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As stevevan said above, TCH monitors security-related issues closely, and updates their software accordingly. If you want to verify that your site isn't at risk, though, you can probably log a help desk ticket. That way a paid staff member will respond to your query. Best wishes,

I was reading an article on Computer World this morning that I thought I'd share with the TCH family. Basically, there is an un-fixed security hole in Internet Explorer (big surprise, I know) that affects Windows clients. The flaw isn't widely exploited (yet), but you should be aware of it. The article notes that users of Firefox aren't affected. However users of Outlook and Outlook Express who automatically allow HTML email can be. Here is the full article for your perusal: http://tinyurl.com/k5xzc (You'll need to copy and paste the URL into your browser's address bar in order to "follow" the link...)

Have you tried PMing one of the RED staff members? Have you tried live support? Have you tried IMing one of the staff members? Unfortunately, the support forums aren't always monitored by the help desk, and the forum moderators are volunteers who can't provide any server-specific help. Posting in the forums may get the attention of a staff member, but to be sure, I'd follow one of the other options I mention above. Good luck. I"m sure you'll get it resolved quickly.

Welcome to the forums, missbrokensmile. For teh 2.1 code, you can just take the code I posted above. There are three chunks of code; they are all part of the same file. Just copy and past the first section into a text document, then copy and paste the second section into the same text document, and then do the same with the third secion. But please note, I don't claim this is a secure script. In fact, my concerns noted above are still valid. I would hesitate to use this script until a coding expert could verify it is secure from header injection. As for the other scripts you suggest, I'll have to check them out. Again, welcome to the TCH forums!

What kind of site are you creating? If you are doing a blog or a CMS-type site, then pw protection is usually very easy. I have a couple of WordPress blogs that I use a site-wide password protection plug-in for. Whenever anybody hits any WordPress page, it checks to see if they have logged in. If they have, it displays the content. If they haven't, they are redirected to the login screen. So, if you are developing a site with software that already exists, there is maybe a way to do it automatically, without you having to write much, if any, code. If however, you are implementing your own solution, this suggestion won't be much help to you.

If I were you, I'd look into a different form script. Another forum I follow has people constantly complaining about the security issues present in formmail.php. Apparently it is easy to inject header information into the form, which can compromise your account, bog down your server, and get your account suspended. I'm not saying this is GOING to happen to you, I'm just warning you that it MIGHT. Anyway, good luck.

I"ll second the Spam Karma suggestion. Spam Karma has killed more than 4000 spams in my blog. And I haven't had to do anything. It just takes care fo them. It's wonderful!!!!

As TCH is working towards a Ruby on Rails feature on TCH servers, I noticed an article on Computerworld today, relating to Ruby on Rails. I thought others here might be interested: http://tinyurl.com/fphld

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You can do this in Dreamweaver. There is an imagemap option when working with images. It works quite well. I used it for a number of years, though I don't use Dreamweaver much any more. Now I use Adobe GoLive, and GoLive also provides the functionality. If you are using a GUI program for web development, search the help for "image map"

I'm a technical writer for a sofware development company. I write installation guides, administration guides, user guides, and SDK documentation for all the products our company produces. I just switched jobs this month, and at my new company, I'm the only writer in the whole company, so the stress level of my job has seen a marked increase in the last little bit, but its great. I wouldn't say it is extremely stressful, though like many jobs, it sure has its moments. But overall, I'd say my job at my company isn't all that stressful. When it gets a bit stressful, I just head over to the break room for a round of pool.

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Ram, Welcome to the TCH forums. When you get something together, I'd love to see what you end up with. I've wanted to do something similar for a while now, but I've been too busy to actually *do* it. So I'd love to see your end result. Good luck. If we can be of further assistance, don't hesitate to ask!

YAY! How fun. You might remember from another thread that I recently bought an MP3 player. I'm using it for both data storage and for music and audiobooks. It's been fantastic! I love it! I hope you love yours too. My new player has given me the inspiration to go back to the gym even. Wow. Once my wife saw that, she told me she would have bought the player earlier if she'd known thats all it would take.

The problem, from a site admin point of view is that is a "chicken or the egg" -type argument. What makes a forum inviting? High participation. But how do you make a new forum with relatively few members inviting? In the end, I think that you, and a select group of loyal followers have to make the forum very active up front, and then promote it in some way to get new members. New members become the lifeblood that keeps your forum running as older members suffer from some attrition. Anyway, I'm just saying that I recognize it is hard to do when you are new. But once you can prove to your new members that the forum is useful, active, and friendly, then they'll come back. Good luck with your forum.

If you are looking for a third-party external stat counter, can I recommend Google Analytics? You can sign up for and be accepted to the Google Analytics beta test. You place a bit of code on each page (*very* easy if you have a blog or CMS with a template), and then sit back and let the stats accumulate on Google's server. Their stats program, Analytics, is very powerful, and includes a TON of information. As with other Google beta tests, it is free, but you have to wait to join. I think I waited a couple of weeks for my invitation, but that was about 3 or 4 months ago. I have no idea how long waits are right now. Anyway, I've found that Analytics and Awstats aren't exactly the same, but they are in the same ballpark. Its a powerful stats processor that doesn't take up your server time or resources to process. Even better! Hope that helps.

Ok. So new question. I love my iPod. I've organized my music, subscribed to more podcasts, created playlists, etc. Now I want to know if any of you have any experience copying an iTunes profile from one computer to another. I would love to keep all my settings and podcast subscriptions, etc. Any thoughts on how I might do this? Or do I simply make a list and remake the settings manually when I get my new computer? Thanks in advance.

Activity is number one for me. I like a forum that has active participants. For me, the software that runs the forum and and the forums bells and whistles aren't nearly as important as the activity level of the community.

Just out of curiosity, which plugin was it?

Thanks all for the good advice.

Hey everybody. I've been gone for a week or so from the forums. I was off last week on vacation (well, the first part was vacation for a family reunion; the second part was moving -- not very relaxing ). If you have seen my blog recently, you'll notice that I have accepted a position with a new company. In two weeks I start at the new place. I'm going to have to rid my work computer of all my personal files. There are a ton of personal word processing files, photos, etc. that I want to take with me. In addition, while I was working here, I brought in a large portion of my CD collection and ripped the songs as MP3 files on my work machine. I ended up with about 16 GB of music files that I don't have in MP3 format anywhere else, so I'm going to have to move them off my work computer somehow. My work machine doesn't have a DVD burner (or even a CD burner, for that matter), so I'm stuck with what I can connect via USB. I was able to talk my wife into an iPod for this purpose. I bought the 60 GB video iPod. Now I want your advice. I need to know what pitfalls I'm going to encounter while trying to back up all my data. Storage space on the iPod is much greater than I need, so that shoudln't be a problem. What should I think about in addition to the obvious music, Word, and photo files? Any suggestions on porting my Firefox installation/themes/extensions/stored passwords to the iPod storage space so I don't lose them? Other thoughts on how to clean my personal information off the work computer when I go so I don't leave anything behind? My machine is a Win XP box, and I have administrator access, so I can do pretty much whatever I need to do. Thanks for your help.

Just for clarification, in Bruce's message, replace the ****** with the site you are wanting to trace. To to tracert google.com, you'd type: >tracert google.com To tracert your site, you'd put your site's url there.

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