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Well currently they have got their information on your WHOIS record for your domain. That means you are paying for them to hide your details from the domain WHOIS record for your site. You may not be paying them directly (the cost may be incorporated in the cost of your domain) but they are hiding your details from the record. It is generally a bad idea to hide your details. It makes your domain, and therefore your site, look untrustworthy. You are required to provide contact details for a domain. Providing the information for a company hiding your details, who refuse to accept postal mail and rely solely on a web form for contact is not a good idea! To directly answer the question of whether they are fake: They are a real company and a real website. Edit: I've just noticed Xisto.com has the details hidden too Still doesn't change my opinion that these services should not be allowed.

See here: http://forums.xisto.com/index.php?shoc=56867= The Spam section of the forums was cleared out. Any topics that the staff deem to be spam get moved into this area of the forums. Yesterday it was cleared out, so anyone who had a post in there lost their credits for it. If you had made a spam topic, or replied to one, then you would have lost credits.

The site doesn't seem to exist any more, and this topic is ancient. Closed.

Make sure to check out MythTV to get into scheduling recodings and all other sorts of cool stuff. Just look for the package in Synaptic or Adept. This is actually a fault with the manufacturer of the tablet. They make the stylus/touchscreen system appear as a USB mouse (usually) and write special drivers, run on Windows, to interpret this mouse. Of course, with Ubuntu, it appears as a mouse and it treats it as such. As there are no specialist drivers already installed, and manufacturers refuse to release them, there is not a lot anyone can do. This is why I picked an HP printer - open source, fully supported, Linux drivers!

Hi, welcome to Xisto It looks like you've already found the graphics section, and I hope to see some more of your work appear on there. Loads of members will be willing to give you any help you need with both your design work and getting your site up and running. Also, take a look at the following links to make sure you keep within the rules: Readme ~ Rules ~ AUP Other than that, welcome again, and I hope to see you around the forums

Take a look at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ . They list pretty much every CMS available at the moment, along with descriptions and demonstration versions running for you to take a look at. Look in the Portals (CMS) section in the menu on the left and go through the various CMSs available, pick one you like the look of, download the source code and then take a look at the code that runs that CMS. They're all different, so take a look at a few. Also, use the online demos. If you spot a feature you like the look of, see if you can work out how it is done by looking through the code.

XML and CSS are completely different languages with very different purposes. XML is a method of storing, organising and transferring data. It is the language behind XHTML, RSS feeds, configuration files and a whole host of other things. It is really easy to work with, especially from 'inside' a programming language, so you can update the XML files automatically, hence why they are used for RSS feeds and podcasts. They are also human readable and editable, which is why they can be used for data storage and configuration. For example, in a survey/questionnaire system I am developing, we are using XML files to store settings, configuration and survey layouts. CSS is used to define layout and appearance of web pages. The idea was to take HTML back to what it was supposed to be - centred around the content, not the layout. CSS files are used on pretty much every well-designed website to define fonts, colours, layout and position of every element on the page. It is not really a matter of which is better, but more which one you actually need to use.

Sorry to be so blunt, but religion can't prove what happened 2,000 years ago using only a collection of books, but that doesn't stop them trying. Both the scientific and religious theories rely on the fact that they cannot be proved wrong. However, as ammunition in their argument, both sides use the fact that the other has never be proved right. DNA does not actually contain any physical information. DNA is not an intelligent being; it cannot think or make decisions, therefore any 'information' would be useless to it. DNA is a sequence of chemicals, differing slightly from each other, that react in certain ways with other chemicals. When these reactions occur, the order in which the chemicals are placed on the DNA determine the order in which new chemicals are bonded together - it is simply a series of chemical reactions happening in a predetermined order. Chemical reactions occur all the time without the intervention of a grand designer, so why should these reactions need one? Well, actually, they have There are a few details they are not sure on, but lightning has been reproduced in labs, and the theory is pretty much the same as rubbing a balloon on your jumper and sticking it to the wall. Erm, they have Plastics have been manufactured that break down in UV light, visible light, through bacteria in soils or through reactions with ozone. This is actually why bottled water has a sell-by date; the light breaks down the plastic and causes it to leach into the water. What they claim is backed up with proof from experiments and studies that can be replicated by anyone with the right tools and equipment. There have been cases where people have been wrong, but scientists always make the best predictions on the available evidence, and they are usually right. Sometimes small adjustments need to be made (such as with the theories behind the structure of the atom) as technology and evidence advances. The age of the Universe is calculated from the rate of expansion of the Universe, and tracing it back to a central point and time - the Big Bang. Reversing the expansion of the Universe and looking at how long it has taken us to reach where we are now allows us to see how long it has been since the theoretical Big Bang. The age of the Earth can be estimated using radiometric dating. Using a mass spectrometer and looking for naturally occurring radioactive isotopes of elements, and their rates of decay, you can work out how old something is. I think the oldest rock ever found was from Australia, and is around 4.5 billion years old. People are certainly trying. There are ethical and funding issues, along with our current lack of knowledge.

