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by tig2

I have been actively posting for over a year. I started the Breast Cancer awareness thread (the first thread I ever started) on Mother's Day 06. I have been a member since 08/05.

Hmmmm.

Apologies for not responding sooner. Deer season where I live which changes my online time some...

by deepsand

From personal experience, I can, without fear of being in error, state that deer season transports one into an alternative universe, where events parallel, but are not quite identical to, those of the other universes. You've obviously been posting to TR in at least 2 different universes!

Unfortunately, there is of yet no known way of co-mingling record of all of your activities without collapsing all of the universes you've visited into a quantum singularity.

by hal 9000

My main Domain Host has gone down and I'm told that it will not be up for a few days. :(

Of course it had to happen just after I had paid for the next year so I'm not sure if they have missed the payment or the entire place has crashed down around their ears. Naturally the Phone support is brilliant I'm still waiting for a reply. :^0

OH well [b]Life Wasn't Meant To Be Easy That's Why We Have Computers.[/b] :D

Col

by stargazerr

Nope. TRI is better. We get info about the goings on as well as get to ask questions .. :D

]:)

by stargazerr

hahaha .. Sure Sure GG. I still keep dissapearing for a couple of days and then keep coming back. But today is riday and I am determined NOT to miss the friday yuk :D

By the way, No emails from u yet. I do be the devil. ]:)

by gadgetgirl

you have the aforementioned email now.....

check your personal mail, new addy....!!

(I remembered! :p :D )

GG

by stargazerr

Managed to lose it just before i hit send too ... Aah !! Thank god for small mercies like the grep ... :p

]:)

by hal 9000

If it's who I think it is I don't know how it got onto my Contacts list.

However I have noticed that it's still posting though it's now been removed from My Contact List I'm just trying to guess how it got there in the first place.

Col

by deepsand

That was precisely what our U.S. Senator, Rick Santorum, told us, when it ( I meant to say "he;" Freudian slip?) said that "making people suffer a little is'nt necessarily the worst thing."

Oh, did I say Senator? I should have said soon to be [i]ex-[/i] Senator. He's one of those who helped return control of the Senate to the Democrats.

Best wishes for a speedy resolution of your hosting problem.

by beth blakely

But I'm not sure what you're asking. There is no documentation for the boolean search. There was a post regarding bypassing the tag search:
https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=96&threadID=199949&messageID=2088658
Is that what you mean?

If you're just looking for a Boolean search primer, try one of these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_logic#Search_engine_queries
http://websearch.about.com/od/internetresearch/a/boolean.htm

Did that get anywhere near what you're asking?

by zlitocook

15. How can I get rid of advertisements that are taking up half the screen?
You can't get rid of our ads. The site is free to you. The ads pay the bills. If there is a particular ad that you feel is malfunctioning, please use the "Send us your Feedback" link at the bottom of most pages to send us a link and description of the problem.
Is the techpro free now?

by hal 9000

Apparently someone forgot to process the payment. :^0

10 days after I had paid the bill the next working day after I received it they pulled the domain and sent me a nice little bill to get it reconnected. When I asked them what had happened to the payment sent earlier and sent a scanned copy of the deposit slip, they went quite again. :)

Then at 2l.30 last night I got an e-mail telling me that there had been an error and that the site had been reconnected which meant that the Domain Name was being used again but no Web Site was available short of a Thumbnail of the Front Page appearing but nothing else. But now a few hours latter it appears to be there again so I suppose I shouldn't complain too much.

Apparently they are not used to people keeping the same thing up for 6 + years and some how managed to Screw Up. :D

Col

by dawgit

sure sounds like the same problem I had not so long ago. (Only it took them almost 2 months to get it right) Did the Deutsch Tele-Com move to Ausi land? -d

by deepsand

I just got off the phone with my of my banks re. a similar matter with a puzzling twist.

On Fri., 10NOV, I made an in-person deposit, at 14:36, i.e. prior to their 15:00 settlement time. Upon my return to the office, an online view of my account showed that the deposit had indeed been posted.

Earlier this afternoon I made another such deposit. Again, it was immediately viewable online, effective tomorrow, of course; but, my Fri. deposit had vanished!!! The only trace of it is on Yodlee's archives. (Yodlee, in this instance, provides me with account aggregation service, so that I can moniter/view all my accounts at a single site, rather than needing to visit each financial institutions' sites separately.)

