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I suppose the lack of rights for women in other countries plays a part in that women are conditioned from birth that they have to accept whatever they get stuck with, and they would be more subservial than women who grow up making their own choises.

I don't think women's rights are associated with arranged marriage because they are not forced into the marriages but instead they have the same predicament as the men. The women get to meet various prospective grooms till they finally make their choice and the same applies to men. While traditionally, women were less aggressive, there are increasing cases of domestic violence in which the women attack men, and there's nothing that can be legally done because the legal system does not treat it as a case of violence if it is caused by women. However, if the reverse were the case, the law enforcement officials would be at the scene seeking a bribe. Also, if a woman isn't happy with her husband, she can make false allegations and have her husband and his family locked up behind bars for up to two months, which is the duration of the investigation, and when locked up there aren't any human rights officials around to report what really goes on. Of course, there aren't any penalties for wrongful prosecution yet, and the law enforcement folk get their cut of any settlements paid. On the flip side, many women are targeted because they are the ones decked in gold jewellery and if there's a group of individuals targeted in developing nations, it's the ones with the wealth but without the political and law enforcement connections.

Hi!I don't know if anyone else has been following the story about Apple's lightning to HDMI converter. A firm named Panic decided to take a look at the insides of the lightning-to-HDMI converter that Apple sells for $49. Now, for a $49 adapter, the quality of the display was not so great so when Panic took a further look, they determined that the video they were getting was not true 1080p but rather 1600x900 resolution video that was being scaled up to 1920x1080 to meet the resolution requirement for 1080p. That isn't quite what one would expect from a device that is advertised as 1080p. Most people probably would not notice the difference because when viewing and that is what Apple was counting on because it determined that the video quality was acceptable. However, people who were actually looking for the high quality by shelling out the cash for an Apple device and the official Apple lightning-to-HDMI adapter were disappointed. After all, whether the scaling is done by the adapter or by the television set, the quality is not likely to match true HD video output.The folks at Panic who took apart an Apple lightning to HDMI converter were quite surprised to find an ARM processor and two gigabytes of memory within the adapter. Think of it as a Raspberry-Pi within an adapter. The Raspberry-Pi sells for slightly higher because of the additional ports that it provides, but in essence, the lightning-to-HDMI adapter is pretty close and has a close-enough price tag too. The firmware for the device sits on a flash-able ROM, meaning that if the folks at Apple do figure out an efficient way to get full-HD video from the conversion process, the update can be downloaded and flashed onto the ROM considering that the lack of HD is not an interface limitation. However, if the processor is too slow to support full-HD, there is not much you can do with the existing converters and you would have to settle for what you get.Using Apple devices has never really been pocket-friendly, whether you choose to buy a MacBook or you choose to buy an iPhone. Accessories for iPhone devices carry a premium over accessories made for other devices. A comparable device with less cool-ness will burn a smaller hole in your pocket. The accessories will not cost you as much, granted that they will not be as ubiquitous as accessories for Apple's gadgets. If you do have a carrier contract that provides you with a subsidized iPhone, it does make the iPhone reasonable enough considering if your usage would otherwise have cost you pretty much the same in data package usage.

If you are using WordPress, then the most obvious choice would be the bbPress plugin for WordPress. bbPress is from Automattic, who are the folk that created WordPress. bbPress has pretty much the same structure as WordPress so if you want to create plugins and themes for bbPress, you would be able to take your WordPress development skills to get a head start in developing themes and plugins for bbPress. Also, with the custom post types feature in WordPress, it is rather simple to create your own forum based on WordPress. One of the reasons why people pick phpBB, Invision Power Board, or vBulletin is because they are build from the ground-up to work as forums, when compared to bbPress, and therefore they can be hit by a lot more clients before you start to feel that the load on the processor of the web server is overwhelming. You can use WordPress as a content management system to serve relatively static web pages or to host blogs while providing the forum interface for users to post threads of messages. WordPress does provide caching but, as you mentioned, your WordPress setup would be rather slow because caching generally works only for the users who access the website as anonymous users i.e. if the users are not logged in. If they are logged in, most WordPress caching plugins resort to providing the user with live data fetched from the database and processed using the content management system engine running a full cycle through the plugins for transformation of data and finally applying the theme which may make more calls to the database itself. The heaviest bit of processor-crunching functionality in WordPress lies in the conversion of text emoticons into smileys so that is something I always disable no matter where I set WordPress up - the amount of processing power used for just that little bit of functionality isn't something that I could justify and it was easier to insert my own smileys as images rather than having to use the ones provided by WordPress.I am not familiar with the plugins that you are using, but I would advise you to look at the database tables that are in use by both WordPress and phpBB to determine which tables are being used for authentication. Once you are able to determine which tables are in use, you can export the data, convert the columns and the format of the data, and import the data between your content management system (in your case, WordPress) and the forum software (in your case, phpBB). The plugin that you are using essentially performs the same operation but may be using a hook or an action handler whenever a user registers to use the system. Hopefully, you would be able to hire somebody to get everything working the way that it should - a database administrator would be able to copy across the old login details, or a software developer would be able to create a script for you to run such that the script would compare the login details between WordPress and phpBB to determine if there are any user accounts that exist in one system but not the other and the script would then copy them across to keep the authentication sub-systems of both systems in synchronization for the old data. You may have to disable the plugins to keep things sane because it may cause the plugins to try to create users while the synchronization scripts are processing the old accounts. It would help if you can take the systems offline to the end users so you do not have any new user accounts during this period that would cause the systems to be out of synchronization for the newly created (more specifically, during the synchronization period) users as well.

