Posts by happygeek

And if you have a sample give it to your doctor... :)

Torrent clients can be used for downloading any large file to good effect, not just the pirated stuff.

Asking for help with the client, if not used for illegal purposes, is fine.

That said, any hint of either asking for help or offering it when illegal activity is involved will be stamped upon and keep it legal infractions issued.

This is an IT community not a hospital.

Hey, you have never received a warning or infraction in your time here so your previous actions couldn't have been that bad, so stop beating yourself up about it.

Hope you find what you are looking for in giving DaniWeb another go. Good luck.

If, some three and a half years after asking the question, his headset is still not working I would assume the chap has got used to it...

A reminder that help should be offered right here on DaniWeb, in this thread, where all members (including those not yet with us) can benefit - and not via email or PM where they cannot.

Thanks

There are not many times when I have suggested having a fatal system error on a handheld device is a good thing :)

Fatal System Error, subtitled 'The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet' is that rarest of finds: an IT security book that is not only informative and fascinating, but truly gripping from start to finish. This newly published made for Kindle edition is the cheapest option aa well, saving $11.26 off of the $25.95 print edition cover price.

Joseph Menn, a reporter for the Financial Times, is surely a closet novelist such are the twists and turns that he weaves into what by rights ought to be a pretty dry expose of the emerging cybercrime economy. While expose is accurate, dry most certainly is not. Written from the perspective of two different security heroes, a former member of the UK National High Tech Crime Unit and the founder of a security tool vendors, you cannot help but think this would make one heck of a Hollywood movie

Indeed, if I were a betting man I'd say that's just what will happen but think less in terms of 'Hackers' and more something like 'Goodfellas' meets 'The Bourne Conspiracy' - no, seriously. This no tale of talented and edgy geeks, it's more old school organized crime moved into the modern era through Distributed Denial of Service protection rackets, identity theft and large scale online bank robberies.

Menn starts by telling the story through the eyes, and mouth for that matter, of 25 year old Barrett Lyon back in 2003 when he …

Absolutely!

I have an Xbox for gaming, a netbook for work (writing and Internet use), a Kindle for books and an iPhone for social media and mobile email.

Horses for course, choose the best bit of kit for what you want to do with it. No compromises :)

IWOOT :)

Not by spamming everywhere they won't. Banned now as a result...

Where could i find FoxPro 2.6 for windows 7

I trust you are not looking for an illegal, pirated copy of the software as that would be against DaniWeb rules and earn you a five point keep it legal infraction... Just saying.

The personality characterization thing is an interesting angle.

I'm not in the top twenty for rep (#28) or number of posts (#21) or solved threads (#483) as I'm not the most visible member of the community. However, I do beaver away for many hours each week 'behind the scenes' as it were, replying to member PMs, participating in the closed moderating forums and dealing with reported posts (spam, rule breakers, disputes and general forum housekeeping) as well as writing reviews and the like, which is probably why I am sitting at #1 for both cumulative activity points and daily activity points.

I'm the same 'in real life' most of the time: stuck away in my office at home out of the way while researching articles, writing copy, answering client emails etc.

You are the only man I know who has a photo of a nuclear equipped rabbit on standby for just such an occasion as this. :)

...it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night.

...you do the 'where are my glasses? - oh, right there on top of my head' thing, a lot.

Exploding rabbits are reserved for an Easter special, surely?

I don't disagree, for those on permabans such as Josh. Other bans are time limited and members should be given a fair chance to reform their ways.

joshSCH was, at one point, a decent member of the DaniWeb community and his contributions worthy of rep. Then he went off the rails and ended up being banned, many times. Sad, but there you go.

But, but, but... Who doesn't secretly want to kill pigs by throwing exploding birds at them? Especially at this time of year.

Only by birth.

My wry British sense of humour can often confuse people :)

I kmow what you neam

If you have never played Angry Birds before, here's the skinny: use a giant rubber band to slingshot a variety of birds (some of which explode, drop egg bombs, multiply in flight, speed up like a rocket, well you get the idea) at a bunch of pigs hiding in a building framework of wood and stone. The idea being to use all the demolition skills you, and your angry birds, can muster in order to destroy those darn pigs. Like all the best games it is amazingly simple and incredibly annoying all at the same time.

