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@rpgsearcherzI was wondering if you've had any experience with changing the domain registration to point to the new server instead of the old one. Does the old hosting provider give you a web interface to do this, or do you have to contact one of their support staff to get this done? Also, have you ever 'lost' a domain due to lack of support from the old hosting provider?

Hi!I tried AdSense for a while, but eventually stopped using it because most of the revenue comes from clicks while in the AdSense program, though they do pay you for impressions. I've got pretty much the same story as rpgsearcherz (further up in the thread). I'm not saying AdSense is worthless, but for the kind of website that I had back then, the visitors were 'smart' enough to avoid advertisements.Anyway, I hope you have better luck with them.

Firefox is my primary browser, but when a website doesn't work on it, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is my fall-back browser because if something doesn't work on Firefox, it has got to be developed by some Microsoft-crazed freak that uses Microsoft Internet Explorer all day and hasn't taken the time to consider cross-browser compatibility. Yes, web applications and web sites like those still do exist in this day and age and people should be made aware that not everybody would take the time to launch and use another browser to view the site.In some cases, such as when there is an academic requirement, we are forced into viewing the content with a different browser but that is out of coercion, rather than out of choice.

Google has made Chrome 3 available through the browser update system. Users do not get notified by the browser, but instead have to click on Tools (Wrench) and select About Google Chrome. New features in the browser include changes to the startup page, support for themes, and a quicker engine under the hood. Google is also using Chrome 3 to push for the draft HTML 5 standard, the rapid adoption of which would benefit YouTube, among their other web offerings.

I know you can simply copy the files via FTP - download them from your current host via FTP, upload them to your new host via FTP. Then, copy the database across - phpMyAdmin gives you an export option for databases. You might have to configure the MySQL host name if you aren't using "localhost" on both hosting providers.I'm not sure of how you can transfer your domain name - the name server has to point to the new host. I'm guessing you either have to raise a support ticket or you might get a control panel to change the host that the domain is pointing to.

Hi!As an alternative to using AJAX, you could also use IFRAMES. Using IFRAMES is simpler if all you want is to put a form on a page and display a message after the form has been submitted.If you do decide to go the AJAX route, there are several Javascript libraries to pick from - the Prototype Javascript library is popular among older projects while jQuery is more popular among newer projects.

Hey there!I'm a fan of open-source games and I particularly like the re-makes of commercial games due to their quality. Most open-source games that are based on original ideas have poor graphics.Open-source games that are re-makes of commercial versions are an attempt to add much-needed functionality to existing games. For example, I play OpenTTD which is an open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe and it adds LAN and Internet gaming capabilities to a game that only supports one-player and two-player over modem/serial port.I've played Digger and although it is a re-make that isn't open-source, the re-make enables us to play the game on a modern PC as the original requires a CGA adapter to play the game.

@Nameless_:When you mentioned the picnic car, do you mean a Toyota Corolla station wagon? There's an electrical (?) engineering firm named Esab that gets one of those for all of its employees. It's very spacious and can hold a lot of luggage, while at the same time delivering pretty good fuel efficiency.@rvalkass:Toyotas are quite popular for their resale value and low maintenance cost. Nissans are quite popular too, for the same reasons though I'm not quite sure about their resale value. If you must buy a compact car, then there's Toyota's Yaris and Nissan's Tiida. I would suggest you get something with more space like a Toyota Corolla. If you are buying a second-hand car, you would get a pretty good deal on a Nissan Altima or a Toyota Camry as their value drops sharply when they are sold as second-hand vehicles.It might be too early to invest in a hybrid car as the cost is quite high compared to a fuel-efficient car. Perhaps if a government subsidy helps lower the price difference or if Honda lives up to its promise of delivering a hybrid with a minimal price difference compared to the gasoline version, the hybrid cars would be worth it.You might want to check out the Top Gear reviews of various cars. I believe you can find the Top Gear videos on YouTube. Check out the video of the Subaru Impreza drift! :-)

Hi!The awesome bar is a part of my web browsing experience right now and I'd definitely miss it if I were using a browser that doesn't provide similar functionality.I wonder if Safari 4's address bar does anything that the Awesome bar doesn't. I'm guessing they both search page titles and URLs of visited pages while providing search suggestions from search engines.

Hi Alex!How are you doing? Welcome to Trap 17!!!You'll find a lot of people here with interests that match yours. I spend quite a bit of time programming and, in fact, even do some programming for a living. I like cycling too, but had to give it up as it is illegal in this part of the world. I spend quite a bit of time doing some reading though it's mostly work related. I surf the 'net occasionally, often hoping to find something new in technological development or just something fun and amusing.I'm guessing you are here for the free web hosting. The free web hosting is earned by posting to the forums and accumulating credits. To be able to determine how many credits you have and to be able to use them for ordering web hosting packages, you have to sign up on the Xistro Support and Billing website with the same email address and password that you have used to sign up on the Trap 17 forums.If you have any questions, feel free to post to the forums.Anyway, you have a good day.

