5,261 Posted Topics
 | |
 | As the title says, I'd like to wish all our English members (of which I'm proud to say I am one) a very happy St George's Day. |
 | I use FaceBook myself as there are a number of online communities whose members I know well which have set up groups there. Also, the simplicity of the interface is great, very well suited to purpose. However, it is not something I am driven to visit every hour or even …  |
| | Let us know which language you are coding in and we can move this to the correct forum. |
| | |
| | According to new figures, published today by [URL="http://www.sophos.com"]Sophos[/URL], something strange has happened in the world of spam: China has dropped out of the list of the world's worst spam relaying countries for the first time ever. The Sophos 'Dirty Dozen Spammers' list has become something of a staple diet for … |
| | The latest MessageLabs spam index reveals that relative to its market share, any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine. But what are the facts behind those headline grabbing numbers and can Windows really get off the hook that easily? … |
| | Re: This Website OK, enough of the new member baiting please. The 'noob' tags have been now been removed, and I would ask everyone to bear in mind that they were all new members here once upon a time. |
| | Not so. The member in question had previously been warned, infracted and indeed banned for posting spam messages. While the links in his signature are not in breach of DaniWeb rules, a number of his posts in the last few days/weeks were and as a result this user has now … |
| | Plenty of people have done it, gone online pretending to be something they are not. Indeed, plenty of men have gone online into chat rooms, forums, virtual worlds and social networking sites pretending to be women. Usually it is for the attention, sometimes it is for the sexual kicks of … |
| | You might think the people who grew up in an Internet-connected world would be the ones best prepared to cope with the dangers it presents. But no, new research reveals that 18-24 years old, the so called Generation Y, are actually highly likely to ignore advice about risky behaviour online … |
| | At the moment there is no method to enable direct posting of tutorials by members. This was removed in an attempt to clean up the tutorial section and improve the quality of the tutorials that do appear. For now, the approach is to contact me (via PM) with your ideas … |
| | The demand for compromised social network accounts is now so big on the cybercrime black market that, according to the latest research, just one such underground site has 1.5 million of them for sale. The international reach of social networks has meant that these sites have become the de facto … |
| | Threads should remain open as a rule of thumb, and there should be no rule/movement against contributing to those threads at any time [B]provided[/B] 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 … |
| | The latest research from security vendor Symantec would appear to suggest that cybercrime gangs are now applying drug smuggling techniques to their trade, and are actively using 'malware mules' in order to distribute threats within social friendship networks. According to the latest Internet Security Threat Report, email accounts are now … |
| | Despite having recently been [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story273853.html"]cast as the villain of the piece[/URL] by some high profile members of the Free and Open Source Software community, IBM has just revealed itself as actually being something of a crime-fighting superhero. The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice is following in the footsteps of … |
 | You replied by pressing a big yellow 'Reply to this Thread' button, to start a new thread go to the forum home page and click the one, in the same place on the page, that says 'Start New Thread' instead.  |
| | Over the weekend, software development and collaboration tools specialist Atlassian suffered a security breach to an internal system, potentially exposing customer passwords. The reason? It forgot about an old legacy database which had not been taken offline. According to Atlassian spokesperson [URL="http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2010/04/oh_man_what_a_day_an_update_on_our_security_breach.html"]Mike Cannon-Brookes[/URL] the company had migrated its customer database … |
| | When [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story260273.html"]I wrote about a NES[/URL] and some old games being sold by a basement clearing mum, and fetching an incredible $13,105 on eBay, you know I kind of thought that was the end of it as far as recession-busting auctions of dusty game carts goes. But oh boy was …  |
 | Nice review Ron. I'm going against all my geek instincts and am going to wait for iPad 2.0 before investing though, tempted as I no doubt will be when Apple eventually gets around to letting us European types buy the thing. Hopefully the release of iPhone OS 4 together with … |
| | According to Facebook's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, safety is the social networking site's top priority. Indeed, he [URL="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=381246352130"]says[/URL] that his team are dedicated to "creating an environment where people can connect and share comfortably" and has revealed a redesigned Safety Centre which provides new safety resources for parents, educators, … |
| | 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 :) |
| | Well thanks for that O2, my iPhone was as much use as a chocolate teapot from lunchtime yesterday thanks to the pay monthly data network suffering a monumental failure. There I was, sitting in a (without wifi) Costa Coffee about to start an informal meeting with a potential client. I … |
 | Actually, when we refer to a 'fake sig' at DaniWeb what we mean is a signature/URL that appears in the message body text rather than by using the signature facility we provide.  |
| | Media mogul Rupert Murdoch [URL="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/357091/murdoch-launches-fresh-volley-at-google"]has called upon[/URL] other newspaper publishers to stop Google from taking their content for free. Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, Murdoch suggested that Google might like to consider either just publishing headlines along with a brief line or two, or alternatively perhaps actually … |
