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by rob miners 1 view

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I must have somehow turned it on and I can't work out how to turn it off.

I would like to be able to change it back to only receiving subscription updates by e-mail.

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by rob miners

and it is the same in my other account. Maybe I didn't click on something to upset it. Why arn't I receiving any updates though?

WOW I just unsubscribed and received 238 emails.

by oh smeg

I got the regular TR Notifications around 11.00 PM last night.

Though the Site has been really flaky late last night and this morning. Could be something that has gone screwy for the time being.

Oh and I'm not getting any RSS Feeds so it must be something on your system. ;)

by rob miners

I haven't had anything come through. I had a Blonde moment and thought that I had selected to receive updates by RSS. Maybe I didn't change anything. Maybe I'm going screwy. LOL

by oh smeg

It's business as usual from TR.

I haven't got anything different when I checked incoming E-Mail this morning but that doesn't mean a lot.

Perhaps you could drop Doug a line. ;)

http://tinyurl.com/ybzcg5d

Though for the past week or so I've been getting some really screwy URL's on any Links that I save for Sonja. :0

Col

by rob miners

aware of the problems. He said the other day that there were people working on different problems.

One day it will all come together. ;)

by oh smeg

One day it will all come together or maybe it will just be Christmas.

But none the less if you experience something new it's always a good idea to drop Doug a line just in case. Every time that I have dropped him a line he says it's the first that he's heard of it, this seems more common when there are existing problems on the site as some fixes may break what where previously unaffected things. I do know that Late Last night TR was Off Line for a while. [i]Or maybe Doug is just a good company Man and refuses to acknowledge that the site has issues when they get reported.[/i] :D

Not sure how long it was off as when the site went down I went to bed. I decided to finish a Dell repair this morning. Just a good old simple AVG issue where the owner had upgraded to the Trial Version of 9 and it failed to install so she reverted to the Free Version and promptly lost all network Connections.

A system restore and a GIG of Updates latter it's working so I'm not complaining. ;)

Col

by michael jay

in your profile, go to edit profile, my newsletter subscriptions and at the bottom there is a link to RSS Alert Management Center.

That takes you to your RSS feeds, in there you can remove them one by one, do not see a way to remove all.

by rob miners

I wrote a script to go through and tick all of the boxes for me. It ticked the boxes but decided to keep going. I had to Ctrl+Alt+Del to end it in Taskmanager. I had all sorts of strange things happening for awhile. :D

Have you been getting Updates?

by rob miners

a nightmare for someone to walk into this setup. There must be a few people working on the sites though. For the most part it is exceptable, it just seems like the small things, get upset frequently.

I did notice that the people search is working now. I don't have to type in the username and TechRepublic into google anymore to find someone.

by rob miners

I always read Michael Kassners Blogs. They are so cram packed with exciting information that my mind boggles sometimes. I really admire his style and the way that he will jump into something that he has discoverd. Michael has been an eye opener for me with some of his posts.

by michael jay

but not since the 10th of November.

I am really amazed at how many I have in there, I had never gave it a thought till now.

Oops, looking again I see one that was sent at 08:00 this morning, have not seen it yet.

by rob miners

they seem to build up pretty quick. I had over 238 that I removed this morning. I thought that it was only the other day that I accidently cleaned them out.

Was it the 10th that we had the major downtime.

by michael jay

they fixed one thing while breaking the alerts, as complex as the site seems to be I would think that an easy thing to do.

Somewhere around here I think I saw Jason say something about a major revamp for next year perhaps that will tie all the loose ends and make everything work at the same time.

by rob miners

I won't hold my breath. It does seem that every time something gets fixed something else breaks. I did notice that in some of my views there doesn't seem to be as many adds.

by michael jay

here either, also I would think that many programmers have worked on the site and the difficulty factor for a programmer new to TR would be huge, just figuring out what the previous programmer wrote and why.

by rob miners

that was a good one. Maybe it isn't quite up to par just yet. Weird!

by michael jay

if you searched on just a few characters such as mic, you would get a huge list of all names starting with that string, now not so much.

Anyhoo, TR is a lotta fun and I even learn new stuff every time I am here, so even if the site is not 100% functional it is useful.

by rob miners

I agree 100% with you there. I just clicked on this link.....

