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A mousepad for a conventional trackball mouse is different from a mousepad for an optical mouse. Perhaps what you need to do is get a new mousepad? A conventional trackball mouse needs a mousepad that has increased traction to get the mouse ball rolling when it is moved. Such mice do not work on slippery surfaces. Early trackball mice used a heavy ball coated in rubber or similar polymers and worked great but newer trackball mice used lightweight trackballs and may have been the result of cost cutting to match the prices of competitors. For an optical mouse, the surface of the mousepad has to be bright so as to reflect the laser back into the receiver / sensor on the mouse and does not need to provide traction. However, the mousepad should not have a glossy surface or act like a mirror. You can simply use an A4 sized paper from your printer to serve as a mousepad if you are using an optical mouse. Usually the A4 sized paper works great with the trackball mice too because the surface of the paper is generally rough and can cause the trackball to rotate with ease.

Hi!The steps that you have taken for signing up on Xisto and Xisto are correct, to my knowledge (no pun intended), and should display the myCENTs earned sometime soon. The myCENTs script can take up to three days so if you do not see any myCENTs after seventy two hours, then something is amiss. Apart from the display of the myCENTs on the forum, you can also go to the Xisto - Support and billing page and log in to check the myCENTs balance. Way back when I registered, the myCENTs script would evaluate and credit my posts almost instantaneously. Right after making the post, I would receive an email in my inbox and there it was.You might want to report an issue on the Xisto - Support and Billing site by creating a support ticket. The support ticket responses can take up to two days. Perhaps the delay is only for the free members - I can't tell because I do not have a paid account on Xisto - Web Hosting or Xisto yet and have been using my myCENTs accumulated over the years and replenished every year with more posts to order web hosting packages and domain names.BTW, at the end of the year, the renewal for the domains burns a big hole in my myPOCKET (I keep cents in my pocket and myCENTs in my myPOCKET :-P) and the rates are pretty much standard across all web hosting providers and domain registrars though some web hosting providers throw in the domain name for free if you take up one of their web hosting packages. The web hosting package at Xisto / Xisto - Web Hosting is quite cheap though.

A lot of work places have a dress-down culture with employees walking into office in casuals. However, there are still others that require their employees to be dressed to kill. They have their employees look like they work for the Men In Black organization. You can either observe the work place a day before your interview to determine how the other folk dress when they get to work but make sure that you don't observe them on their office casual day and then walk in on a regular day when everyone else is in a suit and tie and you are the only one who isn't. It never hurts to dress conservatively in formal wear and although it does mean a little more effort, for some people that is a huge confidence booster. If the firm you are interviewing at does have a casual dress code, wear anything that you find comfortable but is not too awkward or revealing. If you take a look at yourself in the mirror and do not look like you are part of a street gang, then that's probably what you want to wear to the interview. Sticking out of the norm does make you different in some respects and that does not necessarily mean you are more likely than the next guy to get the job but it does make a good impression and makes you feel good about yourself.

Hi!Welcome to Xisto! Good to have you join us here on this forum. there are a lot of graphic designers on the forum and a lot of them do a bit of web design and web development too. With the free web hosting provided by Xisto / Xisto, there is bound to be a lot of activity about building websites so you'll get to pick up quite a bit about web design and development. There are also tutorials posted on the forum authored by other members.BTW, your nickname, J-whiz, reminds me of the G-whiz. It is an electric vehicle built by a firm in Bangalore, India, named Reva and sold in India under the Reva name but sold internationally as the G-whiz. It is popular as a non-polluting vehicle because you simply plug it into the electrical outlet at home to charge it and then drive off to work in the morning. the problem with all electric vehicles is that they have a limited range so if you are planning a trip to the country side, you can't really go very far without ensuring that you have a place to recharge your batteries for a couple of hours.Anyway, since you're new to the forum, I thought I might also explain how the myCENTs credit system for ordering hosting works. When you post to the forum, you get credits in the form of myCENTs. Each myCENT is the equivalent of a real world cent. As you accumulate cents, you eventually get enough to order a web hosting package from the Xisto - Support and billing section. Hosting packages start from as low as $1.99 per month for the Linux based hosting that enables you to run PHP scripts and use a MySQL database. The price for a domain registration is roughly $13 and you can optionally get one of those for your website as well. If you do not really need a domain name, you can get a sub-domain with Xisto or Xisto and can still have your site hosted with Xisto / Xisto. To earn myCENTs you have to post to the forum and the basic idea is that the longer the post, the more the myCENTs you get paid. Do expect to put in a lot of time posting because the myCENTs take a while to come by.

