Posts by happygeek

I agree Dave - advanced search is very useful and I'm all for an advanced button on show.

I would guess that very few people actually send an additional email, to be honest. Probably something just saying 'the site owners have been notified of the problem' would be sufficient IMO.

So who's going to be there then?

I'm looking forward to meeting you all F2F, just be gentle with me and promise not to mention signature spam or the new site design :)

The Domain Names for Sale forum is the correct place on DaniWeb for this.

It's a shame you won't be able to make it. On the plus side, I'll try and make sure your beer doesn't go to waste :)

Thanks for the feedback, nice to read some positive thoughts!

It's a social engineering trick: user gets official looking email telling them they can reset their password as requested by following a link, users thinks someone has been trying to access their account and decides to reset the password just in case.

It will also catch those busy or security dumb folk who quickly scan an official looking password reset email and click the link without even thinking.

As InsightsDigital says, the click through rate may be low but you only need a few people to fall for any given malware scam and the numbers soon start adding up.

Microsoft will stop releasing security updates, hotfixes and other updates for Windows XP SP2 on July 13th 2010. No biggie, you might think, after all Windows XP SP3 was released way back in April 2008 and since then we've had both Vista (perhaps best forgotten) and the much more palatable Windows 7. Yet despite the death of XP SP2 being absolutely no surprise to IT admins the world over, it would seem that a large number of machines within enterprise networks are still running that very version of the Windows OS.

Qualsys reckons we are still more than a year away from all machines migrating away from XP SP2 and this threatens to leave many of them exposed to exploits for the vulnerabilities that you can bank upon being unleashed in the second half of 2010. It's not really such a big concern for home users, of course, as XP SP3 is already being pushed automatically through Windows Update, but in the enterprise such automatic updating just isn't feasible.

DaniWeb asked Qualys CTO, Wolfgang Kandek, what global security risks the Windows XP SP2 end-of-life creates?

"Starting in August, the risk of using SP2 will grow as more vulnerabilities for Windows XP are uncovered over time. While we do not know the exact dates and the severity of these vulnerabilities, we are certain that after 90 days automated attacks (exploits) will be available. These exploits will give the attacker full control over the infected machine, including access to …

But in the forum list it does show replies, which lets you know if anyone has replied to the posting and that surely is more important than the number of people who have looked at it.

After all, if 100 people have viewed your question but nobody has provided an answer why would you care? Yet if 1 person has answered your question does it matter that you don't know how many have looked at it?

Anyway, once you click into the post itself the views are then shown.

I'm not sure I understand why this is such a problem for you, sorry.

The great thing about modern technology is that it makes our lives easier, well, most of our lives that is. For some, it would seem, technology just adds another layer of confusion into the whole living their life thing. Take the many cases of people apparently having to do exactly what their satellite navigation system tells them, without giving any thought to what that might actually be. I've written about stupid satnav users before here on DaniWeb, such as the Australian chap who turned right when directed and failed to spot this was not a highway turn off but the entrance to a building a site where he proceeded to drive his sports utility vehicle up some stairs and crashed into a toilet. Or the London Ambulance Service crew which, instead of taking a patient on a 30 minute and 12 mile trip between hospitals, ended up driving for 200 miles and 8 hours in the completely wrong direction for that matter?

But the strange case of Lauren Rosenberg surely does take the biscuit. According to reports the woman was using Google Maps together with a 'walking route' while walking in Utah, and it told her to walk along "Deer Valley Drive" which turned out to be the sidewalk-less Utah State Route 224. Perhaps unsurprisingly she was hit by a car, although the lawsuit arising from the incident was a little more unexpected as she is suing both Google and the car driver for damages …

Nope, Windows 7 Starter Edition has desktop customisation taken out. As far as I am aware there is no workaround other than to explore the use of third party desktop customisation/theme tools such as Windows Blinds and the like.

Let me guess, you are using a netbook with Windows 7? I say this as the Windows 7 Starter Edition installed on netbooks does not allow for desktop themes, configuration etc.

Congrats on passing your CBT, don't worry before too long you will be able to ride proper bikes rather than those hairdryer-powered 125 jobbies :)

I've always liked Triumphs, to be honest, but then I've owned a fair few stripped down and chopped up bikes in my time. One of my favourites was a custom built trike that started life as a six pot Kawasaki but ended up being something a hell of a lot better.

