Hannibal

Or you could just get a better internet connection (you know, get what you pay for and such). I propose we delete the accounts of everyone who changes their entire post to a different colour for no reason whatsoever. It would help the average IQ of posters here.

That'd probably depend on how long you idle it, and leave between shutdown and startup. For an entire night, this is surely not true. For 5 minutes, it might be. I wouldn't know where the 'border' is, I guess that'd depend on what hardware you're running exactly :)

In spy movies the protagonist drags the villain to the nearest fingerprint scanner to gain entry into the door ^_^ I didn't quite have that solution in mind ;P User scans his finger. Scanned image runs through one-way encryption. Encrypted image is sent to server. Server owner receives the image and saves it. Server owner sends the saved pictured to the authentication service of another server. Unless everyone uses different encryption (which is not going to happen, and which is not made easier by computers becoming faster and faster) it will be a major security issue. After all, you can use two passwords for two different sites, but you can't use two different fingerprints. Err, Pyro, that's not exactly an optimal way of doing things: 1. User scans finger 2. Computer adds unique identifiable text to finger (ie, "signed letter #1857312 to BS Corp., Maine, USA") 3. Image + signature are encrypted by a user's secret key. Receiver can decrypt using public key, but since we're using an asymmetric system (ie RSA, Triple DES, Rijndael, w/e), he cannot recreate a signature like that from the plaintext. 4. Server owner cannot reuse Encrypted text to sign anything but that letter. This is no different from current signing algorhythms (Bob, I hate that word. Probably spelt it wrong again, but nvm), where a signature /always/ includes a unique identifier for that message (may also be the (md5/sha-n)-hash of the message).

I'd guess the problem is the wireless card looking for a network, and XP being an [wagon] about it (ie, waiting until it's done, instead of having it load lazily). Try just deinstalling that and see if you notice any grand improvements. If you do, it may be time to see if there's any way you can force the thing to load later on. While it probably doesn't help, I did not think it was necessary to have those icons in the tray. You should be able to have working network cards without having them pop up, see if that helps :). It may also be nice to hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc during startup to see what processes are using up cpu (check the processes tab).

No - I saw him during prayers, later supported by some other brothers because he couldn't walk very well anymore (he was in a wheelchair most of the time). Basically, I went to the funeral to pay my respects to the community he left behind and the ideals he stood for. Also, when I was there in July, I met some people who stayed there for 2 months from that week. They were sitting behind brother Roger when this happened, and I wanted to talk to them. Not to get a scoop out of it or anything, more to be a source of comfort and someone to talk to. It must have been horrible :? You are welcome to visit the community, and follow the youth program for a week or so (that's recommended if it's your first time there). Some people like it so much after that week that they decide to stay longer. :) Basically, a week there consists of 3 prayer sessions a day (I know this must seem like a lot, but you get used to it, and it helps keep an ongoing rhythm to your days). There's a 7 or 8-minute moment of silence every prayer service to give people time for prayer or reflection (quite impressive already, keeping a crowd of 2-to-5000 youngsters silent), which is unfortunately talked all the way through by the commentator to the video of the funeral :roll: . Then you have a bible reading with an introduction by a brother every day. After the introduction you go into small sharing groups to discuss the bible text and any other topic you may be interested in. Sometimes a group plays a game or sings a song when they grow tired of discussing or all agree about everything ;) . The bible reading and discussion lasts half a day, the other half of the day you spend some time working - every young person visiting the community is expected to help out by giving out meals, cleaning, working in the non-profit shop, whatever :) There are workshops just after teatime, and you have time to relax with people from all over the world (though mostly Europe) in the evening. It's rather hard to convey the meaning or feeling of such a week there by posting on a forum, or even looking at pictures or videos. The atmosphere of trust and kindness is what makes the place so special, in my opinion. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from or what you believe in. This was also expressed by the new leader of the community, brother Alois, during the funeral.

