Klaas
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If you really want to be sure you can always burn a live cd. I believe Suse, Mandriva and Ubuntu have an iso for a live-cd version available, not sure about fedora though.
But if your hardware is standard I guess you won't need that.
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Well Knoppix isn't the best indicator for that since AFAIK it's the distro with the widest hardware support (apart from commercial distros I suppose).
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Well if you install Mandriva, Suse, Ubuntu or Fedora Core (those I've used) you don't need anything. Just install it, it will do everything for you.
Only watch out with the partitioning part that you don't loose your existing partitions and that you install it on the right hard drive. Everything else should work fine.
Now, the only problem that can occur are hardware problems like your graphics card, mouse, wireless networking, etc. that might not be supported. I usually configure that afterwards if that might be the case, though it's pretty unlikely.
The only problems I've had so far in that area is my screen not working on a medion laptop (suse and fedore core, got it fixed afterwards though), bluetooth mouse not working on Mandriva (fixed after installing bluetooth drivers) and my wireless networking that doesn't work on Ubuntu (still figuring that one out).
Anyway, as long as you try one of the above distros installing should be a breeze
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Has anyone been following the AJAX fuzz lately? If you haven't heard of AJAX yet, it's the use of technologies like javascript, DOM, xhtml, css, etc. to create advanced GUI's for websites.
The most important thing about AJAX (or remote-scripting), is that you can make your website work asynchronously, meaning that a page doesn't have to be loaded if you perform a certain action (like submitting a comment on a blog for example). You've probably seen it on Gmail and Google Maps already.
Here are some nice API's, you really have to check the demos:
http://trimpath.com/project/wiki/TrimJunctionDemo
and probably the most impressive one:
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Awesome background Timbo, looks really slick.
I would change everything that comes under the header image since it doesn't fit with the overall design imo. The header and the background seem to aim for a slick/modern design while the rest looks very minimalistic (which is great too of course but gives too much contrast imo).
So the right nav could need some graphics. Maybe a gradient or some nice header images, a nice background, whatever. I don't really like the red border of the tabs at the top, maybe use a shadow there or a darker border.
Another thing that bugs me a bit are the 4 shades of blue, which might be too much. So I would try out another color than the blue you're using for the separator line between header and content area and the headers and borders in the nav.
Overall it's a great modern design
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Actor: -
Actress: -
Movie: crouching tiger, hidden dragon (well, the last one i've seen)
Color: blue, red, green
Band: too many actually. I like experimental or folky stuff, as long as it isn't mainstream and commercial
Book: haven't read a novel for a while. Authors I like are Robert Jordan, Louis Paul Boon, Paul Mennes, Ben Elton, etc. I also like anything about history, design, art, linux or programming.
Food: pizza and chinese food
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Well I guess I learned that doing a backup is important the hard way today.
I had my Thunderbird mail folder on a partition on my second drive to share it with windows and linux. I got rid of Mandrake a while ago since I wanted to try something else, so today I installed Ubuntu. When running the installer I didn't really had a close look to the partitioning part and it seems I wiped out my whole second drive, including the small partition for sharing mail. Bye bye a few thousands of mails, profile folder and contact database :/
So I had a look at Windows backup now. Looks like a pretty decent tool which lets you set up a backup just the way you like it including automation of the whole process. It'll make a backup every day now on my first harddrive, so if I do something wrong with either of my HD's I'll always have a copy of my Thunderbird profile on one of them.
It does suck though that it doesn't support zip or something like that. I'll look into making a batch program for that, 7zip should handle that I suppose.
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Since it's summer holiday again, which means lots of PHP coding projects for me, I'm looking around for a good PHP IDE or editor. Last summer I used Dreamweaver but it lacks a few things compared to other editors; mainly a PHP debugger and a class browser.
What are you people using or is there something you can recommend me?
I'm mainly looking for an IDE with this:
- syntax coloring
- powerfull search/replace (preferably with regex)
- PHP debugger
- class browser
- standard function library (a bit like Dreamweaver has for html and css with autocomplete)
- looks for syntax errors on the fly
- free as in beer
- powerfull project manager
- built in FTP support
I've tried several ones already. I already used Zend a lot, which is perfect, but it's too expensive imo. If it was only a $100 single purchase this would be fine, but they charge $100 each year to get updates, which is really too much for me. Dev-PHP looks promising but it's really too buggy and missing features. I also noticed that there haven't been any updates the past few months.
PHPEd is great too, in the same leage as Zend, but that also goes for price, so too expensive for me ($300 I think).
