Summer Health

Posted on July 19, 2008
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We all love the summer, it’s our moment of recreation in this world of workaholics. Vacation is one of our favorite words but is summer synonymous with health?

The summer can throw a load of unhealthy practices at us. You should take care to avoid them as much as possible. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables every day and don’t forget to clean them in clean water. Wash your hands often to get rid of all those germs and bacteria, remember! all living organisms develop faster in the heat.

Be physically active, the summer is great for outdoor activities but remember to avoid the sun, you don’t want to get an insolation. Jog, walk in the parc, bicycle ride… are great activities to keep your self fit. Try to avoid any outdoor activities during midday, when the sun’s rays are strongest and always wear protection: wide-brimmed hat, white clothes and seek always seek shade.

Drink plenty of cool fluids, preferably water. Avoid excess salt and fat in your food.

Building a Computer - Components

Posted on July 19, 2008
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Computer users are getting more and more involved in computer hardware and try to build their own computer piece by piece. Most advanced computer users have already built or at least updated their own computer and others want to do it in the future.

All those integrated circuits inside might get you dizzy but the computer is actually split into pieces(components), like a puzzle. The motherboard is the main component and is necessary in all computer configurations, the computer cannot function without a motherboard.

The motherboard has slots for all other components: CPU, memory modules, hard disk, cd/dvd drives, floppy disk, sound card, video card and power supply. Let’s go through all components one by one:

1. CPU - The CPU or “Central Processing Unit” is the most important element in the computer. The CPU interprets instructions and processes data contained in computer programs.

2. Memory Modules (RAM) - the memory modules come in standard sizes: 128, 256, 512 and 1024 MB. Most modern motherboards support at least 3 memory modules. The RAM or “Random Access Memory” is a a storage medium that stores program data until computer reset or shutdown.

3. Hard Disk - the hard disk is a permanent storage medium that can keep hundreds of GB of data. You cannot store data without a hard disk. You can run a RAM-stored operating system without a hard disk but you will not be able to keep any data across multiple sessions. The hard disk is a required component in all configurations

4. Last but not least, Video and Audio cards, are not necessary, the computer will run without them but you will not hear anything in your speakers without an audio card, and Games and Graphic/Modeling programs will not work without 3D acceleration.

5. You will also need a computer case, there are 2 main standards for computer cases: ATX and Mini ATX, the first is a “tower” case and second is a scaled version of the ATX, the Mini ATX cannot house all motherboards, so be careful that your motherboard fits in the computer case before you buy it.

One thing you should now before building your own PC is that all components have different versions and frequencies. Consult the motherboard manual to see what components are available for your configuration. That’s why the motherboard is the most important component, the motherboard limits the upgrade capabilities of your computer system.

Essential Categories

Posted on July 19, 2008
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Did you notice you can never find a satisfying list of categories for a general blog ? I’ve searched the internet for about 2 weeks now searching for a good list of categories.

The best choice in blog categories should be based on what your website focuses on. If you have a web design… the global categories should be sub categories web design.

In general blogs, the categories tend to mold to a niche because the writers posting content can’t cover all categories. General blogs should contain all global Categories:

Business

Computers

Health

Home

… and other.

For inspiration on choosing categories for your blog, you can use web directories and browse trough the hierarchy. Creating all categories is not the best way, and should be avoided. To many categories could bring you problems like 2 similar categories acting as a duplicate.

There is no real category list to use on any blogs, there’s no reference for choosing them. But you can browse directories like DMOZ.

It is essential to get your categories straight from the start, this way you will avoid unwanted sorting problems later on. Remember the base rule: start with the global categories, and create sub-categories as you write new posts.

DigitalPoint Marketplace

Posted on July 17, 2008
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The digitalpoint is one of the most powerful and more frequented marketplace for web designers and developers.

In average the digitalpoint has more than 400 members logged in at any time. Almost 10.000 visitors browsing the website at the same time were recorded on May 11th 2008.
With almost 3.6 million replies, the “Buy, Sell, Trade” section of digitalpoint is probably one of the most used sections of the forum.

Although the digitalpoint marketplace is useful tool for webmasters, a mass majority of the members are producing moderate to inferior in quality “products” and the marketplace is frequently used for scams and spam advertising. As we all know… freedom of choice is good, and bad at the same time, because inexperienced, amateur “wannabe” web designers are working their way around the pros raising the quantity and decreasing the quality. At the same time slowly killing the marketplace popularity of digitalpoint.

