Posts by happygeek

France redeemed themselves and then some. Unlucky not to have won it, in my opinion.

Blimey. The French have started playing rugby at last. Good timing I guess...

Yes, I know I said I wasn't going to bother with the final but what can I say, I lied.

I think the short answer is no. We would need 40,000 new members in November and the same in December. Just ain't gonna happen...

Go figure...

...what happened to Wales.

Looks like they had all the enthusiasm for the game sucked out of them by Rolland Prat last week if you ask me. Really didn't play with the same hunger and drive as they had during the rest of the tournament. Hardly surprising, who gives a shit if you come 3rd or 4th?

No problem with tries though :)

Go Shane!

It strikes me that what Wales need, after the number of misses in the semi and now the number of misses in the 'bronze' play-off, is someone who can teach them how to kick a ball consistently under pressure...

The trouble with Kensington lock systems for laptops in the past was that they were fiddly to actually use, which is why the company took a step back and redesigned the process by introducing the new ClickSafe system. This still utilises the same Kensington lock slot that appears on everything mobile, but does so by requiring the user to put a locking 'nub' into it which stays in place and the actual cable lock itself just 'clicks' into place nice and easily. It's this ClickSafe lock system that is used in conjunction with the SecureBack case to lock down your iPad 2 into place.

The case itself consists of three pieces of white plastic which, once assembled around the iPad, form a pretty standard looking 'shell' case. The plastic itself, whilst being sturdy enough for everyday usage did, I have to say, feel somewhat flimsy if you are talking about providing any kind of real world drop protection for your tablet. Ordinarily I would have put such a thing through the ringer by performing a bunch of drop-tests upon it but, to be absolutely honest with you, there was no way I felt like entrusting my iPad 2 to such a housing. Don't let this put you off though, if you are in the market for a shock-protection bumper or waterproof and idiot proof armour-plating for your iPad then there are plenty of options out there for you to choose from. The SecureBack Case doesn't promise …

Thanks for the kind words, welcome both...

Glad that DaniWeb members have already been able to help you. Welcome aboard.

Please DO NOT ASK us about how to use a pirated and therefore illegal version of Windows. Read the rules before posting again.

Any further pleas for such help will be met with a 'keep it legal' infraction, two of which equal a six month ban on your account.

Crunchie has given you the correct answer: buy and install a legal copy of the OS.

This thread is now closed...

Usually it's F2 (sometimes F1 or ESC) during boot up. Something should appear on the screen saying something like 'Press F2 to enter Bios menu now'

@cwarn23 All of your tutorials should now be flagged as such, yell at me if they are not :)

My iPhone is always with me, and I will admit to having mild panic attacks if I misplace it around the office or house. Only once have I had cause to go into major panic mode though, and that was when I managed to leave my iPhone and my car keys in a shop. Luckily it was the last shop I had been in, and my good fortune held up as not only had I left them at the checkout counter but the checkout assistant was a very honest person. I would not like to experience those 15 minutes of pure 'life without an iPhone' hell any time again soon though. Which is where the BungeeAir from physical device security specialists Kensington enters the picture.

Sure, I know all about the 'find my iPhone' application and service but that's not a lot of help if you've misplaced the device and don't have immediate access to a computer from which you can initiate the very clever search, locate and if necessary destroy the data routine. I'm also aware that I could ask a passer-by if I could use their mobile to call mine, but that's only any good if: a) my handset is within earshot or answered by someone friendly rather than a thief, b) I can find someone willing to let a stranger user their mobile phone, and that's not so easy in the world we inhabit, and perhaps most importantly c) if I can remember …

Hello and welcome!

As long as you don't party while fixing cars you should be OK :) Welcome to DaniWeb!

Glad that DaniWeb could be of help Justin, and here's hoping we continue to be.

You have tried Google, haven't you?

No, they were just here to spam their signature links and posting any old rubbish in order to do so...

I see the IRB gave Warburton a 3 week ban and said that Rolland Prat was 'absolutely correct' in his decision.

Remarkable.

And wrong...

If Rugby Union becomes all about directives at the expense of common sense, not to mention the spirit of the game itself, then maybe it's time I started supporting another sport.

I have to admit that I do not really see the point of pretty graphs for such stats. Why should I, or indeed you, really care about whether you have made more posts than another member over a given period of time? Serious question by the way, not meant to be sarcastic.

They would need to be replaced by a team of folk who can actually give a damn and play committed rugby for a full 80 minutes if they were to stand any chance of beating an on-form All Blacks side.

And I honestly cannot see that happening with this rather tired and predictable French side.

Quite honestly, France have been one of the most disappointing sides to watch play throughout the entire tournament (losing to Tonga, really?) and yet they are in the final. Makes no sense at all...

I think the correct answer is "a pig in a poke" :)

I'm not going to bother watching the final next week. Who cares how much of a kicking France get, when you know they are going to get a kicking?

Unless by some twist of fate every match official is part-French this time...

