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Nat, Homesite comes with MX. Try installing just that and see if it helps. It's still pretty much hand coding but it's better than nothing and you already have it.

Do you use the ability to compress different slices differently? One technique I picked up in a book is to compress fringes more than the middle because in some cases you can get by with it... but it does help to be able to do this in some cases.

Nat, I would probably start with 1 GB and that should be fine for you unless you go totally gonzo on the designs. I have that on mine at home and I do all kinds of things like edit 20 photos at once while Word and Firefox is open with a web site upload and winamp in the background and very very rarely have a problem opening huge graphics files in this scenario. (BTW, the upload and music is possible due only to DSL.)

Your best bet is a graphics program that does all of the fancy stuff related to making graphics smaller. Make sure you use gif or jpg as appropriate because they are both strong but different. Gifs are better for solid sections of color and jpg is better for photo type things where there is little chance of having the same color pixels together in groups. No matter how much compression you could get on the stream out, you're better off sending smaller images to start with.

I got 44 of 48 only because time ran out and it said I still failed. I'll bet the college that awarded my degree in Comp Sci will be disappointed that they fell so far below the standards!

Thanks for the info... I hadn't heard that.

I agree with Mike on this. The single best thing you can get is RAM for speed. After that you'll definitely need a quality video card and if it were me, I'd get a "real" monitor. The flat LCDs are better and better but they are far from the clarity, richness of color and "optic gentleness" of a CRT when set side by side with a quality one. The hyperthreading is a technology that makes better use of the CPU. Basically, if you have a program that requires several tasks (which all programs do pretty much) the hyperthreading will split those tasks so that the computer is "sitting and waiting" on things as little as possible. If step 1 has this widget doing something but the floating point part of the brain is not busy then hyperthreading can split it off and give the floating point components something to do now instead of waiting for the widget to finish first. It's really just better time management brought about by splitting tasks and then running them together in a more efficient way. I have it at work and it seems to be faster but for every day tasks like reading email and copying files it's not really a big deal. Trying to avoid a "religious war" on Good Friday I'd not buy a Mac because, as was said, the market is vastly smaller than for the PC and programmers go where the money is. Things will be available more readily for the PC such as cheap or free utilities that may not even exist for the Mac. This is, IMO, why Linux is playing "catch up" rather than ruling the market. I am confident and hopeful that this will change soon for them. The "big players" like Adobe say the programs are the same for both and they just change the drivers so it's a win either way as far as that's concerned. Hope it helps! Best wishes on your new purchase and let us know what you end up with!

I don't know about this one but I can remember several instances where honest folk found such vulnerabilities and reported it to Microsoft. After 2 weeks of no patches they decided to release their findings to the public to force MS to do something about it. It's a shame they have to resort to that but perhaps there is such a track record that they don't even try to let MS do somethng first?

That's great Eric! Best wishes to you and your candidate!

It's totally uncool across browsers, but one more kudo to Mozilla Firefox is that it will resize your pages even in they use pixels. I tested IE and it doesn't. Not that we can count on this as developers but it's nice as a user! It sure would be nice for there to be standards that everyone adheres to (thus the name "standard")!

Hey Matty, Sorry about your database going belly up. I don't recall any updates but maybe someone else that reads this has a better memory than mine (which is not hard to do!) I hope it's not anything terribly difficult to recover from and you can get back in business quickly. Fishing here is so much different than where I grew up in Kentucky. There a 10 pound fish is a big deal. Here it's called bait!

That is totally uncool that our minds work like that! It makes me wonder what my mind absorbs when I read the daily paper! Or, worse yet, some of those spam emails that use fake HTML tags to fool spam blockers! What is happening to us behind the front of our faces! The human mind is indeed totally amazing.

Yeah and it shows... The others have given great help - I just wanted to laugh at the way it came out "Her is no longer here." Cracks me up.

That's awesome, Timur! Thumbs Up Great job - congrats!

Wow Lisa! Thumbs Up We're a bit better now than we were before! Welcome!

While I agree with you, Robert, I'm not sure society at large does. Example, a lady spills coffee on herself and sues McDonalds... and wins. A guy drinks himself stupid and gets in a car and kills someone and the family sues the bar owner... and wins. I guess we should be the first to launch a lawsuit against Microsoft for hackers attacking them! Know any good lawyers? Oops, too late - they beat us to it news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3161752.stm Maybe it's not free will or predistination - maybe it's Karma coming back to Bill Gates for being such a slug with his business dealings early on and we are just the innocent victims of his punishment?