Simple because anyone can pick this up and play it, and that includes the ability and age gap represented by my youngest child to my elderly mother. It's a point and shoot physics blaster that takes a moment to 'get' but an age to master. Which is where the annoying part comes in. Demolishing each building on a level is relatively easy, getting the required score to attain three stars for doing so is not. And then there are a number of hidden golden eggs to release throughout, based upon scores, hitting certain objects and so on. Once you get hooked into the world of Angry Birds it starts to become a little Pokemon-esque in that you've gotta get 'em all. Which is where game developers Rovio have been pretty clever by asking you for a $0.99 one-off investment to get the game, after which they …

...you walk into a door frame and manage to get a hairline fracture of the kneecap as a result (says the old bloke working from bed as his knee hurts rather a lot right now...)

Encouraging people to flag bad posts by giving activity points is one of the real pluses as far as I am concerned, all helps make life easier for the mods. Giving those who do flag bad posts some rep doesn't hurt either.

Cool, thanks on behalf of all the mod team :)

Well, I'm apparently pretty active - but I already knew that :)

Good idea though, user stats are always cool and if they encourage more active participation that's a good thing. I like the idea of eventually adding achievements/badges and competition prizes just for folk who have earned enough points.

Good community building stuff.

There seem to be lots of duplicate postings dotted around the place as well, have been clearing them up as I spot them or as they get reported (thanks to everyone who has been flagging their own duplicates - much appreciated)

absolutely right happygeek. like i said i really liked the real-world style approach you took with the review, just suggested peacekeeper to those who were interested in benching theirs. btw, my chrome browser at the office scored 8041.

Peacekeeper is certainly one of the better browser benches, that's for sure Eyal, if you are into that sort of thing. ;)

Not according to the Peacekeeper FAQ, I quote:

What does it test?

Peacekeeper measures your browser's performance by testing its JavaScript functionality. JavaScript is a widely used programming language used in the creation of modern websites to provide features such as animation, navigation, forms and other common requirements. By measuring a browser’s ability to handle commonly used JavaScript functions Peacekeeper can evaluate its performance.

Admin/Moderating responses still very slow here - lots of lag during infractions/warnings/deletions and edits.

You are most welcome here at DaniWeb, experience is knowledge in my book.

Have you tried www.daniweb.com? I hear it's pretty good for this kind of thing... :)

1. Click on the Control Panel link at the top right of any page.
   
2. Click on the Edit Your Profile Picture link from the top of the sidebar on the left.
   
3. Simply follow the instructions there to either point at a URL or upload a file.

Or click on the links in this post, which will take you directly to the relevant pages.

Thanks for that cheerful introduction...

PS. What is Smallville? I've never heard of it ;)

Tomorrow cannot be worse, that's for sure. Today is like living through a very low budget thriller. :)

Glad that you found the review helpful in coming to a decision about using the cloud for data backup.

Peacekeeper remains, though, just a test of JavaScript performance and nothing else - like most of the benchmarking resources out there. What would be cool was if someone could come up with a real 'Daddy Browser' suite that covered all bases and really put clients through the mixer.

So far today I have:

• driven 50 miles to a meeting that was not, actually, until tomorrow
  
• been threatened by some Neanderthal in a car with a hammer (who, I hasten to add, was not man enough to get out of the car, hammer or not)
  
• walked into a door frame with such force that I almost passed out from the pain, and now have a kneecap the size of a small (and very bruised) buttock

Perhaps if I go back to bed I won't be able to get into any more trouble, although given my luck so far today I would probably sleepwalk naked into town...

That was my thought as well. Surely the easiest option here, give MS a call and get activated that way. I seem to recall doing this myself at some point in the long distant pass (when the online activation servers were playing up) and it was a speedy and painless process.

The original post from Dani even mentioned the specific episode (Season 6, Ep 2) so there really is no excuse for getting confused, even if you didn't spot the four year old datestamp.

