Posts by happygeek

And even funnier, if I click 'continue to the site anyways' or whatever the button says, it loads perfectly well.

This is one of the most mind-boggling things I've seen for a while. Most likely the user isn't even going to click on the struck throuigh link, and if they do and see the doesn't exist message they are unlikely to click the continue anyway button...

Even odder. In the original post DaniWeb has struck the Bit.ly shortened URL through as a broken link as well. WTF?

I can assure you that the Microsoft page exists, I've just visited it. And I can assure you the URL is correct as it was a direct cut and paste for both the original and the shortened version.

Can I change that to WTAF instead :-)

Now that is odd, as the link seems to be left alone here yet was quite clearly struck through in the original thread. You can see from the edit history of the original where I changed it.

[later] Ah, that was just my cached copy - a refresh and DaniWeb continues to have the screaming abdabs and breaks a perfectly valid URL...

OK, so in this thread I offered advice to visit the Microsoft troubleshooter here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/927477/how-to-troubleshoot-a-damaged-presentation-in-powerpoint-2007-and-powerpoint-2010 and DaniWeb broke the link and struck a line through it to say it didn't exist, when it quite clearly does.

It may well break again here, let's see. I suspect that DaniWeb isn't handling long URLs very well.

I ended up doing a Bit.ly on it so the chap can still get to the site, but I'd much rather have left the original so he knows he is going to Microsoft...

Have you tried the steps that Microsoft recommend in this troubleshooter specifically for PP2007?

See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/927477/how-to-troubleshoot-a-damaged-presentation-in-powerpoint-2007-and-powerpoint-2010

The link above WILL take you to the Microsoft site if you click it and then click the continue anyway button on the next DaniWeb page that says it is broken. It isn't broken, DaniWeb seems to be having a funny turn...

Hi Kanga, or is it Roodle? :-) Welcome to DaniWeb, hope you enjoy your time here...

Did you have to remind me that we used to support LaTeX? <shudders from the reanimated memory>

I've not noticed any pattern to it, to be honest Dani. Seems pretty random. If it does happen again I will start keeping a log to see if any pattern emerges.

"All our experts are native writers" yeah, write, rite, erm right?

I had trouble picking myself up from the floor after reading "Our experts are striving to vanish all your academic worries" and then "Our Team members are highly qualified and experienced who are best in writing all sort of accounting topics and well-formats" on the 'about us' page...

ROFL <bonk>

Sorry Bob, but that reply really didn't make much sense. Care to reword it so that it can be of help to our new friend?

Given your poor grasp of the English language, as demonstrated in that post, I hope your cheating for cash service has a good refund policy or is using a fake address to prevent angry cheaters bashing your door down when they fail whatever exam it was they couldn't be bothered to revise for...

Just to prove I wasn't going mad, got it again today (image attached) with a url for the error of https://www.daniweb.com/js/articles/reply

OK, so I must have thought I had cut and pasted it when I didn't as I got the error wording wrong originally. :-)

Anyway, it's pretty damn close and here it is:

What?
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Hmmm. I'd say 3, but amended to make the association/reason even clearer:

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Hehe. I know I'm on a lot of meds, but I am not imagining this one :-) As I say, I actually cut and pasted it off the screen so as to save typing time. God knows where it came from, or where it has gone, but as it's fixed itself I would suggest we stop torturing our minds and move on. If it comes back I will screenshot it to death...

Does Task Manager show anything unexpected running?

Have you actually examined the Chrome extensions list to make sure nothing unexpected is there as well?

Is it just the Chrome client that causes your x360 to freeze?

When you say freeze, does the x360 just sit there until you give it the three-finger salute/power off, or does it crash?

Have you executed a deep scan with a decent anti-malware app such as Malwarebytes (they also have a solid rootkit scanner which might be worth running)?

Sorry for all the questions, but I'm a happy Spectre x360 user myself (i5-6200U, 8GB, Win10) and Chrome (56.0.2924.87) is my browser of choice. Has all the latest updates and doesn't exhibit this freezing behaviour, so I'm keen to get to the bottom of it so I can avoid whatever it is in the future :-)

Yep. Identical to your other 'oops' error messages in UI style.

Didn't happen at all yesterday, so I'm guessing that it was something at my end. I'm just trying to figure out what at the moment. I will mark this as solved so as not to clutter your mind :-)

It was a real PITA yesterday. Only happening on DaniWeb, browser client no problem with anything else. Cleared the cache, restarted client etc etc. Only thing I didn't do was logout and back into DW again.

Anyway, as I say, seems to be working as expected today and not encountered the phantom 403 (I assume it was just a dressed up 403 error) at all so far.

That was the specific error: a big Oops followed by the line 'you don't have permission to post here' - I cut and pasted it from the screen in the root post of this thread. Haven't seen it at all today as of yet, and I've replied to a couple of things so far.

