Posts by happygeek

By getting coverage on Internet-based news sites, relevant industry sites etc etc. All of which help spread the word and, hopefully, increase site visibility to your target audience.

No, please do not share them here. These type of lists end up as a huge spam-fest and we are in the process of deleting them at the moment...

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If anyone outside of Yahoo! (or Google, or Bing, or any search engine) knew that SEO would be easy.

And the search engine would be useless and obsolete.

That's why I got out of that particular rat race. I get up at 5am, and am in the office (only a mile away from home) by 5.30am and back home again for lunch. Then the afternoon is, more often than not, mine.

Less stressful = more productive.

I found that taping it to the next toe helped, certainly wouldn't want to be rubbing anything into to be honest :)

I'm around, but it's hard to talk to someone who's making little sense. What has your Karl Marx post got to do with the price of fish?

Working day, however, I'll bite. I have been self-employed for the past 20+ years and when I started I would regularly work 12 or even 14 hour days. Now I start at 5.30am most days and I'm out of the office by 11.30am. So what's that, six hours total - take off half an hour for drinking coffee and using the toilet and I'm left with 5.5 hours of solid working time. Of course, it's not quite that straightforward as I also take my work with me and will find myself doing odd bits and bobs at home or in the coffee shop etc. I guess if you added it all up then I would probably put in an eight hour day all told.

The important thing is that it doesn't feel like an eight hour day, it feels like I work mornings only. That means I don't get as fatigued as I used to when I never left the office. Technology has made this possible. Not robots, but it's a start...

And to get back to the point of the OP, by only spending the morning at my desk I find myself out and about doing things (not sitting down) for much of the afternoon.

Your username is not M though, is it? If the header showed 1.11<M/> we would have to start another thread...

For my needs, and I can only speak for myself, the current forums link system is working well enough right now.

So get better content. Simples.

That's much cleaner and less fussy on mobile now, and consequently more useful. Thanks Dani :)

@deceptikon

James, suggesting a journalist could be disingenuous as in "pretending that one knows less about something than one really does" is scandalous. I have never heard such a thing ;-)

@Hiroshe

The report hasn't been published to the public, so no link. The research was conducted by Vanson Bourne, covered 250 UK IT decision makers working in organisations of at least 250 employees, across an array of industries. The nature of the questioning determines the answers, of course, and if anything I'm surprised that only 64% expected to be targeted. That suggests to me the other 36% are living in cloud cuckooland :) Everyone is a target.

Could be interpreted as a very small community with a stutter.

1.11 m-m-members...

There's an awful lot of repetition in the lists that it opens up, with the same forums showing (I know it will be different for everyone) in favorites/recently updtaed/popular etc.

More useful for mobile users, I would suggest, is something that simply mirrors the existing category/sub-forum structure and lets us go to any forum rather than just the ones that get to populate these lists.

Why not just concentrate on providing a site with content that people will want to consume long term, rather than gaming Google?

Good point Prit.

I'm probably alone in having been MM blind :)

I've not come across it before, I have to admit. I do wonder how many people today would see 1M and think in terms of Roman numerals? That would be some serious geek going on :)

But, just maybe that lack of growth and the lack of usability on mobile devices in the past are linked. Now that DaniWeb is fully mobile, I would hope that those numbers change. I will certainly be accessing from my Nexus tablet now, no excuse not to anymore. It will make my modding/admin life much easier.

I know, I'm not a normal user :)

Yay!

But what is 'MM' out of curiosity? 1.11 millimetres? :)

Yay. You fixed it Dani. Now I have no excuse for not keeping an eye on things when away from the office. Damn! ;-)

Apart from the text editor issue (which is obviously a big one for me, when trying to do any kind of mod/admin work remotely) the site does look really good on Android. It's a joy to read and navigation is good etc.

Second bug is Android specific, PMs work fine on iOS.

Screenshot from Android tablet attached (ANdroid screencap isn't showing the offset cursor, or any cursor for that matter) - this is what I get for posting/replies/PMs etc.

Second bug, sent a reply to a PM via the Android tablet and all the recipient got was a blank message - the body text was not included at all.

First bug, Android (KitKat, latest update) on a Nexus 7 2013 LTE tablet, when composing a reply/post the edit box is hugely magnified to the point where I can only see a word or two on screen. Cursor is also offset one character to the left.

I look forward to using DaniWeb on my 7" Android tablet away from the office in that case, and will be sure to report back any bugs I come across. :)

If the site allows guest posting then the answer would be yes.

If the site does not allow guest posting then the answer would be no.

Next...

Welcome to DaniWeb.

Other than shouting? ;-)

Welcome aboard the good ship DaniWeb.

Welcome again, Bartlomiej.

I have shaved my head (either totally or partly - I had a long dreadlocked mohawk for some years) for the best part of 20 years now, but have had a beard for most of that time. The beard has varied from a soul patch through to mutton chops and the current 'just let the bugger grow wild' hobo/unix beard look :)

I think the fact that nearly three-quarters of those questioned (and the research was of 250 organisations of 250+ seats size in the UK) said they were still running machines on XP within the enterprise. is surprising. With my consultant hat on I expected it to big a biggish number, but not that big. Of course, what the research isn't saying is that that those enterprises are running solely on XP but rather are still using XP on some of their machines which could explain the size of the statistic.

