Hannibal

Crete... wheres that...? South of Greece mainland, west of Israel, North of Egypt. Ought to give you an idea. As for the sig thing, I don't know if I want to make a sig out of it. I might, I just don't know :)

No, these are not manipulated (apart from being scaled down). No, these aren't ripoffs from someone else - I shot them myself when I was in Crete, from the beach and hills of Agia Pellagia, near Heraklion. (read the EXIF data for some kind of date/time confirmation if you still don't believe me). Anyhow. I shot the above on holiday, and I'm simply wondering what you think. CC would be very helpful - I'm abysmal when it comes to creating photoshopped sigs or whatever, but I can't say these look all that bad - but which is best? Why? What could have been improved when I shot these? (read the EXIF data if you think you have ideas) What could I improve using Photoshop / GIMP? FYI, these are scaled down versions of the original 5 Megapixel pics. So plenty of additional data if I do indeed choose to edit them.

Though I am not a moderator, I do have some helpful advice: don't. Incredibly huge numbers of fansites already exist, and by copying tip it, you ain't going to get anywhere. Either find something to make your site unique (thus not copying tip it) or don't make one. Simple, eh? :) Maybe I also ought to mention that if you copy tip it, you breach their copyright. They could sue you for that :)

You'll be surprised to hear this, but Microsoft offers a free C compiler. You just don't get any IDE with it. It's the same compiler that ships with Visual C++, so it's fairly good ;)

EugenyG uses Fx as well, IIRC. Unless someone gets to it first, I'll pm him this afternoon :)

Python: points = 0 for level in range(1,100): diff = int(level + 300 * math.pow(2, float(level)/7) ) points += diff str = "Level %d = %d" % (level + 1, points / 4) print str You know, it's actually way easier if you just define an Array with all the elements set. But should you really want to use that formula: Dim points = 0 Dim output = 0 Dim minlevel = 2 Dim maxlevel = 150 Dim lvl As Integer Dim outputStr As String For lvl = 1 To maxlevel points = points + Math.Floor(lvl + 300 * Math.Pow(2, (lvl / 7))) If lvl >= minlevel Then outputStr = outputStr + vbNewLine + "Level " + lvl + ": " + output + " xp" End If output = Math.Floor(points / 4) Next ' Do whatever you want with the outputStr here. PS: I used a Firefox extension to colorize your javascript source. However pretty it looks, it seems to have killed the quotes. I'll mail the author to have that corrected :P

You know you're a geek when... :P

Glad I'm not the only one then :) And, surprised that nobody else mentioned this, but surely lots of you saw 'The Lion King' when you were really young? And cried when Simba found his dead father?

Edit: Ugh, I should learn to read. From what I've heard, GAIM's IRC client isn't too bad. I still insist Trillian's IRC supports sucks though :)

Have you tried poking the windows error / info logs to see if there's anything relevant in there? (Right click My Computer, Manage). Those may give a clue as to why the hell it's logging you off. Also, you may want to try and close as many stuff as possible (or simply use safemode), lock the comp, go to bed, and see if the same thing happens (it could also be a program shutting the comp off, theoretically) That's all I can come up with for now... I'll try to think of something better when I have more time...

No idea. Try asking in the FoxyTunes forums. The latest version is 1.1, btw. See http://www.iosart.com/foxytunes/firefox/forums/

You don't have to take the adverts, and you're forewarned before installing it, and during the install procedure. It's pretty much your own fault if you still get them. Heck, it even has an option to do away with the MSN advert, so meh... Apart from GAIM and Trillian, I've also seen people use Miranda IM (google it), which seems to be decent, from what I've heard. I hardly ever use MSN, and I use a separate IRC client (Trillian's IRC support is kinda crappy anyway, from what I've heard), so there's no point in switching for me. But I can understand some people will like the idea of an integrated solution for all their IM programs. :)

Even when making sigs, most of these images have copyrights on them. You shouldn't use them without permission. Try contacting her agent or manager for free-to-use publicity photos.

I have waaaay too many. My tools menu is about twice as large as the default one :( Anyhow, without further ado: BBCode - See merc's post. Very very very useful for posting on forums, or writing XHTML. ChatZilla - IRC client. I help developing it, so I love it ;). Very decent client considering it's all written in javascript and XUL. Greasemonkey - Let's you run additional scripts on specific sites. I use it to kill off some ads, and repair bad text (such as stuff like 'u now wut i am, dud, i am 1337 man' (as you can see, I'm very bad at writing like that, but you get the point) FoxyTunes - Let's get one thing straight, Merc, I didn't write it ;). It's good stuff though, I've got a ChatZilla plugin that displays the song currently playing in WinAmp, which uses this too. Tabbrowser Preferences - Going to do away with this when we get Firefox 1.1, when most of these things will have been integrated. Useful for now though. Launchy - Lets me open stuff in IE, Mozilla, my editor, notepad, GIMP, and any program I care to add myself. Very useful. Sage - RSS Reader Web Developer stuff: Live HTTP Headers - Displays what the browser sends to get pages, and what exactly the server sends back. Useful for web developers JavaScript Debugger - Name says it all, I think. Component View - Used to get info on Mozilla XPCom objects. Only useful for Mozilla developers. Web Developer Toolbar - Ultra useful toolbar to control a page's CSS, check validness, get speed / accessibility reports, resize the window to see how a page looks in a different resolution, disable java, javascript, styles or anything else on the fly, etc. etc. This is definitely one of the best extensions I know of. ColorZilla - Useful for creating CSS with colors, can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer toolbar (which lets you edit the CSS in Live, so you see the results immediately) to do CSS quickly and nicely. DOM Inspector - Installed with Firefox. Lets you examine the Document Object Model of a webpage or a XUL window. Extremely useful for developers.

