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Dag, I just blew a fuse in my house - anyone want to volunteer their thumb to transmit power using the human body? Where does the madness end? I know, Armageddon.

Try Spybot S&D first. I read an article recently that some folks had done tests and they concluded a combination of the 2 free ones was good. Some of the pay ones did no better than the free ones and some were worse. PestPatrol was not one of the ones they tested. We use it at work and it finds a TON of junk and cleans it up pretty well. If you don't mind the price then it's a fine program. I agree with the article though that no one program can do it all.

Yahoo! stinks. Thanks for the patch info!

Rob has said much of what you need to consider but I'll throw in my opinion/knowledge too. First and foremost, 2 months is a blink of an eye in the search engine world. I wouldn't expect a site to show up much quicker than that if it was very well connected to many other sites that are already indexed. A complaint to the BBB is certainly too much too soon in this case. No search engine guarantees anything so there's really no case for the BBB to get involved. If they said "We index everything" or some other crazy promise of service then there would be a case but they just offer information. It's like blaming me for not listing your site on mine. There are only 12 links to your site listed in Yahoo! that I could find. Forums like this - 1 Guestbooks - 7 Link Farm - 1 Russian Site - 1 Directory - 1 Blog - 1 These are not the best "quality" links and some of the search engines are trying to eliminate many of these from their listings. I'd get more links from web sites that are related to yours. A link to a sauna&pool site from a blog or a baby site won't hold as much weight as from a landscaping company or a flooring site. Forget everything said about PR. The only thing that counts is whether you get sales from the site. Quality links are very important but there don't seem to be any links to your site that you could live without. How many people at the site in Russian are going to buy one of your saunas? Moving this site to TCH would not be a particularly harmful move. Entering your title into Google shows that Google knows about you, probably from a link to your site, but they have not indexed you either as evidenced by the missing Cache link. You definitely need to optimize your site for the keyword phrases you are aiming for. There are tons of informative threads here that will help with that. Search Engine Optimization is a very complex beast and one can't hope to throw some words on a page and hope to rank highly for those words. I'm not saying that's what you've done, but you need to be more focused on what the potential customer will be searching for. As an example, if I wanted a sauna I wouldn't be searching on the phrase "Dillard Georgia rivervista". Also, SEO takes a great deal of patience. If you change the keyword phrase optimizations today and make them perfect, it may take 2-6 months for your site to show up for those terms. Remember that all engines are different. What ranks #1 at Google may not do well at Yahoo!. Google weighs links very heavily, Yahoo! focuses more on elements such as Title, headers, etc. Sorry, but you're mistaken. PR is Google's measure of how popular your site is based only on links to your site and the PR of those sites. Without any links to your site whatsoever you will be a PR0. If AltaVista picks up your site then their PR will transfer to you. If a friendly person says "Hey, these are neat" and links to you then the PR transfers. If the web design company links to you for a portfolio then that PR transfers. Again, it's links to your site that make people come to buy your stuff that really counts. Many SEO experts say to uninstall the Google toolbar because the PR itself is not a useful measurement of anything that counts. You could get a million links to your site from widget companies across the world and have a PR9 but how many people buying widgets are likely to want a sauna to go with it? Search Engines only look at web pages, not sites. If your French Cooking site was on the same address as the sauna, pool, jacuzzi site then the problem could very well be that you have been temporarily removed from the SEs because the whole site changed in nature. Many spammers will do this to "trick" the SEs to rank them highly. Many SEs will drop you until they get a chance to come back and see what you are really about now... which may take 2-6 months. If the cooking site was at a different address then Yahoo! doesn't know or care that it's by the same person as your current one. It's long winded but I wanted to help you (and anyone else that happens upon this) understand a little better about the search engines and to clear up a couple of misconceptions. I hope it helps!

I think what Andy meant to say was that on the standard plan you can not set up separate domains to different folders or sub domains. If you want 3 different domains to all point to the exact same site then that's fine but you can't have one domain name point to the main site and another domain name point to a folder or subdomain under that. You'd need a reseller account for that - or 3 separate accounts.

Thomas, I know what you are talking about but can not find it in XP. There is a setting that causes Windows 98 and I think ME to recheck the floppy after Windows takes over from the BIOS. I guess maybe XP figures it doesn't need to recheck it?

In Firefox the message comes up as: If I just hit OK with no password attempt I go to a normal cPanel skinned login screen for "Web Host Manager Login". Something in your script is trying to access the Web Host Manager utility or olse it is a problem only the helpdesk techs can help with. Hope this helps narrow down the problem! At least it's a clue.

You can submit a helpdesk ticket and have the tech guys look to see if there's something linked or something weird happening on their end. Give them the filename of the old and new file and all the details and they'll probably be able to figure it out by looking at your directories themselves instead of through the interfaces we are limited to using.

