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Oo err ... that does look good ... for anyone else interested you can see it at http://drupal.org/

Guess what my first Blog is going to be about ...

Cheers - good advice ...

Well I think it is very clear ....

Thanks, it was wordpress you mentioned.

It's really odd ...

I am having problems with FireFox too ...

I have been waiting upto 30 seconds for pages to load on here, and I am frequently getting time out problems loading pages.

I have swapped to using Maxthon (without doing anything else to my connection) and the pages now load instantly ???

Strange !

Have you decided which language you are going to use for the back-end code?

I was toying with learning ASP. I use Adobe GoLive which has good support for ASP but I'm not sure I have the time (or the energy) to learn it.

Any other suggestions gratefully received.

I may just go down the route of linked BLOG, Wiki and Forum, and other pages using CSS.

Given that the Wiki and Forum software I am playing with are PHP based I suppose I should really get into using PHP !!

Mouser (if you read this) what was the Blog software you mentioned to me today - I forgot to note the name down?

NIS is notorious for not playing with other security systems. I'd guess there is a good chance that it is causing the problem.

Disabling NIS doesn't actually disable it - it stops the functions doing their job, but if you check processes you will find them still loaded and doing stuff.

NIS and NAV are the most horrendous bloatfest ...

The content never appeared (a lot of the stuff there has sat for two years or more).

I have a lot of ideas for stuff I'd like to put on Playoutdoors - but I'd really like it to become a community thing. That's why when it is up and running I am going to include a better (no crap) forum, based on the same software as this one, and a 'Wiki' so that people can contribute their experiences and stuff that interests them. Lairdswood is more personal - really just stuff I am interested in, but again I would like it to grow.

Ideally I'd like to pull the two sites together so there will be a common forum structure and interlinks between the two.

In order to do this I want to change how the site is designed to make it more content driven, and easier to update and organise.

Trouble is I am learning as I go along ... so it all takes for ever, and generating enough content takes a long time too ...

PS   Now stop reading these forum messages and get those websites finished!

Gonna take more than finishing ....

I really want to scrap them and start over ... somehow I think it is going to be a while before it happens ...

Do you mean you can connect to DonationCode.com in Firefox but not other sites ???

It also doesn't seem to like scanning inside archives (CAB and RAR)  too much (at least I think that is the problem).

Anyone know how to set NOD32 back to its out of the box settings? I did some tweaking and I am experiencing similar symptoms.

Some firewalls block all traffic if switched off or exited ...

Check in Kerio to see if Firefox.exe has been blocked ???

What other processes and services have you got running?

Any of them showing unusual activity?

PayPal is already there? Or it was when I joined ...

See http://www.donationcoder..../Donate/DonateMethod.html

If you can find him - his website is dead ....

Thanks Clif,

That works quite well to rip a sound track but again lacks the ability to pull tracks - just the whole thing.

Where it does score is speed ... ripping audio from a whole DVD takes 4-5 minutes. (Plus the time it takes to rip the VOB files to hard disc first as it only seems to like hard disc).

Is it just me or does any one else feel nervous about using software with a totally black interface, programmed by Dr Evil ???

One suggestion would be to have a link on each program page to link to something like www.ChangeDetection.com.

That way people could choose to easily recieve emails every time the app page is changed (eg. version number changes).

You could also have a new apps page with a similar link.

I have found changedetection very useful for some sites that I like to keep an eye on but only change occasionally.

It's a free and easy way to keep up to date without an spam implications (or other irritations)  that I am aware of, and best of all it would have little or no impact on DonationCoder's bandwidth!

Who's your new avatar Carol?

Chosen for our glorious leader 

Here are a couple of interesting articles:

This one is an easy description of the problems.

This is a PDF file with a complete (supercomplete) description of possible problems and archiving solutions ....

Actually there are a lot of myths going around about oxidising CDs.

Most of the problems seem to have occured either in the early days of CD production when manufacturers were still learning (seems to be your case) or faulty manufacturing - there were various batches of discs produced in Germany and distributed through Europe that highlighted this problem a few years back.

The same is potentially true for DVDs.

However, most manufacturers seem to have fixed the problems quite a few years ago and esitmate CD archive life at 100 years plus.

Not a lot you can do though with CDs which have oxidised to the point of holes!!

I had a number of articles about this issue somewhere - I'll see if I can find them (just hope they aren't on a CD ...  )

Shame there isn't a solution for when you want to stay awake less.

I didn't feel well yesterday evening and went to bed at 1030pm - unusally early for me. Trouble was i woke at 2am and that was that I was awake until about 5am, woke this morning feeling like death ...

Oh well ... maybe tonight will be a good night ...

It's always the simple idea's which are the best. You are a genius 

Nice of you to acknowledge that 

Actually - slightly mea culpa - but still a bug in there:

The above images were different sizes - still doesn't explain why the aspect ratio was destroyed though.

However, the following image is two full screens joined (identical orginal sizes). I doubled the canvas width and cut/psted using the SC edit menu.

The right hand image should be identical in size to the left hand image, but is in fact slightly smaller. Aspect ratio however is preserved.

Strange ...

Also I noticed moving larger objects (like whole screen shots) is really slugish (like move about wait 20 seconds, move another bit ...)

Yes I get the same thing ...

Here is an example shot ...

Don't know if it will work (haven't tired it yet) but how about adding a small folder and include it in the search folders with shortcuts to the control panel items you are interested in?