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Wait, I'm sorry. I thought you were describing Opera. (You realize Opera does all those things too, right?)

If someone were to sever each and every connection that constitutes the Internet, yes it is possible, and by possible, I mean nearly impossible. ?Since the Internet is not much more than a gigantic network of computers, to truly shut down the entire internet, one would have to either shut down all of the computers responsible for handling network traffic, or cut all the connections between them.If each and every satellite in space were destroyed, the Internet would barely be affected (except for you people with satellite Internet). ?I believe most Internet connections are physical cables. ?GPS, however, would cease to function. ?Most connections in the Internet are redundant. ?If the cable from point A to point B is cut, there are still many other paths from A to B. ?The data might have to go through points G, R, and Q first, but it will still reach point B.Even if DNS servers were to stop working entirely, the Internet would still exist and be usable, though it would be a little more difficult to use. ?If you wanted to go to google, you would have type in 74.125.45.100 instead of google.com.

PHP's strtotime function returns false if it fails to pull a date from the string you give it. The only problem with that is, strtotime is so flexible, random numbers and characters could actually be translated into a date. If you want to check whether data is entered in a specific format, the date_parse_from_format function rvalkass mentioned is the way to go. If the values of "error_count" and "warning_count" in the array it returns are 0, the date is valid. I haven't used the function before, but I would assume errors are generated if the format is invalid and warnings are generated if, say the entered date was October 42. The code should look something like this: $date = parse_date_from_format("2009-08-13", "Y-m-d");$is_valid = ($date['error_count'] + $date['warning-count'] == 0);//Or for a less strict validator://$is_valid = ($date['error_count'] == 0);</P><P>You can find a list of the special characters you can use in a format string here.

Try looking here Seriously though, you can learn just about any programming language by looking for online tutorials. I was able to write decent code in PHP in under a month using the internet and studying other people's code. Your mileage may vary. Look around and see what you can find. Using an IDE with code completion like Netbeans also helps when you can't remember what all the arguments are to a certain function. Use the PHP documentation too. It can be a little confusing at times (and a lot confusing at others), but you can find lots of good examples and advice in the notes people post at the bottom of the pages.

Uncached: 6953ms - 8890msCached: about the same, but the page appears fully loaded around 3.0s. ?It looks like Opera serves the cached files while it finds out if the files have changed.I'm from the US, and according to Speedtest.net, my connection speed is 1420 kbps (1.39 Mbps).I'm running Opera 10.00 Beta 2, build 1651 (because you definitely need that much info ) on Windows XP. ?I used Opera Dragonfly's networks tools for timing rather than a stopwatch. ?I could give you a file-by-file breakdown of the load time if you wanted that too.There's also some cookie that keeps getting updated every fifteen seconds or so.Good luck!

eh-wha? Unless I'm misunderstanding, Blitz 3D is a completely separate language with its own compiler. ?Each of the listed tools like Game Maker and Verge use their own programming languages, so the answer would be: none of them.

I can't say for sure, but if you did not use WordPress's installation script, your WordPress installation might not be configured correctly. WordPress keeps some URLs stored in its database, and if one of those is wrong, that would explain why it can't see your themes. I'm going to assume you have cPanel. First, use FTP or the cPanel file manager to make sure the theme is in the right place. It should look like this: root / WordPress directory +- wp-content +- themes +- your theme folderIf that is correct, open PHPMyAdmin and bring up the WordPress database. Open the wp_options table and look for the following options. If any are incorrect, edit them accordingly. siteurl = http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (if WordPress was installed to a sub-directory, this should be http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ) home = http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (probably the same thing as siteurl) upload_path = the full server path to your wp-content/uploads directory (Themes should still work even if this is wrong) If siteurl is wrong, you'll probably have more problems than just themes not working, but it's worth checking just to be sure. You may also want to check WordPress's system requirements and match them against your host's specs. Just because WordPress appears in fantastico doesn't necessarily mean gofreeserve can run it. Edit: Wait. Take a look at the post times. How did I post this over an hour before your post?

