Thanks Kayak.

Seems to be quicker immediately.

Thanks SC for your recent reply.

I'm now up and running with a 2nd monitor without any problems.

Hi

Any suggestions as to how to trade when Broadband is out of action for days? See my comments of the Lurkers thread. recently I was told 5 days minimum. Once I have been down for 10 days after being struck by lightening. I know these are extremes but I would be interested to know what back ups, if any people have. I don't mind not trading for a few hours but not days. I have a spare ordinary phone line but Dial up is sooooooooooooo slow.
Di

I use Dial up and see no reason to change at the moment Di, the slower speed gives me more thinking time so I actualy view It as an advantage when trading. Things are different If one needs to download large files and such but for straight trading I think It's fine,give it a go or There's always the phone of course.

When I was in London I used to have a second telephone line on cable (dial-up) so that if BT failed I could always use that. If you're out in the sticks and you only have BT then there's not much you can do apart from connecting via a mobile as someone suggested on another thread. As you say even if you had two BT lines you wouldn't get any effective redundancy if they both come down the same line of telegraph poles. Personally I just close any open trades by telephone and take the rest of the day off.

It might be worth checking though whether there are any wireless broadband schemes in your area: http://www.adslguide.org.uk/qanda.asp?faq=wirelessisp#Q242.

Off topic.

I don't want to start a new thread for one question.

A friend wants to find out how many hits various websites receive in a day.

Other than the blindingly obvious way of ringing them and asking, is there any other way of finding out this information?

I was thinking of an organisation that keeps some sort of check for advertiser verifiacation purposes, or similar.

Appreciate any replies as I can't think of anywhere where this information may be compiled.

http://www.trafficranking.com/mainframe.htm collects this info.

it shows that Moneyam.com rank at 310,095 most popular in the world for instance. My own web site does not even show up even though it gets 500 hits a day!

Andy, it may be as simple as him emailing his website host to ask to have stats enabled. Look in the information provided by the host and they may well provide the facility. Otherwise there are plenty of sites like Addfreestats although they rely on some HTML being placed on each page of the site.

brian, Kayak,

Many thanks for your help.

He's interested in finding out the hit rates of similar sites to the one he's developing.

I have passed on the trafficranking site details.

Ah sorry I misread the question.

As well as brianboru's answer, if he using Windows 2000/XP he should be able to click 'related' at the top of his IE window and then 'avg. traffic ranking' to get Alexa stats. These services though can be wildly inaccurate though. They only measure the accesses by people who are careless enough to allow spyware onto their machines, which depending on the readership of the site can be a low or high proportion.

My Fuji digital camera has died and I'm looking for a replacement, however all the replacements use an XD memory card but don't I want to buy any new memory cards - will an SD card work in an XD camera?

Edit, just looked at some on the web and they're completely different :-((

SC,

Memory cards drop in price all the time. I bought eight CF cards yesterday at half the price I paid a couple of years ago!

My advice is to find the camera that suits you and bite the bullet with regard to some new cards - may even be a bargaining factor with whoever you choose to buy the camera from.

If you decide to buy the cards separately I recommend Crucial UK. Based in Scotland. Good prices and fast service.

TP

Thanks TP. Was coming round to that way of thinking, but it goes against the grain!!

I was about to sign on to AOL (dial up) when i got a pop-up saying that 'Rasautou' was attempting to sign me on.....i cancelled the pop-up and carried out a Spyware and virus scan but nothing was found.....anyone know what 'Rasautou' is? (I use Windows XP)
TIA

butane, I think that the autodialer trying to contact AOL to get more info. It should be safe. If your not sure try giving them (AOL) a call but my advice is dont use AOL ;-)

Spaceman, Thanks.........I have only ever used AOL for the last 6 years which is when i first used the internet and have been very pleased with it, hence, i have no experience with any other provider, why do you not like AOL?

ps...i called the AOL helpline at the time and they said that it is spyware .....

butane, interesting that they said its spyware! from memory I though that was the RAS Auto dialler from Windows and many dial up sign up disks do dial up toy get connection info. Your right to be cautious as dial up users need to take more care as rouge diallers are a real pain and can end up costing money.

I suggest you do a spyware scan, if you dont have any spyware software Adaware Free and Spybot Search and Destroy are both pretty good and they are free.

I am sure there is nothing wrong with AOL in particular for people who are not technical and are not interested in technical things. I work in IT and like many others with an IT background I like to muck about with things and AOL does not like that sort of thing. In summary they have restrictions on use that I don't like.

PS you involved in gas by any chance?

Butane, I used to use AOL a long time ago but gave up - nothing fundamentally wrong but they make you do things their way and trying to cancel used to be a marathon. Getting rid of the AOL settings used to be a nightmare. Before I finished with them I used to minimise AOL's browser once connected and use Internet Explorer all the time, thus using up precious memory resources unneccessarily.

Spaceman,

I am not technically minded which is probably why i find AOL ok but i found it interesting as to your reasons for not using AOL.

I did use spybot and it found no problems.

Regarding 'Rasautou', the AOL helpline is a bit useless.....you talk to someone in India who doesnt seem to have a clue as to what the solution is and usually gives you a whole set of instructions to carry out that result in the problem still being present!...the guy i spoke to hadnt heard of rasautou and dismissed it as 'probably spyware'!

And Yes, i used to do work for BP........

butane,
Re AOL cant advice much more, sounds as though its a catch 22! maybe someone else who has signed up with them recently can comment. I dont have a mopdem any more or I wouold try it.

I am working for another big oil on a gas related project at the moment !