The only logical explanation that I can make about the irregularity of myCENT updates is that there is someone out there who manually executes the myCENT scripts rather than having the script scheduled to occur at a specific time every day. Well, it's either that or the scheduler runs the script only when the forum does not have any load i.e. when there are no users on the forum and if the no-users-online condition does not occur for three days then run the myCENTs script. None of the members will be able to give you a definite answer except for Opaque who writes the script and has it scheduled to run. Often on high traffic websites or on websites located on shared servers, intensive processing applications are scheduled for execution during off-peak hours. Some shared hosting servers may prohibit any CPU intensive or bandwidth intensive operations, in which case the operation would have to be performed by exporting the data to anothre system and re-importing the data or doing something similar by retrieving the input and making an update to the 'count'.

Hi!I got my hosting on Xisto about four years ago through posting on Xisto and the hosting involved accumulating myCENTs through posting on the forum, then going to the Xisto - Support and Billing area to order web hosting packages. The only thing that has changed is that the myCENTs are harder to come by and so you have to post a lot more to get the same amount in myCENTs. In the distant past, however, getting hosting was just the way you mention it - posting to the forum and then requesting one of the administrators to get you a web hosting package. The posts related to obtaining hosting were made in a special section of the website, as you've suggested.Anyway, good luck with getting hosted and do post back to the forum if you need help with setting up your website.

Hi!Thank you for the explanation and solving the case of the missing coolant. BTW, one thing I did have to mention is that in this part of the world they do not use anti-freeze - all that they use is distilled water. When there are desparate times, like being caught in the middle of highway with no sign of an automobile garage or a fuel station, people use bottled drinking water instead. And as a last resort, even tap water. A cousin had to drive back home with a leaking radiator caused by damaged roads hitting the underside of the vehicle (the roads connecting two different states in India are just terrible - there's a single lane for two-way traffic so the vehicles have to squeeze past one another).A three-year-old working in an automobile garage is quite remarkable. I'm pretty sure most older folk who are old enough to drive still do not know how to get their air filters out of their vehicles, how to wash the re-usable air filters, and how to drain old oil out of their engines.The expansion and contraction of water is a possible explanation of the loss of coolant, which is, simply put, distilled water. The escape of steam would be hard to observe while driving at over sixty kilometers per hour and that is a valid point. While driving in heavy rain and floods, I did see the escaping steam while at a stand-still but while moving the steam was almost invisible. While stationary, it was almost as though I was driving a steam engine rather than a car or like driving a badly damaged car in Grand Theft Auto III.

If you are about to export your data and load it into a re-created table, hold your horses. You do not have to go through all of that effort and you might actually corrupt your data while in the process if it is not performed correctly.You can reset the auto increment to start with a different value, however you cannot set it to a value less than the maximum value in the column. You can find the highest value in the column by using a SELECT query with the MAX group function and then set the auto_increment value to a number one value higher using an ALTER TABLE statement.Here is an example. Assume that you have a table named "department" that is defined as "create table department (id int auto_increment, name varchar(16));"Next, insert some rows into the department table using the statements "insert into department(name) values('administration');" and "insert into department(name) values('sales');" This should use the IDs one and two. You can check this by selecting the rows from the table using a "select * from department;". This should display the values: 1 - administration, and 2 - sales. Now, assume that you deleted the sales row accidentally with a "delete from department where name = 'sales';". You are now left with exactly one row, "1 - administration". Suppose you want to re-create the sales row with the same ID, you know that the highest ID is 1, but just to double-check, execute the query: "select max(id) from department;"To set the auto_increment to 2, type in the query "alter table department auto_increment = 2;"All of these SQL statements can be executed in phpMyAdmin or just about any other SQL interface to MySQL, including the MySQL command line utility.

I used Corel Draw ages ago to draw some vector art. The smoothing of mouse-drawn curves is simply amazing and I had only seen the feature in Macromedia Flash at the time. Adobe's offering to match Corel Draw as Adobe Illustrator and, from the Macromedia acquisition, Adobe Fireworks. I previously used Adobe Illustrator for drawing and Macromedia Fireworks for adding in the gradients and colors simply because Fireworks was easier for the kind of stuff. Adobe Illustrator did support the gradients but were hard to find on the interface - confirmed by the fact that when you save the Macromedia Fireworks document as an Adobe Illustrator file, Illustrator is able to display the gradients and replace it with a solid color.Macromedia did a pretty good job with Flash, ShockWave, and Director and Adobe has a pretty good way to get its hands on an industry of graphic designers, animators, and web designers.For the record, I am not a pretty big Photoshop fan (I prefer Adobe Fireworks because of my predilection for vector art) but having been away from Corel Draw for a long long time, I'll have to vote in favor of Adobe Photoshop.

