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Yeah, so? Your local grocery probably knows, if you shop like I do: Generally the number and types of people in your home - do you buy baby food? Razor blades? Men's cologne/aftershave or girly-stuff Do you drink wine? Beer? Smoke? Have any pets? What kind? Have a bug problem? Have flourescent or incandescent lighting (or both)? Prepare for hurricanes or wait until the last minute? (Nevermind if they process your photos!) *If you use a debit/credit card: Your name and bank account info *If you use a check cashing card: Your address Your employer Your bank account info And while I'm at it, why do I pay my car registration to Danise Rodriguez instead of the Monroe County Tax Office? Oh, and what about my cell phone not working in the store? It works in other buildings! Is it monitoring equipment that's messing with the signal? (Seriously, have you ever driven around with a wireless laptop? I found 3 different wireless networks outside the same 15 foot section of an Albertsons! Note: I did NOT connect to it, just detected it.) Your point is well made about Google, but I'd submit that we are way more screwed from a privacy perspective than we can imagine... it's going to take a big-bad for us to realize it. The national ID card with the little computer chip you can store your life story on scares me a lot more than Google does. The government has the resources to process that data, I'm not sure Google has the computing power to actually make sense of it. It's a good post though because many people don't realize where we stand on these things. They grew up accepting computer files and automated thingamajizits as normal so they may not be as paranoid as a guy from the hills of Kentucky growing up during the cold war and watching Wargames and 2001 while they were still just science fiction. But then again, is it paranoia when there's something real to be concerned about?

Thanks for the replies guys and gals. I did Google it but all I found after about 1.5 hours were sites that had a couple of crappy photos and then the $60 per pages with the good stuff. I'll take a look at all those other sites (and FP) you mentioned asap and again, thanks.

I'm looking for a more professional look to my client's websites. I'd like to incorporate photos into the banners as that can make a really clean and sharp professional image. Does anyone know of a good source of affordable photos? I found a link to Comstock and Thinkstock but those guys want $70 per photo or a membership in the hundreds! No way I'm gonna do that... I'll go out with my digital camera and get something before doing that - although they do have some good looking photos. Anyway, anyone know of a budget photo source that's royalty free and non-copyrighted? Thanks.

I usually right-click a file (already compressed or to-be compressed) and select the WinRar context menu option. The regular program window is not too hard to follow. If you have any specific questions PM me and I'll see if I can help. (Don't want to totally hijack this thread). Uhm, oh yeah, with the zip password crackers I don't put my other passwords in a zip file. (Had to say something on the original topic! )

It sounds like the registrar would be the best place to do it but you can also do it with an account here. As Rob said, a helpdesk ticket will get you working like you wish. I'm moving this thread to backend services for better organization. Best wishes on getting it straight.

Hi Danglie and welcome to the Family Forums! Yes, anything coming or going from your domain counts against your bandwidth. Remember that since it's a mailing list then you have the original message coming in plus the 500 outgoing emails to the members. There are also limits on how much mail can be sent out at a time to prevent spammers from abusing our systems and getting us banned. You have to break it down and send a few at a time. Mailman doesnt have an option for this. Some members use a program called Dada and it seems to works pretty well for them. You can read more about Dada at mojo.skazat.com and do a search (top of this page) for Dada in the Family Forums here for more info too. You wouldn't need a separate domain for the mailing list unless you just wanted it, but it would have to be big enough to handle the bandwidth.

Same here, James. I recently bought a new laptop and those are the exact reasons I didn't go Mac. Too bad for them because they really do have some advantages in certain areas. There was just no way I was going to go out and buy new versions of everything I have.

Welcome - we're glad you stopped in. Usually a company will charge a little extra for add-ons because of the maintenance required. I'm not sure how TCH is set up on the billing end but I'm sure there's extra work involved in the 10Mb add-ons than just the straight packages. That's my guess, and it's only a guess.

Same here about liking winzip. WinRar at www.rarlab.com is a great alternative. It's only US$21 and compresses better, has a Zip-compatible switch and is a much nicer program in general. There is an unregistered mode but you don't get all the features... it's still usable though but $21 is pretty cheap for such a great tool. I don't understand it - all the buffer overflow problems programs have. It's easy to write the program to handle them but sloppy programmers = buggy programs.

Rob, happy anniversary to you and your wife. She's gotta be something pretty special to put up with you! Have a great day together and may your days to come be as beautiful and awesome as the sunset you photographed... only better!

Great point, Chris, about the Macs. Sometimes we assume everyone's on a PC and that's not the case, especially in artistic areas like web design.

I use so many email systems with forwards all over the place so I could be wrong, but is this the correct message for Spam Assassin? It may be another person's spam filters catching it and just sending the message on with their headers.

Thomas, I've heard that this is the worst in 50 years for hurricanes in Florida. As Samantha said, usually 1 and sometimes 2 hit somewhere in Florida... but not like this! Just to give you an idea of how big this storm is, this morning when I went to church it was near Melbourne, Florida which is 340 miles (547 kilometers) from here. Even then our driveway and parking lot were flooded. When I left church I went to the grocery store and the shopping carts were like bullets bouncing from car to car in the parking lot blown by the wind. I'm sure it's no better in the north part of Florida either and the storm is moving somewhat that way. I just checked and it seems the storm has been downgraded to a tropical storm and that's good. The flooding is the problem now. It's funny, as far away as we are the winds are still 25 mph with 35 mph gusts (40-56kph) but we have beautiful sunny skies (in patches - still some ugly clouds "over there") now. Stay safe folks and don't get careless when the storm is gone - there are still a lot of downed lines and other hazards to look out for. I saw on the news yesterday that a big tree in a person's back yard right next to the house fell into the power lines and the roots broke the gas lines so there was a good chance it could have exploded. You never know what hidden damages and dangers there are. I'm praying the damages are light or none and everyone stays safe.

