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Remove Filter  | In contrast to the "what's your favorite DaniWeb feature" thread I've got going on, I figured I might as well start an "If you could change one thing, what would it be?" thread.  |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Slow Network Access Not Always Due to Scheduled Tasks Check [/color][/size][size=2]If you have very slow access to your network computers through "My Network Places" and have already deleted the Registry entry calling for a check …  |
| | Is it just me or have others experienced extreme slowness in replying to threads? |
| | Is it possible for a blog to become profitable by selling advertising AND paying staff writers when I, myself, don't blog? Or is it just futile to expect that advertising would generate more revenue than quality writers?  |
| | What do you guys think of the changes made to Google Adwords? I find the new "conversions" column very helpful, but am completely confused by that whole new on-page optimization thing they've got going on. |
| | I thought you were supposed to put a link to your sitemap in your robots.txt (isn't that what you said, stymiee?) My robots.txt now looks like the following: [code]Sitemap: http://www.daniweb.com/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow:[/code] Google Webmaster Tools robots.txt says "Syntax not understood" for the sitemap line.  |
| | I'm taking an Operating Systems course in which I need to write some really in depth programs (more specifically, along the lines of a terminal based program which implements many system level unix-like commands). However, the catch is that this must be written in straight C, which I have no … |
| | Is it possible to submit a sitemap to Yahoo much the same way one uses Google Webmaster Tools? |
| | As you can see, the forums have a new time format. Now, instead of time being something like 'Today, 3:00' it says '1 Hour Ago'. The reason for the change is because I am realizing more than ever what a huge, global community we are. And by far, the majority … |
| | Per request, there is now the ability to subscribe to both code syntax languages and individual snippets.  |
| | I have numerous default flights set up in my Tribal Fusion control panel for when standard campaigns are unavailable. However, regardless of what I do, AdCouncil ads always show up for about a half hour to an hour somewhere near 5 am EST. Nightly maintenance perhaps? Does anyone else experience … |
| | Is it possible to geotarget an Overture campaign, the same way I can do with AdWords?  |
| | [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Use Backup to Restore Files and Folders on Your Computer in Windows XP [/color][/size][/font][size=2][font=Arial][color=#000000]This article is a step-by-step guide to using the Backup program in Windows XP to restore files and folders on your computer. …  |
| | This is just a heads up that I have been hard at work all day (and night) and the webmaster marketplace is new and improved :) When submitting a thread, various fields specific to the forum appear within the form. For example, when selling your website, you're prompted to enter …  |
| | I listened to you guys ask for a subscription feature for the blogs ... It is now possible to subscribe to both blogs (when a new entry is posted) and individual blog entries (when a new comment is posted). |
| | Google specifies in their help pages that a sitemap cannot exceed 50,000 URLs. What happens if a sitemap does go over that limit? Does Google just only take the first 50K into consideration or does it realize that the sitemap is just way too big to even be worth parsing … |
| | I asked this question once before about a year or two ago, but would like to open it up to discussion again. Am I doing a good job? Is Davey doing a good job? Do you feel that DaniWeb is headed in a positive direction? |
| | How often do you tweak your AdWords campaign? Is it possible to just set up a campaign once and then not touch it for a couple of months? |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Add a Voice Message to an E-Mail Message[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]Personalize e-mail with a voice message? You can perform this task using the Windows XP Sound Recorder and a microphone. First, open the sound recorder: [/size] [list] … |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Easily Disable Messenger [/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=2]Go into: C:/Program Files/Messenger. Rename the Messenger folder to "MessengerOFF". This does not slow down Outlook Express or hinder system performance.[/size][/font] |
| | I haven't been in the SEO game much lately and so I was just wondering what the experts have to say on this one lately ... is it better to have a sitewide backlink or high PR homepage / subpage link? |
| | Anyone else noticing that Google is playing around with the AdSense text? Yesterday I saw some titles in italic and today they weren't bold, while they usually are. |
| | I am trying to encourage members to donate by purchasing a member sponsorship for $5/month. It entitles the member to a bunch of nifty features IMO such as access to a behind the scenes forum and a sponsor badge. It seems that the tried and true method to get donations …  |
| | What are some ways to promote in house sales ... in other words to get the word out to prospective advertisers that you sell advertising directly and at rates more appealing than if they went through agencies? |
| | I have fixed the bug that was causing the ridiculous slowdown when viewing member profiles. It turns out that a particular WHERE clause in one of the queries was slowing things down too much, and after catching the culpreit, I was able to perform the query in PHP instead. |
| | Just as the title of this post states, a link to Today's Posts in this category has been added to each category of the navigation dropdown menu. This eliminates an extra pageload for people like me who want to come in from the homepage and then go straight to Site …  |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Stop Getting Tricked into Running Viruses[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]Stop getting tricked into running viruses because you don't see the file extension of an attachment.[/size] [list] [*][size=2]Click Start, click My Computer, and on the Tools menu, click Folder …  |