PHP Developer 2005 looked very promising but it really lacks in usability. From the outside this looks like a great editor but frankly this thing really sucks. It overthrows you with features, almost looks like Visual Studio .NET while a PHP IDE should be a bit more simple imo, and it has so many bugs and is lacking so many useful features.
I'm using Maguma Open Studio now, the open source version of the Maguma php IDE. I really like this one, but it's missing a few features and it's a bit buggy. Going to stick with this one if nobody has a better alternative.
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here's mine. Hardly use that thing though, I like those little menus in the toolbar much more
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However unlikely this may be, replacing Apache's tray code with their own code has the ABSOLUTE SMALLEST POSSIBILITY of introducing a security flaw. But that's just being paranoid, you'll be fine .
I just don't like the abusive use of gradients in that menu. Gradients are amazing IF YOU USE THEM RIGHT but most people just abuse gradients to the extreme cause it 'looks cool'... that image is annoying too.
Cheers!
Well XAMPP or WAMP are just development tools, they encourage people not to use it in a production environment.
Yeah the menu looks very ugly (old windows-style) but it's very handy compared to the control center you get with XAMPP. XAMPP looks nice though compared to this, but what counts is functionality
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Yeah, I do it myself too normally but when you're too lazy this is really handy since it works right out of the box. You also don't have to mess with winmysqladmin or that little ugly apache thing in the system tray, it's all bundled in one package with one central control center.
screenie:
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This package is probably already out for ages but I just discovered it after XAMPP died on me.
Like XAMPP it's a bundle of apache, php, mysql, sqlite, etc. that makes your life much easier because it's a very easy install as opposed to installing all these things yourself. It worked for me right out the box and what I actually like most as opposed to XAMPP and other AMP (apache-mysql-php) distributions is the system tray icon in windows. When you click on it you get links to localhost, phpmyadmin and sqlitemanager, your www dir and config files. There are also shortcuts in it to commands to stop/restart apache/mysql and install/uninstall the services.
A lot more handy than XAMPP imo since you don't have a launchbar cluttered with shortcuts anymore. The only disadvantage is that you can't switch from PHP5 to PHP4 AFAIK.
Anyway, if you do local PHP development you can get it here:
http://www.wampserver.com/ (French, also available in English)
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During the end of june it was extremely hot here (to our standards), from 35-38C. Now it's much less hot, yesterday only 15C though temperatures are rising again to around 20. It did rain a lot last week, a neighbour province was recognised as "disaster area" because many regions there were flooded.
I live just at the border and behind our house there's a swamp. If it rains that much it becomes a small lake, always impressive to see
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Hmmm that doesn't sound very nice. Well I'll look around a bit for something with an Nvidia card. Thanks for the advice
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Klaas:
Evolutionist scientists (In general) do not want to believe that God created them and that they have a responsibility to him. There is always something else to believe than Creationism, and they would rather believe that then Creationism.
I never heard of evolutionist scientists. What I do know are two types of scientists: those who practice and research science in order to seek a system or understand nature better and those who're looking only for a career. The latter indeed rather don't believe anything but the theory they "invented", but you're missing out the former. It's not about a conspiracy of atheist scientists against creationism, for most what matters is that they can get as close to the "truth" as possible.
Indeed, it is very easy to call it "science", but with all the problems in it, for some reason it is still a theory. Any "scientific" evidence that is presented is immediently hailed as proof for evolution and closer study follows sometime later. Examples are: Ramapithecus, Australopithecus Anamensis, and Homo Habilis, Cro-Magnon man, and Neanderthal man. Any anomalies can be explained away by blaming catastrophic events. It is very easy to do this, especially when you are a leading evolutionist. (Don't think that I imply that all evolutionists are like that.)Close studies are prior to making a publication. After the publication it simply goes on. That's what science is all about: when a problem in a theory is discovered the theory will be changed. And that's the difference with creationism: there's only one theory (with of course many versions) and that's the Bible; you can't just change what's in the Bible if there is certain proof that things aren't correct, instead creationists either try to disregard that proof or interprete the Bible differently (like eg. the Roman Catholic Church).
And the discussion about our ancestors has been beaten to death. Yes there are evolutionist scientist who made huge mistakes about their discovery merely to promote their career, and no this isn't representative at all for most archaeologists. I've followed history at college for one year and I can assure you that the first thing we learn is to watch out for archaeologists who are a bit too opportunistic.
And the anomalies aren't explained like that, theories are just adapted to it. Instead I would rather say that any remains of our ancestors are explained by creationists by blaming catastrophic events or coincidence. Pretty strange if there are no homo sapiens sapiens remains as old as for example the remains of Australopithecus Anamensis. But then we come back to carbon-14 dating and other comparable methods of dating
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I don't see what's wrong with 1024x768, especially on such small screens as laptop screens (I can't stand anything above 1024 on my 19" desktop monitor, I think it's too straining on my eyes).
