Posts by happygeek

Luke, did you actually read the question? The OP is already using WordPress, and was asking about the best SEO plugins to use with it...

You still aren't explaining what coding problems you are having, and exactly where you need help. Our members cannot help you if you don't make it clear what your problem is. Just saying 'I am stuck' or 'I need code' isn't going to wash I'm afraid. All our members are volunteers, their time is as precious as yours, the demands upon it as great as yours. In other words, you have to show that you have made some effort with your assignment before they are going to put any efforet into helpign you with it. What they won't do is just hand over finished code, that really doesn't help you progress and develop in the long term...

Hi Justin - so your assignment is due in 24 hours, which means you must have lots of code ready to show us.

All you need to do now is post your code, or partial code, along with the precise problems you are facing and I'm sure someone will help you out.

Seriously though, Jeddo, you really do need to be a little more specific in what you are asking. If you want serious answers that is. Currently it's somewhat akin to walking into a bar and shouting 'how can I get rich quick' to be honest.

So, take a deep breath and think about what it is you really want to ask. It may help if you think about what help you expect to get, and 'instructions on making money with my phone' isn't going to cut it...

Unfortunately I'm having some problems with my telepathic capabilities. Care to tell us what problems you are having, in enough detail that someone might be able to help you resolve them?

Sorry jkon, but for someone whose sig states 'rational thinking' I found that posting to be very hard to decipher. Can you try again please? What devices, is this still on mobile? What posting did this happen on? Were you trying to add/remove rep or up/downvote a post?

If you will not tell, as you say in your post, then why should anyone bother trying to answer?

I'm with Jim on this one. I like the conversational and friendly tone of the document (I didn't write it, before you ask) which gets the information across in a way that will be accessible to everyone. It's not that long, and it is to the point IMHO. Diafol, your grumpy old fart status is confirmed.

Just about everybody has elaborated on this, as a very quick search on Google would have revealed: https://goo.gl/xki2mb

Maybe you could be a leeeetle less generic with your question? What do you want to achieve for your business using Twitter? Do you already have an account up and tweeting, if so where is it doing well and where less so? What kind of business are we talking about, as some business models will be better suited to using Twitter than others.

OK, the ball is back with you...

Then there's do not post a question with one account, and answer it with another account, both exposing the same sig links of course, eh sinelogix/sinelogix1

Welcome Afif. However, please read our rules especially with regards to spamming if you don't wish to outstay that welcome very quickly my friend. Two of your posts (with content to be found all over the web, and with links to your company) have already been deleted...

OK, so in this thread I offered advice to visit the Microsoft troubleshooter here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/927477/how-to-troubleshoot-a-damaged-presentation-in-powerpoint-2007-and-powerpoint-2010 and DaniWeb broke the link and struck a line through it to say it didn't exist, when it quite clearly does.

It may well break again here, let's see. I suspect that DaniWeb isn't handling long URLs very well.

I ended up doing a Bit.ly on it so the chap can still get to the site, but I'd much rather have left the original so he knows he is going to Microsoft...

Hmmm. I'd say 3, but amended to make the association/reason even clearer:

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Generally speaking, when it comes to being as secure as possible (and, just as importantly, staying as secure as possible) newer is better. This is certainly the case if we are talking mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS.

As of the start of March 2017, according to Apple's own metrics some 79% of Apple mobile devices are using the latest iOS 10. Pretty good rates of adoption considering this version of the OS is only six months old.

Now compare that to Google's official figures which reveal that as of March 2017 just 0.3% of Android devices are using the very latest 'Nougat' Android 7.1 version of the OS. Even if we fold in the numbers using the initial Nougat release, Android 7.0, the total barely scrapes over the 1% usage number at 1.2% to be precise.

Being really liberal with my interpretation of 'latest' and 'most secure' operating system versions for Android, which means I also fold the Marshmallow Android 6.0 version into the mix (and that has been around since December 2015 remember) it cannot manage to get up to even a third, sitting at 31.9% in total. That number is, from a security analyst perspective, truly shocking.

But not surprising.

Seriously, nobody should be surprised that Apple can get as high as 79% latest OS penetration given the control it has over the devices people use. I am surprises the number is even higher. Neither should we be surprised that the Android …

OK Ben, seeing as you asked.

1. Why are you copying the work of others, with no link to the originals? See the Ed Milliband piece which you state is by Peter Jones, but do you have permission to use his work in full like this? No mention of it, and no mention that it's not an original piece of work for your site. Actually, it was published here: https://nedamullen.blogspot.com/2012/07/ed-miliband-re-writes-history.html SOME FIVE YEARS AGO as well. It has also appeared elsewhere, and I suspect the original goes back even further. I can't be bothered to look any more. I could shout FAKE NEWS at you I guess, because that's what you are publishing by doing this isn't it? Your date on it is Feb 2017 by the way.

2. Love the irony of your terms and conditions which state: "You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us." Ha ha ha ha ha.