Spyda,Good to have you back with us here on the forums. I do remember coming across a couple of posts from you back in the day. I am pretty sure the posts must still be around somewhere, buried under the tons of posts that have covered them up with the years of postings under the Xisto moniker. You probably remember the history behind the forum being named Xisto too - there was an Internet cafe in the Indian city of Mumbai where some of the folk from the forum used to frequent. The Xisto web page was with a red background and a black spider web, perhaps even a black spider on it but I'm not really sure. I wonder where they got a screenshot of it, considering it is quite old. I think it may have been from the WayBackMachine website. I did manage to find content from some old blogs on the WayBackMachine and it was kinda fun although it would have been nice to be able to comment on the blog post archives too, considering that any contact information posted on the original web pages and blogs from the archives would be non-existent too. I sometimes think people ought to use GMail, Hotmail, or Yahoo instead of an email address from a domain simply because these three email hosting providers seem to have a greater continuity than the domain names of most websites. I sometimes wonder if these three email service providers will outlive some of the folks who grew up using them considering how email has been around since the nineties and is still here despite short messaging service text messages, multimedia messaging service, instant messaging services, and hybrids like WhatsApp getting all so much attention. Some people I know even use FaceBook or Twitter more often than instant messaging and there are even folk who are still glued to IRC.BTW, what kind of websites do you run? I'm guessing it may have something to do with e-commerce for you to want to get dedicated web servers for hosting your website. Those literally cost you enough to buy your own low-end server at the end of the year when you total the expenses of getting one of them, assuming that you are not counting MyCENT credits, which perhaps is something that keeps trickling into your account so you can get web hosting packages with them. I was considering the unmetered package or a virtual private server hosting a few months ago, but a project that I was counting on did not come through so I had to settle for the Logic Basic hosting plan. Sure, it has its limitations, but when one has been out-of-work for a while with expenses running by every month, it's something that comes as a kind of a blessing. Hey, do you remember Saint Michael from back in the day on Trap 17? He's still on the forums and you would occasionally find some posts from him too, though not as much as we used to on Trap 17. Pretty much everyone from the old forums have been tied down with jobs, families, or some other stuff that they get engaged in so we have a few members who come by for an occasional hello, some others who post to get some more MyCENTS and still others who have an on-and-off relationship with the forum.I have not been on Xisto much. In its earlier days, I had an issue with the registration so it took me a couple of months before I finally signed up and then I managed to get myself engaged with Xisto and Xisto so much that there was barely a moment to glance at Xisto. I still log in every now and then to check out if we have any folk from Xisto on there.I hope to see a lot more of you on the forums.

I have a Fujitsu-Siemens P5S2D PC, which I have had for some time.
The spec is:
Intel Pentium 2.80 GHz processor
2 Gb of RAM
233 Gb Seagate HDD with a measly 36 Gb of space left.
I run Windows 7 Ultimate Edition.

Hi!

When I first read your post, I thought the mention of "Intel Pentium" may have been a mistake and I thought you probably meant that you have an Intel-branded processor in your computer, which would most likely be a Core first generation processor, however I did a bit of searching on the model number that you have specified. It turns out that P5S2D is the model number of the motherboard on which your computer is based and the processors supported by that motherboard are the Intel Pentium D processpr, the Intel Pentium 4 processor, and the Intel Pentium Celeron processor, and so I think I have to re-think through the process of recommending a change having realised what motherboard and processor you really have.

