Hannibal

Good luck to everyone :) I know how it feels, I just finished my own highschool exams - two weeks of misery...

' Just... don't tell them you use ChatZilla <_< I suppose that means I also shouldn't tell you I help developing ChatZilla - what's wrong with it, according to you? Nothing's wrong with it in my view... They always tell me to get a manly IRC client in #stats :o No, sadly they are referring to mIRC =\ Tell them to get an IRC client which supports Unicode / UTF-8, a proper scripting language (not some messed up format like mIRCscript - not quoting strings = sucky) and which doesn't have so many security holes due to the bad security of the builtin dll and remote scripting support. (granted, most of those may/should be fixed by now, but boy, that was some junk...). Some support for standards (don't show CTCP replies by default) and especially web standards (send correct urls to browsers, don't leave off the protocol for no good reason). Then obviously, the url-linking mechanism itself can use work (matching arbitrary non-valid characters after urls, tsk tsk), and while we're at it, Khaled should consider building in some support for XPath, SVG, Canvas, XML, CSS-styled content area, streamlined menu's and preferences, not to mention just about every other Web Standard you can think of. The last bit: tell them to stitch all that in a less-than-300k install package. Oh, and while we're at it, Khaled should consider open-sourcing it, too. Hrmpf.

Deer Park Alpha 1 is basically a blessed nightly (unstable) build. You shouldn't use it as your primary browser unless you like doing QA work on all the crashes / weirdnesses you'll notice. It will also disable a lot of your extensions (probably), because the version of Deer Park Alpha 1 is '1.0+', and most extensions that are out now have told Firefox they won't work with anything after 1.0 (new versions will be released by most developers as soon as the extensions are tested - until then this is for the user's own security).

I think someone who doesn't fear death, and is the greatest wizard of all time, would easily beat a 3-foot tall wrinkly green monster who can't speak proper English. That, and my hatred of Star Wars means I'm going for Dumbledore :). That being said, as Wyrm and several others pointed out, comparing apples and oranges usually doesn't work well.

' Just... don't tell them you use ChatZilla <_< I suppose that means I also shouldn't tell you I help developing ChatZilla - what's wrong with it, according to you?

Or you could just use ChatZilla if you're using Firefox / Mozilla Suite, and if that doesn't work, try XChat or mIRC.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but I'm guessing at 'isn't a barebone supposed to be mobo + cpu + ram?'. Either way, I think both of those suck :). The RAM is slow, the CPU is getting out of date and the motherboards are so-so. I'm pretty sure you should be able to get an AMD 3500+, ASUS motherboard and 1GB 400Mhz RAM for less than 550 bucks - as for the case, I don't care about that, normally. But even so, shouldn't about 100 bucks still be enough to get a decent one?

I disagree. 'fixing' those entries using Hijackthis is bad, you should use the preferences available in the separate programs to disable the tray icons we're on about here. They can be useful, and some users like them. Disabling them in this way may result in trouble with the application, users wondering where the icons have gone, or (MSN messenger is very good at this, for one) regeneration of the entries by the program itself, as soon as it first runs again. All in all, it's a bad way of addressing the problem. To the original poster, if your computer is running slowly, you could also try defragmenting your disks, or posting some specifications of your computer so we have a better idea of what may be done to improve performance.

Agreed. That, and you didn't even bother to describe the operating systems correctly... "Apple" is not an OS. It's the company that makes Mac OS operating systems. Then there's the fact that Linux and unix are fairly similar, but cannot easily be compared to windows, seeing as windows comes with a window manager which can't easily be changed, while Linux and Unix have several window managers available (GNOME and KDE being the most universal). So basically, you just asked us to compare a kernel + window manager to a company, to a core kernel, to another core kernel. I'm sure that you should be able to realize that that isn't really going to work...

This is caused by playing runescape in Firefox, and typing in it at the same time. It's better to use the Runescape client for playing, and Firefox for normal browsing. This is a bug in Firefox, all you can do is hope it will get fixed in a newer release, so that you'll be able to play in Firefox as well.