Hi Ret!Good to have you joining us here at Xisto.Learning to build a website is quite simple and you can read some of the tutorials that some of the other members have posted on here at Xisto. If you have any doubts or queries, feel free to post to the forums and one of the other members will respond to your post.If you are here for the free web hosting service, do make sure that you post often and with substantial content because you have to accumulate forum credits, referred to as myCENTs to make up an equivalent amount of the dollar amount of the hosting package that you want to order. The best part is that you can even get your own domain name, such as Ret.com (or something similar). I noticed that you do not have a myCENT count displayed in your profilie block so I am guessing that you did not sign up at Xisto yet. Xisto is the web hosting service provider and it is where you go to order the web hosting packages.If you have questions, feel free to ask. Looking forward to seeing more of you on Xisto.

Hi nanna!Welcome to Xisto. I remember seeing you on the Astro Loco forums too for the brief period that I have been there and it is nice to see members of both forums signing up on each other... it really helps the community grow and you get the best of both worlds.If you are here to learn about building web sites and blogs, you've come to the right place. There are lots of people around who are willing to help and are either web designers, web developers, or both. I'm a web developer and can manage some web design too... I seem to lack in the Photoshopping creativity but I can make up some rather simple web designs, build a standards compliant website, and put together an ASP.NET or a PHP based web application. There are plenty of tutorials on here that you can look up and there are lots of people who can respond to your discussion threads.Looking forward to hearing more from you.

Think of Paypal as a form of virtual currency that is traded over the Internet. You can add to your Paypal account by transferring from a bank account or a credit card and can then use your Paypal funds for purchases or for transfers to someone else. Paypal was initially formed for, quite literally, paying your pals for a meal such as for splitting the charges for a meal when you do not have change. It evolved into a payment method for shopping websites and as a means to pay contractors and transfer funds internationally. Paypal eliminates the need for you to hand out your credit card and bank account details and therefore is safer for online transactions. Paypal is also great because it provides an application program interface for you to integrate it into your own software. There is also a simple HTML code snippet that you can paste onto your website for handling the payment at Paypal's end thus eliminating the need for maintaining a merchant account when you have limited transactions. If your Paypal account is for personal use then you do not have to pay to maintain an account and you do not need a merchant account.

I can't comment on the trend at Xisto because I have only been using their free account and have not had any problems that they were unable to resolve. I did notice a slower response for my support ticket on my last ticket, but I can't say if it is a one-off incident or a general trend without further analyzing where the delay is from. At times, first level support is unable to solve a problem and therefore has to escalate the problem and it is better to get no response at all rather than an illogical pre-baked response that first level support staff at most customer support service centers are popular for (I wouldn't want someone asking me, "Is your computer plugged in? Are you connected to the Internet?").I haven't seen BuffaloHelp on the forum in quite a while but I have not had any technical issues with using the forum either - no new updates mean no instability so things run the way they are supposed to until there is a hardware failure or some sort of unexpected condition in the software (which is unlikely because the software has been running quite well for quite a while, optimistically speaking of course).

You cannot install just about any operating system on a mobile phone. It needs to meet the hardware requirements of the operating system and, on some phones, you need access to special hardware and software to install the operating system.Unlike computers, mobile phones were not intended to be general purpose usage devices for end users to service. You can install apps and that's just about it. A PC is built for users to be able to select components to install such as the kind of hard disk drive, the peripherals, and the capacities of the various components that make up the computer. You can select an operating system as long as your hardware meets the minimum requirements although typically one is preinstalled for you. A mobile phone is not expandable or flexible like a computer and therefore there is hardly ever a need to select between multiple operating systems and hardware components.

AlienWare may be overpriced, but it is the best you can get without having to do any DIY. Custom stickers do let you turn your laptop into a monstrous beast but the specs that AlienWare offers are not something you would find in a mainstream laptop. There are some custom laptop builders who can hook you up with a portable gaming rig but you would not have access to the worldwide service network. A desktop gaming rig is easy to assembly but when it comes to laptops, the manufacturer usually does not provide the flexibility for you to pick parts for your order except for the standard replaceable parts (RAM, hard disk drive, and one or two expansion cards).If there is something in particular that you are looking for, you can get laptops with up to 8GB memory and 1.5TB hard disk drives but if you are looking for RAID disk arrays, high end graphic cards and all the works, you simply can't find it all in a single brand at an affordable price. Dell's AlienWare and Thinkpad's W-series are specialty laptops that are available all over the world and so are most recommended when money isn't a matter.For a budget laptop of under $1,000, you could consider a Sony Vaio E-series. The other Sony Vaio laptops are overpriced and you can consider a Lenovo Ideapad if you are looking for alternatives.

