Posts by happygeek

FWIW, I agree. I'd like to see the rules more prominently displayed.

Alex, I've moved your question into the SEO forum. Have a read through the posts here and you'll start to find who the experts with a real understanding are as well as identifying the spammers who can be ignored.

I think where cross posting becomes problematical is where there have been correct answers to the question in another place but the OP continues to ask the same question again elsewhere after the fact anyway. That is a waste of everyone's time, on this forum and the other.

Sorry, but I'm struggling to know what the question in there actually is. Care to try again with a bit more information?

You are going to have to do a lot better than that if you expect any meaningful help I'm afraid. As is, that question (more of a vague demand actually) makes no sense at all.

Sit down, think about what you are asking for and try again.

Do you mean you need to code an app? What kind of app? What language?

Do you mean you need to download something? To do what?

@Abdikadir

Firstly, it's not good form to hijack someone else's question to ask your own unrelated one (or even a related one for that matter)

Secondly, it's even worse form and against the rules here at DaniWeb to post a homework assignment and expect people to just do your work for you. The rules state: 'provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments'

So here's your answer: start a new thread to ask your question, and in it show us your code (or pseudo-code) and explain exactly where you are getting stuck and what help you are looking for.

Oh look, another person who is running a SEO business who apparently knows nothing about SEO...

To quote your own biog: "This is Zaib Nisa SEO Exective at Real Web Idea where we are offering web designing development services, seo smo services, seo training and web hosting in Lahore, Pakistan."

So, you either don't know jack about what you claim to be a professional at or, nope, that's all I can assume...

And there we go, as predicted, a member (who joined DaniWeb just a few hours after the OP funnily enough) makes one post recommending a service. The the OP immediately marks the thread as solved. Now where have I seen this pattern before?

Work your way through this lot https://goo.gl/waZMXd before the spammers start arriving with suggestions.

By the way, asking that question, in that way, is typical of the conversion software bait and spam brigade. Care to expand upon what your actually problem is, in an attempt to prove to the community here you are not part of a spamming club such as that?

Did you Google that before asking? Try https://goo.gl/1wqg9M

Hey, aren't you a SEO company? Would have thought you should know that answer to this (and all your other 'questions') already to be honest...

Almost certainly...

You either know this stuff or you don't so which is it? You post beginner questions, yet answer the same beginner questions with authority when responding to a certain Zinavo... Can't have it both ways.

Oh the irony...

Seeing as your own company claims to be capable of "branding and promoting your product, services as well as your business through digital media or online platforms to generate revenue" (your own words, in a message I deleted for being blatant spam folks) I would have thought you knew the answer to all these questions already. Apparently not. Which means that nobody should use your company services as it is clear to all now that you are learning on the job and know nothing. Either that or wasting our time posting these questions (and replying through another shill account). So, which is it?

I use Windows, my wife uses Windows, my sons use Windows. None of us have virus issues, or lost files such as this... So your point is what again?

Agreed with that. Number six would be my favoured option as well methinks. No sig availability until you've been a member for x weeks/months and made x posts or hit a certain rep level perhaps?

I would have voted from my mobile as well, but get exactly the same issue as Diafol on Android. Press the upvote thumb, a box appears with just vote/vote&comment options for about half a second and then the vote is given without any chance to comment. Needs fixing as not everyone follows the Apple herd...

I reckon that a Google search on the model, or the model range, might reveal the engineer menu that would almost certainly enable a proper factory reset even if it is hidden from the consumer.

Erk, that's not great either then. Surely a factory reset should return to an as shipped state, not an updated one, otherwise what's the point of it?

Factory reset to get it back to an ad-free experience as it was prior to the update would seem the solution, albeit only to the symptom not the disease...

A depressed Dalek?

Ransomware related attacks originates from Teamviewers and Emails

WannaCry didn't...

CryptoDefense is a type of ransomware. Yes. As the editorial makes quite clear. So your point is?

Nothing sleazy about that kind of auction. There are plenty of such sites where you buy the bids which you can then use as you see fit. The idea is that you can get an item for a stupid low price. They have been around for years and years. I wouldn't use them, but they are genuine enough operations on the whole.

