Klaas
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There's a saying here in Flanders:
The Church kept the people stupid and the barons kept them poor.
In fact that was true until after the 1960s, but I really have to point out here that this applies to those who had a high mandate in the Catholic Church (eg. bishops and cardinals). Many common priests fought against the hegemony of those bishops and the nobility, priests who we know here as socialist priests. A few that are very known in the world are Daens and Damiaan, the first one who fought for the Flemish working class, the other one for the ill in Molokai, an island in Hawaii.
So it was more a war between two classes, the rich and the poor, and you could find Catholics on either side.
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Yeah CPanel is slow, but there are different themes (well at my host) and some of them show all possible links/actions on the frontpage, so those are quite handy. The default one sucks though, takes a lot of time to find something.
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Yeah, that sucks. Remember Whizhost?
I finally did get the info I needed, after waiting another week. Funny thing is that again the email was written in horrible Dutch, almost not understandable and that the database info he gave me was partially wrong. He gave this:
login: Admin
host: local
But it was
login: admin
host: localhost
Anyway, I know enough about these things to find out that it's localhost, but if I was someone who's not tech-savvy this info would have been useless.
Another problem is that I can't change host since it's my client that has chosen this one. If we would change that would mean creating 20 new email addresses and changing the mail settings at each pc, something the client doesn't want to waste time on, nor wants to pay someone for. So it has to be this one, sadly :/
I did manage to convince another client to take another host though, and that one rocks
it's http://www.combell.be/ in case you're interested. Great support and a reasonable price for Belgium. Downside is that they don't provide an admin panel like Ensim or CPanel, but their custom admin panel is sufficient for basic needs. They also have some kind of system that let's you have your own my.cfg, httpd.conf and php.ini files and you can install/reinstall mysql, php, etc. yourself, without paying for a dedicated server.
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Erik already explained it more what I meant. It's not that I'm against debating, but I just feel this debate is going nowhere and doesn't serve any purpose besides writing down our own views.
We've had such debates here numerous times, and I think that any long-time forumer realizes that religious debates between religious people and atheists never go anywhere. Besides, there are enough resources on the net pro and contra evolution/creationism where you'll find the same arguments, it's not like we'll suddenly see the light here.
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A List Apart, an ezine run by some of the best webdesigners on the net, has turned 4. Not 4 years but version 4, they've been around a bit longer than that.
It's really a great improvement to the previous version: a fanastic layout (css by css guru Zeldman, graphic by design guru Jason Santa Maria), many new features (RSS-powered comments), and better searchability.
There's also an interesting new article up about PDF accessibility and PDF tags. It really openen my eyes on PDF and I'm looking forward to the time that PDF tags get more support so it's much easier to write your own PDF's without using that super-expensive Acrobat thing.
Check their archives too if you haven't yet. There's lots of interesting and high-quality stuff there related to more advanced webdesign topics.
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thx
The PHP list isn't finished yet though, still have a whole bunch of links to add
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Yep, that's exactly what I mean Erik
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http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.905743&l...=17.9&r=0&src=0
Here's the hotel I stayed, where the small white cross is
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.75437&lo...=17.6&r=0&src=0
And this is Ostia, the ancient Roman harbor. Really worth visiting, it's the small version of Pompei
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http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.853204&l...&z=17&r=0&src=0
Google Earth in Flash
That's the Via Appia in Rome. The large shape you see was the circus of Maxentius.
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This is mainly important for the Belgians around here. But also to those choosing a hosting company.
A client of mine had to get a hosting account and since he already registered his domain name and had his email adresses set up with Belgacom Skynet we ordered an account there. The hosting account included PHP and one MySQL database.
So, as anyone would expect, we received an email with login information. But it's not the usual one, it only contained the FTP username and password, nothing more. No MySQL info, no link to the page to administrate the webspace, but they did find the time to give a referal link for a paid stats service (that sucks btw).
So first I looked through their helpdesk site and managed to find a link to the stats page of the site and the control center. But again a problem: they didn't work with the FTP login info (though the helpdesk site said that that's the login info I should use).
So I emailed their customer support team. A week (!!) and a second angry email later I received a reply saying that they contacted their technical support team which said that I should use x login for the stats. Great, that worked indeed, but they didn't give my the MySQL info that I requested nor the correct login info for the control center.
Again I emailed the guy and he answered that I should send an email to their dnsmaster.
