Strange Things Are Happening [Archive]

rich

19th June 2003, 12:07 PM

I did not want to post this in Philosophy Forum, but rather in INTERNAL AFFAIRS. Was sort of prompted to change password and name, and sort of forced to post it here. Will try later, but to give you an idea, others may be having troubles too. Will stick with it. Very many excellent features here. Once bugs eliminated, you will have best websforum on internet.

Thank You, Thomas. :D <_<

Thomas Knierim

19th June 2003, 12:39 PM

Hi Richie,

Thanks for your comment and welcome as the first subscriber of the new board. The "Internal Affairs" forum is replaced by the "Help Desk" and "News, FAQs, and Announcements" forums. As you see, I have moved your post to the Help Desk.

You can keep your old name. The database is empty right now, so whoever comes first wins. However, once you have subscribed you cannot change your account name (you can change everything else though). The system allows only one account per email address. This means that you are now "rich" instead of "Richie". Or perhaps both :P

If you prefer the account name "Richie", I will have to delete the "rich" account before you can resubscribe with the same email address.

Cheers, Thomas

sahyo

19th June 2003, 04:51 PM

hello thomas

the posts
not posting like posting
....how they appear when reviewed,
not how they appear when posted

also, flashing on the screen
when post

thanking

:)

sahyo

19th June 2003, 04:55 PM

um....
posted like posted on this thread,
but still flashing

sahyo

19th June 2003, 04:58 PM

:o then didn't post like posted,
hehe :D

Thomas Knierim

19th June 2003, 06:34 PM

Post not like posted? - What exactly is different?

Cheers, Thomas

Guest

19th June 2003, 08:00 PM

most which have posted
is posting
with space under the post,
or so is displaying here anyway,
though
isn't diplaying space when previewed

also does the site
require a faster computer than this one?
....this is slow....
when post, it fast flashes black with
electric sounding....
is only happening on this site

cheering, cheers :D

(thanks)

rich

19th June 2003, 10:05 PM

DearThomas,

Finally am receiving posts subscribed to in regular E-Ml. Never received anything on preceding version of Bul. Bd. though I did on original version.

Why doesn't FONT SIZE COLOR Tags function as they should?

Maybe you are aware of this already, or maybe it has been corrected already.

You can leave name as Rich.

Cheerio,

Polaris

19th June 2003, 11:20 PM

I thought I might just test to see if strange things happen to me too. :blink:

sahyo

20th June 2003, 03:02 AM

hehe

Thomas Knierim

20th June 2003, 10:37 AM

Originally posted by Guest@Jun 19 2003, 07:00 PM
most which have posted
is posting
with space under the post,
or so is displaying here anyway,
though
isn't diplaying space when previewed

also does the site
require a faster computer than this one?
....this is slow....
when post, it fast flashes black with
electric sounding....
is only happening on this site

cheering, cheers :D

(thanks)
The blank space below your message appears only if the text of the message is relatively short. This is because each row has a certain minimum height in order to accommodate the member's name, title, avatar, etc.

For exchanging brief personal messages with another user of thebigview.com, you might want to use the PM tool, which stands for personal messenger, and see if it produces more satisfactory results. This is of course different from posting to the board, since it is addressed to a specific user. In contrast, anything posted to the board is addressed to the public in general.

Regarding the flashing screen and the electric noises you mention, I can assure you that these are not caused by the website. Flashing or flickering can be produced theoretically by quickly changing background colors programmed in JavaScript or Flash, however the software used by thebigview.com doesn't change background colors. As for the electrical noise, it is technically impossible for a website to produce this effect. If your screen continues to behave in that way, it is perhaps a good idea to check the monitor and cables.

Cheers, Thomas

Thomas Knierim

20th June 2003, 11:03 AM

Originally posted by rich@Jun 19 2003, 09:05 PM
DearThomas,

Finally am receiving posts subscribed to in regular E-Ml. Never received anything on preceding version of Bul. Bd. though I did on original version.

Why doesn't FONT SIZE COLOR Tags function as they should?

Maybe you are aware of this already, or maybe it has been corrected already.

You can leave name as Rich.

Cheerio,
Dear Richie,

The color feature seems to work fine.

The font size feature also seems to work, although not with arbitrary point sizes.

Since color and font settings both work with tag codes, similar to HTML, you have to be careful about closing tags properly and not using them in complicated nested arrangements. Though invision board can understand nested tags, I am not sure to what level of complexity.

Regarding the subscription feature, I should mention that it currently works only for topics. Unfortunately it does not yet work with forums, which is due to the version number of the scripting engine on the server, as I have been told. This means Track this topic works, but Subscribe to this forum does not work.

Subscriptions have been greatly improved. Now you are notified only once a day of new replies, not once for every reply. You can unsubscribe and resubscribe to any topic at any time. If there was no new response to a particular topic for 60 days, the subscription expires automatically.

