Date: 07/06/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: web, google

Y'all were so helpful with my idiotic line-break problem last week, I thought I'd ask about a slightly more troubling issue...

Only *after* I signed our company up for a PayPal Website Pro account did my boss tell me to scrap it, because he found out we'll be required to put their logo on our forms and accept PayPal Express. He's afraid this will somehow drive customers away.

Anyone have suggestions for credit card processing that fit the following requirements?

• Is super, crazy cheap (like PayPal: $20/month + 35¢ + 2.something% per transaction)
• Requires no logos, Google accounts, or anything else that will make our registration form appear "unprofessional" =P
• Has lots of support for integration, and can be set up quite quickly, as our current e-commerce solution (are you sitting down?) is a form that emails the credit card information to our accountant, who rings it up manually. I hope they didn't actually pay anybody to set that up.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/575102.html

Date: 07/08/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: security, virus, antivirus, spyware, google

I recently downloaded BitTorrent to try my hand at torrents. I ended up getting the very first thing I wanted very quickly and was enthused. I tried for something else - got it, but couldn't get it to work on my computer, so I deleted it. Then the pop-ups started... Mostly in IE (which I haven't used since, oh, 2002, I use Firefox and rarely Opera) - a page saying I need, um, WinAntiSpyware 2006 or something similar (forgive me).

Right now I have:

• McAfee Security Center
  
• Avast
  
• Spyware Doctor (free version that came with the Google Pack)

• Spybot Search & Destroy (something I had used years ago)
  
• Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal (which had good enough reviews)
  
• Ad-Aware 2007

• Spy Catcher Express 2007
  
• Avira AntiVir Personal Edition
  
• Zone Alarm 7.0
  
• AVG AntiVirus Free Edition

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/796084.html

Date: 07/09/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: google

It appears Google is heavily compensating for my increased traffic with significantly lower eCPM these days. It is about 60% of what it was a month or two back. Why does Google penalize for increased traffic? Any thoughts? Or does it expect us to give the traffic to someone else like YPN for example? Any ideas? My [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-is-my-google-adsense-ecpm-tanking/

Date: 07/09/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: tracker, google

Trackstick II Personal Tracker is a small GPS tracker which records its own location, time, date, speed, heading and altitude at preset intervals. It comes with 1MB Flash memory and downloads the data through USB port. The data can be easily imported to Google Earth to and includes GPX photo stamping feature for adding photos [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/review-trackstick-ii-gps-tracker-integrated-with-google-maps/

Date: 07/11/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: google

Hi! I hope this is the place to ask and possibly the place where I get help.

I have IE at work. No Firefox allowed. Whenever I open google and hover my mouse over the search bar, the little yellow tooltip flag on the mouse appears, saying "Goodle-Search" or alternatively "Search" when you have already done a search. Not only does it appear, it flickers on and off, showing the mouse pointer and the text curser alternatingly.

What's annoying is - it prevents me from actually clicking the search bar so the cursor focus jumps there. It also prevents me two out of three times to mark the old search text and replace it with a new one (something I do with the mouse, usually).

It's really unnerving. It doesn't happen with my IE at home. I use 7.0.5730.11.

I googled (painfully) and found that a) it's not a tooltip but an alt text attribute or b) it may be the title attribute.

Any suggestions how to get rid of that? I don't care if it shuts off all the tooltips or alts or titles or just the ones that annoy me. I have no admin rights here, but if it is necessary to change the registry, I may get an admin to do it for me.

Thanks much!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/798178.html

Date: 07/11/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, google

Is Associated Content a next-gen media site or an exploiter of search engines and AdSense? At least Google and Yahoo are on "board."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6195919.html

Date: 07/12/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: google

A new survey says the Time Warner property may get people to spend a lot of time there, but it's Google's dollar signs that count.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6196348.html

Date: 07/13/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: google

Google's co-founder says his company would be happy to talk with Facebook about potential ties, but that the social network did not appear to be courting takeover bids.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6196460.html

Date: 07/13/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: google

Referring to Viacom's $1 billion suit filed against YouTube, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says: "Viacom is a company built from lawsuits."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6196489.html

Date: 07/17/07 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: google

Is anyone currently using OpenNMS in their networks? If so, did you have an outside source install it, or did you install yourself? What OS/versions are you running it on?

I've been trying to get OpenNMS to install on Debian Etch for the last few days and have been failing miserably during the actual OpenNMS install. I've downloaded the .deb packages and source tarballs for 1.2.9 and 1.3.5 from sourceforge and haven't been able to get either path to work.

