Posts by happygeek

Gatland has got to be worried about his position now, that's eight defeats back to back for Wales.

Without taking anything away from England who put in a very strong performance overall (especially Flood and Hartley), Wales seemed to lack cohesion and conviction. In fact, I wonder if they actually truly believe that they can win at the moment.

Depends on the PC, I bet you wouldn't like it on my netbook... :)

As Dani says, we have no official policy on closing threads on a date basis. The only rule we have that touches on the old thread issue is "Do not hijack old threads by posting a new question as a reply to an old one" but that does not seem to apply in this case. The general rule of thumb applied by moderators (and adatapost is a moderator of the forum in question by the way) is that a relevant new post to an old thread is acceptable, while something that bumps it for no reason, adds nothing, asks a new question or simply says 'I agree' in order to expose a signature link is not.

I agree with you that there are many ways to skin a deer, or something :) and just because a thread is old does not mean it is dead. Hence there being no rule about it.

I have re-opened the thread in question.

Please accept my apologies if you felt you were being chastised here, I'm sure that was not the intention.

yawn!

I bet you enjoyed reading that then :)

England
France
Ireland
Wales
Italy
Scotland

@ardav

Here's hoping that, whichever side wins, it's a bloody good match.

If only Wales could recapture the form of the seventies, and England that form from 2003. Now that would be a blinder...

We have both here, and the Xbox gets used every day while the PS3 gets used only when someone fancies taking a break from Halo Reach, Black Ops or Dead Rising 2 and play Little Big Planet or watch a Blu-ray movie. Indeed, I tend to think of the PS3 as our Blu-ray player rather than a games console these days. The Xbox has by far the better (from the perspective of our family at least) games selection, online gameplay, online community and, of course, Kinect...

Erm, that thread was from 2007...

I bought an Xbox 360 and a PS3 in the end.

OK, I'm game, let's see if it's true. I hereby publicly request my user name to be changed to 'NoChoice'. I await with baited breath the next excuse.

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All you had to do was ask...

DaniWeb is a US-based LLC, complying with US law. There is no requirement under US to delete an account, or remove the kind of membership information stored by DaniWeb, upon request.

As has been stated repeatedly, although apparently ignored so far by Andy, your username can be changed if you so wish. All you have to do is ask me...

Ho yus! Roll on Friday, you Welsh boys are gonna get a good seeing to >:-)

Seriously though, should be a good game. Will be interesting to see if the baiting has got to Hartley. Personally I think that was a mistake, Hartley is the kind of player who doesn't need a lot of winding up and I wouldn't like to be around when he unwinds...

Yep. That said, ICANN and ISOC are making a joint announcement about the matter this week - so that could be interesting.

Hi John, thanks for the clarification. It's good to know that configuration controls are coming in future releases. I will keep my eyes open and once they are available will review the app again and revise the rating accordingly.

As you can probably tell, I'm actually a big fan of the K9 product and both of my younger kids (10 and 11) are happy to have it installed on their netbooks.

Welcome to DaniWeb Hatem.

I'd hope that he had sorted his antivirus software out by now considering that question was asked 2.5 years ago :)

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There's no doubt that the address space will reach capacity at some point, trouble is that every six months or so there's some vendor or other which has the media getting their collective panties in a bunch that the time is real soon and the media bites.

Erm, that thread was exactly FOUR YEARS OLD until you resurrected it. I imagine that sham51 has long since either understood crypto or given up...

Oh, and I've snipped the links as they have no real bearing on the question being posed and just appear to be advertising product.

Thread now closed.

Can I just add that what I'd like to achieve is a night of passion with Avril Lavigne.

What's stopping me is the wife...

According to this article the internet will run out of IP addresses some time in 2011.

Is the author one Chicken Little by any chance AD?

I've been reading 'news' stories based around IPv6 stating that the Internet is about to run out of addresses for, what, at least five years now and quite possibly even ten.

It's one of those subjects that tech journos keep as a spare for when there is no real news to report but the Editor wants some space filled anyway :)

All in my never humble opinion, of course!

