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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / all this spam!
« on: October 21, 2006, 09:14:58 PM »
Yeah, as soon as I finish my margarita.
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / all this spam!
« on: October 21, 2006, 03:11:59 PM »
No, leave it alone. I'll do it.
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Re: all this spam!
« on: October 20, 2006, 10:29:06 AM »Quote from: ""001010""
Hey, nice av there...
Thanks, Ten. It's an actual photo. You should see me in hex.
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Re: all this spam!
« on: October 20, 2006, 07:33:16 AM »Quote from: ""Guest""
Hey....what's up with all the crap?Seems like every time I come to this forum it's just filled with spam adds. Makes it really difficult to find the legit posts. What a shame.
Maybe I should turn off the filters and let you see the other 90% that we don't have to delete every day.
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Web forum hosting / HTML Editing Software?
« on: October 11, 2006, 01:09:01 PM »Quote from: "".""
Hah. I think some of you actually do believe the 'we' part of this.
There is a good argument for notepad, but then there's a good argument for dreamweaver too, as the notepad weenies tend not to go much further than a few tables.
They do tend to think they're super-l33t though. Funny.
Personally, I think it's mostly about preference. Kind of a Ford/Chevy arguement, for the most part.
And it has a lot to do with the application of what you're doing. It would be overkill to set up an OpenBSD box and learn to use vi if you're just going to serve basic, static HTML pages. Just like it would be silly to try to run a database with millions of records, and handle hundreds of simultaneous connections using WinXP.
vi is nice if you routinely edit files that contain thousands of lines of code. If you don't, why spend the time learning it? I like some of the features like global search and replace, etc. It can be a real time saver.
I assume HTML editors have come a long way since I messed around with Netscape Composer. It was just real frustrating to me, because nothing would lay out like I wanted, and the images would jump to the wrong side of the page, and things like that. Then, when I tried to edit the code that it generated, it was just a jumbled mess, and I had to start over from scratch.
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Re: Morli, Ginger, why am I blacklisted?
« on: September 26, 2006, 01:30:34 PM »Quote from: ""Carmel""
Im posting from work right now, however, I can no longer post from home because I keep getting a message saying that malicious activity was detected from my IP address at home. Ive never posted anything like spam, and I dont have viruses or spyware on the machine (I have a mac, so this is most probable). Can we get this lifted?
Thanks!
Umm... did you try emailing Ginger?
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Open Free for All / Amazon Unbox to customers: Eat shit and die
« on: September 18, 2006, 04:11:28 PM »
Fascist bastards
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Web forum hosting / HTML Editing Software?
« on: September 14, 2006, 10:55:36 PM »Quote from: ""Guest""
:roll: Let the dickwaving begin
See, we purposely make UNIX incredibly hard to learn, so only those who are "worthy" will ever have a chance at tapping into its power. Then, we can pat ourselves on the back, flaunt our knowledge, and laugh together, as we watch all you "mere mortals" struggle to point and click, while we have absolute control over the world's information systems. It's all part of The Plan for global domination by our elite society.
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Web forum hosting / HTML Editing Software?
« on: September 06, 2006, 07:30:46 PM »
The first one I posted, vi, is just a standard unix text editor. And I don't even know if that link was up to date. But it can run on windows, you just have to install Cygwin, which is a unix environment for windows.
But nvu looked interesting, since it's open source. I never tried it though. Actually haven't really used an html editor since I started out years ago using the Netscape Composer. That got old real quick.
But nvu looked interesting, since it's open source. I never tried it though. Actually haven't really used an html editor since I started out years ago using the Netscape Composer. That got old real quick.
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Web forum hosting / HTML Editing Software?
« on: September 06, 2006, 12:35:33 AM »
Having said that, this looks interesting http://www.nvu.com/
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Web forum hosting / HTML Editing Software?
« on: September 06, 2006, 12:17:08 AM »
I use vi, and I've actually made a living with it. :-) http://www.bostic.com/vi/
I think you're going down the right road using plain text editors. It's a lot more tedious to learn, initially. But it gives you more flexibility, and you wind up with code that's much cleaner, and easier to modify in the long run.
I think you're going down the right road using plain text editors. It's a lot more tedious to learn, initially. But it gives you more flexibility, and you wind up with code that's much cleaner, and easier to modify in the long run.
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Web forum hosting / Re: Search function
« on: August 25, 2006, 12:58:05 PM »Quote from: ""Guest""
I don't think there's a need to reiterate the problems with it.. I'd just like to know if maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel..?
Yes, and it's an oncoming train. :-)
The lack of phrase searching is an inherent design limitation and that won't be available without writing a lot of code. If you select "Display results as: Topics", the pagination is all messed up, and there will be quite a few blank pages toward the end of the search results. "Display results as: Posts" doesn't seem to have this problem. Lots of words that occur frequently in the posts were eliminated from the internal word lists in the upgrade, and that was just part of the way the upgrade script worked, so if you search for some of the more common words that appear in the older posts, they won't show up in the results.
These are the issues I'm aware of right off hand. The only one I know of that's readily fixable, is the pagination. And that's way down the list. We've been awful busy with other issues on the new server, and all the other web sites hosted on it, and it will be quite some time before we're able to really concentrate more on the board itself.
I know this doesn't help much, but posting the issues here does give us a list to work from when we are finally able to get around to fixing more of these things.
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The Seed Discussion Forum / Re: forum rules 101
« on: July 30, 2006, 02:00:10 AM »Quote from: ""TimeBomb""
Personally, I think these rules are pretty subjective, and it somewhat undermines my confidence in the moderator's likelyhood to preserve free speech. I think that anything beyond blatant comercial spam, death threats, and stalking, should be guarded and preserved, and the posters should be confident knowing that they can fully speak their minds. Otherwise, a person could very well be afraid to say what's on their mind for fear of it being deemed inappropriate. This has always been the spirit of Fornits forums from the beginning, and I think anything less than that shows a bit of erosion of the core principal it was founded on.
I generally agree. But that's what moderators are suppose to do -- moderate.
Me, I'm just a bit monkey.
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Web forum hosting / Sent box- Out box
« on: July 29, 2006, 02:08:38 AM »
You might need to enable html in your profile. And thanks.
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Web forum hosting / Re: Sent box- Out box
« on: July 28, 2006, 05:52:29 PM »Quote from: ""Deborah""
For those of us who are technically challenged... why do sent message appear in the out box sometimes instead of the sent box? i just sent a duplicate response to someone, then found the original in the out box. Did I do something wrong?
I believe the messages stay in the outbox until the recipient has read them.
Quote from: ""Deborah""
And what about the tags . Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
Well, the tags won't work unless you put the slash before the i in the closing tag.
Quote from: ""Deborah""
Another real bummer, which I hope can be fixed at some point down the line... I was googling yesterday and clicked an old Fornits link to a specific discussion and of course, was taken to the Index page rather than the post. That's really discouraging because there are old Fornits links all over the web.
And yes that can probably be fixed. You've addressed this before, and it is on our list, which is rather long at this point.