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There are, from my experience, three kinds of "new users": (1) those who sign up and start posting in accordance to the rules (whether they know the rules or not—even though they are given a briefing of the rules upon signing up), (2) those who sign up and post advertisements, PM users "I've seen your profile... I've fallen in love!" et cetera, and (3) those who sign up and post (even if it's after a few other posts) not according to the rules. Your post touches on both 1 and 3—as i don't think you'd be complaining about case number 2 (but Who knows). But it is easy to speak against something when there isn't much knowledge on the subject.You provide a personal example about your wife and who she might be managing. If she was management and someone were to break the rules, it would be her job to handle the situation accordingly. In her case the people she brings judgment upon have the potential of losing their place of living. Indeed, losing your home is not good, but in what way does that mean that not being able to post to a forum is the same as losing a place to live in? Even if you consider Xisto a "second home" or a "home away from home," losing your real home can never be on the same level as losing your ability to post here at the forums. Even if that example was said only to cause staff members to be more forgiving or compassionate or what-have-you, there nonetheless tends to be more to a situation than what is displayed publicly on the forums.The term "ban" for some reason is normally used loosely in situations like these. That is, the way it is used makes it impossible to differentiate between something that is temporary and something that is final. Whether it be for a posting disability or a suspension or an IP ban, you nevertheless see users, whether in the shoutbox or in the forums, say, "I've been banned." A "ban" should be considered only when it is a permanent thing, not for a temporary thing. While the user in question was suspended, it is not a permanent suspension. If you want to bring up another analogy, consider one who was found guilty and sent to jail. After serving their time they are free to go and attempt to regain their integrity. Continuing to break the law will obviously mean that they'll get harsher punishment. And depending on the degree on the first act that got them in jail in the first place will determine the length or degree of the punishment for that act—and perhaps later acts.To continue the analogy, assume a person of high status, one who has in the past been on many talk shows and is widely known within the country. After for so long giving the impression that they are noble, all of a sudden they are charged on several accounts for breaking the law. How then do you think their reputation will turn out for being found guilty? You may blame the law officials for not finding out sooner (with or without considering the fact that they are merely human and not omniscient), but the fact remains that the person was found guilty. Someone who has been in the country long enough should have known that what they did was against the law, therefore any ignorance towards the law may not be considered.You should consider that it is not just the user who is losing or capable of losing from the user's actions. If you were an owner of a business, who would you pay more, the one who's worked with all their strength and has never once faulted or one who has others do most of the work for them? Why then should Xisto offer their services and resources to those who choose not to obey the rules which aren't even a burden to the user, especially when copyright infringement has the potential of shutting down the service? As you should have received from the analogies i provided, we moderators do not just hand out posting disabilities or suspensions just for the sake of doing so. The degree to which the warning affects the user is dependent mostly on the user itself.

Let's look at the following code: <a href><img src="Refresh.png" alt="" width="25" height="25" border="0" align="bottom" class="refresh" onclick="flip()"/></a> The reason why it refreshes the page is because you have the image surrounded by an anchor—you don't need one there. Having the href attribute, even if it doesn't contain a value, is the same as having href=""—an empty value means the current page to the browser. Now let's look at the image element in that code: how are you differentiating it from other images? That class attribute isn't going to help you here. Look at your JavaScript code: <script language="JavaScript"><!--function flip() { if (document.images) document.images['captchacode'].src = 'form_captcha2.php';}//--></script>Where is "captchacode" on that image element you want changed? Nothing happens because the browser can't find document.images.captchacode. Give the image the name "captchacode," that is, give it a name attribute with the value of "captchacode" and it should work then.

Isn't that due to the new Opera Turbo feature? If you have it turned on on your side and are worried about security, you can turn it off. I browse with it off; but even if i were on dial up, i would have it off. Even if the data is compressed, i would still be downloading the data from somewhere. If it were stored on my computer where it could be loaded instantly, then i would consider it. I'm not sure how the Opera Turbo feature works, but it probably registers something that is specific to your own browser that no other person using Opera would have, and matches against that. But i wouldn't know—that's just how i would go about it.

