Godaddy buries stuff really deep in separate menus. Not bad for registering domain names, cause you don't make changes often. But if you actually have to manage a web site through that kind of interface it becomes a pain to dig through all the menus, and scroll past all the options that are really attempts to upsell you. You don't want to have to do that every time change security settings on your web site, or enable a language or database option. It would be really annoying if made you changes to web content via the interface, but probably if you change your web site often you will use ftp.

I mean most interfaces are OK, but Godaddy is really an extreme PITA because of how badly organized the menus are, and the really high ratio of "menu options that are really just trying to sell you something" to options you actually use.

What Typo said.

They also make it next to impossible to unlock your domain if you ever want to transfer it to another registrar (as I did). Not through any explicit maliciousness, just by burying the option in such an obscure and confusing place that they hope you'll decide it's not worth the hassle.

Dreamhost is more expensive (it's a good value, but way more storage and bandwidth than I'll ever use) but I don't mind paying extra for a control panel that doesn't raise my blood pressure.

Thanks so much -- that gives me what I want to know, indeed!

Anyone know of stores where one might find ac. Adaptors for Toshiba laptops? Mine crapped out last night and while normally I'd buy something like this on line, I'd really rather not be computerless over the long weekend. Would Bestbuy have that kind of thing? Their site is giving me no love on the crackberry.

brenda,

radio shack used to have ac adapter kits that would accommodate several different kinds of computers. you might try looking for something like that.

brenda, Best Buy carries laptop power supplies from Targus, Rocketfish, and Kensington.

Thanks guys. Guess I'll go on an expedition tomorrow.

ETA: oh, and yay, it looks like there's a Radio Shack near some other errands I had planned. The BB's not far either, but kind of a pain to get to.

Yeah, again I actually rec Godaddy for domain name hosting. Just use a different service for actual web hosting. Better to keep them separate anyway. One company handling both gives them too many ways to screw you in a dispute.

I use steadfast networks which has so far proven cheap and reliable. Evil Jimi also uses them.

As do I. They're cheap, but have top-notch customer service. My domains are registered through dotster. I've never had any trouble with them.

Okay, so I have a problem that's been driving me crazy the last few months.

I got a new Macbook in October and I love it. But it has this issue and I don't know how to begin dealing with it.

I have a wireless router and a DSL connection through Earthlink. Periodically, and by periodically I mean frequently, and by frequently I mean several times in every hour, I will click on a link and it will fail to resolve.

Except by "fail to resolve" I mean what I get is not a 404, but the Earthlink search page. Blah blah this page does not exist, perhaps you mean this other site?

But this is for links like my own LJ. Or a specific page on someone else's LJ, even though my LJ friends' page resolves. Or B.org. Pages which absolutely exist. And I clearly have a connection to the internet, because I got the Earthlink search page, so it's not a problem with the wireless connection (which has its own problems, but this isn't it).

Please note that I never had this problem with my old Dell laptop. It's something specific to the way the Macbook interacts with the DSL, I guess.

Anyone have any ideas of what I need to do to diagnose and correct this? I've had DSL through Earthlink for years and never had any problems with them.