Posts by happygeek

It's all splinted up and immobilised at the moment, back to the hospital for more x-rays and possibly a bone scan in 10 days when it will either stay in splint or get potted for three months :(

I broke my wrist this week (scaphoid fracture) which is fun. Didn't involve any tool bashing though.

I have never played games on my laptop, despite it being sold as a gaming lappy. I'm a confirmed Xbone man. So why a gaming lappy then? Simples - the power and build of the thing provides me with something which can survive the bashing I tend to give my work tools. Over to Diafol for the double entendre comment :)

please help me i have to give teacher after 1 hour

Ding! You've failed. Next...

I currently don't have a desktop, only laptops, because I found that I could only use the desktop in the office :)

Actually, I have three laptops: my main work one (something of an overspecced powerhouse which was built to last for the long haul), my old one (stays in the office as an emergency spare) and the family one at home (which I rarely use as there are always teenage boys on it).

What tune?

What do you mean by play your laptop?

I have worked on a laptop when ill in bed before now.

Hey Jack, unlike most people who have been described as a genius, the more you say the dumber you appear...

You also live in a different country, and my phone won't stop autocorrecting.

A true genius would probably be able to get to grips with editing autocorrected messages. Just saying :)

I know. All of this. One thing that I find, exceptional. I have an IQ of 192. I'm also in college. Sooo, am I a prodigy?

Not sure about the prodigy thing, but you sure have one large ego that seems to require a lot of massaging.

Result! :)

See: https://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/threads/489719/priceless-malware#post2142347

What browser are you using? Check for any extension that may have been installed and remove that.

Download the free version of malwarebytes anti-malware (https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/) and set that upon it, usually does the trick.

Yep, looks like another SEO expert who doesn't know about SEO. Arm chancing seems to be the norm these days in the web development business...

I'm a geezer... :)

I've passed your apologies on to diafol. Wouldn't worry too much, he's made of tough Welsh stuff :)

Use it as a door-stop, buy another 10,000 and build a HD house, paint it and use as an ornament.

Seriously Robert, if there was an award for pointless question of the year...

[hint] ONLY you know the answer to the question you have asked, as Jorge has pointed out.

Question: How to get help on DaniWeb?

Answer: Show us that you have done something more than just copying your homework question here. Show us your code, and where you are getting stuck, and someone will help you.

Sigh, didn't take long for that new account to be banned.

Making threats of getting your friends to take down DaniWeb is another sign of your immaturity.

I'm beginning to understand why Malwaretips got fed up with you.

Your new account of RobertRAM is already going down the same route as the RobertHDD one.

I repeat, please cease and desist.

You are more than welcome to be part of the community and contribute, but do so within the rules and within the spirit of the DaniWeb community. Posting for the sake of it is not within that spirit. Please engage brain before pressing submit. Simple as.

Robert, I appreciate you are only 15 but some of your messages of late are more akin to a 10 year old. Please cease and decist with the juvenile nonsense...

Quick reminder of the rules:

Do not ask for help to pursue any illegal activity including, but not limited to, hacking and spamming

A 15 year old Mazda Bongo Japanese import van. They started life as a MPV with 8 seats, but as the seats all fold flat to form a bed and there's an option for an automatic rising roof with room to sleep 2 more they became a popular camper van project. Mines currently a dayvan as it's a tintop (no raising roof) but will be getting a rear kitchen fitted over the winter, unless I convert it to LPG instead which will eat all my budget for the moment.

Thanks for posting your homework assignment verbatim. Did you have a question relating to it, and some code to show us, or are you just a lazy chancer expecting someone else to do the whole thing for you?

Done :)

I should probably infract myself for circumventing the curse filter...

I think, more often than not, if someone knows you are wrong and has spotted the error then they will want to point it out. This could be because they want to help you or the OP, or it could be because it massages their ego, but they would usually want to make the correction nonetheless.

The downvote issue, rather than rep as such, can often be nothing more than a finger slip or a knee jerk reaction, a bad hair day or some knobend who has simply taken a dislike to you for whatever reason. Most of us just ignore the up/down vote stuff to be honest, as we appreciate how fickle it can be.

Usually 2 in my never humble opinion.

What Prit said. Reputation building takes time, and to be honest you are not doing badly considering you have only been here a week! I'd be impressed with your rep after that short amount of time.

Just remember you cannot please all the people all of the time and move on, but stick around as your contributions are appreciated...

And that has what to do with this thread, exactly?

Many more than that here Rev.

