Posts by happygeek

Welcome aboard the good ship DaniWeb, sailing the IT community seas, or something ;)

Wow, Thanks. I didn't expect a reply like that. Lol. I usually don't reply to my "introduction" threads either. :pretty:

This is no ordinary community, unlike many it is genuinely friendly place to be :)

Welcome aboard, my friend.

I await the announcement of the England line up with interest, and am hoping that Johnson doesn't meddle too much and 'try out' some different players to get an idea of how they might for the world cup as some have suggested. My hope is that Scotland is treated with the respect the team deserves, despite the relatively poor performance so far in the 6N.

Well played sir! :)

OK, so it's Six Nations weekend coming up again: predictions?

England will beat Scotland, can't see any reason this year of all years to break the 23 year home run of Calcutta Cup victories.

Likewise, I can't see Italy bothering the French winning record in Rome much either.

Wales and Ireland will be the match of the weekend I reckon, should be very close and very tough on all concerned. I, for one, cannot summon up a prediction for this though. My Irish genes want them to win, but my love of Wales (we plan to move to North Wales when the kids have finished school and buggered off) says the Welsh deserve this one.

Arf :)

I'm actually not disagreeing with you, in fact quite the opposite. This article looks at market share because that's what the news stories it is referring to are concentrating on.

My father-in-law is called Rodney :)

So a very special welcome from me...

Dani

When I tried to share the 'Does Android really beat the iPhone on, erm, everything' news story using the Facebook share button, it came up with 'no title' and a generic 'www.daniweb.com' url, no images etc. In other words, looks like something has broken this.

Worked fine when I shared from Facebook itself, rather than via DaniWeb.

News reports suggest that March has been a good month for lovers of, and developers for, the Android operating system in pretty much every regard. That good news comes at the expense of the Apple iPhone and iOS we are led to believe, which appears to be losing the fight against Android in a number of areas. But looking behind the headlines, just how accurate is this notion of Android beats Apple in everything?

Tesco, the second largest retailer in the world by profit after Walmart, has revealed that it is now selling more Android-powered handsets than iPhones for the first time. The revelation, relating to sales of handsets through the Tesco Mobile service (a joint venture between Tesco and the O2 carrier) in the UK, is a total reversal of the market a year ago. In the run up to Christmas, iPhones were outselling Android handsets by two to one at Tesco Mobile, but by the end of January 2011 those numbers had levelled out and during February Android had surged past the iPhone.

That should not come as too much of a surprise, to be fair. After all, Tesco Mobile currently only offers the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 compared to dozens and dozens of various Android powered handset options. So that one metric alone just suggests that if you keep a tight proprietary hold on your mobile OS then it will ultimately stand no chance, in terms of …

Odd, working fine here for me now.

I have to admit it has been a while now since I last visited SL. Frankly, I just got bored with the environment and the (virtual) people there. I really should jump back in and have another look soon.

Welcome aboard Ryan

That story was from two years back, and I suspect if he was successful we would have heard about Microsoft having to cough up the cash :)

The MS lawyers probably told him in no uncertain terms to go away...

If I click on 'Web Development' main menu item, then I get redirected to 'Community Center'

Confirmed. Arrives at Community Center with URL of http://www.daniweb.com/web-development/3

Rep/Voting working for me now (could be another intermittent thing I guess) but other bits appear busted - cannot double-click folders to mark forums as read for example.

I can confirm that I have no working vote function here either (after lushing/refreshing, using Chrome)

Erm, yes, and your point is?

For me, 13.3" just squeezes into my definition of a baby laptop whereas 15" does not, and that's important to me. My day to day machine for the last year or so has been an 11" (Windows7) netbook as it fulfills my need for real grab and go portability coupled with a big enough keyboard to be able to knock out a couple of thousand words (minimum) every day, wherever I happen to be.

Thanks Eyal, it's a lot of money but despite what some might argue you get a lot of bang for those bucks in terms of raw speed courtesy of Sandy Bridge. For me though, I guess it is the combination of form and factor that has me sold. Design isn't everything, but when it is this good it's very hard to ignore.

I'm not 100% sure what you looking for by way of a reply here: how people disassemble hardware, what tools they use, what parts are most valuable/reusable/

Can you be a bit, well a lot actually, more explicit? :)

Rumbled! Put it down to sheer volume of work over the weekend... :(

Can I just say Exeter Chiefs, wowser! What a performance against an admittedly underspecced and struggling without Ashton/Foden Saints side, but what a performance nonetheless.

I've always said that if the Tigers were not my closest premiership team (Leeds are about the same distance in actual train/drive time but they obviously don't count) then I would probably support the Saints as I love the way they play. But if the Chiefs were on my doorstep I'd be proud to wave the tomahawk and do the ha ha ha ha Indian chant (well maybe not, they sound like right knobs doing that)...

Na Na Na [Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na] - My Chemical Romance (happier this morning)

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Amen to that Fred!

Hi Vijju, if you have some idea of what it is you are looking for then ask over in the Java forum where our members should be able to help.

Yep, welcome to DaniWeb.

Welcome aboard.

Start by taking a look at the various postings in the Visual Basic and VB.NET forums here on DaniWeb. There's a whole heap of stuff in there to keep you going for a while!

My favourite Churchill quote has to be "For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history".

Really? What about the 'hewn from an aluminium block' form and the Thunderbolt I/O (on a current rather than forthcoming PC laptop) to name but one bit of tech mentioned?

