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There are a lot of members of Daniweb who run their own websites, and even many members who run SEO firms. I've given SEO a lot of thought, and I can only conclude this: [b]SEO is totally unethical. At it's foundation, all you are doing is artificially effecting your search …

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Somehow, I think my OS X is borked. Whenever you mouseover a menu, it's supposed to highlight, right? Well, mine doesn't... Also, my dock magnification is turned on, but if I highlight apps on my dock, they don't magnify, and it doesn't say the apps name above its icon. If …

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The site I do a lot of work for, [url="http://bink.nu"]Bink.nu[/url], has three ways of getting to the content: [url="http://bink.nu"]http://bink.nu[/url], [url="http://www.bink.nu"]http://www.bink.nu[/url], and [url="http://winxp.bink.nu"]http://winxp.bink.nu[/url]. [url="http://bink.nu"]http://bink.nu[/url] = PR7 [url="http://www.bink.nu"]http://www.bink.nu[/url] = PR6 [url="http://winxp.bink.nu"]http://winxp.bink.nu[/url] = PR6 Keep in mind, all of those URLs are the exact same website. Would it be beneficial to get rid …

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I HATE her. Annoying. Totally in the way! Thats all your going to get from me.

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[b][i]"Every time we raise the bar, you-know-who stoops to a new level." - Novell[/i][/b] - Novell is a powerfull network operating system. Response: Its not out dated. In fact, Microsoft stole the .NET idea from Novell (Novells ONE Net Strategy)! - Novell requires a bulky client for conectivity Response: Nope! …

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A few days ago, TechTalkGal, minding her own business, stoped at a stop sign, got plowed over by a horrible driver. TechTalkGal has whiplash, concussions, burns from the airbag, cuts and bruses. From all the members at TechTalkForums, we wish you a speedy recovery, TechTalkGal! Reply to this thread with …

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I know a lot of vBulletin people view these forums, and some of the developers are Moderators here. So, the question is, would you guys ever convert over to ASP.NET? I'm not saying dump php, just run on two different systems. If you guys did, I know you would make …

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I just recieved a brand new XP SP1 laptop. Its a Dell Latitude D800.. and its really sexy ;-) I'm connected to a WiFi network, and I'm having the weirdest problem. It seems that all the images that I see are severly pixelated. Like, the quality is very low, that …

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Are you a windows user that wants to start fooling around with linux? I know a lot of people who are. But theres a few reasons why they aren't in linux learning. The Windows user is afraid that partitioning his/her hard drive is going to screw something up. Maybe, they …

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Now... i hate to say this.. but I only have 128megs of RAM in this computer. Not to mension its PC66. If I have a few programs open, I have 20% free (I have a program running in the tray telling me). Then, if I close a program, I have …

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OK.. I want to start trying to develop a web app using an SQL Server 2000 database. The only language I know comfortably (but not totally) is VB (although VB.NET is giving me lots of problems). What should I use to develop this program? Dreamweaver? Visual Studio.NET has web development …

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I'm getting into Java programming, and find myself at a loss for a good Java IDE for Linux. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 (I tried Gentoo, but I'm to much of a n00b to linux) Can you guys suggest any? Note to Dani: I know about Borland's JBuilder, but I want …

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There once was a little guy who networked offices. He had this job with 30 computers. Everything went fine (what a relif!). He went back a week later to add one thing, and all of a sudden one machine wasn't connecting to the Novell server. Hmmmmmmm this was weird. He …

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[url]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vzw_t720/[/url] If you own a Motorola T720 phone and use Verizon as a provider, you should have noticed that Verizon only allows you to download ringtones and wallpapers from there "Get-It-Now" service, ONLY. Meaning, any other ringtone WAP websites that offer ringtones are blocked from your phone. The above link …

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Just like the subject says... how the heck do you take screenshots in Linux? lol

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I've been reading here, and on the fourms about the new Red Hat "Fedora". Is this Red Hat's next linux name? Is it a seperate company from Red Hat? Is it a 3rd party Red Hat based distro? I'm just to lazy to find the Fedora website and look this …

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There comming out! In my local Best Buy and CompUSA adds they're selling some pretty sweet cards for less than $150. AWESOME!

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Printing was going fine as can be, with my Windows 2000 Advanced Server machine. I recieved an email that I decided to print out, and as the print job spooled, something got screwed up. I attempted to delete the job, to no avail. I restarted my computer, and now my …

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Everyone knows about them. People call them "Value Hard Drives". If you dont already know what i'm talking about, there the 5400RPM drives. I baught a 60 Gig Western Digital 5400RPM drive and its doing fine. Seems like a good drive to me. I also read that they were just …

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I would describe myself as one of he most diehard Microsoft supporter that you'll ever come across. I develop on the Windows Platform, I run all my servers on the Windows Platform, etc, etc. I preach Microsoft's products all the time; even if the conversation has nothign to do with …

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1. How do you clear the screen in a console java app? 2. How do you input text in the console area? Is it something with System.in? ...There may be more later :-P

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Novell Netware Server Specs: Dell PowerEdge 2500 One Pentium Three 800mHz Processor 36.6 Gig Ultra3 SCSI 10,000 RPM Drive 512MB PC133 ECC SDRAM Daul NICS 1-Intel 1Gb Nic 1-Intel 10/100 Pro Server NIC The basic 3 1/4 Floppy The 48x CD-ROM oh yeah.... Dell Powervault DDS4 Tape Drive (20/40GB)

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Link: [url="http://www.apple.com/imac"]http://www.apple.com/imac[/url] Watch the iMac Introduction Video: [url="http://www.apple.com/imac/video/"]http://www.apple.com/imac/video/[/url] What do you guys think of it? I've watched the video about 50 times... I love it that much :!:

