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 | Are you sure you can't do contacts? I thought I wouldn't be able to live with them, but for me they have proven to be the ideal solution. I wear contacts for general purpose vision, and then a very light pair of non-prescription readers for close work. As other have … |
 | As with any online service that starts to get popular traction and experiences rapid growth, social network come micro-blog platform Tumblr has been the target of just about every kind of scam and attempted cyber-criminal subversion out there [inclduing some of its own making](http://www.daniweb.com/internet-marketing/social-media-and-communities/news/459258/tumblr-warns-users-to-change-password-after-security-mess). Most of the time it's not …  |
| | Halifax is the town in West Yorkshire where I live, and it also happens to be the name of a well known UK Bank which started life there. Best known on the this side of the pond for TV adverts featuring a friendly chap called Howard Brown, a former customer …  |
| | Re: naive Bayes You just did... Now, all you need to do is be a bit more specific in what it is you need to know, where you are having difficulties etc. |
 | New? Duck Duck Go has been around for many years now. Nothing to do with Apple. |
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| | Content Management Systems (CMS) may not be the most interesting topic on the tech table, but oh boy does WordPress liven things up in this sector. Not, it has to be said, always in a good way. I've lost count of the number of WordPress vulnerability stories that I've read … |
| | I don't usually write about acquisitions and all that financial stuff, but news that PayPal has acquired CyActive caught my eye as apparently this brings the promise of 'bio-inspired predictive security' into the online payments provider threat protection mix. Which made me think, just what the heck is bio-inspired predictive … |
| | What, suggestions for an email address that will help you get a marketing company job? Not sure such a thing exists, to be honest... |
 | Why? Web 2.0 is long since dead...  |
| | In his essay '[A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering](http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/12/how-does-nsa-break-ssl.html)' Matthew Green, a cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University, asks "how the hell is NSA breaking SSL?" If this is news to you, following the Edward Snowden revelations in The Guardian, then you obviously haven't read the New York …  |
| | Windows is, according to just about any security expert you ask, the operating system most vulnerable to attack. Unless the security expert happens to be from Microsoft, that is. So it was quite refreshing to see Microsoft admitting to a spike in attacks on Windows this week. [attach]15849[/attach]According to [URL="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/07/13/update-on-the-windows-help-and-support-center-vulnerability-cve-2010-1885.aspx"]a … |
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| | Depends on whether you count a smartphone and tablet as a computer. I do, so with my laptop usage thrown in, I'd say somewhere between 10 and 11...  |
| | I speak English and Cockney. Nobody needs anything else. Fact. :) |
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| | Spring has been getting rather unseasonably hot for Apache users as far as security flaws go. First there was news of how the FREAK (Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys) vulnerability could impact Apache. For more on FREAK see this [excellent analysis](http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/03/attack-of-week-freak-or-factoring-nsa.html) by Matthew Green, a cryptographer and research professor at … |
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 | I Think Bob has hit the nail on the head in as far as for DaniWeb the majority of users are coming to find the answer to a single and specific question. They succeed and then go. Attempting to retain those people is the challenge, and that can only be …  |
| | Addressing last weeks Securi-Tay conference hosted by the Abertay Ethical Hacking Society in Scotland, Stephen Tomkinson from the NCC Group detailed how Blu-ray players can do more than play videos; they can open up a new attack surface for the hacker. Tomkinson demonstrated a new tool that had been released … |
| | How about you do your own homework buddy? If you have some code to show us, post it and our members will help you (without actually doing it for you) understand where you are going wrong. Simples. |
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| | Don't take on jobs for clients when you have absolutely no idea how to do them would be my advice. |
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| | Although the term 'reflection DoS' is nothing new, I recall reading something about it three years ago when a high profile security researcher [used it to describe](http://www.understandingcomputers.ca/articles/grc/drdos_copy.html) how malicious SYN packets were being reflected off bystanding TCP servers and the SYN/ACK responses used to flood his bandwidth. More recently, Garrett … |
| | @Ashleigh1: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6083347?hl=en |
 | Re: Large OP font I must be the exception, as the size doesn't bother me at all here (at least on the lappy and big screen, not tried the tablet yet) |
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| | Chinese computer manufacturer [Lenovo has admitted](http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish) that it installed an adware component called Superfish on 16 million PCs shipped between September 2014 and February 2015 in order to "help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping" according to an official statement made by the company. Although there is some argument …  |
| | People can only help you if you are clear about the help you are wanting. So take a breath and then try again but explaining *exactly* what it is you are after... |
| | You are going to have to provide a little more information than that if you expect any kind of helpful answer. |
| | I have removed the link from the original post to prevent members downloading it and the potential for problems if they do... |
| | What do you mean by play your laptop? I have worked on a laptop when ill in bed before now. |
| | OK, following on from the suggestion [here](https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/daniweb-community-feedback/threads/491659/member-of-the-month-nominations-please) I am now asking for your memories of Dave Sinkula which will be used to help create a kind of retrospective member of the month interview/memorial. So fire away, and write as much or as little as you like. I'm really looking for … |
| | Re: Hello! Welcome. However, please [read the rules](https://www.daniweb.com/community/rules) before continuing - especially this one: > Do not sign your posts with 'fake signatures'; Use the signature facility from your profile editor |
| | It's that time of the year when I've run out of Member of the Month interviews for the [DaniWeb Digest](https://www.daniweb.com/email/archive) - our newsletter which goes out to over 850K double opt-in subscribers. So, if you think there is a member who deserves to be featured as member of the month … |
| | Re: Need help! Here's the way it works: you show us your code, tell us where you are having problems, then we try and help you solve those problems. We don't do your homework for you. Simples. |
| | Re: two dimensions Well that's your homework question posted, now tell us what problems you are having completing the assignment and post your code so we can point you in the right direction. |
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 | Simplistic explanation would be that the public cloud is where servers at a data center (or centers) are converted to multiple virtual server instances which can be operated, via a third party provider, by different enterprises. A private cloud consists of servers managed only for a single enterprise, within the … |
| | So let's get this straight, are you saying you want to replace a Windows 2000 PC/Laptop with an iOS iPhone/iPad? |
| | The hacker collective known as Anonymous first declared war on Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) supporters back in the Summer of 2014 with [Operation NO2ISIS](http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasperhamill/2014/06/27/anonymous-hacktivists-prepare-for-strike-against-isis-supporters/) which promised to target the online infrastructure of those countries sponsoring Islamic State militants. This declaration followed the hacking of an Anonymous Twitter account, …  |
| | Cancer is a terrible disease which it has claimed the life of a well known technology journalist and a well known coder within the last couple of weeks. Now Facebook has been diagnosed as being in the final stages of that online cancer which is a disregard for user privacy, … |
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| | According to [François Beaufort](https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts) who is a French 'Happiness Evangelist' at Google (and no, I didn't make that up), Chromebook users will soon be able to choose what operating system they want. In a publicly shared post from last week, Beaufort states that "in order to support installing and testing … |
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