Posts by happygeek

I imagine you've googled yourself to death already, but just in case there's also this: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/games_windows_10/windowsdefender-is-blocking-steam-from-making/da01b3d8-fc3b-453d-b8eb-9cd29b86e017

and this https://beamdog.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000322872-Windows-10-Save-games-aren-t-saving

Turn Defender off, and use something else, would be my suggestion to be honest. There are plenty of other free security solutions that do as good a job, and mostly a better job, than Defender so why bother jumping through hoops with it? Avast, Avira or even Kaspersky Free for example...

Welcome back Grim! Wow, so much has changed in 10 years - bet you don't recognise the place, huh?

In fairness, that intro is all mixed up. The guy says that he is both 'an SEO expert' and 'I want to be an SEO expert' so, given that he's studying EEE at college/uni, I'm assuming the latter rather than the former. Whatever, it would still be useful to expand upon his own own ideas rather than just throw the questions out. Whaddya say Bivhab, what are your thoughts on website ranking?

What ddanbe said, nobody knows what help you need until you show us where you are getting stuck. You need to post your code (or pseudocode) as is, and explain the problems you are having.

There is no evidence to counter the argument. Researchers reached out, but all the porn addicts were unable to type courtesy of an overly musclebound right arm coupled with chronic RSA of the wrist...

Hi ALHANOUF

Even though you've obviously searched for and found a relevant thread to which you have attached your question, you may have failed to notice that this particular discussion has been dead for NINE years. Resurrecting long dead threads is frowned upon in forums such as ours, and does you no favours in getting the help you seek.

May I suggest that you ask your question again, but as a new post and with as much background information as is required to help our experts answer it for you in a timely fashion? That way you are much more likely to get the help you want, thanks...

If you go to google and search for bing, the second hit is for a CBeebies TV show "Meet Bing, his carer Flop and all their friends. Watch clips and make a picture with Bing. Based on the books by Ted Dewan" although I'm not sure that tells us much.

However, when I go to bing ands search for goggles there are no hits for google on the first page, just hits for goggles. So not sure what's happening at your end Rev!

You can if you want. Or you could use Duck Duck Go and have your privacy protected for good measure...

Great. So show us your code so far, and where you are getting stuck. Then someone might be able to help you.

Indeed. And you can get them without hassle and totally free of charge from Let's Encrypt without having to use some commercial outfit which charges silly money. Just saying...

Please acquaint yourself with the rules taking particular note of "do provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments" and then come back with the appropriate additional information such as what problems you are having with your code, and include that code, so people can help you.

Why pre-order something that you don't know is any good or not?

More. Money. Than. Sense.

What?
Where?
Who?

You posted an affiliate marketing advert for an 'online coupon business' in a forum where people discuss digital marketing issues, it is not a place to post adverts.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and goes quack...

Welcome, but please read the rules before you post any more of the 'affiliate marketing' stuff (aka spam) here.

A Russian spy, a sex pest and a billionaire walk into a bar.

The barman says: "Hello Mr President..."

My words.

Dammit. I hate being wrong... :-)

Nope. Mainly because until I just Googled it I had no idea what NHAI stood for. Now that I know it is the National Highways Authority of India, I still cannot agree as I know nothing about highway commuting in India.

I'm kind of assuming that you are going to be involved in the sales or marketing of incident management systems, or am I wrong?

Oh, the irony :-)

Let Me Google That

As for the cost of the exam, I assume you mean the adwords certification, Google stopped charging for those in 2013 I do believe.

Se: https://support.google.com/partners/answer/3153810?hl=en-GB

Seriously? I found this by visiting the first result for the Google search I posted: http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/Admin_Units/admin.html

Let Me Google That...

Have you asked Reddit? That would seem the obvious way forward...

You could always try running a legitimate business I guess, and stop spamming your links, then maybe Google might take you seriously...

Buy a new one.

It's passed on, this modem is no more, it has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff, bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-modem!

With apologies to Monty Python.

The answer is yes, DaniWeb has been under a spam attack (800 support scammers) for many weeks now. All the time I spend on DW has been devoted to banning these accounts (being set up at a rate of many dozens every hour) and deleting posts that get through. The same thing applies to all mods here.

I'm glad you hadn't noticed though, that means we are least keeping this shite away from the membership for the most part.

Dani has been trying various methods to thwart the scammers, but this is a rather devious and determined group it seems.

You still using Windows XP then David? TThat would be your problem, right there. Take your own advice, install a new operating system - Windows 10 for example...

You can use them, yes, but you cannot buy them for anywhere near $400 Amy. Which is what the OP set as a budget...

Hah! I knew you wouldn't be able to keep away Alan. Have a good one, whatever you celebrate. Me, I'll be ignoring the whole sorry mess as much as I can :-)

What an odd question to ask, seeing as you appear to run a company that provides 'salesforce development' in the USA.

Not just here for some bait and post spamming via another account are you? Or is your own company so crap that you are looking to use someone else?

Here's a better idea: you show us how far you have got with your code, and where you are having problems. Then someone can actually try and help you. Deal?

It's that time of the year again when the whole 'prediction' business machinery gets fired up. So I thought I would grab some of the ones from my inbox that are perhaps most applicable to the digital marketing sector. The following were inspired by some crystal ball gazing by the folk at the Talkwalker social analytics people, and caught my attention today. So, what does the gathered DaniWeb consciousness make of them? Accurate, likely or total nonsense?