You probably want to use a grid / table control. I'm not sure what VB .NET has to offer for stuff like that, but I'm sure there's something table-like :) If you have a control like that, you can loop the items and put each item into its own row. Popping up dialog warnings is bad UI (User Interface). You should try to avoid them, they scare users at first, and if you have too many of them, they will ignore their contents - which you don't want either.

I'm betting on extension trouble. Try using it in safe mode - does it still crash?

Well, as long as you don't have any fancy characters in the generated file, I presume everything you're stripping out is purely null bytes. You could just run a global replace on everything you get from that file? (replacing the null bytes with an empty string). Actually, I'm not 100% sure if they're null-bytes. Try to get a charcode on them (shouldn't be hard, I don't know mIRC but it should have the equivalent of asc or String.charCodeAt(number) )

That'd depend on how you want to do it. Let me tell you one thing - if you want to look it up whenever someone loads your website, or uses your tool, be prepared to get sued by jagex (since you're leeching off their bandwidth majorly). Instead, keep a database of your own and update that every 2-3 days. For php, you probably want a MySQL database. For VB.NET, I'd say you'd probably want an xml doc, or if that's too hard for you, plaintext. Getting the stats using php should be a piece of cake - if you don't know how to do it, then don't start at all (or try reading some php guides). As for VB.NET... hrm. I think you'll be best off (aka easier, safer, and less failures) using an XMLHTTPRequest object. Use the MSDN library (should be provided with VB.NET, otherwise it's on http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ ) to find out more.

(Ethica Nicomachea, Book 1, Chapter 1, 1094a1-28, translated to English by H. Rackham. Source) In Aristotle's time, it was a usual idea that there was a singular goal to life, which was everyone's ultimate goal, and this goal could abstractly be described as 'the good'. Obviously, nowadays not many people agree - they think there must be a different goal to life for different people. But, (reasons Alistair MacIntyre, a more contemporary philosopher) if you'd assume that everyone wants 'the good' in their own sense of the word, that means that the ultimate goal can indeed be 'the Good' - people just differ in their interpretations of what 'the Good' really is, but essentially still mean the same thing. If anyone's wondering, I just finished my week of exams. Philosophy was one of them ;)

Searching for "Trillian" would probably be a better idea, since that's its name. As for multiple email accounts, even Outlook Express supports that! I don't really see why you have such trouble finding an email client like that. Anyhow, like DaN, I use Thunderbird for my email. It will pop up a notification when new email arrives (similar to MSN's notifications when contacts come online). GMail comes with POP, some of the other webmail providers also have POP. Hotmail makes you pay for it though :(.

Congratulations :)