Hmm? I thought we were only considering the scientific part of each. When you look at each, you see that what is considered proof for one, it can in turn be proof for the other. Therefore, unless only one can fit within the evidence, then there is no difference between the two. By making statements that make all Creationists and believers appear like the ones you are against, you place minority into majority. Just because one person does something, you cannot in turn declare that you can pretty much conclude the same with all. That is why it is fallacious to say that Christianity accepts the theory of evolution—Christianity will never be in such a position; only those who do not fully accept Genesis would ever consider the theory of evolution. Therefore do not equate minority with majority. The term "science" to me is merely a replacement for the word "study." You do not need skepticism to study something. If skepticism played a huge role in our lives, i really doubt we would get anywhere in life. People every day walk in faith—and it doesn't have to be concerning some kind of religion. People go to work believing they'll make it back home while still having the same job. People go to sleep believing they'll wake up to see the next day. If it weren't for faith, we would be too concerned about the "what ifs" of life. And guess what one of the causes of faith is? One of the causes is evidence—though this may come off as odd to you. The foolish belief would have indeed been the belief that material things could ever fully satisfy. The wants and desires for material gain, are these not what cause most trouble? Indeed, the better path seems obvious, and it's not on the side of materialism. The burden of proof may actually be on your side. Since when does science actively seek to end belief in a spiritual realm? In fact, science can't really touch these matters, therefore any argument for or against may be futile. Nevertheless, the Big Bang theory does imply a Creator. For even if you were to consider constant imploding and exploding, you would eventually end up with nothing, as matter should decrease after each implosion and explosion. Therefore showing that this universe could not have always existed—and you should know what that means. In a purely materialistic world there cannot exist free will, as matter would always be above the mind. However, if freewill, then mind is over matter. That is, our consciousness is not something observable under a microscope, therefore leading to the conclusion that our conscious is metaphysical in nature, hence spirit. Therefore to separate spiritualism from science is to exclude a part of reality from science—you would be taking away from science. Skepticism is as helpful as much as it deceives. Even if spiritualism could be proven without a doubt, there will always be one who exists that doubts. Therefore this imbalance comes not from reality but within the self. And, yet, skepticism is a tool for willful ignorance and ignorance is but a pain to those who want to know.

Wanted to try something new; have the image provide its own story in some way. I wonder if it would have come out better if i had used brushes. It has kind of a negative side to it, which i feel gives way to some emotion, to a plot left to one's imagination. Be sure it's at most PG-13.

Python is supported, but because the server is not using mod_python, running a Python script is different than what you would normally expect. If the Python script is not constructed properly, then you'll get that 500 internal server error. I do not have the knowledge on running Python with CGI, but you may want to look into Python with CGI.

The proper term for it is "desktop environment." A desktop environment consists mostly of a session manager, a desktop, a window manager and a desktop panel or dock. GNOME uses GTK+ for its GUI; KDE uses Qt. Essentially, i do not think they can be simply passed off as "themes." Nevertheless, they both use the X window system. KDE and GNOME both provide their own tools and libraries for creating applications that are dependent on these desktop environments. This allows them to take on the appearance that you set for these desktop environments. But if you were to use GTK+ or Qt by itself, they would take on their own styles, which can differ, however slight, from GNOME or KDE. I prefer KDE because it's more complex and because PulseAudio in Ubuntu is really, really annoying. Before 9.04, GNOME used to give me problems in other areas, but those problems seem to have gone away in 9.04. I hear PulseAudio isn't to blame but how the Ubuntu devs have implemented it, but until all annoying things about PulseAudio in Ubuntu is fixed, i don't see how i can stand GNOME. But in 9.04, they've seem to have made KDE dependent on the libpulse package, so there is some problems in KDE also, but those are bearable—i just have to make sure the flash player is no longer active. There are many more desktop environments out there; just go with the one you like. You might even want to consider LXDE.