It is hard to tell you this, but your computer is getting old. The processor you are running may not be able to keep up with the new websites that are more processor intensive in their rendering and scrolling. Earlier, videos were played using a Windows Media Player or QuickTime plugin and later they moved to Adobe Flash, and now they are switching to HTML5 tags with a decoder included within the browser. Normally, this should make things easier for web browser to render, but web designers and developers are also including tons of Javascript for special effects and cascading style sheets for formatting of content is also getting more complex. If all of this was not enough, Windows 7 is a step up from Windows XP in terms of processing needs for the user interface.

What you can do right now is set Windows 7 to use fewer resources by going into the system settings, going to the advanced system settings, and selecting the adjust for performance under the setting for performance, visual effects, processor scheduling, memory usage, and virtual memory. Also, switch to using a web browser that is easier on your computer, such as the Opera Web Browser. There's a light-weight web browser named Midori that I have been trying out recently but it is for Linux am I am not sure if they would have a version that can work on Windows too. You should also have your computer defragmented frequently - I have mine set to run every week and as the computer is always left running (it doubles up as a wireless access point, ever since my wireless router died) the scheduled defragmentation occurs faultlessly.

You do not need to be concerned about the amount of space that you have left because thirty six gigabytes of disk space is enough for just about any of the computer's processing needs. In fact, if you look at how much memory your computer has, the disk can swap up to eighteen times that amount to the hard disk drive if it does have a shortage of memory, theoretically speaking. While two gigabytes of memory is not much by today's standards, it should be sufficient as the recommended minimum to run Windows 7 for checking your email and browsing the Internet.

After you have done all of the above, I do not really think there is much that you can do with your computer considering the processor as the single thing in your computer that is struggling to keep up. A computer's processor has a set of pins to fit into a motherboard and your motherboard would not be have a socket into which a newer processor can fit so when you change your processor, you need a new motherboard too. Also, the memory modules that are present on your motherboard may be too old to be supported by newer motherboards so those have to be changed too. A processor, the memory modules, and a motherboard are, in essence, most of the computer system, leaving only the power supply unit (it converts alternating current to direct current and regulates voltage) and the case (a case is just a box or an enclosure - some people have used planks of wood or pizza boxes instead of a case, with some make-shift supports to keep the motherboard in place). I'm not even considering the screen, keyboard, and mouse right now since those are interchangeable parts and there is little change that would occur for those components.

In other words, you can try to get a little more out of the computer that you have but you should consider getting a new one that can keep up with the demands of today's computing needs. It would also have the benefit of running more efficiently so you would get a similar, if not lower, electricity bill and that makes it environment friendly too. If you were to use a tablet computer or a netbook computer, you would be using less electricity (tablets are usually powered by an ARM processor but some have Intel Atom processors; netbooks are usually powered by Intel Atom processors but may have an ARM processor if it does not run Windows). If you would like to get more serious computing done, there are laptop computers with seventeen inch wide-screen displays and even a numeric keypad if you are into a lot of number crunching and use your computer to do your taxes. Lenovo's Ideapads and Toshibas are pretty good and give you the bang for the buck compared to most other brands. I don't know if you have access to Dell's online ordering service or an outlet store which can get you a great deal on other laptops. There are all-in-one desktop computers that even come equipped with touch screens so they are more fun to use. You can even find some all-in-one computers with a stylus in addition to the touch interface so you can use it for more serious work rather than just a pinch and zoom thing that you would normally do on an iPhone from a couple of years ago. With Windows 8, you can put that touch interface to good use and the tile interface can also be used as an information display so you can leave your computer running all day and have the live tiles feature give you information at a quick glance instead of having to get to the browser and navigate to a website to have it show you information, or even refresh a page. Live tiles in addition to a touch screen are great for having on a wall-mounted PC or a large desktop that you have in an area of the house where you would just lounge about so it can give you updates without having to really do anything.

