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by ansugisalas

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Sorry, I have no patience for official channels, so I'll just dump the stuff here. What can I say, I'm a rebel.

So, Search is shot. If I search for, say, "Now that's impressive", I get a long list of results from all content types. Then I click the dropdown which lets me choose content types : I see the number of hits as divided among the various content types.
Specifically, I see "Discussion Threads (15)". I click there, which takes me to a page which says "Now that's impressive (0 results)".
What's worse, I can't sort the huge list of results first found by date, either - that too leads to the 0 results page.
This doesn't sound like a difficult bug to fix, sounds like search filters aren't being applied correctly by the script, but it has a big impact on the usefulness of the forums and site in general, for normal users too.

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by hal 9000

I also expect water to come out of a tap when I turn it on.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. :p

Col

by hal 9000

What Usefulness?

There hasn't been anything useful on TR since the Site Downgrade to prevent people following Posts placed in the Discussion and Question Side of things.

I see a move to attempt to do away with the Disgusting and Questions as it's too difficult to administer and doesn't result in any responses mainly because you generally can not find the discussions to begin with and even if you did Luck Out and find something one you'll not find it again or be able to follow any new posts once it's dropped on the top of the page.

Just get a big discussion which are now the exception not the normal and try to find a new post. ;)

As far as the Search Function goes I've always found it as useful as [b]_Tits on a Bull.[/b] May look pretty but that's about the only thing it's good for. ;)

OH and Santee I've just had a crash course in Welding Sheet Steal with a Stick Welder Fun isn't it? :^0

Col

by ansugisalas

Maybe I should've said "hard to correctly evaluate the uselessnes of the forums"...

"Gee, this might work, but I can't tell..."
- I think at least one religion has already sprung up, in response to that eternal question : "What is the meaning of TR?".
The congregation is already negotiating a split, so they can verify their religion's status by waging a pointless inter-sect war.

by hal 9000

Not sure anymore honestly. :0

But since the last change things have gone to Hell in a Hand Basket and I have yet to see any turnaround happening. It's impossible to follow any threads with more than a few posts to them at any one time.

Then no mention of people who use IE not being able to post Replies to anything. Been like that for weeks now and unless I switch to Safari where things look so much better I can not post anything but new comments. No Reply, No Take Offline or anything I just get a blank space with no way of entering anything. Sometimes if you leave it long enough you'll get the Page to open properly but most times it's just blank and useless.

However Safari looks great if that' s any help :^0

Col

by santeewelding

I was doing it on Friday. I almost never stick-weld sheet if I can avoid it. Couldn't avoid this one, though. One of those large mower decks dragged behind a tractor in the fields. Weighed, maybe, upwards of half a ton. Sad shape. On its last leg. Accomplished the beating and straightening and welding part good enough, until at the very last when the thing dropped on my right foot. Metatarsals two and three fractured. *%###%*!!!

How, by the way, is your boo-boo doing?

by hal 9000

Glad I'm not the only one to have things like that happen.

But with me it's not the big things that I have problems with it's the little things. I weld something and then I'll go to pick it up. No matter how many things I weld things back together I always do it. :(

But after dropping a car on myself back in 2001 I now can get out of any work I don't want to do by saying [b]I'm Too Scared[/b] to get under a car. Since all of the cars are dirty and messy and I'm [b]LAZY[/b] I now say it at every opportunity to get out of doing things I don't want to.

Aren't the Hospitals fun when they treat you for Crush Injuries. :^0

Col

by ansugisalas

just to see if you might be sarcastic ;)
Opera works ok.
I hear Chrome, too...
Wouldn't be a statement, would it?
But anyway, anyone else hear the fresh rumour about how the TR IT dept. is keeping the lot of them like electronic hostages/puppets by/on a string?

by Wizard57M-TR

although I at least haven't had the troubles with posting using IE that others have noted.
(Use IE8 on both XP and 7). I also use Opera without problems. Heck, just for the
challenge, a couple of months ago I even fired up my old DOS PC, dialed up my old
dilaup ISP, and used Arachne to post...I was surprised that it worked!
That said, following discussions and threads has became a frustration...both at TR and
the sister site, ZDNet.
Wiz <{;-)

by nicknielsen

What chased me away wasn't the difficulty in following threads, but the incessant sniping between the OS camps. Linux! Windows! Linux! Windows! Then you'd have a Mac user show up and the response reminded me of Tom Lehrer's National Brotherhood Week:

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Muslims,
And everybody hates the Jews.

by seanferd

Failing that, you get multiple exclamation marks, just like from crazy people.

NickNielsen, FTW!!!!111!!one111!!!

by santeewelding

This morning I took scissors to that one of my beloved leather sandals. I cut a relief to fit the top of my swollen foot. The big apparatus provided by the hospital makes it impossible to work gas pedal and brake, and I keep banging it into everything, defeating the purpose of protection.

by seanferd

expects impossible things of its consumers. Like not moving while you heal.

