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Secondly: Check the small print of your ISP AOL for instance is notorius for blocking access to any mail server except thier own.

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With so much good music available for free on the internet why bother with petty theft? Want ambient?, then try SOMA FM... Groove Salad, "nicely chilled with ambient beats" Or for the real underground tunes try the internet archive, plenty of rare dance mixes.

Dynamic drive has useful little online tool for htaccess banning , just input the IP and it generates the script for you. http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/userban/ The VB script is a bit rough and will probably need a few tweaks but the principle should work for most.

FTP.yourwebsite.x10hosting.com host directory leave blank login username@yourwebsite .x10hosting.com Vauguely recall something about the server only accepting fifty or so FTP connections at any one time so connecting at peak times could be a problem, not sure about this.. Other stray...

We always thought that we would never fill the 2GB of webspace we have for the main website but it soon goes lol!. But seriously if you have a good home internet connection then running a small server at home is a great way for fitting GIGABYTES of content inside a small amount of web space...

User agent strings are getting less reliable for weeding out spammers mainly because they can easily spoofed and that increasingly we are seeing more 'mechanical turks' being employed. Hapless souls who think that they can earn a living posting links or harvesting email addresses at one cent a...

It cannot be done with Javascript all on its own because you need to interact with the hosting server and there in lies the rub. There are a number of ways of doing this but it does depend on what you are allowed to do with the hosting server. Lots of folk run PHP like x10 so you should not...

Open Office is good free download and can be used to create web pages as well. One of the problems I first encountered with templates was the '@import ' syntax, damm annoying. When you find a page with a really good layout that you want to adapt and save a copy to look at the code inside to...

Its also worth pointing out that telephone and fax contact numbers should be just as well protected or cloaked as you would an email address. Rather than write the area code using numeric characters use the place name instead, this approach works rather well defeating automated harvesting...

Just in case for those who have not heard the news yet, Microsoft is releasing a bumper pack of critical fixes this tuesday. If you have not installed Vista SP1 yet your are recomended to back up any critical or personal information prior to it going on, numerous reports of some PCs failing to...

Layout is good , it is a tried and tested format and as first websites go the result so far is not that bad. Normally I would point to several links on Geocites for some real howlers but their gone now but you dont have to far on the internet to find a webpage disaster. Get yourself a good...

For something a little less complicated you can set up '.htacces' control. http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/ Plenty of cut & paste Javascript methods are to be found as well, though these tend to vary in terms of what protection they do offer.

Animated gifs were once all the rage and a commmon site on many a web page back in the late 1990's. It is easy though to over do them, large ones really do not work well. Emoticons by contrast have thrived and it would be hard now to imagine the web without them. On a more 'nuts & bolts' level...

Not had a lot to do with BSD, but am a big fan of the Puppy linux distro.

Fifty US bucks, sheesh you guys are getting off lightly.. Barf in an English cab and they will charge you for all the lost earnings, plus the cost of the cleaning.

In exchange for free web space with no banner ads stuck all over it all you have to do is log in.. what is it.. twice in two weeks... X10 is being truly righteous, quit yer moaning and DO something constructive like go work on your website!

Did you remember to set the image export format to GIF or JPG? It sounds like you are trying to load the full size PSD / PNG images, these could be several MB in size and cause you problems.

Hmm, so just how much RAM did you have to add to get things back to normal?

Linux can be a tad unfriendly to install on some computers, a Vista Installation with its hidden recovery partition is a prime example. What I will say is don't give up, but DO make a full set of Vista recovery disks before tinkering. Something also worth pointing out too Linux newbies is...