I don't ride as much these days, fast approaching 50 and with both young kids and grandchildren in tow a bike isn't exactly convenient most of the time...

Thanks Sjoerd, you are of course right about the cursor speed - however, the HandShoeMouse is also a tad on the large side to start with compared to most mice (it's more of a trackball-sized rodent) so still requires more space than the average user might expect. That said, it's a small price to pay for the increased mousing comfort I'm experiencing.

I know, hence the smiley. File under dry British sense of humour :-)

The box that the HandShoeMouse arrived in proudly claims that this is "the only mouse that fits like a glove" although I'd take issue with that. You don't wear it like a glove, but rather it wears you. The glove analogy does hold up when it comes to the pre-purchase ritual, however, as this is the first time I have ever needed my hand to be measured before I could purchase a mouse! The vendor website guides you through the process, with a separate order route for right and left handed users. It's not overly complicated, which is handy if you'll excuse the pun, and simply involves a ruler and some accurate measuring of the length of your hand.No ordinary rodent

So why all the palaver? Simple: this is no ordinary mouse. Not that you need me to tell you that, look at the pictures for goodness sake. Have you ever seen anything like it? The thing has the appearance of a stingray, with smooth flowing lines that defy conventional mouse design rules. That's because this mouse design has evolved with the help of a group of mechanical engineers working in cooperation with Dutch Erasmus MC (Erasmus University Hospital Rotterdam) department of Biomedical Physics and Technology plus the Neurosciences and Anatomy department in order to link anatomy and technology with a goal of eradicating the type of strains normally associated with mouse usage.

This is the mouse re-invented...

Writer's block

I'm a writer by profession, …

And now done...

Sure, PM me (or reply here if you wish) with a few alternatives (your first choice may well have already been taken as we have over 750,000 registered members) and I'll set about doing it for you.

You've waited 3 years to change something on device that's only been around for less than 3 months? :-)

Wow! Who would have thought that teenage girls could be so vicious? C'mon ladies, I know you all love Justin Bieber sooooooooooooo much but PLEASE try reading what is being said before typing your hate emails and hitting the send key. Yes, that's right, I've had some pretty weird email heading my way since posting this piece. How about these snippets (my replies in brackets)

"You ******* retard Justin is not dead!!!!!!" (I never said he was, but thanks for not reading anyway)

"If you had half the talent of Justin Bieber you would be a much better writer" (At least I know what Germany is)

"Why don't you just die of cancer" (Isn't it way past your bedtime?)

"**** you and *** you again you ******* **** LEAVE JUSTIN ALONE, OK!" (I feel a mind reading session coming on: you are 13 and a Biber fan. Am I right?)

"I wish I could censor you and your bullshit from the internet" (you can, just don't read my stuff - simple)

I have written about many contentious issues before now, courting controversy and expecting a heated response, but never have I experienced the kind of pure hatred and nastiness that my email inbox has seen as a result of this. What surprises me most is that these rather emotional young girls have gone to the trouble of looking up my email address in order to be able to vent their collective spleens. Seriously girls, …

And with that, I think it is time to close this very old thread...

Try running a business which does not sell 'knock off handbags' and does something legal instead. Just a thought...

Oh, and as your signature contained links to those sites which are in breach of US law, I've disabled it so that particular strand of your SEO policy no longer works either, sorry.

hello friends,i need help from you regading my site i have a site regarding the replica handbags and i want to sell handbags with my site.but i have no success.i worked on it from last 3-4 month.

Contact Yahoo customer support using the process the system shows for such things. If you cannot remember the answers to any of your memorable questions then I would expect them, not unreasonably, to suggest you have lost access to that account. The security options are there for a reason, and if bypassing them were easy there would be no point.

Dunno, not tried it as I don't have an iPhone 3G - however, I suspect it most likely does as I cannot think of any reason why it wouldn't.

Bad news for anyone with an iPhone 3GS: even if you have the latest OS, even if you have a PIN number, even if it isn't jailbroken - it can be hacked by anyone using a computer running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.

I wouldn't ordinarily reveal exactly how to hack an iPhone within a news story such as this, but what the heck, here's all the gory detail revealed, step by step.

