Posts by happygeek

Indeed, and here I am. Appreciate the pat on the back, cheers chuckc.

Still all sounds like a pyramid scam to me UI...

You are going to be the next Bill Gates but cannot or will not pay $50 to get the functionality you are after. And, seriously, you wonder why people downvote this stuff?

Oh, and if we are all such losers then why bother asking us for help?

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

Oh, I see. So you are a troll after all...

Sorry GDev, but (quite apart from hijacking an already sorted question from months ago) makes absolutely no sense to me. Can you rethink what it is you are asking, and try again with a bit more clarity please. And post as a new thread rather than continuing this one as it's likely to get you a quicker and more helpful response. Thanks.

I used to be the same, then I decided something had to change as my body is lot older than yours and was suffering as a result. So I don't do any work after 6pm, and don't touch the smartphone after 10pm. I am always in bed for 10.30pm regular as clockwork now, and always asleep by 11pm. Yes, my old man bladder wakes me in the night at around 4.30am but I get straight back to sleep and feel refreshed enough to get straight out of bed without snoozing my 6am alarm.

It took a good couple of months to reset my body clock from getting up at 10am and working until 3am (or later) but eventually it got there. Best thing I ever did, truth be told. I used to kid myself that I worked better of a night, but that's all it was: an illusion. Switching off mentally requires switching off tech...

That's the second 'admin' post in 24 hours, by different accounts. I smell something fishy...

Erm, enough to develop using Java?

You may have to be a little more explicit in your question for us to answer in any meaningful way I'm afraid...

I've been following this whole 'Bloody Dazah' debate for a while, and have largely resisted from commenting as I was struggling to have anything positive to say. However, having now had a long chat with Dani about Dazah and DaniWeb I have to admit that I've changed my mind with regards to negative thoughts about Dazah and the way DaniWeb integrates with it. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that I think Dazah will be the saviour of DaniWeb and we should support Dani in her efforts to ensure both have a future.

Dani could easily have just walked away from DaniWeb as it struggles to survive in an environment that has pretty much turned its back on 'niche' support forums like ours in favour of a few quick fix big hitters. She didn't because she actaully cares about the community as much as she does the business side of DaniWeb. That is a fact, and not just me giving someone I've called a friend for more than ten years now a much needed pat on the back. Dazah is where Dani is placing her hopes for the survival of DaniWeb, she isn't turning her back on us and just concentrating on another startup and if/when that takes off will drop us like a hot brick. The goal is for DaniWeb to be part of a bigger 'community of niche communities' and Dazah is the glue that will stick them together. This means that she has had to …

I'm not sure that's the kind of reply that will get you the help I was talking about, albeit refreshingly honest (unless you were joking of course...) :-)

As for Privatoria, like so many VPN services, it's hard to find a truly independant review as the web is littered with affiliate spam disguised as honest reviews. I've never used it, but Secure Thoughts concluded:

Pros:
up to 5 simultaneous connections
secure encryption
can be configured on any device

Cons:
totally unresponsive support
difficult to set up
no refunds
little information on products available

Overall Score: 29/100

What do you want to use this for Stefan? Not the 'to auto-comment on blogs answer' but the motivation behind that? I ask as to be honest it sounds awfully like a spamming project, and I doubt anyone would be willing to provide much help in that. If you could give us an idea of what you are looking to do, and why, then I imagine it might make a difference to what help you get.

The bonk in question was the sound of me hitting my head following so much floor rolling in laughter... :-)

See here to get started (Bleeping Computer Palikan removal guide)

I Googled it, and the first hit was for a replacement board on eBay costing very little (UKP 15) - so I would think replacing rather than repairing would be the way to go.

Following the recent ransomware attacks that leveraged the WannaCrypt0r malware and NSA-developed EternalBlue vulnerability exploit, there was plenty of advice that backup, backup, backup was the best mitigation. Data backups are, of course, an important part of any business continuity strategy. However, what happens when your backups are also encrypted by ransomware? There are variants out there, in the wild, that will target shared network drives, that will use cloud backup desktop sync clients to encrypt that data as well. There are variants that will not declare themselves and post the ransom demands until they have been successfully encrypting backups in the background for a few weeks and thus making it even harder to recover from the attack without coughing up. All of these things suggest that maybe a new backup strategy is required.

A relevant press release arrived from Acronis today regarding the business-oriented Acronis Backup software; the latest version of which (12.5) now includes 'Acronis Active Protection' amongst other things. This is something that I've been using here for a while now, but as a feature of the Acronis True Image 'new generation' product. The new generation premium version that includes it (along with 1Tb of online storage for one PC and unlimited mobile devices) doesn't come cheap at $99 per year, costly in comparison to the likes of CrashPlan and positively exorbitant if measured against the free Macrium Reflect backup software. Nor is it exactly lightweight, requiring half a gig of space to install. During …

The last post in this thread see you must. :-)

@rubberman Surely the Bios password is a computer thing, not a Windows thing. The Bios loads the OS, isn't that the whole point of the thing these days?

