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And they have that activex patent infringement thing going. If you have embedded objects I've read that IE7 will pop up a thing saying "click here to activate" so flash intros, for instance, will require user intervention to show. Yuck.

Skype is good if you are going to be the one to use it. In my case my mom, who is in the best of health, lives with me so I opted for Vonage for the "normal telephone" interface. They do have a 911 emergency dial ability but in many cases, if they can't verify your street on a map for instance, they will ask you where you are when you call them - not really good in an emergency. In my case I moved into a newly built neighborhood so the road didn't show up on mapquest (the one they use) so I had to register 3 times and after it defaulted the 3rd time they manually entered the address. Kinda lame but it's workable. As for power outages, it's a toss-up here anyway with the storms/hurricanes that come through. Sometimes the cable works but not the phone. Sometimes enither work. I have a generator to keep the router running (and other stuff of course) so I guess my odds are as good or as bad with Vonage as with the phone company. During this last hurricane (Wilma) it was nice to be unreachable by work and annoying friends

What? Another major announcement to come? Will it ever stop? Seriously, it's cool to see confirmation that changes are working, eh HG? That's one of the things that makes TCH awesome is that you guys are never content to be the best - you are always striving to be better than you are now... no matter how lame the other companies may become. That's drive and that's what makes winners!

It seems that when it gives out the 403 Forbidden error it goes looking for a custom page (ErrorDocument) for that error message which it's not finding, causing the 500 error. I don't know if there should be a default file but you may try a help desk ticket to make sure all the default error pages are in place. I did find this: Since you (and I) probably don't have that line in the .htaccess file I believe there is a overall default that may be taking over.

Another option is to make the words graphics (.jpg for instance). It's not necessarily a good one because it can lead to serious page size bloat and the search engines can't "read" it. Besides, Flash is cool but not globally available installed either. It's best if one can stick with standard fonts and use the optional degrading font verbage so if they don't have the first font it will try the 2nd and so on.

You said it! Too bad browsers like IE do little "cool" (non standard) things like colored scroll bars that makes people think other browsers are broken. I keep IE just because some sites won't work without it - like the helpdesk web portal at work - but I never use it by choice. That's what's great about open source / freeware - we have choices and we can each go with what we like best!

I have a couple of comments. First, if you have an awesomely created and ranked page about widgets then links to other sites will not change that unless you have so many links to different topics that you appear to be a free-for-all link farm. What is linked to you and what content is on your page relating to the keywords is what makes your placement on the SERPs (Search Engine Results Page). Second, the first article makes a big deal of a little thing. Of course if you have anchor text that says "flongles sold here" you'll possibly show up in a search for flongles just as if it weren't an anchor. Even if that boost is a bit more as an anchor text, so what? Your SERP position will not change for widgets just because you rank for flongles. Remember that it's not a case of "90% of my rank is widgets and 10% is flongles". It's more like "100% of my rank is for widgets when searching the SEs for widgets and 100% of my rank is for flongles when searching for flongles." They are not mutually exclusive - it's just hard to rank well for both on the same page. Third, the last article seems to be mixing apples and oranges. There are two types of web pages thought to be considered by the search engines - authorities and hubs. Some say that the search engines will consider a page to be one or the other and weight it's ranking based on that. An authority is like most normal web pages... it's thought to be an authority on a topic - say widgets. "If you want to know about widgets you need to go to Bob's site." The other is a hub. Hubs are resources for links to the topic. "If you want to find all the sites about widgets then go to Bill's site - he has tons of links to authorities on the subject." As a hub, the second article Samantha quoted is correct - you do need lots of relevant outbound links. As an authority, if you have a lot of outbound links then you're probably not an authority. The article is right about irrelevant links - it makes you look like a jack of all trades, master of none. Finally, any SEO person that says scares me because most of the experts say that PageRank is irrelevant at best and possibly a complete lie. I have never seen any correlation between SERP placement and PR... unless he meant SERP rank. I'm no SEO expert, as Mr. Walsh seems to be, but I do spend a lot of time learning the subject and working with my own sites, so take this for what it's worth. Whatever you do, try to verify things people say (me too) about SEO because there are a lot of people flapping their gums, calling themselves experts and they are 100% opposite of what others are saying so one of the two "experts" is stating unfounded opinions, rumors and lies... intentional or not. Decide for yourself which is which.

