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I don't think it matters where you have the variables stored, as long as you pass them in the way I have shown to the PHP script. I am sure that setting the text boxes to store their content in the variables would work just fine, but I have no way to test it at the moment.

The problem with sorting by keywords is that you have no way to really choose which category a post ends up in. Certain tutorials could also fall into multiple categories, and the current script, as shown above, would limit each one to only one category. Perhaps it would be better to just pick every tutorial out of RSS feeds and put the information in a database. This could then be searched by anyone browsing the list of tutorials.

I have to agree with nature as a brilliant resource for inspiration. I live out in the countryside and there is plenty of inspiration around. Two of my favourite places are some local reservoirs and a little lane that is literally in the middle of nowhere My desk also works well for inspiration! Its always untidy and just covered in random books, CDs, DVDs, leaflets and brochures. Sometimes a combination of shapes or colours just catches my eye and I end up using it to design something. Obviously the disadvantage to this is a very untidy desk :)I don't really use too many websites for inspiration. CSS Garden is a great link, and I have used it once or twice, but I mainly use the Internet to get fixes or CSS glitches and bugs in IE!

I never found them on KDE Look before, but I have just found them and I'll have a go at installing one or two. Thanks for that tip.

Many people have been asking me recently about switching to Linux, and a few people still seem to be unsure what distribution to use. Up until recently I have never hesitated to suggest Kubuntu as the best starting distribution. However, recently this has not been the case, and I wanted to put down a review of everything right and wrong with the current version of Kubuntu. What is Kubuntu? For those that don't know, Kubuntu is a free operating system, based on Linux. It is considered, by many, to be one of the best distributions (versions) to use for your first adventure into Linux. It is based on Ubuntu, but with a different look. Ubuntu, using GNOME, is on the left. Kubuntu uses KDE, and is on the right. Personally, I prefer Kubuntu, so that is what I will be reviewing today. Installation Kubuntu has a graphical installer, which guides you through every option with ease. Nothing is a particularly difficult choice, apart from perhaps partitioning. This is the only area where there can be problems. If you are installing on a new PC, or making a complete switch, then this is easy. You simply select to wipe the disk and install Kubuntu on it. However, if, like me, you want to have both Windows and Kubuntu available, you have to spend quite a while setting up partitions. Many people find this tricky, and it is not something to be attempted by someone who doesn't know what they are doing, or doesn't have someone near by to help out. However, even the partitioner contains helpful graphics to guide you through. Some of the graphical installer screens. Notice its only 6 steps to install! Once you're over this hurdle, and the actual installation begins, it is relatively quick. Depending on the speed of your computer and hard disk, and how complicated your partitions are, it can easily be up and running in half an hour. Compared to many distributions this is quite fast, however, it is not the fastest I have seen. Logging In Some people are still of the impression that Linux-based operating systems still use the command line for everything. This is about as far from the truth as possible. For example, someone I spoke to presumed that you had to log in from a command line. Well, personally I think Kubuntu's login screen looks better than the one Microsoft used on XP. The only problem I have with it is that, unlike the one on XP, you cant select your name from a list of users, but you have to type it in. I know most people have no problem remembering their name, but it would have been a nice touch. The login screen, complete with clock. Look & Visuals Kubuntu, and the KDE interface it uses, is incredibly customisable. I spent roughly an hour getting my desktop and windows looking just like I wanted them to! I am still tweaking it today, months after first installing Kubuntu However, for most people, the default look is fine. One very nice feature is SuperKaramba. This is not installed by default, but is easy to download and install (more on installing software later). It adds widgets to the desktop, similar to the Mac Dashboard, while still not really hogging resources in any way, unlike similar alternatives for Windows. My desktop (currently) on my laptop. I have widgets for the weather and a calculator, and a system monitor on the right. Transparency is also supported, as shown at the bottom of the screen. People also take this further, by adding all sorts of 3D effects to their desktops. Beryl and Compiz are two of the most popular choices. Searching YouTube for Beryl or for Compiz reveals many videos of these