George Orwell would be proud!

I agree with Lisa here. I just recently converted a non-trivial site of mine to take advantage of CSS and I had to hand-modify each page in the thing. The great thing is that now there is no <font=blah blah blah><span><p><more blah> nonsense, it's much smaller and thus faster loading, and I can make global changes just by changing my external CSS sheet. I found that my favorite tool in all this was global search and replace </P> with nothing. It's worth the time even if it is painful to do each page.

Yeah, but you can't beat those Sloppy Nachos (nachos with sloppy joe on them)! Yum! I'm not happy that it slowed down - the folks in south & central Florida are getting pounded right now and it's not looking like it will be over any time soon. The storm track has it going your way Steve so batten down and keep yourself safe. Samantha, hang in there and I hope everything goes well for you. I have a friend that left on Wednesday to go to his mom's house in Orlando. The poor old lady had part of her roof blown off by Charlie and no one could "get around" to fixing it so her son went to patch it to try to get through this storm in one piece. Hurricanes stink!

That is so awesome! Bravo and thanks for the link!

I just wonder how long before "private sector" sites are required to be accessible. Probably not here in the United States since we value our freedom of expression above almost everything else, but what about other countries? It's obviously a good thing to make our sites accessible anyway and the only ones who would gripe about it are us Americans because we don't want someone telling us what we have to do. Personally? I'd hang bowling balls at face level from strings in my store and have an audio only warning about the trapped floor that sets them swinging. That way we get the visually and hearing impaired at the same time. (I'm kidding! I have a great empathy with impaired folks. The fact that my first real girlfriend who I was with for 4 years was totally deaf and that I write books about sign language shows how I really feel about it. I'm all for making it easier for them to have the same access and abilities as those without limitations do!)

Make sure you at least look at CSS so that, as you grow in experience, you can start using it. If you are an adventerous sort I'd recommend trying to learn it as you learn the rest. There is so much goodness in CSS that CSB, Dreamweaver and others miss out on at the most basic levels. The good thing about Dreamweaver is that it is the best I've seen for supporting CSS. There are a bazillion sites about CSS, Table-less design (aka CSS-P) and why it's good. Take a peek. Go to www.csszengarden.com for a gee-whiz intro into one of the cool things you can do with it. Most of all, look at the choices and don't let anyone tell you "Real developers use ____". Real developers use all of the above and others.

I felt that way too until I started working for a company with about 500 users. It made us a bigger target than a single user and there were a lot of goofballs doing stupid things that I'd never do at home. To paraphrase, 90% of power users have never had a virus because they know better than to do stupid things. The question should be: "Is a virus for Linux too hard to make successfully or is the thrill too low to be worth it because of low userbases?" Here's a great article about the issue: www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/ One thing the article brings to mind. In Windows there was recently a problem where you could send an EXE with a WMA extension, it would go to the Windows Media Player and the player would, purely as a favor to you, run the file because it realized it was an exe. In Linux you would never (too strong?) find a media player that would take a music file, boost itself to root priviledge and run it as an executable program. There are a lot of good points in the web link so I'll not go over them, but the very nature of Unix derivatives is at the core of the differences more so than the Open Source status... but that doesn't hurt it either. If you made a goofy media player like that in open source the community would call you an idiot and patch it or throw it out. If Microsoft makes one like that then no one knows about it, they can't change it if they did and it's sometimes not worth throwing it out if there's no new one to replace it. Just some food for thought.

Samantha and Steve, you could have gone south instead of fighting the crowd and hung out here in Key West. It's beautiful right now but I'm feeling a little guilty that another one missed us and is going to hit central FL again. You are right about hurricanes and the heat of summer. That and the fact that the closer to the equator you get, the less atmosphere to spread the sun's rays which makes for an intense sun. You walk outside and you can literally feel your arms tingle from the intensity of the sun. Everyone stay safe and my prayers are with you that this thing just fall apart quickly and there'll be as little rain as possible and no tornados!

Must be because the Macintosh isn't as juicy. Besides, that bin is way too big - it's the same size as the other brands!

Josh, Surely you must see why Bill felt it necessary to reply as he did considering you brought it out in public in a way that implied fault by TCH. By making a public post saying, in essence, that "TCH said it would email and it didn't", you were blindsided by it, and your are frustrated and disappointed by it, you not only made it open to discussion but you also, by your actions, demanded a reply. I'm sorry you were suspended but it sounds like you got a bargain. This is why I personally recommend to people to discuss billing issues in the helpdesk system. That way, what happens in billing stays in billing. When it is brought out in the open it's not fair to expect Bill or any TCH staff person to sit back and keep quiet about things that so drastically affect business as reputation does.

Which line is line 37 in your file? Yes, it can be inserted in the <head> section. It sounds like there may be a curly-brace where it should have a parenthesis or something like that.