For their part, the bank which "lost" my deposit assures me only that they will immediately "open an investigation." It seems that, despite my being able to provide them with the Trans. ID from my deposit receipt, they have no way of searching for such!

In the mean, should they not resolve this matter by the time tomorrow night's batch update cycle, an incoming ACH Debit scheduled for tomorrow will most likely not be honored, owing to the resulting over-draft, which will in turn trigger penalties from both my bank and American Express.

This is "progress through technology?"

by danlm

I just seen your reply deepsand about the election results. I'm glad Bob Casey took that. The democratic party really dissed his father during what(2000/2004) election because of his beliefs about abortion. His father was well liked by a lot of people for his strong principles. I hope his son is the same. I am orgionally, well previously anyway from the Casey home town of Scranton so I know that family name well.

Dan

by deepsand

re. abortion:

1) Casey - "This is what I [b]believe[/b] is right for [b]me[/b]."
2) Santorum - "This is what I [b]know[/b] is right for [b]everyone[/b]."

The former I can accept; the latter, never.

by kiltie

As a new member, or old one, I cannot see more then 15 items now, so my FAQ is:

[b]Where have all the posts gone?[/b]

Even after the first change, you could see up to 50 posts, although that was ridiculously limited, as there was no way to see any more.

[rant]
[b]Now it seems to have been reduced to 15 (FIFTEEN ala 419-er style)[/b]

The other day, I was going through questions, spotted a couple at the end I wanted to look at, but viewed another first..... not that interesting, so I went back, and they had gone!!!!

Bum deal, there was no way to find them, they had disappeared off the planet.

Sure, use "tags" you say? But without viewing them, I don't know what tags to use.

A recent blog by a Geekender made reference to his posts being dumped off the bottom ny George (not his fault, granted) but the system makes it that way.

Particularly with Questions, you can get a lot more than 15 every half hour, it seems to me, this crazy limit is messing everything up

For gawds sake, get your act together TR, look after your members, if you have to limit so many a page, then [b]at least allow page 1, page 2, page 3 etc[/b]
[/rant]

[u]Look, I want to help people, TR is not helping me do that[/u]

Same with discussions, I want to look at recent news/topics where have they gone?

Grrrrr so this [u]must[/u] be a FAQ for anyone, where is everything?

Try a page 2,3,4 etc PLuuuuueeeaaseeeee?

by danlm

I tried to count them, but lost count after 30 something. I'm pretty sure I see all of the posts in this discussion.

Dan

by kiltie

So I checked again.

This applies to both Discussions and Questions.

There is a limit of 15 posts for [b]All Discussions/Questions[/b] and a limit of 50 for [b]Hot Discussions/Questions[/b] and [b]New Discussions/Questions[/b]

It seems not unreasonable to assume that [u][i]All[/i][/u] Discussions/Questions would be the larger of the groups, instead of the smallest.

Regardless whether 15 or 50, the point I am making is that there is no easy way to see any beyond the limit set. In the case of [u][i]All[/i][/u] Discussions/Questions, I think that there should not be a limit at all, as the name "[b]all[/b]" would imply.

As I suggested, I would like to see a Page 1,2,3,4 or a [i]Next Page[/i] link.

by hal 9000

You work for your bank to keep them in income and profit?

I'm often wondering if when asked do I work for a Bank to answer YES! I keep paying them to take my money and for some reason best known to no one seem to appreciate them taking my money at an alarming rate. The best one happened to me about 20 years ago when I was Up North I deposited some money into the Business Account in Cash and then paid for some product from he main supplier by check. Apparently between the deposit and the time that the check was presented about a week latter the Bank in Question had taken it into their heads to decide that the case deposit was somehow actually a Check and dishonoured the check that I had written because the check that I had deposited had not cleared though under normal circumstances it would be a 3 day turn around. When I produced the deposit book and explained that I had actually deposited Cash I got a strange look from the Bank Manager as no one deposits 26K unless it's a check. He couldn't comprehend that the deposit was made up of several smaller transactions so they had to find the check that wasn't presented.

I actually wanted to shut up shop and sue the bank in question because the main supplied refused to keep supplying us and while I was down seeing a Solicitor my partner went crawling to the Supplier to get the dealership back. Lesson 1 Never go Into Business with a Partner.

Col

by deepsand

here, despite an earlier staff post that they were. As a result, I thought that perhaps TR had implemented a non-standard syntax.

Now, I find that such seems to work well!