Hi!Although I agree that having a lot of inactive moderators is a bad sign, I still think we ought to send them a wake-up reminder because they helped make Xisto the kind of place that it is right now. If they decide to make their return, that's much appreciated by everybody here, but if they decide to part ways then we wish them success and would like to have somebody else take their place. In either case, we shouldn't just take away their moderation status without emailing them or trying to contact them in some other way because some of them may just have had stuff happening in their lives.

Hey Sara!Welcome to Trap Land! I'm sure you'll find Trap 17 a fun way to earn your web hosting package from Xistro. Usually, most people start off here with that idea but end up spending more time than they intend to and Xisto can then soon become the place where most of your friends hang out. I'm sure that there are people here on Xisto who have accumulated more myCENTs than they would spend in a lifetime.Anyway, hope you have a good time here at Xisto.

Hello there!I've tried the Paint program in Microsoft Windows 7 and it definitely is a long overdue upgrade that Microsoft has provided to the one graphics program that everyone has and talks about, but nobody uses!Paint in Microsoft Windows 7 is capable of working with most common graphic formats and gives you basic image editing, such as Crop and Rotate. Crop in the previous versions of Paint was a work-around.... you had to drag the picture so that the upper left of your image was beyond the boundaries of the canvas and then you had to drag the little dot on the lower right of the canvas to the point where you want to crop the image. I'm glad they finally gave it a face-lift, though they've got a lot more work to do on it.

@FruitRocksHi!I believe you've got negative myCENTs due to deleted threads. For example, the thread titled "Is Windows Hosting Safe?" appears in the sidebar on the left on the Xisto forums, but when I click on it, it tells me the post does not exist. You may have earned myCENTs from that thread, but now that it no longer exists, Xisto tells you you have a negative amount since they can't get back what was credited to your Xistro account.

Hello there!A proxy is someone or something that does something on your behalf. Remember the concept of proxy attendance in university when you get someone to mark you as present while the attendance sheet is being passed around?In the computing world, a proxy is something similar. When your computer wants something, it asks another computer to do the work on it's behalf. Usually a proxy is used to implement security or to improve performance. If you and your friend have to go to class, you would drive two cars. Instead, if just one of you two would go to class and get back the notes for the two of you, you'd use half the petrol (or whatever other fuel or energy source you are using). In this case, you are using a 'proxy' to go get the notes for you to save resources.A proxy keeps you anonymous by getting other servers on the Internet to think that your computer has the IP address as the proxy server. You can do this in several ways, but the two most common are to enter an HTTP proxy into your browser settings or to visit a website similar to anonymizer.com to fetch content and display it. If you are using a website as a proxy, it is possible to 'inject' something onto a page such that your web browser visits the other server directly, thus compromising your anonymity by revealing your IP address.

Hi Ash!Did you post a thread about un-paid myCENTs quite a while back? I have a weird sense of deja vu here. I believe you eventually got the myCENTs after about 4-5 days.How the myCENTs system works is a black box to most users. What we really care about is that it works and we get to use it for free web hosting and domain registration.Regards

Hi!I just read the last post and got the impression that editing a post causes a loss of myCENTs. I found it quite shocking and counter-intuitive, so I read the quoted text above and that clarified things. Editing a post does not make you lose myCENTs but rather editing out lots of content by deleting it or placing it into a QUOTE tag causes the loss.The reason for negative myCENTs is that, as I would put it, bad things happen to bad people. If you don't read the rules before posting you are bound to end up with losing what wasn't rightfully yours to begin with so it isn't really a loss. For newbies, it is an honest mistake because it takes a while to get accustomed to following all the rules but if somebody intentionally tries to exploit the system with the hope that he/she will not get caught, then that definitely is something that deserves corrective action.Regards

Hi!I would strongly recommend moving from Microsoft Windows Vista to Microsoft Windows 7 especially since you have the MSDN subscription. Microsoft Windows 7 is wayyy more responsive than Microsoft Windows Vista, especially if you use Internet Explorer. I'm pretty sure they pre-load the browser to get the almost-immediate startup time that they do. This really ought to get people off Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Since Internet Explorer 7, I've always had the browser responsiveness issue. Although Microsoft Windows 7 runs the same version of Internet Explorer that I run on Microsoft Windows XP, it is so much quicker!I've been using Windows 7 RC for almost a month till I got a copy of Microsoft Windows 7 Professional that I installed today. The user interface changes take a while to get used to - I still like my classic-Windows style ungrouped taskbar buttons.

