Why do people write blogs and/or journals? Is it a fad? When will it end? Non-rhetorical, more inside.
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posted by daver
on Apr 30, 2004 -
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I've been a long-time user of Kerio personal firewall. Due to recent circumstance, it's now gone. How do I get it back... [ah, but there's more!]
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posted by five fresh fish
on Apr 27, 2004 -
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My s.o. needs help with a technical problem on his home PC: "I cannot open any eBay page on my Internet Explorer. This just started last night. I can open all other internet pages, just none related to eBay. Is there a virus that specifically prevents people from opening eBay pages? This is really frustrating, I have run virus and spyware checks and found nothing, but I cannot think of anything else that could prevent access to a certain domain. Please help."
Anybody got any ideas (besides, obviously, switching to a Mac)?
posted by turbanhead
on Apr 26, 2004 -
9 answers
Any way to get good translations of foreign sites or articles for MeFi or elsewhere? Based on
this discussion with matteo in MeTa, there's a whole world of good stuff on the net we can't read, because it's not in English. Any ideas?
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posted by amberglow
on Apr 25, 2004 -
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Are there any free services that will monitor a website of your choice, and tell you when it changes?
posted by inksyndicate
on Apr 21, 2004 -
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Any suggestions for a web-based employee scheduling solution that allows people to submit vacation requests and personal preferences? (more inside)
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posted by mert
on Apr 21, 2004 -
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So I am sick of livejournal, and I want to start a blog independent of any form sites. Also, I am interested in learning to create backends and architecture for sites similar to Mefi. Where should I start? What languages? Perl? Bear in mind, my own programming experience is limited to a fairly fluent grasp of HTML, which I know isn't really programming at all. Tips?
posted by lazaruslong
on Apr 15, 2004 -
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I've got about 400 MB of my (as in I made it, I own it) music that I want to host somewhere. I'm willing to pay and I don't want my users seeing popups or anything like that. My html is hosted somewhere else already so I just need space for the mp3 files. Any help? I've been looking at hosting services for days and I can't find the kind of deal that I'm sure is out there.
posted by n9
on Apr 12, 2004 -
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Put forward to action by this catty
thread but with different reasons and intentions, does anyone have recommendations for excellent Metafilter-like sites or even personal weblogs...
in German? I have very high fluency in German, subscribe to a few of the default German weblogs in NetNewsWire lite, but blogging culture in the hunosphere (I kid, I kid) just doesn't seem to have much presence. Maybe because everyone can speak English? I'd like to keep up my German with one of my favorite time-wasters while living outside of a German-speaking country. Anyway, almost all input welcome!
posted by Gnatcho
on Apr 7, 2004 -
6 answers
How do I share a MSN DSL connection between multiple computers? The DSL Modem is a NetDSL 800, and I'd like to be able to connect each PC to the DSL independently (Not with 'internet sharing'). PC's are XP, and I already have a router to use (and plenty of experience routing on DSL with static IPs).
posted by daver
on Apr 7, 2004 -
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Wanted: recommendations about using T-Mobile for portable internet connection using a Mac laptop. [more inside]
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posted by weston
on Apr 5, 2004 -
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I've been getting "/\x90\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\"with the "/x90" repeated over and over again in my site's visitor logs and was wondering what it means.
posted by drezdn
on Apr 4, 2004 -
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Every day for the last three weeks or so Sygate Personal Firewall Pro has blocked twenty or more port scans. In the past I would be scanned maybe once or twice a week. What has changed? I change my IP address from time to time and I know my box is secure and isn't worth hacking anyway. What gives? I'm getting tired of the blinking icon.
posted by Grod
on Apr 3, 2004 -
17 answers
What's the best site to backorder a domain name? The one I am interested in expires in early May...
posted by Macboy
on Mar 31, 2004 -
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Ok, I love Firefox. I have been using it since it came out. The question I have is that every now and then I will go to load a page and it says Cannot Resolve Host. Yet if I open it in IE it loads perfectly fine. Now this wouldn't be that big of a deal if it happened seldomly, however this happens after about 5 minutes of heavy website browsing. All of a sudden NO domain can be reached until I fire up IE first.
I do not have this problem with IE, nor do I get this problem on my mac with Safari or IE Mac. My question is, Did I screw up a setting somewhere in Firefox that it just hangs? Does anyone else suffer from this same problem? And is there a solution?
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posted by thebwit
on Mar 31, 2004 -
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Internet infrastructure: how does the physical infrastructure of the internet cross oceans? Is all of the data transmitted by communications satellites, or are there big-ass intercontinental cables running across the ocean floor? And if there are big-ass intercontinental cables, how are they maintained?