Not sure why you are unable to +rep diafol, I just looked and it would let me (although I didn't follow through, ooh err missus)

Hi Michael, you'll need to first show us how far you have got with your code (or pseudo-code) so that our experts can help point you in the right direction. Simply supplying the code for your assignment isn't actually going to help you with your course, and isn't something that DaniWeb condones.

Hi John - click on the person icon at the top of the page, then edit profile. Make sure you have 'Automatically Watch Topics I Post In' and 'Receive Community-related Email' selected.

All the best

And here now (in UK)

People aren't tagging their posts effectively is at least part of the problem.

Well Dadar is in Mumbai, and Comenity is a bank/credit provider. That's about as far as I've got with it Saladin, care to clarify a little mate?

No good wasting time with a crap script that runs on a crap concept

The whole viral share concept is crap. I have saved you time right there, find something else to pour your obvious enthusiasm into...

The XP thing is a massive red herring. As is the idea that the NHS was targeted. The main reason for the rapid rate of infection appears to have been the use of the EternalBlue vulnerability to spread the WannaCrypt0r payload. This was one of the NSA developed vulnerabilities that got leaked in the Shadow Brokers hack. It meant that any systems not patched by the March 14th Microsoft 4013389 security update for SMB Server 1.0 would be susceptible to passing the infection from LAN to WAN (remote code execution by way of a specific message sent to Microsoft Server Message Block 1.0 (SMBv1) server.

XP usage remains a major concern of course, just not really something that contributed massively to the spread of this particular ransomware attack.

Hey Azeez, the clue is in the first three words: write a program. At least start doing that and then share the code, or pseudo-code, with us and I'm sure someone will be able to help you get past your stumbling blocks. If you cannot write any code for this, then I suggest you are taking the wrong class...

Hi Dave, welcome to DaniWeb. The posting rules which are sadly ignored by so many (who probably don't even bother reading them) state: "Do provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments."

Those who ignore this rule can get an infraction under the 'Keep it Organised' criteria that this rule sits in. Usually this is restricted to those who just paste a question up without any additional comment apart from maybe 'I NEED THIS BY TOMORROW' or somesuch. More often we will try and cajole further information, by way of whatever code or pseudo-code they have, from the poster. Although this is only successful in some cases, when it is at least the poster can get some actual help in understanding the task at hand and hopefully that will help them going forward.

It's a problem that has always been around, and we do our best to deal with it while still trying to help folk where possible. We won't do homework for anyone, there are plenty of dodgy sites that do that. We will try and help people. Which is why the only way we can deal with this is by the methods explained. Preventing newbies from posting a homework help question would just mean they would go somewhere else less picky, and possibly get the kind of ready made help that actually helps nobody. Likewise, the method of flagging posts and having a review process would put even …

Moz.com has a good definition: "Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results."

I will leave it to the SEO experts to answer your second question.

My name, email, life has been an open book on the Internet (and FidoNet, Prestel, Micronet, Cix, The Well et al before that) for close on 30 years. I was a launch contributing editor to (and wrote about a third of) the first UK Internet magazine in the UK (.Net) and wrote one of the first UK-published books about the thing in 1989. I'm listed in Wikipedia as an 'Internet Personality' and so on. I could care less about who 'likes' me online, and to be honest if I was at all sensitive to negative reviews/comments I would have been hanging from the rafters long since.

Likes are overrated. Content is still King.

Get the latter right, be that software, editorial or whatever, and the 'likes' will come by way of word of mouth without any need to force the user to do anything.

In answer to the question as to if I would hit a mandatory thumbs up/down button in order to read content the answer is no. At least, if I did find myself in such a system I would just downvote everything by way of protest...

If a download 'forced' me into sharing that ad/link with my social network I would run away from it faster than Usain Bolt with diarrhoea. I decide if I want to share something with my friends, not an ad network (ignoring the obvious argument about defualt social network advertising/privacy intrusions for now).

Do you mean something like this:

If so it needs your BIOS password, which you should already know if you have configured the PC to require it upon booting. Or is this a secondhand one you've bought and cannot get past this screen?

If the latter then you can reset the thing by opening the computer up and removing the CMOS battery (tons of help online - search Google for it, there will even be YouTube videos if you need them) for ten minutes before putting it back and starting again.

SPOILER ALERT: American Gods

When a giant woman shoves a fat man up her lady parts and he disappears, without any explanation as to why, I kind of hate that...

Show us your code so far if you expect to get help with this my friend. Nobody is going to do your assignment for you, but they will point you in the right direction...

I would suggest that you read the posting rules with an emphasis on the 'keep it legal' section. Then, come back and explain exactly what you are trying to do and what help you are after - within those parameters...

