expectations is not a good trade-off for pleasing a few users who use these sites.

Personally I use Kate, Code::Blocks and Eclipse, depending on what I'm doing. Kate - https://kate-editor.org/ Nice and simple, fast and has syntax highlighting. Also integrates well with the KDE desktop. The syntax highlighting works with a range of languages, but you can add more and change the colours to suit yourself. Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/ More of a development environment, containing templates, syntax highlighting, code completion and all sorts of features for loads of languages. Again, you can define your own templates and things to fit your workflow. Definitely worth checking out. Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/ Fairly similar to Code::Blocks, but with more extensions to provide specific features for each language (such as extensions specifically for PHP). Free, so again worth checking out.

Xisto's moderators have no control over Xisto, and Xisto's moderators have no control over Xisto. You will need to wait for a response in your topic at Xisto or PM the moderators (I'm sure not all of them have full PM inboxes?) to ask for their help.

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Fairly simple recipe and good fun making silly patterns Ingredients 225g self-raising flour 225g caster sugar 225g butter 4 medium eggs 3 tbsp. milk 2 tsp. vanilla extract 2 tbsp. cocoa You'll also need a cake tin (approximately 20cm/8 inches in diameter), a little extra butter to grease the tin and greaseproof paper if you want it (I don't use it, but no harm in it). Start heating your oven up to 180C/350F/Gas 4 Mix the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl. Make sure you're left with no large lumps of butter or you'll end up with a very odd cake. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing until the mixture is smooth after each one. Add the milk and vanilla extract, making sure they're mixed in evenly. Gradually add the flour, mixing at the same time, until the mixture is smooth. Divide the mixture evenly between two bowls. Add the cocoa to one of the bowls and thoroughly mix it in until the mixture is a uniform colour. Grease the cake tin and line with greaseproof paper if you want to. Use two spoons to add blobs of each of the mixtures to the tin alternately. After each 'layer' of blobs, tap the cake tin firmly on the worktop/table, and slide it around slightly on the surface to remove any air bubbles. You should get around 3 'layers' of blobs. If you want to, use a knife to slightly swirl the blobs into eachother to create a marbled effect. Bake for 45 mins to an hour. When it's done you should be able to insert a skewer or knife through the centre of the cake and it will come out clean.

Hooray! Finally someone understands! I always try to get this point across to people and they just don't get that Linux isn't difficult, it's just different. People get so used to Windows that they consider Mac, Linux, their toaster, anything, difficult, when they're just different to what they're used to. After a few minutes to familiarise yourself then it really isn't difficult at all. Gwenview is what I currently use, and it seems to do a lot of what IrfanView can do. Worth a look if you haven't looked at it already. If there's still a feature you're missing, there is likely another piece of software that will do the same job so let us know. For a replacement for FL Studio take a look here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ They're all going to be different, but the Linux ones are all free, so you've got nothing to lose by trying them out. With the software you're trying under WINE, please, please, please make sure you submit good reports to WINE's application database. Too many people say software doesn't work, so just abandon it. Submitting a report only takes a minute or two and makes sure the developers know what they need to fix. If people don't submit reports then the developers have no idea what needs fixing, so have no chance of making it work. Lexmark, unfortunately, are probably one of the worst manufacturers you could have picked for your printer (and not just for their Linux support, but anyway...). If you decide to stick with Linux, I've got an HP all-in-one (printer, scanner and copier) and it works flawlessly in Linux - including correctly reporting when the ink runs low, something it never managed in Windows! HP have probably some of the best Linux support among printer manufacturers, so certainly consider them when you next get a printer. As far as I know all the other manufacturers (except Lexmark) are pretty good too, I'm just giving my personal experience. Exactly how I was when I first switched. I kept a Windows partition hanging around, assuming I'd need to boot into it fairly regularly. After a while I was running out of space on my Linux partition, and I got rid of Windows without a second thought, having not booted into it since I installed Linux!

There is a piece of software called Adobe Contribute: http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute.html It looks like it allows you to edit a website directly in your browser, without having to type HTML, and leave comments for other editors of the site. However, I assume it would only work if you set your site up to use it, or designed your site specifically to work with it. So, it won't break anything (it is a piece of software released by Adobe) and is worth a shot. Whether your government-managed Lenovo will let you run it is another matter, but it's worth a shot.

Hi, welcome to Xisto You got links to the sites you run so we can take a look at them? Always nice to see what designs and sites people have come up with. Also, a couple of obligatory links: Check out the Xisto readme and the rules. All fairly basic, but just make sure you stay on the right side of them If you want to get free hosting from Xisto then you will need to sign up for an account at the billing site using the same email address you used for your forum account. Once you've made 5 posts here then you will get credited with myCENTs, which you can spend on hosting and domains Welcome to Xisto!