effects. Check them out and compare them to effects offered by Windows and Mac. Software This is the major selling point for any Linux based operating system: All of the software is completely free By default Kubuntu includes a free office suite, music player, graphics software, web browsers, IM software, RSS readers, and a couple of games. If you don't like any of the software included, or want some more, then you can install it for free. No CDs to buy, no worrying about whether its worth the cost. Installing software is also incredibly easy. Kubuntu includes software called Adept. This lists a large amount of software available for download, made by the community. Simply clicking any program and selecting to download it will install it to your PC. It will also periodically inform you of updates available. These update notifications are not just for the operating system, but for every piece of software on your computer! All of them will keep updated through you clicking one button once in a while to download updates. This is a major plus point compared to other operating systems. That, and its all free However, there are some problems. Some software is only available as source code, and this can be daunting to any non-programmers. Downloading source code, and then compiling the application from source can take hours, literally. Also, if the source code you want to use relies on anything else, you have to find it and install it yourself. Adept, however, will find any dependencies for the software listed there. Games are also a major gripe among many people converting from WIndows, and one of the main reasons I keep a Windows partition. There are some games available, and some of them are very good for a free piece of software. However, you won't find a free version of The Sims 2, or your favourite shoot-'em-up. Unfortunately, games creators don't yet feel the Linux market is large enough to market games to. Hardware Just like commercial software, hardware manufacturers don't think the Linux market is large enough to make specific hardware for. Many people have problems getting their video cards to work, along with scanners and printers being the top things. The Linux community are writing their own drivers for most hardware, but some are very hard to get working. Check before you install Kubuntu that your hardware will work. Try emailing the manufacturer and asking if their hardware works with Linux, and you might be pleasantly surprised. However, this shouldn't really be necessary. This is not really the fault of Kubuntu, but of the hardware creators. Some are gradually offering Linux drivers, and if enough people ask then eventually all manufacturers will offer Linux-compatible drivers and hardware. Networking Networking has vastly improved with Kubuntu 7.04 compared to 6.10. WPA-PSK encryption for wireless networks now works straight away without having to download extra packages. Networking in general has also been made much more reliable and integrated into the operating system than previously. However, as I stated above, hardware vendors are reluctant to write Linux drivers for their hardware. WiFi hardware will either work perfectly or fail miserably for you, depending on the manufacturer. I was lucky and mine works fine, but this may not be the same for you. What surprised me though was how easy it was to get Linux communicating with a Windows PC. In a couple of clicks I was able to access the shared documents and printer on my Windows desktop from my laptop running Kubuntu. This sort of 'polish' is lacking in the rest of the operating system and would be welcome elsewhere to help people migrate from one OS to another. To Summarise... The Good Points: All software is free, and easy to install Every aspect is a lot more customisable than in other operating systems Updates are managed for every piece of software The community are always willing to help The Bad Points: Some hardware still doesn't work at all Being community driven, not everything is as polished as it could be Certain points of "Linux life" can still be a bit daunting to new users Software and file formats are not always compatible with commercial software Generally I have been happy with my experiences of Kubuntu, apart from a few minor issues. However, Windows and Mac OS also have a few issues that need to be worked around - nothing is ever perfect. What won it for me was the free software and the customisation options compared to other operating systems. If you have any other questions I haven't covered here, no matter how mundane or silly they may seem, feel free to post them below, or PM me and I will do my best to provide you with an answer.

Are you talking about the .ISO file, or do you mean you've already installed the operating system?If you have downloaded an .ISO file, you need to use some CD burning software, such as Nero or Sonic to write that ISO file to a DVD or CD. You can then boot from this into the operating system.If you have already installed the operating system then all you need to do is reboot and you should get a choice of what operating system to boot into, if you have OpenSUSE and Windows on the same hard drive.

