TCH-Tim

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Beer and cannons? What could possibly go wrong? Will have to check it out.

But Rob doesn't use Google. Figured he would just know the answer.

IE 6.0.2900.blahblahblah. Don't see any errors, although I agree your footer is messed up in both IE and FF. Will take a look at your CSS.

The suspense is killing me. This is the longest two weeks ever. (Hey Steve, I'm down in Panama City Beach for work. Lovely weather you folks have down here.)

In another forum I frequent I saw a post by a guy who has a dedicated server in Texas and he wants to get another server in Europe for backup. What doomsday scenario is he preparing for?

Works like a peach. Thanks. I'll get a handle on this .htaccess stuff yet. Does anybody know of a good comprehensive listing of what all that junk is?

In addition to asking the guy nicely to cut the crap, I'd ask the list mod to take a look at the issue and possibly boot the guy. For one-on-one emails I can't imagine there's anything anybody can do about it, because as you said you only get the message if you send him something. But I can't imagine a list owner that wants a subscriber spamming the list.

Per this post, 4.4.1. Edit: Dang. I'm always just a half second too slow on the submit button.

Correction. I can see your Atom feed (/atom.xml) just fine using Firefox's Live Bookmarks. It's up to date. But Bloglines is looking at your RSS feed (/index.xml), which hasn't been updated since Feb. 5th. There's no problem accessing the RSS feed, it just doesn't have the most current information. Might want to check out your RSS settings and the file permissions on index.xml. Doesn't look like a hotlinking issue anyway.

Offhand I wouldn't think it should be a problem. I used to have hotlink protection enabled and never had feed problems, and the stuff above looks normal. Do you have hotlink protection turned on right now? Can see your feed just fine at the moment.

I use a Treo650 with Verizon. From a concept point of view it's similar to the Blackberry. When I first got it I had the Verizon web client poll my POP accounts and then push the email to my phone. Then I found a different email client I could install on my phone that allows me to just poll the POP accounts directly, bypassing the whole Verizon server setup. Both ways work, but I prefer the latter. In theory, you should be able to do it either way, whatever works best for you. Or at least if your device doesn't let you do it, it's probably not a TCH issue.

I recently dropped my entire Wordpress blog (876 posts) in lieu of a smaller, easier to maintain website. In just the one day since I dropped the database and deleted the WP install directory, I have seen the number of 404 errors go up significantly. I would like to set up a redirect such that if someone is looking for anything in the /wp directory (ie. /wp/somecategory or /wp/somecategory/somepostid and so on) they just get sent back to the new front page /index.php. There is no /wp directory anymore, there is no Wordpress install anymore, so the "post not found" WP error page is no longer there. Instead it's all ugly 404's. I'm not concerned about lost search engine traffic due to content not being where Google and Yahoo think it is, but if somebody comes to my site I'd at least like them to see a real page.

It's referrer spam, part of life on the web. Once upon a time somebody had the bright idea to put a script on his website that shows the last couple of websites that sent traffic his way. Very nice, but bound to be abused. Once the spammers caught on to that, they started this referal spam thing so they could get their links up on websites that have those scripts running. For those of us that don't display recent referrals on our websites it's more of an annoyance than anything.

Go figure it's not secure. The easy-to-use stuff never is. Stupid spammers ruin it for the rest of us. Think I'm only still using it on one account (installed it myself, not using cPanel). Guess I should get rid of it.

If you want something light and free, you can use CGI Email found in the CGI Center in cPanel.

Thanks for the tip. Been messing with this all day. Easy to use and easy to customize and integrate into an existing site. Added additional form/database fields without much fuss. Easy category management and ticket search functions. Don't know how it compares to others, but it'll work for my purposes.

I'm American and I don't get into it much. Loads of beer helps. Give me a baseball game any day.

Thanks for the reply Jim. You're the kind of guy I was hoping to get an opinion from - someone who has had to deal with them on the support side and can give me some concrete positives and negatives. Balanced judgement on this issue is hard to find. (stay back you frothy-mouthed fanatics) The main reason I haven't switched, outside of cost I suppose, is the software issue. I'm settled in my ways with all my little programs and I don't much feel like adopting new habits. But I'm also willing to accept the Windows baggage that comes with that, or at least I'm willing to manage it. I'd like to believe though that there is something easier and more reliable out there for the general public who just want to use their computers. Maybe I should just get her a Unix machine and teach her the wonderful world of command line interfaces.

Refreshed it 100 times. Looks fine.

My girlfriend is in the market for a new desktop and she's thinking she might like to make the jump from PC to Mac. I'm a Windows/Linux guy and have only even touched a Mac once or twice. Not that I have anything against them, just never used them. So I need some advice. She's not a power user by any means - uses Internet, email, word processing, spreadsheets, listens to music (uses Napster, which is not Mac-friendly. Ouch), loads photos from her camera, light Photoshop use, etc. Standard home user. No gaming other than the occasional Solitaire, no heavy graphic design needs. Mostly, she just wants something that is going to work. I've gotten her onto alternative software packages like Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice.org, so going off the "norm" that she is used to is not a problem. As long as it works. And I guess that leads me to my question. I've heard that Macs are reliable and very easy to use. Do they ever crash? Any "blue screen" type stuff? Random lock ups or error messages that you can't quite get rid of? Are they fairly immune (so far) to spyware and viruses? The bottom line is that I don't really care how long it costs as long as I can go on the road for three weeks and not have her calling me up needing me to walk her through random Windows troubleshooting. Oh, and am I going to have to shell out tons of cash to get Mac-compatible software, or is there a free open source Mac movement? And while we're at it, which one should I buy? PC prices have accustomed me to quality sub-$1k computers, but that doesn't look likely with a Mac. Is sub-$2k reasonable? What's the biggest bang for my buck? Kind of a long request, and I know I could spend weeks trolling around the Internet looking at miscellaneous reviews. Mostly what I see is that people who have them love them, and people who don't make fun of them but I can't quite figure out why. (I'll admit I used to, but I since outgrew that.) So I guess I'm just looking for some honest and balanced reviews, preferably from people who are knowledgeable in both the PC and Mac realm. I trust the user group here and am crossing my fingers that there are a handful of Mac folks out there. I really appreciate any help I can get here, 'cause I'd hate to blow two grand and be disappointed.

In general you might want to go with proper CSS layouts to build your site. Absolutely positioning each paragraph is a bad way to go. What'd you use to build it?

Dang, that was one I knew the answer to. Glad you got it working.

Depending how much experience you already have, a book with step-by-step examples isn't a bad way to start. I generally use free online resources, but sometimes having the paper reference in your hand is so much easier. And "right-click and Google" can be intimidating for the newly initiated. Also, since you're just getting started, you might as well learn how to do CSS layouts and use PHP includes. Your life will be so much better for it. As always, we're here to help if you have questions.

On the Linux installation instructions page it says you must be logged in as root and you must stop the Apache and MySQL services before installing. Not going to happen on a shared server anyway.