'Godwin's Law' states that-- Eric Raymond states that-- Thanks everyone (not just BlueLancer, by the way) for ruining the thread. Tigra, maybe reading other people's posts will help you actually make this a useful discussion, instead of just mindlessly trying to flame everyone who's Christian (which happens to include me). Your generalisation of 'Christianity' as 'pope-worshipping, Jesus-revering idiotic evangelists' is appalling and wrong, as people have told you before in this thread. Reading anything that contradicts you with valid arguments seems to be a hard job for you, I guess. As to not make this post complete spam, I already gave my view on the original topic (yes, far far back by now, as flaming Christians is surely more interesting than staying on topic) which is that the judge is blatantly wrong, about which, in case you didn't notice (fairly likely I'd say), about 90% of all the alleged Christians on this thread have agreed. Insane and all the other mods: thanks for trying hard to keep this thread civil. I guess some people are just a bit too die-hard about their own opinions to make this a reasonable discussion. I didn't even mention 'nazi', no? You're the same kind of people that call people "anti-semite", but if somebody is anti-christian or islam, it's somehow "less severe" and there isn't any fancy word for that even though christians and muslims have been far more severely killed and tortured during history than jews. Err, I think you misinterpreted my comment by a long shot. Let me try to clarify my post. It was NOT aimed at you in particular, though I think that mentioning Hitler was a bad idea. The point of my post was that the semi-mindless flaming of people based on religion is stupid (and no, I don't think that was you). This is bad whatever their religion is - wiccans, Christians, Jews and Muslims have equal rights in my opinion, and I really don't understand why you try to depict me as a fanaticist. I've not called anyone 'anti-semite', I've not even given any comments about the contents of your example - I just stated something that would, if anything, simply induce to 'avoid using Hitler as an example for anything, and try to pick something less extreme'. I've always had a lot of respect for your posts, but right now this topic is going nowhere, and you were part of that, which is why I coined Godwin's law. Yes, I agree about 25 million germans (maybe more, maybe less, I really can't be bothered to find statistics - it was just a lot) having a tough time, and I'm not debating your being right. I'm just saying that this topic is now waaaay off the original first post, and has in some posts degraded into rather mindless flaming of eachother based solely on religion. That, and I think you could have used other examples. That's another topic entirely though. (FWIW, 'Godwin' is (as far as I know) a name, and wasn't at all intended as any kind of pun. Sorry for maybe not being clearer on that. Additionally, this discussion wasn't really intended to become a discussion involving 'religion' as the main topic at all, but a discussion about the verdict of a judge who forbade parents to teach their child wicca) I would invite you to search for the word 'Hitler' and 'nazi' on these boards, and then rethink what you just said. I admit that posting the second quote may have been as inflammatory as the rest of the posts here, and for that I apologize. I stand by Godwin's law though: it's disgusting to see how much of the nice topics that get made on this part of TIF degrade into nothingness. [even more offtopic] Now, most of you don't know me, since I don't actually post here very often. I lurk a lot, though, and the main reason why I don't post very often is because most sensible topics here quickly descend into namecalling and flaming. I'm quite fed up with that happening, so I posted something which was intended to show what I found true for a long time: that good discussions generally don't last long on this board. The fact that this example took a bite out on one of the posters I do respect is a shame, but doesn't do anything about the original intention of my post: ask people to stop flaming and pasting in derogatory comments about other religions, which is forbidden by the forum rules.

Starting my final week of exams. No more school as of 2nd of june, noon. First term of uni is probably starting 1st of september or roundabouts.

Are you sure the appropriate libraries are installed on your host? (ImageMagic or whatever you're using)

'Godwin's Law' states that-- Eric Raymond states that-- Thanks everyone (not just BlueLancer, by the way) for ruining the thread. Tigra, maybe reading other people's posts will help you actually make this a useful discussion, instead of just mindlessly trying to flame everyone who's Christian (which happens to include me). Your generalisation of 'Christianity' as 'pope-worshipping, Jesus-revering idiotic evangelists' is appalling and wrong, as people have told you before in this thread. Reading anything that contradicts you with valid arguments seems to be a hard job for you, I guess. As to not make this post complete spam, I already gave my view on the original topic (yes, far far back by now, as flaming Christians is surely more interesting than staying on topic) which is that the judge is blatantly wrong, about which, in case you didn't notice (fairly likely I'd say), about 90% of all the alleged Christians on this thread have agreed. Insane and all the other mods: thanks for trying hard to keep this thread civil. I guess some people are just a bit too die-hard about their own opinions to make this a reasonable discussion.

Surely Google would object to such usage of the space? Not that I don't like the idea... I just want to keep my GMail account around, not lose it because I bended the rules a bit ;) Think about it: Why would they object to it if they volunteer to give you a 2gb 'harddrive' email in the first place? A lot of the harddrives on the google servers are a result of overestimation of google/internet site growth in 2001/2002 as the company bought thousands and thousands of hard drives it now doesn't need as it has enough for indexing and caching the current sites and spidering for more. So they're putting them to use rather than just dumping them in a warehouse. Yes, but this system makes it a *lot* more practical to start using things like this for filesharing and/or "FTP"-like archives. Which wasn't the point - GMail doesn't limit file attachments to 10MB for no reason at all ;)

Now I'm kind of curious... you spent 3000 dollar... what other specs did you get for that money? :S he better have got a Quadro FX4400 with it lol else its the rip off of the century (jk). :P Rip off of the century? You're the same person who suggested getting an Alienware :roll: A refurbished Alienware, which is probably much cheaper, but would still have decent specs. So he had a point.

However weird this may sound in this context: Amen.

So what you're saying is, we're weirdos, but you have a common ground with us... Think that through again, will you Cj? :P *runs*