• Step 1 - Take a powered down iPhone 3GS and connect it to your computer running a fully up to date version of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
  
• Step 2 - See Step 1.

Seriously, that really is all it takes according to security blogger Bernd Marienfeldt who reckons that the way Ubuntu Lucid Lynx handles the iPhone means that a ton of data is accessible, even if that iPhone is PIN protected and running the very latest version of the OS. How much data exactly? Well how about all your Google safe browsing databases, game content, music, photos and videos, voice recordings and so on for starters? The person gaining access in this way will leave no visible footprints to show the iPhone has been compromised, and will enjoy full read and write access during the hack.

About the only thing someone could not do is make phone calls without having your PIN number, but that's precious little comfort should your lost or stolen iPhone end up in the hands of someone …

As far as I am concerned Facebook has pretty much proved that it doesn't get user privacy concerns at all. It has flip flopped all over the shop with one privacy policy fiasco after another. If this was the first time Zuckerberg had gone 'whoops, never realised our members cared about their privacy' I might forgive him and still trust Facebook to do the right thing. Sadly it isn't and I don't.

Yes Guy, you are 101% right about not using social networking if you don't want people to know what you are up to, that much is common sense. What rattles my cage is the constant moving goal posts that is the Facebook take on user data privacy, that's unacceptable in my opinion. I'd much rather Zuckerberg said 'sod it, all your data are belong to me' and stuck to it than this constant flip flopping.

I don't hate Bieber, in fact I wish him all the best of luck (especially if he ever tours Germany) - but it is interesting how the very name 'Justin Bieber' does seem to polarise opinion. I'm more interested in how far people will go to prevent that name appearing during an online session. Seems a mighty overreaction to me, hence the Chinese state censorship comparison. There's plenty I don't like online, but I don't go to the extremes of using software to remove all traces of it from my view - instead I don't knowingly go looking for it.

As my late father used to say "I hate sex on the TV, I keep falling off" but he also used to say "If you don't like sex on the TV, don't keep watching it" and I think he had a point.

Justin Bieber is, so my 10 year old daughter informs me, a pop sensation. Actually, her exact words when I asked just who the heck this Bieber bloke who keeps topping the Twitter trending chart is were: Oh My God, Justin Bieber, he's gorgeous. A little more journalistic investigation turned up the fact that in reality he's a 16 year old Canadian who doesn't know what the word German means.

Having listened to a couple of his songs, and I must confess that I'm more a Slipknot man myself so my opinion of Bieber is unlikely to be too high, I fail to see what all the fuss is about - however I would not wish him dead, even if only virtually. It appears not everyone is so generous.

Bieber has been flying high on Twitter, pretty much dominating the trending charts for months on end. Until now, following an apparent tweak to the Twitter trending algorithm Bieber has vanished from view from the social networking trending topics list. Twitter now looks for those things that are 'immediately popular' and representing the moment in time rather than taking a historically popular over a period of time viewpoint. Twitter is, of course, at pains to point out that Bieber has not been banned despite the facts appearing to suggest that he most certainly has been as far as the trending topics list is concerned.

But that is not enough for some people, who simply …

That's the surprising consensus reached at a meeting of 30 CSOs representing some of the UK's leading enterprises held in London during the past week. This despite a poll at the bi-annual CSO Interchange event revealing that those same CSOs view social networking as the most over-hyped threat.

When it came to the round table discussions on the subject of social networking, however, the gathered CSOs expressed what has been called a "strong preference" for companies to consider banning them all. Well, almost all, as LinkedIn gets an exception as most of the CSOs considered that acceptable. Could that possibly have something to do with the CSOs being more likely to be active members of LinkedIn, a business-to-business oriented social network, than Facebook or Twitter I wonder? Perhaps they missed the news about LinkedIn and Twitter integration last year.

Indeed, polling showed that some 75 percent of companies represented had already chosen to go down the social networking ban route, pretty much the same number as the same poll last year indicated. Interestingly, considering that this was a meeting of security executives, the ban reasoning was as much to do with an impact on productivity as it was matters security related.