Somebody ought to update the poll on this thread to include VLC player. Before I 'discovered' VLC player, I used MPlayer and only made the switch when I realized that they use the same libraries. VLC player does tend to crash when using the Playlist feature which is why I sometimes use Windows Media Player. Winamp was the first of the players I used for playing MP3s. I guess the Windows Media Player included in Windows 95 could not play MP3 files so I installed Winamp and went with it till I had a bunch of videos to play with the DivX player. I eventually moved to MPlayer, having had enough of installing codec packs and having 'conflicts' from installing multiple codec packs, and wanting a GUI, I switched to VLC Player. I still use VLC player and apart from 7-Zip and MS Office is one of the first things that I install after re-formatting and getting my operating system running. The best thing about VLC player is that you can also run it on Linux (and perhaps on Mac OS X too?) so when you do move between computers with different operating systems, you still get to have that same familiar interface that has grown on you over the years.

Friends i am nikhil yadav and i am hosting a web site on yahoo web hosting server. it does not provides .htaccess file on server, so help me how i write my mod rewrite rules on server and get work done.

Nikhil,

For mod rewrite to work, you need an Apache web server. Most web hosting services that use an Apache web server will support .htaccess directives and if yours does not, you might need to contact their support to get them to insert the directives that you require in their configuration file for your site. Some of the directives from their configuration file can be overridden using the .htaccess file and therefore they may have disabled the .htaccess directives feature entirely but that should not stop them from making the setting for your site. Other web servers, such as Microsoft's Internet Information Service does not using a .htaccess file but instead requires you to setup the directives using a Web.config file, which is an XML format file that you can easily edit using Visual Studio or any other XML editor or text editor.

If your web hosting services does refuse to enable the URL rewriting for your site, you may have to find another web hosting provider - Xisto is a good choice because you can earn forum credits by posting on Xisto or one of the other participating forum sites and then order your web hosting packages using solely forum credits.

Hi!Just when we thought that post to host was too good to be true, there's another website out there, other than Xisto, that offers a post to host service too.I've just got a quick glance over at AstroLoco (okay, so maybe it was a little more than just a glance) and the one thing that I like about the forum is that it uses phpBB, the open source forum. I'm all for open source and that immediately struck a cord with me. Getting hosting credits by posting on AstroLoco is going to take me a while - it sure did take me a long long time when I got my first post to host hosting package here at Xisto before I actually put their promise to a test and became a more regular poster - but when I do, I'll post my review about the service but once again, I'd like to say kudos to you for choosing phpBB over the other forum scripts out there and supporting the open source project.

Creating opportunities for the differently-abled is a responsibility of the society within which they live and allowing people dependent on their pets to use their pets to help them do what they have a positive right to do is a big step forward. A lot of places around the world are still inaccessible for the physically challenged because of a lack of wheelchair ramps and accessibility. An awareness needs to be created to provide for the differently abled world-wide. Cities such as Dubai have recently commissioned taxis that can transport wheelchair passengers and they airports across the world have always been known to be wheelchair-friendly, with free transport of wheelchairs and canes.

Hi Mark!Good to have you join us here at Xisto. I recall the name "Howard" somewhere. Was it perhaps in the adventure computer game Monkey Island? I love that computer game series but it has been a long long while since I have last played it.BTW, what do you do for a living? Are you here for the free web hosting too? There's plenty of us here seeking freebies - from web hosting to domain registration and email forwarding. Lots of free stuff to go around and all we need to do is make lots and lots of posts to earn MyCENT credits that we can spend on ordering hosting packages and domain names. The prices are quite reasonable too - $3 for a month of web hosting and $13 for a year of domain registration.I believe back in the old days, before the MyCENT system was developed, the web hosting required you to be active on the forums, but now you can post occasionally and as long as you have enough MyCENTs in your account, things are sunny in server town. A lot of folk here keep an eye on their balance and become active just when their hosting packages and domain registration renewals are due, but you can just make occasional posts to avoid the hassle of having to keep checking.Hope to see more of you on the forums.

