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Hi It sounds to me like the problem lies with Frog. I myself wouldn't be happy with excusing errors on my site because of errors in their software, just because it's their own platform. In your situation I would turn to Frog because as a paying customer I don't think it's up to you to fix their software. I've not used Frog but assuming you have access to the code files, it's going to take quite a while to pinpoint all the files that generate the errors or ranking penalties. On top of this, whenever they issue an update it's just going to wipe all your changes anyway (unless you can update manually, but that's going to be a pain too). If you decide to tackle this I'd advise you not to bother with Nibbler. I'd be more concerned with rankings from PageSpeed for example. With this you can scan your page and get a list of things to fix to improve performance, directly from your browser as an add-on. Bare in mind that a lot of the optimization techniques will be based on how you configure your web server, such as enabling compression. If you do not have enough access to modify your Apache/IIS configuration you'll be stuck. I'd also suggest you try to have your page markup validate without any errors.

Man this is getting old . I don't think you understand what I meant in the first post. I simply said that the meaning of the acronym RAT can be interchangeable. I did not say which one is right, just that when someone uses the acronym RAT they could mean either. As I had no way of knowing which one you meant, I explained that you could mean either. As you've implied in your last post, definitions change in time (perfect example being the term "Hacker"). You're clearly quite passionate about this, and may be looking over the fact that this argument is inane. As far as I can see, we are arguing about completely different things. Not only that but this has gone completely off topic and has hijacked the thread. For this reason I'll stop posting here. However, if you'd like to clear things up dwhyte, please feel free to PM me. Sorry for the hijack Mac_Shinobi

Seriously I have no idea what point you're trying to argue. Mac_shinobi said "rat source codes" so I assumed a definition was needed, so explained the most common uses of the RAT acronym. I hate to quote Microsoft (Danger: Remote Access Trojans - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd632947.aspx): They also give Sub7 as an example (same page): Therefore I stick to my original view that RATs can be either. But again, from your post I can't tell what you're trying to argue. From the looks of it we are saying the same thing.

Hate to break it to you, but that's pretty much exactly what I just said. "However there are also malicious RAT's, sometimes called Remote Access Trojans." Try google'ing for something like "computer rat", I guarantee most results will be based on trojans, calling themselves Remote Access Trojans or something like that. And yes, I know exactly what Sub7 is. I gave it as an example as a trojan in the last post.

RAT usually stands for Remote Administration Tool. It's usually a small piece of software allowing a remote admin to take control of a machine. However there are also malicious RAT's, sometimes called Remote Access Trojans. Both are quite similar really, although the trojan version will have more focus on nefarious actions such as hiding itself and perhaps data theft. Think Sub7. Either way, reviewing the code of one will show you how to use the API's needed. As for books, I've heard good things about UNIX Network Programming by Richard Stevens. It's based on C rather than C++ though I believe.

Can you not just use chown and chmod on the shared directory, or does it not use the systems file permissions? (I haven't used it before)

Dude that's just...wrong. Even for me. Lucky he had no history of CVD's really, the poor could of died. Though I'm sure they would have checked that before hand

Never got to play with one of those, sorry

Depends, what ones are you looking at? Forgot to mention, the 701's chargers seem to die randomly. We've had at least 40 die on us for no apparent reason. It was quite hard at the time to find replacements, though I'm not sure how the market has changed since then. The only advice I can offer is that you find a source of parts before buying. If you can't, buy extra and cannibalize a few broken ones to get at least one working one out of them. Although as you're in a controlled environment, I suspect there would be less breakages

I will repeat what my friend told me: "Make sure caching is enabled in the BIOS" Also, did you reload it with a Dell restore CD? Dell bundles tons of crapware with it's preloaded OS. Try a clean XP disc if so. Try a live boot cd as JJonas suggested, and check the performance when running live.

