Caligo

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Hello all , a while ago you told me that when I make a layout for the site with gimp or photoshop I should come and ask you how I should implement it.The site is quite simple for starters ... but after re-readingthe tutorials I am at a loss as to how I can load one image on top of another.Anyone can help me with this?

That's awesome. I think I'm going to pin this for a while...

I put it up as a new topic but it may have been better to just post it here.http://kuler.adobe.com/ it's a thing for color schemes, pretty cool.

I have noticed people having trouble with color schemes.Check out http://kuler.adobe.com/ If you look at the highest rated or most popular schemes you should get a better grip on what colors go with eachother.Play around on it, it's pretty cool.<<edited thread title>>

I understand why the admins wouldn't want an ot area. too bad though, i like having discussions as this past one

couldn't you start a new forum for such things?

This has really evolved into a religious debate, whether you believe this or that.

I don't bother making a good site for myself because I know it'll never live up to the standards I have. When you're making something for other people, you're going with their instructions, what they want, and as long as they're happy, you don't care. But when you're making something for yourself, you want it well done, or you'll feel disappointed. So I just stick with other people's stuff.

If the reliability of the methods comes into doubt, science itself, therefore, must be doubted. At that point, you're back to talking about faith.

I must say, this entire discussion has made me think quite a bit. Due to the lack of time I shall, for now, only briefly speak.One question I have is how do you know that the equipment used to measure the age of bones etc. are really accurate? Yeah sure accurate up to what, about hundred years, and thats only because someone is alive to say, "Yeah, that's X amount of years old" and they had personally seen it that many years ago.It's kind of like what was said about the thing with the laws of physics.

The laws of physics (i.e. gravity, inertia, conservation of energy), for example, are theories that we've tested and verified over and over and over, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the next time we test them they will behave as expected. Since we can't know for sure if the laws hold up in all situations, we have to have faith that they will. They are, after all, simply models of what we have experienced. We have to have faith that the models apply in all situations.

It's not ignorance, it's faith. Faith is understanding that you don't have the answers but knowing that there is still a reason, ignorance is not even knowing the question.

Welcome

reason I was worried about performence was obviously because of the slow CPU and I was going to use it as a server but went with Windows Server 2003 instead although I keep playing witht eh idea of switching to Ubuntu everytime IIS crashes

I have played with Xububtu a bit and like that is more lightweight than GNOME or KDE. I found GNOME slugish on a P3 600Mhz with 512Mb RAM

welcome! If you end up doing it please let me know how the installation went and if you like it.

I've been thinking of having both Kubuntu and Win xp installed on my machine because I'm tired of all the security flaws in Win xp even though I have all the security I need. I've read a lot about Ubuntu (Gnome) and Kubuntu (KDE), they seem very user friendly. There is still the problem of compatibility like the mouse not being detected, usb thumb drive, webcam... It does look very nice though. The major down side is I can't use all the software I currently use on Windows (photoshop, dreamweaver, games...). I thought about it and I'll stay with Win XP for now and get the best anti-virus kaspersky. It seems like it detects everything (more than any other anti-virus) but the only issues seems to be with the installation. Some are not able to install it. I was using Redhat and Mandrake in school some ~5 years ago but we mostly used the console for configuring the system.All this to say that you should try dual boot first (win xp and ubuntu on same machine) so if you need your win software you just reboot.

Hey all. I'm thinking about getting into Linux. I just requested for Ubuntu. That way I can try it free then install if I want to keep it for good (good chance ) Then I remembered Linspire. Has anyone here used either Ubuntu or Linspire?What are the pros and cons you have found for each?Which would you suggest?Other flavors? (ie RedHat, SuSE, etc.)

The way you just wrote it down, just a stupid question but are you sure you stored the file with a .php extension?Ruud Hermans

You can istantly just store the files in your htdocs folder and visit your localhost.Ruud Hermans

if it is just for local development XAMPP would be much easier to setup.

Alright, a while back I asked how to install apache so that it would work locally. I was told to put http://localhost/ for the Network Domain and Server Name and to just put my email address, basically for taking up space.Anyways, I tried all that and I couldn't get it to work. I installed php and mysql and couldn't get anyof it to work. I found a site that says about the same thing [link] I tried it that way, but it still didnt work.Any help would be super appreciated

Well, to work with MySQL in PHP you need to use these:http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.phphttp://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-select-db.phphttp://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.phphttp://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-fetch-assoc.phpYou don't need to use many functions other then those, just some procedural statements to loop through the result and things like that.

What part of it are you having problems with? You need to store the articles or whatever in a database with a timestamp and when you get them from the database, order them descending by the timestamp and use the LIMIT clause to only get the first 5.

Not sure if PHP is what I should use but anyways...I want to be able to have, on a page of my site, the newest five site updates or news articles as suchand everytime I do another update or article the oldest of the five goes to an archive. just a simple text list of the date and title of each with the actual article/update info directly underneath, just like i do on the page to which the link was given. css not needed.not sure how much sense i am making. if any more explaination is needed ask and ill try to explain better