<removes admin hat>

UI constantly accuses others of being intolerant and rude, placing himself on the moral high ground. Yet all too often his true colours, his true intolerance for those he perceives as less worthy than himself, break through while he is throwing his toys out of the pram. For example:

foreign territory where the locals piss you off too often with their backward cultures

Anyway. I'm done with this. No point wasting any more of my valuable time responding to this troll.

<puts admin hat back on>

What is trolling? This is trolling. I think UI, whose words these are, knows exactly what a troll is.

I'll make more threads just to watch them sneek-up on my threads like thieves to my garbage can. It's like me pressing the button and watch them drag themselves out of their rat holes and come and smell the cheese in my trash can. In a sense, I sort of get my slaves to come-out from whatever rubbish hole they were in and bother to contribute to my threads rather than see it get no contribution atall. Ha! Ha! What a bunch of low life slaves!

Or how about, again from the person who claims not to know what a troll is and takes such umbrage with, this:

Actually, don't bother replying as I can clearly see you're just another troll who hijacks threads into offtopic discussions!

Or:

And, over there, they always jumped to conclusions misreading things. Fed-up of them. They were too frequent in biting and so I struck back one day going in my teasing mood and teased them Whenever I got the chance and that made them shut-up for good. (I hope I don;t have to behave the same here with the likes if diafol. Frankly, I don't like youngsters. They are downright stupidly short circuit and rude). Now, they're on the defence ignoring me. I don't flame anyone when they bite too often. Metaphorically speaking, I tickle their mouths and make …

The up/down voting mechanism is anonymous by design. It enables members to see at a glance if a particular post is deemed to be helpful or unhelfpul, is liked or not, by the community as a whole. The 'wisdom of crowds' approach.

If someone feels strongly enough that they want to leave a comment with their vote, then it becomes a reputational vote and that anonymity goes.

As for defining a troll, you did it yourself. In your own words: "I sort of get my slaves to come-out from whatever rubbish hole they were in and bother to contribute to my threads rather than see it get no contribution atall. Ha! Ha! What a bunch of low life slaves!"

As for the online tool valuation, I would only take this seriously if the outfit providing the valuation is prepared to buy it from you at that price.

Can you guys give me a confirmation about the metric and system used to evaluate my website?

Nope. We don't know what tool you used, and even if we did we wouldn't know any more than you how it works. Have you asked the company concerned how they reach the valuation, or looked for a FAQ giving more info?

"went beserk"

ROFL.

I apologised for calling you an idiot, even though you continued to behave like one. I will not, however, apologise for calling you a troll (see below) while you act like one.

Members here have tried to help you, but you have consistently ignored the advice given. That you have a 21% post quality score has nothing to do with some imagined vendetta, indeed 10 members have downvoted a total of 38 of your 180 posts. Hardly sounds like people ganging up on you as you suggest.

You are quick to jump to conclusions, such as that ddanbe is upset with diafol (if you actually read his post you would see that he really isn't at all) and then state them as fact. You are slower to accept people pointing out your mistakes.

Some losers go to every one of my threads, like low lives, and give minus votes without making any posts. So, what does that do to me ? Does it harm me in any way ? No ! The losers have forgotten that this forum is not "God Place" or "the only place" to get answers. It just makes me laugh unstoppable when I think how much some members can stoop low to. I'll make more threads just to watch them sneek-up on my threads like thieves to my garbage can. It's like me pressing the button and watch them drag themselves out of their rat holes and …

People post in the community forum because that is the default when you hit the 'contribute' button from the home page. To post elsewhere they need to click on the 'do something else instead' button which doesn't really make it clear, in my opinion, that they should be doing this if they want to post in another forum. I'd prefer no default and a dropdown forum list. At least that way they would be forced into thinking about where they post.

If he hasn't figured it out yet, after TWELVE YEARS, then I think it's a lost cause...

I'm using the August newsletter to encourage people to post a question that has always bugged them and they have never got a good answer to. I'm framing it as giving the DaniWeb experts a challenge to tax their brains. Hopefully it might stir up a few interesting posts.