Unless, of course, you really did miss season 6 ep 2 and are fretting over it all these years on :)

DaniWeb has looked at Network Attached Storage in the shape of the myDitto server which offers excellent value in terms of both cost and capacity . DaniWeb has looked at a personal cloud device in the very pink format of PogoPlug which is great for anytime and anywhere sharing . DaniWeb has even looked at traditional backup software which dispenses with your own hardware and moves your backup into the cloud, as exampled by the Acronis Online Backup product.

Best of all worlds

However, all of these have their own particular drawbacks be it complexity of setup and usage or maximum data storage restrictions to name but a couple. Wouldn't it be nice to have a totally secure data backup and sharing solution that 'just worked' without any hassle, didn't cost the earth and imposed no limits on storage capacity? In other words something that encompassed all the good bits of traditional NAS and backup solutions, and then threw in the advantages of the cloud as well? Enter SafeSync, a rebranded and revitalized incarnation of what used to be known as Humyo until Trend Micro acquired it.

Reasons to be cheerful

This is the same SafeSync that Trend Micro bundles for free with the Titanium Maximum Security 2011 product as reviewed by DaniWeb , so why would you want to pay $5 a month for it? Two reasons: 1. You may not have nor want the Trend …

Thanks for letting us know, Dani will look into it.

I will change the username on this occasion to save your professor from embarrassment, but we do not delete posts unless they break our rules.

>Looks like MS has had a look at the best from the rest and stolen some ideas

You are not wrong there at all, in my opinion. I think it is very obvious that in going back to the drawing board and starting again as far as the IE9 UI is concerned, what has actually happened is that MS has finally gone and looked at the competition and it has suddenly dawned on them why IE has been leaking market share.

Internet Explorer used to reign over the web browser client kingdom with a seemingly vice-like grip, but the latest statistics suggest that the Microsoft market share crown is slipping significantly. Although Chrome only has a 7.98 percent share according to one recent report, it has carved that out in a relatively small period of time. Firefox, on 22.96 percent continues to climb but Internet Explorer has slipped to 'just' 59.65 percent. OK, so that remains a pretty dominant position to be in, but when you consider that not so long ago Microsoft was looking at a browser market-share of 90 percent the need for Internet Explorer 9 to be a success on a playing field that is starting to even out somewhat becomes all too clear.

So just how likely is Microsoft to succeed in turning the browser client market-share tide? DaniWeb has been taking a close look at the latest Internet Explorer 9 Beta in order to find out.Performance matters...

Measuring the real world performance of a web browser client can be a tricky thing to accomplish, not least as there are so many varying metrics that can be applied. However, for most people you can safely say that speed and usability are the two things that carry the most weight in the performance arena: a browser is about as useful as a chocolate teapot if it isn't easy to live with, and can render most everything thrown at it both quickly and accurately.

@scrapmac

Actually, the reason we tested against the IE9 beta is explained in the opening statement "With Internet Explorer 9 being acclaimed as the fastest ever browser client from Microsoft, DaniWeb decided to put it to the test against Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari and see just how quick it really is in a real world test of web browsing speed" and we tested that against the latest release versions of the other browsers. Firefox 3.6 being the latest release version (3.6.9 at the time our tests were being run, although we note that this has now moved to 3.6.10 but doubt that would have made of a difference to the results).

@stve100

I think we made it quite clear that this was not meant to be a scientific benchmark...

With Internet Explorer 9 being acclaimed as the fastest ever browser client from Microsoft, DaniWeb decided to put it to the test against Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari and see just how quick it really is in a real world test of web browsing speed.

You can read our review of the Internet Explorer 9 Beta here .

A certain degree of nerdiness, no doubt, drives so many publications to take the microsecond benchmarking suite approach to testing. While we certainly do not dismiss these tests as pointless, measuring the speed of the browser JavaScript engine and core rendering speeds are important metrics in the scheme of things, we don't happen to think that most users really care too much about them. What users care about, and what we have been asked to produce as a result, is a measure of the real-world speed of browsers when faced with the average online content mixture facing an average user day in and day out. This was never intended on being a lab coat wearing scientifically benchmarked exercise, so please do not berate us for that. What it is, is an at-a-glance comparison of how the leading web browser clients stack up against each other in terms of real-world application when it comes to the single metric that is speed of use.

We fully appreciate that any shoot-out of web browser clients must come with a 'your mileage may vary' warning as far as the …