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    OK, how do I turn off RSS subscriptions

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    by rob miners ·

    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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    • #2841020

      Clarifications

      by rob miners ·

      In reply to OK, how do I turn off RSS subscriptions

      Clarifications

    • #2841012

      Just checked

      by rob miners ·

      In reply to OK, how do I turn off RSS subscriptions

      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.

      • #2841011

        From when Jacky?

        by oh smeg ·

        In reply to Just checked

        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. 😉

        • #2841009

          Last three days

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to From when Jacky?

          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

        • #2841008

          Not sure but as of last night

          by oh smeg ·

          In reply to Last three days

          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

        • #2841006

          Doug is more than likely

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to Not sure but as of last night

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

          One day it will all come together. 😉

        • #2841003

          Yep I know Jacky

          by oh smeg ·

          In reply to Doug is more than likely

          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] 😀

          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

        • #2841000

          I’ll drop him a line

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to Yep I know Jacky

          and see what happens.

    • #2840996

      Michael Jay

      by rob miners ·

      In reply to OK, how do I turn off RSS subscriptions

      any thoughts on this?

      • #2840988

        Trying not to think too much as it is Friday

        by michael jay ·

        In reply to 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.

        • #2840987

          LOL

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to Trying not to think too much as it is Friday

          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. 😀

          Have you been getting Updates?

        • #2840983

          I had been

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to LOL

          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.

        • #2840976

          Yep

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to I had been

          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.

        • #2840974

          So that must mean that

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to Yep

          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.

        • #2840972

          LOL

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to So that must mean that

          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.

        • #2840969

          Don’t want to turn blue, so no breath holding

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to So that must mean that

          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.

      • #2840968

        I think that it would be

        by rob miners ·

        In reply to Michael Jay

        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.

        • #2840966

          Search working?

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to I think that it would be

          went looking for myself and found this, note the people in the left and right column, kinda spooky.

          http://techrepublic.com.com/5212-6257-0.html?id=-1&query=michael&contactID=-1&start=40&tag=main;contentWide

        • #2840964

          ROFLMA

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to Search working?

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

        • #2840960

          Used to be

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to ROFLMA

          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.

        • #2840959

          It certainly is useful

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to Used to be

          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.

        • #2840958

          I was hoping that

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to It certainly is useful

          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.

        • #2840882

          That’s not bad, but try this one

          by nicknielsen ·

          In reply to Search working?

        • #2840866

          I think that was a stutter

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to That’s not bad, but try this one

          Tried to say three and it came out threethree 🙂

        • #2840834

          OK, maybe it isn’t

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to That’s not bad, but try this one

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

        • #2841641

          I would suspect

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to That’s not bad, but try this one

          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.

        • #2841639

          LOL

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to I would suspect

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

        • #2841632

          Well as long as we are able to post

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to LOL

          It is all good, right?

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

        • #2841628

          Thumbs,

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to LOL

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

          Edit: cant count

        • #2841625

          Count or not

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to LOL

          that is cool, is there a place where this is documented?

        • #2841624

          LOL

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to LOL

          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

        • #2841617

          Cool

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to LOL

          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.

        • #2841615

          The only changes

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to LOL

          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

        • #2841557

          But JD cheated in the pod Cast

          by oh smeg ·

          In reply to LOL

          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:-)

      • #2840957

        Yep

        by rob miners ·

        In reply to Michael Jay

        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.

    • #2840936

      Update

      by rob miners ·

      In reply to OK, how do I turn off RSS subscriptions

      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. 😀

      • #2840826

        Jacky

        by oh smeg ·

        In reply to Update

        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. 😀

        • #2840822

          SHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to Jacky

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

          My lips are sealed. 😉

      • #2840821

        Yaaaayyyy. (wave hands in air like Kermit the frog)

        by seanferd ·

        In reply to Update

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

        • #2840815

          It definitely

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to Yaaaayyyy. (wave hands in air like Kermit the frog)

          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. 😉

        • #2840810

          I’ve gone on cleaning rampages before

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to It definitely

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

        • #2840806

          I probably could

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to I’ve gone on cleaning rampages before

          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.

        • #2840805

          Updates came thru here as well

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to It definitely

          so everything is good, well most everything.

        • #2841786

          It looks like it

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to Updates came thru here as well

          just may take a little time. 😉

        • #2841776

          Just noticed

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to It looks like it

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

        • #2841768

          Yep

          by rob miners ·

          In reply to Just noticed

          same here.

        • #2841761

          Me too

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to Just noticed

          On OM’s how do you shave and on this question thread.

        • #2841671

          And they are not very up to date either

          by oh smeg ·

          In reply to Just noticed

          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:-)

      • #2841757

        I have

        by rob miners ·

        In reply to Update

        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.

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