The Simpleton

lol yup I'm stuck there now...I need to pay ~$80 for a one year price which is indeed a bit too much for me right now So all I can do is to endlessly wait for another month or so to get to that money. However, no more worry about monthly payments so that's a relief...

wow that's a new piece of info anyway, the site's back up now and everyone can give away their hard-earned myCENTS And yeah our admins and staff sure need a break after all this hectic schedule...

I enjoyed quake 3 as well - the fragging concept was pretty cool. Wait a minute that was quake 3 arena! or are both one and the same? can't remember exactly...it was one of the first FPS games I got to play

Fission...hmm I remember having that during school - was an interesting topic but I didn't having to remember all the numbers involved and maybe that's why I left the subject as soon as I could Theoretically it's interesting...how such small particles can create devastating effects and all, but to go into it practically takes a lot of will power and determination!

So basically I won't miss anything much by not getting the setup done automatically? I will be given the cpanel account details, right? I think I can manage pointing the domain to the nameservers and all that.....ok then I'll just wait till they site is back up.Thanks rvalkass

I'm currently using the basic $1.95/month plan but am thinking of upgrading to the $6.66/month plan, not because I want more bandwidth, but because I want more features that it offers (100 instead of 5!) and I was on the verge of ordering today, but unfortunately the Xisto - Support site is in one of its "License Validation" moods again :lol:Anyway, I remember that "FREE SETUP" is applicable for the $1.95 package, but for the $6.66 package, it is applicable only for yearly payments. I'm not in a position to make a yearly payment right now. So I wanted to know, what is included in that FREE SETUP? Is it something that cannot be done manually? The google apps setup I can manage because I know all it takes is to upload some text they give onto a page and it will be confirmed. What else needs to be manually? Can someone please give some details?

More than Xisto, gaming itself is an unhealthy obsession. But it does have a lot of advantages as well so it's not all bad to play games. They may seem like a waste of time to many, and in most cases it is, but a controlled dosage of gaming per day isn't a bad idea after all.

Hi there BlooDTake and welcome to the Xisto forums. Let me tell you right here that at Xisto one line posts are looked upon rather seriously. Just write some more! It's not a hard thing after all to just write a liiiittle more is it? Anyway don't take it seriosly, but be sure to make posts of a decent length. The forum is full of members willing to help you out if you have any problems so don't hesitate to ask. Well, have a good time then and see you soon

Wow there's a newer version of old Wolfy? Never knew about that. Thanks a lot for this interesting update. For the old game I would readily give a rating of 9 - never heard about this new game, though. For ratings I'd recommend looking it up on sites like gamespot.com

Hmm downtime with your website? That's either a really rare case or people just report it directly to support instead of asking in the forum. Based on all these downtime reports, I'm strongly feeling that my earlier doubt about the bad weather in Mumbai influencing the servers may be true (although in reality I don't think the rains are that bad in Mumbai this year....)

These days it's better for a lot of people to simply find what they need from other sources instead of simply depending on torrents for everything. They're useful only to people with a good internet connection and since people from developing countries dont have these file-sharing sites are a good place to look for what they need.

hmm no offense but why reply by saying that you don't play games? If you come into a forum about gaming and say a thing like that it doesn't make a lot of sense... anyway, to those "blessed" kind who think gaming is unhealthy, good luck on spending your free time, coz you're seriously missing something the zing that gaming provides!

People say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day...but they didn't say it should be the only meal It sure is unhealthy to eat a lot but too little is a bad thing as well. Two meals a day isn't such a bad idea if you have a good amount of food at both times, otherwise three meals with a small quantity could do too. But it's important to keep the good ol' stomach happy

At first look they looks childish, but once you get hooked, they're hard to let go! I'm talking about Japanese Anime, popular all over the world. They're of many types and forms but the common thing in them is that they're awesome Ok maybe that's too much, but most of them are! Does anyone here watch Anime on a regular basis? If I'm not wrong, they're being imported by each country by the dozen! Not all of them are good, but the selct few are too good to miss. I get a lot of shows here, (all dubbed into the regional languages) and maybe 90% of them are crap - the rest of them are worth the watch. To name some favourites would be a tough job but I'd say Dragonball (all series) is sure to come up on most people's list! I recently got one of the "Dragon Boxes" which contain 1000 minutes of episodes with the original Japanese audio and voice dub and it's one helluva show! Any suggestions from our esteemed members for more???

