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Hey i just setup a news site ReallySimpleNews.com Take a look, and if you want give me some feed back! Pierce

If your using windows cheat, http://www.wampserver.com/en/ (windows, apache, mysql, php) If your using linux/unix, read the informative guides on apache.org on how to install Apache. Pierce

You could just do, um, depends on what distro too, suse, ubunto, slackware, debain, redhat, fedora, linspire, mandrake, mandriva, knoppix, and whatever else inbetween but most distros make it easy, or give very detailed documentation on installing, but making the swich, yeah, thats the hardpart, maybe a list of windows programs and the alternative... IE - Opera, Firefox OE - ThunderBird etc etc Winamp - XMMS etc etc Nero/Roxio - .... and so on and so forth Pierce

Well, intel isnt quite taken over the world yet, look at ps3 look at xbox 360 look at nintendo revolution they are all using some form of ibms power chip, and the rollout for intel chips on the big power systems is 2007, if ibm gets their stuff together by then, apple may reconsider asking every software developer to re-code their software for the hardware, on the other hand, apple being a unix'd based system, could lead to developers coding software pimarly for Apple OS X, and *nix distros but thats a way too optimistic view. Pierce

you also have to look at it like this, a server (dual xeon, with 1 gb of ram) can handle maybe 3000~ simulationus connections, so 30 simulatanious connections at any one time, limits the server hugely. Also i was reading on opera that most servers are "broken" and dont support pipeing, because they dont send the information in the header, so a lot of sites may not work either. Pierce

hi echobay, /me waves Yeah the crotch rockets, hmm Ducati 999 RS comes to mind MUHAHAHAHAHA. 220mph, and 50mph to 150mph in the blink of an eye, and sure will put a smile on your face. And yes, i believe its the fastest production motorcycle in the world, at 220mph its mind blisteringly fast, only 10mph slower than a maclaren f1, and beats pretty much every car thats not rocket powerd off the line. The f1 cars are now being wound down, but last year they were something else, 1000hp v10's 3.5 ltr engines. But now they are trying to make it more competitive by making the teams use engins for 2 w

For being so young yes insurance has it in for me, however the import of cars follows the same rules. The goverment places huge vat (value added tax) and road tax, all calculated by engine size and value of the car. And since the introduction of penalty points for speeding, dangerous driving etc etc, insurance companies have been given a god given right to charge whatever they want, and theres no regulation. And yes, insurance gets more expensive each and every year, it only goes down if you constantly swap insurance compaines from year to year. My mothers 1989 polo, gets more expensive by the

The only people in ireland that can tell you how much your going to pay is the insurance company. The genearal idea of insurance cost equasion is age x engin size x hp x cost = $$$ so 21 x 5ltr x 475 x 68000 = ... actually let me fill out an online quote. and it breaks down, 4.1ltr max engin size, couldnt insure it if its left hand drive, and it basicaly stoped me half way through, but i would estimate that a dodge viper for me 21, 1 year of insurance, 3rd party (if i wipe out my car i dont get the money back on insurence, if somebody else does i do get the money) would be about $15,000 anuall

yup, super small, super efficient cars AND not to mention insurance on a 1.2 ltr for me is about $2000/year another reason not to be driving a dodge viper 5ltr v8 with 400hp, insurance costs more than the car!!!! well not quite, but almost. And cars are usualy twice as expensive here take the new v10 bmw m5, thats $180k here, and i think $120k in the states? Pierce

Yes, well with a v6 you still looking at roughly 300 hp, a point on hp not being everything true. Such as a mazda rx8 rotary engin, which is a 1.3ltr with 250hp at 159lb of torque.... The only v8 i can think off hand thats in a car, is a mercedies or a bmw. The nissan 350z is the only car i can think thats v6, and everything else after that is 4 cylinders, inline or V. Thinking about it, even seeing a V8 is an event here. And a v6 is one, unless you see a 350z or a hiyunda V6.. and even though i live in the city you would be lucky to even see one. Typicaly most american cars that try to break

let me add a european view to this. Most american cars are usualy massive v8's that are several ltrs big and have 130horse power over here, in ireland, and the rest of europe. We have small cars, like 1.1 ltr engins with 4 cylinders producing 100~ horse power. And europeans use diesel quite a lot. Even if the inital cost of a diesel car is greater, it can become cheaper espically if you travel a lot. On the side note petrol here is about $1.28 per ltr. (3.2~ltr in a us gallon check google for exact ammount). Which also contributes to why people buy smaller cars and smaller engin sizes. Id hate