If you would like to know about my computing hardware, I have a laptop that I got last year, and another laptop that is about six years old. The six year old laptop is what I primarily use with the newer laptop relegated to desk duty so I do pretty much all of my stuff on the older computer. The old computer runs Linux Mint 14 whereas the newer computer runs Windows 7 Home Premium. Linux Mint was not really my first choice - I would have preferred Ubuntu Linux (from Canonical) but with the current release of Ubuntu Linux, the 3D graphics effects are a part of the core system without really having a 2D interface and my processor overheats as it is so I decided to leave out the excess overhead from having a 3D desktop so I switched to using Linux Mint when it was time to upgrade as I did not want to have an outdated operating system, despite having a long term release of the previous version of Ubuntu Linux that is supported for well into the future. I would recommend using Linux Mint on your computer when you get another one because you can try lots of open source software that is free to use too. The same open source software isn't well-maintained on the Windows platform so it tends to crash more often but it is probably because the developers who volunteer their time run Linux themselves and therefore the Windows editions of the software have not been tested much on Windows. I do sometimes have the temptation to run Linux on my newer laptop computer too but I resist that urge for those times when I need to run Windows. I retired all of my old hardware to a closet to serve educational needs - I have a laptop powered by an Intel Pentium 4 processor but it has a loose power connector and several keys on the keyboard that do not work. I have an old 386 laptop that runs Windows 3.1 without a working screen but I keep it around for show-and-tell. It is an AST-branded notebook so the folks from Samsung would probably love to have it on a display pedestal as a part of their computing history (I heard Samsung bought out AST). All my desktops have been given away because running them wasn't environment friendly; folks who used those computers only turned them on when needed and turned them off after they were done so they are not hurting the environment in any way while still in existence somewhere.

Hi!I tried accessing the page you have linked to, but with all of that Flash content, my browser simply hangs - on Linux, the Flash browser plugin is a CPU hog and cannot handle websites with a lot of Flash content like it does on Windows. I don't know if it was the embedded slideshare presentations that were a little too much for the Flash plugin but it did hang twice where the browser was almost unresponsive and it crashed once. I did get to play one of the videos though, just before the Flash plugin crashed and took the tab with it, and the video works as intended.I think you may have a browser plugin from DivX that attempts to play the video that you have on the page. Look into the list of the plugins that are installed in your web browser - if you are using Firefox, the Tools menu should have an entry for Add-Ons where you can look up the plugins and extensions that you have within your web browser. Plugins are typically used to provide the ability to play certain content whereas extensions can be used to script some functionality into the browser using the Firefox API and provide additional capabilities to the web browser. Try to disable the plugins and give it another go to check if you are able to get the video to play.

sheepdog,The whole of the middle east is not really in conflict. Remember Dubai? That city from Mission Impossible 3, with the Burj Khalifa (the world's tallest tower), the J.W. Marriott marquis (the world's tallest hotel), and the world's largest cake? I think they also have the world's third largest shopping mall. Yes, that's a pretty good place to be with no conflicts of any kind - political, military, civil or anything of the sort. Did I mention that Dubai has no taxes either? And the weather in Dubai is pretty good too. Saying that the middle east is a war zone is like generalizing everybody from asia to have pale skin and characteristics eyes, whereas Indians are from Asia too and they do not usually have any of those characteristics.When referring to the middle east, there is the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, there's stuff happening in Egypt, and there was the recent issue involving Bahrain Air, let's not forget Syria which has been in the news recently. There is so much happening in the Middle East, but each of the situations is pretty much localized to their regions of occurrence. Within the Middle East, there are so many different places so you have to treat each of the nations within the Middle East as a separate nation before you can figure out where the situation is going.

Different motherboard manufacturers build their board slightly differently. There are reference implementations for them to treat as guidelines as they build motherboards to match the processors that they are being built for, but beyond that, they get to build the motherboards as they see fit. There is also the BIOS that is developed by a bunch of different manufacturers so you cannot really determine if the behavior of two different systems would be the same. Also, even when two motherboards being compared have a BIOS from the same vendor, the BIOS can still be customized to some extent. For instance, at least some models of Sony Vaio laptops have the same BIOS vendor as some HP and Lenovo models, yet the Sony Vaio models have virtualization disabled - it is just one of the many differences that you can notice between manufacturers cranking out so many different kinds of motherboards.It is quite possible for bad RAM to prevent a computer from starting up. I had a quick go at a desktop computer that I was fixing, and it was the RAM that prevented the computer system from starting up to the extend that the fan wouldn't start, there was absolutely nothing on the screen, and there wasn't even a POST beep. Lacking any sign of activity, I stripped down the computer to its basics and it would only start up after I removed one of the two memory modules that were inserted on that motherboard.Strange stuff happens with hard disk drives too. I have a USB drive that prevented the computer from getting past the BIOS screen and it only began after the hard disk drive had a two or maybe three feet drop from a table.