We long since reached the point where tech companies are selling us upgrades we don't need in order to replace stuff that is perfectly fit for purpose, does everything we need and lasts for many years. They have to, otherwise the revenue stream would dry up. Trouble is, we are (on the whole) stupid enough to fall for it. I am just as much a mug as anyone in this regard although I do manage to only replace my laptop every three years and my phone every other year. :)

About the only hardware which breaks the upgrade for the sake of it rule is printers, which are so crap that they tend to break easily and so cheap (it's all about the consumables) that they are not 'worth' repairing. I truly hate the printer hardware market, with a vengeance. Mainly becuase I hate waste.

My main problem with the whole so-called 'smart' watch technology concept is that so far they have not been that smart at all. The core functionality of all these devices would appear to be able to alert you to things happening on your phone, without you having to look at your phone. Thing is, if I have to have the phone in my pocket anyway why bother adding another bit of tech to access it? Have we become so lazy that looking at your phone is now too much bother? I mean, c'mon, what is a smartwatch actually for?

iWatch? Ugly as, pointless as, meh.

iPhone 6? Meh.

iPhone 6+? Meh+.

Thinking Apple has seriously lost the plot. Seeing no reason to upgrade from a 5s to a 6, seeing no reason to buy an iWatch (or any smartwatch for that matter - what a seriously overhyped technology) and seeing little reason to continue my investment in Apple when the time comes to change my phone.

New? Duck Duck Go has been around for many years now. Nothing to do with Apple.

And given that jazz is the musical equivalent of shoving random sharp objects into your ears until they bleed, probably a good thing.

Erm, can you tell I am not a fan of jazz? >;-)

You asked if it is legal. The answer is it is illegal. That people are acting illegally does not change that fact.

If you record the live match yourself, and have a legal agreement/license with the club to broadcast then yes.

If you mean can you just steal streams from other broadcasters which have already got those agreements and paid large amounts of money for them then, unsurprisingly, the answer is of course bloody not!

OK, now I've deleted the spam I have to ask: are you serious?

Blue Hat SEO is the name of a SEO outfit, it is not a methodology, concept, technique or technology.

There are only two types of SEO, right and wrong. Forget the whole colour-code thing - it's just a distraction. Focus on getting your SEO right, that's all.

Try answering the questions people have asked you, and then you might get the help you are after...

OK, so that's your homework. Now show us what you've done so far and what you are having problems with and someone might be able to help you.

Otherwise, I'm afraid to break it to you, but you're dead in the water here...

Starring Jim Carrey as...?

DaniWeb rules clearly state: provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments

Just copying your assignment questions here is not good enough, and nobody is going to help you unless you show us what you've done and what problems you are having.

No need, as you are allowed to ask the same question across different sites (why wouldn't you be?) but you are not allowed to copy someone else's question/answer/editorial. Oh, and Gribouillis is a moderator - see the blue label under his name :)

Which people? Seriously, I don't know anyone, not a single one, who still uses a directory site and I know a lot of people. This has been true for many years now. Search killed the directory model dead, as Dani says, as a doornail.

Back in the day, when I used to do gadget reviews for the likes of Pocket Lint, I got to see a whole bunch of these type of devices. Bearing in mind they were the earliest attempts at the technology, and I would hope the newest ones have improved, here's what I thought:

More style than substance, in that they had the wow factor but were as good as useless if you wanted to actually do anything productive with them. How responsive they were depended upon the quality of the surface the keyboard was projected upon, along with ambient lighting etc. Fast typing was all but impossible, so very much a case of slow and careful prodding in order to avoid mistakes.

Overall, my conclusion was that if you were not worried about fast typing then you may as well stick to whatever virtual keyboard was supplied with your smartphone/tablet. If you wanted to be able to actually type properly and produce some work beyond SMS or tweet then invest in a folding or portable physical keyboard.

As I say, this was a few years ago. However, the tech looks very similar to the stuff I played with back then. Honestly I would recommend buying from somewhere that allows returns, or find a hight street supplier and go play with it first.

I can sort of understand the curiosity involved with wanting to know why someone has downvoted a post, but believe that the anonymous system works in everyone's best interest. Where reputational voting is concerned, of course, anonymity is removed.

It could be that the post you had a downvote on was part of a thread which has been deleted? Or maybe someone upvoted and that cancelled out the downvote so there would no longer be any downvoted posts to see?

The thing about disruptive technologies is that they tend to creep up on you without you actually realising it. The answer to the original question is, therefore, nobody knows...