I rather like Macrium Reflect (and viBoot) for backups. The free version is an easy install and an easier sell to family members, while the commercial version is fully featured (the viBoot function is a nice touch) and pretty good value IMHO.

Organisations which don't 'get' the need for business continuity solutions, including data security/backup of course, will get introduced to a real world definition of risk at some point.

Convincing consumers that they need to adopt a similar 'continuity mindset' is a much harder sell I find. The cloud has been both a help and a hindrance methinks: makes archiving photos/music/docs easy (across multiple stores) and mostly free of charge at this level - but also means the 'why should I pay for a backup solution when I already have my stuff backed up' question is thrown around without seeing the complete picture.

The ethical question is still a long way from being answered. Especially regarding the car AI in respect of whether it gives priority to safeguarding the driver and passengers or people in other vehicles or pedestrians. Who would it sacrifice in an 'either take action to avoid hitting pedestrians but risk injuring driver, or hit pedestrians to prevent injury to driver' scenario is a very valid question. And one that will be difficult for vendors to sell. Would you buy/get in a vehicle that will sacrifice you in such a situation? Would you buy/get into a vehicle that sacrifices others?

Erm, you do realise that this is a SEVEN year old quesation that was last posted to SIX years ago, right?

So you've lost access to your data through hardware failure or accidental erasure. What do you do? Like most cyber-warriors you naturally turn to the Internet, be that via a Google search or YouTube video, for help. That's a big mistake says Kroll Ontrack, a data recovery specialist, as self-inflicted permanent data loss is apparently on the up.

Of course, there's going to be a certain amount of MRDA in this assertion. That's Mandy Rice-Davies Applies, or 'well he would say that, wouldn't he?' in case you wondered. As Wikipedia says, referencing an article of mine in the further reading bit which is nice, "It is used to indicate skepticism of a claim due to the obvious bias of the person making the claim."

Even allowing for that, there's a lot to be said for not just charging in to try and rescue valuable data using whatever method someone on YouTube recommends. We are also biased, true enough, but like to think that running your methodology past the veteran experts at DaniWeb might not be a bad idea before applying any DIY data-rescue scheme.

"DIY data recovery techniques and videos found on the Internet are encouraging individuals to attempt to recover their own data when a loss occurs" says Robin England, Senior Research and Development Engineer at Kroll Ontrack who continues "we are seeing an influx of drives that have evidence of a DIY data recovery attempt. In many cases, these attempts cause damage, leaving the data to …

Where does this 6'2", 15 stone, heavily tattooed (including head, neck, hands, fingers) shaven headed, bearded Englishman start in response to that uncanny profiling by UI?

As for why don't you guys post your FB profiles; well if you look next to my username there's actually a photo of me. If you needed to look any further you could perhaps check out my DaniWeb profile or even Google Davey Winder as I understand there may be one or two hits...

I apologise for calling you an idiot in an earlier post, maybe joker would be more appropriate? ;-)

<sarcasm>Brilliant idea</sarcasm>

So, you end up with a support site where the quality of the answers that people see depends on how much someone pays to place them at the front of the queue. Way to go to ensure the best answers are provided and visible. Not.

Why bother actually putting time into answering a question, often a complex question, if someone else can come along and pay you a couple of bucks to put a crappy answer up ahead of you which, in all likliehood, isn't going to help the OP as much?

Here's the death blow to your grand scheme: most (all) the people who provide the most help do so not to make money, but to help others. I know it will come as a shock, but not everyone is driven by greed...

Shadow IT is the usage of unauthorized tech by employees; usually cloud applications and services.

A progression of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) debate, I have not said that the applications or services themselves are inherently insecure. Nor that usage is for malicious purposes. Quite the opposite is mostly true.

Insecurity and risk enter the equation because by being unauthorized shadow IT remains invisible to security controls. This can lead to the creation of an unmanaged attack surface, and blind spots in your company security implementation are never going to be a good thing.

Or are they?

There are upsides to shadow IT usage for just about any organisation, in that it can 'shine a light' on applications and services that can aid productivity and might otherwise not be considered by the business.