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There are probably lots of ways to do what you are asking but perhaps the easiest to set up would be email filters. They could say "If address is www.junkdomain.com then move them to trash". You could do this with a local email client, a third party email service or even in your online TCH email system with the proper filters. If you have specific requests for your entire domain name then the best bet would be to put in a help desk ticket and let the techs tell you about MX records and such.

Bellringr, you have hit on the #1 societal evil IMO that there is. Anyway, before I get on my soapbox about that I wanted to comment on the paper. First, it is well written, makes a point, seems well researched and is overall a good job. My points about the topic are these (and most are rhetorical): 1. How much of the blasting Microsoft is getting is because they are the only game in town for so many folks? If there were as many Mac or Linux users as Win users would the tables be turned? I suspect that they would be, at least to a large degree. 2. Buffer overruns: There is no excuse for this. A 2nd year programming student should have the tools (knowledge) to prevent these types of errors. Basically I say I want a stream of data that is 100 bytes and if you send me 105 then my program crashes and burns. I've been programming since '77 and some pretty serious packages that my previous employers sold to the likes of British Telecom, AT&T and even Microsoft and can say it's inexcusable. 3. The biggest problem I see are users that refuse to learn anything and want to be spoon fed. Instead of learning how to save an attachment to the hard drive, virus check it and then execute it if it's from a known source, they all want their sissy "I don't wanna learn anything because I'm a Merican!" point and click ease of use. (I am American and proud of it but we have become a lazy group of wimps that want everything given to us on a silver platter and when we have to work for it we are offended. I won't even get into the welfare mentality that "the world owes me" which prevades all socioeconomic groups.) Anyway, when the users demand to see that cute movie that Aunt Sally sent by only opening her email then companies like MS can only do one of two things. Refuse and lose customers or comply and make it easy for viruses and other nasties to come in. Microsoft is not without blame but I think there is much more to it than there appears on the surface and if we could look into the crystal ball and see alternate realities I think we would see similar problems with others. Ultimately it is the jerks trying to delete my files that I blame.

Nat, I set up what Manu is suggesting for my client. I ran emails through Spam Assasin and it still sent enough to him that he reported as spam that they threatened to ban TCH so I had to shut that down. What I do now is I forward incoming mail at his site to another 3rd party mail system, run it through Spam Assassin there, and then forward to AOL. This service does not seem to have a problem and has not been banned in the few years that I've used them. They are only $40/year too and have full features so these types of services do exist. I'm an affiliate with them so I'll not name them here as we don't allow using the forums for profit, but I have been using this method for about 7 months and it's working fine. As an aside, I accidentally turned off SA for his account and his spam went from 3-5 per day to almost 200 in one night! Thanks to the hard working folks that create programs like this!

Hey Nat, See if Xenu will do what you want. It's technically a link checker but it does some good stuff. For instance I got this from your site. It looks better in their report than it does pasted here:

And also to remember that TCH hasn't encountered every script out there. If a script is not on the list it may be because of having never seen it rather than it being an OK script.

Google is going through a lot of changes now with the recent algorithm changes, hopefully aimed at stopping spam, their emphasis on Froogle and the new features such as local.google.com and the personalized searching. Bottom line is that a program such as what runs Google is a massively, finely balanced machine and they just swapped out the 20 inch tires for massive monster truck tires so everything has to find its place again and settle down. Eventually they should be back to "normal." Also consider that Google and Yahoo! are different companies with different agendas so they will never be the same. Maybe Yahoo! wants to reward their Yahoo! Stores folks and Google wants to stop SE Spammers. That in itself would make a difference, besides the fact that they run different programs with all those nuances. Personally, I'm in the top 20 on about a dozen search engines for one site but on Google I bounce between 130 and "greater than 500". Some say that Google's broke. I agree.

If the data is critical then you can also throw a second hard drive in there and use one of the utils to do real time mirroring. Drive failures can occur in a moment so it's hard to predict failures... just be prepared for them when they happen.

As Scott said, it is a good thing to be in DMOZ and I don't want anyone to think it won't help them, at least a little. DMOZ, in my opinion, only became as big as it is because it was a free way to get the initial spider from Google. Once "everyone" found out that Google was spidering DMOZ, and thus the sites listed there, it became an overnight hit. Google's going a lot of new directions, but they'll probably keep browsing DMOZ for some time to come. With the current changes regarding localities, froogle, personalized browsing, etc., those outside links become more important so don't pass on a good opportunity, just don't obsess on it.