Being an admin on several communities has many advantages… You have power, you can educate new people (or rip them a new ass), you get respect (sometimes)…

There are draw backs, however. Such as people always assuming that since you have power, you are on a power trip. People who knowingly do wrong, and even after being warned multiple times, who are banned send you a weekly hate email and curse your name on every other site they are members of…

Then is what you get to see. I have seen people angry at the way they are treated. The catch is, they bring it upon themselves. They act a fool, or like a completely retarded person who has to wear a helmet wherever they go… Sadly there are no “virtual” helmets or digital handicapped stickers.

There are a few people who stick out the most and usually are the first to be banned.

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It seems I did a stupid. For some reason, I forgot to include base.gif in the package.

So to fix most of the errors, save this image into the images folder and you should be good to go.

Big thanks to Ed, and sorry to all.

ANOTHER UPDATE: the other missing images have been added to the ZIP.

In today’s world there are many solutions for debt relief through debt management. Banks investing on mortgages approve their client on the basis of their average regular income and assets. The people engaged to travel to work from home try to have insurance which is called travel insurance. The free insurance quotes are available to the consumers who have landed in various insurance schemes offered by the companies.

I guess you could say that this little snippet could only be used by me for certain scripts... Then again, I needed it, so someone else out there may need it, too.

Basically it is .htaccess to change
http://www.ensellitis.com/img/http://example.com/image.gif
into
http://www.ensellitis.com/img/index.php?image=http://example.com/image.gif

Just another URL rewrite tweak.

([a-zA-Z:]+) looks for any letter a through z (capitalized or not) with a trailing :. So basically http:

\/\/ is the // in http:// (escaped, of course).

(.*) looks for any letter, character, or number.

The $1 and $2 prints their respective searches.

If you are interested in writing your own .htaccess URL rewrites, or anything htaccess related for that matter, head on over to this place or this place. They saved my ass a time or two.

Good luck figuring out regular expressions, I still strugal with it. I need to write up a tutorial, just so I can understand it.

The project, to create a fully dexterous robotic hand. It will be able to grasp anything a human hand can, and perform any action that a human hand can, plus some. The goal is to create a device that can be controlled at a distance very naturally as if the operator was right there.

The PLANNED controls will consist of one of the following, multiple, or a combination:

1) A glove with sensors so that the robotic hand moves in relation to the operators.
2) Through computer software using USB

It will be controlled via servos that will be using a cable system to control the joints. Each finger will have 2 servos. One for the proximal inter phalangeal (PIP) and distal inter phalangeal (DIP) joints, and one for the metacarpal phalangeal (MP) joint.

At this point, I am still pressing to move beyond the "on paper" stage. However, I did finish a prototype finger.

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