A global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.
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How do I diagnose when and why a website is down?
Every so often you are unable to get to a particular website - it doesn't really matter which one - you don't know whether it's just your connection or something wrong with that website.
It doesn't ...
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Web resources for specific types of funny pictures? [closed]
No, not lolcats. And I'm not really looking for a specific site, either.
I have often wished that I had some funny picture to illustrate a presentation, a website, a post, an email, or something ...
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What services exists for checking a website loading time? [closed]
I know of Yslow with firefox and http://webwait.com/
Any other services around ?
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Is there privacy if you view email boxes in office network?
If I open my Gmail account in office network or chat with someone in Gtalk, since our communications are through a proxy, will anyone be able to see my mails? Even if I log out, will someone be able ...
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How much of the internet is indexed by Google? [closed]
I heard some friends talking about Google's indexing percentage. They were saying that Google estimates the size of the whole internet as 5 million terabytes, and Google only indexes 0.04% of it.
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How do I find on the Internet hits for a word with a dash in the middle?
Background: I tried to find information about the tool python-config, but a Google search brought up mainly hits for python's config module.
Digging a bit deeper, the issue is that Google treats the ...
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Is there any web-app to monitor my internet usage?
Something like Google History for searches, should be able to work from anywhere (I login and my web usage should be "recorded").
Also, should be searchable for it to be of any use.
Google Web ...
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“Older than” Internet search filter [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to do a Google search for webpages last updated within 2 years?
Because the Internet has grown exponentially every year, when I search for pages posted on the ...
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What's happend to YouTube?! It has started to stutter and stop much more
Lately, YouTube has become increasingly tedious to use.
I have a very good connection, 100 mbit, and I get 70-80 actual when measuring. Other site load very quick.
When starting to stream a video, ...
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Why do the “privacy versions” of Google search (i.e. Scroogle, StartingPage) not return exactly the same results?
There are at least a couple of "don't track me" search sites which get their search results from Google. (I'm thinking of Scroogle.org and StartingPage.com). [Note: I don't know exactly how ...
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Where is my site, actually? (Blogger w/ GoDaddy)
I made a blog, with the usual blogname.blogspot.com address, but then I bought a "real" web domain via GoDaddy, and associated it with my Blogger blog.
Now, I'm wondering what actually happens when ...
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Is someone hijacking my online accounts?
Basically, someone else on the internet is trying to access various accounts under my name and registering new ones with my email address. From the information I can glean, it seems likely that the ...
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How to link to a certain part of a website?
Say I am reading an article on the New York Times or VICE and I want to send a link to my brother. Is there a way to link to a specific part of the article or site, much in the same way that you can ...
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Is possibile to get the physical location of an article/page created on a website?
I know this is an hard question to answer. Imagine the you created a website and wrote an article/page in it, say on 08/15/2001 at 12:35PM.
Question: Is possible to track the physical location where ...
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How can I use web apps after my internet gets capped?
If my internet is capped to 256 Kb/s (32 KB/s), what things can I do to improve performance in web apps?
Some things that I would try are turning off images, however what about the images that are ...
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Online service for downloading websites
Is there any (free) online service that can download a website, compress it, and give us a link to download the compressed website? Don't need to have lots of features for filtering data, just the ...
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How to transfer huge files online: app-less case? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the easiest way to do a direct file transfer of an extremely large file over the Internet?
I have no FTP,Bittorrent or ICQ on my laptop and I cannot install them ...
