Posts by happygeek

It isn't, but apart from the video ads I'm not seeing any served here either so have alerted Dani to this and I'm sure she will sort it ASAP.

Brilliant news that you got your problem sorted quickly. Hope you continue to find us a useful and friendly resource.

Welcome to DaniWeb by the way.

Hi and welcome to DaniWeb. I don't think age excludes anyone from the IT generation, at least not around these parts...

Hi Arunkumar, welcome to DaniWeb my friend.

Hi and welcome to DaniWeb. You need to head over to the JSP forum with that question for an answer though.

Hi Ishmael, glad to have you here. Welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Jonosss, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Lora, welcome to DaniWeb. You need to head over to the Viruses, Spyware and Other Nasties forum with this one. You can even post the HijackThis log there for analysis.

Hi Omi, welcome to DaniWeb.

What she said! :)

I get a lot of odd PMs, but nothing of this nature. If I know about them I can deal with the members involved. Phishing attempts in forum or by PM will be dealt with swiftly and firmly, and treated in the same zero tolerance manner as spam.

Hi Peter, welcome to DaniWeb.

He doesn't actually care, it was spam. The url is 'hidden' in punctuation so as to hopefully catch a few unsuspecting folk and dodge our eagle eyes.

Wrong on the latter count...

I am unfathomable.

Hi Chris, welcome to DaniWeb - looks like you have already discovered just what a great tech support community this is.

Hi Mark, welcome to DaniWeb.

I was just about to suggest you try asking about your lappy screen over in the displays forum, but see you are already there. Good luck, you are in the right place...

Hi Amol, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi RT, welcome to DaniWeb from a graduate of the university of hard knocks :)

Hello young man, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi guitar man, welcome to DaniWeb.

Thanks all.

What would also be really helpful, assuming you like the post your are reading at the time of course, is if you could use the links provided to add a bookmark at Slashdot.

Also, most of the blogs get added to Digg, so if you can go and add your vote there that would help exposure.

Easiest way to do all of this is to use the trackbacks feature which should take you straight to the relevant posting at each site when you hit the links.

Using trackbacks you can also see where else the blog postings are getting coverage, and if so inclined add your votes/comments at sites such as Netscape, Reddit and NewsVine. I see my latest Microsoft blog posting is being featured on both the technology and Microsoft home pages at NewsVine as I write, for example. Now it would be really cool to get something featured on their overall front page, but that involves people popping along and making their votes count...

Hi Sandeep, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi David, nice to have you here. Welcome to DaniWeb.

An introduction to what, or whom for that matter?

Agreed, Microsoft has done the one thing they should really never do: mess with a well established UI.

One of the main reasons people quote for not moving to Firefox, in surveys various publications I work for have carried out, is they don't want to learn a new UI. It is almost like Microsoft is daring them to swap...

Hi Anne, welcome to DaniWeb. To start a new thread just go to the forum concerned and click on the 'POST A NEW THREAD' button towards the top of the page (it's silver, on a yellow menu bar.)

Oh, and if you can post a comment here to let us know that you have submitted us that would be way cool as it would give us a way to gauge the response - both of DaniWeb members but also of Google News should they choose to ignore a large volume of folk making the same suggestion.

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 Writers) or is a one-man operation (again not totally true, I might write most of the featured news entries, but if and when you guys post something newsworthy and relevant it also gets featured - hint hint) and so on.

So here's my cunning plan. As Google is doing the usual head buried in sand so you don't exist, la la la, thing with us, convincing them of the error of their ways is a tad difficult.

But, there is an option for users of Google News to recommend sources to be added to the index. Now considering some of the tat that seems to get credited as a reputable news source, I see no reason why members of Daniweb should not get together and submit us a site worthy of inclusion.

Anyone who wants to help get DaniWeb on the Google News map, please head over to the recommend a news source online form and suggest us with the URL of:

http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/featured-timestamp.html

Maybe if enough of us pester them with genuine requests they will sit up and take notice. Well, it has to be worth a try, doesn't it?

Hi, and welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Sunil, welcome to DaniWeb my friend.

What he said, in triplicate :)

Hi Brian, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hello, and welcome to DaniWeb.

<Monty Python mode>

Is this the £5 argument?

</Monty Python mode>

Too late, I've spotted you now...:)

Hi Rusty, glad that you are liking what you see so far. Welcome to DaniWeb.

No. I said 'utter crap' too. :)

Seriously though, there are very few sensitive souls who would find the word crap offensive, whereas cursing and truly foul language is a totally different thing and just won't be tolerated hereabouts.

Hi there, welcome to DaniWeb. Can't fault your 5%/95% logic...

No. He said 'utter crap.'

I've forgotten what we were talking about now.

I'm so old I've forgotten how old I am...

Hi tanvon, welcome to DaniWeb. I have snipped your URLs out of the post, and would suggest you include them in your signature (accessed from your Control Panel) if you want people to see them.

Hi Ginnie, welcome to DaniWeb.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, welcome to Daniweb my friend...

Hi Ian and Godfear both, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Sen, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Ned, a welcomely-doodle-doodly to DaniWeb.

Hi nice guy, as mentioned before, you need to ask in the appropriate forum over in the software development section.

A couple of pointers though:

Please don't ask for help by email it is against the rules here (we like to keep the help onsite so that others can benefit from it)

Please don't piggy-back another thread, like this one, to ask your question as that is also a no-no (makes it difficult to know who is answering what)

Cool, chill, reeeelax.

That's the official word from one of the Admins here, me :)

As long as the banter here is light-hearted I am happy for you guys to chat away. This is the lounge, after all.

However, I have deleted a copy of postings where there was either offensive language which is against DaniWeb rules, or the message was likely to start a flame war.

The mods here are not trying to rain on your parade, as it were, just trying to keep things civil.

Hi Jet, welcome to DaniWeb my Chinese chicken loving friend.

Welcome to DaniWeb, and good luck with your project...