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This may sound stupid, but have you tried winding the clock back to last year? If it is a really simple bug or mistake in the System Restore code then you might be able to fool it by setting the clock back to December of last year (make sure you disable the Internet time or it'll correct it again). Worth a try...

The company running that site is called eTrade House.com Ltd. and they're based in Middlesex. They have been trading since May 2006. The website http://etradehouse.com/ seems to be an exact duplicate of the one you suggested, but with a different colour scheme. Look, another one! Personally I wouldn't trust a company that has three duplicates of their site online, each with a company number on them that relates to one of the other sites. They also all have the same phone number on them. I'd give them a ring and see if anyone answers, which company they identify themselves as, and whether they seem genuine. Throughout each of the sites, there seems to be a very poor grasp of English. For a company claiming to be based in Middlesex and London, I'd have thought a reputable company would have taken the time to proofread their site and make sure they present a good image. To me, each site looks like it was thrown together quickly and put online. Personally I wouldn't order from them. Browsing round the 'net it seems that people have mixed feelings. They seem to deliver quickly and their customer support is OK, but their products tend to be a very much "you get what you pay for" affair.

The tags <b> and <i> should also no longer be used. It is much better to use <strong> and <em> as they are more semantically correct and are better understood by all browsers (text based, screen readers, and other such things). Bold and italics are not always used for strength and emphasis, and could therefore get ignored if they cannot be displayed. You also need a DOCTYPE declaration at the start of all HTML documents: That way, all browsers should interpret your code correctly, as long as the browser has been written to follow the standards right.

Yes, you keep the subdomain as long as you add your new domain as a parked domain. Once you have registered your domain and set the name servers, go into cPanel and find the Parked Domains button. Hit that and then tap your new domain into the box. Click Add and wait a few seconds, and it should work To confirm, both of these links go to my website, which is set up in that way: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Yup, just park them both using the method I (briefly) described above. As far as I am aware, cPanel limits you to 9 parked domains by default, but I am pretty sure you could get that increased if you really need to. Also, just so you're aware, on the Parked Domains page of cPanel, you'll see this message: Ignore it, it's wrong.

If you just want to take a look at Ubuntu without doing anything then you can use a Live CD as csp4.0 suggested. However, this is not the same as installing the operating system - you will be unable to save files, install software, etc. and the CD is required each time you want to use Linux. This is just to give an example of some of the default software, some of the customisation available, the speed, etc. To run a live CD of Ubuntu, go here. Pick Ubuntu 7.10 under the Desktop section. Under the next heading select whether you have a 32-bit PC (top radio button) or a 64-bit PC (middle radio button). Pick a location and hit the Start Download button. You will end up with a ~700MB .ISO file. That is a CD image, so open it with your burning software (something like Nero or Sonic) and burn that to a CD. Pop that CD into your computer and restart, wander off while it loads, and eventually you will get a desktop pop up. That is the live CD. You follow exactly the same steps to install Ubuntu, if you decide you like it - you'll see the Install icon on the Ubuntu desktop.

It looks like you can get it done from $300 ( http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ) but I would ask to see examples of what they have done. Wherever you go, ask for the phone numbers of some of their customers and speak to them - explain why you've called and ask if they are happy with the paint job. If you want, you could even ask to go round and see their car. Generally people won't mind as long as you explain why you called and are polite to them. Any company that is proud of its work will be willing to help you get in contact with their past clients. Any excuses, or a flat refusal, to help out then be very wary. As jlhaslip has said, you very much get what you pay for. You're paying for their time, so the more you spend, the more of your time you will get. You will also find that the more you spend, the more you get in the way of guarantees against rusting, scratches, fading etc.

There is something similar that is used at multinational meetings and summits, but that has the computer replaced with a real live human translator! It should certainly be possible to do what you're suggesting - I can even do it at the moment with a bit of copy and pasting between an online translator and the text-to-speech program. Automating the process of translation and speech should certainly be possible.However, like you say, these three technologies need large amounts of work. With an automated system like this you would need to make sure that everything was being translated flawlessly, otherwise some very tense situations could result Speech recognition software needs to make massive improvements to understand more natural speech, and be able to better process grammar and other quirks of speech. The translation software needs to be able to distinguish words with different meanings (such as "bore", "drive" or "line") depending on context, and then sort them out to fit the grammar of the language it's translating into. Not a lot more work needs to be done with the text-to-speech system - they are generally OK, if a little unreal. The technology needed here is much nearer completion than the other two.Now, to the find the address for the patent office...