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Sorry bud, but if 'helping your community' actually means helping yourself by ripping people off with some illegal pyramid scheme (and it sure does look that way) then you have come to the wrong place. If you are going to become a criminal mastermind at least put some effort in at the start of the process, eh?

How to solve the problem? Could the clue be in the error message perhaps? I'm particularly thinking of the bit that says: "fix the version conflict either by updating the version of the google-services plugin or updating the version of com.google.android.gms to 9.2.0."

I've had my hands on what is being described as the 'most secure hard drive ever made' for a while now. Such are the advantages of being a well known reporter on all things security I guess, I get to play ahead of the crowd. As the first journalist to get hold of one of the diskAshur Pro 2 drives from iStorage, I have been able to put it to the test in time for the press embargo being lifted today.

I have, of course, long recommended that portable data should be encrypted. It is seriously stupid not to do so, given the risk of loss whether through misplacing a device or it being targeted for theft. For most people, this means using encryption software to protect the data not the drive. Hardware encryption ups the ante just a tad as there's no software to backdoor, no chance of accessing the drive first and so get time to play with the data within.

It should come as no surprise to discover that I have had one of the original diskAshur PRO devices in my kitbag for some time, and a hardware-encrypted flash drive on my fob for good measure. But whereas the original was really secure, the new model is goddamn batshit crazy secure. And then some.

For most readers I will hazard a guess that such a drive would be overkill. Indeed, it's not aimed at most people; this is a drive …

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Riiiight. Care to try again?

See https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/nov/15/usa.iraq for starters. Short memory if you've forgotten Vietnam as well...

it does require a level of concentration mentally to be able to do. but see if you can manage it.

And there we go, back to the school playground sniping...

OK I'm done here.

I'm with the Welsh Devil on this one. If you have five minutes, this former UK ambassador to Syria speaks a lot of sense... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU5taO5vRDo&sns=fb

a direction to a website that the user may already know that shows how to do this is hardly onerous.

But what you actually asked for was a Skype conversation that the user had already told you he wasn't prepared to do, or "photos of what I might expect to see inside it and mark which items need testing and how."

Your selective memory has been apparent throughout this entire thread. Everyone here has tried to help you, including myself. Cynical? No. Honest? Yes.

You can, indeed, request whatever you want. I was merely pointing out that your requests appear somewhat unreasonable when you take into account that everyone here is a volunteer helper and that maybe you are expecting too much.

Please continue with any help here, where the OP has already asked the question and a thread is in full swing...

Closing this one.

@tony_21 is there a question hidden in there somewhere or did you just feel compelled to share that piece of breaking news with us? ;-)

James, I apologise for calling you a troll if you are not one. However, your responses so far have tended towards the aggressive when people here are only trying to help you.

For example: "if anyone has the brains to put an answer up" and "Dont answer tech boffin nerds, unless you can tell me" and "What ages are you guys?"

Now that last one may be a genuine question, but in the context of your previous posts it comes across as sarcastic and insulting.

As for not being smart advising you to throw away the 'cheap Chinese drive' I disagree, I think it was the smartest answer given so far. If you want a reliable drive that you don't have to worry about when it comes to the power adapter or frying your laptop, then a cheap, branded, known quantity drive makes far more sense than continuing with the unknown quantity.

If you do want to continue down that road, however, as my previous post shows there have been many answers to your question already...

In answer to your age thing post: I'm a grandfather of 6, father of 8, and have been writing about technology for a living since 1990. Along the way I have picked up (in the UK) a 'Technology Journalist of the Year' award back in 1996 and am the only three times winner of the 'Information Security Journalist of the Year' title and holder of the 'Enigma Award' for a lifetime …

• As to the product, If you have a 9V supply that fits, that one first if it's the lowest voltage.

• No, it won't overstrain the DVD to be exact. It's more likely to blow the interface board.

• Lower voltage, less chance of blowing it to beyond and back.

• If it was mine, I would try with the lower voltage and lower amps to see if that's enough power to drive the drive, if you see what I mean. If it isn't, and you are willing to take the risk, I would then step up to the bigger adapter.

• Seeing as this power adapter was designed for precisely such slim dvd drives then something similar if you have it would be the best choice (Input: 100-240V- 50/60hz 0.45AMax Output: 5v - 2A)

James, if you really want help, then it has been given over and over. If you choose to ignore that, then it's up to you. Have a nice day.

But you did ask why people think it was spam, hence my reply...

Rajan, the original question related specifically to the '100 tools' product/service in the link posted by the question setter. They also said they were using the tools and getting good results, and asked if the tools were any good. A very confusing position to be in. As the person has not come back after posting that, we can assume it was indeed spam: an advert to solicit folk to visit the linked site and nothing more. As such it is of no use in the wider SEO debate...