Hmm this is the second thread today in which I'm talking about back-up, but it seems like an important question to me - do you backup the mail you get? These days scams are increasing day-by-day and you never know what is going to happen with your account tomorrow. Of course if you're a pro user who takes care of all security features then you have nothing to fear, but most people aren't aware that email inboxes can be broken into and personal information confiscated. A weak password is the easiet way to gain access into someone's inbox. There are other factors too using which one can gain entry. And in most of the cases, we wish to take action only after the damage has been done! That's why it's important to keep a backup of all the mail, contacts, etc in order to avoid any damage in future. So, do any of you do anything like this?

Alright I think I've made up my mind - I'll go in for IPB, no matter how long it takes to get the $$$ for it. Running my forum with SMF somehow doesn't feel right and I might have the same feeling even if I had 10000 members on it So I've decided to wait till I'm able to get IPB and till then I'm closing my forums. Thanks for your suggestions.A closing doubt - is IPB planning any major upgrade any soon? Will the 3.x.x. series run for a while or is series 4 expected any soon?

well there's no real term as 'backup browser' I just used it and since you got the meaning that's fine Having four backup browsers can be a lot and I don't think there's a real need for that many number of browsers. Two, in my opinion, would be just fine as one could cancel out the others cons...

All I can say to that is - this forum is [/i[ called Open Discussion so you're free to discuss whatever you like with the members. But for that sake be sure not to create threads that are meaningful to others and you as well. If you're creating a thread just to attract a whole lot of replies, well there's no real harm but there's no real meaning in that...hope you're getting my point. The trouble is, it's been quite a while without interesting threads that I've forgot the meaning of what interesting means!

I've noticed that these downtime problems have been frequent only in the past one month or so. Before that there weren't any frequent disruptions in service. The Xisto - Support site was up 99% of the time and only on rare cases like today did it have any problems. The last time we had a "License Validation" problem, the site returned in ten hours if I'm not wrong (maybe I noticed the problem very late) - but just be a bit patient - it's worth it!

The new IPB V3 default theme is pretty good actually. We're currently using V2, right? The new version has improved a lot on the visual front and yet looks professional enough. But if I'm not wrong it costs a lot to upgrade?

Wow rob you sure have an impressive profile I agree that the temptation of hacking is really very addictive, It makes you do things that you never imagine that you would do. Then again, learning about everything related to hacking can prove useful in the future in ways unimaginable. I have a small suggestion for you rob - how about you try ethical hacking for linux? You have lot of experience in Windows and I know you're starting out in Linux, so how about it? Yup most of us have been talking about ethical hacking a lot in this thread and less about the original topic Anyway, auto-shutdown is useful for people who like to keep their sytems on for most of the day. They can trigger the command sometime before they retire to bed or go to college, etc and save a lot of power by shutting down! In my country it isn't uncommon to see people leaving their systems on 24/7 but the majority of us shut down our systems at night due to fear of the electricity bill!!!

hmm I reallt don't feel Xisto is such a bad name - it's just...different, that's all. And I think it's going through a rough patch right now and there's nothing more to that. There sure are a less number of threads daily, but only time will tell whether this situation is gonna change or not. A lot of things keep running in the background so we can't really predict what will happen at what moment. Just wait and see.....