This depends on what you have downloaded. OpenSUSE has two separate versions to download - the install disk set, or the live disk. The install disk, obviously, allows you to install OpenSUSE. The Live Disk will allow you to try out OpenSUSE, but not install it.Boot into your current operating system and place the disk in the drive (or open the disk drive on boot, if you have no operating system). Put the disk in the drive and reboot. You will be presented either with the installation screens or a menu to boot a 'test' version of OpenSUSE on the live disk.Also, make sure that your computer boots from the CD drive before the hard disk drive. Go into the BIOS (usually by pressing Del or F2 or something during boot) and make sure the CD drive is set to a higher priority than the hard disk drive to boot from. Otherwise, your computer will skip reading the disk as soon as it sees you have an operating system on the hard disk.

I believe you use the loadVariablesNum function. I haven't done any Actionscript for a little while, so this may not work perfectly, but I believe you do something like this: varFirst = "one";varSecond = "two";loadVariablesNum("page.php?varFirst="+varFirst+"&varSecond="+varSecond", 0, "POST"); Despite it using a URL that looks like it uses GET, it should still use POST to send the variables across to the PHP script. They can then be used in PHP as $_POST['varFirst'] and $_POST['varSecond'].

Make sure everything is CHMOD'd correctly. It may be saying it can't find it if it simply doesn't have access to the folder. If you PM me the info I will happily take a look and see if I can get it working.

Aha, the key word here is relative. It assumes you are installing into a new folder. For example, your phpBB2 forum in a folder called phpBB2 and your new v3 forum in a folder called phpBB3. In this case, the path you need (I'm guessing here...) would be ../phpBB2 Try giving it a relative path like that and see if it likes it.

The estimate of 20% seems drastically large. I very much doubt that one fifth of the world's pollution comes from lightbulbs and people driving to work. Plus, for most people, cutting 10 miles a week from their driving is difficult. Public transport doesn't go where its needed, and where it does go it ends up late. In the UK, 5 companies (EON, nPower, Drax, Corus and EDF) produce over 100 million tonnes of CO2 per year. All of the motorists combined produce 91 million tonnes. It is major industry, not the average householder, that needs to be targeted. Actually, water vapour is a greenhouse effect causer. It absorbs some of the infrared radiation from the Earth's surface, and reradiates some of it back to the surface. Unfortunately, water does not reflect heat away from the planet. Certain countries have a very good record of low pollution levels, while others do relatively poorly. Each person, on average, in the US emits just over 20 tonnes of CO2 per year. Each person in Australia emits roughly 18 tonnes. Compare this to the UKs 9.2 tonnes or Frances 6.2 tonnes and it is clear that certain countries have a far greater impact on the world.

Try giving it the path without the / at the beginning. I seem to remember that caused a few problems when I tried to set a board up for a friend.

Without seeing the code this is pretty hard to diagnose; it could be any one of hundreds of problems. However, check the basics: are your username and password correct? Is the database name correct? Is the server name correct?

Global warming is not really a lie. The effect exists and we can observe global temperature changes. What may be a lie is the impact of humans on this process. There is no doubt that humans have played a part in removing ozone from the atmosphere, by releasing CFCs into the atmosphere, which destroy ozone and allow the Earth to warm up slightly. Releasing a concoction of other gases have contributed to the greenhouse effect. Without this effect, the planets temperature would plummet and we would be dead. Too much of it, however, and heat cannot escape Earth's atmosphere, but is instead reradiated back down to us. This causes a warming effect to. Very small amounts of greenhouse-effect-causing chemicals have been released by humans compared to the considerable amount of CO2 in the atmosphere causing the same thing to happen. Less road travel would help. Cars (along with anything burning fossil fuels) pump out gases that can kill you, warm the planet and cause acid rain. However, consider the amount pumped out by factories and power stations. Surely it is in their interests to reduce the amount of fuel they are using and find cleaner alternatives, to avoid dealing with the gases given off? The cost of power for major companies is collossal. For example, Google gets its own super efficient power supplies made for its data centres, to lower their power bills. The Government shouldn't be focussing on the people, but on the companies. If the companies and manufacturers are forced to reduce waste, become more efficient, use environmentally-friendly packaging, etc. then this will have a massive effect on the gases 'released' by the UK each year. However, compared to the rest of the world (especially the USA, China and India) the UK is actually a relatively minor polluter.

