GermWarfare

Elitist snobs. More or less... :P :D iphone looks great. probably won't get one though. The best phone I ever had was a nokia 8310. What I'd really like is a phone that you can make calls, and it's the size of a cigarette lighter. No mp3, no camera, no bluetooth or WiFi, no gimmicks or other crap... Just get me a phone, and make it small. really small. I'll get a EeePC for all the other stuff.

I don't know about the rest of you, but the looming manufacturer 'low-end, low-cost, mini-laptop' war has me really excited. :D I've never really seen the point in a full size laptop. They're all so big and heavy it seems a waste of time to me. That and the crappy vendor support for linux. However, if they (mini-laptops) ship with linux out of the box, then soon all of the peripheral1 companies will have to start providing drivers and support. This would finally be a chance to knock windows off the throne and create some real competition in the OS market. This can only be a good thing for consumers. If you have to choose between the two, I'd go EeePC. Personally, I'm waiting a bit to see what's around the bend. 1 computer peripherals, not edge-dwellers.

I'd like to dispute that. This is what every computer running windows should look like! ;)

I have the same thing. Go to your router webmin page. In the basic settings there is an Idle timeout setting. this should be set to 0 (zero) to maintain a permanent connection. Your ISP will probably disconnect you after an hour or so of idle time, but the router will reconnect automatically with this setting. And unless you have a static IP set up with your ISP, it (your IP) will change every 24 hours. Hope this helps.

My name is Ross (aka GermWarfare, Rosco) Favourite game: Angband/Moria/Tome Favourite OS: At the moment, LinuxMint, but it changes weekly. Favourite console: PS2 Nationality: Australian Accent: Australian, mate. Sex: Male Age:31 Height: 5'10" Status: Engaged Build: Average Favourite band: Queen Favourite book: Dune (Frank Herbert) Favourite author: Robin Hobb Favourite movie: Star Wars Favourite director: Dunno. Don't really pay that much attention to the credits. Favourite TV Show: The Office (UK... The original and the best) Favourite actor: Ricky Gervais Favourite actress: At the moment, probably Queen Latifah, but this one changes regularly too. Favourite Pinup: Janine Lindemulder Favourite Comedian: Billy Connolly Other hobbies: Guitars, Fishing, Camping, Drinking. Car: 1999 Mitsubishi Pajero-Escape. Slightly Modded (Bull-bar, Winch, Oversize A/T Tyres, UHF, Spot Lights) Occupation: Salesman

This weekend I installed CentOS on a spare partition and installed bluefish for html editing. Then I started reading (HTML 4 for dummies) and hacked my first web site, all from scratch (It's a work in progress). It's all HTML, no scripting as yet, but check it out and see what you think for a sunday's work. :) Ross @ Home It's not much, I know, and you could all probably stitch that up in about 5 minutes, but I'm proud of it. The logo needs work though... you don't need to tell me that!! ;) So, I'm getting basic HTML down, although I think there's about an encyclopedia of stuff I don't know about CSS, but I'll get to that. Any suggested reading for learning PHP? Thanks, Ross.

Thank you all. So PHP is the go then! Alrighty. I'll get right on it. Although serving the page with apache might be going a little far as the internal network consists of the computer at reception (also doubles as a file server (shared windows folder)) and 1 occasional client in the form of a laptop. This is more of a personal project. An excuse to learn to code and something to keep me motivated. Thanks for all the suggestions, and I'll let you know how it finishes. BTW OpenOffice.org on a pen drive???? Where's the fun in that? :P

Hello all. New member. I have two questions. Firstly, do you (the site/forum) define Hacker as (a) 'an unpaid computer programmer who does it for fun' or (B ) 'someone who likes to break software (usually other peoples)'? If the answer to question 1 is (B ) then I'm on the wrong kind of forum, so could someone please let me know where I can find a forum for people like in answer (a)? If the answer is (a) then read on to question 2... I would like to make a program for use at my work. Basically I want to be able to quickly run up a sales quote. It doesn't need to be printed, it will only be for personal use. There will only be a couple of things needed to be entered, and preferably be multi-platform (Windows and Linux). The Items to be entered would be product name, retail price, cost price, with only the product name selected from a drop-down list and the retail and cost price automatically inserted and calculated. I have made an OpenOffice.org sheet that does it but don't want to have to rely on people having OpenOffice.org (or similar) installed. The product/price section (drop-down list) would need to be easily edited (ie. comma separated text file) due to changing products and prices. Now, I have very little programming experience, (BASIC in 1990 or so)... or none... I realise that a web interface is going to be the easiest way to make it cross platform, but I haven't the first clue about what language I should learn. I don't mind a steep learning curve, but want to make enough ground to be able to have my project functioning within a few weeks. So... Question 2... What should I learn? Hehe... Thanks in advance.