Sea Mac 0 Report post Posted November 15, 2009 Hello, I just signed up here this morning and this is my first post. I own 3 domains already and don't really need hosting yet. I'll be a regular over in the freebies forum. Free Items are my specialty over at my best domain "Software Santa".I get a kick out of playing Santa ... Namaste, Sea Mac Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Simpleton 2 Report post Posted November 15, 2009 Namaste Sea Mac - welcome to the Xisto forums! So you have three domains already?! Looks like you've come here with the intention of becoming a member of our community- that's awesome! :(I hope you'll find your time here enjoyable and am sure you'll fit right in. Have a good time! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpgsearcherz 5 Report post Posted November 16, 2009 Welcome! And Santa scares me. He's an old man with a beard... Who likes little boys to sit on his lap. After they tell him their deepest secrets (what they want for Christmas) he gives them candy.Wonder what the REAL story is behind it... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FouGilang 0 Report post Posted November 16, 2009 Welcome to Xisto, Sea Mac! Hope you enjoy your visit and post a lot of your share :DAnd... Wow, you sure an expert for having 3 domains already. Mind to share some experience? :)Welcome to Xisto, Sea Mac! Hope you enjoy your visit and post a lot of your share :DAnd... Wow, you sure an expert for having 3 domains already. Mind to share some experience? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sea Mac 0 Report post Posted November 16, 2009 Welcome! And Santa scares me. He's an old man with a beard... Who likes little boys to sit on his lap. After they tell him their deepest secrets (what they want for Christmas) he gives them candy. Â Wonder what the REAL story is behind it... I hope you're not a pogonophobe! Ho-ho-ho! Â I've heard 3 versions. The first is about a Norseman who feeds Spotted "Magic" mushrooms (Fly Agaric) to his reindeer - and has a few himself. Then they all pass out in a heap and hallucinate that they are flying around the world. (If any of these jokers are pedophiles I'm placing my money on this one.) Â Then there is a tale about a generous, sainted man named Nicholas who was Kindly towards the poor and downtrodden. I'm 90% this Santa. My Site has no advertising and is well stocked with links to Free (Mostly Open Source) Software and resources. When one of you asks for Software I'll dig down into my 'bag of holding' and pull good stuff up to share! Look at the other 2 topics I posted in already today - very good suggestions all. Â The last is really an observation by a smart guy named Chris Holt that "Santa Claus is the most successful open source project in history" His blog post is worth reading: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and starts off It dawned on me the other day, as I was shopping for the dozens of gifts it seems I have to buy every December, that Santa Claus is the most successful open source project in history. Santa Claus is essentially a marketing development that is embodied by everyone who stuffs a sock, gives a gift, hosts a dinner or wishes Merry Christmas over the holiday season. After all, we all embody Santa Claus, assume that spirit, especially when we're writing "from Santa" on the gift tags attached to our children's gifts. The source code for this program is the Christmas Spirit and it supports a huge volunteer effort to continue the Santa Claus gift giving tradition. How could we not be giving gifts at Christmas? (Homelessness, poverty and other religions notwithstanding.) Probably close to a billion people are involved in the development of the Santa Claus free software project. Â I'm either 10% or 100% this type of Santa - I'm sure 10% because my "Gift Giving" has absolutely NO Commercial interest in it for me at All! I'm not making a penny on Software Santa: that's the way it SHOULD Be! (I'm impoverished myself and this started off 3 years ago as my way of "Giving Presents" to all my friends because I had nothing with which to buy them the nice things I wanted to get them.) I think it would be so tacky for Santa to come down your chimney with his hand out for Donations, or tattooed all over with Ads by Google. My Idea is to faithfully execute my vision of "If Santa Claus had a web site: what would it be like?" for the benefit of the English speaking world. Â Namaste Sea Mac - welcome to the Xisto forums! So you have three domains already?! Looks like you've come here with the intention of becoming a member of our community- that's awesome! Â I hope you'll find your time here enjoyable and am sure you'll fit right in. Have a good time! Thank you! Â You are correct: I'm here to share nice things with you all. I'm not here for Free hosting - if it looks viable I might post it as a "Present" someday - but I'm here to BE a very good member. Â I'm doing a little 'cross mining': I find nice 'presents' here and credit the original posters for the tip off (like this: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ or this http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ) or you all ask for things like a free AutoDesk CAD system or a decent Multi-Track Music Recorder and I already know where these things are and toss them on our growing heap of goodies. Share and Share alike! Â Nice to be here! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sea Mac 0 Report post Posted November 16, 2009 Welcome to Xisto, Sea Mac! Hope you enjoy your visit and post a lot of your share  And... Wow, you sure an expert for having 3 domains already. Mind to share some experience? Yeah, I'll share.  10 Gigs of Cloud Space, for hosting Images and certain types of files, PLUS a genuine registered Domain Name, for $1.21 for the first year ($10 a year after that) ... years ago I put up an Illustrated Tutorial "How to" here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (Oh, I see the .info domains are only $1.11 for a year, today ... a bargain: since ad based hosting is included in that price!)  