Happens everywhere, using Chrome on W10 FWIW. Not being logged out, unless I'm invisibly being logged back in when I refresh the page. There is no step between compose reply (while logged in) - get oops message so reload page - reply sends OK (while logged in). Cookies, possibly but nothing has changed at my end either so can't imagine why I'd be seeing these all of a sudden. Will continue to investigate here.

Jamie - hit the 'forums' button and browse, or go direct to the MacOS forum here if you prefer. You can also use the DaniWeb tagging system and search by whatever tag you want to find, Mac, iOS etc etc...

Generally speaking, when it comes to being as secure as possible (and, just as importantly, staying as secure as possible) newer is better. This is certainly the case if we are talking mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS.

As of the start of March 2017, according to Apple's own metrics some 79% of Apple mobile devices are using the latest iOS 10. Pretty good rates of adoption considering this version of the OS is only six months old.

Now compare that to Google's official figures which reveal that as of March 2017 just 0.3% of Android devices are using the very latest 'Nougat' Android 7.1 version of the OS. Even if we fold in the numbers using the initial Nougat release, Android 7.0, the total barely scrapes over the 1% usage number at 1.2% to be precise.

Being really liberal with my interpretation of 'latest' and 'most secure' operating system versions for Android, which means I also fold the Marshmallow Android 6.0 version into the mix (and that has been around since December 2015 remember) it cannot manage to get up to even a third, sitting at 31.9% in total. That number is, from a security analyst perspective, truly shocking.

But not surprising.

Seriously, nobody should be surprised that Apple can get as high as 79% latest OS penetration given the control it has over the devices people use. I am surprises the number is even higher. Neither should we be surprised that the Android …

And, while editing the March newsletter, after the first 'update and send test email' button which worked OK and delivered that edit, I am now getting 'Sorry, but there is no valid Newsletter with ID 0.' and cannot save and send the test email. And it loses everything after the first edit. I will persevere, and keep the final edit here on file if this doesn't fix itself today.

OK Ben, seeing as you asked.

1. Why are you copying the work of others, with no link to the originals? See the Ed Milliband piece which you state is by Peter Jones, but do you have permission to use his work in full like this? No mention of it, and no mention that it's not an original piece of work for your site. Actually, it was published here: https://nedamullen.blogspot.com/2012/07/ed-miliband-re-writes-history.html SOME FIVE YEARS AGO as well. It has also appeared elsewhere, and I suspect the original goes back even further. I can't be bothered to look any more. I could shout FAKE NEWS at you I guess, because that's what you are publishing by doing this isn't it? Your date on it is Feb 2017 by the way.

2. Love the irony of your terms and conditions which state: "You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us." Ha ha ha ha ha.

3. Over to you Ben, to explain. Not that your site will be around for long once the original publishers and authors of the work you are using get their lawyers on it.

This week I have been seeing 'Oops, you don't have permission to post here' appearing a lot after I click submit - usually when replying to a post. I compose my reply, press submit, get the Oops message, hit back, my reply has gone and if I were a newbie I would probably be gone with it rather than starting again. OK, so I compose long messages in my own text editor and paste here, but the shorter ones I don't. When I reload the page and try again, it is always OK.

Only been happening this week, last couple of days in fact.

Yep, it's the move up to sixth-form college (as it is called in the UK now) from school that they boys are making. They turn 16 over the weekend. I'm wanting the laptop to last them the two years they will be there, hence the two year warranty that JohnLewis throw in for free is important. As for when they move off to uni after that, they can buy their own bloody laptops :-)

Good to know that JL sell refurbs with their excellent warranty. I'm fine with refurbs, but this was a birthday present as well as a moving into sixth form thing and wanted to get a new machine on this occasion.

If you have forgotten the default admin login for your wi-fi router then http://www.routerpasswords.com/ will have them for you.

If you wanted some kind of help with hacking into a wi-fi network, then you have come to the wrong place I am afraid as DaniWeb does not provide help with illegal acts.

Maybe the best next step would be to clarify exactly what it is you do want and we can take it from there as your question is not clear.

The 15.6" version he's getting is 1920 x 1080, so no problem there.

Mind you, he'll probably still lust after my HP Spectre x360 with the rather spiffy 4K (3840x2160) screen...

I'd rather support a small, local business than a multinational tax avoding one. So neither here as well. I use a local minicab outfit if I need a taxi.

I used to love the old IBM ThinkPads, for just that reason. I have a couple of Lenovo machines here and while they are obviously built down to a lower budget, they are still decent machines. The IdeaPad is the budget range, but well specced and good enough for college usage methinks.

Why don't you kick things off and start by telling us why you think the service provider is 'good' if you haven't actually used them yet Joe? Or do you mean the service looks good value, or offers the functionality you are looking for?

