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 | If you are expecting a nice shiny iPhone or BlackBerry as a gift this Xmas, your joy may be short lived if network crashes this week are anything to go by. Earlier this week Twitter users in the UK were reporting data network access as being down for close on … |
| | File under FAIL: social network widget maker RockYou has fallen victim to a SQL injection flaw and as a result some 32.6 million users are being urged to change their passwords as a matter of urgency. Security specialists Imperva discovered the problem at social networking development site Rockyou.com and issued …  |
 | Free time, what's that? :) OK, I get even more tattoos, drink beer (real ale only, Spitfire and Betty Stoggs mainly), listen to music and go to gigs (rock/metal/goth stuff mainly), lust after motorbikes I can't afford and spend time with my family (4 kids, 2 grandkids) - oops, nearly …  |
 | It's in a deleted thread called 'Why iPod Is So Popular?' and your post says: "Crap. It's spam. Reported." The reason you cannot see it, and it cannot be upvoted, is the first message in the thread was spam so when it was deleted the whole thread was deleted as …  |
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| | Still using Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader? Maybe it is time to switch to something that's not glowing red on the bad guy radar, or which is more securely coded depending upon how you look at these things. Yes, Adobe has admitted that there is yet another possible zero-day vulnerability … |
| | A new search engine officially launches today, the same day as the World Climate Summit in Copenhagen commences. According to [URL="http://www.ecosia.org"]Ecosia[/URL] you can help battle climate change by switching away from Google and here's how. Not only will the new guy on the search block give 80% of the advertising … |
| | I think it is a difficult balancing act, and one that a lot of people end up having to face: your business (substitute site, community, project whatever) hits a certain size and you have to make the decision of how to take that growth forward. Keeping a site like DaniWeb … |
| | The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers ([URL="http://www.ieee.org"]IEEE[/URL]) has started work on WiFi the next generation. While that news in itself might not exactly rock your socks off, the small matter of a big speed increase might. Word is that WiFi TNG could be fast, very fast indeed. Anyone fancy … |
| | Writing at the official Windows Experience blog, Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc refers to the latest NPD Retail Tracking Service data which shows that as of the February 2009 the Windows share of the US netbook market is a staggering 96 percent. That's up from less than 10 percent of US unit … |
| | That is the general thrust of an interesting article that appeared in the [URL="http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-wikipedia10mar10,1,2707818.story"]Los Angeles Times[/URL] this week. It starts by describing how the offices of one of the world's most popular websites is a rented space stuffed with furniture bought off of eBay and with a printed paper sign … |
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 | Looks like Amazon is being quick to quosh these rumours of high street shops though. Has been in full on denial mode today. |
 | This is something that DaniWeb management has been discussing of late, however there are no plans to ban signature links. If a post breaks the rules it will be dealt with. If a poster is thought to be bending the rules relentlessly in order to advertise in the way being … |
| | There is free music out there, which is legal. You just have to do the donkey work and find it. We will not be pointing you at sources of illegal music downloads however.  |
| | According to a new survey of London taxi drivers, an average of 10,000 mobile phones are left behind by customers every single month. If that total is not staggeringly high enough, you can top it up with another 1000 iPods and memory sticks if you like. December is the worse … |
| | Depending upon the level of your paranoia, Google is either attempting to take over the online world or simply trying to make it a better place in which to work and play. This latest announcement does nothing to clarify these already muddy waters. "As part of our ongoing effort to …  |
| | I refer you to the DaniWeb [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/faq.php?faq=aup"]acceptable use policy[/URL]: [QUOTE]"DaniWeb takes Internet privacy very seriously. However, please note that this is a public site where all threads, posts, news stories, code snippets, tutorials, etc. with the exception of those in the Staff forums, are available to everyone (guests and members … |
| | Welcome to DaniWeb, even though I have read your posting twice and ended up twice as confused as before I started!  |
| | Jumping the queue for BT Broadband is possible, it would seem. Possible, but not easy - unless you happen to be the Chairman of BT that is. Imagine you've been living without broadband for years because BT cannot supply it to your rural residence. Now imagine if the chairman of … |
| | This has to be the most bizarre excuse for voiding a warranty ever, but according to [URL="http://consumerist.com/5408885/smoking-near-apple-computers-creates-biohazard-voids-warranty"]The Consumerist[/URL] at least two Mac owners have been told their Applecare warranties are no good because they smoke. In both cases, we are told, the Mac owner concerned took the matter up with … |
| | [URL="http://www.checkpoint.com"]Check Point Software Technologies[/URL], developers of the ZoneAlarm security range, has announced the results of research which suggest that half of all staff will happily walk away from employment with competitive information about your business in their pockets. That they are walking straight into another job with it should be … |
| | Rupert Murdoch is not a stupid man, his business empire is evidence of that. For anyone to become a media mogul requires smarts, but those smarts seem to be deserting Murdoch as he continues to play the fool and deny that old monetisation methods do not work for the new … |
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| | Use interview-question instead, which will work. |
| | 'From the lab to the fab' oh dear oh dear oh dear. ;) |