That's bull. Dell and just about all the other main sellers out there let you pick components. Try it yourself - it may be more expensive than getting stuff yourself, but you can definitely customize whatever Dell comes up with. Good thing, too.

Now, this is going to be harsh, but it's my honest opinion. Don't take it personal ;). So, if you want a better gaming experience and want to stop needing us to get your comp clean: 1. Get a better video card. 2. Get a better processor. 3. (do this anyway, for the love of monkeys...) Get yourself an antivirus program, a firewall and an antispyware program such as Ad-Aware SE 4. Get a bigger HDD 5. Tell Dell to keep all their free trials, or chuck them in the bin where they belong

I don't recall having trouble installing PHP on Apache2 on windows. getting php + mysql to talk to eachother was a freaking pita though... (primarily since I'd simply gotten myself the *latest* version of MySQL. Which needs mysqli from php5)

type instructs the browser on what kind of text it will encounter. language is a specific attribute on script tags, which tells the browser what kind of language the script is. The language attribute is compulsary - it may well be that you need both of these attributes to get your script to work. Apart from that, it looks fine to me - have you checked the javascript console for errors?

What you mean by thatFor the Tip.it news... Sorry i didn't make that clear enough... can be made easily depending that all the news post has the same template. it is quite easy to do it with php to. here is what you can do <? header("Content-type: text/xml"); header("Pragma: public"); header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); ?> put that on top of the php page now you need to declare the main title of the RSS W3Schools http://www.w3schools.com W3Schools Web Tutorials now you do your usual php while which continues looping into these field below [color=red]query title here[/color] [color=red]query link here[/color] [color=red]the post here[/color] now close the whole script with this Or, if the server supports php 5, you could just use a DOM (which can be easier in some cases)

Thanks for filling egg in on who we have been gossipping about :D. Jokes aside, welcome back :D

Verdana is evil ;) Anyhow, just looking through it, I think you could make it smaller as such: margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; becomes: margin: 0px auto; And border-top: 1px dashed #484848; border-left: 1px dashed #484848; border-right: 1px dashed #484848; Becomes border: 1px dashed #484848; border-bottom: 0px none transparent; Obviously this is just tweaks, but it should just work, and it looks neater ;) (though one could argue it's harder to understand like this)

Yay for looking like a fool - sort of. According to *cough* one of the admins *cough* jpgs are no longer censored. However, there is no announcement that this is the case - which would be nice (that's a hint, by the way, for any admin who reads this - and a big hint at that). Anyhow, apart from that, unlocking this thread would be appreciated in that case.

I would like to request the admins of this forum to please uncensor jpg pictures. It's extremely annoying to have them blocked, and the security risk is minimal - and not lessened because of this censor. Reasons why one would want jpg images back: [*:2q806u48]The lack of being able to use jpg images on these forums is, as a first, annoying. Anyone posting pictures is now (supposed to be) confined to using png's or gifs (seeing as bmp's don't work). Now, to ban bmp's was a fair thing - they eat up bandwidth a lot worse than the other images. To ban jpg, a type of image with excellent compression, and just about the only type of image most current Digital Camera's will save pictures as*, is an abnormal and annoying limitation to the number of choices for image compression one used to have. People without tech knowledge or better programs like Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop or Gimp are now even confined to using gif's, as, by default, MS paint does not offer png's as an option for saving. *Yes, I'm aware of TIFF's, but most camera's in the consumer price range can't save pictures this way - the format is usually only present in camera's in the higher price classes. [*:2q806u48]Secondly, the way they are censored means that true wrongdoers will be able to use them *anyway*, since the extension (which is censored) has nothing to do with the picture type. So, I could save my image as a jpg, but with a .png extension, and have it work here, without too much work. That also means that this censor does not prevent anyone from getting a keylogger - people should take responsibility for their own security, which means they should keep windows up to date. The original jpeg exploit dates back to september 2004 - which means users have had 8 months to update their installations. If they haven't done so, not even after the repeated warnings on the announcement boards, it is not the fault of TIF. Users should learn to use their own machines securely - they should not have to rely on impotent censors on their favourite forum. [*:2q806u48]Some 'unknown exploit' which might be around is a fairly bad point seeing as the major security watchdogs (secunia and whatnot) do not have any reported (new, unpatched) vulnerabilities concerning these kind of things. Enough ranting - if the admins of this forum deem that I'm incorrect, then I would like to request 2 things (before locking/deleting this post, which will undoubtedly happen in that case... ahem. I won't waste my breath complaining about that, here, I guess) [*:2q806u48]Give me a reason, and preferably a good one. The ones given in the original announcements are fairly bogus (see above) IMHO. [*:2q806u48]Please, please, please, add a note to the announcement to help the newbie computer user use png correctly. I'm getting sick of all the paint images I'm seeing - IrfanView is a very good, free image recoder / resizing tool. It can handle png, and many, many more formats without problems. Adding a note about it in the announcement would greatly help people who are now depending on MS paint and have to convert their images to GIF... (seeing as GIF conversion in Paint sucks, that's not a whole lot of comfort either way)

Ah well, told you already, but just so you can still use this thread: the HP R707 seems pretty good, what with 5MP, 3x zoom, adaptive lightening (saves you from having to use Photoshop to patch things up - and does a better and faster job at it) and image advice on camera (which is neat, btw).

That sounds interesting, but alas I have no idea what DUI is - could someone clarify? :)