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Hi,

try https://browsershots.org when it’s not too busy.

Have you checked IE Mac, Konqueror, Safari, Mozilla… … yet?

*vbeg*

Hi ladydelaluna,

well, it definitely happens while the CSS is loading, without it, the links are clickable.

Hi,

no way to even guess what exactly – but it is happening during the first load. I managed to click one of the links BEFORE the page had completely loaded (the CSS), once all graphics were loaded – nothing.

Could it be, that you are using transparent graphics and that these transparent graphics are positioned in the top layer (instead of the links)?

Hi carho,

I’m aware of the fact that the Scandinavian countries have a slightly different price structure in telecommunication. The main reason being that it’s easier and cheaper to deal with the relatively sparse population across a lot of territory using mobile phone/wireless technology. It’s of course a lot cheaper to just set up transceivers in low-populated areas than laying down landlines for those customers.

You have to be aware however that this isn’t the case for most countries south of where you are. Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands or Italy for example are absolutely not in the same situation. Population is much denser, distances are much shorter, landlines already are in place mostly. Getting a landline is just a question of installing the line in the house/apartment from the street distributor.

Out of interest: what do you pay when calling to the outside of Sweden with your mobile phone per minute? What do you pay when you are called on your mobile while being outside of Sweden? I usually pay under 2 cents (Euro, not USD) per minute for longdistance calls to foreign countries via landline.

What happens if you have a negative banking/credit record with your CC? What happens when you have a negative record and apply for one? What if you’re older than 65 or 70?

In most of Europe what usually happens is that the card is withdrawn, or that you don’t get one. In the majority of all countries a negative record can be as little as one bill paid too late. Coupled with little income or self-employment this can bar you e.g. in France, Italy or Germany from getting a CC.

I have acquaintances in more than a dozen European countries who wouldn’t touch a CC with a ten-foot-pole and I have met countless European businesspeople who grumble when they’re forced to offer CC payment, saying it just costs them a bucket, but brings in little, as less than 10-15% of all the customers paying with a card at all use them and usually could/would just as well pay by master/bankcard. And the percentage of those who pay with a card as opposed to cash is decidedly lower than in e.g. the USA. It varies from country to country, but what I saw during my regular travels – especially since the Euro was instituted – gives cash the edge by a huge lead.

I’m by the way talking of real CCs, not of mastercards, bankcards, cashcards or eurocards.

And you need to be aware of the fact that unlike the Scandinavian countries there is a more or less pronounced recession going on in main continental Europe. The interest and fees on CC payment and the CC itself are quite high, few people see any sense in paying those, instead of using the much cheaper electronic payment via their master or bankcards. Even these you can spare yourself, if you simply use them to withdraw cash from an ATM of your bankgroup instead. Where people don’t have a lot of money to spend, they save where they can easily save.

As to telegrams, many of the places of the former eastern block, but also third world countries in Africa or Asia can only be reached fast by telegram. I host and maintain a couple of sites for people who can’t themselves access the internet, don’t have an own phone, and aren’t able to access one either. Mail takes ages too to reach such places, so I shorten the wait a lot when I send a telegram. If something’s important, I do so.

I travel a lot on business, and all that’s not based on a few incidents, it’s an overall impression and often enough just a look at my bills when I come back.

Of course you are right, a lot of this is caused by legislation or missing regulation. Companies will exploit what they can exploit. As long as nothing’s done against this, especially where monopolies or cartels exist, things will stay as they are. Just as phone costs, energy costs show this. But that’s a can of worms, really ?? And entirely beyond the topic of this discussion ;-))

Hi again, pizdin_dim,

…Why? In practical terms, is this true at all? Where are the tangible benefits if it were to do that?…

Quite baldly put:

OS software is (nowadays) mainly used by people not able to fork out the dough for commercial software like Movable Type for instance. Someone who can’t or won’t pay 200 bucks for a commercial software also is highly unlikely to pay huge amounts for hosting.

That’s the core customer group of OSS like WordPress. Yes, I know all about the original background of Opensource. Yes, I also know quite many “because of the philosophy”-users of Opensource. Yes, I also know many coders who prefer using Opensource because of the access to the code.

BUT: the core customer group is the one I mentioned above.

If you have such a pronounced specific usergroup you had better heed its needs. It’s truly that simple. And if you are an experienced software developer, you should have this adage written in fiery letters somewhere atop your workspace.

We wouldn’t be getting such support posts here (and more and more often lately, by the way), if this weren’t the case. And no, I am not under the impression that only a few are complaining or having problems. If you read the forums closely, there are many performance and ressources related tickets here. Decidedly more e.g. than with Nucleus and TP (whose forums I also follow).

