Posts by happygeek

Hi Steve, in Colorado, and welcome to DaniWeb from the Happy Geek. at Heathrow Airport, on the way to Helsinki, Finland :)

Hi Sadiq, may the road rise with you (old Irish saying, with similar meaning to your message) and welcome to DaniWeb...

Much appreciated!

Now that is a real shame :sad:

Steve Irwin was a one off, both in terms of knowledge and passion as well as his natural flair for television. The world needs educators such as Steve, and shall be a much emptier place without him.

Hi poolev, welcome to DaniWeb.

The right forum depends upin the nature of the problem. Take a look at Tech Talk and select the most appropriate sub-froum from there.

Hi Rose, welcome to DaniWeb. A word of advice, you might want to tone down the sig - it's a bit of a whopper isn't it?

Welcome to DaniWeb, welshy. Word of advice my friend, cut out the txt message shorthand if you want to get replies on DaniWeb, as use of professional English is one of the rules here.

Likewise. Welcome to DainWeb, Pacarus.

Speaking as a journalist in the IT field, and Contributing Editor of the UK's biggest selling monthly IT magazine, I can state that the secret to getting coverage from a press release is simple:

Have something interesting, unusual and useful to talk about.

No matter how well written, no matter if you employ the services of an expensive PR agency to distribute it, no matter what else you do - if it isn't worthy and interesting then magazines that matter, online and off, just won't cover it.

While there is merit in going for the viral marketing approach, there still needs to be a measure of weight amongst the blogs that cover the story. Volume alone is not a valid metric, in my humble opinion, and certainly does not carry the same value as getting covered by a couple of heavy hitters.

Well, according to google.co.uk it is BBC News, but they are reporting on the googling for failure points at Bush thing. :)

Hi sunflower, glad you like the introductions idea. It was meant to help ease passage into the community, instead of leaving members having to jump straight in to the Q&A forums.

Here's hoping you find all the help you need, and do indeed stick around for many months, heck years, to come.

Welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Col. The funny thing is, when I read your post title 'other people talk my language' I immediately thought: Australian.

Mind you, I'm afraid to admit it is becuase the words of that Men At Work song jumped into my head "I said, "Do you speak-a my language?" He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich."

:)

Welcome to DaniWeb!

Hi Muhammad, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Jan - welcome to DaniWeb (although I have probably already said that via PM anyway!)

Hi Poultje, welcome to the community. Biomedical engineering sounds like you make robots :)

Hi Baale, welcome to DaniWeb.

And the winner is...

mikeandike22

Congrats, we will be in touch shortly regarding your prize!

Can I take this opportunity to thank everyone who took part, but in particular toulinwoek for giving mikeandike22 such a close run contest.

And finally, keep on blogging folks. There are more competitions and prizes in the pipeline...

Hi Alex, how many hughs do you have and does he/they know you are giving him/them to the boys at Daniweb? :)

Welcome to the gang, hope you find what you are looking for!

Hi TepB, 'many problems, all the time' kind of sounds like my wife :)

Welcome to DaniWeb, you've found the right place to get help with all your problems, any time.

Hi jetfire, hopefully Daniweb will convince you to spend more time online. It's the best way to learn more about IT, and this is the best place to find the help you need.

Welcome aboard!

Hi Johhnymarz, welcome to DaniWeb.

This particular forum isn't for support questions, just to introduce yourself to the community here.

I can't point you at the right forum to post in as you don't mention which OS you are using. However, go to the Tech Talk forums and post again in the relevant forum for your OS and you should get all the help you need.

Try the Viruses, Spyware and Other Nasties forum. You should get all the help you need there.

Oh, and welcome to DaniWeb!

Hi Misko, welcome to DaniWeb. Don't worry about your English, it is much better than many native speakers to be honest!

78 huh? I wonder if that makes you the oldest member of DaniWeb?

You've come to the right place, my friend.

What branch of the military did you serve with?

Laughing is a great hobby. I meet a lot of people who share that interest. At least I think that's why they laugh when they see me...

Welcome to DaniWeb by the way :)

Hi rati, welcome to DaniWeb.

A quick word of advice, as per the rules of this place, could you use professional English in your postings rather than SMS/Texting/lEEt speak style shorthand please?

Hi Joe 91, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hmmm: geek, programming, development, java.

Yep, you are going to fit in just fine and dandy here :)

Welcome to DaniWeb!

Hi Mike, welcome to DaniWeb my friend. I'm sure that you will find all the help and support you need here, just as I'm sure that your business will grow over time. I've been running a small business for 16 years and it is still growing, slowly but surely.

Hi Frank, welcome aboard the good ship DaniWeb, may your journey with us be a pleasant one.

Hi Daniel, welcome to DaniWeb my friend. Be sure that if anyone can help you it is the community of fine techy souls we have here at DaniWeb...

Hi and welcome to DaniWeb. This isn't the right forum for asking for help, but take a look around and you'll find one that is. A little hint though, you will need to be a lot more specific if you are going to get the help you want.

Indeed, and it shows!

Hello and welcome to DaniWeb.

Must be a layout that works though. Dennis Publishing (who are behind the IT Pro site) invest an awful lot of time and money into researching such things and wouldn't be placing ads there just to please the design creatives, that's for sure.

Ah, see what you mean. Still pretty spooky though :)

I can't lay claim to having any input on the design though, being purely a freelance word monkey (something I am seriously considering putting on my next set of business cards.)

I was surfing the 'net last night and reading some of your articles, Davey, and was actually surprised to see that ITPro's homepage has the same three ads in the exact same positions as DaniWeb's homepage.

Not here. ITPro is showing with all three ad spaces for RSA Security, while DaniWeb has IRC Chat at the top, Geek's Lounge taking up the other two.

Spooky though, bet it freaked you out a bit :)

What Wolfy said :)

And welcome to the DaniWeb community my friend.

I didn't have a problem before, but for the last few days I have been thinking that the adverts looked, I dunno, 'slicker' but couldn't put my finger on why.

Dontcha just hate computers, and networking for that matter, sometimes? :)

Hi Ahmad, anyone who lists web design and development as hobbies is OK with me. Welcome indeed!!!

Hi Himani, welcome to the DaniWeb community my friend. What kind of testing are you training in?

Hi Sarah, welcome to Daniweb. I suspect that we can learn a lot from you as well as you from us.

Hi megs, welcome to DaniWeb. Here's hoping we can sort out your FiL troubles...

Hi Boki, now emerging multimedia interface designer sounds like a cool and very interesting job! Welcome to DaniWeb my friend.

Hi Pete, that all sounds really cool. Looking forward to reading the blog! Welcome to DaniWeb, by the way...

Hi Kevin and Harpy both (sounds like a new sitcom in the making), and a very warm welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Anonymusius, I think I used to be 15 once but it was so long ago I have forgotten.

Welcome to DaniWeb, hope you find what you are looking for here.

Hi neemkar, welcome to DaniWeb. I hope you find the help and community you seek here.

Hang all you like, you never know your knowledge hunt may have just come to an end at DaniWeb!

Welcome to the community.