The question is too general. Why would He be surfing the web? To see how corrupt it is? To interact with others? Does God need to surf the web to know how corrupt it is? Does He need the Internet to interact with others? I'm not sure about the rant you came across, but i find it weird that it talked about God surfing the web or that it made you think about something like that.

gksudo, just like kdesu, is just a graphical frontend to sudo. If you're using the terminal to type out that command, you should just go with sudo instead. gksudo and kdesu is only useful if you don't have access to, don't want to use, or don't know how to use the terminal. You should have received some kind of warning for entering the program with root privileges (perhaps a red bar on top of the file manager)—indeed, unless you know what you're doing, you can ruin your system without knowing it. Luckily for me, due to the fact that i can mount my second partition as /home, i don't need to worry about my personal files being deleted when i reinstall the system (which makes you feel a bit sorry for most Windows users). The system files can always be replaced and reinstalled—and with a broadband connection, downloading a gigabyte worth of files is not a problem. From my understanding, here are what these locations are basically for:/etc — this location stores system-wide configuration files and probably other files. /usr/(local/)bin — this location stores the binary executables of programs. /usr/(local/)share — this location stores general information and other files, files like documentation, images, and other program-specific files. /usr/(local/)include — this location stores all the header files for compiling programs. /opt — i consider this location as "optional;" you can use it as a location to install programs there if you want instead of their standard locations. /home — you should have already gotten to know about this location's purpose, but it stores personal user files. During the compilation process, from the ./configure script you can choose where the program will be installed if it supports installation; otherwise it'll use other locations, mostly standard locations.

I'm not sure if you noticed, but the only difference between Creationism and the theory of evolution is that one claims separate creations while the other claims common ancestry. Don't equate minority with majority. Likewise, it is not necessarily the case that no evidence was provided, but rather when an alternative is provided, the search for truth no longer remains the objective from those who hold science as a shield. If all science is in this case is today's technology, then i wonder how we've managed without it for thousands of years. Ironically, no matter how much one can achieve with science, man still constantly seeks to fill a void that cannot be filled with materials. You cannot be understanding if you maintain skepticism—both act against each other. It is a common misconception to believe that spirituality and science cannot mix. Indeed, it is not that they don't mix but, rather, you don't want them to mix—that is the key point. Once you can differentiate between your desires and reality, you will understand why it is a misconception to believe that spirituality and science can't mix. Of course you would not favor both equally, hence why you place things that have a spiritual nature below, claiming imbalance. The imbalance is not within reality but within you. It is impossible to be wholly skeptical, as you would in turn have to deny the "empirical evidence" in front of you. In order to accept anything, you would have to cease being skeptical. Therefore you cannot have both; the search for truth requires leaving skepticism behind if you ever seek to find an end to your search.

Here's a tip for you if you ever need to reinstall the same system for whatever reason: All Debian packages you download from the repository get stored at /var/cache/apt/archives. If you burn a copy of the Debian packages found in there and on the new system you paste them in the same location, you shouldn't have to download them all over again to install them. Of course, you don't necessarily have to burn them to a CD if you have other back-up devices.

I would update to this new release (build 4585) (i'm using build 4583), but that would mean i wouldn't be using Opera with Qt4. Looking at their blog shows that it's not really a necessary upgrade from build 4583. You might find it weird to stick to a previous build just because of Qt4, but Opera with Qt3 looks ugly on my system.

I heard the term "Christian" was first a derogatory term. It is interesting to note the kind of turning the other cheek done with this word that today it is something that is held with pride—or at least should be.