Alternatively wait until you have a few more posts then pop a request in the graphics section of the forums here at Xisto. I am sure someone will be able to design a logo for you.

By looking at it, I think it is meant to move all the images on the screen around. However, whatever borwser you put it in, it simply searches the web for it.

The whole point is to provide access to functions you use quite frequently, without having to use keyboard shortcuts or going through loads of menus and options. It can be configured to work with any application you like, and to do what you want. The main purpose is to reduce the manout of time you spend browsing through menus and options, and just make life easier.Froogle threw up one site that can sell me it in the UK, for around ?50 ($99). Unfortunately NewEgg don't ship to the UK, so I'm stuck ordering only from shops in the UK at the moment.

Most major banks provide services to process credit and debit cards via the Internet. SecPay and RBOS WorldPay are just a couple of examples. You normally have to pay a set fee per month, or pay per transcation you make (something like 15p). You will also need an SSL certicifcate from a CA. CAcert are the only free, trusted CA I know of, so your best bet is to use them if you are on a budget. Once you have these two, the processing company you are with will provide you with instructions on how to integrate your shopping system with the cred card processing. Alternatively, if you actually have a shop somewhere too, you can have the details of the orders sent to you and carry out a CNP (cardholder not present) transaction in your shop. This saves paying for Internet processing and getting it all set up and working.

I have got to disagree with delivi and simchina. I get a lot more spam sent to my Hotmail account than to my GMail account. Of the mail that arrives at Hotmail, about 80% appears in the junk folder, and 20% makes it to my inbox. In GMail, 99% of the mail end up in spam. One or two spam messages every couple of months actually reaches my inbox in GMail. Hotmail also throws a lot of false positives - registration emails, order confirmations and things like that frequently end up in the junk folder. In GMail it always put the right email in the right places. The only thing that annoys me with GMail is that it doesn't officially support Opera that well.

I would recommend either Ubuntu or Kubuntu as a good distribution to start off with. OpenSUSE is also quite a "friendly" distribution to get started with. The only difference between Kubuntu and Ubuntu is the look - Ubuntu uses Gnome and Kubuntu make good use of KDE. I personally prefer KDE so I use Kubuntu at the moment. OpenSUSE gives you the choice when you come to install it. Most distributions offer very helpful guides on switching from Windows or Mac to using Linux, and the communties are always helpful in providing lists of alternative software. Alternatively, find someone who uses Linux and is willing to help. I use both XP and Kubuntu on my laptop and can provide help on whats different between the two, and some help getting up and running. Taking each of your wanted tasks separately: Coding: Linux is generally considered to handle coding of most languages better than Windows or Mac. Plenty of free, open-source software is available for Linux to write code with. Eclipse is available on all 3 OSs, and is a pretty good piece of kit. Just remeber that with Linux, you can try the software and be happy in the knowledge you have wasted absolutely no money trying it out Internet Surfing: Firefox and Opera are both available for Linux. Ubuntu comes with Firefox pre-installed and Kubuntu uses Konqueror as its default browser. They all support the same stuff and have the same features - its just a matter of personal preference really. IMing: As truefusion has said, Pidgin and Kopete are just two of the very popular IM clients for Linux. Each one supports all sorts of protocols simultaneously (MSN, AIM, YIM...) so are often considered better than the separate applications made by each service. However, you may lose some functionality (such as the games in MSN Messenger) but most of it still works and the developers are always working to improve them. Music: Each Linux distribution comes with some form of music player. Some even take WMA files Ogg Vorbis (.OGG) is the usual music format on Linux, but it is possible to get MP3s working (depending on where you live). Gaming: This, unfortunately, is where Linux really falls down. No manufacturer sells Linux games off the shelf in PC World or Dixons, etc. All the games for Linux are free and usually pretty basic, although there are a few exceptions to that rule. To try and solve this problem, Wine was developed, which allows you to run Windows applications in Linux. Check their application database to see which games will work with your chosen Linux distribution. Partitioning is no big deal really, unless you are trying to keep you existing Windows XP partition, as I did. I actually have a video somewhere of how I did it, if you are interested. The main problem is trying to work out how much space you want for each operating system - but it is possible to keep all your existing data and applications, and install Linux on a separate partition. Again, contact me if you want some advice, or have a look around the internet. Anti-virus and firewalls for Linux are debatable. Some say you still need them, whereas some say Linux is as good a defence as any. Put it this way: a Windows computer will be taken down within 15 minutes of being on the Internet if it has no defences. Linux PCs have run for years with no defences and no problems. Very few viruses are developed for Linux, but firewalls and anti virus software are available and well maintained. You will not always have to reboot to access files on the other OS. Linux can easily read any FAT32 partition with Windows installed (this is how I play my music - one copy on the XP partition, read by Linux when it needs it). Windows CANNOT read Linux file systems (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc...) so if you want to access your Linux files from another OS, format the Linux partition as FAT32. Alternatively, some people suggest a small partition for XP, formatted as NTFS, another for Linux formatted as a Linux file system, and one large FAT32 partition for shared files. The main difference you will notice will be when you turn your computer on you will be asked to decide which operating system to boot into. Its a simple list you go up and down with arrows and hit enter when you've decided. If you leave it for a set time period it will automatically boot a default OS. You can change these settings from within your Linux system. If you want any more help, advice, or convincing to switch then I am happy to help. PM or email me and I'll see what I can do. I was in the same boat as you (didn't want to break anything by installing Linux!) and I took a lot of convincing from a friend before I tried it. Now I am happy with Linux and would never look back