It’s also not as if that problem wasn’t known among webmasters, as one such I have read many complaints over the past year (especially since WP2.0 surfaced) about these issues. They tend to stick to one’s mind. WP still hasn’t come back to first choice and it won’t if “clunkiness” and “ressources-eating” attach themselves to its name more and more.

I like WP and I have defended it quite a couple of times and suggested it even more often, inspite of that “Google-thang” and the constant niggling between WP and TP, both of which really caused lots of people to backpaddle. If non-usability for the core usergroup is added to that…

And it’s not necessary. A twist of mindset is all that’s needed. To know one isn’t as superior as one assumes, or in other words, a bit of humility in that respect, won’t do any harm, que no? The moment one accepts the above facts and sets forth to deal with them, that’s the moment you really better things.

Hi again,

I still disagree. I installed and had running smoothly such CMS as Typo3, Mambo/Joomla, redaxo, Spip, Drupal or phpWebsite under 8MB, and each and every of those is a tad larger and functionwise much more sophisticated than WP. Especially Typo3 is as convoluted and empowered as you can get with OSS CMS and absolutely beyond any comparison with WP, still it behaved well in a restricted surrounding.

The only ones I ran into trouble with were of the closer ‘nukes family and such far removed but really taxing systems as XOOPS or Xaraya.

I install also many Nucleus and Textpattern blogs and with those I never encountered any trouble either. Both are also way faster than WP by the way.

While I agree with you that a larger memory allotment is beneficial, I also say that a blog software like WP should be able to work with less. And no, WP in my book is not a portal or wikitype CMS, even if you can get it to act like one with lots of tweaking.

To me there is no real benefit in refusing to accept that some performance tuning is sorely needed, else WP will go the same route as quite a couple of the clunkier CMS went. And that’s not really advisable.

Hi,

…Memory is cheap…

I beg to differ.

The vast, absolute majority of users of software like WP will not run their own or co-located servers. They will have to contend with what their shared/virtual hosts allot them, and with 100 or 200 account users on a server, memory isn’t cheap anymore, it’s a finite commodity and your host is going to suggest a dedicated server to you, if you exceed that allotment.

I agree that WP does have to do an overhaul of its memory and ressources management. Though I haven’t had host problems with my WP installations, I noticed instead that from one major version to the next WP has become slower and clunkier.

And no, it’s not normal for a CMS to need 16 MB instead of 8. I’ve installed and worked with most there are, and it’s the ‘nukes which have that problem. Crystalclear why, there. NOT a good calling card.

Hi,

sorry to say, but this one’s way too bland and unexciting for my taste.

Also, I dislike having to hunt all over the page, at fairly distant from each other places, for salient info and important links.

I usually have scripts turned off when surfing, so that shelf is something I’d miss … and hate to turn scripting on for. There’s nothing in it which couldn’t be logically placed without it.

Hi,

while transferring an old site, I backdated items about 20 years. Worked without any problems.

However, comments and discussions will be current using that method. Calendars should show the dateline correctly but probably will also display current date normally.

I should think that the main problem is the calendar one, modern comments won’t be as out of the place as the calendar showing persistently modern time.

Hi,

I’d contact your host first, cause it’s also possible another account was hacked and is changing/adding scripts or manipulating files.

Then I’d compare, file by file including filesizes, what you have on the server and what is in your original WP installation folder on your computer. If you discover any surplus files or find out that some where changed, you found the origin of what is happening.

Just reinstalling probably will not suffice. Again I’d have a good talk with the host on how it was possible in the first place.

What I’d do immediately and anyway is change the account password (for your hosting account).

What makes me think this might be a hack:

If I understand you correctly, your friends registered on your site, and the notification mail you received contained a spam message. This is not normal. And it can’t be done by your registering friends, that has to happen serverside, as it’s WP which puts that mail together and sends it.

What I’d also ask is whether your friends also received notification emails with that spam message.

Hi,

you might consider having been hacked.

Hi,

That’s how your admin interface should look like:

https://img350.imageshack.us/img350/2258/theme19yv.jpg

If you don’t have that, you should contact the provider. Possibly he doesn’t allow template manipulation. Why not choose wordpress.com instead then?

@manstraw:

he he he – the “loneranger”-version of course also works just nicely :-))

Hi,

actually – and don’t jump all over me again because I talk about tables :-))) – I’d love an automated/plugin version of the “transparent gif over picture” table, which I consider one of the best non-pro solutions for image theft. Or rather the “transparent gifs over sliced images in a table”-solution, which – when edited correctly – truly foils most people.

A somewhat lesser alternative is to use a mouseover, which sadly won’t function with javascript turned off in browsers.

By the way – the best solution without resorting to actual (and expensive) digimarking is using flash instead.

For (batch-)pre-watermarking you can make a transparent gif with the watermark in it. This works best when your images all have a similar width. Most good photoprograms allow batch insertion of something and saving.