The Simpleton

Okay, so all of us have a favourite browser and we fiercely defend it in discussions like these. But sometimes, even the best of the browsers fail to meet our needs and we have to temporarily use another browser till ours gets fixed. Faced this situation any time? Well I've had lots of instances where Firefox simply refused to work. I'm talking about Firefox in Ubuntu, which I guess isn't perfect yet. So anyway, sometimes it simply stops working, as if someone pressed the "Stop" button all the time. A reboot would usually work in a case like this, but I don't have the patience to do that each time this happens. So as a backup/secondary browser, I use SeaMonkey, which works fine. I need to use it for a short while anyway and it does a good job for a Linux Browser. So what is your own backup browser? I guess most Windows users would say IE/Opera/Chrome Was there any instance where you had to switch to a backup browser for a really long time? That would really be irritating. Luckily my Firefox doesn't irritate me for a long time. Just bounces back after a break!

Good work everyone I was sorely tempted to press 'Null Vote' but in the end I voted for truefusion. At first glance it didn't seem like much, but later I felt that there was something attractive in it and the colour play was also good. The other sigs seem pretty heavy but this one seems to be unique by not being so fancy yet being delightful

Just a small clarification on the taxes thing..... If you're just buying a domain without hosting, then it will cost you ~12 (11 point something) and since you only get a round figure in dollars, the amount is rounded off to $12 with taxes. If you're buying a domain with hosting, then it will cost you ~14 (13 point something), once again rounded off to $14. I think these taxes exist with other registrars as well, though I'm not sure about that. @Nameless_ :If I'm not wrong, you're going at around 10 posts per day, and that's the reason you're feeling all exhausted and tired of constantly being active in the forums after dark! You've been here for only a month and are still maintaining the 10 posts per day figure, which may be healthy for your account, but not very healthy for yourself, coz this may irritate you over time to come here frequently. Of course this may depend on yourself but that is what happens in most of the cases...So if you calm down and think about it, 5-10 minutes per day with a target of earning $1 per day is a healthy sign and that's what I'm doing right now This way you don't feel exhausted for posting to keep your account alive. That's just my thought on this.

Ha ha when you start a topic like this you're inviting heated discussions!! It's like rvalkass said - none is better than the other. They both have their own set of pros and cons. In the end it's all a matter of taste.As for me, I've tried both of them and have noted that GNOME is lighter on system resources than KDE. That's why I've been using it on a regular basis than KDE. Whenever I feel bored of the static look of GNOME, I pop in a live CD of Kubuntu and KDE's ready to play!

Oh, then I must have had mixed it up with another game - I sure used to play a lot in those days. Wolfenstein was one which I enjoyed in particular. I remember playing Fifa too and the demo was indeed a great one. Ah, these good old memories sure are good. Too bad we can't live in them

This is a really good point - getting your own domain helps a lot in the longrun. Okay, so newstack.com is taken () but there are still a lot of good domain names you could use in relation to the theme of your blog. It's much more easier visiting your blog directly through a domain instead of a sub-domain! On the other hand, having your blog on sites like blogger, wordpress, etc does have its own advantages like ready-to-use plugins and themes and zero percent necessity of programming/coding So it's up to you to weigh the odds and decide which one's the best thing for you to do. Since you're only just starting out, it won't be difficult to migrate to a domain from your blogger account.

This week it's really been tough getting onto the site, but I'm not worried a lot because things like this happen from time to time. And I have yet another far-fetched reason which may or may not be one of the reasons for the frequent downtime - Xisto/Xisto is based in Mumbai, right? Right now it's the rainy season here in India and Mumbai is known for its notorious showers every year. The other day I went to my local bank (my town is far away from Mumbai) and was told that the main servers in Mumbai were down due to heavy showers in that area. This incident may not have any relation to Xisto but I think it might be one of the reasons On another note, I'm still satisfied that the server hosting my website is still up most of the time and that means others are having good uptime on their sites too. So there's a silver lining among all this

Torrents....that word sure has influenced a lot of people! They're so convenient to use but yet so confusing for first-timers. Then there's utorrent - that client for Windows which is the lightest and most easiest to use. And yet it poses a lot of questions...Ack, this tone doesn't suit me at all Anyway, first off, I'd say be careful while downloading anything though utorrent while the port is open, coz your system may be vulnerable at that time. Second, torrents work faster in operating systems other than Windows and this is something that I have experienced a lot of times. Whether or not you want to migrate to other OSes for this sole purpose is your choice, but it's recommended because you have a dual advantage - you get more speed as well as more security, because the other ones aren't so easy to break into like Windows is.

