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Remove Filter  | During peak times, the server load average goes crazy high, and PHP has intermittent problems connecting to MySQL. Right now, both PHP and MySQL are on the same server, and adding a second database server is something for the near future but not a possibility at this moment. Would adding …  |
| | I'm looking for a good vnc client. I had some problems with RealVNC (mostly unexpectedly and randomly losing its connection), and am now looking into TightVNC. Does anyone have any personal preferences?  |
| | How do you get rid of all those one post wonders? They come, post once, and leave. Or, better yet, they register and just don't post at all? I have already customized the welcome email sent out to new members. I am thinking about sending new members a PM upon … |
| | What types of advertising does everyone run on their forum? How many ads is too many? Do you just stick with AdSense and YPN or do you do graphical campaigns? Anyone with IntelliTXT? What is user response like? What is considered going too far? Most importantly, at what point do … |
| | I just installed the latest version of the Google toolbar for IE. The autocomplete search feature is pretty cool. Any other opinions? |
| | I've always heard all these great success stories about YPN and how the revenue potential is more than double AdSense. The concensus has been that you get fewer clicks but the CPC and eCPM is much higher in the end. However, after trying it out for myself, I'm horribly disappointed. … |
| | Did anyone else have a great AdSense day today? CTR is average but CPM doubled! Woo hoo! It's a little after 5 pm and already I'm close to what I would expect to be near the end of the day. |
| | We have a forum entitled "Advertising Sales and Affiliate Programs" where people are meant to discuss the pros and cons of selling ad space, how to go about doing so, review various affiliate programs and agencies, etc. However, many people mistake this as a forum to post that they are … |
| | I can use my Apache server logs to figure out how many pulls there were of my RSS feed each day ... and therefore can track usage trends. But this just isn't enough for me. Is there ANY way that I can figure out whether my feeds are being pulled …  |
| | Does anyone have any contest ideas that would help to strengthen a community but are not very time consuming to oversee / maintain and will work well with a big board? I don't want it to be where members submit entrees because then I would have to manually examine every … |
| | Did a forum upgrade today ... mostly bug fixes, but I had to reupload many files. Please let me know if you spot any bugs or things not working as they should. Thanks!  |
| | The age old question ... am I doing a good job as site administrator? Are DaniWeb policies overly harsh or overly lax? Should I be participating more? Do moderators feel overly worked? Please give me feedback to keep me grounded and so that I can ensure I'm on the right … |
| | The old forum structure for TechTalk was: Windows Mac Linux Networking Hardware I have reordered this into: Windows Linux Mac Hardware Networking Two reasons: (1) Server logs showed there are many more linux users than mac users who visit DaniWeb. (2) Generally speaking, pc hardware is a more common topic …  |
| | I am working on a project for my uncle's medical office. However, I'm a little stumped coding the design. I want it to be tableless. It's currently set up for testing here: [url="http://www.daniweb.com/sneezy/"]http://www.daniweb.com/sneezy/[/url] It looks fine in IE but the design is all screwed up in Firefox and Safari. It … |
| | I have always developed in Internet Explorer and designed for Firefox. I also make sure that my site looks fine in Safari. However, there are a bunch of quirks and things that don't look too great in Opera, and I was wondering whether it is worth considering. I know that … |
| | I think that we should start a thread here encouraging Catweazle to come back to us :) We miss ya, Terry! We see you've been stopping by every so often to pay us a visit, but you haven't posted in the longest time. Why is that? Don't like us anymore? |
| | DaniWeb has always been very CSS'ed. However, the nature of forums just makes it nearly impossible to create a tableless design. Nevertheless, I've gone one step further this morning and CSS'ed the main body table holding all of the main content. The site should look the same, but it's now … |
| | [b][color=darkorange]My mom turns 50 tomorrow :)[/color][/b] [b][color=royalblue]:mrgreen: Happy Birthday, Mom! :cheesy: [/color][/b] |
| | My MySQL query_cache_size is currently set to 50M and even at that setting I am getting a decent amount of qcache_lowmem_prunes. Queries are being removed from the cache to make room for new ones. My question is whether the queries being removed are based on time elapsed since they were … |
| | I am using MySQL 4 and trying to cache my queries per this tutorial: [url="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/query-cache-configuration.html"]http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/query-cache-configuration.html[/url] Right now, my query_cache_size is set to 0. I would like to set both the query_cache_size and query_cache_limit parameters. However, I'm receiving the following error message: [code]mysql > ERROR 1227: Access denied. You need the … |
| | You guys probably think I'm nuts, but I am considering doing a massive *condensing* of ALL forums on the site. I think that having so many forums and subforums levels deep just is so incredibly confusing and overwhelming to new visitors. What I am proposing is getting rid of all … |
| | Can someone please tell me the code where clicking on a link populates a textarea with a little paragraph. |
| | I am contemplating renaming the directory /techtalkforums/ to just /forums/ but I am very concerned with SEO. Of course, I would do a 301 redirect for everything in the directory. However, how guaranteed is that alone? Will the google toolbar PR eventually carry over and how long does it take … |