Both the opening of the Fast Reply box, and the buttons for adding BBCodes work by using Javascript. The Fast Reply box is opened and closed by using HTML and CSS properties to display and hide elements. The Javascript just toggles between displaying the box, and not displaying it. Getting the BBCodes inserted is a bit trickier, and notoriously hard to get working in IE, FF, Opera, Konqueror, Safari and all the other browsers. The code can get quite complex to work across all the browsers, and rather than try to write it myself and replicate it here, I'll point you to a Google search that contains many different ways of achieving this, each with their own pros and cons: https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en&gws_rd=ssl=

Great work OpaQue It looks like a lot of people are already putting it to good use. It also looks like everyone is using it properly and rating posts correctly - I'm finding it quite useful. My one problem, I suppose, is just a small annoyance with where the image is placed next to a username. When you click the image to see how people have been rated, it always brings down the menu linked to their username: It just means I have to make the menu disappear before I can read the ratings - not a major problem It would get abused either way. People would start randomly voting posts up just to earn credits.

You get the ability to make a custom title at 200 posts, if I remember correctly. Go to the My Controls link at the top of any forum page, then click Edit Profile Information on the left hand side. The first field that appears should be a Custom member title field. Tap in the custom title you want, and hit the Confirm button at the bottom.

I can get onto the website with no problems. I see a light yellow page with dark blue text explaining the site is down for maintenance. I assume this is the page you put there. This means that it is very unlikely the problem is with the server, but more likely that the problem lies with your computer or your ISP. I can get the cPanel login box to appear at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ but obviously I cannot try logging in as I don't have your password. I can also get onto http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ with no problems. This just further suggests the problem is with your ISP. When you get a response from the support desk, see what they have to say. In the meantime, contact your ISP and ask them if they are blocking or limiting the connection, and if so, why.

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Let's say that you need to raise the temperature of the water by 30C when you drink it (from 7C to body temperature). Using the specific heat capacity of water, we can work out that drinking a litre of water would use 125,610J of energy. That works out at almost exactly 30kcal. Using that energy you would lose 0.0039g of fat per litre of water you drink. Drink your two litres a day and you'd need 352 years to lose a kg.It is incredibly annoying when people on TV use this information that you can "drink yourself thin" but it is usually just lazy researchers and people using their own poorly remembered, incorrect information as a source of medical advice, which then gets printed, published and broadcast hundreds of times.

Inkscape does specialise in drawing diagrams. I have used it to construct the diagrams used in all of my chemistry and physics work for the past 2 years. From their own website: Illustrator is very popular for making all sorts of diagrams and illustrations, but costs a ridiculous amount of money. Inkscape is a free alternative. If you tell us exactly what you want a diagram of then perhaps we might be able to help you a bit more. Inkscape is a general application, whereas there are plenty of applications designed specifically for certain types of diagrams (such as flow charts, chemical formulae, or pretty much anything else). Excel is Microsoft's application for drawing tables, charts and graphs. It is very similar to the Calc application in OpenOffice, but Excel costs money, while Calc is free. Also, in both Excel and Calc you have some limited tools for drawing basic diagrams. However, they were not designed for this (they were designed for number-crunching) so they aren't brilliant for making diagrams.

OpenOffice is a free office suite, which includes a program for drawing graphs from tables of data (something similar to Microsoft's Excel). It is completely free and really easy to use. For your diagrams, I'd go for Inkscape. It is a vector drawing program, meaning you can blow the images you create up to any size you like without losing any quality. Again, totally free and easy to use. Both also have good help and support docs included, and available online, to help you get started. Inkscape can take a little while to get used to what everything does, but is very powerful once you have spent a few minutes familiarising yourself with everything.

First you would need a user management system, and a way for users to log in. There are plenty of tutorials about this here at Xisto and across the web. Take a browse through the Tutorials section and see what you can find. Edit: Take a look at the following tutorials for some ideas and advice about what is needed for the login system: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/44557-php-simple-user-system-part-1-creating-the-basics-of-a-user-system/ http://forums.xisto.com/topic/56187-user-permission-function-php-determining-user-permissions/ http://forums.xisto.com/topic/8333-complete-login-and-registration-system-doesnt-use-mysql/ http://forums.xisto.com/topic/7887-php-simple-login-tutorial-learn-how-to-make-a-simple-login/ http://forums.xisto.com/topic/52533-simple-php-login-and-registration-system/ This really depends on what the admin page is for as to what functions you want it to perform. The admin page for a forum, for example, is very different to the admin system for an online shop. Most of the functions an admin needs to perform are data entry, retrieval and modification. All that can easily be done with HTML forms and some relevant SQL being run with a PHP script when the Submit button on the form is clicked. You'd need to be much more specific about exactly what tasks you need the admin page to do, and what the database structure is behind the site, before we have any idea what to do.