Good to know that you started off on something Nameless_ I haven't yet taken a good look at your site but from first glance it does seem interesting. A few more good posts could attract more visitors to it. $1 a week is a pretty big target for a starter site. That's because you need around 100 clicks per week. That means your blog must attract at least 200-300 visitors per week, because not all of them will click on the ads and so to get 100 clicks first you're gonna need a lot of visitors. I would advice you to initially stop thinking about how much you're getting from the ads and start concentrating on the quality of your posts. If a site which promises interesting news suddenly ends up with boring news then it's not a very good thing....so just concentrate more on your quality.Regarding how long it will take for your site to be indexed, I can only make a far guess, because it depends on many factors. I think you need to read up a little on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to know more about this. I think more experienced members will advice you about this later on so be patient :Pand finally, all the best for you first site and remember not to lose your grip over quality - it is of utmost importance! ciao!

I guess the season has something to do with it, as SM said. Of course not all of our members are students; some of them are busy throughout the year! Life is more important than free hosting, after all, so I guess one shouldn't grumble much about it.But among the members who are regular visitors, I feel there should be a little more motivation to post good topics. I can shamelessly say that I'm not very motivated right now to think of good topics to post. I'm only on a hunt to find some topics and reply to them - that's all We do need some big change in order to get members to post well. They need not post a lot, but the little that they post should be meaningful and that's all one asks for!

Of late, I've noticed that there the number of threads being created is decreasing daily, (except for the introductions and support threads). Is this just my wrong assumption or is everyone really running out of time/ideas to create new threads? I openly accept that I'm running a bit low on ideas for new threads - I simply am not finding the time to think about interesting topics to post daily, so I'm constantly on the hunt for new and interesting threads to reply to, but there seem to be fewer and fewer in number these days. Did everyone just switch off their creativity or what?

Hi Rob!I've used some of the managers that mahesh mentioned above, but so far the best experience for me has been the firefox add-on 'DownThemAll!' You said you didn't like downloading in firefox, but I think this one offers the best possible experience. Then again, I could just be silly. The thing is, I used Internet Download Manager (IDM) on Windows for a long time and got used to its amazing speeds and features. After coming to Ubuntu, there were a number of good managers, but none of them could compete with IDM. The nearest one I could find was 'DownThemAll' and am still using it - it almost matches IDM in speed and just misses out on a few features.So if you're sure you don't want to use firefox to download, then do ttry some of the managers mentioned in the previous post. But if you choose DTA, you'll not be disappointed!

well it's easy to blame it all on the owner and sit down, but we do not know what's going on behind the scene. I think most of you didn't notice one thing - while Xisto was down, were your hosted websites down too? I don't think so. I've noticed that my websites were online 95% of the times Xisto was down. This shows the staff is working a lot to maintain the hosted websites and maybe they're just a little busy to take good care of their own Xisto server. They're not abandoning it now, are they? Downtime is a nasty problem but the staff has to deal with a lot of things daily and I think they're just not finding enough time to do it all in a day. But they're still doing a good job with the other servers, keeping the hosting promise up

People have discussed about the functioning of the 'Make Money Online' forum before and if I'm not wrong, someone started a thread asking for it to be closed down or be heavily monitored like 'The Internet' forum. I don't want to discuss about the functioning of the forum. I don't have any problem with it being there, but I think it's become kind of a boring routine in there: Someone posts a thread about a website that promises something to its users, and the thread starter is all excited about sharing it here. Then all he gets are a bunch of angry/irritated replies by users who claim that the website is a scam! It's not the case with just one site but 99% of all sites receive similar replies....hmm there is something to be thought about the functioning here.Anyway, all I wanted to ask is, did any of you guys find anything useful in that forum? Or have you just been a part of the numerous battles taking place between the thread starters who fiercely defend their sites and the experienced people who say the site's a joke? I didn't have the time to go through many threads over there but I seriously doubt if there are a lot of people who get anything useful from there.All these battles are so amusing that the whole point of reading those kind of threads get lost. As soon as a new thread is seen in that forum one can easily expect what kind of replies it will get. I think I'll stop visiting the forum altogether. Why should one insignificant speck like me get in the middle of all the battles?

In my opinion, the earliest reality shows were pretty good - they had no script, the concept was new, and luckily, it clicked.The audience were curious by this new kind of entertainment, where they knew that no one on screen was acting, but those things were actually happening in real life. And so the addiction bug bit them. But these days most reality shows (not all of them) have become too dramatic, with no sense of meaning at all. It appears as if everything is planned before to make it more interesting. These days its all about the money and the producers will do anything to make sure the audience is getting entertained. You can't really call this entertainment" but some shows do appeal to more people and that's why they're still going on and people are thrilled by watching them.

I think most people share simlar experiences - getting irritated with Linux first and then getting addicted to it! It's not much due to Linux's greatness but due to Window's weakness. The latter is so full of bugs and viruses that after seeing an OS like Ubuntu, one can't help but get attracted to it. So slowly but surely you'll find yourself using it more and more Ubuntu may be great and all but its "Movie Player" is no match for VLC And yes it's me alright - just changed my name for a load of reasons. I do that too - it's much faster than trying to download the whole thing, and unlike Windows, you don't have to remove the old version to install the new one - it upgrades a few packages, removes old ones, puts in new ones, and the update is finished! That's another good thing about Ubuntu.

