Posts by happygeek

Hi there, and welcome to DaniWeb.

This is just the introductions forum where you say hi to the community, so you need to post your question in the appropriate forum which in this case looks like being IT Careers and Business.

Hi TQ, welcome to DaniWeb. You've landed in the introductions forum which is pretty much just that: a place to say hello and introduce yourself to the rest of the community.

What it isn't, is a place to ask support questions.

I would suggest that you re-think your question to make it clearer exactly what help you are after because as-is it is rather too vague for anyone to be able to offer anything other than equally vague advice I suspect. Then head over to the Software Development forums, have a read and choose the most appropriate place to ask it.

Hope that helps.

OK, there seems little point in going any further with this as you seem to have gone down the road of personal insult now.

Poll says 4, including thee and me.

How can I be wrong when I'm reporting my own feelings about this?

OK, perhaps I should have said 'in my opinion, you are quite wrong' but assumed you would realise that.

This is a commercial site but its existence is made viable by the willingness of experts, its membership, to offer their time and advice for nothing.

Indeed, and that advice can only be given and received if it is not lost amongst a multitude of spam postings, off-topic drivel and even plain wrong advice. Which is where the mods come in, and why their job is so vital to the value of this resource. Without them, without the rules that are in place, you might just as well go Google and take your chances with the information you find. Forum management is essential in maintaining the value of this support resource, and if that management is too warm and fluffy it just won't work.

Perhaps you need to ask yourself how sensible it is to treat them like naughty school kids.

That is quite simply not the case. Nobody is treated like a naughty school kid, unless they behave like one of course :)

Serious question: would you rather there were no rules here, and no forum management? If so, do your truly believe the value of the resource would remain so high, with regard to the quality of support offered and access to it?

Good points both:

How many? More than 4 I would say, otherwise it only takes a couple of no-shows and the whole thing is ruined.

Where? Yep, depends on the numbers. Over 6 and under 10 would seem to be best suited to a restaurant setting, over 10 a pub/club/private room with a bar or similar.

Hi Peter, which part of Essex are you from? Davey, the ex South London lad who upped and moved to Yorkshire many years ago...

Hindu festival/holiday.

Mikey, you are most welcome to DaniWeb with that spirit of information sharing.

Amen to that!

They may have come up with a colour that appeals to the majority but, if user retention is your aim, you also have to consider the effect that management style and restrictive usage policies have on membership.

You are quite wrong, I'm afraid.

The user policies at DaniWeb are far from restrictive, and do benefit the majority of members. Yes, we are tough on what we perceive as spam or solicitation, yes we fight to keep all discussion on-site, and yes we do care about the professional look and feel of the place. But remember also that DaniWeb is one of just a handful of resources of this size and quality that offer technical support totally free of charge. The money for that has to come from somewhere, and that somehwere is advertising, and advertisers are influenced about how professional the site looks.

Perhaps you need to ask yourself if your love of coloured fonts within non-code related postings should come before the need to keep DaniWeb viable?

As for the Dani management style, well I seem to recall in this very thread that she changed her decision about colour based upon the input from the membership. However, there does have to be a chain-of-command within any online community, or at least any professional one that hopes to remain that way, and at DaniWeb that consists of Admin (Dani and now myself), Super Mods and Mods.

I won't say we get everything right, but we learn …

Hi Roshan, welcome to DaniWeb. Hope Mumbai is warmer and drier than Yorkshire at the moment :)

Welcome to DaniWeb all the way from Joberg, not me you understand as I am on a train heading out of London for my Yorkshire, England home :)

Here's hoping the love affair continues!

Hello there, welcome to Daniweb. You have posted in the community introductions forum which is just a place for you to say hi to other members and maybe tell us a little about yourself if you want to.

It isn't the right forum for technical support.

Sounds like you need to be exploring the Software Development forums...

Hello and welcome to DaniWeb. It's great to hear that your experience here has been a happy one.

Hello and welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Carl, welcome to DaniWeb. Always nice to bump into folk who remember what it was like online before broadband. I recall using a 300 baud modem with an acoustic coupler, for example, and the modem was bigger than a shoebox (about as fast, come to think of it, as well.)

The good news

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.)

The bad news

We won't be there for long unless the qulaity of the blogs themselves changes.

The reminder

Can Dani and I remind everyone that DaniWeb blogs are perhaps a little different to some other blogging systems out there.

If you want an outlet to talk about politics, the food you like, how you are feeling today yada yada yada, then go get posting on Blogger - DaniWeb blogs are not for you.

So who are DaniWeb blogs for?