Equally, they can shine that light on a policy restriction that gets in the way of user productivity, and so the savvy employee finds a way to work around it. And adding something to that corporate policy that prohibits such usage isn't, when you think about it, likely to be effective.

If you want to truly embrace digital transformation and all the business benefits that can bring, then bringing shadow IT into the fold is part and parcel of it. Getting the balance between convenience and control is key, and true visibility the goal.

As I said to begin with, it's not the apps or services themselves that is the problem; it's them not …

pavithra_4, I was asking the original poster for clarification rather than asking others to guess at what they meant. Unless you are the original poster using another account that is?

I am an Admin here.

You were not banned for 10 days as I reversed the ban on the same day it was originally applied. If you could not access your account for 10 days then you should raise that as a bug report over in the DaniWeb Community Feedback forum.

I am not a communist.

Yes, I am Bulgarian.

What is 'sutotion' for that matter.

So far it's an F for effort. Ariful_2, please try again to explain exactly what your problem is and then someone might be able to help you with it. So far we have absolutely nothing to go on...

Got Android? Then you had better be on top of your security smarts. With Android cornering more than 80 per cent of the mobile operating system market, it's no surprise that Android devices are the number one target for the mobile malware merchants. Kaspersky Lab reckoned that Android malware attacks increased threefold between 2105 and 2016, and it's a trend it expects will continue. Not that malware is your only worry, everyone from pickpockets to coffee shop hackers, jealous spouses to seasoned cybercriminals, all want to get hold of your smartphone and the data it contains. So how do you stop them? That's where our 13 top tips to secure your Android smartphone come in...

OK, so that's easier said than done if you are one of the many millions (about half of all 1.4 billion Android users) without a smartphone model that supports both a recent version of Android and the monthly security updates roll out. Although Apple is on top of the operating system update game, with all iPhone users getting the chance to upgrade to the latest iOS , Android is a different kettle of fish. The variables as to when or if you get the latest version are many, and even the monthly security updates aren't guaranteed. If you have the very latest Google branded device (a Pixel whatever) then you are pretty much guaranteed to be first in the update queue; for everyone else it's something of a gamble. The latest …

A forum poster cuts and pastes his homework assignment, and expects others to provide the answer for him without so much as a please or thank you. Which of the following is the correct response?

A: No

B: Please refer to the forum posting rules which state "provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments"

C: Show us your code so far

PS. Here's a clue - it's all three.

What 'black-listed problem' are you referring to?

Apologies. I read it as you responded to an advertisement to buy likes, rather than you used FB advertising and gained likes.

The bit about content being king remains true enough though. That said, organic growth is rarely quick and can be too slow to save a site even if the content is good. There's simply too much competition unless you are cornering a really niche sector of whatever market...

What has Schrodinger got to do with the complex and paradoxical concept of quantum computing? The answer is that both Erwin and his hypothetical cat relate directly to this subatomic world. In fact, Schrodinger is often referred to as the father of quantum mechanics.

Erwin Schrodinger was an Austrian theoretical physicist, awarded a Nobel Prize way back in 1933 for his work with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac regarding the discovery of 'new productive forms of atomic theory.'

Two years later, Schrodinger proposed an experiment whereby a hypothetical cat and a radioactive sample are sealed within a steel box for an hour. So far, so weird. But wait, it gets weirder. If a radioactive atom decayed within that time then courtesy of a relay from a Geiger counter also in the container, it would release a small hammer that breaks a flask of hydrocyanic acid and the cat dies. If no atom had decayed within that hour, and the chances were pretty equal that it would or wouldn't, then the flask remains intact as does the feline.

Now we need to explain the Copenhagen interpretation which isn't an episode of the Big Bang Theory but rather a concept in quantum mechanics that a particle exists in all possible states simultaneously until observed. The Copenhagen interpretation determines that the radioactive material is both decayed and not decayed at the same time. It is in a state of 'superposition' until it is observed. Which would …

UI:

1. I'm not a mod.
2. "the public (top 10 sites members) can make money out of it" sounds like a pyramid scheme.
3. You called me a capitalist and a loser, you stated I had downvoted your posts. None of these are true. Ipso facto, idiot.