Unless you have been completely immobilized by injury or illness, the rest of the world (and probably you) expects you to keep doing things.

by santeewelding

Like lethal force, belongs properly and only in the hands of we sovereign each. Sub-contract either and you are welcome to ensuing contradiction of Being.

Admittedly a broadside. If one is not, don't worry. Has nothing to do with any who are not.

by hal 9000

What can I say I have to use IE8 so I can remember how the idiot thing works for a client who insists on using it and has constant troubles. When I attempt to post a reply to TR I see this instead of something useful.

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj121/HAL9000_photo/IE8ReplytoTR.jpg

Makes life so interesting in the forlorn hope that it may work right occasionally. :^0

[i]edited to add[/i] Interesting I can edit a existing post but I can not add a new one at the moment. Got to love the Way that TR works now. :^0

Col

by Wizard57M-TR

well, at least you didn't get the message I got at ZDNet a couple of weeks
ago using Opera to edit one of my posts..."Message as been reported as
spam"!! What??!!?? I was editing my own message to correct a spelling
error! Reloaded and all was there...durned gremlins in the matrix, that's
what it is!
<{;-)

by hal 9000

That you are one of TR's Resident Spammers. It must be so as ZDNet told you so. :^0 :D :^0 :D

[/ maniacal laughter]

You have to love Computer Logic and the way it is programmed. ;)

Col

by hal 9000

And have Tank Water as a Backup?

I have a small Solar Array that charges Batteries and then power an Inverter for Lights and the Water Pump. :p

I certainly do expect the lights to come on when I flick a switch and water to come out of the tap when I turn it on.

Col

by santeewelding

If you had anything to do with their establishment, and given what you tell us about your mental status, I would double the guard.

by seanferd

More is probably better in this case. And they must be smart. Average security types will be passed through as if they were not there at all.

by hal 9000

That I have 6 tiny goldfish guarding this Battery Installation.

So it has to be perfectly safe the 3 Black Moors and 2 Lion Heads are all of 3/4 of a inch long. The remaining one just lies on the bottom of the tank sulking so it offers no protection at all. :^0

Col

by Wizard57M-TR

Jeminy, though, I've got to get really busy to get on the "top 100"!
Oh, another thing, following discussions and replying is probably
even worse at ZDNet than here...if such was possible. To "chain"
a discussion there I've found I had to reply to myself since there is
many times no reply to function on a comment that is in response
to a reply, anyway not past about 2 levels. Now that's conducive
to great discussions...not!
<{;-)

by santeewelding

Waits to leap with great fury and fasten itself around a throat, a la, The Mask.

Walk carefully around the tank, Colin.

by hal 9000

With all of the cold weather we've had recently I'm not sure that the remaining one isn't frozen stiff and died.

I haven't seen it move in a day or two but it has moved yesterday it was on the bottom on one side today it's on the bottom against the glass on the front of the tank. I used to use this tank to grow plants and Live Food for the Goldfish upstairs but the Guppies in it started to freeze to death. Now I can not see any Guppies which where as long as the little goldfish and this one is sulking on the bottom amongst some algae.

There is also another Black Moor in there somewhere but I haven't seen that one for a couple of weeks now. Perhaps it jumped out and attacked someone who walked past and I haven't noticed it missing. Maybe it was one of the rare Vampire Black Moors that I???ve heard about. :^0

Actually the truth of the mater is that the water is so cold that I'm not about to stick my arm into it in a hurry so whatever is going on down there can wait till spring comes around. ;)

Col

by hal 9000

I believe it was down to 5C last night.

Down south they are expecting up to 30 CM of snow between now and Wednesday so it's more cold there. :p

But here provided that it gets no colder things will be OK after all Jell Batteries used in Solar Arrays don't work very well when they freeze. I would have to send [b]SWMBO[/b] down to lie on them to keep them warm if it gets any colder. ;)

But I have had a look as I pulled some plant out of the tank downstairs and feed it to the fish upstairs. [i]I got the Daughter in Law to do this, shes younger and doesn't feel the cold as much as me.[/i] When I was doing that I looked for the other Invisible Black Moor and I'm dammed if I can find it. I have moved all of the loose plant from the bottom picked up the sheets of slate and I can not see it.

However the Depressed one that was lying on the bottom did move its mouth so its still alive for the time being. :^0

Col

by santeewelding

You go putting all those gigajoules into it and you forget...

Add: It's how I get past security checks. I present different fingerprints every time through. Smeared, kinda like.

by hal 9000

I see something small enough to pick up and I just have to try to pick it up to save reaching for something else to pick it up with.

But I'm going to have to get busy and dig the Mig out from where it's hiding. Of course I have to find it first to see where I hid it. Of course the repair of the Mulcher is urgent because I have to mulch down some out of control trees but with the way I do things I want to around the house there seems no rush any time in the next decade will do.

Anyway Santee are you enjoying hobbling around? Fun isn't it?

Col

by hal 9000

That I grow Carnivorous Plants what else do you all expect?

Triffids anyone. :^0

Col

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