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How often did you set your email checks to be? There is a certain minimum time interval you're allowed to conduct email checks beyond which you would have exceeded your checks. I believe it's 2 minutes per check.

How do I maintain image links across subdomains using relative URLs? Is there any other way apart from using base href or typing the full URL? I understand that using base href may be an inefficient way of coding as this would turn all my links into absolutes. For example, img src = "/some-folder/some-picture.gif"> would not work for a subdomain if the full path for /some-folder = /../public_html/some-folder Is it possible to create a symlink on our home directories? How do I go about doing it since there's no shell? Also, would this affect the performance of page loading in any way? Thanks, it would be really helpful to know.

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*heavy breathing* the force is strong in you.

i like that php insert! please do it. what with the new vulnerability with malicious-code-inserted images, it would probably be all the more a good idea not to use IE anyway these days. you're absolutely right.

i feel so ashamed, i'm supposed to know a lot of this stuff for my job and yet you've answered a lot of my questions.

To be honest, even if you're not behind a router, file and printer sharing does not pose any vulnerabilities if you've not explicitly set any shares. One could share a text file with an ASCII graphics of the finger shown.

BSD is reputed to have one heck of a robust security in comparison to other *nix flavoured OSes. The rest of us just have to be extra careful, darn.

Definitely agree. I was young and stupid back then. Now I'm old... and still stupid.

Oh hey Support Logic Helpdesk does have loads of features. A question to the person who voted for PHPsupport... did you manage to visit the website lately? It seems to be down, the one on Jynx. I only could check out the one at Sourceforge though.

that's an interesting point, hm which search engine are you referring to by the way? may i ask how does it work when i typed in a unique phrase that only occured once in that page (it's a text database with a list of phrases, all unique from one another) and yet still get a result in the search engine? by the way, I'm using google. and yet in another case as mentioned earlier, i typed a unique phrase which occured in another website and google didn't bring up anything.

The Security Center has three main parts to it - the firewall, antivirus reminder and the auto-updates reminder. Since you have ZoneAlarm, the firewall may not be necessary. They have upgraded the features somewhat but it's still quite basic. The antivirus reminder lets you know when your AV definitions are outdated so if AVG does that, you probably wouldn't want to turn that on. (It has limited support anyway, it doesn't support every single AV program) The auto-updates reminder lets you know if your Windows Automatic updates are switched on or off. So there's that in a nutshell. My computer drastically slowed down at the beginning with the Security Center turned on, what with popups blinking here and there. I switched it off and had peace since then. It's more troublesome than conflicting. I haven't had any conflicts but that's just my experience.

High-five, Jana! Me too. I did it from handcoding first and then switched on later to website building utilities. It boggles my mind how much longer it actually takes to click on the B button which signifies bold than to just type out the corresponding tags. And even then, I had to go around hunting for all those tags. Nevertheless, some of the useful utilities that I've found with them are things like Imagemap utilities and the likes.

Burt Reynolds and Sylvester Stallone (Driven)

Alan, you've dropped support for IE on your site? That's mighty courageous considering the amount of people that uses IE in the world. If only they have a tool that naturally optimises a webpage to a particular browser, then we could have a javascript that redirects users based on their browsers and just send them in the direction of those optimised pages.

That's great, being careful although on the other hand it's good to be curious all the same. I've opened some that were more of jokes than anything, pretending to wipe out my entire hard drive. I nearly had a heart attack over the file that a friend sent over.

That's interesting, I didn't know that. Sorry I don't understand what you mean. How does lack of optimisation affect a page with a phrase unique enough that it only appears on this particular page and no other page on the web? Shouldn't that page appear on the search engine results if I type in that unique phrase?

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Here's a link detailing PHP vs Perl http://php.weblogs.com/php_versus_perl

Actually I wouldn't mind their tactic - giving free stuff to stiff out competition. As long as they duplicate and better the efforts of existing programs instead of doing a half-hearted job. I switched off the whole darn Security Center at the end. Funny how software has come to a point where it has become a lot more expensive than hardware.

Bob... hmmm for all we know, we may not even see K_M for awhile until two weeks later with expletives strewn all over at the end of this forum thread. Naughty

Funny thing about kentuckyfriedchicken, they're no longer even called that because the people of Kentucky thought that they were using that name when chickens don't even come from the state of Kentucky any longer. So now all you see is KFC. If big companies have to change their name because of that, your cybersquatting a domain might have less of a chance.

I agree totally with Jim. There have always been 'those kind of people'. I handcode myself too but it boggles me when people think that website builder applications such as CSB are more inferior to handcoding. I think it's just absurd to look at it that way when you can do things in a shorter and faster way. I handcode because it's faster for me at times as the program poses too much of a restriction for me but I've also used website builder applications when I want a quick HTML template up and running, and then delve into the nitty gritty of it, and modify what I need if the modifications aren't too much. People who like HTML are the same sort of people who like Assembler language. It's like a Field Marshal running around the battlefield telling each and every soldier what exactly they should do and then bragging about it being so much better than having a hierarchy of command where the details get sorted out by those in the lower command.

Oh you mean file permissions? Yes I agree with Raul, file permissions may seem overwhelming at first but once you get used to it, it's not all that difficult. In a nutshell, there are three groups - User, Group and Others, and each group has a corresponding set of permissions - Read, Write and Execute. User refers to the owner of that file. Group refers to the group that owner is in. Others refer to everybody else, the world. Read refers to being able to read the contents of that file Write refers to changing the contents of that file, including deleting it. Execute refers to using the associated program to run that file. There are some exceptions to the rule but this is generally it. Hopefully this clarifies what you've already read up. Good luck.

I agree with Lisa. Hotscripts is a really useful place, and yes it does take awhile to go through them but you can go by the general rule of thumb that popularity generally means that a program's not too shabby and have a look at the popularity ratings to guide your choice.