Go figure.

by danlm

But, I agree. There should be a paging if nothing else. I always read back in the discussion list, just to be sure I didn't miss something. And I also join some of these other discussion's late. I seem to be watching a lot of technical discussions right now, so I only hit the others sparadically. So, being able to go through the full discussion in one way or another definitely makes sense.

Dan

by deepsand

Have doubts about ourselves, that is. It's just some are less willing, or even unable, to admit such.

by deepsand

They continue to do it because it's a challenge to attempt to prove otherwise, not unlike that of tri-secting an angle using only a straight edge and a divider.

by Jay Garmon

Under the old system, there was a Hot disucssion list, and a New Discussion list, and discussions by category. There was no such thing as "All" discussions.

The Hot list was limited to 25, then 20, with only 7 displayed on the Forums door. Today it's 50, so that list got bigger.

The new list was 40, with only 7 on the Forums door. However, we did paginate out the New list to the end of time, though our usage numbers showed views past page 1 were almost non-existent. Today the New list is 50, but no pagination. The people bothered by this change number less than a dozen, based on our data.

The category listings also paginated out to the end of time, but very few people ever searched via the categories, and those that did rarely went past page 1. We ditched the category listings because *users* said they were tired of having to decide which of a few dozen possible spots to create their posts, basically guessing on where it would most easily be seen. They wanted a smaller list, and the ability to place threads in multiple categories, so that you didn't have to create duplicate posts for each area. We did exactly that, using our Primary tag system.

The new All Discussions tab on the Forums door uses a "churn" logic that places the last-modified thread at the top--sort of a hybrid Hot/New system. Nothing like this list existed before the revamp. Because this list is constantly self-updating based on last-modified, paginating the list out is a little complicated. We are working on it, but we're not going to push it out until we're sure that there won't be a serious performance hit. If users have been clear on anything, it's that they hate slow load times more than anything, so we're moving much MUCH slower with our changes to ensure that performances consequences are minimal.

It sounds like what you really want is a paginated New list. That's being worked on as part of our Search Engine Optimization efforts--Google loves those kind of lists--but I don't have a timetable. It's not a high-user-impact feature--again, nobdoy used the old features that were most like it--so we can't push it to the top of the queue.

by kiltie

[b][i]If users have been clear on anything, it's that they hate slow load times more than anything[/i][/b]

WE sure do, but may I respectfully suggest that it is the loading of the Ads that is causing the slow down.

[i]Is it [/i]really [i] necessary to load fresh ads for [b]every single post[/b] viewed?[/i]

Of course we understand the need for Ads to pay the bills, fair enough, but can you not keep them to the start of a thread, the list of discussions/threads etc? ie at the root levels?

As an example, using Firefox 2 to view posts, it is taking typically between 45 and 100 seconds to load a page for every post viewed. (I know that as I have FasterFox page timer)
The reason is, I believe, not [b]only[/b] Ads, but the type and quantity, these flash animated things may look pretty, but sure as hell are a drain of resources, at least at the lower levels. I am not sure that Adblock Plus extension is working properly, I suspect that it still loads the flash animations (they appears briefly) then merely suppress the display.

So my question (plea really) can you suppress these resource hungry Ads at the lower levels, but I think it is ok to have them higher up?

OK, I'll be specific, it is the [b]FLASH[/b] that are most annoying.

(yes I know about viewing by Print, but that has the limitation of not greying out threads already read - a real problem in the larger threads, which is a pity, as those tend to be the most active, hence [b]interesting ones[/b])

So please bear in mind, that performance loads affect not only your end, but our end, us users/members and we may not have top of the range computers to work with.

I am stuck with a P II 256MB RAM until my replacement/upgrades arrive (21 months overdue, now expected at T+23 months)

by deepsand

I'm going back to a time before there ever was a "Hot" Discussion category.

There [i]did[/i] previously exist a paginated list of All Discussions, which I used quite frequently. As to whether it was in fact fully complete, I cannot now say, but it certainly went [i]way back[/i].

by kiltie

replace "a divider" with a "piece of string" to make
"a straight edge and a piece of string"
as your only tools,
and the rather tricky problem of tri-secting an angle becomes a simpler one.

yep, I am an "old engineer" ;-) :D

by beth blakely

You mean every discussion that's taken place since the beginning of TR? Not likely.

We will try to find a big enough number that you won't notice it doesn't go back to the beginning of time.

by deepsand

1) It used to be so.

2) It's very easily accomplished via a linked chain.

What's the problem?

by hal 9000

It might bring that [b]EL Monster[/b] back to the surface again.