I host some of my personal Wizard Works on this domain - if you have broadband internet here is a 46.9 megabyte AVI movie I got of the ENTIRE "California Screamin" roller coaster at California Adventure:  seamac.info/cupboard/cinema/nowshowniascreamin.avi  OR  the Quick Time Movie Version for Mac Users 26.2 Megabytes seamac.info/cupboard/cinema/nowshowniascreamin.mov (Ad based hosting can't stick an ad in with your photos or movies ... sneaky .... )  I make special animated Graphics and host them myself on my own domains.  I feed the Hummingbirds and photograph them:  I photograph Fireworks too:  I do my own fractal Animoshuns:  I've got a Lot of Special things like that here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/  My other 2 domains are http://sageseeds.info/ and http://softwaresanta.com/  I'll be glad to advise you if I can. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Simpleton 2 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 WOW! you sure are an excellent addition to our community I've seen your post in the freebie section and now this recent post....you're a really interesting person Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sea Mac 0 Report post Posted November 26, 2009 WOW! you sure are an excellent addition to our community I've seen your post in the freebie section and now this recent post....you're a really interesting person Thank you "The Simpleton". You certainly are an asset to our Community also: here since June and 1,001 posts already! When I post topics in the freebies section I'll always mention the Ubuntu equivalents - for your sake.  You guys will find me almost exclusively hanging around in the freebies section. I just posted a massive list of FREE FPS Games there.  Maelstrom is a cross platform Space First Person Shooter FPS with internet play No Gravity is a cross platform 3D arcade FPS type space shooter OpenLierox is an extremely addictive realtime worms shoot-em-up game FPS ALIEN ARENA is a Free FPS Game for WINDOWS or LINUX Sauerbraten (a.k.a. Cube 2) a free multiplayer/singleplayer 1st person shooter! Soldier Front is an online First Person Shooter Arcade Game in 3D for Windows 98 GUNZ: the duel - is a 3D Alternative Action Shooter for Windows 98 or Later War Rock is a massively multiplayer online, modern tactical first person shooter Scorched 3D: a remake of The Mother of all Games for Windows/Mac X/Linux/Solarus Marathon: Resurrection is breathing new, fully 3D life into an old 2.5D Game Cube is a free multiplayer/singleplayer 1st person shooter! (Cube Engine Games) AssaultCube, aka ActionCube, a free first-person-shooter based on the game CUBE Knight Online: a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Windows GunBound World Champion: a Turn Based FPS online Wargame for Windows 98 / Better Excalibur Morgana's Revenge: first-person action adventure game for all systems Urban Terror? is a free cross platform multiplayer first person shooter I hope you like at least one of those. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rob86 2 Report post Posted November 26, 2009 Hey Sea Mac, welcome to Xisto. I took a quick look at SoftwareSanta and it was nice. Interesting theme! I plan to become a member and check it out more thoroughly later. See you around! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sea Mac 0 Report post Posted November 26, 2009 (edited) Hey Sea Mac, welcome to Xisto. I took a quick look at SoftwareSanta and it was nice. Interesting theme! I plan to become a member and check it out more thoroughly later. See you around! Thank you for the Warm welcome. Â If you looked at my site then you saw I permit no advertising or spam on it. Just free things - about 2,300 things so far in nearly 3 years of working on it. It's my hobby and it's not a commercial site (IE I'm not making money on it). Â My site also has a small (cheesy?) arcade built in to it. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Everyone can play but you need to Register if you want to save your scores. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Â If you DO register I'll be able to personally take requests for Software .... I'll dig around through my "Mega Sites" (Like over 300,000 cool FREE Open Source programs to be found over at Source Forge http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ) and suggest programs for you. I know of millions of free programs and certainly haven't had time to post more than a fraction of them! Â That's why I'm here - to look through all of your suggestions and to share my own too. Â Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving! Edited November 26, 2009 by Sea Mac (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sheepdog 10 Report post Posted November 27, 2009 rpgsearcherz.....Oh MY God, you GRINCH!!!! All these years of loving Santa Clause, and now you've gone and ruined it! Not sure I can get past that idea now. I'll never look at Santa Clause the same way again. Welcome Sea Mac. Don't worry, the folks here really are pretty friendly and helpful, just like to tease each other a little on occasion. But they sure can be helpful. I'm real computer illerate, and have gotten a lot of help from all the good people here. Hope you enjoy your stay. This is a great site. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rob86 2 Report post Posted December 16, 2009 I guess the Software Santa abandoned us this Christmas, what terrible news. I was looking forward to the jolly soul spreading the Christmas joy this holiday season. We must have a lot of people on the naughty list. I bet it's because of all of you no-quoters! You know who you are! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