New bookings for the Maruti Swift 2011 have been suspended due to a worker strike at the manufacturing plant in Manesar, Haryana. The strike, which has been in partial effect since last June, has been for the recognition of the old workers' union and for reinstating the leaders of the union. The strike has reduced the output of the Manesar plant to about a tenth of its capacity. With 90,000 existing bookings for the Maruti Swift 2011 and less than 1,000 deliveries, Maruti has suspended new bookings for the Maruti Swift 2011.The Maruti Swift 2011 has had styling changes over the outgoing model, which is no longer in production, and utilizes a plastic fuel tank instead of a metal fuel tank for greater fuel efficiency. The increasing prices demanded by local steel suppliers have made this an easy decision and has the advantage of reduced maintenance (the old metal fuel tank had to be checked for rust).New car buyers can, however, opt for the Maruti Ritz which is a slightly cheaper hatchback and more modern styling. Both the Maruti Swift and the Maruti Ritz are available with petrol and diesel options, and the recent trend with 75% of Maruti sales coming from diesel vehicles had led to the introduction of the Maruti SX4 diesel, a mid-size sedan that shares a lot in common with the Swift DZire.

I have not watched the Twilight, but I did watch Buffy... mostly because I could not find the television remote that gets so conveniently tucked away when somebody else wants to watch something.About your question, Willow did not turn into a witch in the end. I think it was at the start of the fourth season after Calendar (I can't remember her first name as she is referred to as "Miss Calendar" for the most part of the series) is killed and Willow gets access to all of the spells and reference that Calendar left behind.The Buffy series was quite popular but it had a cult following. Most people I know hated it, but there were some who would watch re-runs on television, buy the DVD set, and even keep every episode from all the five seasons put away in their collections.BTW, your description of disastrous consequences and monstrosities as the "unthinkable unpleasant" is a very mild way of putting it.A lot of stories have similarities but they are not necessarily rip-offs. The Lord of the Rings and the Sword of Shannara are quite similar too but the characters are different.

Last year, I took my Suzuki Esteem 2004 out on a drive on a rather warm day and after I parked and started up again, the engine check light was on and the temperature gauge indicated a high engine temperature. I stopped at the nearest fuel station, which was about three minutes away, at fairly low engine rpms and turned off the engine as soon as I got there. When a service technician popped the hood and looked at it, there was no coolant in the engine! The car was locked and the bonnet was shut so it's surprising that I was completely out of coolant; I didn't have any leaks either. After pouring three cans of coolant, the engine finally cooled off and I was back on my way home. I often wonder what caused the coolant to disappear/vaporize as there were no leaks or any way to tamper with the engine while the vehicle was locked. Either way, I was fortunate to not have any engine damage and so far I have had the car go over 208,000km (I loaned it out for about two years which is when it clocked most of those kilometeres; I barely would have clocked 20,000km).

Harlot,I just got $3 worth of MyCENTs for my posting day before. Back in the old days I would receive the MyCENT credits about two to three times a day if I replied to a lot of threads and that would give me a total of $2 before I could finish composing and posting the rest of my posts. Then, I guess the MyCENT credits for posting went down and I did not get as much but over the past few days something definitely has changed and I would not have expected $3 of MyCENT credits if I had made the same postings last month.If I do manage to get up to $5 worth of MyCENTs, I'll let you know if there is a hard limit. Then again, I'm not sure if all the content that I've been posting, even when it's the most that I can do in a single day, has ever been able to get my $5 worth of MyCENTs so I'm not sure if I can look it up for you.When the MyCENTs system was taken offline and later brought back online (was that over a year ago?), I did get full credit for my postings and that was about $18 or so. I can't remember for sure, but it was definitely over $5.The MyCENTs system is like a black box for most of us who speculate about how it works, so don't take my word for it. It's a lot like Google's search results positioning, which is based partially on backlinks and keyword densite but also takes other factors into consideration.

Hi!I have not spent as much time on the forum as some of the older folk on here, but the years I have been here, it has been a fun ordeal. The traffic on the forum has been low in the past year. At first, there was the MyCENTs script that needed re-writing so the MyCENTs took a while to be credited but true to his promise, Opaque did get the script to retroactively credit all the posts that were not accounted for. Then, there were the dip in traffic, but now we see posts everyday so I guess the forum is still active. You may not get responses to specific threads because there just may not be enough people interested in the topic but then again that is just about the same on every other forum. You can post about issues with the Oracle database throwing Java virtual machine stack errors when creating Java stored procedures and most folks would either come up with a blank or send you a generic response that will not help at all.The resolution of tickets has slowed down a bit and I have had responses take up to 2 days but previously I would get a response within the hour. For free web hosting, it isn't too much of an annoyance and I would be sticking around for a while till I decide to go commercial with my web development pursuits. I would not say that makes the forum any less active, but it certainly would be nice to get better web hosting service considering that some folks on here make their bread and butter from their websites unlike the rest of us (or is it only me?) who simply host personal websites and personal blogs without really getting any revenue out of it.