To scary to even contemplate. :)

Col

by kiltie

I didn't know TR had been around that long.

*** wink ***

However, a reasonable period will do, what does it depend on? What technical limitations? Is it storage? Power use? bandwidth?

It is surely unlikely that many will be going back more than a month or so, but some may want to go back a few years to research something.

by deepsand

The [i]Search[/i] function will, in fact, yield results going back to the dawn of TR, but the [i]All Discussions[/i] list is truncated, the logic for which eludes me, given that maintaining a linked index of the headers is a lot less resource intensive than a search of the whole body of data.

by Jay Garmon

Our message table has over a million rows, and since we know our users expect the data they query to be 100% accurate--if I just made a post, I expect that post to be at the top of my list--it's a LIVE query. As such, we have to limit the query depth somehow, so we don't have all our users hitting the entire table for every personalized data refresh.

We're also hashing out some pagination specifics. Even though our infrastructure could probably handle giving TheChas his complete Q&A history in a single burst, there isn't a browser on Earth that wouldn't choke on that return, so we have to find a reasonable way to chunk it up. We're trying various combinations of pagination, limit queries, and display arrangements to try and get this right.

by kiltie

Well I gave it back to the kid you "borrowed" it from, of course.

He still has some more homework to do.

;-) :D :D ;-)

by deepsand

Its sheer size, and the commensurate loading time, should serve to inhibit any rapid expansion.

In any case, it can still be found by those who know of its existence.

by tig2

I think that you have it exactly. Since the season started, I have become somewhat schizophrenic. But hanging out in trees and NOT (darnit!) killing deer will do that to a person.

One more weekend and am praying for snow in the deer stand. I'm not going up this weekend- partner's son decided to join partner and Grandfather for the first time and they have made it clear- NO CHICKS!

Partner better shoot something to make up for this indignity!

by deepsand

But, where? I can't seem to find [i]Lake Wobegon[/i] on any map.

Many, many moons ago, as a mere lad of 4, my parents and I visited the many places in OH, MI, MN and SD where my father's relatives resided.

The part(s) of MN that I observed were wholly flatland, not unlike a desert, with no sign of habitat suitable for deer; ditto for SD.

On the other hand, here in PA it's impossible to escape the mountains and deer, as witnessed by the astronomical road-kill count. That does, of course, have its downside, chiefly that of having to survive the hoards of city-hunters from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia who actually talk of "sound" shots, as opposed to "sight" shots, as if there were some virtue in such.

Being too lazy to dig up a topographical map, and having a self-proclaimed hunter to ask, I'll leave the answer to you.

Good hunting.

by hal 9000

She can sit at home all day with some Martini's and not have to bother about anything while the [b]Better Half[/b] has to get the meal and then after running the gamut of the other fools who are likely to shot you before they can even see their target he then gets to [b]Clean & Dress[/b] the dead animal then carry the carcase back home for a meal.

The absolute worst Tig has to face is attempting to cook the kill when she's blind drunk and unable to stand. I can just see her now sitting in a nice centrally heated room with a cold Martini and her NB. And if she gets really frustrated she can throw the NB in the air & use it for target practise. :^0

Col

by tig2

Sandy- we own land near Duluth. Unless a poacher shows up, we practise "safe" hunting- sight shot only and have the stands built safe distances apart and know where our neighbours are. And we wear orange- LOTS of orange. Our game laws for gun hunting require a hunter to wear blaze hat and jacket. We take it a step further as the deer don't know you are wearing orange when you are 12 feet up a tree.

Northern Minnesota is particularly beautiful, especially as the leaves are turning in the Fall. We were up building stands the weekend of peak colour and it was just beautiful. Very different from the prairie- which is beautiful in it's own way.

HAL- I get to spend the weekend making Christmas cards and a gift for my nephew. Relaxation time may include a Martini but no more than that- when the partner is gone, I keep a loaded gun in the house and everyone knows that guns and alcohol DO NOT mix.

When it comes to venison, I do not cook. He's better with a grill than I am and I let him deal with it. Besides, I am not allowed to play with his grill.

We're actually pretty excited that the partner's son is going up. First time and all that.

by vanessaj

tatooed just above my bellybutton. So it's always there when I need it. ;)

Simple solution.

by kiltie

TR have been listening and responding, for that we are grateful, very grateful.

The new [b]My Forum Posts[/b] has been loudly applauded in another thread by members, I am sure you are working hard to make improvements.