The image from the original post has been removed so I am not really sure of the ideas that wre suggested, but I have a few ideas of my own. The traditional classroom sitting has pretty much the same seating arrangement as somebody who would attend a concert or an opera, minus the balconies. With all the seats facing forward, there is the best chance of fitting as many people as possible within the confines of a room in a reasonably organized manner. The next best thing would be to position the seats around the instructor such that there is about a 120 degree field of view for the instructor of the class and the students in the front-row face the instructor instead of having the students turn to look at the instructor and possibly result in neck fatigue or cramps. Finally, a couple of round tables within the classroom and chairs surrounding each of the tables is a great environment for collaborative work. It is difficult to adapt to different modes of teaching because of the time required to shift a group between different layouts or classrooms, so perhaps it would help if the classrooms were determined based on the contents of a session, and the sessions are planned such that minimal changes to the layout are required.BTW, has anyone else used an overhead projector for transparencies? Those may be going the way of the dinosaur, but there are so many of them still in existence and the classroom layout has to be planned in a manner that those overhead projectors can be used because no matter where an instructor stands, he or she would be blocking the view of the material for at least some of the students, unless the instructor is standing right at the back of the class with the projector, in which case the layout would have to ensure that the distance between the front and the rear of the classroom is not too much to cause the image of the overhead projector to go past the floor and the ceiling.Modern classrooms typically have a ceiling-mounted projector and projects the image from a computer so the instructor can sit in a corner of the room and convey instructions while using visual aids to illustrate or point, or put up slides of bullet points to help in delivering the content.

sheepdog,If you wanted to offer courses on pet care, Moodle is probably what you want to use. It enables you to sign up folk who want to take up the course, offer them a structured path to achieving the goals of the course, and deliver content, links to external web pages, tests, and assignments. If there is a pet care certification, you could prepare individuals for pet care certifications. I am guessing that it would take about two months at least to come up with the content and the structure for the course, but once you have a course built, you can offer it to any number of individuals before the next refresh of the course to meet additional course objectives or certification requirements.BTW, I always thought Moodle sounded more like a brand of noodles than a poodle, but now I guess the cross-breed seems more probably :-)

rpgsearcherz,

 

If that is the case, the calculator would be rather simple to build - by providing an HTML form input box to enter an expression, the user could enter something like: "3 * (1 + 4)"

What you can then do with that input is run it through the eval function to get the result and it is as simple as that! Now, experienced programmers would tell you about the security implications of it, in which case you would probably deal with it by having a security check on the input being entered to permit only digits, mathematical operators, and parentheses. Some web hosting servers may not provide access to the eval function but then again there is only so much you can do with a locked-down server without re-inventing the wheel.

While education is important, the system may also have the implications of discouraging some people who would be better off without a degree because of their financial status. For example, if somebody was making little money to be able to make ends meet, he or she would be better off working to support the family rather than taking up a full-time program. Also, from their perspective, such a person may not be likely to finish the program because of other commitments. On the other hand, they could deny an opportunity to somebody who has it all planned and manage to get by with five hours of sleep to be able to manage everything. It is a system where everybody could benefit from funding and low-interest loans, but they only have so much that they can do because of limited allocation of resources and therefore they are trying to do the most they can in an objective manner that does not seem to unfairly favor anyone. When a process seems like it is objective, it may leave out individuals who rightfully deserve assistance but for the people making the policies, it is something that they can live with as long as they see that they are able to manage all that they can within their budgets.

MrDee,Apparently, they narrowed down the angina to a sleep apnea. I guess that is something that most of us would never have correlated together, and apparently your early doctors did not either. The dropping oxygen levels may have caused the angina, which the cardiologist performed routine tests for to determine that there is no problem at all.During the period when they want to have you treated for sleep apnea, are they giving you anything to deal with the problems of lack of sleep? I think they use Amphetamine, Ampakines, or something like Modifinil to treat the symptoms so you can function normally till they have everything sorted out.If they haven't got you started yet, they probably have a plan to you playing the symphonies of Mozart while in your sleep.Anyway, I hope you get well soon so we can see you more often on the forum.

MrDee,That seems to be one thing your government is doing right - free healthcare is something that people in the rest of the world can only imagine. I sometimes wonder if that implies free food too, because hospitals usually charge quite a bit for the food they serve to in-patients.Many hospitals have medical students and interns working the emergency and general medicine wards, so perhaps you happened to meet one of them when they asked you what insulin is used for. It would make you wonder if he or she is even aware of stuff going on in the world, let alone reading the books.There are government medical facilities in India that are accessible to people who hold a particular kind of card that indicates they have been residing in a village or have been living in the slums. It basically means that a poor guy living in a city in a parking garage does not get access to the heavily subsidized health care, but a farmer who owns a quarter of the agricultural land in a village can gain access to health care by merely paying what is worth a few handfuls of peanuts.

