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    EUKHost Joke

    Whilst a bit ridiculous, it's not uncommon. Hosts tend to use it as a way to stop their servers being flagged for spam by the blacklists. Of course, that certainly doesn't mean you're not going to get emails and that every website is broken, you should probably be using your own SMTP...
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    What security for a new laptop?

    Errr, just to continue my clarification spree, I originally mentioned that ;) But yes, MSE is great for what it is, as is Avast Free.
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    What security for a new laptop?

    It doesn't; It has Windows Defender built in. Microsoft Security Essentials is an entirely different product. Windows Defender = Ad/Spyware Microsoft Security Essentials = All Malware
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    What security for a new laptop?

    Just as an aside please note I wasn't suggesting the OP doesn't run an anti-virus.
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    What security for a new laptop?

    Like HungryHorse I don't use an Anti-Virus either, it generally is obvious when you're downloading something that's untrusted, and to be quite honest how often do you really need to install new applications? As a developer and somebody that does test a lot of applications etc I obviously...
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    What CMS do you use?

    Because that's what it is. WordPress used to be just a blogging platform which I'm sure you know already, then came Pages back in 2005 (I think? Can someone confirm?), recently they're trying to move it towards a CMS as standard but at it's root it is a modular (and horribly written) blogging...
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    Independent DNS

    It's always going to be best to provide redundant nameservers where appropriate, whether that's an external provider or not is completely up to you, although separate networks would be recommended. For example, we have servers with providers in the UK, and backups in France and Germany, each...
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    What CMS do you use?

    Yes; Because Wordpress is for blogs, of course it's used for blogs. I think he was referring to using it as a CMS, and I would tend to agree with what he meant by that post.
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    What CMS do you use?

    Well, apart from it's not a CMS. It's a Blogging Platform with 'Pages'.
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    Considering a Mac - how good are they really?

    It's not based on Linux, it's based on FreeBSD (Unix). But yes, neither have a separate /swap partition and it's not really required on Linux either (You can use mkswap to make any blank storage-reserved file the swap file). Mercs may be expensive, built well, and look pretty, but they handle...
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    Who still supports IE 6, 7 and 8?

    Re: HTML5 / CSS3 I'd disagree with that, HTML5 is designed to be backwards compatible and the additions to CSS3 will not hinder viewers' experience on the site anyway (unless you don't know CSS!). Things like using: <input type="email" .. /> and <nav><ul><li>..</li></ul></nav> .. are...
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    Considering a Mac - how good are they really?

    No, like I stated in my post OSX Required a restart for a 20MB Font Update tagged as a 'Security Update', God only knows why.
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    Considering a Mac - how good are they really?

    Every update round that has come from the Mac I worked with required a restart for their 'Security Updates'. In fact, one of their "security" updates late last year was a change to a font, which required a restart. I was forced to use a Mac at work for a year and never got into it at all. It...
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    Streaming Audio Website

    No they don't. Interesting, they must have some form of custom encoder such as IIS MS allowing it to be streamed across in different formats. I'm assuming it accepts it's input in different formats too!
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    Streaming Audio Website

    YouTube is not streaming media. It is static media that is downloaded via the player to the browser, streaming media is live from the server, a constant stream.
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