3. Over to you Ben, to explain. Not that your site will be around for long once the original publishers and authors of the work you are using get their lawyers on it.

Why don't you kick things off and start by telling us why you think the service provider is 'good' if you haven't actually used them yet Joe? Or do you mean the service looks good value, or offers the functionality you are looking for?

Plus, you're still in mourning for the passing of the Welsh Rugby Union team of course ;-)

I think I must be missing something in Diafol's post because of language barrier, something that Happygeek caught. Can someone explain ?

Merely letting Diafol (which is Welsh for devil) know that he would be more than welcome to return to the moderating fold here at any time... The Davy Lamp reference was just a tongue in cheek way of saying 'drop of a hat' to a Welshman, from an Englishman :)

Do you have any plugins that are common to all the clients? If my network seemed OK, and the Internet connection seemed OK, that's where I would be looking next - for an extension/plugin that is behaving badly.

I think the phrase 'shit-tippers' hits the nail on the head. A noob I will nurtue, a shit-tipper I have no interest in hand-holding and community singing with to be honest. But there is a difference between the two, and usually it is fairly obvious IMHO, which means that nurturing noobs and giving shit-tippers a swift roshambo need not be mutually exclusive (again IMHO).

I'm currently working on my next in-depth 'long-form' posting, an article exploring Android security.

Who? ;-)

Welcome back Warren.

AssertNull: VPN usage can be secure, but that rather depends on how you are measuring security of course. I'd recommend using a VPN (be that your own router homebrew or a subscription service - NEVER a free service IMHO) whenever you are using the Internet on a public/insecure connection somewhere such as a hotel, coffee shop or airport. That's just common sense. Would I recommend using a commercial VPN service if you were participating in something that was borderline (or out and out) illegal and you didn't want to get caught or you were doing something that TPTB might have an interest in? Nope. Would I change that recommendation if you had done your research properly into the service you were using, and had taken into consideration factors such as payment tracing etc? Yep. As for the legal liability side of things, I rather imagine that has long since been laid to rest by the VPN service providers or they wouldn't still be in business. Those that don't retain logs, any logs, so they cannot be forced to hand them over get my vote...

rproffitt: Of course, the geo-location option is one reason many people use a VPN. Here in the UK, for example, a VPN that has 'home-router' exit points can avoid the media network VPN exit point blacklist and enable out of territory usage. Horses for courses. Which is kind of the point of my article: a VPN isn't a privacy tool, although it can be, and it isn't just a security hardener either, although it can be :-)

OK, back to the root of this thread: I'm going to try an experiment and start posting some 'long-form' discussions and see how they go. By that I mean ones that are a cross between a straightforward question/answer post and a tutorial/editorial post. Designed to both inform and hopefully encourage further discussion. The first of which can be found here: How much anonymity does a VPN really provide? Please let me know what you think, and whether this kind of thing might be useful in drawing more contributions from members or not. No point me devoting time and effort into posting these things here (and I have plenty of other well paid gig outlets for them) if they are a non-starter in your respected opinions... If it does work to any degree, maybe DaniWeb veterans could be encouraged to write similar long-form seeding posts in their own areas of expertise?

A VPN, or Virtual Private Network to be formal, is a method of creating an encrypted data tunnel across the Internet from your device to a destination server.

Although savvy home users and enterprises will operate their own VPNs (business-grade routers provide this functionality) for most folk, a VPN comes by way of a dedicated service provider.

In theory, and as far as many of those VPN users are concerned, this provides them with both security and secrecy. People think that a VPN keeps them anonymous while online. People are more often than not wrong.

What a VPN, any VPN, can actually offer is a method of securing your connectivity and making it much harder for an attacker (be that a hacker or the government) from intercepting your data whilst in transit.

Some VPN services do offer user anonymity as a selling point, but how honest are they being? OK, so the word 'private' in the expanded VPN acronym suggests privacy. But privacy and anonymity are different things. Certainly when talking about VPNs, we should be thinking in terms of the interconnection of private networks rather than the privacy of end user identity.

When it comes to services that claim to provide anonymity, I certainly wouldn't recommend taking them on their word. In fact, I would argue, it is beholden of the prospective customer (that's you) to fact check everything before handing over any money.

And handing over money, funnily enough, is right there at number one in …

Here's what the rules say: 'Do provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments' which explains the DaniWeb community expectation pretty well I think.

So show us how far you have got yourself, with your code, and where you are getting stuck. Then I'm pretty sure you will find the community much more likely to point you in the right direction here.

Italy is Parisse, without him they are nothing and with him they are one star and a bunch of others. Italy has trouble playing as a team in my humble opinion. When they do that, and don't rely upon Sergio for everything, they look OK.

England. Average performance. However, even so it was still enough to beat a much better, re-generated French side. Says a lot for England, not so much for France.

Wales. Still can't seem to wake up for the first 60. You can't keep on winning matches when you do that. See England in years past.