You can also add the following line to your .htaccess file (create one if there is none) in your public_html folder that will work for the entire site instead of doing it each folder at a time in cPanel. >IndexIgnore */* Edit: Added Oops, forgot the original topic. Charles, parked domains won't be a problem. I'm not sure about forwarding in your situation. Do remember, though, that if someone links to Site A and if another person links to Site B then Google will see those as two separate websites even though they are parked together. If you have any marketing campaigns or link exchange things make sure that everyone uses the same domain name to link to you or your rank will be lessened in the search engines.

Unfortunately, the business world is not always able to function with Linux. Ours certainly falls into that category. Sadly you are correct. Too many thieves is why they go overboard in the first place.

Dave's method does have the added security of it being backwards to anyone "shoulder surfing" and looking at the password tattoo... since it's clearly written backwards to appear correct in the mirror he uses to see it.

Very powerful, but make sure you go through the video tutorials - if it takes more than a few seconds to do a piece then there's probably an easier way to do it. Thanks Sami!

When I went to Vonage I put my interface unit where the cable/computer was and then disconnected the phone line going to the rest of the house where it plugged into Bell South's line and ran it to the interface. That way the whole rest of the house worked as normal.

By the way, there is no such thing as consistent throughout different browsers. You can get pretty doggon close, but nothing guarantees exactly the same results.

Y'know that's not the only way to get non-working software. At my day job we have about 350 computers country wide. We buy PC's that are only available with XP from a national (read big) vendor and we are standardized on Win2K. We asked MS about it and they said we could downgrade the loaded XP to a 2K load. So now we have about 30 2K disks that we got before the vendor switched to XP-Only so one of those is what we Ghost onto new PCs. MS says it's cool, but how long will it be before they "disable" the 2K license duplication? We don't have a corporate license because we don't know if we'll need 1 or 1000 computers over the next year and with the economy, fuel, vacationers, weather, season, hurricanes, etc staring us in the face, our tourism-based company can't afford $50k for something we may or may not use. My only hope is that 2K is too old to either retro-disable or for them to care about... but the company is considering using Vista if/when it comes out for new PCs. If we standardize on that and in 2008 we decide not to go with Win2K08 what kinda mess will we have?

Sorry I'm late to the party but the other post pointing at this one prompted me to share my experiences. After the hurricane and the fiasco with BellSouth in the area (Florida Keys) I decided to go to Comcast cable internet and switched to Vonage with the kit from Radio Shack (It was there and I was in a hurry ) The only problem I have had with the service was that either Vonage or Bell didn't switch everything right and out-of-area calls were coming in on Vonage but the in-area calls were coming in via BellSouth. I called both and it got fixed so I don't know who did what. The service is good. I've had no outages that weren't cable outages. I kept my old number (and the Keys are not the most advanced in the county if you know what I mean) and the quality is great. The only thing I don't like... I had a "We want to refinance your home" company with callers from India calling several times a day calling me a "piece of s**t" and all kinds of crazy stuff. Bell would have let me log the calls by pressing 3 keys and the they'd call the authorities to handle it. Vonage has no such service. I can't block the known bad numbers and they won't go to the cops for me. Kind of a shame since Bell would but that's how it is. You make your choices based on cost and benefit. Hope it helps someone.

For overall style issues like this, it really is worth getting a basic understanding of CSS. You could put it on every tag without any knowledge but learning just a tiny bit will make it so much easier - you can tell it to do every link, for instance, with one line.

Tim, I tried that one time but every time it booted I had to reboot because there was a weird MS problem that kept popping up - it was called Windows. Then I loaded Linux and it was all better.

And remember also that there have been times when cPanel updates their programming and some of the "alternate skins" don't work right away. It's best if you stay with the default unless it's totally unnerving to you.

As a companion to HijackThis, you can take the log it creates and paste it into a site called help2go.com (look for the detective) and it will use a database to tell you the good, the bad and the harmful from that log. Very handy.

Welcome Sami!

Welcome Tim!

Welcome guys! Glad you're here!

You guys gotta check out the firefox clip I saw today.

I'd be careful with video from other people because of copyright issues, but that's up to them. As HG said, it's high bandwidth and hard to control how many download it or view it over and over downloading it each time.

I hope it's wrong but I just heard a rumor at my office that TCH is going to start charging what they're worth. If that's true then our cheapest hosting option will be about $50/month and going up from there with addons for forums, helpdesk, IM, Uptime, server upgrades. The same level the $4 gets now will end up costing about $359.80. Huh? Oh wow, what a nightmare I had! I dreamt that TCH was going to start charging what they're worth...