For the record, can I just add that I use and indeed recommend the K9 desktop protection product. It's free, first class and does an excellent job of blocking the bad stuff without impacting upon the freedom of the parent to choose what is and isn't acceptable content for their particular kids, applying their particular parenting values and moral code.

My problem with the iOS version is simply that the control is absolute, non-configurable and totally in the hands of K9. Parental choice is removed from the equation and that can't be a good thing.

I'm slightly confused as to why people would think that such inflexibility is acceptable on the iPad or iPhone, yet Blue Coat itself must think that parental choice over content control is important or it wouldn't make it available in the desktop product which is, after all, the filtering solution upon which the iOS app is based.

No, I'm saying that while the 'no porn' aspect is good the inability to control what else your kids may access is not.

It's a bit like removing all the wheels from your car to prevent it from being stolen. It works, but it means your car is going nowhere fast...

Would you not prefer something like K9 on the desktop which enables the parent to determine what content categories their children can view? I don't want my son looking at porn, I don't mind him watching videos in YouTube or accessing sex education sites. Your mileage may vary, but that's the point about configuration options: they allow everyone to be happy and apply their own values to the filtering solution.

If the schools that my kids attend are anything to go by, it seems that high on Santa's list this Xmas just gone was an iTouch, iPhone or iPad depending how well off the parents were. That's understandable, they are just as attractive as gadgets for kids as they are to adults. But along with the never ending supply of free games, educational apps and the like comes the small problem of unfettered access to the Internet and all that brings with it. While adults may well have the family PC protected by parental control software to filter unsuitable content from their kids screens, the same is unlikely to be the case with a smartphone or tablet device. So how can parents keep porn, and other unsuitable online content, off the iPhone and iPad? One solution is provided by the same company, Blue Coat, that has been supplying a free and hugely popular desktop parental control solution for some years now in the form of K9 Web Protection.

Blue Coat tells me that the app utilises the same cloud-based WebPulse service that provides desktop users with up-to-the-moment protection from objectionable content and threats by continually categorizing new and evolving content driven by the real-time online experiences of more than 70 million users. On a typical day the WebPulse service identifies over 110,000 pages of new or previously uncategorized pornography and adult content.

I installed the K9 browser app and immediately tried to access some porn sites, …

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Hey pple if you have css 5 pliz send it to me via ma gmail SNIP Very thankful

Assuming you mean CS5, which is commercial software, I suggest you read our rules which clearly state: Do not ask about obtaining pirated software.

Perhaps you would care to clarify?

Or he could mean the CSS-5 medium-range ballistic missile, although that's a bit hard to send via email... >;-)

And now this thread is closed, methinks...

Try reading this: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

As Dani will refer you to myself, being the Community Admin, I may as well break the bad news here: DaniWeb cannot delete/edit your posts for the reasons that Sanjay has already stated.

We get many requests to delete posts after someone has asked for, and usually received, help from the DaniWeb membership. To delete these posts would negate all the effort put into helping you by other members, and dilute the DaniWeb forums by removing a problem/solution which may be of help to others in the future.

As Sanjay has pointed out, your posts have been on the public Internet for 8 months now and the information you are concerned about appears at other forums as well. Indeed, it seems that you had little concern about posting all this stuff across the Internet while you were seeking help.

The public Internet is just that, public. Information that you freely post cannot simply be deleted, it doesn't work like that.

So, to conclude, I have to state once again that DaniWeb will not deleting your posts I am afraid.

I posted an opportunity for DaniWeb members (specifically game developers) to attend GDC and write for us officially.

The DaniWeb Digest newsletter would provide the most bums on seats, as it were, although probably too late for the GDC request by the time the next one is distributed to allow for choosing someone and arranging the logistics of the thing.

But certainly it might work as an appeal to members with the requisite skills and enthusiasm to contact you about writing for DaniWeb.

I'm putting the next newsletter together on Monday 31st Jan, so PM if you want to do something like this along with whatever it is you want included :)

welcome!

Glad we can be of help!

Wot, no Angry Birds? :)

And very glad to have you with us...