| | Has anyone here bought one of the new Intel-based macs? How do you like it? Is it noticably faster than an IBM G5? |
| | Does anyone know about this Big Daddy Google update? Supposedly they are doing a lot of removing duplicate pages, so we shall see ... I *think* the IP for the datacenter is at [url="http://216.239.51.104/"][color=#800080]http://216.239.51.104/[/color][/url] |
| | It looks like we went through a Google toolbar PR update yesterday. How did you guys fare? I can't complain. Homepage stayed PR7 and all top level forums and categories went to PR6. Unfortunately, my link directory went down from my second PR7 to PR6 as well.  |
| | I was just browsing this forum and noticed a member by the name of jhay116 has been very helpful within the past couple of days, and I just wanted to thank him and all of the other great mods and folk in the Windows forums who devote their time and …  |
| | I was just snooping around my AdWords campaign and I noticed that you can now set separate bids for search and content pages. How long have I been missing out on this feature? Does anyone use it? I've been using automatic bidding for awhile. |
| | From what I've read, the latest Google server update can be found at [url="http://216.239.51.104/"][color=#800080]http://216.239.51.104/[/color][/url] ... so that's a glimpse of what is soon to come on all G servers |
| | Do you recommend using the rel=nofollow tag on links that are member-submitted, such as from a blog or forum?  |
| | Many forum systems (vBulletin, for example) come with built-in calendars. Aside from keeping track of member birthdays, does anyone here use the calendar feature? What for? Is it widely used by members of your community? |
| | I would like to welcome you to take advantage of our new feature, an Event Calendar. It can be accessed via the silver button in the sidebar. You'll notice there are two Event Calendars, which can be accessed via the Dropdown menu on the calendar page. By default, you are …  |
| | Does anyone have any experience with Righ Media? I heard they have a very intuitive interface which easily allows you to run other networks alongside them, without having to play tier merry-go-round. Something else that makes them unique is that they run off of a bidding system where advertisers bid … |
| | [b]Getting Your Site Submitted to Search Engines[/b] by Aaron Turpen of Aaronz WebWorkz Getting listed in search engines can be a lot of work. "Free" submission tools are worth about what you pay for them and, worse, can be detrimental to your efforts. Yet you don't have the time to …  |
| | Looking at my site statistics, I see that the trend is that visitors from the MSN search engine stay on the site twice as long as the average visitor from Google or Yahoo. Additionally, they are about 3X as likely to register. Therefore, it seems like my site really likes … |
| | What is the ideal number of links to have per page? What is the maximum number of links on a particular page that Googlebot will spider? |
| | Okay, now you're a forum junkie - you just LOVE forums. But you're not going to spend your life posting to every forum in existence. So what is the threshold level? What determines a forum worth your time from one that isn't? I guess what I'm asking is when you …  |
| | What types of community building activities are out there to strengthen an online community ... contests, live chat, get togethers, etc?  |
| | I was just wondering if anyone thinks that it might be a problem finding the New Thread button? Is it too small? Not noticable enough? |
| | I noticed something very strange this past week. I was giving AdSense a fairly decent number of 336x20 impressions and was getting a decent CPM. Yesterday, I decided to give them 728x90s as well, and the same number of 336x280s as always. My 728s got a decent CTR, but the … |
| | [b]Handy Linux User Commands [/b] [b]../[/b] represents one directory higher [b]cat filename[/b] display file contents [b]cat stuff1 stuff2 > allStuff[/b] combine files [b]cat someStuff >> allStuff[/b] append to a file [b]cd dirName[/b] go into the directory dirName [b]chmod [permission mode] file[/b] change the permission of a file (4=read, 2=write, 1=execute … |
| | I have an unordered list that is two levels deep. The outer UL is css'ed to set padding:0px; and margin:0px; Right below the list, a table starts. However, I can't seem to rid myself of about two pixels of space below the list and above the table. Is there something … |
| | How many of us have forums as a part time (or even full time) business ... and how many of us are in it not to monetize at all, but simply to expand our knowledge and meet other people with an interest in our topic of choice? |
| | Can it be successful to buy established forums? In most cases, after the management transfer, do most moderators stay on? How does the community react? Design changes? Forum management changes? |
| | Right now, the great majority of my traffic is from Google. However, I've been trying really hard to diversify. What are some techniques that might help me break away from a heavy dependance on search engines for nearly all of my traffic? I know word of mouth is a biggy, … |
| | Does Black Friday have a web-based cousin? How are advertising sales in December for everyone? |
| | Has anyone had any success importing newsgroup posts into their forum? |
| | How is the holiday season treating ya? :) It really sucks for me :( Traffic is way down. |
| | I figured it was about time I updated my mod_rewrite tutorial for vBulletin. Therefore, I decided to provide you guys with the exact, full mod_rewrite that I use here at DaniWeb. It's written for a clean install of vB 3.0.7. [b]This version is not for the faint of heart![/b] Some … |
| | To those of you who founded large websites, what stirred the most amount of growth in your site's history? Was it a mention in a local magazine or e-zine? etc. For us, it has just been a constant effort and struggle together with a lot of SEO and making contacts … |
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