I've never used Linux with a dial-up connection, so i wouldn't know of the burdens that come with one (everything gets automatically configured through DHCP for me), but i would be interested in hearing of your entire journey and how you got it working. I first switched to Linux back in 2006, to Kubuntu, i think either 6.06 or 6.10. Luckily, i had found out about Linux at a good time, where shortly after my hard drive failed, and burned it onto a CD before the hard drive failure. Thanks to the LiveCD feature, i was able to continue using the computer even after the hard drive failure, and so i purchased a new hard drive online. I had done some research on many things Linux before entering the Linux world. I researched what would be the best starting distribution—this led me to Ubuntu. But i then found out the many flavors of Ubuntu, so i did some research on the differences between Ubuntu and Kubuntu (skipping Xubuntu), and decided i liked KDE better—even to this day, where i've given GNOME a lot of chances, i place GNOME under Xfce, and Xfce under KDE. During the time that i had first started using Kubuntu, there were no such packages such as "(k)(x)ubuntu-restricted-extras." If you wanted MP3s, Flash, and others to work, you had to search the repository for the required packages. After using Linux for so long, entering a Windows environment not only feels weird but restrictive. I'm not sure if you'll ever get to this point, where Windows starts feeling inferior to Linux, but i wouldn't be surprised if you do get there. I'm sure having a broadband connection would have made your switch a breeze, but good thing you went with Ubuntu instead of a source-based distribution—a newbie's survival in a source-based distro is slim to none. Sounds like you found the restricted extras package. That's why i don't bother posting in the Ubuntu forums; i just Google everything. I've managed to find almost all solutions to my problems by searching for them in Google.

Unlike Opera (since Opera isn't open source), the Firefox website doesn't provide any Debian or RPM packages, they just provide other, general archives. The reason why you can't update Firefox through Firefox is probably due to the fact that it is impossible for Firefox to tell how your distribution is configured, where are all the Firefox files that require updating on the system, et cetera. This isn't Windows where you can pretty much safely assume that the system will always be configured the same way. Each Linux distro does their own thing, therefore, since Firefox is open source, it is better to let the Linux distributors provide their own packages. Sure, the Firefox developers could provide users with Debian and RPM packages, but it's not necessary for them to do so—especially since Linux distributors would probably provide their own packages anyway.

You could switch to the next Ubuntu, 9.10?though it's not yet considered stable. You could, on the other hand, download Firefox 3.5 from the Mozilla website and every time you want to use it, close any older versions of Firefox and open up the newer version. If you want to access it from the applications menu, you can create your own desktop file that points to the newer Firefox and drag the desktop file into the applications menu. I wouldn't recommend compiling Firefox, though, as i don't think it'll do anything you are hoping for.

If you have complete control of the server, then you most likely don't have to modify any system files. Therefore the following should work without any errors: <?php$files = scandir("/");foreach ($files as $value) echo $value."<br/>";?>

According to this post you seem to have installed what you wanted. But let me provide some general tips on how to compile programs on a Linux system. Most programs you'll find for Linux use the GNU autoconf and automake tools for making it easier to compile their program. In these cases, the first step into getting the program compiled is by running CONSOLE ./configure within the folder that you extracted from the archive. What the configure script does is it goes around looking for header files to compile the program. If it cannot find them, it should inform you what program development files you're missing. In the repository, the package you'll need to install will most of the time end with "-dev" ("-devel" tends to be for RPM-based systems). After installing the needed dependencies, you run the configure script again and once it passes, it'll generate makefiles. If the program does not come with a configure script, then it probably just needs you to execute the makefiles—rarely, if at all, do you ever have to generate the configure script yourself. Makefiles are a bit difficult to debug if you were to ever run into a make error. But to execute the makefiles, just run CONSOLE make Make errors can occur for many reasons: it could be due to a badly written makefile, badly written code, missing a dependency, et cetera. In the first two cases mentioned, unless you know how to edit makefiles or debug the source code, then you should just quit here. In the third case mentioned, the output from the makefile should inform you of the file(s), in which case you can use apt-file to search the repository for packages that contain these files and install those packages and try again. If the make process ended without an error, you can "install" the program (i.e. assuming the generated makefiles supports install) by running CONSOLE sudo make install If the program is a GUI program and not a console-based program, then it most likely came with its own desktop file, and you should see the program appear in your applications menu some time after the "installation." Do note that installing programs in this fashion does not mean that it'll show up as "installed" when looking in the repository. In fact, installing both (the one you compiled and the one in the repository) could cause the program to stop working or some unexpected result. To clean up after yourself, you can run CONSOLE make distclean This will remove all object and other files that were generated by the makefiles and make the folder contain only the files that are found in the archive that you've downloaded.