One issue that we had was the quality of the machine itself. We had countless 701's (at least 60) broken within a year at a secondary school. By broken I mean dead m/b, smashed screen (very common), or just totally destroyed. It's easy to swap parts in most netbooks, but getting hold of spares probably isn't easy. Of course, the kids here were allowed to take them home with them and were quite careless with them. Another is peoples inability to accept a different OS other than Windows (only if you go with Linux). Our pupil's were quite thrown off, and even though they were not allowed to install their own software, and were restricted from doing so, we still found the odd setup.exe in their documents However as your school is a primary school, I'm sure they could adapt to either as they may not be Windows dependent yet. Another which you may come across, depending on what make and model you go for, is hard drive space. Most of the first netbooks had tiny 4 gig solid state drives. This is fine for Linux, but Windows will quickly fill this space unless you use something like WinLite to cut it down. I'm not saying go for Linux, but if they have small HD's prepare to tinker with it! Of course if you go for something more robust (in our case anyway) like the HP Mininote 2133, a lot of these problems will be resolved (nice HD, tough screen, decent keyboard). But you'll find that they are quite expensive compared to the others.

In that case, try booting with some parameters such as: acpi=off noapic nolapic pci=noacpi If that works, try removing some to pinpoint which one works (probably acpi=off) If it doesn't, try with these parameters: pnpbios pci=biosirq pci=usepirqmask I recall having a problem like this once with a 64 bit distro. I resorted to 32 bit in the end. Edit: When you install, where do you install the boot loader?

Damn, this is what I thought. You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly FN-GM Otherwise you could do loads of seperate unlrelated jobs all earning under the threshhold, and not be taxed, correct?

Wow I didn't know that, certainly makes things easier. Thanks for this mate you've just saved me from quite a lot of headaches

Thanks for the correction But I thought that his full time employment would count towards this? Otherwise, I smell a loop hole!

I believe you have to register as self employed. More info here

I usually charge depending on the type of website they want. For exampe If it's just a bunch of static pages I'll charge less, but if they want dynamic pages such as custom upload scripts or CMS type utilities, I charge more as it takes longer to code. When you have the base charge sorted, figure out an amount to charge for each page / hour you work on it. My friend once adivised me to charge a little more than what you'd expect to be paid for it, if working for a company. I never charge charities/non-profit though I agree with kmount, as I made the mistake of not checking what a company actually wanted from me and ended up being the webmaster of the site for about 5 months, doing page updates, CMS upgrades, moderating etc. Wasn't worth it, I just wanted to create the site! You have to draw a line.

Something's definately not right, it looks like it's trying to boot from the first partition on the eigth hard drive (unknown-block(8,1)) which I doubt is correct! I'm surprised that Fintang's suggestion didn't work as it usually solves this problem. What motherboard do you have? It may be that the hard drive it's self is screwed up. Try getting into rescue mode or booting from a live cd and running fsck or e2fsck on the hard drive. Watch out for bad sectors. Or maybe Grub is misconfigured? Can you show us your grub.conf file? (boot/grub/grub.conf) Your partition layout would also be handy And in case it helps, here's a million other people with the same problem with various solutions: Ubuntu Forums

The un-registered non-free ones usually cripple it in some way, like removing the actionscript. Also most of them don’t spit out the .fla file, but instead provide an editor that spits it out as a .swf again.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that VLC only convert's .swf's into other media types, not .fla's which are Flash projects? If you are looking for a free .swf to .fla convert, I think you may be out of luck. As far as I know, it's quite a legal tangle when it comes to converting .swf's to .fla's, and there are no free (legally, that is) programs out there. Again, please correct me if I'm wrong. (No seriously, please, I want a program like this too!)

Coding club! Of course that relies on whether you can code, or at least learning some! Linux club! Show them that there are free alternatives out there, the different distro's, different packages, bash etc. I wish we had these sorts of things at school

Backing up the boot sector should be as easy as this, in theory (remember to change hda to whatever): dd if=/dev/hda of=boot.bak bs=512 count=1 And then to recover: dd if=boot.bak of=/dev/hda In theory anyway.

You might want to check somewhere like http://www.linux-laptop.net for hardware compatibility. Or http://www.linlap.com/wiki/laptops