To your point, MikeJ, is the site gmail-is-too-creepy.com which raises some very legitimate concerns. On the other hand, Tim O'Reilly, founder of the famous O'Reilly & Associates publishing company has equally good points at www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4707 If I was running drugs or something I certainly wouldn't use Gmail! As it is I figure there is no significant risk. Go figure

If two customers both want to "take it outside" just make sure your IM data is up to date and have at it. Customers calling each other unjustified derrogatory names and "duking it out" will not be done in a TCH-sponsored public forum. If we didn't want you to PM someone we'd remove the button from the forums. The PM comment was specifically regarding someone harassing a client to near tears from what I heard. TCH is not PC. If you doubt that just read some of Head Guru's comments. The threads mods and staff have stepped up to close or reprimand were because of the inflamatory or untrue nature in 99% of the cases. For instance, if someone says "Server 30 is down, it's been down for 5 days" and someone says "no, it was down for 5 minutes" and then that person wants to argue and rant and rave and go on and on about those incorrect statements then we'll probably state the facts and lock the thread. It's not about PC at all. BUT, if you're going to say something derrogatory then make sure you state your facts properly... if that's done then the comments will probably not be touched by mods. Think about it this way. If you went to a nice restaurant and in the middle of a guest's supper you, another guest, jumped up and started a tirade against them - do you think the management would ask you to leave? Of course they would. One difficulty with a forum is that words are easy to let fly when you don't have a "real person" standing face to face. As a mod I'm not willing to let false accusations stand without challenge and I'm certainly not willing to let any of you guys publicly berate another. I daresay the other mods feel the same and thus there is the occasional comment or closed thread. I hope this helps everyone understand where I'm coming from and, not to speak for the other mods or staff, but possibly where they are coming from as well.

If the old page has been deleted then it has to be a cache. Remember that it's not only the chache in the browser you have to consider, but larger ISPs also have caches. For instance, AOL is notorious for causing this kind of thing for their customers browsing sites that have changed but AOL is still caching the old version of the pages.

I'm familiar with it. You're right. Only telepathic messages sent to onesself are safe. Filing them is a problem though!

This is a family. Let's keep it that way. Most of the time when we become upset with someone else it's because they thought one thing and we thought another. This can be the fault of either person or the fault of neither. We need to slow down, speak what's on our minds as well as possible and assume the best intentions when we read the comments of others. Now, who's got the chips and someone turn on the music - this party's just getting started so let's

I guess the statistic I heard that 80% of the things people worry about never happen was correct, huh? My guess would be that the cPanel file manager would be the best, but I also wonder if there's not something going on behind the scenes with your ftp - why would it count "delete bubba.txt" as the size of that file? That part doesn't make sense and as a professional programmer I shudder to think a fellow programmer would write such a bizarre rule. Maybe someone else has some ideas on FTP deletes.

Not unless you own the server and you are the only one with the password and you encrypt everything and you only send email to yourself... oh yeah, and you're not hooked up to the internet.

That is a search page brought up by a Web-"assistant" on your computer. It's really a program to get you to other sites that pay them for that service. It could be a simple ISP timeout or something more devious like the webassistant hasn't sent you to any other sites lately so it "made up" an error.

Do you send out emails with links to your site (assuming iloveplaya is yours)? Especially if they are unsolicited? It looks to me (who is definitely no expert) that someone on excite got an email, went to your site, then tried to shut you down. If you had spammed it could be an anti-spammer attack program that someone wrote in retalliation to spam. Please don't take offense! I'm not accusing you of spamming, just wondering what other motivation could cause this. Maybe it's a competitor to your site that wants to shut you down? It's hard to say. That address is a comcast site so without their cooperation you will never find out who it is in all likelihood.

Line 863 of the file /home/tinywiz/public_html/desk/index.php seems to be trying to open a directory named home/tinywiz/public_html/helpdesk/upload. Either that name is wrong, the permissions are set wrong or the directory doesn't exist.

Check out the hotlink protection in cPanel too. It allows you to specify who can and can not link to your images.

Here's an explanation I found of what it is: And here is an untested and non-warranted line you are supposed to be able to add to your .htaccess file to stop it but I've done NO testing on it: Perhaps someone more familiar with .htaccess coding can fill in any blanks on how to use this.

I never used IMAP because I run everything through webmail enabled sites which I can check from anywhere and then download it to my home PC for permanent storage. I just forward everything to the same ending point so the multiple account issue's no bonus for me either so I'm a POPper. Maybe if I'd "grown up" using IMAP I may see it otherwise.

Howdy canrock and welcome to the family! The problem is that if you just paste in a text file into the HTML editor then HTML will remove all soft line breaks. This means that if you have Welcome to my site. then HTML will by default make it Welcome to my site. One thing you could do is use a text editor and go into your pages and at the end of every line add the string <BR> which forces HTML to put in a line break at that point. It's one of the more annoying aspects of HTML and the way it handles those soft breaks. Best wishes from KD4CKQ.

Oh boy - I don't need a crystal ball to see the "advertising opportunities" available if we want to be on Google... for a small fee of course. If they are as evil as I suspect they are they may make it a financial requirement to stay on Google's listings. Cool stuff but I just wish they'd get rid of the spam listings. The same sites that are #1 on Yahoo, MSN, et al end up on page 8 of Google. Obviously something's badly amiss there. Anyway, it's cool to play with until they do pull the switch on the pay-per version!

There is absolutely no problem with letting you have multiple sites on one account - I have 6 on mine - it's called a reseller account. Consider this: If TCH allows 10 accounts per server (nor a real number - just an example) and you and 9 others are on there then we have a full server. Now, what happens when you redirect 20 other domains into your one huge account? Not only do you have bandwidth and disk space limits but there are server performance issues. As it is, TCH balances us all on a bunch of servers to keep everything fast. If you redirect all those sites into the one account then TCH has no way to know "Hey, we have enough accounts we need to set up new servers!" If this were allowed then it could be that you'd have 2 or 3 times the normal amount of domains on a server and performance would be out of control. Best wishes on finding a host that suits your needs, especially if you're looking for one that's fast AND allows unlimited redirects.

You also asked and if you submit a helpdesk ticket they could tell you that answer. It may be useful to know.