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Dr. Strangelove
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Foggedaboutid! I would never buy pizza from a place that put me on hold! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I live in Sydney,Australia. Since last few days I am getting scam calls from 02 6264 1000. Scammer pretend to be from immigration and tells me that someone has put a complaint against me and they will send police to my place. Then ask for my person details as if I am going to give those sucker my details. I have blocked their number now but what else can I do ?
Anyone in Australia getting these calls please avoid them. DO not give your details to those elephanting scammers....
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Would reporting this at Report a scam | Scamwatch[^] help? Looks like it is a government department/agency.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Thank you ...done that
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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No idea of what to do, but ask them why they need your details if they have your phone number and address to send the police too.
Then ask them to call me (I'm in Sydney too) and I will help them out.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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uhm, here in the U.S., we would contact the local authorities and go from there, especially if they are calling you.
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I would say this is more Zen:
rm -rf /
Life is too shor
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Hello all,
Since now, each time I have needed to make a web page I've ended up by programming everything using PHP and tuning a lot of CSS.
If you would have to make a small web page with a database for languages and texts, some pictures... what would you use?
I would like something that would be easy and not expensive... i.e. LAMP is usually cheap when searching for hosting.
I've seen that Wordpress seems to be covering the 25% of the current Internet pages... Is that a good option? It looks like that it would cost 3 times the normal LAMP environment in my hosting company.
I'd like to have the Web site compatible to mobile phones, ready to print and all those "sugar" thingies that help getting better search results.
What would you recommend?
Thank you all! 
modified 24-Mar-16 7:45am.
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There are two bones of contention here, really:
1. What to use to build the site
2. Hosting
Me, I wouldn't look for a single solution to both.
Hosting is the one that costs money, so you want to find a host at "the right price" (which is entirely dependent on what it's worth to you), that has all the CGI libraries, etc. available (and doesn't charge "too much" extra for them).
For building the site, why give yourself sleepless nights? Use what you like using. Visitors won't be able to tell the difference.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: For building the site, why give yourself sleepless nights? Use what you like using. Visitors won't be able to tell the difference.
Yes, you are right, but I'd like to have it compatible to mobile phones, ready to print and all those "sugar" thingies that help getting better search results.
Now I have a fixed layout made using PHP and some CSS and a database link using MySQL and some texts introduced there using TinyMCE, this works and of course the visitor can't tell how it is done... but it should give me much more job to adapt it and to make it grow than some CMS out there (I guess).
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Joan Murt wrote: but it should give me much more job to adapt it and to make it grow than some CMS out there (I guess).
You're probably right in that, but I still see wordpress, etc, as being too much of a worry/hassle for too little gain.
For example, my site is plain HTML (because it doesn't need more than that), but there's not a month goes by that the server logs don't show multiple attempts to access the admin files of wordpress and other CMS systems -- which, of course, aren't there, so I don't have to spend three seconds worrying about it.
Fixed-but-bespoke can be good, because it's hard for bots to mess with it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Could I see your site? just curious...
Yes, you are right... believe it or not, I was hacked once and started to announce those blue pills without knowledge time ago... 
And without wordpress...
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It's in my profile, but it's really just vanilla HTML, because that's all I need for what I use it for. Even a database would be a waste of effort.
Joan Murt wrote: started to announce those blue pills without knowledge
heh. At least it was for a good cause. Make sure that you can restore the entire site with a few clicks (it might take hours, but you don't want to be sitting there watching it). Keep a separate restore script for the index files, and another for the rest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I take that back; it's not in my profile (I was sure that there was a field for that; but when you've signed up for a zillion sites, they all become a blur).
It's my initial and surname, with no spaces, dashes, or anything else, followed by a dot and "nl".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Joan Murt wrote: but I'd like to have it compatible to mobile phones, ready to print and all those "sugar" thingies that help getting better search results.
What would you say to a client that hired you to do a project, but didn't tell you about major features it required until after you signed the contract ?
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Depends on the time to do those features... if time is not a problem... let's say... 6000€ per hour?
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The point I evidently failed to make was to call to your attention that your first description of what you wanted was expanded significantly in your first reply to Mark Wallace.
Good luck with your web-site !
cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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OK, understood now.
Yes, it was not too descriptive at the beginning... I'll update it...
Thank you Bill!
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Joan Murt wrote: What would you recommend?
PHP and CSS, since that's what you're familiar with.
I have no experience with Wordpress, but what you want does not sound like it needs be complicated 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Joan Murt wrote: What would you recommend?
This is mainly as Windows-centric site, so most people here will say ASP.NET. That being said, Eddy said it best. For a simple site, use what you know, PHP and the LAMP stack works just fine. If you want to learn something new that's a different story, in which case I'd recommend you start using a CSS pre-processor such as Less[^] or Sass[^] instead of raw CSS.
If you're curious to know what other devs are doing, then I'm about to make a personal site that uses PHP on the backend, but it's strictly an API that uses micro services. On the frontend I'm using a Flux implementation called Redux with React, and ES2015 transpiling via Babel and Node.js.
Jeremy Falcon
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Joan Murt wrote: What would you recommend?
Since you asked, just try a free trial with Azure. (a sponsor here) I tried it out about a year ago for personal use and have been pleased. You can code in .NET or PHP. My bill runs about $5 US/month. (for 1 very small sql server database and 1 ASP.NET app)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: My bill runs about $5 US/month.
That is gonna change of course now that you have exposed yourself here to +12 million members. Expect at least a $10 bill the next time...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: now that you have exposed yourself here
Now, that's a scary thought!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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