Even more interestingly. the gathered CSOs admitted that they recognised any company which did ban social networking tools risked alienating the younger members of the workforce and they would be likely to resort to their own mobile devices - and potentially open …

According to research conducted by thinkbroadband.com, there is significant confusion amongst broadband providers not only as to whether they support IPv6 but also as to what it actually is. Surprising, when you consider that IPv6 has been available since 1998 and much written about - including here on DaniWeb for many years now. Not surprising, when you consider that only a handful of niche broadband service providers actually support it at the moment.

That didn't stop several of the sales teams at broadband providers from incorrectly claiming to be supporting it though, while others responded with such remarks as "is it Internet Explorer 6" and "Never been asked, I'm just looking at Wikipedia right now". If that were not bad enough, one broadband ISP replied to the question of IPv6 support with "we support IP version 5" despite this never having been an official protocol (we're currently on IPv4) and the absolute classic which would be funnier if it were not so sad of “is that a TV channel?”

Sebastien Lahtinen, co-founder of thinkbroadband.com, says "there is clearly a lot of confusion about IPv6 within the sales and support teams working for many service providers. We found that very few operators had heard about IPv6. The fact is that ISPs should be preparing their customer support teams for queries about IPv6 as consumers become more aware of it and begin to look into how it is going to affect them".

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At first glance the news story headline from The Telegraph was rather comforting: Britons spend more web time reading news than looking at pornography. That's one big finger flipped up in the face of all those who decry the Internet as being a cesspool of depravity and the people who use it as bereft of a moral compass. However, when you read behind the headline things do not look quite so clear cut.

The story came about as a result of research published by the United Kingdom Online Measurement Company (UKOM) which suggested that the proportion of time that the British spend looking at online porn had dropped over the last three years while online news consumption has all but doubled during that same period.

Thing is, the actual percentages are so close you might as well run a headline that says 'Brits like online news and porn' and it would have been just as accurate. Apparently we spend an average of 2.8 percent of our time consuming news while adult website browsing accounts for an average 2.7 percent of that time.

So when the newspaper followed this 'revelation' with a quote from a UKOM spokesperson that "the prevalence of web adult usage has always been greatly overestimated" which is true enough, but to suggest that these figures somehow punctured the myth that porn was behind Internet popularity is bizarre if you ask me.

For a start, choosing the news and porn …

Dani most certainly is listening, and acting upon many of the points raised in this forum. However, there is a difference between listening and accepting every argument made. If you want real chaos then that would come if Dani just caved every time someone disagreed with some element of site design or rule implementation.

For what it's worth, Dani has listened and fixed the following so far:

• Reputation and solved threads in member's posts - DONE
• Polish the MFF design - DONE
• Fix up the white papers section - DONE
• Fix icon in thead listing pages that says whether you have posted in the thread - DONE
• Make threads with zero replies differentiated - Fixed bug in Unanswered tab
• Fix problem where navigation menu hides behind tabbed navigation and member profile chart in IE - DONE

Other stuff is still being worked on, and worked on for far more hours in the day than most of us are happy to put in.

A little less Dani bashing would probably go a long way. Refusing to help anyone in the forums is, to be honest, not going to sway anyone to your point of view. If something is going to be changed it will be changed depending upon the merit of that change as determined by Dani after considering the arguments made by folk here. It will not get changed as a result of holding any forum to ransom.

If you thought the most annoying thing about using public transport was that loudmouth oink holding a ridiculously loud mobile phone conversation or swiping madly away at an iPhone, then you were wrong. It's only the second most annoying thing about commuting, at least as UK travellers are concerned according to new research from Popcap.

Volcanic ash is mighty annoying when it interrupts your travel plans, but despite what it feels like right now it is a pretty rare event. Unlike people who smell. Interestingly, it seems that women find stinky folk more offensive than men (probably as most of the stinkers are men if my own experiences of sweaty commuters are anything to go by) and the Scots are more bothered by it than the English, Northern Irish or Welsh. Perhaps it's best not to go down the route of another survey, from those good folk at Microsoft, which looked at mobile phone usage on the toilet, under the circumstances.

