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 | [B]> it was (probably) "cryptically" designed to be useful for people like you while also preventing abuse[/B] Yup :) [B]> But if you're going to attack Dani (since I assume she's the one who wrote it) at every turn, she's more likely to ignore you as a troll and use … |
| | Oooh cool :) A lot of SEOs manage multiple campaigns for their clients ... do you know what might be beneficial? Suppose I have an Ad Group with 50 keywords. Can you write a software application that checks the keywords for the number of times they're searched for and the … |
| | Aside from the SEs, my guess would be to accomidate for typos. Or ... because he used to use capital letters and now he wants to use all lowercase because it's easier to type in and such, and he doesn't want the old URLs to be broken. |
 | > why does a member with < 10 posts deserve a signature? Because when we had a requirement in place to require 10 posts before someone could add a signature, it led to everyone (including people who typically wouldn't be spammers) just creating ten super useless posts super quick just …  |
 | No worries ... we always love feedback so anytime you have anything to say, please be my guest ... and know that you're being heard. :)  |
 | Do you do freelance work as an Internet marketing or SEO consultant? If you do custom work for clients, you're welcome to advertise your service in our [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum52.html"]Custom Services For Hire[/URL] forum within the Webmaster Marketplace. |
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| | Hi and welcome. I will have to check out elance and scriptlance and monster and careerbuilder and those types of sites ... trying to do something similar here with the DaniWeb member profiles and our Job Offers forums => [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum152.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum152.html[/URL] |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Access the Administrator Account from the Welcome Screen[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]If you are at the Welcome screen and want to log on with the Administrator account, but it's not listed:[/size] [list] [*][size=2]Press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice to bring up … |
| | What can I do to disable public downloading of my .htaccess file? I am on a Linux box. I can't chmod the file because the web browser still needs access to it, obviously. I know that there is a line I can add to it so that it gives the … |
| | Does AdSense optimize ad units? If a particular spot performs better with image ads than text ads, does it show these more often? Or if a particular spot performs better with multiple ads than a single ad taking up the entire spot (even if it pays a higher CPC), does …  |
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| | I'm a bit confused as to what you mean. What folder option? Would it be too much trouble to attach a screenshot?  |
| | I'm not really sure what a video search engine is?  |
| | Document.write prints to the current HTML page, not to the hard drive, I believe. There is no way to get JavaScript to write anything to a hard drive. You will need to use a server-side language such as PHP or ASP, to save to the server's drive.  |
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 | Re: Donations? Hi ... sorry, I don't really read PMs. Email is the best way to get in touch with me :) Our donation system simply lends itself the best to a subscription-based service. Aside from all of the benefits such as access to Area 51, a bold username, custom user title, … |
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| | Re: Down voting Voting allows an at-a-glance view of whether a thread is worth clicking into, and this is just as useful in the Community Center as within other forums. |
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| | As far as I know, QBASIC is a pretty passee language. You might consider upgrading to Visual Basic due to the simplicity to create windows applications, in addition to the fact that it is completely object oriented. Good luck! |
 | Yes :) I prefer to have the times be relative (X minutes ago, X hours ago, X days ago) because everyone on DaniWeb is from a different time zone (and only a small handful of members change their time zones in their profiles, nevermind all the guests). Therefore, this is … |
 | I have been known to find Answers.com as a result of a Google search but it's rare that I'd go there directly. Didn't even know about Yahoo! Answers TBH. |
 | Our policy is not to create new sub-forums unless we see people already talking about the topic to the point of where it becomes necessary to separate them out. Questions about silverlight can currently be asked in our .NET forums or in our Graphics and Multimedia forum. If we start … |
| | Re: AVI and Linux You can play avis with programs such as mplayer. You're in Fedora, so odds are, you're using the rpm package management system. Type [b]rpm -q mplayer[/b] to see if it's installed. If it is, type [b]mplayer &[/b] to run it. If it's not, you will need to download it from … |
| | Re: Code tags As DaniWeb grows and evolves over the course of years, things are going to change which (at leat the intention is) to be for the better for the majority of our vast traffic and memberbase. This is an inevitable. I strive to be as absolutely backwards compatible as possible, but …  |
| | VMware is a program which emulates a virtual computer. The hard drive, etc. in a virtual machine don't really exist physically ... the entire virtual hard drive is really just a bunch of files on your actual hard drive. That means that if you create a virtual machine with a … |
 | When you infract someone and when you report a post, both, it creates a new thread. There are server resources consumed when adding a thread to the database, and therefore flood protection is necessary or else it could potentially take down the database. Especially with something such as reporting posts, … |
| | Have you noticed that email auto-signatures now include social media info but no longer include physical mailing addresses? Times are changing :)  |
| | I never even heard of Virtual Earth before? Google Earth is cool :) |
| | Do you do freelance work as a web designer or web developer? If you do custom work for clients, you're welcome to advertise your service in our [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum52.html"]Custom Services For Hire[/URL] forum within the Webmaster Marketplace. |
| | There is little doubt that one of the most daunting tasks in all of computer programming is that of developing your own algorithms. Indeed, it is here where the term Computer Science comes to the fore as it is virtually a step-by-step process, so intricate and precise it truly is … |
| | Re: bug Hi, thanks for the report. I noticed it myself a few days ago but I can't seem to figure out why it is periodically doing this on-and-off. Still investigating. |
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| | I think that the concepts behind social media (forums, message boards, etc) have been in existance for a very long time. It's just recently (with Facebook and Twitter) that the concepts of website personalization and social interaction are so much more mainstream. |
| | Someone who can understand my product or service and be creative enough to come up with unique ways to spread buzz about it and make it viral ... and then actually execute those ideas with positive results. Or at least (in the hiring process), see an existing portfolio where such … |
| | I don't get it? ... and I'm a PHP programmer. It looks like the function is part of a class that you aren't showing us. What are we saving?? |
 | Every point that you've made has been taken into consideration recently, and changes have recently been implemented to combat the issues. > And then there's the issue of High rep users being scared to vote because they have so much influence... The algorithm which affects how much rep power people … |
 | Re: Negative rep The up/down buttons let you vote a post up or down by just one point without affecting the user's reputation. If you leave reputation, the vote will automatically be increased or decreased by one, regardless of who you are or what forum you're in. |
| | What do you mean the site is at 800,000? 800,000 what?? Are you getting the traffic but it's just not converting as well as you would expect it to? If that's the case, put yourself in the shoes of a first time visitor. Is the navigation clear and concise? Is … |
| | I love how you followed their instructions not to talk about it since it's not officially out yet :) |
| | Re: Loads of Down's I want to give it a few more days to see how the "letting anyone vote up or down at anytime" is going to work out. The premise behind it is that any member can only affect anyone by ONE, and it only takes one other person to offset them. … |
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| | Check out this article on the official Google Blog: [url]http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/rt-google-tweets-and-updates-and-search.html[/url] Tweets within search results because Twitter is doing something that even Google can't do ... provide LIVE search results. |
| | Sorry about that, the rest of late night coding hid the entire row of links from non-moderators. Fixed. |
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