Hi there Dragos and welcome to Xisto forums Don't worry about spellings and grammar - it's what inside the post that matters! Just stick by the rules and you should do fine. If you have any doubts about the forum feel free to open a thread in the proper section and a member/mod will get to you as soon as possible. For questions regarding the functioning of the forum, this document would be helpful. well, have a good time and hope to see you around!

Wanting to be happy is again a desire, a goal or whatever you call it and if you try too much to achieve it you become miserable...does that make sense? "Money or Happiness?" is a similar question - it is a deep question for someone and a ridiculous one for another! It is in the nature of these things - everyone has a different opinion about them that's why it appears differently to each person. well are you implying that I'm digging through the old topics and re-posting them? If I had that much time or such an intention then my post count would have gone through the roof by now!

Hey rob! Sorry to know that you had a bad start in the Ubuntu world. Actually it's a lot better than the other distributions coz they have a steep learning curve. Just hang in there and I'm sure you'll discover a lot of good things about Ubuntu. The mp3 codec problem has a simple solution. Just open an mp3 file and it will say "error" but it also gives an option for "search for codec". Upon clicking this you will be taken to a window where the available codecs will be listed and you can simply select them and install with a few clicks - no need of typing in commands! Of course a more simpler solution would be to download vlc player for ubuntu as it plays everything! As for the forums issue, well it does depend a lot on your time zone to be honest. I've never faced such a problem as yours because when I go to post there it's normally night time in the US so there's not much traffic from there, and my question gets answered pretty quickly. Anyway, truefusion's suggestion of googling your problem is a good one. It should fix most of your probs I agree that it takes a little time to get used to Ubuntu. You just need to find ways to personalize it. For example, I use launchers for many common commands that I use. This saves a lot of time. Also I spend a little time in the Ubuntu forums, reading people's problems, coz it really helps to learn through problems. Over the time I'm sure you'll begin to appreciate Ubuntu's (and Linux's in general) true power!

I think in the NFS series hot pursuit 2 is really good. I'm not saying it's the best but that's where all the excitement started in the entire series! Other racing games are good too, but I don't think they'll ever get close to what NFS has achieved.

I think the effect won't be that much but there will surely be some decrease in the number of posts. Anyway, we needn't worry about the myCENTs system being taken off because that's something that's never going to happen - it's like imagining Google without it's search engine!

Thanks to Xisto, I was able to start my first website. It wasn't my dream domain and even though I could have bought my dream domain, I went in for another one - pcdynasty.com with a different purpose. I still have plans to develop the site and am presently working on the design, but in the meantime I am unneccesarily losing $2 per month towards hosting charges. I am thinking of temporarily removing the hosting package till the site is ready. I just have one doubt though, and that is whethr my gmail apps account will be disabled if I remove the hosting account. I'm using gmail apps regularly and if I am aware that it will be disabled then I will be able to perform some backup of sorts till it is restored again. can someone please answer this question?

That's a good point. I don't have a very fast connection but the forum manages to open up in around 10 seconds. The sheer size of the site is what makes it difficult to load. I think most of you misunderstood me when I said a change is in need. I'm not asking for a bright theme with jaw-dropping graphics and all It's just that gray is a bit dull on the eye and whenever people in a bad/tired mood come to post, the grayness puts them off. The same theme with a different colourset would be very nice

well I tried for a week after registering but it was of no use - the same blank screen appeared all the time. That's why I gave up - I tried a lot but the game never appeared. I tried it in Ubuntu and Windows 7 and in 3 different browsers - it doesn't work at all! Well it must just be my computer. Anyway it sounds interesting. I'll send you a PM about it - I think I have an idea...

This is a question that most people think about in their lives,and although some have found the answer, most people are still struggling to find the true answer. "Do you want a lot of money in your live, or a lot of happiness?" There's no need to say that with a lot of money comes a lot of worry. The mind is constantly filled with anxiety about what will happen to the money - what happens if it's stolen? What is the best way to spend it? Is there a way to multiply it? These and such other questions take away the happiness from the mind. The richest people in the world are those who are constantly at battle with their mind. They do enjoy a lot of luxuries but along with that they do not get any peace of mind. Then there are people who are happy with whatever they have. They do not crave for a lot of money, and earn just enough to live peacefully. These are the people who are really the luckiest people in the world. They do have a lot of problems but they're at peace with their mind. This is something that no amount of money can bring. So which one do you choose? As for me I still haven't figured out the answer for myself. I want a piece of both but know that's nearly impossible. I'll be waiting for your replies.....