Ok did that, and I received an email, in horrible Dutch, saying: "your login works for FTP". As if it couldn't get any more stupid
So to everyone out here: watch out for large hosting companies and if you live in Belgium, never even think about getting a hosting account at Belgacom Skynet.
Oh, and their helpdesk site referred to this site for more info on php:
http://www.php.com/ :ohmy:
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Hmmm, isn't there some kind of Java reference like the one for PHP?
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Clod, you're answering one part of a sentence while disregarding the rest they're writing.
And I'm not the one looking at a single source for my information. Science has many sources while religion only one: the Bible.
Anyway this discussion ends here for me because we both have our opinion and will both stick to it. No point in going further.
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It's pure evil for us because it's a different context. We don't win anything by killing those people, and we also share the same cultural, religious and moral background that killing is wrong. For people like Stalin killing is perfectly justified if it's for his own good, so in his eyes killing them is not evil.
Anyway, I just find it to be an extreme example. To better illustrate the point I would use something like sex before marriage or euthanasia which is something that for many people is good and for others bad.
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Well what I mean Clodhopper is exactly what Paal said. In the other topic we did nothing but having a pointless argument. I don't have anything against a serious debate but I don't see the need why we have to discuss something while we know the outcome of that discussion anyway.
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Yep, good point about good and evil Yiuel. In the end that distinction is just a matter of context. Good and evil are different for each person, religion, culture, even species like Yiuel pointed out.
You could make it a bit harder than Stalin anyway. Lets take slavery for example. Is it evil that there used to be slavery in the US? From our point of view definatly, but not from the point of view of many Americans back then. Same goes to the Dutch. They did a lot of slave trade, which is again evil from our view, but not from theirs because it made them rich and produced the income to invest in the security of their country.
Anyway, I could go on endlessly, simply to point out that there are/were evil things anywhere done in the name of anything.
So for us and those people who've been killed it's pure evil if Stalin killed 20,000 people (in fact it was several millions). For Stalin probably not.
I think Asian, and especially Indian, philosophy is pretty interesting in that area since it doesn't always make that clear distinction between good and evil like Islam or Christianity do.
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Well, why are you asking this? Are you trying to have a debate or is it rather like Mythos said?
Personally I don't care if there are contradictions or not and I don't see the importance of not having any contradictions in there. It's not like the lack of contradictions would make its contents fact, so why bother?
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Ok, added it Carlos
I'll try to do the PHP section tomorrow.
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Yeah, you could make it more saturated. I guess the best thing to do is more saturation and making it a bit lighter, right now the color still looks a bit dull.
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Looking good so far.
Maybe make that main brown color a bit lighter to make it look more "fresh".
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Hmmm, AFAIK Troy has been found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy
Though there is still some discussion.
The reason for the Trojan war is most likely not the capture of Helen but the location of Troy itself, at the Bosporus, which was a very important Greek trade route. Presumably the Trojans asked money to the merchants who wanted to sail through the Bosporus. So that was reason enough for the Greeks to attack the city so they could sail through freely.
This is just one of the many ideas there are about the Trojan war, though probably the most obvious and likely one.
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Both javascript and graphics sections have been added.
btw, anyone can contribute to this. If you know a good website, tool, reference, book, whatever, related to webdesign to be added to the list just let me know here.
Oh, and not single tutorials please, that would make the list a bit too long. Well unless the tutorial is very unique or of exceptional quality
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We already have those in Belgium, though it'll be until 2008 before everyone has one. My dad got his a few months ago, it's pretty cool, just like a credit card.
Bill Gates paid Belgium a visit when the thing was launched and negotiated with the government to make a version of messenger supporting the passport. How typical that our government negotiates with those kind of people.
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That site is just another evolutionist site misleading people. Besides, it's a mess, anyway.
Well if that is so there's no point in doing this discussion anyway.
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Added designer blogs and xhtml/css tools
The Geologic Column
in Hall of Intellectuals
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That's your view, and my view is that you haven't given any good reason to believe creationism. That's exactly my point, we both have our views and this discussion won't change anything about it, nor will we learn anything from this discussion because we've probably had it already numerous times (well I have, don't know about you). So I don't see the need why we should continue this and I hope you respect me enough to accept my decision.
Again, your view in this respect is different than mine, and our view will most likely not change in this discussion about that, so I'm not going to have this discussion all over again to say something that I've already said in this thread (I'm referring to creationism based on the Bible, evolutionism on science).
I don't see what this has to do with what I'm saying. It probably is rational from my POV, but not from yours. What's so hard about accepting that our opinions are different and that they won't change by this discussion?