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#106
Web Design / Re: Forms
February 20, 2009, 04:16:13 PM
Don't bother... you can draw right? Draw like 3 images and have a radio button question that says to select the image like X. Then on the back end if it's not the one selected just don't send the email.
#107
General Chat / Re: When, if ever...
February 19, 2009, 03:00:14 AM
I'm already working in the generalized field I want to be in, but not under the specific focus that I'd prefer. :P
#108
General Chat / Re: Happy Lupercalia!
February 17, 2009, 03:26:52 AM
Could do what I did.

Val Day 2009 SCA event, which involves us dressing in 14th century clothing and armor (other people in different periods) and fighting with rattan weapons. :)
#109
Hosting Q&A / Re: Statistics
February 14, 2009, 01:07:32 PM
Or they're just people who are incapable of upgrading and are STILL somehow using i286/i386 systems with Win 3.1. :P

In either case, I wouldn't care at all.
#110
Hosting Q&A / Re: Statistics
February 13, 2009, 12:55:53 PM
In those cases I'd just ignore them.
#111
Hosting Q&A / Re: Statistics
February 13, 2009, 05:45:10 AM
Generally a better solution for those cases is a 301 permanent move redirect to the proper page. It's also extremely useful when trying to salvage your search indexes after a large-scale change.
#112
In the even of validation stuff anyhow, I'd suggest using authorized keys if you know how. It's generally a bit more secure and allows you to (optionally) bypass the need of a password if you set things up right (I wouldn't to that on a shared computer though).
#113
Knowhow Trading Post / Re: Sitemaps
February 08, 2009, 02:32:06 PM
huh?

To a degree you can, actually. You need to have a normal Google account and actually set up the sitemap in the account linked to your site. It'll also tell you reasons why your site may not be indexed properly after a few runs of their crawl bot.
#114
Hosting Q&A / Re: Statistics
February 05, 2009, 09:48:55 PM
Quote from: sagebrush on February 05, 2009, 07:10:19 AMLunarpages uses Webalizer, because AWstats "uses more resources."

Webilizer is absolutely worthless for anyone who's serious about watching their sites stats.

Apparently, Lunarpages admins don't have a damn clue what they are talking about. Granted AWStats has more detailed statistics but both it and Webilizer require a cron job to keep up to date listings and both process the same damn log files. Leave it to stupid admins to make a call like that... LOL
#115
Hosting Q&A / Re: Statistics
January 27, 2009, 12:53:27 PM
You may also look into Google Analytics.
#116
I think ISP's, Google, and MSN should all just block Win98 and IE6. That'd kill if fast as hell (as well as eliminate a lot of botnets and infected spammer machines).
#117
The function may not have been defined before using it in the previous location.
#118
Hosting Q&A / Re: Statistics
January 22, 2009, 01:43:32 PM
It'd be up to Xepher, but you could always ask him to set up awstats. It's a pretty widely used stats tracker.

The problem is, it requires a cron job to build the stats every so often from the logs. It also only really works if the logs are set up for it.
#119
Art / Re: dA in ruins?
January 19, 2009, 01:56:46 AM
Just for the record, it's not cheap to host mass amounts of image content. I don't entirely blame DA for starting to charge for some things if they've been doing it for free for a long time if they are losing out on shit. However, it's one of them things that should probably be implemented into *new* users and just grandfather in old users.
#120
Knowhow Trading Post / Re: Sitemaps
January 17, 2009, 06:18:51 PM
Well a sitemap isn't the same thing as an rss feed. They are in fact both xml but they aren't structured the same. If you're wondering what type to go with, the Google version is your safest bet because anyone who isn't compatible with it (I believe all RSS browsers are) eventually will be. They use the ATOM RSS standard for things.

The thing that makes the RSS feed more difficult is that it's more like an update notification. You don't simply remove and add new things, you just add the the feed or update timestamps for existing things.

A sitemap xml file is exactly what it sounds like. It's just an xml file that defines the different location on your website.