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The definition of socialism from the OED: And for communism: The difference is that socialism involves some power being vested in the workers through unions and co-operatives, nationalisation of certain industries and services (but not necessarily everything) and a welfare state (tax the grotesquely wealthy to help the poor). Communism makes everything publicly owned, and everything split equally - everyone gets paid the same, gets the same sized piece of land, etc. The state do not own your property. It is that the punishment for the crime of not paying your tax is confiscation of something you own (property in this case). If it is a requirement of the law, and therefore a condition of your ownership of the property, that you pay that tax, and you choose not to, then some punishment would be enforced.

The easier way around to do it will be to start with the Monochrome theme and change the colours to suit you. Changing the colours on that theme will be much easier than changing the layout of the In Berlin theme.For each part you want to change in the theme, you need to work out whether it is provided by an image (things like gradients, complex patterns, anything that isn't a simple, single block colour) or is defined in the CSS (text colours, link colours, border colours, anything that is a single block colour). If it is an image, open up the relevant image in something like The GIMP and change it to the colours you want. Most gradients are created with images that are 1px wide and repeated, so looking for images with a dimension of 1 in one direction should help you find those.If it is a block colour then you'll need to change the CSS file. Find the relevant section in the CSS file (it should be well commented to help you out) that deals with the part you want to change. Change the colour code to the new colour and you're done.Remember to keep a backup of the original files, and take regular backups after each change, just in case you suddenly turn the whole site lime green and can't work out how to reverse what you did

What I pay in the UK for use of the NHS is a 96.3% reduction on the same cost for US medical insurance! Or, to put it another way, a 2708% increase if I were to move to the US. It seems like a drastic reduction to me. And it ensures that your medical treatment is completely free, always, wherever you choose to go. If it is priced correctly, then it shouldn't take a massive bite out of everyone's income. Remember, as part of a welfare state it should be possible to tax the rich heavily and not tax those who are unable to find work or are on low earnings. That makes sure that those who can afford to pay, do, and those that can't don't have to.

The Taylor Aerocar got there first. After 60 years we're not all driving/flying them around because they're just not practical for most people. The fuel efficiency would be prohibitive with costs over £1 per litre, and according to James May, the handling is awful. Plus, the legal requirements are also a problem for most: driving licence, pilot's licence, registration as a car, registration as an aircraft, medical exam for a pilot, etc. The skies are also fairly busy as they are, and are currently populated by skilled pilots. If it was to be practical, getting a pilot's licence would have to become easier, and it would inevitably lead to plenty of mid-air collisions. However, from an engineering-physics-y point of view, it would be great to own one and use one

In between buying, assembling and testing my new PC, and packing to to go away for a week, I cobbled together this. Not at all happy with it though

I don't know if there is. They have to buy the Windows licences they sell from Microsoft, and they pass that cost on to the customer. With Linux that cost is removed, the price drops, but the profit made on the hardware is still exactly the same - nothing lost. Companies sponsoring Linux distributions (such as Canonical) often sell support packages too. I'm sure retailers could sell those on their behalf and earn a handsome commission on each sale. There does seem to be a growing base of commercial software packages for Linux, but the plethora of free software available surely isn't a bad thing? Getting my whole office suite for free is nice, and my DVD burning application, and my image editor, and vector drawing program, and professional print design application, and my games... Selling the distributions shouldn't be the point. They should be offered for free, which makes the PC cheaper to buy and removes the hated "Microsoft Tax". For most people doing a bit of web browsing, word processing and photo editing etc. switching to Linux makes no difference - my mum switched to Kubuntu without issue, and now prefers it to Windows. So, offered two PCs that can do exactly the same stuff, but one is Ł80 cheaper, which would you prefer? As in downloading it illegally? You would therefore be prosecuted and subject to both a lengthy jail term and colossal fine. I'm building my new PC soon, and it will have Linux installed from the get go. I haven't decided which distribution yet though - whether to stay with Kubuntu or perhaps try openSUSE or Fedora?

If you use KDE, right click on the title bar of any window, go down to Opacity, and choose the opacity you want You can also place the cursor over the title bar and then spin the scroll wheel on your mouse, it does exactly the same. So, Linux has had this for longer and on any application... Still, nice find for Windows users