Michael Kassner
Networking / LAN Administration
Chateauguay, Quebec
Member since: December 1999

....and got the real Michael Kassner. Weird alright.

by michael jay

you would see that, the name is correct just the profile info is copied left to right in the columns.

Kassner is one of the greats, I always get tied up in his blogs because of the links, find myself reading tons of stuff. From Michael I do learn so much, and it is great the way he hangs out with the folks in the discussion, even more to learn there as well.

I met Kassner at the Gathering in Louisville and unfortunately he got called away before the end of the first day for some problem that needed his expertise.

by rob miners

just had confirmation from Doug that it isn't my fault.

My mind is at rest!

Thank you to those that responded in my hour of need. :D

by oh smeg

I've got some news for you, you are responsible for breaking TR [b]YET AGAIN![/b]

He just doesn't want others to know how you did it. :0

But if you continue to break TR he'll have to yank your user account to stop the damage to the site that you are doing. :^0

Col ]:) 0:-) ]:)

[i]edited to add[/i] From now on whenever anything goes wrong with TR you'll get the blame. :D

by rob miners

I've reached an agreement with Doug, so long as I behave myself I will be OK. :p

My lips are sealed. ;)

by seanferd

At least you've got an answer of sorts.
And it wasn't your fault. (Official Version™)

by rob miners

wasn't my fault, and I'm now getting my updates. Problem is now solved. Just a pity that I deleted all of those subscriptions though. I will have to watch carefully for anything that gets updated. ;)

by rob miners

a couple of RSS feeds on the new update that arrived today. One on this thread and another that OH Smeg has responded to. Weird.

by rob miners

working quite as expected, or then again is it designed this way to confuse us?

by michael jay

it is broken, as in the past it would show all members.

Or they changed it so that members can safely hide so they cannot be found.

Or, it took so much server time to do the search thru the 1.6 million members that it was intentionally broken.

by rob miners

I can remember, awhile back it seemed to work OK. Each new upgrade seems to break something else.

by seanferd

but I'd only deleted very inactive subscriptions. Can you use the notification emails to get to the thread and re-subscribe?

by rob miners

but I haven't got updates for three days and they would be the ones that I'm after. It will probably be OK if I stay vigilant. I also managed to find a few current ones.

The notification emails have been handy for me lately with the site the way it is. It was just a coincidence that the site hiccuped when it did.

by seanferd

I'm still getting some threads with $alert.rssFeed.title for the title today.

by michael jay

a fire pole, goes straight down.

I remember long ago we had a vertical post going that ran some 200+ posts, quite insane, even more insane I will try to find it.

by oh smeg

I've got some notifications through today that I have been getting for at the very least 2 days now if not longer.

Jacky has defiantly broken TR yet again. ;)

Col 0:-)

by michael jay

It is all good, right?

Lost count of the thumbs, looks like Jacky and Michael are the top 2.

by rob miners

I only need another 33 34 Thumbs to get into the all time top 10.

Edit: cant count

by rob miners

it was in one of the TROLOV's. This has been updated but it isn't current.

TheChas 	4,121
dmiles 		2,650
DKlippert	2,290
Ann777		2,003
Joseph Moore	1,468
Col combined	1,429 	
SyscoKid	1,254
maxwell edison	1,133
CG IT		1,068
McKayTech	1,015

Edit: TROLOV June 12 2009

by michael jay

I must have seen it but missed it if you know what I mean, guess I have been a help in your quest. Chas is just out of reach of anyone except us. ]:)

Been kinda distracted tonight watching the race as being a NASCAR fan I joined Palmetto's fantasy racing league and am currently 6th in the points. After today's race I don't know where I am, will have to run the numbers or wait till Tuesday when he posts the results.

by rob miners

are for CG IT and Col. The rest apart from TheChas haven't been as frequent as they used to be. I think that sgt_shultz was next with 951, but I can't be certain. I really didn't get involved until 2007, although I have been a member for awhile now.

Good luck with NASCAR

by oh smeg

Col is a idiot and shouldn't be included. ;)

But what I love is when I'm not around for a few days I get more thumbs than when I'm here for the full week. I see something radically wrong with the Thumb Count that simply wasn't at all obvious when we had Tech Points. :0

Col 0:-)

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