Once again, thank you TR.

by kiltie

You are surely gonna get inundated with PMs from those who have mislaid their copy, wanting to "just have a quick look"

:D :D ]:) ]:) ;-)

by vanessaj

isn't that what the FAQ is for? ;) By the way, if they build the FAQ page on your suggestions alone, no one will ever need to see my bellybutton...your suggestions are insightful (as to questions a new user would probably have) and quite comprehensive. Kudos! :D

by deepsand

The issue raised was one of having [i]All Discussions[/i] actually list [b]all[/b] discussions, rather than an arbitrary number, in a paginated form.

Similarly, where is the performance hit in displaying all of one Discussions Started and/or Posted To?

Neither of the above require a search for, let alone a display of, any posts.

by deepsand

be color blind or confuse the orange/red blaze with a very, very big maple leaf gone to color. I suspect that it's the former, as they also have great trouble visually distinguishing antlered from non-antlered deer.

Grill? Do you not do any pan frying or roasting? What about smoke dried?

City hunters here have their own unique way of cooking their kill; they fail to field dress, strap the kill over the hood of their vehicle, drive several hundred miles back to the big city, all the way slowly cooking the bile marinated carcas, and then, upon eventually eating it, complain about the bitter "gamey" taste! Talk about being clueless.

by danlm

I just never, ever, ever bother looking through any of that. For one thing, it never changes. Hell, I even check out some of the ad's before I look at the recommended.

Too bad the profile didn't have check box's for interest's. And the recommended showed active high hit count articles/blogs/discussions when the tags for something matched one of the profiles interest's.

Just a thought.

Dan

by deepsand

I just now noticed that posts that are less than a day old are no longer so marked; I had to do a search by date to find them.

by Jay Garmon

...as timestamped by our servers, which are set to Pacific time. It literally updates to the minute, so if it was posted at 2:15 yesterday, it will stop being "New" at 2:16 today.

by deepsand

of all the messages noted in my e-mail notices received yesterday, 15NOV, [b]none[/b] of the messages from 14NOV were flagged as new.

It is, of course, possible that all were in fact made more than 24 hrs, before I checked the Discussions, but I'm not about to re-visit all of them to check their time stamps.

As this is not the 1st occasion that such has occurred, and given that, even if one does check in once a day, there are few here that can insure that they will do so with no more than a 24 hr. lapse.

Marking as [i]New[/i] those messages posted within the past [b]48[/b] hrs. would be a great help to many.

by Jay Garmon

Hot and New were our base archives for the last three/four years before the revamp, so I can't speak clearly about the function of the forums before that (I wasn't on the team then). However, it sounds like you're thinking of the old "New" list, which just listed all posts made in any category by start date, and we did paginate that out until the very first instance of our Jive installation (about 2001, I believe). Like I said, we dropped that feature because it was almost entirely unused, but something like it will be making a comeback as part of our SEO efforts (the list is Google-friendly). I just can't give you a timetable.

As to why it's taking a while now to develop an extended "All" list under teh current format, the new "churn" logic--which reorganzies the list dynamically based on last-modified date--makes extending the list a little performance-heavy. We're just working out the details of caching/paginating to manage the query load on the database.

by deepsand

Why?

The [i]All Discussions[/i] list is a [b]Table of Contents[/b]. What is gained by constantly re-ordering it?

by kiltie

This must be a common problem, given the international nature of TR.

Nice to have things "date and time stamped" so you know when they done.

But what time, [u]specially[/u] what time zone is it referring to?

This is not a TR problem, this is common throughout the 'Net, however TR is one of the leading tech sites, so why not have an annotation that says what time zone these things refer to?

Seems logical to me, and will help users/members a lot

.... such a simple change n'est ce pas?

by Jay Garmon

We've got to nail down some of our user authentication issues first, and weigh the performance impact (as always), but there have been discussions of letting users specify a "home" time zone--or inferring it from their specified location--and adjusting all the time stamps to match. In all honesty, it' not a high priority. We've got bigger fish to fry, but it's not out of the realm for, say, next year.

by gadgetgirl

chronologically challenged person you will ever know - thank you!

I'm sure you've followed previous posts of mine where I've got totally confused to the point of exasperating myself as well as others!

Got YOU sussed though - you're 8 hours behind me... yup, that's right!

:p :D

GG

by danlm

I was looking to do something with timezones once on a web page I was doing. I found out how to determine what the time was on a persons pc, but a valid point was raised in that you can not trust a person to have their pc times correct(don't know how, bad battery). What ever. If you automate determining the time zone of your users, how will you do that? ip location? I'm just curious, that's all.