You get to list to music all the way on a single AAA battery? I'm guessing the trip must have lasted about three hours at least. That is quite remarkable! I have a cheap Android tablet that I got for giggles and the battery on it lasts for just over an hour while it is being used. The iPhone doesn't last a whole day either, though I have to mention that when I leave some music playing and turn off the screen, it can play for well over eight hours with less than half the battery being used. MacBooks are quite popular for being able to run for extended hours on battery, so I expected no less from Apple. I sometimes wonder if Lenovo will bring the all-day computing models that the Thinkpad was known for with laptops running for about twelve or fourteen hours on a single charge. With one of those, stopping at a power outlet in an airport for a quick charge would be a thing of the past with everybody being able to go a couple of days because they don't leave their computers running all the time.BTW, for your MP3 player, you could get a battery-powered speaker. Those can be expensive for the ones that sound good, but if you just want to try it out, there are some rather cheap ones that should cost you no more than $8 and can be charged through USB while providing the ability to play MP3s through its own microSD slot. The sound quality was pretty bad on the one I tried, but it was much louder than my old laptop's speaker so it served its purpose when I needed it.

I'm glad that everybody agrees that all property can be treated as copyrighted property because simply the fact that it exists means that somebody created it and that they have ownership of it or at least have passed on the ownership of it to somebody else, unless it has been released to public domain.There is one case that I think was particularly unfair when it comes to displaying warnings. In the case of Stella Liebeck versus McDonald's, Stella accused McDonald's of service coffee that was defective because it was too hot. What else did she expect when she ordered coffee? Ice-cold ice cream with chocolate flakes? I would have agreed that it was McDonald's fault if the coffee cup melted, the lid wasn't fitted correctly, or if the staff would have caused the spill while handing the cup of coffee to Stella, but that was not the case. Stella put the cup of hot coffee between her knees and, while removing the lid, and in the process spilled the coffee onto herself. What was she thinking when she was merely holding the cup of coffee with her knees while sitting in a car? She was by no means physically challenged to have to use her knees to hold a cup, and why didn't she think about using the cup holder like everybody else. McDonald's was wrongfully sued and whoever ruled in favor of Stella were most definitely biased. Oh, and did I mention that there was a warning on the coffee cup to indicate that the coffee is hot? But the court ruled that the warning was too small and was insufficient. What do they expect? Get a baby-sitter to sit with customers in their cars to ensure that they do not do anything crazy enough to burn themselves? Sure, if a cup of coffee costs $150, they could go the extra mile, but that particular cup of coffee that Stella bought was for exactly 50 cents. For giggles, maybe McDonalds should put in print on the cup of coffee in reasonably large text - "Do not place coffee cup between knees" to avoid legal liabilities.Regarding trespassing signs, I think it would be reasonable to assume that somebody wanting to sell you a magazine subscription would walk through the gate and knock on the door, if there wasn't a beware of dog or no trespassing sign. Even with that assumption, having somebody enter the premises outside of regular working hours may have entered for providing an invitation to a party, a wedding, or something of the sort. Entering into an apartment with an unlocked door is perhaps crossing the limit and perhaps does count as trespassing even without any notice or warning.

Sheepdog,I had a neighbour with a black labrador that was about a decade old. One day, it decided it was king of the beasts, so it played hunter and preyed on a frog, devouring it whole. Frogs have toxins in their skin, which I do not really see the point of - if they have spines, it keeps preys away because they would not want spines stuck in their jaws. If they have toxins, they still get eaten anyway. Perhaps it is like taking one for the team - if a prey eats you, they die, so they cannot eat the rest of us. Sure, that sounds like team spirit, but more of the kamikaze pilot kind. If the dog was taken to the vet, it would probably have been given some kind of an antidote but its owners probably didn't think much of it because eating a frog seems a lot like eating a gazelle or wild deer or something of the sort. It's something that people understand only when it has happened to them at some point, just like the little puppy that the owner thought was having seizures when it was just having some rather active dreams in its sleep. Perhaps it was dreaming about the rich green grass in a pasture somewhere and a frisbee being tossed for it to catch. But still, seriously, the vet would actually charge $250 to tell the owner that there is nothing wrong with the dog? I'm assuming that does not include the fare for hailing a cab and heading out to the emergency room. If the vet were to look at the pup and say it was normal, a $50 charge would probably have seemed steep but still not too unreasonable for having to use the services of an emergency room. That's from the perspective of the vet, but then there could be some owners who would toss a law suit at just about anything and everything and ruin it all for the rest of us, requiring a whole series of tests that come back negative. If it were not for the threat of lawsuits, we would probably have the vet tell us that all is well and that the symptoms are normal.Oh, and did you mention that dogs have their temperature taken rectally? Ouch! The next time a dog barks at me as if to bark insults, and I say to myself, "Think happy thoughts," I'd probably be thinking of that dog visiting the vet and having its temperature taken :-D