Here goes:

1. Facebook will become a major competitor to YouTube during 2018 in terms of 'social video' consumption. This on the back of the introduction of new features to help creators with video discovery, especially a preferential boost in the newsfeed for original native video. A dedicated video app is also in the pipeline.

2. Conversational UI will march onwards and upwards, an AI-powered army of chatbots that will nurture leads and drive sales. Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft are all investing heavily in this area.

3. Be it video or Augmented Reality, 'rich media' for an immersive experience will close the gap between engagement and purchase. If your ecommerce environment is dated, you'll be losing out.

4. R.I.P organic social reach. Paying for visibility on social media will no longer be optional, as organic reach not only nose-dives further in 2018 but commits seppuku in the process.

5. The marketeer is dead, long live the influencer. Maybe the most controversial of the predictions, but influencer marketing has …

What Dani said. Registering a domain name is cheap and easy, finding a web host that supports WordPress ditto. Which would just leave you the job of fidning the right WordPress template and getting a little creative to make it your own; again really easy. The hardest part is creating the content that will drive people to your blog once it's up and running.

Basically all you have done so far is make a statement, and one that makes no sense. There is no question for anyone to answer, although we could guess that you actually want help with a homework assignment.

Please take a deep breath, think about what you actually want to ask us and try again. Oh, and do provide some code so that we can work with you to see where you are going wrong.

Erm, if you are selling digital marketing training then shouldn't you be the one telling us these things?

In which case, that explains why so much of the web is pure, 100%, absolute click-candy crap then.

Or maybe don't bother, in which case why post in the first place?

Try again, but this time actually think of a clear question that people can help you with (and make sure you read the rules about asking for help with homework assignments before you do, if that's what this is)

autorun antivirus is considered to be the most reliable but, it needs to be installed on PC

A non-answer that doesn't even attempt to address the actual question asked by the OP. The actual answer, which does address the question, has already been given by rproffitt...

If you generated the numbers, then I don't understand why you say they were "pulled from a database that I don't have access too and given to me in a flat file text format" in that case. Still sounds dodgy to me...

I wrote a piece about such 'middleboxes' (either in hardware or software) on the network, and a draft IETF standard that proposes to bypass such things, just yesterday. It's at SC Magazine UK here: https://www.scmagazineuk.com/will-ietf-proposal-be-the-end-of-enterprise-middlebox-traffic-snooping/article/706437/

What pty said, the Forbes article is about selling data about you and not your data as in documents etc. The reason the research you have done turns up US ISPs is courtesy of it being about US legislation changes...

I have 17 million serial numbers that were given to me in one flat text file (going forward we will refer to this file as 'BIGFILE'). I do not have access to the database that they came from and the 17 million serial numbers, never change.

All of which sounds very dodgy indeed. Care to share the nature of these 'serial numbers' to assure the community that it is not helping you in some illicit activity here?

OK, so the Jelly Pro is being touted as the world's smallest 4G smartphone; but is it any good?

Every time I pull the Jelly Pro out of the change pocket of my jeans, yes it really is that small, I cannot help but think of Derek Zoolander and his ridiculously small cellphone. That was a comedy spoof, of course, but how serious is the Jelly Pro?

Let's get the size thing out of the way first, because that really is the main selling point here. It's small, very small indeed: 92.4mm x 43mm x 13mm (that's just 3.64" x 1.69" x 0.5"). The screen itself is a miniscule 2.45" at a resolution of 240 x 432 pixels. Oh, and it weighs in at 75g with battery and 82g if you add the dinky lanyard case that can be bought as an extra.

To put that into some perspective, my day-to-day smartphone right now is a Samsung Galaxy S8+ which has a 6.2" 2960 x 1440 Quad HD display and overall dimensions of 159.5 x 73.4 x 8.1 mm (6.28 x 2.89 x 0.32 in) weighing in at 173g. They couldn't be further apart, and I don't just mean in size.

Whereas the S8+ has a whopping 3500mAh fast charging battery that's good for a full day of heavy usage, the Jelly Pro doesn't. It has a 950mAh battery that struggles to get through a day of pretty light usage. In fact, the …

I love the idea of Dazah as a virtual meet-up connector, but the quality of proposed connections really needs to improve a tad methinks.

Take this one that just arrived:

About abbas haider

i wanna job i'm a bachelor

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

1. I have no vacancies.
2. That's one heck of a poor CV.

And, on the flip side, see:

https://www.linux.com/news/2017/7/linux-malware-rise-look-recent-threats

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/25/linux_malware/

https://thehackernews.com/2017/07/linux-malware-sambacry.html

Not that I'm saying Linux is less secure than Windows, but rather that suggesting Linux users are somehow exempt from the malware threat is perhaps disingenuous.

I don't understand why you didn't just turn off your machine and never bother booting Linux again after you got hit by malware. That seems to be what you did with the Windows machine following a single compromise after all.

To misquote Oscar Wilde "To be infected on one platform may be regarded as a misfortune; to get infected on both looks like carelessness..."

I repeat:

OK, this one is always going to be controversial. Especially given an audience including developers and tech geeks. However, unless you really understand security and so are able to truly protect your device from all that threat actors will throw at it, then rooting is to be avoided.

<waits for comments about wiping it and installing a Linux distro as a solution...>

As for the 'original content' rule that was written up for people posting editorial (back in the day when we had news story content and tutorial regularly) rather than questions IIRC.