Help With Twitter

I'm looking for some help with Twitter. Some retweets are different from others, any idea why?

Picture below shows the issue. The ones with the graphic on the left don't show up in the Tweet stream but the others marked with RT do. What am I doing wrong?

Using Domains To Scam For Money Part 1

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It's not often I get emails of this ilk but these do cause concern and worry for some people. Here's the email:

Dear Sir/Madam

We are a internet service (software development, website design and development, wifi network works to promote the protection of brands, search engine optimization, etc.) company in China,

Several days ago we received a formal application submited by Robert Jiang who wanted to use the keyword "mswd" to register the Internet Brand and with

suffix .cn / .com.cn / .net.cn/ .hk/ .asia/ .info/ .tw/ .us/ .jp/ .fr/ .de/ ...domain names.

After our initial checking through Internet , we found that the keyword "mswd" to be applied for registration is same as your keyword.Accordingly,before we finish his registration,we would like to get your final decision about this,whether you mind his registration,if you believe his registration would affect your bussiness and produce conflict,then we could give your priority to register them,as the keyword is first used by your company.However,if you do not think so,please advise of that and then we will finish his registration.

For proceeding the next step, Please contact us by Fax ,Telephone or Email as soon as possible. Under the circumstance of no your reply during the next 5 working days ,we will consider you to give it up and finish his registration.

Yours sincerely

Cherry

Checking Department

Basically what these pond scum do is to trawl through domain records and tell you that some punter has been in touch with them to buy up all the domains that contain your domain name word. How it could cause conflict with your business and may even harm it. But of course being kind and godly people they wish to offer you the chance to get these domains first. And of course you can use their service. Which you can bet is going to cost hundreds of pounds or dollars, unlike the few bob that your regular domain registrar will charge.

So my website offering website design and hosting is at http://www.mswd.co.uk, hence the 'mswd' in the email I received.

You know of course that there's no such 'Robert Jiang'  looking to buy up all the domains with 'mswd' in the url. But they want you to think so and rely upon your response to a fear or concern that they are trying to generate in people who may be unsure with all things internet.

So if you do get such a mail, bin it, mark it as spam, blacklist their email address, do whatever. Just don't reply to them. And relax!

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So now I'm back to Feedly and feeling right at home!

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Fring brings video calling to the Nokia E71

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Saw a tweet from those nice people at Fring recently asking people to contact them for early access to fring 4.2.02 with video calls for Nokia E71 (and other Symbian 9.2 devices. Interesting I thought. Especially as I was under the impression that I didn't have a front facing camera device on my Nkia E71. But there is! It's only a small charge couple device but good enough for voip video calling.


So Fring 4.2.02 was installed and to check it out I fired up Skype on my pc and logged in with my wife's Skype account. A quick call later and everything was working fantastic. The Fring video screen on the Nokia E71 shows a larger image of who you're calling together with a smaller image of yourself. Very nice layout for the E71 screen.

I haven't found out if any other updates are included with Fring 4.2.02 but the video calling setup is really good. Well done to the people at Fring!

chrishall57 at Fring
chrishall57 at Skype

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The End Of Dreamlinux?

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Or at least the forums.

Hi everybody,

On the 20th of January Dreamlinux Forums will be closed down.

New user registration has been disabled, and we will proceed to try and move the database and the forum to the LxH servers as an archive.

The head dev of Dreamlinux has been AWOL for several months, leading us to doubt whether Dreamlinux will continue. We have spoken with another dev team member who has also been unable to contact the Dreamlinux head dev.

We were thinking of continuing the forums for one more year to see how things pan out, but have finally decided to take the bull by the horns and create our own distro and start a new community for it. If any of you are interested in having a look, it is Tota Linux at: http://totalinux.org

It's in its early days and we are still working on the first Alpha, but all input is welcome. The forums will be run exactly the same as here, and you will recognise some familiar members. Only this time the Forum Staff will also be the Dev Team.

We will be looking for Forum Staff, Developers, Translators and any other input a project like this requires, so if you are interested, join up on the Tota Linux Forum.

Thanks for everything over the last two years, this has been an amazing community, and hopefully we can create a new one.

rich

A shame as Dreamlinux was one of the best Debian base distros available. Light, fast and flexible with a fantastic user base.

It will be missed.