Actually, the 64% stat is all businesses, regardless of OS. The headline refered to the organisations rather than the OS - I just picked the most interesting two stats (IMHO) from the research. Apologies if that led you down the road, not intentional.

I have contributed to the 'Real World Computing' section of PC Pro magazine here in the UK for, come the next edition, what will be 20 years. During all of the time contributors to the section, consisting of coders and IT consultants, have been affectionately known as beardies. This despite only a handful of us actually sporting the same.

Which got me to thinking, how many beardies are there on DaniWeb? More to the point, do beards and coders/developers/techies/geeks still get thought of as inseperable?

So, go on then, do you have a beard?*

*Ladies need not respond unless they really want to...

According to research commissioned by security vendor Bit9 + Carbon Black, nearly half (49%) of the organisations questioned admitted they simply didn't know if their businesses had been compromised or not. This uncertainty regarding cyber-attack detection ability comes in stark contrast to the 32% who confirmed they had been attacked during the previous 12 months and the 64% expecting to be targeted in the next 12 months.

Looking a little closer at the data, when it comes to who might be attacking them, hacktivists on 86% bizarrely came top of the list ahead of cyber-criminals with 77% and disgruntled employees on 61%. If those stats were a little odd, to say the least (hacktivists are the biggest threat to your business, really?) then the ones regarding XP were even more worrying.

Apparently some 74% of the 250 organisations queried were still running machines on Windows XP despite it having reached end-of-life status and the security implications that brings with it. In fact, only 29% of those still running XP had any plans to replace the OS.

One cannot help but wonder if the XP figures are in any way connected to the number of organisations running point-of-sale systems of which less than half were confident they could stop advanced threats or targeted attacks?

Argh. Broken toes hurt lots. When I last broke my little toe (have broken one twice, and another once) I couldn't sleep and ended up constructing a makeshift duvet tent thing out of some wire I had laying around. That made things much better.

Now, I wear steel toe cap boots all the time - but not in bed, obviously, that would just be kinky...

The average car is increasingly becoming a vehicle for the Internet; but does this also make it a vehicle for cybercrime? Security vendor Kaspersky Lab, in cahoots with Spanish digital media outfit IAB, reckons that software updates, in-car mobile apps and privacy are all areas which have ripe potential for the car crook to launch an attack.

Announcing the first 'Annual Connected Cars Study' which aims to provide an overview of the Internet car market, Kaspersky Lab and IAB hope that some unity can be provided to the pretty fragmented software ecosystem offered by car manufacturers currently.

In developing a proof of concept to analyse how safe it is to connect a car to the Internet, principal security researcher for Kaspersky Lab, Vicente Diaz, identified several likely attack vectors. The proof of concept, which was based on an analysis of the BMW ConnectedDrive system, revealed the following danger zones:

Stolen Credentials

Data needed to access BMW’s website could be stolen using traditional methods such as social engineering or keyloggers and could result in unauthorised third-party access to user information and, possibly, the vehicle itself by installing a mobile app to enable remote services before opening the car and driving off.

Mobile Applications

By activating mobile remote opening services on your phone a new set of virtual keys for your car are created which could give anyone who steals your smartphone instant access to your car. With the stolen smartphone it might then be possible to change database applications and bypass …

Ah, so you were the person who really wanted Vista were you Rev? I knew the mystery identity would be revealed one day :)

What deceptikon said. Again ;-)

I have used 'cat on keyboard' as a reason to delete posts consisting of just 'r4fdctr£$%3&%' or similar before.

coffee. lots of string black coffee. important copy deadline to meet. so even more coffee :)

Which people? Seriously, I don't know anyone, not a single one, who still uses a directory site and I know a lot of people. This has been true for many years now. Search killed the directory model dead, as Dani says, as a doornail.

welcome

Rev, I generally only apply that rule if the posting also has a signature file with link. After all, the rule actually states in full: Do ensure that all posts contain relevant content and substance and are not simply vehicles for external links.

What deceptikon said... ;-)

There is no doubt that SEO is an important part of the online marketing machine. Lest we forget, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and only a fool would imagine that they could do business online without being indexed by the Gods of Search (Google, Bing, Yahoo!) However, there is more to marketing your business than making it search engine friendly; and blowing your entire marketing budget on SEO could prove a costly mistake.

Traditionally, marketing your business (any business) has involved understanding who your customers are and how they think and feel. This is no different in the Internet age, but it is easier. Think of product marketing as participating in a conversation and the sale as a logical conclusion to your chat. The most obvious method of reading the market today, and engaging those potential customers, is social media. Forget 'conversation' as a marketing metaphor, with social media you can quite literally talk to the market. You need to think about Social Media Optimization, or SMO. So devote part of your budget to creating, and maintaining, a meaningful social media presence.

What do we mean by meaningful? Well anything other than token would be the glib answer, albeit pretty accurate. Don't just create an account because your competitors are on Facebook or Twitter, but create an account because you care about developing a relationship with the market. Create an account because you care about what that market thinks, and how it feels, about your product. Create an account …

Yes, and?

If you want help with this, then you need to be more specific as to what your problem actually is.

Let me guess, quontra123, would it involve attending one of your training courses by any chance? Sigh...

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