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Re: MQOTD

Herman<T>.Instance13-Nov-16 21:33

Herman<T>.Instance

13-Nov-16 21:33

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Re: MQOTD

den2k8813-Nov-16 21:53

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13-Nov-16 21:53

each time a sane person decides to watch Twilight.

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Re: MQOTD

Daniel Pfeffer13-Nov-16 22:30

Daniel Pfeffer

13-Nov-16 22:30

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Re: MQOTD

Johnny J.13-Nov-16 23:39

Johnny J.

13-Nov-16 23:39

Jeez, I didn't think ANYBODY had seen that movie except me! Not exactly in the Top 10 of best movies ever made... Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: MQOTD

Daniel Pfeffer14-Nov-16 0:04

Daniel Pfeffer

14-Nov-16 0:04

What can I say? Blush | :O

No, it certainly wasn't in the top 10 (or top 100, for that matter) films of all time, but it was good, clean fun. Smile | :)

Re: MQOTD

Corporal Agarn14-Nov-16 2:17

Corporal Agarn

14-Nov-16 2:17

It was ~~the~~ a bomb.

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New Zealand earthquakes

OriginalGriff13-Nov-16 20:13

OriginalGriff

13-Nov-16 20:13

Thankfully, not many fatalities: but a fair amount of damage.
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Re: New Zealand earthquakes

User 5924113-Nov-16 20:24

User 59241

13-Nov-16 20:24

I was about to post. Very distressing and our thoughts are with Kiwis. We have just returned from another holiday in NZ and spent 26/10 in Kaikoura which has been badly affected. New Zealand earthquake causes 'utter devastation', PM John Key predicts billion-dollar damage bill - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)[^] Lovely coastal town except the tsunami warning drill posters placed everywhere a little disconcerting. Not too reassuring was the statement not to go into the drill upon hearing town sirens because they were for bushfires.

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Re: New Zealand earthquakes

RossMW13-Nov-16 21:10

RossMW

13-Nov-16 21:10

It was felt throughout the country. We're a bit south of Auckland and we're woken up by bang sounds round the house and cats running round everywhere. I jumped out of bed to see what the hell the cats had bought in this time. Thought it must have been another rabbit or bird. I felt very uneasy on my feet and just thought it was because I'd jumped out of bed too quick from a deep sleep. The other half then realised it was a earhquake. Felt similar to when the big Christchurch earthquake hit.

The damage down south is quite bad, but unlike the Christchurch one it's not too close to the large cities. Wellington had a bit of damage but appears to be mosty superficial.

Feel sorry for everyone down south as they still getting over Christchurch quakes.

So far I believe there has only been a couple of causilties to date.

It's going to be a lot of after shocks and the experience of Christchurch show that's what slowly wears you down and the rebuild can take a long time.

Re: New Zealand earthquakes

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter13-Nov-16 21:29

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

13-Nov-16 21:29

Last weekend we had a cake with kiwi from New Zealand - delicious...
Hopefully the real Kiwis are doing well... Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Re: New Zealand earthquakes

den2k8813-Nov-16 21:30

den2k88

13-Nov-16 21:30

Something's moving down there - the last 2 months saw a handful of strong earthquakes in central Italy too.

Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name

Chris Maunder13-Nov-16 13:57

Chris Maunder

13-Nov-16 13:57

OK, so maybe I'm feeling a little bitter tonight about - well, lots of things really - but I get these emails from Bing Webmaster tools saying "Malware has been found on your site".

Like any paranoid site admin I jump onto it because I'm assuming malware == you cease to exist on our index. Thanks for playing.

So I click the link. It sends me to a page that's in 8pt font that says it's redirecting, then the message centre which says "Malware detected on codeproject.com". So I click the link and I get the news

"Bing Webmaster Tools detected 26 pages infected with malware"

So I click on the "more info" link it says

No malware was found on CodeProject.com

D'Oh! | :doh:

Site admins seriously need danger money for the stress search engines place on us. Make sure you add this tag. And this meta data. But not in this format, in the other. Now do this. Now stop doing that. Actually you should have stopped doing that 6 months ago because it's BAD. But no, we're not actually going to tell you because then you could game the system. And BTW, you're off our search index because one of your tags is improperly closed^*. Now make sure your authors ref their Google+ profile or you'll be downgraded. Except we just cancelled that feature. And make sure your CSS is in a stylesheet and cached. Except it can't be external it must be totally inlined for mobile.

ARGGHH.

So anyway, it's no wonder my alcohol bill is steadily creeping up with each iteration of search engine algorithms. Anyone else have some fun stories to share?

*yes, this actually happened to us. 6 weeks of hell.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name

Peter_in_278013-Nov-16 14:04

Peter_in_2780

13-Nov-16 14:04

Bing users don't deserve access to CP resources. Simples.

Poke tongue | ;-P

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Re: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name

Ron Anders13-Nov-16 14:50

Ron Anders

13-Nov-16 14:50

If Microsoft isn't careful they could wind up as the Sears of Software.
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Re: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name

Member 1168325113-Nov-16 19:52

Member 11683251

13-Nov-16 19:52

Not web related but I once wrote a little auto run program which did some poking in the windows folder. Just a quick dirty something to reduce the symptoms of an issue a user had and it got flagged as potential virus.

Don't know how or why but added it as trusted manually, didn't think more of it because the week after I had the time to fix the main issue.

So far first and only time I've had an AV issue.

Re: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name

Dan Neely14-Nov-16 4:04

Dan Neely

14-Nov-16 4:04

Meanwhile, despite having written a 'key/mouse logger' (captured all user input and banged it to a remote computer via rs232 instead of writing to to a log file) I never had any grief from AV software.

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Re: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name

Member 1168325114-Nov-16 19:44

Member 11683251

14-Nov-16 19:44

Perhaps you did it so overt that any AV thought that no one with bad intent would ever make such an obvious program. Poke tongue | ;-P

Did you run it manually as an admin? Try having it launch with autorun and see if any AV reacts, if you still have it that is.

Burp!

CDP180213-Nov-16 7:53

CDP1802

13-Nov-16 7:53

Sorry, I just had a good portion of freshly made lasagna and a glass of wine.

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Re: Burp!

OriginalGriff13-Nov-16 8:08

OriginalGriff

13-Nov-16 8:08

Roast chicken, sage and onion stuffing, hasselback potatoes, duchesse potatoes, peas, and gravy.

To heck with Herself's diet: I'm not feeling hungry for the first time in a fortnight! Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: Burp!

CDP180213-Nov-16 8:17

CDP1802

13-Nov-16 8:17

That also sounds great. After a famine, that must be like a banquet. I'm just having seconds on the wine and slowly get the urge to sing loudly in Italian. The problem is that I don't really know much Italian.

I need a program for the evening, like watching some carefully selected episodes of Star Trek with the projector. Or perhaps Game of Thrones. Do I have some popcorn?