Try searching for "mod _rewrite" for a tutorial: search:mod_rewrite search:mod_rewrite tutorial Also try these links for some help: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

There are three ways to write an if statement depending on what you want to do and what your coding style is like. I shall give examples below: "Standard" If Statement This is your bog standard if statement, used millions of times by pretty much everyone: if ( condition ) { code to execute if condition === TRUE} If the condition is true then the code between the curly braces - { } - gets run. If the condition is false then the code between the curly braces is ignored. "Verbose" If Statement This is the slightly longer/older style if statement. It is more similar to if statements in older programming languages. if ( condition ) : Code here is executed if condition === TRUEendif; Here the code that gets run if the condition is true starts with a colon : and ends with endif;This is sometimes useful to use if there are lots of curly braces dotted around your script, as it makes clear exactly what you are closing (if, while, else, foreach, etc.). "Short" If Statement This is used to execute one command, and only one command, when the condition is true. It has no real start or end, and is simply made up with the if statement. Whatever the next line is is only executed when the condition is true. if ( condition ) This line gets executed if condition === TRUE;This line is always run;So is this one; The line that is part of the if statement usually gets indented to make it clearer that it is only run when the if statement is true. You might want to take a look at the following two manual pages for more information about exactly how they work if it still isn't totally clear: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Any server-side scripting (such as PHP) will never be seen by visitors to your site as long as PHP is running on the server. The HTML output, however, is obviously visible, and there is very little you can do to protect that. All the code must be able to be understood by the browser, and therefore there will be an easy way for a visitor to see the plain HTML source code.As long as your PHP is well written (clean any user input, sanitise database inputs, etc.) then you should have nothing to worry about.

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The radiation filling space is cosmic microwave background radiation. That radiation, as the name suggests, is similar to the radiation used to cook food in a microwave and is not particularly dangerous. What you need to be worried about are particle radiation and heavily ionising radiation. At the moment, I can't find any information about the presence of those types of radiation in space. Also, if they were in space, they could all be stopped with around 30 mm of lead, or something similar. I am sure NASA thought of this when building their space shuttles and other equipment. Due to the incredible intensity of light on the Moon, very short exposures had to be used for the photos. This can produce some weird effects. Coupled with the fact that some objects appear to glow in the intensity of the light, it can make the crosshairs 'disappear'. If I were going to the Moon, I'd make sure I took the best camera available. The cameras used were designed for the space mission, so were made to be high quality, and to be attached to astronauts. No stars in the photographs is due once again to the very brief exposure times used on the camera. As everything on the Moon was much brighter than the stars, the stars came out very underexposed - pretty much invisible. The reason the astronauts didn't see them is because their eyes were adjusted to the much brighter sunlight in space. Naturally, their pupils closed up, effectively blocking out anything not directly lit by the Sun. The Moon doesn't exactly have a lot of distinguishing features to be able to pick out that a location is the same or different. The absolute maximum temperature, on the equator of the Moon, is around 390K. The average temperature is around 220K - around the coldest temperatures in the Arctic. Also, just to be sure, the film from the cameras was inside the space suits - which were thermally controlled. The blast was used to slow the lander down, but wasn't necessarily used on the surface. With lower acceleration due to gravity, the lander was descending much slower on the Moon than it would on Earth. Also, tests on Earth with similar pressures and areas show that a crater would not have formed anyway - the pressure from the landing was around 1 pound per square inch! I don't know enough about the launch rocket to confirm or deny this one. The flag was spring loaded (to keep it 'open' on the Moon without wind) and had been stored folded up. Therefore, when opened it sprung up, and bounced considerably in the reduced gravity. The creases also add to the illusion of it moving, and they didn't take an iron with them to make it look nice A further point to confirm the Moon landings did take place - there was a mirror placed on the Moon for use in physics experiments. If the Moon landings never took place, how did the mirrors get there, and how come many physicists across the world can confirm their existence, and their use?

If you upload the files to your hosting account then you need to use localhost as the server name. 'Localhost' simply means 'this computer'. So, if the actual files using the database are on the same computer as the database itself, then the server name is 'localhost'. However, if you want to keep the files on your machine, but use the Xisto database, then you need a remote connection. Unfortunately I don't think Xisto allows them.

Finding 35GB of free web space will be an impossibility. You are also incredibly unlikely to actually need 35GB of free space, unless you are intending to start producing and hosting your own hi-def movies? Take a good look at your site and work out if you really need 35GB of space. If you do, and you expect anyone to visit the site, then you will have massive bandwidth usage and you might be better off getting your own server.From your description of the site it seems incredibly unlikely you actually need 35GB of space, but good luck in your search.

Now that you have parked your new domain, you need to use that for FTP access and cPanel access, as you said the .uni.cc domain doesn't work any more. You should be able to log in to cPanel with this link: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Your FTP address will also have changed to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Your cPanel username and password are unchanged.