A web server is a computer that serves web pages (and other services such as databases, email and such) to other computers. The software they use to do this is also often known as a server. For example, Apache is a piece of software that receives a request for a web page, goes off and finds it on the server, then sends it back to the computer across the Internet that asked for it. FTP allows you to transfer files between a computer and a server, so you can upload the files that make up your site, or download them again later as a backup. MySQL is a database (tables of data and information) that can be accessed by web pages to draw in data to fill the pages up, or check usernames and passwords, or many other things. Aptana Studio is basically a jumped up text-editor, like Dreamweaver or FrontPage. They allow you to edit the code that makes up your pages, but they can't run it, and they can't serve it up to people around the globe. LAMP and WAMP stand for "Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP" and "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" respectively. They're acronyms that tell you the basic software needed for a web server, and an easier way to refer to them than typing the four words out in full. Xampp is a program that automatically installs the AMP part (Apache, MySQL, PHP) on Windows. Some people think it is difficult to get Apache, MySQL and PHP set up and working, so Xampp does the whole lot for you to make it easier. Green is generally a good sign It sounds like it means exactly the same, so you should be fine. That is self-hosted (it's on my web hosting at the moment). It is exactly what you want to do, apart from I put it in a separate folder so I didn't replace my blog with your one Wordpress is famed for its simple installation, and it really is quite simple. Below is the exact process I used to create that blog: Go to https://wordpress.org/. Click the blue button labelled "Download Wordpress 2.8.4" (or whatever version they're on). Click the same blue button on the right. Save the ZIP folder somewhere on your computer, and extract it. Log in to your hosting cPanel and create a database: click the MySQL Databases link, find the section to create a new database, give it a nice name like "blog" and click the button to create it. Rename the file wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php Open the file in Notepad or Aptana or any other text editor, and put in your database username, password and database name where it needs them. Save the file. Use your chosen FTP software to upload the extracted files (it's drag and drop into the FTP program). Once all the files are uploaded, visit your blog and you'll get an installation page. Type in your blog's name, your email address, etc. Done! That looks quite complicated, and I suppose it can be the first time you do it. I'd happily do the installation for you if you wanted (like I did for the demo blog I set up for you) so all you'd need to do would be put in your blog's name and email address when asked, and you'd be done. You don't need to worry about cgi-bins... They're for running Perl scripts on your web hosting, which you don't need to know or care about

I've never used Xampp, but this is from people who have used it When you click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL (you don't need FTP) then the word Running should appear in green next to the button, to confirm everything went OK. If it doesn't appear then the installation might not have worked. There should also be a Status button that will tell you a bit more when you click it. Xampp does not relate to Aptana or have anything to do with it. Your operating system assumes when you double-click a PHP file you would like to edit it. To get it parsed by PHP and the output displayed by Apache you need to open the file in a web browser. Open your web browser of choice and enter LOCALHOST/ in the address bar, and hit enter. From there you should be able to navigate through the folders and find the file you want. It will then by PHP and output by Apache as a web page, rather than as the code.

I check my all email using Thunderbird, which saves a copy locally. I then take nightly backups automatically on to an external HDD, so all my mail should be saved on there somewhere if I need it. To be honest though, I don't get a lot of important email (I like important things on paper), and anything that is important is only important for a few days (such as online orders and things). The main risk is people guessing your email password, then resetting passwords on other sites (such as your bank) and getting them emailed to the account they now have access to. All that can prevent that is a good strong passphrase.

If you pay monthly there is an initial setup cost of $9.95. There are no extra features or anything between the monthly and yearly options. The cost, I believe, is to cover the time taken to set the account and domains up, along with the automatic invoicing etc. If you choose a yearly package then this cost is waived.

Just this afternoon my mum has bought a black Ford Focus 1.6 Thanks everyone for all your help and advice - it was incredibly useful and helpful, and made the whole process a lot easier. However, it still seems like the colour was the most important consideration on her mind

I believe it is generally meant as "is the one for" or "was made for" etc. etc. rather than the supportive sense, like being 'for' a particular cause.Does it matter? No, not really Everyone knows what is meant by it anyway, and what it expresses is far more important than an exact dictionary definition.

When you sign up, you have to tick a box that says you have read and agree to the rules. Those rules state that anything you copy and paste onto the forums must have Quote tags around it. krishnadeep1 ignored that rule on many occasions and was therefore given a warning about it. If he stopped copying then the warning would have been removed in a week or so. However, he continued and was therefore warned again. We very often use our judgement and discretion with members, but the massive posts and the sheer number of them showed a blatant disregard for the rules. Common sense is reading the rules and understanding them when you agree to them at sign-up. The odd slipup by a new member is fine and understandable, but copying pages and pages of text into loads of topics just isn't on.

That error can be caused by quite a few things, such as getting the opening and closing PHP tags wrong, mismatching brackets and mismatching quotes. Is there any chance you could copy the contents of wp-config.php up here (minus passwords and things) so we can take a look and fix it?

zlib is pretty much the de facto library used for compressing and decompressing gzip and zip files. I presume the security risks they claim are for things like 'tar bombs' - where you decompress an archive and millions of files appear when you expected one folder (we've all had that happen to us!). On a server, not only would that be processor and memory intensive, but it would also start to fill the hard drive pretty quickly. Also, until you open the archive, you have no idea what sort of files are inside. Some hosts, who block uploads of certain file types, will prevent archives being uploaded to stop people 'sneaking' disallowed file types on to their hosting. Just means moderators have to approve your posts before they appear. It cuts down on spam in areas of the forum that generally have lots of spam.

