Posts by happygeek

Well, the DaniWeb Web Hosting Deals forum would probably be a good place.

I'm closing this thread now as it's not really in the right place and it will quickly become a spam trap otherwise - and you now have your answer :)

You are replying to a four year old thread, I imagine he has sorted the problem by now...

Thread closed.

Just a marketing tactic to make you click on the ad, and a pretty good one as I imagine plenty of folk would do just that. Whether the endpoint was selling you something or trying to infect you, well nobody here can really say, can they?

However, on the subject of advertising banners that work, my favourite from many years back was when a magazine I worked for at the time as Consulting Editor decided to place some banners on the more popular sites of the time (this was at least 10 years ago) which simply said, in big and black and bold letters: PLEASE CLICK HERE.

The click through rate on those ads eclipsed anything the magazine had ever tried before, or since for that matter. Not so sure it would still work today, given that people are a little (only a little, mind) more security aware.

Attracting trolls now, so thread closed as already solved and two years old

How about: The Ancient Quiz?

This thread is FIVE YEARS old!

Thread now closed as just a spam trap

DaniWeb does not delete posts unless they are in breach of our rules. None of your posts appear to fall into that category, sorry.

If you become a DaniWeb sponsor by making a 12 monthly donation of $45 the monthly cost equates to just $3.75, for a six monthly donation of $25 the monthly equivalent is $4.16, whereas a monthly donation is $5.00

Get some different friends.

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.

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.

Of course, now that Europe have won the Ryder Cup, can I just say what a wonderful game golf is and how I have always loved it so...

Anyone can play golf, but why would anyone want to? Good walk spoiled, and all that.

Now Rugby Union and Mixed Martial Arts, those are sports. I'm thinking of inventing a new sport which combines both, that would kick ass - literally.

They already got wet yesterday, BADLY!!!

I always find it easier to predict stuff that has already happened.

I predict they will all get wet. Very wet...

We will look into it, thanks for the heads up guys.

Erm. I surrender :)

Over to Dani for the answer to this one...

Nice one Eyal!

Generally speaking, buying on eBay is the same as buying anywhere else if what you are concerned about is getting a genuine product: if the price seems too good to be true, it probably is.

I think it is a good idea, for the reasons already stated.

Send me a PM with your choices, more than one in case the first one or two are already taken, and I will change it for you.

What Nick and Sanjay say :)

Ignore button is much more polite than idiot button, don't you think?

Why are weapons such a taboo subject in the UK? Seriously, you guys are afraid of having pointed ends on a kitchen knife.

We've seen the mess they've made in the USA and would rather our murder rate didn't get that high, thanks very much.

But how come all the British and French gangbangers don't buy a bunch of guns in the U.S. and take them back. I've never understood the lack of gun crime in Europe. Illegal guns must cost way more over there and the thugs simply can't afford them?

Getting guns into the UK is a lot more difficult than you might imagine, especially in these days of heightened terrorist alerts.

Most of the guns used in gun crime over here would appear to be 'recommissioned' weapons that were previously deactivated (blank firers, converted for use as air pistols/rifles, collectors items etc).

That said, as I understand it, many of the gangbangers here simply hire an illegal firearm (for a relatively low cost) from underground sources for a day or two - just long enough to do a robbery or threaten/kill a rival.

And it has been demonstrated over and over again, time after time, that crime INCREASES when guns are restricted or banned.

Not in the UK it hasn't. Over here, where guns have always (in recent history at least) been restricted, we are finding that as guns become easier to get hold of so gun crime increases. That, it seems to me, is a pretty obvious conclusion to draw.

Agreed. Have just spent some time in the Reported Posts forum and it is, indeed, a mess right now.

Have alerted Dani to the ongoing solved/unsolved problem.

There was a database problem yesterday which should be resolved now, as I understand it.

EG - no need to apologise for trying to help. I've had a look at your posting in the virus/spyware forum and can't see anything wrong with it being there to be honest - and I've reversed the warning you were given as a result. Don't be too hard on our moderators though, they are all volunteers and all do their best here but sometimes make mistakes, they are human too. :)

Hah! I've managed to reel in both freshwater and seawater trouts!

I know my plaice...

The Browsershots web-based service is pretty awesome at doing this for a quick idea of compatibility across multiple OSes and browser clients - you give it the site URL, it gives you a ton of screenshots showing you how it looks.

I'm not involved in the site development side of DaniWeb, but would be very surprised if Dani (or the web design consultants) had not done compatibility testing.

And before anybody bangs on about the 'unfeasibility' of testing every possible combination - rubbish. A partitioned machine running multiple OSes, each with a full bank of browsers shouldn't be beyond a dev company. However, is it something to do with FF's new release? Does the previous version react in the same way?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

have already been in contact with poster

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

Well, yes, that's true enough. Mind, it would be even more confusing if your old posts stayed with your old username and news one got your new name attached. That would suggest some kind of split personality...

Yes, all existing posts are changed to reflect the new username.

You could be right there. Replace Google search with DaniWeb search in that equation. Maybe this is something Dani could take a look at when the current site update stuff is out of the way.

The mechanics are usually easily explained: Google search -> old thread on same/similar topic -> poster asks related question

Threads should remain open as a rule of thumb, and there should be no rule/movement against contributing to those threads at any time provided that contribution is on topic and adds something worthy to the thread in question.

Where the addition is spam/hijack etc then it gets dealt with using existing moderator processes.

Why yes I believe I can, and indeed have.

can u plz change my user name to

cool_jatish

with deep regards
Jatish Khanna

wow, i could change my name and my picture and i would be like a completely new person that no one would know who i am!

I have a sneaky suspicion that, after a posting or two, everyone would know it was you ;-)

If you PM me with the alternative(s) I can work that magic.

Or, if you prefer, PM me directly - if you are considering a common name in any regard then best to come up with half a dozen alternatives to save time and a whole lot of mucking about on my part :)

I'm guessing it might be less of server load and more of a DaniWeb branding issue to change the colour scheme, but Dani will probably be along soon to confirm.

Done.

If you give me a hint as to what you want to change it to I might be able to to help. otherwise it is beyond even the long arm of the admins. :)

OK, I think this thread has been left to fester long enough and unfortunately has developed a nasty racist overtone on both sides of the argument.

Thread closed.