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posted by COBRA!
on Mar 31, 2004 -
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Website Mirroring Tools: I usually use
wget, but find that it seems to have at least one nasty flaw: it doesn't fetch stylesheets, or images named in stylesheets (it may also have other flaws I'm not aware of). Is there something better out there that I can just give a homepage URL and have it suck down an entire site?
posted by namespan
on Mar 28, 2004 -
7 answers
Browser questions: (1) are there any browsers that have word-wrap options? I find that when I read certain pages, specifically Usenet via Google Groups, each line runs way past the edge of the screen, and I have to scroll to the right to read. (2) Are there any browsers that have word-wrap options for print? I'm tired of having to remember to set orientation to landscape so the right edge of text doesn't get cut off.
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posted by grumblebee
on Mar 24, 2004 -
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"When a woman learns to walk, she's not dependent anymore; a line from her letter May 24."
An excerpt of lyrics from The Go-Betweens. What site do you recommend for finding lyrics? There seems to be about 4 billion lyric sites.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink
on Mar 24, 2004 -
9 answers
nameroute.com -- has anyone had good or bad experiences with them as a host? i believe they are also somehow related to
hostroute.com, in case that helps.
posted by sa3z
on Mar 18, 2004 -
3 answers
I have Comcast Cable Internet access and a Linksys Wireless B Router. How can I get the two to work together properly? Previously, I had Verizon DSL and the router worked like a charm. But now, when I connect the cable modem through the router to the computer, nothing works. I run OSX 10.2.8 on an iMac. Thanks in advance.
posted by BlueTrain
on Mar 15, 2004 -
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It's embarrassing but a real need: Is there a simple one-click way, freely downloadable or hidden somewhere, to keep a permanent notebook while surfing and writing? I'm on an imac with OS X/Safari. [
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posted by MiguelCardoso
on Mar 10, 2004 -
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The answers in a thread earlier today got me thinking, can anyone recommend any neat tricks (or sites which list neat tricks) that can make one's surfing more pleasurable. Either by enabling simple features or otherwise, such as adding simple and trustable downloads. (Obviously I'm not an IT bod.)
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posted by biffa
on Mar 10, 2004 -
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I'm looking for some dedicated Windows hosting. Would like latest version of Windows Server 2003 Standard edition, MS SQL liscense, the whole she-bang. From around $150 -$350 a month? We have been checking out
Ev1 Servers.
posted by corpse
on Mar 1, 2004 -
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I recently opened up port 80 on my home machine, and have been seeing a lot of "zbbpreq" lines in my access logs. What are these? [m.i]
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posted by seanyboy
on Feb 28, 2004 -
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So I've finally switched isps, and have moved my blog to the new address...Is there any easy way to let everyone who has me on their bookmark list know? I don't know who or how many have me linked, for the most part. (Google shows my message about moving as the first link for "amberglow" so maybe i should just let everyone find me? The old blog url is dead already.) I'd been using sitemeter and can email each referrer individually but that's a pain, and won't catch everyone. Any suggestions?
posted by amberglow
on Feb 28, 2004 -
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I check my server logs pretty frequently, and am always pleased by the variety of visitors my site gets. I particularly love trying to suss out who's reading the site at any given moment by deconstructing their IP address and/or machine identity. (Ex-coworkers, ex-bosses and ex-girlfriends always especially amuse me.)
One thing I don't love: a machine called "tide70.microsoft.com" is literally "viewing" my site close to 100% of the time - like, whenever I check, it's on. Sometimes it's joined by up to thirty other "tide*" machines, but tide70 is always there. I have my ideas and suspicions, but can anyone confirm for me what the tide series is up to?
posted by adamgreenfield
on Feb 27, 2004 -
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Someone has expressed interest in buying my
web site. How do I assess its value? How do I know what to ask for it? The company in question is rather large, so it could be a considerable amount of money. How do I know if I am getting a good deal? I have 4+ years into it, and a full back-end administrative system. I get moderate traffic and little ad revenue. Has anyone ever sold an entire site?
posted by quibx
on Feb 26, 2004 -
7 answers
Web-Based Chat
I have a friend who used to chat with me from IRC at work. The employer removed that program, saying that for security and virus reasons, the only browser, or anything internet would be MIE.
Since this makes Chatzilla a moot issue, are there any sites reachable from an ordinary browser that have some sort of reasonable-working chat that resembles IRC?
posted by Danf
on Feb 26, 2004 -
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Even though I am not an American, Howard Dean's usage of the Internet has captured my imagination (as I am sure it has for many).
