Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[Samson]

mediafire works fine

I do not know if I am doing something wrong, but this is a problem I had with others. I have uploaded the files I want, but the html file is being displayed as text. I want the html file to be interpreted by the browser. Is there a way to do that?

Dropbox.

I tried that, it wanted to install a program. I do not want to install something to put 100k of files on the web.

Thanks anyway.

 

[Zelig]

You don't need to install the client for Dropbox to use it.

 

[Samson]

You don't need to install the client for Dropbox to use it.

Ah, I see, thanks. I saw this, but dropbox says "If you would still like to enable your Public folder, you must be a Dropbox Pro or Dropbox for Business user. Currently only Pro and Business users may enable Public folders from this page." and of course they want cash for that. It seems to me you can only share files with particular people not the world with that.

 

[Zelig]

Oh, they used to have the feature but got rid of it for new users, my mistake.

 

[Quintillus]

I think Samson is looking not for a place to upload files, like Mediafire or Dropbox, but a place to host a simple web page using HTML that Samson wrote (as opposed to a template that you can add stuff to without knowing how to code any HTML). I was going to suggest Angelfire, but I see that they moved their Web Shell Editor that you can do that with to the $11.40/year tier, so it isn't free anymore. I used webs.com to do this a few years back, but they no longer offer the ability to do that on new accounts. So I'm not sure. There probably still is such a service, but I don't know what it is these days. Geocities Japan may still offer it, but it's entirely in Japanese.

The alternative is renting your own virtual server and spinning up a web server, but that's more complex and you aren't going to be able to beat Angelfire's price on that.

 

[Samson]

I think Samson is looking not for a place to upload files, like Mediafire or Dropbox, but a place to host a simple web page using HTML that Samson wrote (as opposed to a template that you can add stuff to without knowing how to code any HTML). I was going to suggest Angelfire, but I see that they moved their Web Shell Editor that you can do that with to the $11.40/year tier, so it isn't free anymore. I used webs.com to do this a few years back, but they no longer offer the ability to do that on new accounts. So I'm not sure. There probably still is such a service, but I don't know what it is these days. Geocities Japan may still offer it, but it's entirely in Japanese.

The alternative is renting your own virtual server and spinning up a web server, but that's more complex and you aren't going to be able to beat Angelfire's price on that.

This is exactly right, sorry I was not clear. I tried Geocities Japan with google translate, but I could not do the captcha.

 

[Mise]

Is there a reason you can't use your own computer?

Do any of these work for you? http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-7-easy-and-free-web-hosting-services/

 

[Samson]

Is there a reason you can't use your own computer?

I do not leave my computer on all the time, and I am not even close to a good enough sysadmin to expect to be able to set up an apache instance and it not to be compromised pretty quickly.

Do any of these work for you? http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-7-easy-and-free-web-hosting-services/

Thanks, that does look great. I tried the first one, Zymic, and it looks really good. Mysql, ftp access, 5GB of space. I have uploaded my files here but at the moment I am getting "No data received". I shall leave it for a bit to see if it sorts its self out, and then try the next on the list if not.

 

[Zelig]

I think Samson is looking not for a place to upload files, like Mediafire or Dropbox, but a place to host a simple web page using HTML that Samson wrote

Yeah, Dropbox used to work for hosting static webpages, and still works if you have a paid account or created an account before 2012 (or whatever) - I know lots of people who use it for exactly that purpose.

Free web hosting tends to be awful anyway, I'd probably just use NearlyFreeSpeech.NET - for serving small static files it's going to cost pennies.

 

[Samson]

Do any of these work for you? http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-7-easy-and-free-web-hosting-services/

Thanks agian for the suggestion. I got to the 4th before I found one that worked, but I have finally managed to get my example for this thread to here (you need a modern browser).

 

[Mise]

Oooh that's very cool!

 

[plarq]

I use google docs to share small document files. Dropbox used for larger files.

 

[Samson]

Oooh that's very cool!

Thanks. The point is that this is really easy to generate, once you have the distance matrix it is about 5 lines of R to generate this page.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Off the top of my head, I know that image files have exif data in them. Do image file store any additional types of private data in addition to exif data?

 

[Souron]

What factors should I consider when deciding how much to spend on a new video card?

 

[Zelig]

What factors should I consider when deciding how much to spend on a new video card?

How much beer could I buy with these dollars instead of a video card?

 

[cardgame]

and whether the short-term beer will outweigh the long-term (years) of use you'll get from the card

And also, of course, your needs for the card. Do you play super AAA game 2014? Probably want to spend ~300 or so.

Do you play indies and AAA game 2009? 150 ought to cover anything.

 

[timtofly]

I just read an article that the new high range cards $500 to $700 are not worth it right now. They sacrifice business priority over games. If you are going to need it for graphic design, may as well get a mid-range GPU right now. Mid-range meaning those cards that were high range 3 years ago, whose prices have dropped down into the $200 to $300 price range.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I was on the internet on my mobile last night, and ended up tapping a disguised bad link, and when it loaded, I got a pop up from firefox for android saying that there was an attack app or attack page and to "follow the instructions below", but it wouldn't let me scroll, so I just hit the home button to go straight to desktop, and went to settings>apps, and force-closed firefox from there.

But to be sure, how do I figure out whether my mobile was infected or hacked?

 

[peter grimes]

As long as you only allow apps from trusted sources it's extremely unlikely that an app was installed.