The process for applying to University varies dramatically depending on what country you are in. For example, here in the UK you use something called UCAS to submit an application, which is then reviewed by the universities you want to apply to. After a few weeks you are then told what conditional offers, non-conditional offers and refusals you have received from those Universities you applied to. If you tell us which country you are in, or which country you intend to attend University in, then we can provide much more useful information.

It has been doing the same to me for ages. I thought to start with it might be the fact I was using Opera to browse the web, but it does the same no matter which browser I use. When this was finally fixed by Xisto - Support, I then lost all access to my email accounts. It seems that as they fix each problem, something else breaks, but only for a short time. At the moment I am lucky in that it seems to be working.Personally I would advise emailing Xisto - Support to see if they can help you.

I have been looking at the Logitech NuLooq recently. Its a neat little device thats supposed to make all sorts of applications easier to use, and can be configured to work with virtually any application you like. Logitech provide some more information on their US site. Now, I do quite a bit of graphics editing, a bit of sound and video editing, web design and all sorts of stuff. So, what I'm wondering is: Is it worth getting one? Does anyone here at the Trap own one, and have they found it useful, or too much of a 'learning curve' to get used to and use? Also, does anyone know where I can actually buy one (if they're any good)? I am in the UK, and Logitech's UK site doesn't feature the product anywhere - it seems they never launched it over here. I've had a look at other retailers and the only one I could find selling it was Amazon - although it is actually cheaper to buy it from Amazon US and have it shipped over here, than buy it from Amazon UK! They occasionally pop up on eBay, but normally with ridiculous postal charges (even by eBay's standards). I'd be very grateful if anyone can help me out.

You don't need to look closely to see its fake, S_M! The authors made one glaring mistake: No-one would advertise a Linux based product as having the same ease-of-use as Windows. Marketing does not work by pointing out the shortcomings of the product

Depending on where your router/access point is compared to your computer there can be a few easy ways to boost your wi-fi signal. Firstly, try moving the router to the centre of the area you want to access it from. It seems that being right next to it can also really reduce the signal quality - about 4 feet away is the bare minimum. If you are only going to use the router from one side (for example, the router is on one side of your house, you'll only access it from one direction) you can put tin foil behind it. I have no idea how well it works (if at all) but feel free to try it! It'll only cost a few pence for some tin foil and a piece of card