TCH-Tim

If someone is on your network, they're halfway to where they want to be, whether the destination is the Internet or your computer (whether anything is shared or not isn't the point). Since it's so easy to turn on basic security settings to keep your average stranger out, and a little research can tighten the network even further, why not do it? Letting someone use your wireless network is equivalent to letting somebody walk into your office building to plug his laptop into your corporate network. You just don't let it happen. Granted, I was an IT guy at a bank for awhile, so that paranoia is ingrained in my brain now.

Here's a white paper some guy wrote after some fun on a public wireless network at Boston's South Station. My neighbor has a Linksys wireless router with the username: admin and password: admin and no security set up. I would learn him about the evil ways of the world, but then I wouldn't have a backup Internet connection when mine goes down.

How does the code for the "CODE" tag on these posts work? What tells the server or browser not to process that information and to just display the code?

Looks fine to me. [edit]Rather, the first time I looked at it I got an error and clicked on the "try refreshing the page here" button and then it started working. May have also happened to get fixed at the exact same time I refreshed.[/edit]

Here are some other ways to browse faster in Firefox, and they do work, but keep in mind that it's bad for servers, and some of them can cause you some trouble under certain circumstances. So if you want to be a good member of the community, think twice before going overboard with this stuff.

In Firefox? What version?

Ever since my girlfriend's brother moved in and I got kicked out of the guestroom/office, maybe two months ago, I've been working off the kitchen counter. At least they gave me a stool to sit on. And it's convenient to the coffee machine.

Hey Bruce, I visited your site pdabruce.com and I noticed that on the pages that have scrollbars within the page, such as your Products page, my wheel mouse won't scroll the page when I'm using Firefox. But it will in IE. Have you seen that before? Do you (or anybody) know why that is? -Tim

I hate to drag a dead horse here as I think I know the answer by now, but I'm considering moving to a reseller account and don't want to make a mistake. If I buy the Simple Resellers plan with 16GB transfer and 1GB space, that means I get 16GB transfer and 1GB space to sell, and then another 16GB transfer and 1GB space for my own site?

It takes time and it helps if people link to you among 100 other things. Here's Google's info for webmasters, and people have written whole books on Google optimization. My feeling is that people put way too much worth on Google page ranking. Want to be at the top? Buy a spot. Don't forget about the other search engines too. I get plenty of traffic from Yahoo and MSN and a bunch of smaller lesser-known guys. -Tim

Good luck Robert. Anybody signing up to be a Help Desk Manager must be a glutton for punishment.

This is normally where I'd throw in some comment about the Bush administration, but as this place is fairly politically neutral, I'll leave my comments to myself. Sorry about your loss anyway. As far as preventing future loss, I don't know. I've heard of services (or rather, people send me junk email touting such things) that offer to constantly monitor your site for dead links. I can only imagine that with the help of some fine folks here and/or a little Google, such a tool could be found on your own. Hopefully for the data itself you have backups. -Tim

Anything's possible, but it's always best to start with the basics.

I can't find this part in the agreement. It says you can't sell the software, but I don't see anything about selling one's services to install the software.

I had to make a minor change for it to work for me: ><?php $day = (date("D")); include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/$day.html"; ?> And it assumes the .html files are named Mon.html, Tues.html, etc.

I'd agree with David. Check on the existence of the /issues/ directory and also the /alliance/ directory. They may be in the wrong place or named something else, etc. The Unity Party stuff in the /unity/ directory is working, so it's probably not a subdomain issue. -Tim

I used those instructions when I migrated to MT and had no problems. If you do, there are plenty of people here that can help you out.

I use CuteFTP and used to be able to see my htaccess files. But I just checked and I don't see them anymore. Weird.

I'm not sure the meaning of life is found in the "CPanel and Site Maintenance" section.

As far as the "integrated" look, you'll have to do some work on your own to make everything truly look the same. I use MT and have a bunch of photo albums and miscellaneous other pages on my site. Through the use of templates and PHP includes they all look the same, even though only one page is the blog, and the rest are mostly static. I can help you with MT customization and if you like my photo albums I can help you set up something similar. Forums I don't do, so can't help you there. And on the choice between MT and WP, I just happened to try MT first, and it does what I need it to do.

Seems he took it down:

Why?

John, Are you talking about "UseNFSSafeLocking"? I don't see "UseLocking" in the mt.cfg. Unless maybe you have some other older version? Either way, you shouldn't turn on the UseNFSSafeLocking unless you specifically need it, so leave it commented out. There's also "NoLocking", which you also shouldn't use unless you need to. I'm not sure what your question on the directories is. Did you already try to install MT and it didn't work? If you have already tried it and it doesn't work, point us to your site and we'll take a look.

What's your site's address?

Okay, so really you just have two index files. You should delete the one that you're not using. Why are you using umask settings in mt.cfg? DBUmask 0022 HTMLUmask 0022 UploadUmask 0022 DirUmask 0022 Try putting them back on their defaults, or commenting them out, and see what that does.