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Remove Filter  | With the failure of the amendment to the US Telecommunications Reform bill, itself a much diluted version of earlier amendments, it would seem that Net Neutrality is a dead legislative duck as far as Congress is concerned. But what is Net Neutrality, and why should anyone care? The Internet is … |
| | 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 … |
| | Dani and I are pleased to announce that, following the recent resignation of Narue, we have promoted [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/member85533.html"]~s.o.s~[/URL] to take up the position of our new Super Moderator here at DaniWeb.  |
| | [B]The good news[/B] DaniWeb blogs are back in the Google News index, which means increased exposure for both DaniWeb and our team of blog posters (er, that's you folks.) [B]The bad news[/B] We won't be there for long unless the qulaity of the blogs themselves changes. [B]The reminder[/B] Can Dani …  |
| | Is there someone on DaniWeb who you think should be featured as the Member of the Month in a forthcoming DaniWeb Digest newsletter and added to our virtual hall of fame? I am looking for worthy candidates for forthcoming newsletters, so why not put forward someone who deserves it? Just … |
| | 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 …  |
| | There are, I know, a good many UK based DaniWeb members. So, if I were to organise a UK meet, who would be interested in turning up? If you are interested, can you please indicate your preference of when and where? For example, a weekend in London, daytime or evening, …  |
| | Tuesday is the 2007 (UK) IT Security Journalist of the Year awards ceremony, and I seem to be up for the gong in 4 out of the 6 categories including the overall title which I was lucky enough to win last year. I can't see me winning it again, to …  |
| | 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 … |
| | Anyone who is curious as to what happygeek really looks like can see the real me, tattoos and all, on Channel 4 News in the UK tonight, starting at 7pm. They are interviewing me about the breaking news story which was posted exclusively [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1466.html"]here [/URL]on DaniWeb yesterday. For those outside …  |
| | OK, with super fast broadband arriving, well, super fast, it begs the question what would you use it for? So go on then, what [B]would[/B] you do with such speedy broadband that you couldn't do before? |
| | If you think you are, how about stepping forward with you age and let's see if you are right... I will start the ball rolling, any advance on my 43? :) |
| | Simple question, what are your favorite web mashups and why? I think at the moment mine would probably be the [URL="http://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com/?GeoRssUri=http://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com/GeoRss/Feeds/Twitter.ashx&GeoRssUpdateInterval=5"]Twitter Atlas[/URL] which shows you where active twitters actually are on a map. What's yours?  |
| | Following on from the success of our first blogging contest here at DaniWeb, we are proud to announce the start of an all new, even better competition with some truly amazing prizes. If you’ve got something to say about IT, say it in your DaniWeb blog during the months of …  |
| | 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 … |
| | So, World of Warcraft has hit eight million subscribers across four continents and is played in seven languages, and it is only two years old. Latest figures released show that there are a couple of million North American players, one and half million in Europe and a whopping great three … |
| | 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 … |
| | Specifically I hate hotel WiFi, apart from those odd few times it actually works. Take last night, staying in a very expensive ($750 per night) central London hotel - it's OK, I wasn't paying the bill :) I had been out delivering a keynote speech to a collection of the … |
| | Congratulations and welcome to our newest Featured Blogger here at DaniWeb, the superbly interesting author of the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/blog73097.html"]Right On - What IT really is[/URL] blog, the one and only [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/member73097.html"]joeprogrammer[/URL]. If you've not read it yet, you might want to start as it really is good stuff. Recent postings include … |
| | 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 … |
| | Please also give your hearty congratulations and warmest welcome to the latest DaniWeb Featured Writer, roryt. Rory has been devoting time to putting together some excellent tutorials for the benefit of the community here, and for this reason richly deserves Featured Writer status. Check out some of his latest tutorials … |
| | Here's hoping that your 2007 will be everything you want it to be, and that DaniWeb will continue to play a part in it. Thanks to everyone for their contributions during 2006, we couldn't have grown to where we are today without you, the DaniWeb community. Nice one :mrgreen: |
| | 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 … |
| | So, anyone else on DaniWeb going to be at the Osmosis TechFest in Bangalore, India on the 14th December? Indeed, anyone here from that area? Not sure where I am going to be staying as of yet, or how much spare time I will have (PR's tend to organise lots … |
| | Hmmm. Is today the day that my [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/blog67225.html"]Inside Edge[/URL] blog here at DaniWeb will clock up the 100,000th viewing? Looking like a distinct possibility. Do I get a cake or something when it does? :lol: |
| | Oh well, Google has dumped us out of the news index again with all the usual lame excuses which don't hold water such as our feed isn't edited (yes it is, only featured postings are submitted to Google News and they have to be chosen by one of the Staff … |
| | As it says really, check out [URL="http://www.ie7.com"]www.ie7.com[/URL] which seems to have slipped past Microsoft for now at least. |
| | 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 … |
| | I have today posted my 100th blog here, hitting the DaniWeb century, a technology ton-up, the big one... Err, well, I am too easily pleased perhaps :)  |
| | Wow, what a great response to the blogging competition. Lots of new blogs, and even more interesting postings. From everyone at DaniWeb a sincere thank you to all that took part, and we hope you will continue to intrigue, humor, annoy and inform us with your blogs even though the … |
| | Dani, bless her, has pulled an allnighter (literally) and has implemented tagging for DaniWeb blogs. Can I ask anyone here who blogs, when they have time, to go and edit their postings to add tags please. It doesn't take long, and is very straightforward in typical Dani style. You'll notice … |
| | DaniWeb members, that is. Will the 100,000th member register today? :cheesy: |
| | For the first time ever, I gave in to the pressure from my better half and agreed not to take my computer on vacation with me this year. A decision that proved hard to make as, also for the first time since starting my own business 15 years ago, we … |
| | [B]Release your inner blogger, and you could be a winner with DaniWeb[/B] Ever thought about starting a blog right here on DaniWeb and can’t think why you haven’t? Ever wondered if anyone would really be interested in what you have to say about IT? Ever dreamed about getting all your … |
| | Sorry to let the ego flow, but I've just got back from a day in London at the UK IT Security Journalism Awards 2006. Somehow I managed to win both the Best Security Feature award and IT Security Journalist of the Year 2006 as well. To say I am chuffed … |
| | 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? |
| | How do you enter DaniWeb? Via the home page every time, or with a shortcut straight to the section or forum you use the most? If the latter, do you ever visit the home page and if so how often? |
| | Anyone a member of asmallworld.net, and have the inclination to throw an invite to join in my general direction? |
| | If you are using the Outlook 2007 Beta, what anti-spam solution are you using with it and to what effect? |
| | 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 :) |
| | The title kind of says it all really: if you have a blog here at DaniWeb why do you use it, and why don't you use it more. If you don't have one, what's stopping you from starting? No hidden agenda, other than as the 'Staff Blogger' I'm interested in … |
| | Here in the UK there has been a growing, and nasty, trend over the last year for teenagers (mainly) to film unprovoked attacks on innocent victims using their cellphones. The resulting video footage or images are then distributed to friends in an almost cult like fashion. This has become known … |
| | 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 … |
| | WHO IS HAPPYGEEK? Up until the mid 80s my life had been pretty normal: wife, kids, decent job (managing a golf club and snooker hall), couple of cars, suburban home. Then everything changed when viral encephalitis came to visit. A year in hospital, 8 years to follow in a wheelchair, …  |
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