Okay, first of all, as Mad and lots of others already pointed out, to the original poster: Individual claiming to support X is not the same as everyone supporting X ('Muslim' terrorists are not the same as muslims, Murderer of Pim Fortuijn is not the same as every animal rights activist, Pope is not the same as every Christian, and the list goes on) Generalising is bad. Stop it! Some posts raised a few interesting questions later, I will try to respond to them now :) One should not eat meat/milk vs. the PETA/any other organization should not try and advise children not to eat meat/milk Tough one. Meat and milk both have highly healthy components, which especially children need to grow up properly. It's not healthy for them to grow up without them. On the other hand, too much meat is very bad as well, fast food is probably the number one cause of overweight in this world. There is a distinction to be made between advertisements for children to drink milk in general because it's healthy, or not to do so because it's a cause for animals to be mistreated, and the advertisements to go eat at McDonalds or Burger King. The former are ideal-driven advertisements, the latter are profit-driven advertisements. We could have an entire argument whether one is 'better' than the other, but the point here is that we should try to make sure the following happens: [*:ms0yjzm0]Children get a good upbringing with enough (but not too much) meat/meat-replacements and calcium products. [*:ms0yjzm0]Animals are treated with respects I think that both the PETA or whatever it's called and the Dairy/Meat industries will be happy that way. In Holland, there are independant trademarks assigned to food that did not hurt animals, for example, eggs from chickens that were able to walk around freely. The consumer's organisations check these trademarks regularly, to prevent people buying products that were not respecting animal rights if they do not want to. Most supermarkets here now only have products that do respect animal's rights, with regard to milk and eggs. Meat is another story however. With regards to meat - children should be given food that enables them to grow up normally. Meat does this of itself, but plenty of meat-replacements will do fine too, it's a question of marketing those and making sure the necessary vitamins and minerals are present. Organisations marketing for children are normal - children will also be more touched by advertisements for Doctors without Borders that show crippled or wounded people. That does not make these kinds of advertisements wrong, and if it does, then this would be a general thing. It doesn't really say anything about the organisation that does this. People have no choice but to use animal testing In most cases, this is no longer true, as proved by a multitude of links here. There are plenty of machines and artificial things (or simply computer programs) to test medicins. Also, in the end medicins will end up being tested on humans anyway. They have to be, you just can't predict everything that happens. As for an animal versus a human life... that's a difficult debate. Personally, I value the life of animals in general less than a human life. However, 'valueing' life is a dangerous business. You could judge by things like intelligence and/or consciousness, but there is also the bit of emotional attachment. Point being, if you drive this point through, you can get crazy situations where people say (for example), that the lives of two family-less 64-year old Math teachers without friends do not weigh up to the life of a beautiful and intelligent 24-year old underwear model with kids and an entire fan-website caring about her. (No, I'm not going to discuss this example, simply pointing out that things aren't always this simple) In the end, Matt is right. People will have to test medicins, and countries should spend more to try and find alternatives to animal testing. Re: Death_by_pod Raising conscious beings for the purpose of testing medicins on them is unethical in my eyes - they have a right to exist, to feel emotion and to be intelligent. One cannot deny them these rights, this would be a violation of the human rights act signed by the UN. Your argument about intelligence being nurture (ie: taught) or an illusion (ie: nonexistant) is flawed. For one, there should have been someone who was intelligent first, and taught this to his/her children. This cannot have been the case - who would have taught him/her he/she was intelligent? It also clashes with people who are mentally handicapped but have mentally healthy children - who taught them that they were intelligent? Another thing, if we have the illusion that we are intelligent, that implies that there must be someone or something who really is intelligent, and able to make that distinction. I daresay you are not going to tell us you are the all-knowing all-seeing person who does so? A bit later you claim that people and/or animals are/seem intelligent because they fit our set of rules for being described and/or thought of as Intelligent. The philosophical debate that should follow here is: is that the same or not? You imply it is not, and therefor this is some kind of failure. I would argue that if someone fits all our so-called criteria for him/her being intelligent, than he/she is so. If you still thought your bird was not intelligent, you must have had a reason to think of it that way, ie a criteria that the bird didn't meet. What about you? Do you think you are only considered intelligent because you meet criteria? What is the difference between someone who truly is intelligent or who fits the criteria? Wouldn't you say that if there is a difference, then our criteria are flawed? And you would have determined that exact flaw if you knew the difference, thus adding another criteria, thus proving that there is no difference between the idea (Plato) 'intelligent' and our word for it? FWIW, this is the argument countless philosophers, Wittgenstein among them, would use against your argument. I'm curious as to your explanation why the word differs from the idea in this case :). Next, you argue that a simulation is never as good as the real thing: Some pseudocode for you: Integer Variable user_input = Prompt("Please enter a number"); Display Faculty(user_input); Function Faculty (number) // Some code to return the faculty of a number passed into the function. Now, if the user enters a word ("Apple") in the prompt, this code will fail horribly - you can't calculate the faculty of a number (and the variable type wouldn't fit, but that's a bit hard to explain if you know nothing about programming). In other words, this small program has a bug. It doesn't always work correctly. Now, a simulation should always work correctly. You argue that it may not, to which my answer would be: make better simulations. If it doesn't work, it's not good enough. I work in software development projects. I know it's hard, and with big projects even impossible, to make bug-free code, and that some bugs go unnoticed for a long time. This is a live-and-learn situation. You cannot prevent that from happening, not even with animal testing. As research progresses, simulations become more and more accurate, to an extent that they will provide more certainty than animal testing. For this we should research, it's the only thing that will make medicins better than they are now - you cannot improve living beings, but it's quite easy to improve codes or other simulations. That's an unfair comparison, you do have an idea what it could do to you - it was developed as a cure, there is a reasonable theoretical explanation as to what it would do. It's not a subject X or something like that... Even if it wasn't thoroughly tested, lots of people would use medicins that may cure them as opposed to resigning to the fact that they will have to live with their illness forever or even die because of it. Hum. I don't understand what the last sentence in this paragraph has to do with the former two. Yes, intrinsic value is a somewhat emotional thing. You have to accept that humans have emotion, it is part of us, part of our brain, our thinking, our entire life. You cannot ignore the fact that humans have emotion, that's irrational ;).

