Posts by happygeek

Please read the rules carefully, and take note of the infractions you have got already. You are currently on seven points, hitting ten would trigger an account ban for a few months.

PowerPoint (as in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations)

The troublw ith adding +1 via anonymous voting is the ease with which it could, and would, be abused. Some folk have already 'gamed' the endorsement system by setting up multiple accounts to endorse them and others to try and gain rep (which didnt work, just saw every post upvoted many times for no good reason).

Welcome, but please do not use pictures of naked ladies (soft porn) as your avatar - it makes you look like you are about 11 years old and many members find it offensive. It also breaks our keep it legal rule of: Do not post pornographic material, nor link to it

No books about SEO available? Really vinod1 - Amazon returns more than 11K results if you search for SEO in the books category.

Absolutely. If you don't know who the weak link is in the IT security chain, it's probably you. Back in the day, twenty years or so ago, we used to get a lot of help with with our 'unathorised network exploration activity' courtesy of searching skips and bins outside businesses for documents containing login data and the like; not much has really changed, apart from not needing to get your hands dirty in the dumpster of course.

Your post subject suggests you have a problem with your indexing, but your post doesn't tell us what it is.

Do you have a problem?

I very nearly did the same thing, but have learned to always check the context before pressing the spam button through hard fought experience :)

Google it...

If your site turns up, it's indexed.

I think the moderators of that particular forum, should be allowed in the review process

Absolutely agree. More often than not I see a tutorial posted that I am in no position to be able to review as I simply don't know the subject matter well enough to determine if it is accurate/worthy/misleading etc etc.

I'd like a proper peer review process, and involving the mods makes perfect sense to me as the initial first line of that process; the ongoing review happens once it is published and the community use the comments system of course.

I know what you mean about the 'working for yourself' thing. I often get told I have it easy, not least as I leave the office in the early afternoon. What people don't get is that I'm usually in the office at 5am while they are asleep, and that I work through until 1pm without breaks other than the odd five minutes to make a coffee or go to the loo. They don't see the juggling of deadlines and the pressure to get things done. They don't see that I do this seven days a week and, unless things are really bad, that includes when I am sick. They don't see the checking of emails and dealing with work stuff after I have left the office, right through to when I go to bed and until I fall asleep. They certainly don't see all the stress that accompanies being self-employed in a freelance capacity; the lack of security, uncertainty about if you will have a roof over your head next month, the certainty that you will never be able to afford to stop working...

All that said, I love my job and wouldn't want to do anything else :)

I'm not sure we would still be here, to be honest. The mod workload was such that none of us could have kept pace with it. I was doing five or six hour shifts for days/weeks on end doing nothing but tracking and deleting spam, banning spammers etc - and I was not the only one. If a solution had not been found I suspect that the entire mod team was close to simply walking away...

Sure, why not put your links all over different forums as comments. Great way to get banned for spamming.

Seriously, if you wanted a script to create a sitemap then why didn't you ask that question originally instead of what is sitemap code - please share your views?

DaniWeb members are here to help, but can only do so if you ask questions that actually make sense and are directly related to what you are actually trying to find out...

What she said :)

The spam hasn't vanished from DaniWeb, and mods continue to work behind the scenes deleting the stuff on a daily basis, however the automated spam which was threatening to destroy us a couple of years back is no longer an issue. I think we all should be grateful for the work that Dani has put in to achieve that, members and mods alike.

As a rule, people tend to upvote more than they do leave rep. The reputation stuff is usually reserved for posts that members have found really helpful/interesting or really annoying/useless.

As a platform, Android is naturally very attractive to the criminal fraternity in terms of potential profitability. After all, it has the market share and that nearly always means it has large numbers of users for whom the word security may as well be written in the Cyrillic alphabet. My analogy assumes, of course, that those are users not familiar with this particular script and I used it for good reason: new worms coming out of Russia are posing a threat to Android users.

Denis Maslennikov, a security analyst with AdaptiveMobile, has discovered a previously unknown worm called Selfmite. This comes hot on the heels of another Android worm called Samsapo which uses the old monetization chestnut of premium rate SMS message sending.

The Selfmite loader spreads using SMS as a transport mechanism, and once the malicious app is installed the worm itself propagates by sending a text message to users in the address book of the phone that has been infected rather than by doing the premium rate thing as you might expect. So how does Selfmite realise a profit?

Well, the messages it sends encourage users to install a legitimate app by way of an advertising platform which pays the worm author a small commission for every app installation. According to Maslennikov the worm is out in the wild, and unlike Samsapo which was largely targeted at Russian users, it has already been seen to be active on North American operator networks.

"SMS worms …

Kaka, it may help if you actually read the post you are commenting to. If you had then you might have spotted, right near the start, that it said:

have witnessed laptops that were victims of serious fire, smartphones crushed under truck wheels and hard drives fried by electrical surges all give up their data, or at least much of it, when interrogated in the right way.

Currently rediscovering my love for Kings of Leon through the Mechanical Bull album, and Don't Matter in particular.

It never worked on my iPad, mentioned it a few times in the long distant past.

I have had a look on a Nexus 7 (2013) running Android (KitKat) and found the following:

1. Buttons display OK.

2. Post voting working OK.

Looks like 1 could be a Blackberry issue.

Back in the day, when I used to do gadget reviews for the likes of Pocket Lint, I got to see a whole bunch of these type of devices. Bearing in mind they were the earliest attempts at the technology, and I would hope the newest ones have improved, here's what I thought:

More style than substance, in that they had the wow factor but were as good as useless if you wanted to actually do anything productive with them. How responsive they were depended upon the quality of the surface the keyboard was projected upon, along with ambient lighting etc. Fast typing was all but impossible, so very much a case of slow and careful prodding in order to avoid mistakes.