And believe me, I've been a PC/Windows guy for close on twenty years so there's absolutely nothing pseudo about my loyalties :)

Now that's kinda cool. Unless you are the one behind on payments, in which case technology really sucks :)

My former mother-in-law (from a previous marriage) used to curse people with:

"May your earholes turn into bumholes and poo all over your face"

Actually, what she used to say was a little less fragrant than that, but you get the idea. Anyway, as a quote it kind of stuck with me as I've never heard anyone else say it... :)

Last Exit for the Lost - Fields of the Nephilim (I'm in a depressed state of mind...)

As for 'Best App' on my iPhone, that's pretty easy right now: uMail

This is based on the old reMail app, in fact it's pretty much a straight clone which is no bad thing. reMail was bought up by Google, well they employed the chap who developed it and part of the deal was removing the app from the App Store. The reMail code has since been open sourced by Google, and uMail is the best app to have come out of that.

It means I can keep a complete backup of my GMail messages (sent and rec'd) locally on my iPhone for a start, so it's always there even if my connectivity isn't or Gmail is down for whatever reason. In the light of the recent big Gmail account vanishing, a local message backup is no bad thing. But it also enables me to search my mail archives in a flash, and that's just like gold dust to me.

Oh, did I mention it was free? :)

I'm not getting this at all (using Chrome here) which doesn't help you, I appreciate that, but does suggest as you say that it's one of those hugely annoying intermittent/random things which are all the harder to trap.

Welcome to DaniWeb, I am sure many members of our community will be only to happy to help teach you...

Perhaps I should have mentioned that I restrained myself from awarding this a 10/10 due to the high cost and the less well specced graphics issues.

I am something of a Windows fanboy I guess, and will make no bones about the fact that I have always thought of the 13" Apple MacBook Pro in the same way that I have about Military Intelligence, European Community and Advanced BASIC: it's an oxymoron. Given that the smallest of the MacBook Pro range has often been outperformed by non-Pro labelled Macs, not to mention the non-Apple competition, I was almost expecting Apple to see the folly of its ways and scrap the damn thing altogether. And I was half right.

With the launch of the 2011 MacBook Pro range, Apple has indeed seen just how stupid it was to have an underpowered, underspecced and underwhelming machine in the line up. But rather than scrap the 13" model, Apple has done the intelligent thing and brought it up to speed, literally.

I managed to get some time with the Sandy Bridge powered, Core i7 version of the 13" MacBook Pro although there is a much cheaper, and much less impressive, Core i5 version available for techno-masochists and people who just cannot let the oxymorons go. Sure, this Core i7 powered pocket rocket of a machine is not cheap at an eye watering base configuration of $1,499 but you sure do get a lot of bang for your buck packed into that to die for, hewn from a lump of aluminium, 325x227x24mm chassis weighing in at just 2kg. There's the 500GB (5,400rpm) hard drive, 4GB …

I have no idea. Unfortunately, I have fast come to the conclusion that neither has Google... :(

Aaaaargh! Tigers lose at home to Saracens, again!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Seriously, what a way to spend your Saturday afternoon: getting cold and wet, angry, elated and ultimately disappointed. Sort of sums the game up for me :)

Now, if I can just find Billy Twelvetrees, the ref and a big box of dynamite I should be able to make everything better...

Last year saw the overall volume of email delivered spam drop for the first, which has to be good news. Or it would be were it not for the fact that spammers have not gone away, they have merely moved with the times and adapted their business so as to exploit the best marketing opportunities for their unsolicited and unwanted, erm, marketing opportunities. Because spam filtering at both the client and server ends of the market has improved to the point where, for many people at least, emailed spam has become all but invisible the bad guys are turning to social spamming.

Those of us involved in the day to day management of forums such as DaniWeb are all too well aware of the amount of spam that heads this way in the form of bogus forum postings for example, and social networks have not escaped the spam flood either. Indeed, it is the social networks that have become the target of choice for the spammer it would seem. Whereas forum spam tends to consist mainly of straightforward advertising of the 'cheap iPhone here' accompanied by a link (or twenty) variety, social network spam, more often than not, carries some kind of malicious payload.

Marek Polesensky, a malware researcher with security vendor ESET, recently identified a whole host of worms attacking Facebook users. These included the likes of the Yimfoca worm which targeted Facebook and Fbphotofake which took the more traditional …

No, it is not nice to have him, not when he just copies postings from other websites and pastes them to DaniWeb as his own work in order to get exposure for the advertising links in his signature. Hence the reason he joined and got banned on the same day...

Security comes at a price. I guess it just depends upon how much you value your data in the end...

I am the only person in my immediate iTouch owning family (so that's my wife, 13 year old son and 11 year old daughter) who is not totally obsessed with Zombie Farm right now. I'm getting fed up hearing the 'brains' push alert sound at inappropriate times and otherwise sensible people getting all excited and shouting stuff seemingly at random such as 'I've got a carrot' - sigh.

Have you cleared your browser cache as stated?

What pisses me off is that Google has already, or so it would seem, intervened on behalf of one such site, Cult of Mac. I'm no great believer in coincidences of the size of this one; to think it coincidental that Cult of Mac could see traffic halved overnight following the algo update and then see traffic back to normal overnight after Wired featured the story and Matt Cutts tweeted that Google will have seen that, is, well, delusional.

I share your frustration and anger that Google is acting in the way it is, and wish there were more that I could do to help rectify it. Unfortunately, we are but little fish in a big pond and Google is the Great White Shark here with very few reasons to do anything other than what the hell it likes :(

Welcome, Uhangkincai.

My e-peen is enormous then :)