1024x768 is really uncomfortable for me, I really prefer something higher for photoshopping and getting more code on my screen
I've also heard of many notebook owners (mainly on notebookreview.com) that a 15" with 1024x768 (XGA) looks quite bad, that I should definatly go for SXGA or UXGA. My current notebook is XGA and I can only confirm that it would be nice to be able to have higher resolutions.
855 shared video, that's Intel right? Intel might be slow but ATi is completely useless if you're planning on anything besides Windows and DirectX. ATi OpenGL support, even on Windows, is very bad. And that control center app is completely stupid. The ATi's not mainstream either, it's a workstation card.After looking into it a bit more I've seen that the Mobility FireGL V3200 has good driver support for Linux. Got an ATI 9800XT on my machine and although I constantly see people saying that driver support sucks I was able to make it work on Mandriva, Suse and Fedora, though it took a day or two. In the end you just have to compile the kernel module yourself, which isn't such a big deal. It's just a matter of searching around on Google and linux forums a bit.
Yep 855 is Intel, and it's pretty outdated. I'm just scared that I would run into problems at school if we need to program stuff with Directx 9 and such, although this card is compatible with it it doesn't support most DX9 features (pixel and vertex shaders for example).
Thanks for your comments though. I'll think twice about that T43p now and think a bit more about getting that R52. I think I'll look for a shop with one of these machines in their showrooms so I can check out the screen difference, if that resolution really matters that much.
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Well my school changed the offer and currently they offer two Toshibas and two IBMs. One Toshiba uses a celeron so that's out of the question and the other one only has 2h battery life and is pretty heavy, so not an option too. The cheapest IBM is pretty good (R52 with 1.73Ghz centrino, 512MB Ram, 40GB 5200rpm HD) but only has a 1024x768 resolution and 855 shared video. It's only 1150 euro which is extremely cheap for such an IBM (and 3 years of on-site warranty). Still note sure about it since that onboard video card might be a bit too bad for my needs and I don't like such a low resolution.
Anyway, the second IBM which I'll most likely buy (got two extra jobs this summer to fund it
):IBM Thinkpad T43p
Processor: Intel Pentium M Processor 760 2.0 Gigahertz
Memory: 1024MB
HD: 60 GB ATA-100 (Enhanced IDE) 7200 RPM
Screen: 15" UXGA TFT Active Matrix LCD Resolution: 1600x1200
Graphics bus: ATI Mobility Fire GL V3200 128MB memory
CD drive: DVD-RW
Pointing device: IBM ThinkPad UltraNav
Modem: Build-in 56k V.90
Wireless LAN antenna, Thinklight, FingerPrint Reader, Bluetooth,
I/O-poorten: S-Video out, 2xUSB 2.0, RJ-45, Parallel, RJ-11, Headphone/Line out, Infrared, Microfoon in, AC adapter, Expansion port (for Dock etc.), External Display, Cardbus Type 1,2 & 3
Interface: USB, parallel, RJ-11, RJ-45, FIR
Network: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, Bluetooth
Speakers: 2 Stereo (Internal Speakers)
Keyboard: Full size Azerty
Battery: 3,5 hrs Lithium-Ion 6 Cell Li-on battery pack
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2 Univ. Eng. enabled
Security: IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0, IBM Security Slot, Power-on password, Supervisor password, Hard disk drive password
1795 euro
Sounds like a great machine to me. The only problem is only two US ports and a GPU that isn't widely supported (linux?). But still, I think I can't find anything better for that price tag.
So I'm still thinking about either the IBM R52 and the T43p. Guess I'll have to decide how much I wish to spend on it.
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@Clodhopper
Well Lord Zorinthrox pretty much made what I wrote more clear. So again, it's not about estimating but about comparing to current levels. Do you honestly think that scientists would use this method if it was purely hypothetical, if you can't rely on it at all? Surely it's not 100% accurate, nobody is saying that, but it also isn't 100% unrelieable as creationists would like to make us believe.
Now the thing is with all these arguments and theories by creationists is that they go from the basis that what is in the Bible is true and therefore scientific theories are wrong. Following that reasoning they attack scientific theories as if those theories exist to show that the Bible is not correct.
In fact that is totally wrong. Those scientific theories exist because of observations and deductive thinking, not because scientists want to attack what's in the Bible.
Of course atheists and philosophers use those scientific theories as an argument against religion or the Bible, but that's a whole other discussion.