Ubuntu provides an md5 checksum (assumes Ubuntu 9.04) that you can use to verify if the ISO you downloaded has been modified. If the checksum matches, then it could be that the CD may be too scratched up or some other reason.

Ubuntu (i.e. Linux) can read any kind of file (with the exception of Windows exe and other Windows-specific files) from a NTFS or FAT32 file system no problem. However, it is uncertain how writing to a NTFS partition would turn out; writing to FAT32 is fully supported under Linux. Linux uses whatever file system is available from the list of file systems that you are provided with (and probably more). Ext4 is currently the latest de facto standard. As mentioned earlier, unless you're planning to be as active in Ubuntu as you are in your Windows set up, you're not going to need much space for Ubuntu. The external uses a file system that is fully supported under Linux; however, that file system is pretty old to be using for practical use, and i do not know if that external HDD can be partitioned and (re)formatted.

10GB is enough for an average Linux installation. You can install many, many programs and not even pass 8GB. However, this is only concerning system files. 10GB is not enough for normal, user files—neither is 20GB; that is, if you're planning on being active on your Ubuntu installation. You can have Ubuntu pick up another Linux installation and modify or create files on there (assuming you have the permission to do so). It's not necessarily a safe thing to edit files stored on a NTFS partition from Ubuntu. Unless you're planning on using your Ubuntu as a secondary operating system where you would barely be creating any files, then 20GB is not practical.

In your case, here's what i would do: Find a user management system (e.g. PHP Users). Figure out how it works and how you can use it to your advantage. Then build yourself other systems (e.g. guest books, rating system—these can be done very quickly) that make use of the user management system that you found.

This layout looks better and is less cluttered, but i would recommend not going with a similar content (body) structure. And you have a one-column design for the content area; i feel at least a two-column structure would be better for the content area given the kind of information that can be placed therein; perhaps even do more sub-sections if required. Also, you don't seem to be putting much of your graphics design self into the use of the content area. That is, you have images at your disposal but instead of using them within other areas, you are doing similar to the previous site: sticking them in the content (in the same locations). Why not merge them to formulate a better banner? Or why not place the images that are on the sides of the schedule on one side and have them take up equal height of the schedule and make it look like its attached to the schedule? Be more creative.I'ma assume that the colors you are free to pick and choose whatever you want for the website—hence the new blue color. But i would recommend something that matches the colors of the Camp's logo—if not the exact same colors found on the logo. Also, even if it's just to place in a portfolio, after spicing up their site, why not suggest a new logo design? Take advantage of opportunities.

Even SM can tell you that those with Puppet Face Syndrome spend hours on end shaving or cutting their hair off every day just to get a desirable look, as PFS constantly stimulate the roots in order to promote constant hair growth. Yes, it is a sad position to be in, as although a desirable look is achievable, an hour later he ends up looking exactly like that picture you provided. We need to do some walking in the fight against Puppet Face Syndrome, or something! Perhaps donate to the Saint Michael Foundation.

Hmm, i should do more research on JavaScript and its objects—i tend to use JQuery for traversing the DOM. And, yeah, that is shorter, but if you want it to be (more) portable, you should consider functions instead of placing them all within the element's attribute like that.