@rubberman: yep, agreed about SSD, waste of time for the few seconds loading advantage given the cost. I'm upgrading my PS4Pro HDD this afternoon to a 2GB HDD rather than a 1GB SSD as the additional space is more important to me, and various tests seem to suggest the (average) SSD speed increase isn't that great on the PS4 as might be expected anyway. New i7's, and I am including the RAM requirement as I'm not so mean as to buy them somethine and then say 'by the way, you'll need to add this and that to be able to use it' were too expensive - simple as. Not that they really need an i7 of course, an i5 is perfectly capable for their demands. I might sound a tightarse, but when you have twins every outlay is twice the normal: the difference between a £479 and a £579 laptop really hits the budget when you are spending £1158 rather than £958.

Let's see what the Lenovo's are like when they arrive this afternoon, the lads seem happy enough with the specs when I showed them last night but how that converts to hands-on is another thing...

@pty: Good try, but it was a refurb (and I wanted new, the two year warranty at John Lewis is always hard to ignore), there was only one of them (I needed two) and they don't have any stock :-)

So, my twin boys start college (sixth form) this year and as their birthday is coming up I thought I'd kill two birds and buy them the laptop they need. I'm used to speccing out my own laptops for the office here, but when it is my money rather than my business it makes for a sharper focus. One lad is going to be studying art, the other music tech. So one needs to be able to run Abletron without hiccup (his 4GB RAM and i3 combo is underpowered), the other a variety of relatively low-end graphics stuff (not into Photoshop, but potentially might be.)

It took me more than a day to spec what I'm now hoping is the right (within my 'under £500 each' budget) laptop for them: a 15.6" Lenovo Ideapad 310 with an AMD A12, 12GB RAM and a 1Tb HDD.

What would you have gone for, given the budget restrictions? Max £500 all in (or $600 US if you prefer)

i7 machines are out of range, and most i5's would need a RAM upgrade (from the standard 4GB) that takes them out of it as well. The A12 seemed like a decent compromise, especially coupled to 12GB RAM. A two year all-in warranty was something of a deal-maker as well.

Welcome to DaniWeb my friend, but I have to say that you are going toneed to do better than that if you want the community to help you. Try giving us some context, and explaining where it is you have run into problems that maybe someone here can help with. Our commun ity is happy to help, but they are all volunteers and won't just provide 'code on demand' like this I'm afraid. You might also want to take a quick look at the posting rules here number two in 'Keep it Organized' covers all this nicely. Good luck, let's get your problem solved.

Plus, you're still in mourning for the passing of the Welsh Rugby Union team of course ;-)

I think I must be missing something in Diafol's post because of language barrier, something that Happygeek caught. Can someone explain ?

Merely letting Diafol (which is Welsh for devil) know that he would be more than welcome to return to the moderating fold here at any time... The Davy Lamp reference was just a tongue in cheek way of saying 'drop of a hat' to a Welshman, from an Englishman :)

Just for the record, you Welsh Devil, I'd welcome you back into the moderator fold at the drop of a Davy Lamp :-)

I am sure that members of DaniWeb will join me in congratulating rproffitt on his promotion to moderator with immediate effect.

While Robert may be a new moderating face to DaniWeb members, not only will you know him from his many contributions to our discussions here but what you might not know is he is also a moderator over at the very popular CNET forums.

Welcome to the moderating team Robert.

Do you have any plugins that are common to all the clients? If my network seemed OK, and the Internet connection seemed OK, that's where I would be looking next - for an extension/plugin that is behaving badly.

I think the phrase 'shit-tippers' hits the nail on the head. A noob I will nurtue, a shit-tipper I have no interest in hand-holding and community singing with to be honest. But there is a difference between the two, and usually it is fairly obvious IMHO, which means that nurturing noobs and giving shit-tippers a swift roshambo need not be mutually exclusive (again IMHO).

The slow death isn't down to question answerers not being happy. That's just a symptom of a greater illness: people are not asking the right questions, dammit people are not asking any questions.

Question answerers get fed up pretty quickly when the only questions there are to answer are either 'gimme teh codez' or 'this question has been asked a hundred times, and answered 50 times, but I cannot be bothered to put any effort into looking before asking again' or so badly constructed that they make no sense.

So people leave and go take their answers to pastures new. Which means there are less 'experts' in the community that are available to answer the good questions that trickle in. Which drives the decent users away as nobody is helping them. So the signal to noise ration drops, and drops, and drops to the point where all you see are the shitty questions and that drives away potential good new community members because they want to see high quality answers to an interesting range of questions.

This death-spiral is very difficult to break it would appear. The only hope is more question quality and a very harsh sweeping up of all the rubbish in my never humble opinion. How that gels with helping trolls and lazy fecks looking for the no-effort fix is, of course, something to ponder...

I'm currently working on my next in-depth 'long-form' posting, an article exploring Android security.

Who? ;-)

Welcome back Warren.

Aha! That's a fiendishly good idea :-)

I don't see that either (Chrome on Win10 in this case). All I see above the editor when I hit the 'Ask' button is:

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