Here is my non-specific question (that I am partially asking for a non-MeFi'er): How could other groups harness this kind of power? Is it possible to have Dean-like success without being a Presidential candidate? Was Dean's usage of the internet a one-time only event? Or is there too much "noise" in cyberspace for a non-political organization to have the same kind of success?
posted by Quartermass
on Feb 25, 2004 -
9 answers
Line Speed. . . .I am on a dialup. There are periods of days when my connection speed can be anywhere from 4 to 20 kps.
My local ISP reports no problems during this time, and they are a freenet who are usually very forthcoming about stuff that is going on.
My phone line passes over a couple other houses on the way to the pole. Is it possible that stuff going on in those houses, electronically, could cause some interference? Are there any other physical or electronic factors that would slow my connection down (usually it stays between 50 and 52 kps) between my computer and the ISP?
posted by Danf
on Feb 25, 2004 -
8 answers
Problem sharing internet connection on home Windows XP / ME network question.
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posted by jasper411
on Feb 23, 2004 -
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I'm looking for a new project, and I'd like to build some sort of collaborative storytelling site. Kind of like
Fray, but only in the storytelling sense -- more prolific, more interactive, more user-driven. So, I'm looking for an engine. [MI]
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posted by o2b
on Feb 19, 2004 -
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CSS or maybe PHP question about limiting the display size of content. More inside, of course.
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posted by dobbs
on Feb 17, 2004 -
7 answers
Anyone have any experience submitting a website to coolsiteoftheday.com? Is it worth the expense? How stiff is the competition?
posted by banished
on Feb 8, 2004 -
5 answers
I'm considering buying a domain, and setting up a personal site. This wouldn't be a problem, really, except that I've got over five years of content on my current personal site in various formats, and I don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past. [Very long, very geeky details inside. Not for the faint of heart.]
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posted by Jairus
on Feb 5, 2004 -
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I use my work laptop at home, and have to switch network connections from local area connection to wireless network connection. The laptop finds the signal, but I always have to futz with the connection to really make it work. [more tech details inside]
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posted by jmackin
on Feb 4, 2004 -
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I want to investigate free web browsers other than Safari for OSX (10.2.8). The most obvious alternative seems to be Firebird, but it doesn't seem to recognise my third mouse-button for tabbed browsing. Does anyone know how to fix this (I'm prepared to look silly), or can anyone suggest an alternative? What shape is Camino in these days?
posted by nthdegx
on Feb 4, 2004 -
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Does anyone know of an efficient way to get webmasters to change links on their end to reflect a domain name change on my end?
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posted by anathema
on Feb 4, 2004 -
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Inside, I've posted a question about computer programming, regarding organizing class libraries and packages -- and also regarding good programming practices.
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posted by grumblebee
on Feb 4, 2004 -
6 answers
How do I start an internet radio station? What kind of software and hosting do I need? Who do I have to pay for rights, and how much? What else do I need to know?
posted by timeistight
on Feb 3, 2004 -
6 answers
Is it possible in this interweb thingie to do a search on DMV information? I know there's a trend with certain bars where they will scan the barcode on your driver's license, and bring up your photo/DOB/etc. to prevent underage drinking...so obviously the information is considered public. I'm thinking specifically of a query using either driver's license number or your vehicle tag number.
posted by luser
on Feb 3, 2004 -
7 answers
What are your favorite fonts when designing for the web and why?
Oh, and what does the word "optical" mean when it's part of the name of a font?
posted by signal
on Jan 31, 2004 -
8 answers
I hang my head in shame as I post this, but here goes: in my zealous effort to eliminate browser helper objects on 2 Windows 2000 Pro Dells in our computer lab, I somehow seem to have eliminated IE and Mozilla's ability to browse, as well. I can ping our webserver so I know they can get online, but I keep getting "unable to resolve this (or any other) web page" errors. Do I now have to reinstall IE or wipe the hard drive and reinstall Windows to make this work? Or....
posted by Lynsey
on Jan 30, 2004 -
4 answers
Can anyone in the UK recommend a good dial-up provider and give an indication of the cost?
posted by Frasermoo
on Jan 28, 2004 -
6 answers
I'm building an online gallery for an artist friend of mine. It grew from a small holiday present to a major project, and I have reached the edge of my current skill set. I need a way to easily add and modify content after I am no longer developing the site. [more inside]
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posted by Grod
on Jan 24, 2004 -
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