There are a set of standards which determine which bits of HTML do what, and exactly how they should be displayed. At the moment only two browsers seem to get it right: Opera and Konqueror (and those using KHTML). The rest of the browsers out there each have their own interpretations on what the standards are, and therefore described as non-standards compliant - they basically made it up as they went along and ignored all the rules. The same code will therefore cause wildly different results in different browsers. Even people (like me) who prefer to code their sites manually can run into troubles getting everything to look right. So, it's going to be even worse if you prefer not to code. If you use a [abbreviation=WYSIWYG]What You See Is What You Get[/abbreviation] editor then the code generated will likely not work correctly in anything other than Internet Explorer, which is the worst browser of the lot for following standards. The only way to fix the code so it works in all browsers is to download all the browsers, open the page in them, and see what needs to be fixed in your code. Some problems will be common to all of them, some will require hacks to apply to only one browser, others will be even trickier to fix. To put it frankly, there is no way to avoid the problem of the pages looking different unless your page is incredibly basic (i.e. just some text with no layout) or you made each page one big image, which is just ridiculous. The website A List Apart goes through a lot of issues you are likely to face, and ways to get around them, along with good design practice, new ideas, etc. It's a great site to look at if you have a problem or want some inspiration. When you get on to using CSS to layout pages (as your editor should already be doing) then QuirksMode will become very useful. That site lists hundreds of common problems and the solutions to getting the code to work in every browser.

Just a hint to help you out: you need to make sure you download the .deb version of anything you want to install. Ubuntu is based on Debian and therefore uses Debian packages. However, there is a much easier way to install most things. Open the Synaptic Package Manager and search for what you want, right click on the relevant package, then click Mark for Installation. If you're asked to install any extra packages, let it mark them for installation too. When you've selected everything you want, click on Apply. That will download the package, get all the dependencies and resolve any issues. There is a guide on the Ubuntu Wiki which goes through it all in more detail.

Take a look through the board rules. Any breach of the rules is liable to result in the posts being removed or edited, the member getting a warning, etc. As the rules state: Creating 6 consecutive posts should not be done when no-one has replied between them. If you want to write in stages, fine, but edit your first post rather than creating loads of replies to yourself. A reply should be just that - a reply from one person to what another person has said. With that definition, you can't really reply to yourself. As jlhaslip has said, the posts were classed as spam as they were copied or very similar to material already available. Posting 6 consecutive posts also contributed to your posts being classed as spam. Not at all. As I have suggested, you can add to posts you have already written. There is absolutely no need to make a series of consecutive posts when no-one has replied to any of them. Use the Edit button to add to your posts. You need to post your topic in the most appropriate category. In this case it was probably best to have put it in the Business section, as has been suggested. Normally your topic would just have been moved, but as it was viewed as spam, it was moved to the spam folder. Posting a message in your topic creates posts that don't really contribute anything, and there is no guarantee you will read it. You should read the readme and get to know the general rules of the forum.

A wireless repeater is probably your best bet. If you place the repeater on the edge of your existing wireless range then it will blast all of the wireless traffic over a much larger range, extending your wireless network's range. They are used in airports, schools, stations and all sorts of public places to create massive wireless coverage. They are also fairly cheap. There is a Realtek one here for Ł20, so that should be around $40 in the US. Reading that link it seems like a device like the one I have pointed out does what you want. It acts like an extension of the wireless, creating, as that page puts it "a big cloud" of wireless signal around the original router and any repeaters you set up.

I'd resize the partitions from within the Ubuntu installer - it works much better than Vista's. First, defragment the hard drive (if you need to). Then pop the Ubuntu CD in and wait for it to bring the desktop up. Click the Installation icon and go through until you hit the question about partitioning. Click the radio button to say you want to do it manually and wait for the 'picture' of your disc to come up. It's not entirely necessary to do it manually, but it makes it an awful lot easier to work out what is going on later, and is easier to recover from my way if you screw everything up Shrink down the size of the partition Vista is installed on to create some free space. You are going to need at bare minimum 12GB for Ubuntu, so make sure you create enough free space. Then you will need to create 3 new partitions, following the directions below. Partition size 10GB, type ext3, mount as / (root). Partition size should be whatever is left on the drive minus 2GB, type ext3, mount as /home. Partition size 2GB, type SWAP, mount as SWAP. You will also probably be required to provide a mount point for the Vista partition. Just give it a logical name like /windows or /vista. Tick the boxes to format the 3 new partitions, but obviously NOT your Vista partition! Hit Next a few more times and let it install. NB: The partitioner can take a while to load and sort out what it is doing. Don't quit the installer, just be patient and wait until the partitioning screen comes up.

There is a guide, using Wine, that should get Dreamweaver running under Ubuntu and all versions based off it (Kubuntu etc.). However, due to a variety of issues there is no guarantee whatsoever that it will actually work. Give it a go and see if it works. If not, there are free alternatives.

Hi, demonlord, and welcome to Xisto Xisto is a great host, with a great community, and as long as you follow the rules you should get your hosting in no time.

