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Just when you thought the spam problem couldn’t get any worse, comes the news that spammers are fighting back against the pro-active anti-spam community approach using tit-for-tat Denial of Service attacks and intimidation. The [URL="http://www.bluesecurity.com"]Blue Frog[/URL] anti-spam approach is a relatively simple one of ‘hit them where it hurts’ and …

In an astonishing display of pique, Google (the new Microsoft) has complained bitterly to both the US DoJ and the European Commission about Microsoft (the old Google). What exactly has the Boy God Gates done to annoy billionaire double act Brin and Page so? At the risk of reading like …

Belkin has announced the launch of their N1 range of next generation wireless routers based upon a new WiFi standard that could extend the range of existing ‘wireless-G’ solutions by a factor of 4, and speeds by as much as 12. This might bring out the excited little geek in …

An interesting story came into my radar this week when one of my sources told me of problems some chap had when installing Yahoo Messenger with the auto-update function enabled. Turns out, apparently, that this chap discovered immediately that all his web link associations were changed from Firefox, his default …

What are the IE7 add-ons that you couldn't live without, and why? You know the kind of thing, spell checkers, security utilities, search toolbars etc. I guess ieSpell (because I type far too quickly, am always in a hurry, and often make fat finger mistakes as a result - and …

I see that the favorite browser of the Apple Mac fanboy, Safari, has arrived for Windows users according to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1495.html"]this DaniWeb blog entry. [/URL] I have just downloaded it and will be giving it a whirl myself, and will be interested to see how the claims of being the fastest …

Are 404 errors a missed marketing opportunity for most web designers, or should they be left as a ‘page not found’ marker and nothing more? Certainly the vast majority of sites would appear to point to nothing more useful than the Apache or ISS default error page, which strikes me …

As we move ever further towards becoming a global community, where social networking and Web 2.0 concepts rule supreme, what has become of us from the perspective of identity? Technology drives ways to speed up, enhance and render our lives in the 21st century but at what cost. In a …

The only clever thing about this is the acronym, PERFORM. This bill has been introduced in the US Senate again, following its defeat in committee back in April last year. Hopefully it will suffer the same fate again. When will TPTB learn that they just cannot dictate the pace and …

Pretty straightforward question: Which third party password management application for XP do you use? Assuming you use one at all, and if not I'm interested in knowing why not. I'm kind of interested in discovering if AI RoboForm is still king of the heap as far as Joe User is …

Saugatuck Technology has published research which suggests that have the large businesses on the planet will have switched to Linux for mission-critical applications within the next 5 years. Things will, Saugatuck say, get off to a relatively slow start with just 18% of businesses making that switch by the year …

What is your take on the whole Long Tail thing, especially from the perspective of how it changing the way that the 'little man' uses the power of the Internet to reach a market? What evidence is there that the Long Tail is working, today, right now? What sites are …

What are your favored tools for testing web pages in multiple, and legacy, web browser clients? With tools such as Browserola no longer with us, what do you use - if, indeed, you test your pages outside of the current IE and possibly Firefox versions that is? I know some …

If [B]you [/B]were in charge at DaniWeb, what would you do to stimulate growth of the community here. By which I mean the social and cultural side of DaniWeb rather than the straightforward tech Q&A stuff. How would you encourage more social posting by the membership, and empower them with …

This is a two parter question: Which web browser clients do you design your sites to be compatible with? Which web browser client do you use personally when online? OK, so make that a three parter: Does anyone here [B]not[/B] develop sites with IE in mind?

Web 2.0: the future of the web or just another excuse for over-optimistic VC funding and all the dotcom bubble dangers that brings? Discuss :)

With the Boy God announcing he is to step down from the Microsoft helm in a couple of years, and devote more time and energy to his philanthropic efforts, it begs the question: how will the world remember him? For all his faults, and dubious Microsoft business practise, I have …