If you don't want to reveal this information due to it being a trade secret guarded like the Coco Cola formula. I will understand.
Dan

by kiltie

What I was getting at was, whenever a time is posted, label it as Pacific, EST, GMT, Universal time or whatever, that way leaves the conversion up to us.

@GG, Geordie Land ain't so far away from SW Scotland.
disclaimer: I am attached, but it will be sure nice to meet up one day (with chapperones, of course) .... Tony ain't far away too ;-)
Must be some other TR members in the north (UK), how about a meet-n-greet?

by deepsand

What you meant to say was that you are considering allowing members to specify their own frame of reference.

by kiltie

FAQs will become a [b]very hot topic[/b]

It will take an army to hold JD down

hehe

(suggestion at PTB? make FAQ a "sticky" thread, like many other forums do)

ugggghhhh I just spotted [u]no end[/u] of awful puns, innuendos and side topics there, better not go that road, we are at max message limit already!!!

;-) :D

by gadgetgirl

you don't do a Neil, and [b] stand me up!!! [/b]

You don't need a chaperone, honestly. I promise I'll behave (there - you have it in writing! ;) )

How about starting a UK meet-n-greet thread? If we keep it going for a while, we can "capture" who is where, pick a central location, and just do it. It would be great to put names to faces after all this time. It's definitely do-able, it'll just take a little organising, and I'll volunteer to do that. (I can organise the hell out of anything; well practiced! :D )

What do you think?

GG

by hal 9000

If you organise it on the Isle Of Man at the right time of next year I'll try very hard to get there. [b]HONEST[/b] I'll even allow [b]SWMBO[/b] to come along and watch the motorcycle racing. :)

She's really into that type of thing. While I would have to organise either a Ducati or Vincent for the trip over there it's doable. I keep [b]SWMBO[/b] ridding pillion as I need all that weight on the back to keep the rear wheel on the ground. :^0

Col ]:)

[i]PS GG the dates for the TT's are 2-8 June 2007 or we could go there for the pratice and stay until it's finished, and you and the rest of the TR people can work out the [b]Race Engine Management Modules[/b] because you're all geeks who are not happy unless you have some microprocessor controlled thing to play with. I'll suffer and sit with [b]SWMBO[/b] for the Classic Events but I'll help the rest of you out with all the modern stuff. Perhaps we could pass it off as a Learning Program and get the Bosses to pay for it. For full details look here

http://www.ttwebsite.com/ :D :^0 :D :^0

by kiltie

The Aussies will try and sneak in, then the Kiwis, then their sheep, did you hear what they get up to GG?.

Jeez, even the Yanks might try a foothold...

What depths is the world coming to?

:D ;D :-)

by kiltie

You can have your divider back.... and
Here is a piece of string as a gift.

Got one question that is confounding philosophers here in the UK:

[b]How long is it?[/b]

by hal 9000

Stop over examining things too much the piece of string is only slightly longer than it needs to be and no longer for the job in hand at this point in time. :p

If you like I can have off of another Aussies design work removed from the UK Phillip Irving made a massive contribution to engineering design prior & during WW11 so if you like I can have everything that he ever designed removed from Pomie Land and not allow you access to any of his work. :D

Besides The Vincent HRD he made quite a few other contributions to the Poms but I'll gladdy take away the patent revenues and start charging you for all the breaches of patent of his work. Incidentally the Series C Vincent Black Shadow was a Loud and aggressive motorcycle just like me. :^0

But they are lovely to ride. :p

Col ]:)

by deepsand

1) Cut string in half.

2) If the results are of finite length, select either of the results, and go to 1).

by deepsand

Why is it that:

1) Some words are found [b]only[/b] they appear in Tags, while others are found within the body of Posts?

2) Some Users' Posts can be found by way of a search for their Alias, while others cannot?

It's actually getting more and more difficult to find my way back to where I and others have been, rather than easier. It's as if History itself were slowly being forgotten, vanishing into the the dim recesses of the collective consciousness, until one day we'll know naught of what happened only yesterday.

[b]Help[/b].

by alameh

Thank you.

Shouldn't an FAQ section be more obvious? That's just a rhetorical question BTW.

I had to use the search function in forums for FAQ and lucked upon this discussion. This is definitely not a good FAQ section like I'm used to seeing but I can still glean a few good bits from it.

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