lol yeah a lot of people try to do that as a prank and in most cases it's harmless. It's okay to pull the leg of someone you know just for the fun of it, but when that "fun" moves on to unknown territories that's when the danger begins..... No, I haven't yet reached the level to be called a 'hacker/cracker' yet but I do keep an eye out for things like these. In my opinion, it isn't hard at all to learn top-notch (un)ethical hacking - all you need is time and patience, which most people don't have. If you follow the life of the most well-known hackers, you'll notice that they spent a lot of time on their computers, leaving out social life and studies and so on. But most people can't afford to do this as they're busy with a lot of other things. That's why the most successful hackers have the most boring social life

First off, ethical hacking is a touchy issue and most people would rather not learn about it lest they end up using it in the wrong way. But sometimes it helps to know a lot about how things are done in your operating system so that you may get out of a sticky situation someday. This here is a short sample of what you can do with a little knowledge of ethical hacking - this is just one small situation - there are thousands or maybe millions of others, but a start has to be made somewhere Okay, so did anyone of you meet this situation where you switch on your computer and see a pop-up window which says "Windows is shutting down" and displays a timer? That's a smart little virus acting in the background, but did you know that you could prevent it with a simple command? Here's how you do it. This works only for Windows because such annoying viruses appear only in Windows NOTE: 1) DO NOT USE THIS FOR ANY WRONG PURPOSES - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! 2) I'm using this in Windows 7, so there will be some visual changes for XP users. I will say more below. ============================================================== 1) On the Windows desktop, right-click and point to New-->Shortcut 2) Next you will get a window which asks for the location of the shortcut. In that, type this command: shutdown -r -t <time>replace the time with the number of seconds you would like before your computers shuts down. as an example, I have given 100 seconds. 3) Give the shortcut a name and click "Finish" - it will appear on the desktop. It is important to have enough time to give the counter-command so keep a sensible time gap, like 30, 40 seconds. If you foolishly give less time, you might not have enough time left to give the counter command, resulting in the shutdown of the system! 4) Now to create the counter-command. Right-click on the desktop again, point to New-->Shortcut, and the command now is: shutdown -aThe 'a' stands for 'abort' which cancels out the previous command, thus preventing shutdown of the system. Give it another name and click "Finish" 5) So, want to test this out?! Simply doublt-click on the "virus" we created on your desktop, and you should see a popup window: For XP users --> you will see a window which says something like "Windows is shutting down" and underneath it will be a countdown counter showing the number of seconds remaining to shutdown. I don't remember the exact thing since it's been a while I've used XP. For Vista/7 users --> Based on the time you've set, you'll get a window like this: 6)Now, quickly, before the time runs out, double-click on the "anti-virus" we made and it will counter the shutdown, cancelling it. For XP users--> The shutdown window will disappear, and maybe you won't get any other notification For Vista/7 users--> You will simply get a notification like thus: See how simple it is? Now imagine if somehow who got hold of your computer put the time gap as one second and put this in the startup folder, what would happen?! you wouldn't have any time to react at all! It is that scary...... Just a small clarification on the "virus" command: "shutdown" is a function employed in the windows mechanism and has many options which you can access using the terminal(DOS prompt) in windows and typing "shutdown" at the prompt. some of the options are: -r : restarts the system (we used this one in the example) -s: shuts down the system -a: abort shutdown -l: logs off -h: goes into hibernation and there are more.......all this seems interesting to learn and can come handy in situations where you least expect it! Well, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial please leave a comment about it and remember never use this for the wrong purposes!

Back when this site started, domain and hosting rates were out of reach for a lot of people, so if they found a site like Xisto, they readily clung to it, glad that they could get their own site for basically nothing! So they stayed on and did their best in staying active and putting up good posts. But as the years went by, website hosting and domains came within the budget of these people and hence they were ready to pay money and save time instead of posting here daily. That is the main reason why we have thousands of registered members and yet only a few active ones :PStill, it's up to the active members to stick to the site and do their best to keep it interesting for the others so that any new member won't get bored and run away without even starting! Let's do our best to keep this forum active at all time and brimming with interesting posts