| | I currently use Zend PHP Studio because I like it's syntax highlighting, its keyboard shortcuts, its autocomplete, and its integrated php documentation. What I don't like about it is the interface or the feel of the software. It feels like it's been written in Java - eww. Can anyone recommend … |
| | With the very high end Mac Pros comparable in price to PCs with the same specs, why does anyone (and by anyone I mean people in the market for a new, high end machine) bother buying a new PC anymore? Similar price, same exact specs, and you could either get …  |
| | Hi, I have always preferred IE over Firefox. Last night, I upgraded from IE6 to IE7. However, there are a couple of things I don't like about the design. Firstly, I don't like how the URL bar is at the very top, and the home, refresh, back, and forward buttons … |
| | With over 3600 members and growing, I'm just curious how many of ya'll are original members who have stuck around through all the good and bad times? Who here has a user ID of 100 or less? 200? |
| | Christian blogged today about how the Intel macs can now legally run Windows ... check it out @ [url="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry509.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry509.html[/url] I'm stunned :) However, I'm still going to wait until Intel macs are available in towers before I get myself one of them.  |
| | I just so happened to have clicked into the Windows Task Manager and there, under the Users tab, is a second user with ID 2 ... Mcx1. Under the Session column it says EH-TCP#0. Who on earth is this second user on my computer?? |
| | I am trying to run the command: exec("cat ..........", $output, $var); Basically, cat "any file" returns no contents in $output, and returns 0 in $var. exec("whoami"); returns "apache" in $output and 0 in $var. Any ideas?  |
| | After the whole newsletter drama, I made a typo in my code and threw the Apache server into an infinite loop. About 10 minutes of downtime. So sorry. I need more sleep it seems.  |
| | [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Turn On the Sticky Keys Feature[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]When a shortcut requires a key combination, the StickyKeys feature lets you press a modifier key, such as Shift, Ctrl, Alt, or the Windows Logo key, and have it … |
| | Okay ... so I was watching the ball drop at Times Square tonight (don't worry, on television, I'm not crazy enough to commute into the city tonight) and I was wondering just how famous the NYC ball dropping thing is? Do people outside NYC tune into it on tv? Is …  |
| | Until it becomes so routine I just don't think about it anymore ... who got this month's issue of the DaniWeb Digest newsletter? :) |
| | Do you allow your member profiles to be guest accessible? Why or why not? Do you allow member contact info (email, IM) to be publically displayed and potentially picked up by spiders?  |
| | [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Long Pause During Windows Startup Process[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=3][color=#0000ff]Symptoms [/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=2]After you choose to start Windows from the Boot menu, you may experience a long delay (or pause) before your computer finishes starting. Note that this delay may range from 10 seconds to a minute. Also, this delay occurs before the Starting Windows … |
| | What is an average / target open rate for an HTML-based monthly newsletter? I am measuring open rate based on the number of hits a particular image within the newsletter gets. However, more and more email clients nowadays are disabling emails until the user clicks a link - and how … |
| | Per a request, you can now sort your code snippets by the last time someone commented on them. You'll now be sure not to miss someone commenting on code you've posted. |
| | [b]Microsoft's Monopoly[/b] At this time, Microsoft owns an operating system monopoly with its line of Windows operating systems. UNIX, however, is an alternate OS mainly used by ... er, computer geeks. It's been out for many years and features a small kernel with all programs built around the kernel. This …  |
| | We all know how great Google AdSense is. However, what other programs are there out there? Has anyone had good performance with ValueClick, CJ, FastClick, Burst, etc? I use ValueClick but it doesn't generate nearly as much as AdSense does for me. |
| | Hey folks ... I'd like to apologize for the half hour of server downtime we had. The database crashed down on me and, even after restoring it, it still wasn't working. Turns out the hard drive got filled up by old .sql backups I was keeping. All in all ... … |
| | I am looking for a PHP script which analyzes all of the bounced emails in my inbox and generates a list of the email addresses which bounced. Any ideas?  |
| | [b]True and False[/b] The backbone of computer science is logic. Most often, those with logical minds make the best programmers. Hence, a very important programming concept is that of boolean algebra. A boolean expression is a true or false statement. In the world of computers, a true statement is represented …  |
| | I get asked this all the time, so I figured I would just create a thread about it where others could share their experiences as well ... how much can someone afford to bid on an ad-supported site? When you have an eCommerce site it's easy to calculate how much … |
| | When you assign a priority to URLs with Google sitemap, do you give the higher priority to your actual content pages (articles, etc) or to your sitemaps / navigation pages, which contain links to all of the articles? |
| | Sorry but I just couldn't resist: [URL]http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=791466&tstart=45[/URL] Thanks for the link jwenting! :)  |
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