Hi mamer!If you do get the newer version of Moodle working, do let me know. I had the installer tell me that the target version of the interpreter for the current version of Moodle was greater than what I had, and so it would not install. It may, however, be possible to edit the installer so that it no longer performs the check for the version of the interpreter or maybe the version can be hard-coded such that the conditional check always evaluates to true, even when the minimum version required isn't met. It should not be too hard to back-port some of the code to work with an older interpreter because it was not a complete re-write but rather a gradual change in the code base to require the newer version of the interpreter.As Saint Michael says, a tutorial updated to work with a newer version of Moodle will be more helpful because very few people still run Moodle 1.9.

Hi!Your account of the incident makes me think that this may be one of those conspiracy theories. Perhaps they accidentally thought that he was involved with a terrorist network because his name came up on a no-fly-zone list and so they decided to take him off the school bus and when the bus driver tried to prevent them from taking away the kid, they shot him and left with the target. After a while, they realized that he was just a five year old who has no trigger word or any sleeper agent training and as it was too big a risk to let him free stating that a UFO had kidnapped him and returned him mysteriously to the scene of the crime, especially since the bus driver was killed rather than disintegrated into thin air or kidnapped and stuck with probes into his brain and bodily cavities.The whole deal with the Guantanamo Bay is just about as fishy as this tale - they actually kept people detained for longer than they are constitutionally permitted to, and they lacked the substantive evidence. It took them all that time just to figure out that the person was an innocent civilian and therefore had to be let free. If any immigrants were involved, I think they may have been given a green card or citizenship for having been 'guests' of the United States for so long, especially since the country has determined that they are no longer a threat to national security. Either that, or all the people who were supposedly detained in Guantanamo Bay are undercover FBI agents who were called to duty, and Guantanamo Bay is a secret facility for operations rather than a detentions facility. I guess we will never really know and the folks who do know will be taking the tale to their graves.

Hello there!It is great to have you join us here on Xisto. Although we are all curious about how you happened to come upon the forum, we would also like to know more about what you do, what kind of food you eat, and whether you know the exact number of the kinds of cheese served in Holland. Okay, so I am kidding about the last one, but it would make a rather good password, just as the minimum of eight characters from disney is almost impossible to guess or figure out through a brute force algorithm.There are lots of people on the forum who talk about just about everything from the sun to those little critters that sneak up on you in the middle of the night with fangs to suck blood. No, not vampires, I mean bats. I'm sure we would have a thread about bats somewhere on the forum. If not, well, mamer will go ahead and create one. He's probably the one with the most threads to his credit over the past few months. Some think he may be Saint Michael's avatar. There have been reports about multiple avatars existing at the same time.

Moving from the mysql functions to the mysqli functions should be an easy shift. There was a mention on a blog that the mysql functions are 'lighter' and so execute quicker when compared to the mysqli functions, though I have not seen any benchmarks to compare the two. I think that it is in alignment with the observations of the JDBC thin drivers for Oracle as opposed to the OCI JDBC drivers that provide much more functionality than the thin drivers do. The mysqli API provides both an object oriented and a procedural approach to using the code. A downside is that a malicious user can do a whole lot more by using SQL injection with scripts that use mysqli so there's a problem that surfaces if a novice implements a PHP based application with mysqli coded in the same manner as the insecure applications that were build with the mysql extension. I don't mean to say that the extensions themselves are insecure but if the same insecure code were to be altered to use mysqli, there is a whole lot more than a hacker could do to a site. Fortunately, some web servers are configured to lock down the application such that malicious requests are filtered out and repeated attempt would lead to the IP address being barred from accessing the server. It could happen to legitimate requests too, but it helps to know that there is something in place that can prevent attacks against an application built by a novice.