Tech support: Okay, click on my computer, then control panel Fisherman: alright Tech support: Where are you now? Fisherman: Im in the wheelhouse. he ment where was he in the computer, control panel or w/e but not where he was actually standing. Pierce

Well guys and gals, i dunno if youd think this is handy but ive spend the last week creating a site that allows you to create custom rss feeds that deliver to your mail box the software updates that are relivant to you. However i need content to make the site work. Ill be either too busy tweaking the site, or not being here. For the world of constant security threats spyware and adware updates every few days it can become tiresome trying to find them! So if they are submitted to a central system for everybody to find it makes life that much easyer, anyhow see for yourself. MySoftwareUpdate.com

we are not talking about bios setup, as the bios is completly gone, no screen, nothing only thing it does is check the cd-rom drive period. Pierce

Okay, my friend has a Sager laptop with a phoenix bios. Now he flashed the bios using the phoenix flash manager or w/e the program name is. He then tried rebooting and all he gets is a "black screen" it tries to look at the cd and thats it. I need to know if thers a way to recover corrupted bios, he proclaims that because it has the "bootlock" (which i think is a password protect of some sort) that it still has some basic functions left to accept a new flash from cd/floppy. If anybody knows what to do it would be greatly appreciated. Pierce

im going to start doing some nice and easy layout to begin, ive been doing css for about a month now and its the beginning and end of webdesign its soo cool easy and effective to impliment. Im going to do the 3 colum holy grail of internet, even BestTechie.Net uses it!! I use dreamweaver for creating my pages but i will write here as if im doing it in notepad and at the end will be a link to the finished project. Step 1, begin with the basic HTML template <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <m

i could start you off with a baisc template, but you'd have to fill in the php, <div id="top">TOP</div> <div id="left">LEfF</div> <div id="middle">MIDDLE</div> <div id="right">RIGHT</div> then in your css page your going to have #top { } #left { float:left; } #middle { float:left; } #right { float:right; } so thats the basic layout for you're page, if you want to start making your own Pierce

well getright ive always used, i even bought it because i liked it, at one stage yes it was ad supported by gator but it was a clear window asking if you wanted to install it. No longer is it supported by any adware. There is an option about download tracking but its anonamus service to provide hits for www.filemirrors.com FreeDownloadManager, so long as you get the free one on the site, it will have no ads, however if you download the re-seller version thats ad-ware supported. So best to download it from the main site instead of some 3rd party site. Pierce

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// for ultimate security, use this instead of using the form $recipient = "[email protected]"; // [email protected] thats the line that takes YOUR email, change [email protected] to your own email and it should work also // referers.. domains/ips that you will allow forms to // reside on. $referers = array('waterdrawsllc.com'); change waterdrawsllc.com, to yourdomain.com too Pierce

ahh another 56k user, use a download manager for big files so you dont loose them! Getright (not free) FreeDownloadManager (is free) These allow you to download 100mbyte filse over several days rather than having to get it all at once Pierce

opera has been around for ages, i used to use it at university for the email system it has a few advantages and a few disadvantages mailer is crap has an irc client its pay, or you get brainwashed into looking at ads its not updated as frequently as it should it runs on mobile phones Pierce

it worked for me, be sure to follow the instructions on the php page, you need to change a few things like target email and stuff. (boo hoo, yes you have to edit php). And no i didnt suggest this because ive never used it, i used it to make the #lg gnomie map, and had over 50 emails. Pierce

The best way to advoid this is either to use a local version of google www.google.ie www.google.co.uk www.google.de www.google.jp www.google.us www.google.tv as google.com is the one most targeted by people, other good ways to advoid this, use the google tool bar, set google as your homepage and click homepage to get to google, use the google search feature built straight into firefox and opera. i know this may be a poor excuse for "typo error" but when your flustered and you want to find something fast mistakes occour, the best way to advoid something, is to get into a fool proof habbit of us