Hi!I'm not going to buy a copy of Windows 7 from the store shelves. I'd rather buy a pre-installed OEM version as it works out much cheaper that way. Considering how several OEMs already have it, I wonder if they will ship computers with Windows 7 next month.On my older PCs, I'm quite happy with Ubuntu 9.04, which I'll soon upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 when the final release is available which, by coincidence, also happens to be in October 2009.On my really old PCs (386, P-II), which are laptops that I just keep around for old memories, I run Windows 98 and Windows 3.1 as they can't handle the GUI for a modern-day Linux distribution.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!HTML frames were great back in the early days of the Internet, but the web browsers did not handle them very well. If you tried to save a web page containing frames, the web browser would only save the parent page containing the frameset divisions but not the individual child pages loaded within the frames. You had to manually right-click on the frame and save it, which means that you have to know that a website was using frames to be able to save the page. People back then were not as computer-savvy as they are today, so something that was confusing or hard to use went the way of the dinosaurs.Also, if you landed on a page through a search engine, it would be missing the site navigation so the users would not know how to browse through the other pages of the site. Some people would try taking off the page filename from the URL in an attempt to find the default page, but when the websites had subfolders this would simply lead to a directory listing or even a Not Authorized error for the web servers that had directory listing disabled.I did find the handling of back and front navigation by web browsers for websites with frames quite impressive though. If you changed the page loaded in a frame and clicked the back button, you would see the browser only load the previous page of that particular frame, rather than loading the previous website considering that the parent page of the website hadn't changed.Regards

Hi!I'm guessing the 50 HTML pages might be the result of a batch script that retrieves data from multiple sources, such as different news websites. Either that, or it could be a script that generates files instead of database records to keep things simple (no DBA or email admin intervention required).I would like to mention that the above approaches (other than the IFRAME) suggestion might cause a problem since the internal and external CSS styles applied to the earlier pages would affect the pages following. In-line CSS, however, would not cause this issue. You would also have to ensure that the pages do not have any broken markup as that could affect the rendering of other pages as well.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!

I haven't played Worms 3D but I did manage to watch a couple of videos on YouTube ( http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ). I agree with you guys - the original Worms was definitely better. It was more entertaining and provided countless hours of fun.

-Nitin

Hi!@asomormridulI know what you mean. A lot of people I know have a pirated (it is spelled "pirated" and not "pyrated") copy of Microsoft Windows because they didn't know how to check if what they were getting was genuine. A medical clinic and a photo studio are among the places that use pirated software, mostly because they didn't know what they were getting was pirated till the message from Microsoft showed up one day. If it weren't for the software check from Microsoft, most people would still not know that the software they got with their computers was pirated. I'm guessing Microsoft Windows is the most pirated software, but if it isn't, Microsoft Office ought to have that spot.You don't have to worry about damaging your computer as it is just software - the hardware doesn't get affected by what you install on it. You should however consider moving to either a licensed copy of Windows or use a free operating system. Windows 7 Professional is now available to academic institutions and customers subscribing to a Microsoft Volume Licensing (MVL) program so should be available at a store near you soon. You probably need to wait for about a month longer to get it. If you need something to use temporarily, you can get a copy of Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) from the Microsoft website which will work till March 2010.You might want to consider using Ubuntu 9.04 or another distribution of Linux. You can get updates and easily upgrade to newer versions. You also get an Office suite with the operating system distribution so you save on a license for Microsoft Office too. Alternatively, you could also try using OpenSolaris if you prefer to use UNIX instead of Linux. Although people will tell you that Linux is difficult to use, you should pay no attention to them. It is, in fact, very simple to use and you get lots of help from other users. There's also a Linux User Group that meets up every month and you might have one in your neighbourhood too.An advantage of using Linux is that you'll have a repository of software, a lot like the Apple iPhone's AppStore from which you can select the software you need instead of having to look for it on a website.Using Avast! and AdAware will help keep viruses and spyware away so you are well equipped on that front, but you cannot get newer versions of the operating system components and fixed versions of defective operating system files.Regards,Nitin Reddy

Hi!I was just wondering - how do all of you demonstrate leadership at the work place?I work with a firm as a software specialist so I advise them about software development technologies and try to influence them as they pick one technology over another, despite their stubborn refusal to go beyond what marketing teams pitch to them. What I do is get a buy-in from the developers to use a different technology and once they're on-board, I get the idea across to team leads and have them send a software requisition for the firm to buy licenses, tools etc. In my experience, having developers who are more than willing to start up argument to defend their existing technologies is just the first barrier along the way.What I do is more of a research job, though I'm expected to do some prototyping and some hands-on work when there's a deadline and they can't find the people with the skills required on a project.I'm curious about how people in other industries, as well as in other I.T. jobs, demonstrate their leadership skills.Regards,Nitin

Hi!

An alternative approach that simply involves adding in HTML comments is to use server-side includes. Different web server vendors may implement it differently, but with Apache's mod_include module, you simply have to insert something like this:

<!--#include virtual="otherfile.html" -->

in your main file. It will 'merge' the files, making them appear as a single file to the end user. You can also use this approach to develop standardized templates for displaying the header, footer, and navigation menu on the page so you do not have to change it on every page of your website if you do decide to change them - they could all reside in just one file with the web server putting them together whenever a user requests for the web page.

I haven't looked into server-side includes in Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) yet so I can't tell you how to do it in IIS but you can install Apache on Windows too as Apache works on pretty much every major platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS, BSD).

Alternatively, you can use PHP. The advantage of using PHP is that you aren't tied to a particular vendor, such as IIS or Apache, since you can install PHP as a module to work with either IIS or PHP. However, you would probably have to deal with security issues if your PHP scripts get complicated. Less software is usually better on servers as you have fewer security issues to deal with.

Regards