Pirate Bay Website

Posted on July 16, 2008
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Pirate bay is a free file sharing host “tracker”, it works as a network hub connecting users that share software, movies, games, ebooks and a vast variety of other files.

The Pirate Bay is the only website in the world that has received & ignored hundreds of complaints and legal threats against sharing copyrighted content. A famous response to SEGA’s email: “send me more legal documents for use as toilet paper, and sue me in Japan… I’ve always wanted to visit Tokio”.

About filesharing in general… you know what I love about file sharing ? You can always find premium software for free, new game releases 2 hours after they get launched. There’s always a computer geek that gets hold of the newest software/computer game and uploads it on a website for all of us to take. Forget about protection… there NO protection ! Pirate Bay shows you what protection means, it means 2 hours of computer-wizard analysis and “voila”, launched on Pirate Bay for free.

Pirate bay is one of the biggest file sharing networks on the internet. The Pirate Bay Website is receiving close to 1 million visitors per day and has been ranked one of the internet’s top 100 websites by Alexa.

Htaccess - Error Documents

Posted on June 30, 2008
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I never regarded the ErrorDocument “feature” of htaccess as being useful, only because I hate confusion… and seeing different error pages for each website is very confusing, it gives you a headache.

However ErrorDocuments can be used wise in a busy article website, a good example would be redirecting users on a 404 page to pages related to the url. Or redirecting a wrong article request to the article’s directory. The only problem in this would be that the search engines will get 404, but the user would get a different page.

This is a list of status codes:
Successful Client Requests

200 - OK

201 - Accepted

202 - Accepted

203 - Non-Authorative Information

204 - No Content

205 - Reset Content

206 - Partial Content

Client Request Redirected

300 - Multiple Choices

301 - Moved Permanently

302 - Moved Temporarily

303 - See Other

304 - Not Modified

305 - Use Proxy

Client Request Errors

400 - Bad Request

401 - Authorization Required

402 - Payment Required (not used yet)

403 - Forbidden

404 - Not Found

405 - Method Not Allowed

406 - Not Acceptable (encoding)

407 - Proxy Authentication Required

408 - Request Timed Out

409 - Conflicting Request

410 - Gone

411 - Content Length Required

412 - Precondition Failed

413 - Request Entity Too Long

414 - Request URI Too Long

415 - Unsupported Media Type

Server Errors

500 - Internal Server Error

501 - Not Implemented

502 - Bad Gateway

503 - Service Unavailable

504 - Gateway Timeout

505 - HTTP Version Not Supported

Not all error codes should have error pages, some are more necessary than others. You should not create an error document for the 200 Status Code because this is the “OK” code, it tells the browser that the page is ok, creating a document for this status code would cause an infinite loop. Because the same status code is returned for the error document.

You can use html as the Error document, the html code needs to be all on one line (no word wraping) and the quotes only need to be placed on in front of the html, here’s an example:

ErrorDocument 404 "<b> Specified page was not found</b>.
<u>Please check the url and try again</u>

Alert EA Update

Posted on June 27, 2008
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Today I continued work on the Alert Expert Adviser. I’ve finished the trend line alert, the only problem with it remains the fact that you need to add the EA on each chart in order to work for trend lines on that particular chart.

The main function behind this will create an sound alert when the trend line is breached by prices.

New EA Announcement

Posted on June 26, 2008
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I’m back, AGAIN ! I’m sorry I couldn’t post these 2 days, I was away from home and couldn’t take my laptop…

A friend asked me if I can create an expert adviser that makes a sound alert when some events occur. He only wanted the price/trendline crossover on this but I decided it’s a good idea and marked it on my to do list.

Today, I started working on it. I think it’s gonna be a very good tool for my trading, probably yours too; so here are some details on it:

I’ve made plans to create an alert function for every popular indicator out there, but for now I only have 5 basic alerts in mind:

1. Heiken Ashi + Moving Average(20) crossover

2. Fibonnaci + Pivot Level (will alert when close to the levels)

3. RSI Levels

4. Trend Line Crossover (this is what my friend at marketiva needed, and will most surely be a very useful tool)

These are the main components I use in my trading strategy… that’s why they are the first. I’ve marked the ones I finished & tested today with bold.

The alerts will be both by Alert message and by sound. The sounds are microphone recorded versions of the Alert Message. High priority alerts will have a special sound at the beginning.

I’ll probably pack this as an installer because it will have allot of sound files and custom indicators later on, but for now I have only finished the RSI Level alert so there is no need to publish this.