Merm. So, I'm back from going to the funeral. Video of the funeral is linked from the Taiz̮̩̉̉ homepage, for those who care :).

Haha, I did that last night but you missed it. Bah, was still away last night. I don't suppose I'll ever get you to come back here (you just have more sense than I do, I suppose I'll live with it at one point. Eventually.), but we really need more people to 'help' the idiots in T&C. And OT, occasionally. Hopefully I'll see you around at one point :)

These are the stories of the ends of the lives of thousands of people. You don't think their relatives will want to know what happened to them? Hear their voice a last time? Whatever it is, it's hardly attention seeking, let alone childish. A bit more respect for the victims of the attack would suit you better. :?

Gary Jules ft. Michael Andrews - Mad World From the album Trading snakeoil for wolftickets* (2002) and the soundtrack for Donnie Darko. Relaxing and somewhat sad piano (Michael Andrews) + vocal (Gary Jules). Lyrics: All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, Worn out faces Bright and early for the daily races Going no where, Going no where Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, No expression Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow No tomorrow, No tomorrow And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which IÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢m dying are the best IÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢ve ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles its a very very Mad world Mad world Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy birthday, Happy birthday And I feel the way that every child should Sit and listen, Sit and listen Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me, No one knew me Hello teacher tell me whatÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s my lesson Look right through me, Look right through me And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which IÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢m dying are the best IÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢ve ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles its a very very Mad world Mad world Enlarging your world Mad world * Direct url so it's easily accessible, but this should be in a frameset (http://www.garyjules.com)

Why are you so against pixeling Josh? Because it takes a skill and talent you don't have? I can't speak for him, but most people who are against pixeling are so because it attracts everyone who has MS paint on their computer to 'omgwtf I can do my own sig now!!!111oneoneoneoneleven'. Most of those people, well, suck at doing their own sigs that way (that'd include me, by the way, but hey, I'm not sitting here pretending I don't suck). Which kind of ruins the quality of artwork on this board. (We've all seen the 'rate my first pixel' threads, right?) To get back at the sig: I like it, but I can't see what's so pixely about it? :?

You should leave that one alone, it tells a browser what character set your page is in. If you take it out, it might suddenly start thinking your page is in Chinese, which is a bit hard to read for most people ;-)

Iron & Wine - Sunset Soon Forgotten Thanks Wyrm :-)

7 flash items and 2 paragraphs of html text. Way to go! Now please be serious about your submission or I'll be forced to laugh you out of this place. What? You were serious? *laughs* Right, so I suppose you want some serious CC? First of all, do something else, please. The web has enough dumb designers who think people need to be 'entertained' (read: annoyed/suffer from epileptic attacks) when actually trying to read content on a page (given, a template lacks content. But someone using the template will add content. They want that content read, so the page must be void of dumb flash animations) Second of all, ditch the flash. All of it. Proceed to learn css and how to make animated gifs (even those are evil, but if you insist on animation, I'll live with them). Don't put 'music' on your webpage, I don't need my own choice of music mixed with age-old mario sounds. It's childish. All in all, you don't need flash for this template. At all. Thirdly, stop using frames! Damnit, this looks like a page specifically designed to unite all evil-ness in internet-land. Oh wait, you've declared a doctype. The correct doctype, no less. Good on you, my boy, except that I strongly suspect you're using a wysiwyg editor, meaning you probably don't have an f-ing clue what a doctype is, anyway. The fact that your html doesn't validate would be point 4, fix that. In addition, just for fun, make it AAA-accessibility compliant. Just to have you make an effort, for a change. Point number 5, did you ever consider that your site might look more professional if you (a) put actual work in the images you use (don't fill up letters randomly, it looks dumb, don't use the same gradient on every heading) and (B) don't make spelling mistakes in your texts? Point number 6, skin your forum to fit in with your template Point number 7, Remove the pointless phpBB addons (shoutbox, 'games', et al.) Point number 8, actually, remove the entire forum - it serves no purpose. The only (active) members are the site admins. Ergo, pointless. And unprofessional. On to number 9: affiliating yourself with a site that looks like crap in any standards-capable browser (for what it's worth, that does not include IE), that uses frames, and *gasp*, dare I say it, the evil that is , /and/ uses a script to break into frames, ... is a bad idea. A /very/ bad idea. If you designed that site too then, well, I'm afraid there is little hope for you. And the last one in my burning top 10, don't break the back button, and don't use the 'zing' sounds whenever I hover over something. It's annoying! As a bonus number 11, did you ever consider it might be frustrating for people to load all those flashes? it makes your site slow, and cpu and memory-intensive. Altogether, a pita to use.