When the IPlayer was first made available for Apple's iPhone, it was found that the DRM was disabled if you downloaded from an iPhone (as presumably they wouldn't be able to decode it). This prompted a question - the BBC's main reason for not using an open DRM format, or removing the DRM altogether, was that the owners of the content were adamant that this particular DRM had to be used - so why were they able to disable it for the iPhone? And if they could do that, why not disable it for everything except Windows? The provide programs in Welsh. A smaller proportion of the UK population speak fluent Welsh than use Macs and Linux. To understand these programs most people have to learn a whole new language. Yet they do it. Writing an open DRM platform doesn't seem so hard, appeals to more people and installing a codec is far easier than learning a language. Now they have made a Flash version available, although it wasn't for quite a while after launch. It also still limits Mac and Linux users to streaming their material rather than downloading it and playing it locally. I agree that ITV and Channel 4 haven't done any better, but the BBC spends millions on research and development, and yet they didn't think it worth their time to do this properly.

It seems to be the association in most peoples minds of communism with dictatorships. Communism, as a theory, is in no way related to dictatorships or the far-right, but in history communist nations have all ended up as right-wing dictatorships, and this is the association people get. Communism, they learn, is on the political left, and therefore anything on the political left is associated with communism. Now, obviously, that logic is incredibly flawed, but that is how a lot of people I've spoken to (both here in the UK and in the US) feel and think. Political theory even considered, at one point, that the very far left and very far right were one and the same. That theory has since been debunked. The idea shocks me too. But then the idea that the electricity, gas and water in the UK was privatised also baffles and scares me. Things that fundamental and vital should never be operated for profit in the way the health industry works in the US. Everywhere privatisation has touched it has been a disaster, and yet governments never learn. If I ever get ill and need hospital treatment, there is no way that I could afford it on the spot, or afford the sort of bills people in the US have for health insurance. A US paper recently made the following statement: They clearly failed to notice that Hawking is British, received tons of help on the NHS and says he owes his life to the service he received. Being able to get emergency and routine treatment when it is needed without the worry of massive bills is vital. Tax may well go up, but medical insurance bills would plummet. Currently I pay Ł9.60 per month for the NHS. To get the same level of care in the US I have just been quoted a whopping $424.15 (Ł260) per month!!!

By default, Gnome looks like this: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ And by default KDE looks like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/KDE_4.png Both contain slightly different software packages, although Gnome apps will run on KDE and vice versa. So, for example, the default media player on KDE is Amarok, and in Gnome it's Rhythmbox. However, either one will run on the other environment. Neither KDE not Gnome is better than the other, but for some reason people cling fiercely to their chosen one and defend it like their lives depend on it I honestly can't see any reason why though. Yes, you'll have a preference but if someone has a different preference then that's fine - it's not a war! As much as the developers and other people seem to hate it being said: yes, they are basically themes that change only the look and feel. Fundamentally they also control things like the login manager, administration applications and controls and other such things, but none of that really matters to the end user. For me, I like KDE. Gnome always looked a little bit too childish for me, and I've now just got used to KDE and love it. I do try to keep on top of Gnome developments and try it out every so often, but I still prefer KDE at the moment.

This has already been discussed and answered by OpaQue: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/65039-transfer-of-cents-possible/ Basically, there are too many problems (and risks for Xisto) in allowing transfers. Someone could set up loads of accounts, post loads of spam, then transfer all their myCENTs to one account and place an order for really expensive things without having done anything to earn them. I think that OpaQue has said transferring myCENTs will not be possible, and is not planned for the future.

I try my best to test all my work in as many different scenarios as possible. I test in Firefox, Opera, Konqueror and Lynx on my own computer, then test things like IE, Safari, etc. on other platforms. I also check my sites on my Nintendo Wii, and try to get people to test with smartphones and mobile browsers. Each of the machines I test with (and get other people to test my sites with) has a different resolution, but it is still difficult to test all browsers at all resolutions on all platforms. For that I make use of BrowserShots to test in pretty much every browser on all platforms. Making sites accessible is incredibly important. I include useful alt text on images, which also helps with text-only browsers like Lynx. I generally don't include options on my sites for changing colours and font sizes. For font sizes I try to use sizes that depend on browser settings, so that if people set their browser to a larger font, they'll get one. The 'zooming' method now included in a lot of browsers somewhat negates the need for this, but is still helpful to have there. With colours I make sure that my colour schemes can still be seen as well as possible by those suffering from colour blindness. Again, I don't include options on my sites for changing the colours - people can always use custom stylesheets if they need certain colours, and would likely use them anyway, whether I provided colour changing options or not.

Like most websites, unfortunately Xisto does unfortunately go down and becomes unreachable. You can always check if it is just you by visiting this link, which will tell you if the site is accessible to other people.

A reputation system on a forum is where members can award each other good reputation for writing a good post or bad reputation for spam or useless posts. Generally, each piece of good reputation raises your reputation by 1 and bad reputation reduces it by 1. The higher your reputation is, the more respect you receive on the forum and generally the more helpful you are at answering questions or making good posts. It's used normally by placing two buttons on each post - one for giving good reputation, one for bad reputation. The buttons are usually a thumbs up and down, or a plus and minus, or something similar.If you're asking about Xisto, it doesn't have a reputation system. I think it used to quite a while ago, but it doesn't now.

It'll do something, even if it's just an error message. Could you try that command again, and copy whatever the output is to here?

In the client area there is a section where you can view and update your contact details. Make sure they are correct when you first sign up, then update them whenever any of your details change.