Anyone who wants to talk about technology, in particular technology in the news and put their own spin, add their own opinion, to the story. Any kind of IT that is covered within the forums is also fair game in the blogs.

What we are really looking for here is quality content, thought provoking, well written content.

Not questions, not pleas for help, and not a short cut and paste of a new story from another feed either.

Now that we have, finally, got back into the Google News index with all the exposure that brings to DaniWeb, let's try and stay there. Poor quality, off-topic blogging is not the way forward: and we will be taking a firmer stance in the blogs as a result.

Er, sorry, didn't …

Spanner.

I just like saying it. Soup comes a close second...

In fairness, tabbed browsing was hardly a Firefox innovation in the first place. I think the first to adopt a true Multiple Document Interface approach was NetCaptor which wrapped around the IE rendering engine and was first released back in 1999. Opera also got there before Firefox if my memory serves me correctly.

Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix, think along the lines of a much more raw version of Brokeback Mountain and you are not far off.

Firefox 2: The Clint Eastwood of browser clients.

Opens up all sorts of possible marketing opportunites :)

"Do you feel lucky Microsoft? Well, do you?"

Unfortunately, I have to admit that I did know she was referring to herself there. I just couldn't resist adopting the description for a nano-second :)

Shawshank is probably in my top three movies list, but gets beaten by 'My Own Private Idaho' and 'Brazil' in that order.

Hi Dennis, welcome to DaniWeb despite making me feel old (OK, I am old but that's not the point) - only 16 and already all that web coding experience.

Hi Venkat, welcome to the DaniWeb gang.

Hi Mughal, welcome aboard my friend.

Hi Nkosi, welcome to DaniWeb. Which part of the North West are you from, says a South Londoner who decamped to South Yorkshire 12 years ago now (in typical Southerner stylee, everywhere past Watford is 'North' to me.)

Make that three of us. :)

I've been called many things, but cute is a new one :)

OK folks, I have now added a poll in order to get a clear idea of numbers.

Please only vote yes if you are 100% up for it...

I'm an unusual, 6'2", 16 stone, shaven headed, tattooed geek :)

Welcome to DaniWeb!

Hi TowerJack, welcome to DaniWeb and here's hoping you do indeed stick around. We've got a lot to offer anyone prepared to put a little into the community.

More a bug fixing exercise than a full point release, in terms of added functionlity and features, in my never humble opinion. I have been calling it Firefox 1.6 around here.

Not that it sucks, just that it sucks they haven't done more to justify the 2.0 release.

The real irony is, on the feature front, that they seem to have been playing catch up with IE7 this time instead of the other way around (anti-phishing tools and browser session saving) which could point to Microsoft getting back some development momentum here.

Today it would have to be:

hurting

I have had a sinus headache for the best part of a week, and then went and had 4 hours more tattoo work done to my 'sleeve' yesterday so my right arm is feeling a bit raw right now.

The truth is, it depends upon which machine I am using at the time. My main browser client at the moment is FF2(RC1) because I have been putting it through its paces so I can write a news/opinion piece about it for PC Pro magazine. My secondary browser client is FF1.5.07 as that's on the desktop machine I use for much of my research browsing and also on the sub-notebook I tote around with me. Next on my list would be either IE7(RC1) or Opera 9 as they are both on another machine I use when not in my main office. And finally, Opera Mobile as that's my client of choice when using my Windows powered MDA Vario II smartphone.

I guess I might not be your average user though :)

Hi Jacob, welcome to the friendliest tech community online, bar none. If you can't make new friends here, there is no hope for you :)

Hi Nawang, welcome to DaniWeb from the pretty non-programmer that is happygeek.

I wish I hadn't asked now :sad:

I was expecting some whacky and fun history to the nickname. Sorry for dragging it back up for you...

Hi Antec, welcome to DaniWeb.

Symantec don't call it 'crimeware' now for nothing :)

Hi Hudgy, welcome to the DaniWeb gang :)

Hiya, and welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Lorrie, welcome to Daniweb!

Hi Marcel, welcome to DaniWeb my levitating bovine friend.

Hey Scott! Welcome back, we've missed you here...

Hi there, welcome to Daniweb...

I've built many a pringles cantenna style device, have even had the odd guide to doing so published in various magazines here in the UK.

But the point I was trying to make in this thread was not about home made hacking alternatives to hotel wifi, rather the appalling quality of hotel wifi in the UK at least. If you have paid for the service you don't expect, nor should you, to have to hack your way into getting it...

It occupies much of my time also, writing about it, giving keynotes to directors of banks/credit card companies and even government representatives here in the UK. It really has become the single biggest problem we all face in IT, methinks...