| | Clicking on 'clear' is exactly what I do, simplest solution and saves my brain exploding :) |
| | I just had a Jaws moment. You know, you think it is safe to go back in the water and then a bloody great shark bites your legs off. Except in this case you can replace the sea with the Internet and the shark with the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4339.html"]equally dangerous Gumblar[/URL]. According … |
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| | This thread has been marked as solved, the arguing is helping nobody so perhaps now is the time for this particular thread to end? |
| | Yes, it is April 1st, the day that you have to read the news with just a little more skepticism than usual as the pranksters roll out their made up stories. Some are so close to the truth that it is hard to actually tell they are gags at all, … |
 | Re: Donations? Donating brings additional benefits over and above normal membership of the site, such as an advert free experience for example. More accurately it should be thought of as a subscription rather than a donation I guess. Perhaps there is room for a method to allow people to donate on a …  |
| | I think, perhaps, now is the right time for this thread to wind down - or at least for participants to step back and take a deep breath before posting. Let's not have it become a slanging match, or I will simply close the thing. This message not aimed at …  |
| | Over the weekend news broke that a worm had started infecting Jailbroken iPhones in Australia. Nobody really took the exploit too seriously as all the 'ikee worm' did was change the phone wallpaper to a picture of 80's pop singer Rick Astley in a kind of warped tribute to the … |
| | [QUOTE=joshSCH;672694]Hey what the hell is with my title being "Banned" ?[/QUOTE] You know the rules Josh, and you know that this really is your final chance to play by them. So, use offensive language in your signature and it will be deleted, you will get infracted and ultimately banned again … |
 | To be honest, I think the poll results attached to this thread pretty much say it all. Of those who were interested enough to vote, overwhelmingly they said no or don't care to the idea - which is hardly endorsement enough to even begin thinking about implementing such a system. … |
| | Botnets are, without any shadow of a doubt, one of the [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/09/30/death-taxes-and-botnets/"]biggest scourges[/URL] of IT security today. From sending spam to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story238033.html"]launching DDoS attacks[/URL] and distributing malware, botnets can be found [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/showentry.php?entryid=1021"]at the centre[/URL] of most of the security problems facing computer users right now. So wouldn't it be fun … |
| | Here in the UK it is pantomime season. A peculiar form of traditional slapstick stage play that is performed during the Christmas season. In essence favourite tales such as Peter Pan, Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin are retold with the lead boy played by a girl and an … |
| | First Google expressed an interest in the [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20370/53/"]web browser client[/URL] market, and then the [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26281/53/"]operating system market[/URL] and now it has launched its own open source systems programming language. [URL="http://golang.org/"]Google Go[/URL] is being touted as 'expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected' and promises to produce fast code, fast. According to Google a typical … |
| | Not only do I still read the printed word, but I still write books that are published in dead tree format as well. As an author, I have to say that there is nothing quite like getting the pre-press copies of a proper book in your hands. The look and … |
| | Everyone seems to be talking about how [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25376/53/"]first Facebook[/URL] and now Twitter are being adopted by business users, as if the concept of social networking in a business environment was somehow new. Of course, the truth is that services such as LinkedIn have been providing just that for many years … |
| | Reports are starting to emerge online that Microsoft may have initiated a cull of Xbox Live accounts belonging to users of modified games consoles. One [URL="http://pinoycosplay.blogspot.com/2009/11/microsoft-bans-600k-xbox-live-accounts.html?zx=e10c0b0fc532dc57"]claims[/URL] that a "trusty source" working in a call centre which handles Xbox 360 accounts has had an influx of "screaming teenagers who don't don't … |
| | Go Google and you will find plenty. Closing this thread now before the spammers turn up. |
| | He's doing it all over the place, copying bits of other replies in the thread just to promote his sig links. In other words, he's a spammer. |
| | What do you wake up to? An old-fashioned alarm clock with small hammer and large bells atop a round clockface? Maybe a clock-radio or perhaps a straightforward digital alarm with a loud beep-beep-beep to get you moving of a morning? If you do, then you are in the minority as … |
 | The UAC default is all wrong in Windows 7, much safer to allow nothing even if it does add more hassle for the user. That said, the Sophos testing was rather misleading I think. I wrote about it [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/11/03/80-percent-of-viruses-love-windows-7/"]here[/URL] and my conclusion was that I'd like to see the same … |
| | It would seem that there is something of an ongoing battle in the world of online Chinese gaming, and World of Warcraft is right in the midst of it. As I [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220683.html"]reported[/URL] back in July, the company behind World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment) was having problems in getting The Burning … |
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| | You cannot. You have to buy a genuine copy of Windows. DaniWeb will not help you find an illegal copy of Windows or a source of illegal keys, read the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/faq.php?faq=daniweb_policies"]Keep it Legal[/URL] rule. |
| | Yep, DaniWeb is a global community and we have members from all over the world contributing here. |
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