So far, I've been installing postgre, tomcat, and rrdtool through apt-get and that seems to be giving me the majority of my issues. I think I'm going to try building everything from source tomorrow.

Anyone who has installed OpenNMS recently: Can you give any suggestions? I've googled the hell out of this, printed all of the documents from OpenNMS.org. I have three versions of the install document and neither seems to get me through the installation completely.

x-posted

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/61630.html

Date: 07/18/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: google

Executives offer promises but no real plan to turn company around in the face of search titan Google.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6197248.html

Date: 07/18/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: google

Postings of pirated movies are being publicized by watchdog group to "shame" Google and highlight extent of problem.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6197279.html

Date: 07/19/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web, google

I accidentally discovered this random fact by myself today:

There are 86 Google search results pages' worth of webpages mentioning variants...
http://www.google.com/search?q=variants&hl=en&start=880&sa=N

...and 81 Google search results pages' worth of webpages discussing "varients", which apparently is not a word in the English language.
http://www.google.com/search?q=varients&hl=en&start=880&sa=N

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1089409.html

Date: 07/20/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: google

The Bells know this is a life-and-death struggle. They know they can't win in a truly competitive market. They will do everything they can to beat down Google. Which just goes to show you how they hate open access, and how Google's cause is yours.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/135712410/

Date: 07/23/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft, google

Google is facing opposition to its DoubleClick deal in what could be a repeat of the way Washington punished Microsoft a decade ago.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6198111.html

Date: 07/25/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: hosting, google

Hello,

I came upon this issue when I was trying to see if my hosting provider allowed for any scheduled tasks e.g. cron jobs (the answer apparently being no) so I wondered, is there possibly a service, that allows you to set up external scheduled tasks, i.e. a system that will automatically call a certain script on *your* site.

I'm took it to google but so far didn't find anything. It just seemed something natural that the IT boom would create something like this. Any info?


p.s. I know there are some classes imitating cron out there, and although I have still to look into how they work I'm pretty much sure they rely on consistent traffic to do the job (i.e. if you statistically have hits every minute or so, you can get the job done with a minute's error). But this is not the case I'm talking about.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/577749.html

Date: 07/26/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web, google

But I googled this for a bit and couldn't find more than a tangential answer from more than one, maybe two sites.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 from 2005. Due to various wear and tear and possibly the damn animals in the house (long story) my power adapter is starting to go. And due to sheer absentmindedness, I wouldn't mind having a spare around anyway.

The adapter I have says it's 65W, and it runs the computer fine. The Dell website and a couple other sites I visited will only sell a 90W adapter for an Inspiron 8600, which I'm afraid will blow out the laptop. And I'd really like not to blow out the laptop. It's a good laptop. It's served me well.

Is it going to blow out my laptop? Has anyone replaced their power adapter for this model with a 90W and had it work fine? Should I just get a 65W power adapter for a different model and don't worry, it'll work fine?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1091896.html

Date: 07/29/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: google

So winamp has started acting up on me.  The sound will fade in and out for some reason.

So, I present a 2 part question.

1. Any clue as to why it might start doing that out of the blue?  Any recommendations to fix it? I've tried the uninstall/reinstall a few times to no avail.

2. In case #1 is fruitless, any suggestions on an alternative mp3 player?  I'm a bit picky, I'll admit, but I'm willing to try most programs..  Windows Media Player is alright, it works for the time being, but I'd like suggestions so I can try out some new programs to see if any fit more what I like.  My Google searches haven't been overly successful.

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1092719.html

Date: 07/31/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: google

How can I make it so that when someone sees my site listed in a search engine, they don't just see the main page listed but also the separate sections listed (News, Bio, Contact), ie. right on the Google page like this:

Welcome to UC Santa Cruz - Creating knowledge. In a spectacular setting. For over 40 years.
www.ucsc.edu/ - 20k - Jul 30, 2007 - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Prospective Students & Admissions - www.ucsc.edu/admissions/
Academic Programs - www.ucsc.edu/academics/
UC Santa Cruz - www.ucsc.edu/about/
MyUCSC Entry Page - my.ucsc.edu/
More results from www.ucsc.edu »

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1290589.html

Date: 07/31/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: google

Mobile is the next frontier for Google, but how will it straddle the line between partnering and competing with major cell phone operators?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6199725.html