As far as the mobile phone usage goes, commuters in Leeds and Newcastle proved to be the loudest with 25 percent admitting to calling people during their travel to work. Nearly half of those surveyed admitted that they listen to other people's mobile phone conversations, although to be fair I'm surprised it is as low given that you can often do nothing else considering how people yell into the things. That said, more than half also admitted to reading newspapers, text messages, books …

I thought Hotmail was a spent force already, seeing as I had not seen any incoming mail from users of that service for ages. Then I looked in my spam folder and found it was, in fact, still operating. So I agree with Ron on this one. :)

And having now listened to a snippet of that Gettin' Over song I think I would rather be unaware of it, to be honest :)

If the part you don't want is not breaking the rules then the short answer is no, I am afraid. What are the postings in question, and what are the parts you are concerned about? There is a good reason for not deleting/editing postings, and that is they form part of the greater support database that is at the heart of the DaniWeb community. Once a problem has been sorted for the original poster it does not die, but rather remains a living thing which can then go on and help others who might have a similar problem. Hence the showing up in Google searches, which helps bring those folk in need of similar help to that specific thread.

Who wants some forged educational documents that will help you get a job in some foreign country? The answer, it would seem, is lots and lots of people. At least that would explain why spam advertising fake diplomas has topped the list of junk mail subject matter for China, South Korea and Vietnam according to the latest McAfee Internet Threat Report which was published today.

The report, covering the threat landscape for the first quarter of 2010, also reveals that while email subjects vary greatly from country to country, diploma spam coming out of China and other Asian countries is on the rise and a cause for concern. This suggests that while China may no longer be a major player in the relaying of spam, it is still producing plenty of the stuff albeit in a highly targeted fashion. Meanwhile, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan have exceptional rates for Delivery Status Notification spam indicating a possible issue with preventative mail-filtering capabilities.

Elsewhere, McAfee discovered that Thailand, Romania, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Colombia, Chile and Brazil have a higher portion of malware infections and spam which is probably down to the significant Internet growth these countries have experienced over the past five years coupled to an inevitable lag as far as security awareness is concerned.

Across the planet, spammers and malware merchants are leveraging major news events to poison Internet searches with the Haiti and Chile earthquake disasters leading the sick list …

You cannot delete them, or indeed edit them. We only delete messages that break the rules here on DaniWeb.

You would say that :)

The usual rule of thumb applies: if you can find enough recent, active and busy threads on the subject and point us in their direction, then a new forum might be considered. Without evidence of such a demand, then forum creation is usually frowned upon - indeed, over the years we've culled various forums as they were chronically underused.

Hi Agni, I'm sure Dani will have added this to the list of things to check in due course - thanks for letting us know.

have already been in contact with poster

I think you can tick this one as things that Dani has fixed already :)

Dani is, indeed, busy fixing things and tweaking others, so bear with us for bit while it all gets sorted.

Dani is monitoring the feedback forum and bugs are being squashed and tweaks applied, however this does take a little time and has to be done on a priority list basis, so please bear with us.

Agni: there is a search button at the top right of the screen

Chammarox: are you sure you meant to post that here as it has no bearing on the original posting?

Rather amazingly, just one crime syndicate stands accused of being responsible for some two thirds of all detected phishing attacks carried out during the last six months of 2009. The so-called Avalanche gang, according to a new report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), used highly sophisticated malware to target 40 banks and online service providers as well as vulnerable domain name registrars.

So successful was the Eastern European based gang that not only did its activity account for 66 percent of all phishing attacks, globally, in the second half of 2009, but it caused a spike in reported phishing across the Internet. That's 84,000 of the 126,000 identified fake web sites known to have been used to steal personal information such as credit card and bank account details as well as spread malware.

The Avalanche name does not only apply to the gang behind the unprecedented attacks but also the infrastructure it is using to host those attacks. Rod Rasmussen, founder and CTO of Internet Identity and co-author of the Global Phishing Survey study, insists, however, that coordinated action against that infrastructure "has led to an ongoing, significant, reduction in attacks through April 2010". Although study co-author Greg Aaron, Director of Key Account Management and Domain Security at Afilias, does admit that "the losses by banks and individual Internet users were staggering".

The good news is that in April 2010, only 59 attacks were reported to have been caused by Avalanche.

Good news for Ardav - the badges are coming back soon...

Well the site is done, but the sorting out any bugs and tweaking stuff will be ongoing for a week or two, so a little patience will go a long way I suspect.