As I've read on Infidels.org and talkorigins.org many times: scientists do not attack the Bible. It's the creationists who attack science because they can't accept the fact that there are other theories outside what's told in the Bible. This shouldn't be a discussion of science vs. creationists but a discussion of atheists vs. creationists.
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Clodhopper, I read another version of carbon-14 dating here:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/carbon-142.htm
As soon as a living organism dies, it stops taking in new carbon. The ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-14 at the moment of death is the same as every other living thing, but the carbon-14 decays and is not replaced. The carbon-14 decays with its half-life of 5,700 years, while the amount of carbon-12 remains constant in the sample. By looking at the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-14 in the sample and comparing it to the ratio in a living organism, it is possible to determine the age of a formerly living thing fairly precisely.So if above is true it means that the carbon-12 to carbon-14 ratio in the fossil is compared to that in a living sample. So it's not based on the guesses you stated.
Another source:
http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/C...arbondating.htm
Again is stated that the dating is based on the carbon-12 to carbon-14 ratio because carbon-14 decays and carbon-12 does not. So it has nothing to do with guessing how much the "daughter-element" contained, but simply by measuring.
And here you have a list of articles with counter-arguments for the creationist anti-carbon-14 theories:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/dav...-14/index.shtml
Google is your friend you know
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Recently bought an Acer N30, a PDA. I was actually looking for an mp3 player but since those Acer PDA's are rediculously cheap I bought one. So with a big SD card (1Gb) you got a nice mp3 player with a trimmed down Windows OS on it supporting any music format you want. It's cheaper than an IPod, but of course you don't get as much storage space.
I don't recommend it to use while walking and such, it's only handy when you're sitting down since you need to use the touchscreen.
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Well I spend much money on my previous one, and I didn't get what I paid for. Frankly I don't believe the "you get what you pay for" story when it regards expensive computers. Usually they're expensive because they're loaded with top of the line hardware, but that doesn't guarantee it has been tested enough.
I guess what's most important is the brand name. If you go for IBM you're almost sure that you'll get a high quality laptop, if you go for Medion (popular in Europe) you'll get crap.
So I wonder how good those fujitsu-siemens laptops are in general, if the brand is known to produce high-quality laptops.
Going for a popular brand doesn't seem right imo. I've heard too many bad things about Acer, HP, Dell and Medion which are the most popular brands around here. Then only Packard Bell and Toshiba remains, which are also popular brands, but I know that Packard Bell PC's are very bad for the buck. Maybe their notebooks are better?
So if anyone knows more about Toshiba or Fujitsu please tell me
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And the discussion continues. One of the best known accessibility advocates in Belgium, Veerle, commented on Blindsurfer. One of the specialists at Blindsurfer responded:
http://veerle.duoh.com/comments.php?id=355_0_2_0_C#comments
Well it cleared up quite a lot, though I don't really agree that they ignore other accessibility standards, but it seems they aim to change that.
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That's extremely cheap... I always considered fujitsu siemens to sell relatively expensive laptops (relative to that price atleast) , and seeing as this one has the specs you've just shown I'm even more shocked... Buy two and send one here
Can't point you to a review though
Lol, well they only cost about €1200 normally around here but a shop is giving a big discount ATM. So you can probably find them around 1100-1300 where you live.
Btw, is it true that fijitsu siemens is almost comparable to IBM regarding quality?
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Well the school isn't sure yet that they'll sell that better IBM, they'll let me know in september.
But I'm changing my mind about spending so much money on a laptop. Having had a very bad experience with the previous one, I'm quite sceptic about these things and rather don't spend much money.
So I found this one and I wonder if anyone could tell me more about it. Been looking for reviews but didn't find anything :/
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V8010
Pentium M 740 1.73Ghz
60 GB SATA HD 5200rpm
512MB DDR II SDRAM 533Mhz
Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG
DVD+/-RW double layer
15.1" TFT
Intel GMA 900
Win XP Pro
http://be.ingrammicro.com/BE/corporate/jsp...?Lookup=077T257
€999 (incl VAT)
Seems like a very low price for a decent notebook supporting the latest technologies. Only downside is lack of an ATI or Nvidia GPU but since I'm not going to use it for gaming that isn't really a problem.
I do wonder though why it's so cheap (21% of that price is VAT), must be a glitch somewhere.
Flash is dead, long live javascript
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Well AJAX is also notorious for breaking accessibility standards (eg. totally relying on javascript). But fortunatly a smart coder can make it accessible, which is impossible with Flash. I really hope this will give a good blow to Flash as a UI tool and make it the animation/image tool which it should be again.