When the hard drive died in the desktop my parents use, I faced a choice of paying ?30 for a new HDD and putting Kubuntu on there, or going in at around ?150 minimum to put XP on it. They were used to XP; it was installed on that computer for over 7 years. However, to them, KDE seemed a lot more intuitive and logical. On Windows they couldn't install software, didn't know how to update Windows, couldn't rip CDs - in fact pretty much all they could do was browse the Internet and use Office. And this is after 7 years of practise at home and at work! On Kubuntu they've now built up their music collection in Amarok, they can use Adept to install and update software with ease, they can burn CDs and DVDs and they are generally more confident in what they are doing. This is over a period of only a few days! To me that is a testament to how easy to use KDE is.

No. No matter how you connect to the Internet, somewhere there will be someone paying for that connection. However, IEEE-1394 (a.k.a FireWire) can be used in networking, to link computers and peripherals together, such as networking some computers and a printer. Generally though it isn't used for this. You will often see external hard drives and camcorders with some form of IEEE-1394 connection as its main use is for rapidly transferring vast amounts of data. Video files on camcorders tend to be quite large, along with files on portable hard drives and hard drive caddies, and therefore it makes more sense to use FireWire to transfer the data. The big advantage of USB over IEEE-1394, however, is that USB is plug-and-play, while FireWire requires you to turn your PC off and on again to get things connected. This, I believe, is something to do with the power connections shorting to the device and destroying the circuitry if you plug in and out with the power on.

Personally I've never liked either of them, so you're on your own with that one (I use Amarok) Even by Microsoft's standards, Works is a heap of junk. You can't open the files anywhere and you get very few features (although I did find its calendar quite nice). OpenOffice has many more features and is very easy to use. The download is a little big, but you can set that going and just leave it while you get on with other stuff. Do you mean recording videos of what you are doing on your desktop? If so, I haven't yet found a good free piece of software that does the job consistently. Sorry.

I know it sounds obvious, but check you haven't got caps lock on, and that you are typing your username and password correctly. Also, make sure you are using the new system here: https://support.xisto.com/ Log in to that page and then click the Create A Hosting Account link once you are logged in. At the moment, there doesn't appear to be a message to say if your username or password was wrong, you just get shown the login screen again.

Right, I'm stealing S_M's idea and giving half a point to two people. For me it's Delivi and Mich. They're completely different styles and ideas but I like them both. Each of their designs just stood out to me and, for me, worked the best. So, the scores so far:

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Go to the phpMyAdmin download page and download the version you want. Extract the files out of the archive you downloaded. Move those to your web server's 'live' folder (the folder you put files in so they can be accessed with the web server) and go through the phpMyAdmin installation page. All of the information you need to fill in is fairly obvious if you have just set up your MySQL server. Alternatively, on most Linux distributions you can just download the phpMyAdmin package for the latest version.

When you register a domain, you cannot switch which domain you have registered, so I would assume that no, Xisto wouldn't do that for you. You would most likely need to wait for your one year registration of phaxor.com to expire then apply with another 280 credits for haxor.com However, I am not entirely sure of that answer. If you require a certain decision then I suggest you PM OpaQue or BuffaloHELP, although they are fairly busy and there may be a bit of a delay for a reply.

When you get a domain your files and databases do not actually move anywhere. The domain is applied to your hosting account, so there isn't any need to copy or move files around as far as I am aware. A .com.au domain is a ccTLD - this means it is managed by a company based in Australia and usually only issued to people in Australia. Therefore Xisto wouldn't be able to register one. No. Even if the page is blank, that domain has still been paid for by someone and it is therefore theirs while they continue to pay for it. You could appeal to ICANN that the domain is not being used fairly - but that is an expensive and lengthy process that really isn't worth it. If you went for a different domain then that domain would be yours for a year. There is nothing to say that haxor.com would become free on 24/08/2008. The owner usually gets 3 months after that date to renew it, and they have every right to. Only if, after that time, they hadn't renewed it would you be able to get it. Also, you are only allowed one free domain and I'm not sure if you would be allowed to get rid of the first free domain before the year was up and then get another one. 1) and 2) aren't really relevant as, once again, the files never actually move - only the address that points to them changes.

You can password protect a folder or files on your site using .htaccess and .htpasswd files. First, in the directory where the files that need protecting are, create a file called .htaccess and give it the following contents: AuthName "Password Required" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /home/marked/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null <Files file1.htm> require valid-user</Files><Files file2.htm> require valid-user</Files> You'll need to change the file1.htm and file2.htm to the names of the files you want to protect, and you can copy and paste that Files section for each file you want to protect. Then, above the public_html folder (i.e. the root of your hosting account) create a file called .htpasswd . This will hold the username and encrypted password. Go here and enter the username and password you want people to use to access the pages. Leave the other two boxes blank. Then copy the DES encrypted version into your .htpasswd file and save it. Your .htpasswd file should just have something like this in it: user:dIYYk5PMZdA/M Done. Try accessing one of the files and you should be asked for the username and password.