Ireland. A shadow of the side that dismantled New Zealand. Maybe they need more people to die. Or at least find some reason to want to win enough to play like it.

Scotland. Now the Scots could be the surprise winners this year. Currently they look like the only side that might beat England.

C'mon, I am sure you can do better than that? Read what you have written back, and ask yourself how you would respond to that? Would you immediately think "oh, I must spend my time writing code for someone who has demanded it of me to save them doing their own assignment" or would you think "how rude, I'm not helping them if they cannot be bothered to put any effort in themselves"???

Quite apart from anything else, we have rules here which clearly state you should "provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments."

So, sit back down, take a deep breath, rewrite your question (rather than just copying your assignment verbatim) to explain where you are stuck and show us your code so we can help point where you have gone wrong.

You know it makes sense! :-)

There are plenty of ways to 'learn hacking' and, as a student of information technology, you should be well aware of these. If not, then ask your tutors who will be glad to point you in the right direction.

To get you along your way, see https://uk.sans.org/courses/penetration-testing

However, if what you really want are pointers to places online where you can learn how to commit illegal acts then see my earlier post: that. ain't. happening. here.

So, actually, you don't want to learn how to become a white hat/ethical hacker at all then. You just want to break into social media accounts.

Well, you ain't gonna get any help from DaniWeb. Read the rules: Do not ask for help to pursue any illegal activity including, but not limited to, hacking and spamming

I've only just got into the office, but everything fine here at the moment.

I think I'm going to go crawl into a hole and hide now.

Hey Dani, I think you are doing a brilliant job of being open and up front about disclosing what you know (and what you don't) about this breach. For that alone you should be congratulated!

That the system has undergone such changes in the time since the breach occured and since it then became know does, for a large part, mitigate the impact it might have. We are not talking financial information here whatever, and any login data that may have been exfiltrated is only of real value to the hacker, or anyone who may buy (or access) the database on the dark market, if that login were to have been reused elsewhere (especially for an email account or bankling accounts of course). That multiple rounds of salted, and peppered, hashes were used and not leaked further mitigates that risk. Again, something you should be congratulated for as many breaches of the million plus magnitude involve unhashed and even plain text passwords.

I have not had a chance (courtesy of the seasonal holidays and ongoing ill health) to investigate using my dark market contacts as to whether the database has been sold. However, the fact that the breach has come to light via haveibeenpwned is evidence that database content has been 'released into the public domain' otherwise Troy would not have become aware of it.

Well, although it is very brief, I think the Wikipedia article (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RankBrain) explains what it is pretty well. What, exactly, don't you understand from that description?

Heh! Good to see you again. Well, we are still here but I think the word 'thriving' is something of a mahoosive exaggeration truth be told. Now that you are back that will all change though :-)

[waits for responses to spam bait telling us which crapware is best for repairing Excel files]

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Would you like anything else doing ? Cup of tea? Clean your room? Massage?

Is this the approach you take to everything, that someone else can do it for you?

How about you show us how far you have got on your own so far, and where you are getting stuck? How about you then ask for specific help with that part of your assignment, wthout demanding it by a set date?

You might think the OP would know the answer, what with them being the 'best SEO service provider in Bangladesh' and all. Then again, you might think the OP was just here copying questions from off the web in order to spam their signature links...

HeBa_4, you do realise you replied to a thread that was last posted to six years ago, don't you? I might be wrong, but I reckon there's as much chance of Donald Trump turning out to be the greatest President the USA has ever seen as there is of amrith92 providing the 'full code' for you... Just sayin' ;-)

Jolly good luck, indeed. I hope you don't need it, but watching from over the pond it looks like there are going to be some very short fingernails by tomorrow...

I need that drill down level 6 in these any of one example?

Nope, still don't have a bloody clue as to what you want. Sorry.

Tell us what you have already tried and the impact it has had on your traffic.

Yep, else that three month old warning about software that has long since been removed from Google Play Store will, well, erm, yep...

Not so awesome. Didn't take long for the spam to start...

Wow.

Does your client know that you don't know what you are doing? Are you charging them for this?

Just wow.

You tried this, right?

You know the last post in that thread was a year ago right? If they were still having problems, and the OP was FOUR years ago, then they have probably already been bled dry by the scammers and thieves and are living on the street...

Not forgetting he has to feed his hair, that must take a lot of water.

Hey look, someone who isn't a spammer just posted a spammy post as Harry_10 and then thanked himself as Jim_14. Big mistake that, posting from exactly the same IP...

Oh well, looks like you ARE a spammer Jim. Looks like it WAS just a shill post. Looks like you are both getting infracted/banned.

I am leaving this thread intact apart from your spam posts - that way others who do actually need help might get some.

Do you mean a Service Level Agreement or something else? That's the only SLA I know offhand, to be honest. The definition is pretty much what it says on the tin: a contract between you and your service provider which lays out the terms of service delivery, what you can expect, what the guarantees are and what happens if those delivery levels are not met.