That website puts the media player in a pop-up window. You should be able to find how to make that kind of independent player if you google "pop-up media player". You can also make a semi-independent player using the xspf player with autoresume support. It isn't the most stylish of players, but it will try to pick up where it left off when you go to another page. If you want to see it in action, you can check it out at my totally unfinished site at http://chaosinacan.x10hosting.com/.

There's no simple way to do this, but if you have some knowledge of a scripting language it shouldn't be hard to do.You'll need to store the current target in a file, then have the script read that value, add one to it, store that back in the file, and open the correct movie file.The easiest way would just be to write down which episode you were on.?

I have absolutely no idea how that would change anything.If Windows wants to format the drive, it's likely either corrupted or not formatted in a way that Windows recognizes (or not formatted at all). ?Logging in a another user won't fix the flash drive.If that actually works, I'll be very surprised. ?That surprise will be very shortly followed by *facepalm* and a total loss of what little faith I had left in Microsoft.

That site must have old links. This site has working links to Apple's downloads. http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/ Safari has been improved a bit, and I believe it is less likely to reload pages. Since the iPod only has so much memory, I think what you were seeing isn't so much a bug as your iPod not being able to keep both pages in memory at once.

On my Dell BIOS, you can modify the order of devices to boot from. ?USB wouldn't happen to be near the top of the priority list would it?

Has anything changed in how you use the drive, or did the reformat message start appearing with no apparent cause? ?Your drive may have become corrupted. ?If so, you'll need to find some sort of data recovery software to recover your files, or some companies also offer data retrieval services. ?Even then, if your drive is corrupted you may not be able to recover all of your files. ?If the files are truly important, you may want to have a specialist look at the drive and see if it is recoverable. ?It will probably cost you quite a bit to get it recovered though. ?If the reformat message appeared the first time you used the drive on your Windows machine and you originally formatted it using another operating system like Linux, your flash drive might be using file system that Windows doesn't recognize. ?This probably isn't the case, but if you have a Linux machine, try opening the drive there.If this is, as the second line of the post states, a new flash drive, then I don't see how there could be any files on it to begin with. ?If this is the first time you've used it, it may not have preformatted, in which case, you will have to format it yourself.In the future, if there are important files on your flash drive, you should keep a backup copy of them somewhere in case something like this happens.

I don't have any experience with PXE, but you could check if the computer's BIOS has an option to enable/disable booting from USB. ?Though, if it does and disabling it fixes the problem, you'd have to go through every single computer... You could also just tape a sign to each computer saying, "If it doesn't boot, take out your flash drive and try again."?

I'm not entirely sure what innovations you're talking about when browsers like Opera have had address bar search of bookmarks for quite some time. It's good that browsers are implementing the features that are useful on other browsers, but they aren't innovations if other browsers invented them first.

?Another point to mention is that your real RAM is faster than virtual RAM, so if you have enough RAM to comfortably run everything you need, increasing your virtual RAM may actually slow down your computer. ?If you really want to optimize this, this site: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ provides a nice procedure for finding your optimal virtual RAM size and monitoring how much of your virtual RAM you are using.

Netbeans is also another very good multipurpose (and multi-platform) editor. ?It's nowhere near as lightweight as, say Notepad++, but it runs very quickly. ?The PHP only version does syntax highlighting and code completion for PHP, HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript. ?Judging by download size (26MB), I'd say Netbeans is much less bulky than Aptana Studio (130MB), and the PHP code completion is top-notch. ?Unlike Aptana, Netbeans also searches your source code in the background and provides code completion suggestions from the code, which makes working on large applications like WordPress so much easier.If all you need is syntax highlighting, take a look at Notepad++ too. ?It's a general text editor very similar to PSPad.