It was. I was there 10-23 July.

I will not assume everyone in here knows what the community of Taiz̮̩̉̉ is, will care about it or agree with it. For those who do, I'd just like to mention that yesterday evening, (what is reported to be) a mentally disturbed Romanian woman stabbed brother Roger just after the start of the evening prayer. He died of the wounds not much later. I'm incredibly sad right now, because I really think you'd be hard put to find anyone who was more loving, caring and forgiving than brother Roger. It's unbelievable that he died in such a way. Right now, my prayers are with everybody who is there, especially the people I met this summer or the last. May fr̮̬̉̉re Roger's ideas live on in the community. Seeing as the website is experiencing trouble (no doubt traffic-related), let me try to explain what Taiz̮̩̉̉ is for those who do not know: Taiz̮̩̉̉ is a Christian community made up of brothers, Protestant and Catholic alike, who try to live their life as simple as possible. Fr̮̬̉̉re Roger was the leader of the community. They are joined in doing so by more than 200 000 young people every year (this week alone, 2500 people were visiting Taiz̮̩̉̉). The visitors and the brothers pray and sing together 3 times a day, and discuss all kinds of topics (both religious and non-religious). It's a great place to reflect and share with other people. It's also something that's really worth more than the few lines I'm putting in here right now, and very hard to explain. It's something you have to experience, I guess. ~edit: News articles may be found here: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=u ... 6id%3D1803

Step 0: Start editing the html yourself, instead of using WYSIWYG programs. This is how you learn to webdesign, not by having a dumb program do it all for you. Step 0.5: Make sure your html validates Step 1: Don't use tables for your layout. Use 's instead, and position them using css. Tables are elements designed for use with tabular data - not to base a design on. Step 2: Do something to make the background or the text lighter - black text on a dark blue background is very hard to read. While we're at it, using more original fonts wouldn't hurt you. Furthermore, don't use a huge background image. This hurts anybody on a poor connection - you should use a html background color and just the small logo at the top, preferably with an alt attribute and inside tags, to show that this is the subject of your page. Step 3: Get rid of the silly ascii art in the title. It looks weird. Step 4: Get rid of all the tags and start using CSS, like someone who knows what they're doing. is evil. Then there's the matter that this should probably be in T&C. Oh well.

You don't :-). Jagex will sue you cause you're stealing their bandwidth when making automated queries to their database. They might be okay if you use your own database and refresh that just one time a day, but to have it directly linked... no way. :)

* Slaps bttf man. :P But yeah. A laptop should have a vga port on the back. It might be troublesome to get the laptop to actually /use/ this vga-output instead of its normal display, but that's the next step :D

No, Windows Media Player produces WMA files, with a key file that you need to play the files, as a protection against ripping cd's and then distributing the resulting files.

First step is to determine whether your graphics card / motherboard / other components are messing up the output signal, and the screen is just displaying what it gets sent, or the screen is doing weird things with correct input. In other words: connect a different screen/monitor to your comp and/or connect your screen to another computer and see what happens.

You should just have used windows update to update to xp... usually you can use your windows cd to start the recovery console and fix your windows installation from there. If that doesn't work, I'm afraid you'll have to format your disk and reinstall windows from scratch. You may be able to get your files off the harddrive using something like Knoppix (google for it)

>_> I'm well aware JavaScript won't work in a Java environment, just saying I expected the javascript function to have a base in either Java or C(++). As said, I don't 'know' Java. So I was just suggesting to look in a direction like that :P

CDex. Google for it, I think it's on sourceforge :)

You installed an older version of XP? Don't you mean an older version of Windows? I'm confused :?