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Hi happygeek,
Would it be possible to change my username to kernel>panic?
I created this username without much thought, and would like a more suited one.
If you could that would be great. Thanks!

Solid State Disks are ideally suited to laptop use, being small and thin but rugged as well. The lack of moving parts is pretty much a win-win for mobile usage, making these units much less prone to the knocks and drops of daily life than your average mechanical hard drive. The only real downside has been, and to be honest remains, the higher cost; which is why you still tend to find SSD storage restricted to specification for higher end machines. Actually 'only' is a bit of an exaggeration as SSD is becoming a popular choice amongst fans of external hard drive units, with the rugged workings all wrapped up in a slim casing being rather appealing to the pocket in terms of portability if not price.

Being a USB3 device, you would expect the Iomega SSD Flash to be pretty speedy and when compared to a bog standard USB2 drive it certainly was. Iomega claims a maximum read speed of up to 191MB/s and up to 130MB/s write speed, but my real world tests here were just a tad less impressive. Connected to a suitably USB3 equipped PC running Windows 7, I clocked large files averaging a read speed of 120MB/s while smaller ones hit 70MB/s. Writing speeds averaged out at less impressive 65MB/s and 40MB/s respectively.

Those are decent enough read numbers for a USB3 portable drive, and eclipse anything you'll get from a portable USB2 device. But, and it's a …

I would add that you should always get confirmation/approval from your client before publishing something on their behalf that you have altered - purely from the legal liability perspective.

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So you think you qualify for the epithet 'Number One Fan' when it comes to Angry Birds, do you? OK, you've completed the entire main game as well as the seasonal variations and done so with a full compliment of three star ratings. You've even unlocked all the hidden golden eggs from around the various levels, and deserve praise for your dedication. But to be awarded the ultimate fan accolade you really need to go a little bit further; you need to think outside the box, be it iPhone or Android powered.

The Mighty Eagle

Having said think outside of the box, we are heading straight back inside it and the game itself for the first of our Angry Birds fanboy essentials: the heroic Mighty Eagle. It's an in-game purchase that costs just $0.99 for iPhone users and brings an additional bird into play. Actually, that's not really an adequate enough description as the Mighty Eagle is not just another bird to throw at the evil egg stealing pigs: it's the ultimate bird of mass destruction.

The Mighty Eagle let's you skip a level if you are having trouble completing it (call yourself a fanboy, you sound more like a lightweight) by simply barrelling through whatever you point it at. You can only use the big bird once every hour in this mode though. So why would a real Angry Birds fanboy want such a thing? easy, you can …

What do you want to change it to?

Good thing with Dell is, on the whole, the great support.

My youngest daughter got a reconditioned/open box Dell netbook at a huge discount in August 2010 from a third party website. Its started blue screening last week, contacted Dell who sent a courier to collect it from my home address last Friday afternoon at no charge, and it was returned today (that's within 3 working days) with a new HDD and completely fixed.

Can't complain at that kind of service, especially when you consider it wasn't even purchased from Dell and had probably been a faulty return and repair item to start with, hence the open box status and low price.

I would die, probably literally, if someone took away my copy of NoteTab Pro (best text editor bar none IMHO) and be quite gravely ill if HyperSnap went as well (screen capture and editing) to be honest.

I could probably survive the loss of any other tool, with the possible exception of the Google Chrome browser client.

Depends upon the industry that those IT decision makers of whom you speak are in though, I guess, as to what are the most valuable IT tools. I imagine that common across most industries would be the usual heavy hitters such as the MS Office Pro suite for example.

I imagine it's a little late, seeing as he was asking over three years ago now...

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Please do not post a link to your blog in every post, this is considered spamming here at DaniWeb. You can use the signature facility from your control panel to add a proper signature which will appear underneath your posts automatically.

You seem to know how to post OK, as you've posted all over the place.

What took you so long, by the way, as your account was created back in 2007 and you've only just started posting? That's a heck of a long waiting period and/or learning curve. :)

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Absolutely. DaniWeb will not help with problems involving pirated software.

Try reading the thread you have just posted to?