The only people who are likely to notice/figure out how to update the iPod for free are those who have jailbroken their iPods. ?Otherwise, there's really no way to learn that Shift+Click on the Update and Restore buttons lets you choose the firmware file from your filesystem. ?That and the knowledge that Apple lets you download the firmware for free (though I've only found the links?here) should be all you need to know to upgrade your iPod touch to OS 3.0. Also, sometimes the text selection is a bit funky, but copy/paste is awesome and "Open in new page" has finally arrived! ?It's about time. Edit: This shouldn't be considered illegal since Apple provides the downloads themselves and the link is to a news article talking about it, but feel free to remove that link if necessary.

?I only have Corel DRAW/Photo-Paint, so I can't compare the two programs on functionality, but I can say this. On Amazon, Adobe Photoshop CS4: ~$650. ?CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4: ~$340. ?For programs with similar functionality, one is sure priced a whole lot higher than the other.

If the slowdown really is linked to specific sites or even browsing the internet in general, I can think of a couple possible issues. ?1. Your browser is using lots of memory and forcing your computer to use the hard disk like memroy - Bring up task manager and check not only the CPU usage of programs but the memory usage as well. ?Check the memory usage of your browser before your computer starts to slow down and keep note of the number. ?If that number is much higher after the slowdown or it is very high relative to your other programs, then the problem might be that the websites are using a large amount of memory. ?If you use Internet Explorer, try another browser with better memory management such as Opera, Firefox, or Chrome.2. Your antivirus might be scanning web pages - If you have antivirus software such as Norton, it may be running browser protection scans on the sites you are going to. ?If so, you could turn off this feature. ?Also, if you use Norton 360 and have the backup overlay icons feature turned on, turn it off. ?(It makes my powerhouse of a computer act like a computer from the 90's trying to run Vista. )

?Maybe the main background is too dark or the font is a little too thin, but it's a bit difficult to read.You also have two banners, each with the same logo. ?You should probably choose either the top banner or the image, but not both. You're forcing most viewers to scroll before they even see content. ?If you fit the search field to the left of the RSS button and possibly make the RSS button extend into the header a little, you can save yourself a little more vertical space and give a little more emphasis to the RSS link. ?The green color of the RSS button fits the color scheme, but it looks like just a background element. ?You could have the feed icon inside the ribbon brighten on mouse over to make it clear that it is a link. ?Also, at least on my browser (Opera 10), the top banner does not extend across the entire top of the screen. ?It cuts off unnaturally on the right edge.You may also want to even out the shading on the left edge of the background. ?The repeating texture looks like there are a bunch of creases in the paper on the left and it looks a bit unnatural.Overall, it looks quite good, but there are a few minor issues keeping it from looking great.

There is a difference. The 6200 is one generation newer than the 5200. Nvidia uses a naming scheme where the first number denotes the generation of the card and the other three denote the performance of the card. In terms of performance, the 6200 is probably slightly more powerful than the 5200. If you are having problems playing games, I would suggest looking up your graphics card at http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and installing (or reinstalling) the latest driver for it.

If you are talking about professional shooters and racing games like Halo or Gran Turismo, no "game maker" tool is made to create games of that complexity.If you really want to make something more complex, you'll need to find (or build) a game engine that supports those more complex features.?

Nope. ?You can make either Xbox 360 games or PC games, but I believe you need to have both an Xbox Live account and a Creator's Club subscription to be able to put things on the Xbox. ?You can make PC games for free.Be ready for a lot of programming though, as there are very few visual editors of any sort for XNA and it has (at least last time I looked at it) no built-in collision or animation functions. ?There are a number of game engines built on XNA though, and many of them do have the things that XNA is missing.

Actually, PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page", but now it stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". ?Yes, it is a recursive acronym.As for who uses PHP, the answer would be a lot of people. ?For instance, every Wordpress blog is powered by PHP. ?PHP isn't just for hiding passwords and such. ?If I were to build a blog using just HTML, I would have to edit the HTML files every time I made a new blog entry. ?Using PHP, I can write out the structure of a blog post in HTML and leave "blanks" where things such as the title, time of posting, and the content would go. ?Then I can have PHP grab information from a database and fill all those blanks in.To break it down to the simplest level, PHP is code that lets a server write a web page before it sends it to your browser.