Overall, my conclusion was that if you were not worried about fast typing then you may as well stick to whatever virtual keyboard was supplied with your smartphone/tablet. If you wanted to be able to actually type properly and produce some work beyond SMS or tweet then invest in a folding or portable physical keyboard.

As I say, this was a few years ago. However, the tech looks very similar to the stuff I played with back then. Honestly I would recommend buying from somewhere that allows returns, or find a hight street supplier and go play with it first.

Agreed. Which is why I have deleted the post you refer to :)

Hi Glen, a belated welcome to DaniWeb :)

Looks like that even $10 was too much. He posted a link elsewhere to a pirate ebook download site stating that he didn't care if it broke DaniWeb rules, then when I infracted him for it he deleted his membership. Oh well, another kid with 'toys out of pram' syndrome bites the dust...

Hi Shukria, and I've been up for a few hours now on this rather dull Saturday morning which I am spending in the office :)

Welcome

Welcome. I don't think I'd count as local, living in Yorkshire, England :)

Dani herself is local though.

When a dentist says 'your tooth may be a little sore tomorrow' after root canal work what they really mean is 'your face will feel like it is falling off, muhahahaha'.

Just saying... :(

Guide you in what, exactly? Do you need help in using this forum, or do you need help with your SEO strategy or implementation? Whichever, you need to be more specific before anyone can actually help you.

Weclome Rehman

Thanks for that, I will obviously now immediately resign from both this site and my 20 year career as a professional (and multiple award winning) author/journalist.

Oh the shame. What a waste of life. I cannot continue...

I can sort of understand the curiosity involved with wanting to know why someone has downvoted a post, but believe that the anonymous system works in everyone's best interest. Where reputational voting is concerned, of course, anonymity is removed.

How can you 'then purchase it' when it comes to music when you've already stated that as a student you 'obviously cannot afford it' when it comes to a textbook? I love your idea that downloading a pirated version of something is 'obviously' 'much easier' and 'efficient' than buying it? How so, exactly?

Anyway, if you really do end up purchasing the pirated music you like, then use the money to buy the books that will help your current education and future career, rather than on recreational stuff. It's all about priorities, really.

And, the chances that anyone would have 'won' or 'somehow got' a PDF version of the book is remote to say the least, unlkess that 'somehow' was by downloading a pirated version let's be honest here.

Would you have the same attitude towards some commercial software you had written Dani, if someone who 'couldn't afford it' was asking about where to get a free download? I doubt it, not least as the rules here strictly forbid such a question.

Why is an ebook any different?

The OP wasn't asking for a cheaper version, he was asking for a free version which pretty much means a pirated one...

Amazon has, this week, revealed the first smartphone designed by the online retail giant in the shape of the Amazon Fire. Described by the company as featuring "two new breakthrough technologies that allow you to see and interact with the world through a whole new lens" and by some others as probably "the biggest single invasion of your privacy for commercial purposes ever."

The innovations that have led to these two rather different takes are Dynamic Perspective and the Firefly Button. The first, Amazons informs us, is a sensor system that will respond to the way the user holds, views and moves which in turn will enable an experience unlike any other smartphone. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos attempts to explain exactly what this means saying that the sensors will recognise where the user's head is relative to the device and that information can then be used to "offer customers a more immersive experience, one-handed navigation, and gestures that actually work." Sorry Jeff, but that explanation still fails to either explain what it can really do or why I'd want it to do that in the first place. Maybe that's why Amazon is also making a Dynamic Perspective SDK available to developers, along with the Firefly SDK, and Bezos says Amazon "can’t wait to see how developers surprise us." So it looks like Amazon doesn't really know what it's for either.

Unlike Firefly, which is much more cut and dried; although many people are not going to like the …

It could be that the post you had a downvote on was part of a thread which has been deleted? Or maybe someone upvoted and that cancelled out the downvote so there would no longer be any downvoted posts to see?

Ignore him Jim. Person has at least two accounts which are posting rubbish/inappropriate comments across forums, in one case the exact same post just with the product name changed but still bearing no relation to the thread it was posted in. Assume it/him/they are just trying to up the activity count until a signature facility is available to them...

Welcome KD, here's hoping DaniWeb continues to help you to learn for many months and years to come.

Hi Parmeshwar, welcome to DaniWeb.

Ever thought about using a library? As a student, I'm sure your educational facility must have a well stocked one.

As a programmer, would you approve if people stole your commercial code and handed it around is someone who 'obviously couldn't afford it' wanted a copy? Probably not, so why should authors (of which I am one) be any different?

For the record, our rules also state:

Do not ask about obtaining pirated software, nor link to it
Do not ask for help to pursue any illegal activity including, but not limited to, hacking and spamming

Both of which would fit here if you are trying to get a pirated commercial product, even if it is 'just a book'...

I think the suggestion by Taywin is a good one, and am not sure what you mean by 'details about the requirement' - the requirement would be to build a simple forum application, the level of detail would be down to you as part of the project creation process surely?

I must be old as I consider Skype to be the work of the devil. It's bad enough having to talk to people (including family) on the telephone, let alone enable them to see me and my reactions to what they say. Hmmm, are misanthropic tendencies another sign of aging?

The thing about disruptive technologies is that they tend to creep up on you without you actually realising it. The answer to the original question is, therefore, nobody knows...

Welcome Mustafa. Glasgow is an awesome city! Enjoy.

Looks like you've already started, so continue by telling us a bit more about yourself here.

Morning! :)

Good luck, it's at the same time both a great opportunity and a fiercely competitive field. I started back in the early 90's and have experienced the transition from print dominance to web dominance in the tech media world, still somehow managing to straddle both camps.

Apparently.

Morning Keegan, welcome from one journalist to a(potential)nother :)