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:!: Announcing the relase of PearPCFront Beta 1! It's currently a work-in-progress.. but when you run it, you'll get the overall jist of things. Just one thing to note for now, your PearPC binaries must be in the \installdir\PearPC folder. I've included Richard Goodwin's "05.31.04, 12AMEDT" standard build with this. …

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Question: What is one of the biggest numbers people look at when choosing a server operating system. Answer: UPTIME As published on this site many times, I'm running a Novell NetWare 5.1 Server. This baby has been on for currently (at 7:49 PM on July, 29, 2002) 122 Days, 19 …

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I love this little thing, and it makes a lot of sense. if ( $clue eq 'none' ) { read ( handbook | faq | man | others ) && search ( whatis | lists | forum | google ) } if ( $answer == 0 ) { post->question }

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I'm trying out a slightly different username: "Tekmavenâ„¢"! Just want everyone to know that I'm the same old Tekmaven; just trademarked :cool:

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I'm running Mozilla 1.3 on Mandrake 9.1, and I have a very hard time reading the text on web pages. Since I'm running a very normal screen resoultion (1024x768), I just increase the text size in Mozilla, by hitting View -> Text Zoom -> 120%, which works fine. Now to …

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HijackThis is a [free] program designed to scan your computers settings for things related to spyware and adware. HijackThis will not delete anything initally; it will just report on what it finds. You can download directly from [url="http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/HijackThis.exe"]here[/url]. Save it to a place like your desktop, and run it. When …

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When people experience problems and post them on TechTalkForums, they often have a hard time describing the [i]entire[/i] situation. Including information about basic things is very important; nothing about your computer can be assumed. Information that should [b]always be include in a post:[/b] [list] [*]Your Operating System Version and its …

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Have any questions about novell? Want to get started with it? Want to make fun of it telling me that NT is better? Make a post! I'm the resident Novell expert!

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I have a 303gb partition using NTFS (under WinXP), and it had 1.02gb free. I went to delete a 75gb folder, and upon its deletion, explorer still reported that I had 1.02gb free. Ran a diskcheck, let it fix errors, and now I have three folders (Found.000...Found.002) on the drive. …

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I've been doing a lot of reading about compressing your servers output stream. Before gzip compression, the bink.nu homepage was about 321k! This means that it would take about 89 seconds for a normal 56k user to download the page. After gzip compression, the page is 79k! Now it takes …

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Has anyone seen the IBM commercial titiled, "The Future is Open"? When the commercial first started, I was thinking that it was cool. As I realized what the commercial was about, I felt a little offended :!:. I emplore all of you go and watch the commercial. Link: [url="http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/tvspot.html"]http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/tvspot.html[/url] Scroll …

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The the most popular question asked in New York: "Where were you when the power went out?" To answer this question, lets list our location, time of blackout, time when we got power back, and a little story of what happened. [b]Location:[/b] Roslyn, New York (North Shore, Long Island, New …

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Yay 500th post! Heh, I saw 494 on my post count, and posted 6 more times! Thanks everyone for such a great TechTalk experience. Dani your "the man" (haha).

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I'm starting a new project (yeah, I need to have more then two concurrent projects!). This project is going to be uncharted territory for me - open source. I call it Blogger.NET, it posts to peoples blogs. Written in C#, compilied to .NET 1.1, its pretty cool ;-). When I …

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Now, I'm sure I'm offending about 100,000 people by making this post, but "suck it up." Novell (and Windows, for this case) will defeat Linux. Maybe not in a year, but it will come eventually. Why? When you go to a store (or e-store), you can go and pick up …

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I just got a few USB KeyChain Drives, and I'm using them to store my schoolwork. I'm just worried that I'm going to loose it :o . On network shares, I have the option in the right click context of the folder to "Make Available Offline", but this isn't the …

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Dani... just so I can print out the topic, and post it on my wall... just post what you baught at the Mac store on Monday..

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I have a computer in my room, and it is somewhat noisy. Naturally, before I go to bed, I want to put it on standby mode. The computer supports APM and ACPI, but there is no place to turn on standby mode. I did some research, and found in a …

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Okay, I was doing some casual browsing, and came across this image: [img]http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~shane/stasj/div_bilder/bart.jpg[/img] I feel it should become TechTalk's new instruction guide. :cool:

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How do you remove the text (and just have the icons) for the Right Column in the Windows XP Startbar? Whenever I look at Windows XP Themes, they are turned off. Here is a sample: [url="http://users.skynet.be/bk265512/BlueCurve/Screenshots/BlueCurveSS.jpg"]http://users.skynet.be/bk265512/BlueCurve/Screenshots/BlueCurveSS.jpg[/url] Also, featured in the above image, the desktop icons are larger then normal size. …

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Well, I would like to announce to the world, [b]Dani's Strike Zone[/b]! Yes, that's right, CSCGal owns a bowling alley! It will be open in a few months, and will be totally built from the ground up for you to have the ultimate bowling experience! Cool!

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On behalf of all the posters on TTF, I would like to wish Dani a good luck on her remaiing finals!

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I've always wanted a TechTalk quote thread. Just put really funny quotes in here - try to keep them on computers! Here's my first: [quote]Cargill's Law: The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the …

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Well, due to downsizing my company needs to get rid of our HP LaserJet 4100N printer. We purchased a 5 year extended warranty, which is transferable - a $500.00 value. The warranty has 3 years and 8 months left. Here Are Some Features: -Instant-on fuser prints the first page in …

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Well, if you haven't noticed already, some to most of the internet is down! This is due to an exploit in Microsoft SQL Server SP2 and lower. A buffer overrun can allow hackers to run code on the SQL Server. This worm, infects an SQL Server and then that SQL …

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