"The ride to victory" sounds like an epic movie, which kind of sums up trying to enter the game coding industry :)

No need to watch the final next week - the real final takes place tomorrow. France will lose to either NZ or AUS.

Commiserations @ardav that was one heck of a Welsh performance (apart from the refuse to kick it bit at 70 mins) and the French didn't deserve the win playing so poorly against a side a man down for 60 minutes. A sad day for rugby at this level :(

Pretty much everyone, from all nations except France, is agreed that was one of the worst decisions by a ref in any world cup semi-final/final. Pathetic. :(

WTF? Is the ref on crack? That was a borderline yellow, and never red in a million years. And I thought Rolland just had a stick up his ass when England were playing.

Feel so bad for Wales who were playing so well and now face 60 minutes without their captain.

At the very least that should have gone to the TV ref to look at, there was absolutely no malice in that tackle.

Rolland should be suspended, by the neck...

Good luck Wales. C'mon!!! :)

The hundreds reference was in relation to reported posts and nothing else - mainly spam, posts without code tags and posts in the wrong forums that need moving.

There is no 'new boss' as far as tutorial submissions or anything is concerned. Dani is the site owner and big boss, then Narue and myself are site admins and ~s.o.s~ is the chief (super) moderator.

done

It's not that new, been like it for many, many months...

The difference is that you were asking about mods providing feedback on reported posts, of which there are hundreds every week, whereas the current thread is about tutorial postings of which there are relatively few.

In this particular case we have had a number of PHP tutorials submitted at the same time, but lack moderators with the relevant level of PHP experience to peer review those tutorials. No disrespect to cwarn23, but DaniWeb has to be sure that every tutorial that gets official status is accurate/correct - which is where we are at right now, discussing the best way forward with these tutorials.

DaniWeb values the time taken in writing and submitting these tutorials, and certainly doesn't want the poster to feel this isn't the case. They have not been forgotten, and we are actively considering what happens next. Sorry it's taking so long... :(

Pocket Calculator - Kraftwerk

I don't understand how Davey is the only person who responded to this question referencing Star Trek.

The clue is in my username :)

So you are just posting here for the sake of posting, rather than to contribute anything even vaguely relevant to the thread then, AliTheChamp? Which leads me to ask the question: why?

Here in the UK, credit card thieves used to use pay-by-card petrol pumps to verify if a stolen card had been reported as such yet or was still active and usable. Made for a relatively risk-free method of checking. The introduction of C&P to most such pumps here has put a stop to that.

Three and a half years ago, DaniWeb was reporting how stolen credit cards could be purchased online for as little as $10 per card, complete with a guarantee that the accounts behind the cards were active, when purchased in larger volumes. So how has the market changed since the start of 2008?

It should come as no real surprise, given the number of high profile data breaches which have resulted in the loss of credit card information from online databases, that the underground cybercrime marketplace has become pretty saturated with credit cards for sale. And whenever a market gets saturated with goods, the cost of those goods comes tumbling down. Stolen credit cards do not escape from the bondage of the basic economic rule of supply and demand. This is proven, in part, by another previously reported story here at DaniWeb from four years ago. Back in September 2007 I was writing about how an online identity auction site was selling stolen credit card data for as little as $0.50 per card. Yet current values are nowhere near as low as that, so what is actually happening? Simple, in 2007 there had been another flood of card information onto the black market but the demand to buy wasn't as great as it is now. So although there was perhaps a little less data floating around, there were fewer buyers to sell to. That has certainly changed within a relatively short …

Handily, this will be a combination of work and partying. Yay! :)

Hint: Go to the forum in which you want to start a new thread, then click on the bit (right towards the top of the page) that says "Click Here to Start a New Thread" and that's it.

Looks like I will be there. Any other Brits going?

Lived long = not dead yet
Prospered = not homeless and hungry

Lived long and prospered = watched too much Star Trek

A begging I will go - David Gibb

The French played well against England but were far from their best I thought, meanwhile Wales played better than I can can recall seeing them do so for many, many years (I'm thinking back to the days of JPR Williams if I'm being honest - seriously, that's the impression it left on me) so if they can keep that momentum going, who knows?

I'm rooting for Wales through to the final and then fingers crossed that NZ are as weak as they were against the Argies.

Can't honestly see AUS upsetting NZ at home, especially after the pretty lacklustre performance against SA.

I'm 100% behind Wales for the cup now. Wonder what the odds are for a win? A lot shorter than they were yesterday I imagine :)

16 - 0 at half time and, to be honest, it could easily have been much worse for England. And what was Ashton thinking, dropped two chances in the last couple of minutes and cost us some hope going into the second half.

Not impressed at all. Johnson needs to kick some arse in the changing room, and then some.

Scrap that. England are playing like, erm, England. Do NOT deserve to get through on this form, absolute disgrace.

Looks like Wales into the final at this rate...

England v Wales would be a semi-final and a half though, wouldn't it?

Oh boy, now *that* was a game of rugby and then some. Wales for RWC2011 anyone?