| | The death of Guy Kewney early this morning is not only a huge loss to the world of IT journalism, but to the world itself. He deserves recognition as the first dedicated technology journalist, having started way back in the early 1970's, as well as devoted husband, father and a …  |
| | "After years of pretending to be a friend of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), IBM now shows its true colors. IBM breaks the number one taboo of the FOSS community and shamelessly uses its patents against a well-respected FOSS project, the Hercules mainframe emulator." Those are [URL="http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/04/ibm-breaks-taboo-and-betrays-its.html"]the words of … |
| | I've been a freelance journalist for 20 years now, and can honestly say that the iPhone has changed the way I work more than anything since wireless Internet access came along all those years ago. But what are the essential iPhone apps that a jobbing journalist, or blogger for that … |
| | With the iPad dominating the news this weekend, what with the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story272722.html"]first units being delivered[/URL] and then [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story273324.html"]quickly jailbroken[/URL], you might think that there could be little in the tech world to upstage it, at least in terms of media frenzy, for a few days. However, it would appear that … |
| | If it is not your router, and the network is protected by WPA encryption, why are you asking us? Ask the network admin if you have a legit access requirement. It does sound awfully like you are wanting us to help you to access a network that you should not … |
| | News International has confirmed that it is to start charging visitors to access both The Times and Sunday Times newspaper content online from June. This heralds the emergence of the much talked about Murdoch Paywall which News International owner Rupert Murdoch has long argued is essential in order to make … |
 | Re: optimization Which you can, of course, disable by becoming a [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/payments.php"]donating member[/URL] of the community :) If you find us helpful it is a good way of giving something back while at the same time getting rid of adverts. |
| | I want to say that I will be waiting for iPad 2.0 to come along and benefit from the better hardware and functionality that will no doubt come as a result. However... The reality is that in the run up to Xmas I will decide that I deserve to reward … |
 | Hooray for sensible district courts. You might think that a lawmaker or enforcer would sit back and consider how stupid they are being once in a while. |
| | The annual [URL="http://cansecwest.com/"]CanSecWest PWN2OWN[/URL] hacking contest has [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story270028.html"]done it again[/URL] and provided us news types with the perfect headline writing opportunity as the Apple iPhone falls to the hackers in just 20 seconds. The hackers in question, Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann, picked up the prize of $15,000 and an … |
| | Second accounts used to try and circumvent a ban are not allowed and will simply be banned without warning if discovered. |
| | |
 | Re: DaniWeb Badge 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. |
| | At the moment there is no method to enable direct posting of tutorials by members. This was removed in an attempt to clean up the tutorial section and improve the quality of the tutorials that do appear. For now, the approach is to contact me (via PM) with your ideas … |
| | With the annual Pwn2Own hacking event due to kick off tomorrow, Mozilla has confirmed that Firefox 3.6 has an unpatched critical vulnerability. The fact that Pwn2Own competitors will not be able to exploit this vulnerability to claim the Firefox hacking prize will be of no interest to the millions of … |
| | Re: suggestion Yep, have to admit that I'm not convinced that a wiki would be a good fit for DaniWeb to be honest. |
| | |
 | As KirkPatrick has said, you can opt out of receiving thread notifications from your user control panel, and every issue of the DaniWeb Digest comes with a link to unsubscribe from further issues (or use the control panel to opt out of getting admin emails) We cannot 'remove' you from … |
| | I am not surprised that the Trademark Office has refused the application filed by Google in respect of the Nexus One smartphone trademark. What does surprise me, however, is that Google went ahead and chanced its arm with the application when a cursory search would have shown that a similar …  |
| | The MIX10 Microsoft Developer Conference is always good for a laugh or two, but just who was rolling on the floor after the IE9 preview code was revealed? Certainly Microsoft is deadly serious about Internet Explorer: The Next Generation. So serious that it has apparently created a new development team … |
| | I drive hundreds of miles every week, I write about technology for a living, I've been a TomTom user for years and I own an iPhone. It had to be done, I just had to review the TomTom satnav app for the iPhone. Being both an iPhone 3GS owner and … |
| | This time last year The Pope was warning the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to not let religion into the domain name system, with the Vatican arguing that suggested domains such as .catholic and .islam would provoke bitter disputes. New generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) have always … |
| | The Oscars 2010 had something new to add to the usual media frenzy, glamorous dresses and A-list celebrities: an iPad advert. Yep, Apple opted to get the mainstream iPad marketing campaign well and truly off the ground by debuting the iPad TV advert during the 82nd Academy Awards. If there … |
| | Google has today launched a new Beta version of the [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/03/22/google-chrome-stands-alone-at-pwn2own/"]Chrome browser[/URL], adding brand new privacy controls into the mix. You have to admit it's great timing, what with Microsoft this week making the 'browser ballot' screen available in European version of Windows giving users the option to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story253418.html"]switch from …  |
 | 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. :) |
The End.