Recent content by cyberphant0m

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    opacity in IE

    hmmm, just as i feared... I imagined that someone would've found a good way to do it... i guess not...
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    opacity in IE

    I need to add opacity to a couple of elements in IE. The page is done in XHTML/CSS, no tables. I have a div, with a background image, and on top of it, is an H2, and another div. the H2 and the second div are supposed to be slightly transparent to show some of the image behind them. the...
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    Shadowed text on transparent BG

    lol i didnt realize that i could just do that hehe
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    Shadowed text on transparent BG

    Ok, first of all, here's the link to the layout of my site: site At the top of the page is a bluish-greenish titlebar. That bar has a background image that is not repeated and has some slanted text... On top of that background, is the title image that says, "CODE_the_World();" with a shadow...
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    MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Woes

    Ill try the RAID thing soon as I get back from school... as for the sound, i was trying to save money, cuz my tuition is killing my pocket... :( its not that bad actually, im not an audiophile so i really can't tell the difference between onboard sound and an audigy2ZS or some other...
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    MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Woes

    Okay, i just put together a brand new system to run Doom3, HL2 (when its out), and other high end games :) Everything is working just fine EXCEPT: -- One of my Samsung 160GB SATA drives isn't recognized by the NVRaid Setup Utility. It's hooked up to power, and SATA2 Port on the board. I...
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    Buying my first notebook

    Hi, Im gonna be starting college in the fall, and Im gonna need a good notebook. Here's what Im looking to do: Office apps (word, etc) Programming A bit of Graphics (not very intensive, but maybe a bit of PaintShop Pro) Music Play a couple of games (once again, not very hardcore...) Right now...
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    Free PC Games

    Great thread... however i noticed that PristonTale was on the list... just wanted to point out that as of July 22nd, PT will be a paid game...
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    Win2K & RH9 on two physical disks

    I have two physical hard drives... a 13GB disk with two partitions, a Win2000, and an extended partition with documents, and backups of programs, etc... I recently installed a 40GB disk and I wanna try my hand at Red Hat Linux 9. How do I install Linux on the second drive. I inserted the CD into...
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    C++ Total RAM

    dunno... I was reading the Win32 API documentation, and it said that the calling process should set that member before calling GlobalMemoryStatus()... I guess it doesn't hurt to leave it like that...
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    C++ Total RAM

    Im writing a function that gets the total amount of memory on the computer in MBs... Here's the code I have... On line 9 and 12 I get the following errors: 9 - request for member `dwLength' in `MemStruct', which is of non-aggregat type `_MEMORYSTATUS*' 12 - request for member `dwTotalPhysin...
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    reinstalling XP

    You should check the Hard drive manufacturer's website. They usually have tools that will boot into a DOS-ish environment, and let you perform the operations... check you hard drive's label for the manufacturer's web site.
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    heh, just used a 'ooaster' as a coaster :)

    personally, i use his mom's chest, seeing as how its the flattest surface in the known universe... :laugh:
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    John Kerry, Your ideal job is a Big Game Hunter.

    cyberphant0m, Your ideal job is a Panto Dame Alex, Your ideal job is a Clown.
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    User info PHP API (Now lets make some cool web apps)

    DannyBoy, writing a birthday script would be very easy, the only problem we're facing, is getting the birthday field from user's profiles so that it can be processed by the script. Also, here's a small idea for the API... Rather than having each piece of the user's profile in a seperate...