A PHP calculator script without a calculator? I don't get it - does it mean that it is supposed to be a script that can calculate without actually providing a calculator-like interface? Perhaps two text boxes and a button to keep it simple? Sounds like this is the case, though am not sure what the "without parameters" means in the thread topic.To put together a form on an HTML page, Adobe DreamWeaver can be used - it does not really need one to be familiar with HTML. Placing a form on the page is shown in DreamWeaver is a red box formed with a dashed or dotted line (I am not sure if the newer versions of DreamWeaver still work the same way and represent a form with the red dashed or dotted line). Let's just assume for this discussion that it is a red box formed with dased lines. Within the red dashed-line box, place the input text elements from within the Forms tab of the toolbox. Give the input text elements a name that you can use to reference it, such as txt1 and txt2. Then, select the form (red dashed box) and assign the action property of the form the name of a PHP file, such as calc.php. Within calc.php, the values from this form would be accessible within a $_REQUEST global associative array, so all you would need to do is access the elements of the array using the names of the input text elements as keys to retrieve the values. You can simply add them together because PHP automatically converts the strings into integers, and you can echo the sum of the two variables.

Sheepdog,You seem to have quite a tale. In India, most people have arranged marriages, so they barely know a person before getting engaged. It all starts with a friend of a relative of a friend of a relative says, "Hey, I can get you hooked up with somebody," then there's a consultation with an astrologer who looks into their horoscope and makes sure that they aren't from the same family tree and that they are compatible in nature. There's an exchange of photographs, and finally the two families meet. There's usually a short chat for about five to ten minutes during which they make the choice to get engaged, and that's about it! SheepDog, you had so much longer to decide if he is the one compared to most Indians.Also, did I mention that when most people get engaged, they follow through till the wedding so even during the couple of months between the engagement and the wedding, all usually goes well so perhaps whatever the astrologer looks up seems to work out for them. However, there has been an increase in the divorce rate in India and that is probably because a lot of people are getting more hard-headed as they think about money, put forward their egoes and let petty things get in the way because of greed, selfishness, and stuff of that sort. Then, there's also the bit where people cheat on their partners, and it gets pretty ugly. It wasn't as common a few decades ago so it is perhaps the pursuit of riches that trumped over the pursuit of happiness that is more prevalent today.BTW, I know a former co-worker from the Phillippines who met his significant other one fine day when he was introduced to her. They went out together a couple of times, yet he would say that she wasn't the one for him. A couple of months later, everybody thought they were a good pair, and finally one day he proposed to her, they got married shortly afterward and they probably have a kid right now. From what I last heard about a month ago, her office moved to the same building that he works in so they even get to have lunch together, so it does not get any better than that. And since his office does not provide car parking, they get to drive to work together, she flashes her badge against the card reader and they get let into the parking lot.Of all the stories about people meeting up and getting married, the ones that you think are the best are when you know a girl who is well-mannered and polite and she ends up with a rags-to-riches tale, and then you think the world is a really nice place and that justice has been served. Of course, it does not always end up that way but when it does and you hear about, there's the nice feeling that the world is not such a bad place after all.

Hi!I don't really know if it is possible for every topic to have a reply because some of them are tutorials. You would not normally expect a reply for a How-To if it was really good, and you would not really want to have a lot of Thank You replies because they do not add value and that is what the Up-Vote button is for in the forum. Sure, a thank you seems like a more personal message and it is promoted on other forums, but it makes it harder for somebody who comes back to the forum later to browse through pages and pages of posts to find what he or she is looking for. You may be able to turn an up-vote into a thank you and list the people who posted the thank you through the up-vote button by adding on a plugin to the forum, but that is more about the workings of the forum rather than about the content within. Also, perhaps the up-vote should be positioned differently because I do not really notice any posts that have up-votes on them.Also, if there are some really old posts, we do not want all of the re-surfacing, particularly if it is about something less significant, like Al Gore's campaign agenda way back during the elections because in general people no longer have any interest in the political past. It could be relevant if there are a lot of people on the forum with an interest in political history though, so what deserves to be brought back from the past depends on the members and their interests. A lot of people on the forum have an interest in web design and web programming, but we do not really find much of a mention on here. Perhaps that gets discussed on Xisto, the sister-forum of Xisto. BTW, there is a lot of techie stuff going on in there, so if you do want to check out the issues that programmers and system administrators face, that's a good place to discover the issues and perhaps write a blog about it.Oh, and did I mention that the make money online forum could get outdated quickly with the number of firms going out of business each year? With that logic, resurrecting old post topics that are from about a decade ago about schemes and organizations that no longer exist would not have much value, unless it is for analyzing their strategies in retrospect.

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Using regular expressions is actually not better than using Levenshtein because of the overhead involved. There is a lot more computation involved when using regular expressions. It is, however, possible to use regular expressions for validation of things that have to be in a specific format, and then use levenshtein's algorithm to match against possible values if the format is invalid. It has very specific uses, but if there's a scenario that warrants it, it's the combination of the two will serve the purpose well.