And yes, may you be RICH, Richie. :lol:

Cheers, Thomas

sahyo

20th June 2003, 11:57 AM

thanks for explaining, thomasing ;) :)

rich

20th June 2003, 01:38 PM

Dear Thomas,

W H Y

<span style='font-family:Times'>don't </span>

they work in my

S I G N A T U R E ?

Below
|
V

Thomas Knierim

22nd June 2003, 11:33 AM

Hi Richie,

Signatures may contain plain text only. Colors, font tags, URLs, and images don't work in signatures.

Cheers, Thomas

dog goddess

24th June 2003, 08:01 AM

look how cute you are thomas.

rich

28th June 2003, 02:42 AM

Observation: When one does not want her name displayed after registering, just check the little box, which asks you this question. By so doing, you can post your reply, and no one will ever know you are posting or from where, for your presence on the board, is only detected
by your name being Anonymous.

The VIEW MESSAGES option does not indicate what or where Anonymous is posting. However, once posted, it is easy to detect who is playing games. :wacko: :blink: :wub: :rolleyes: :lol: Ha ha ha ho ho ho tee hee hee heelaireeeous.

Thomas Knierim

28th June 2003, 02:41 PM

...which leaves me to add that nothing remains hidden from the eyes of the Admin, of course... ;)

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/eyes.jpg

sahyo

29th June 2003, 02:10 AM

:o ohoh :P ;) :D

rich

29th June 2003, 04:04 AM

Configuration of Location of Posters, when 2 Anonymous Posters are on line: .

Member Name Location Time

thebigview.com - Table of Contents

You just don't know.

:wacko: :P :lol: :blink: :unsure:

sylph

30th June 2003, 02:42 AM

hi, thomas,

i tried to click on the link to the old board from the News & Announcements thread, but i got this error:

Ikonboard CGI Error
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ikonboard has exited with the following error:

Can't open file (/your/path/to/discussion.old/Database/member_profiles/member_profiles.db) for reading. File exists

This error was reported at: Sources/iDatabase/Driver/DBM.pm line 124.

Please note that your 'real' paths have been removed to protect your information.

there were very good discussions on that board, and i want to refer back to them. will the old board be available to view forever?

btw, those eyes are pretty scary. :D

Thomas Knierim

2nd July 2003, 03:03 PM

Uh oh, something must have gone wrong during the last server maintenance. I clearly remember that it worked before. I spent amost two hours trying to fix it, but unfortunately the old board seems beyond repair. Luckily I have a backup. Here is what I will do: I will import the old board data from the backup into an SQL database, write PHP script wrappers, and provide a link to display the archive on thebigview.com. This is going to take me a while, though.

Thanks for notifying me, sylph.

Thomas

sylph

3rd July 2003, 08:54 AM

Thanks for your hard work, Thomas. :) You don't need to rush. :blink:

rich

4th July 2003, 12:46 PM

Thomas,

How much time is allowed to Edit a post before that option disappears, and is replaced by a Quote tab, in lieu of editing without quoting? :unsure: :D

Thomas Knierim

6th July 2003, 02:58 PM

Richie,

Posts can be edited for 60 minutes.

Thomas Knierim

6th July 2003, 03:01 PM

Discussion board archive is online.

The old discussion board is available at http://www.thebigview.com/discussion/archive/.

Cheers, Thomas

sylph

14th July 2003, 11:36 AM

hmm... sometimes when i visit this discussion board, i'm logged out as 'guest', even though i didn't log out, and i chose the 'remember me' option. it's happened quite a few times, and i have to keep logging in.

i did not have this problem with the old board.

Thomas Knierim

15th July 2003, 10:00 AM

sylph: hmm... sometimes when i visit this discussion board, i'm logged out as 'guest', even though i didn't log out, and i chose the 'remember me' option. it's happened quite a few times, and i have to keep logging in.

Please try the following:

If you use Internet Explorer, select Tools / Internet Options, click on Delete Cookies and login again into thebigview.com. If this did not help, please also delete cache and history: Tools / Internet Options / Delete Files, Clear History.

Cheers, Thomas

rich

18th July 2003, 01:18 PM

Some pass their time,

by watching this Board,

Day and night,

Night and day,

They wait to see who makes a post,

And if they like who they see,

They will reply,

Not liking who replies,

They ignore.

One may think, I'm talking about me,

If I were talking about myself,

I 'd be Board Watching, like others do,

I'd be like others too,

Something that I can not do,

For I get Bored Watching what others do. :P <_<

rich

22nd July 2003, 12:50 AM

F L A S H
Latest thebigview Board returns:

rich Viewing Online List Jul 21 2003, 11:42 PM

Guest Viewing Board Index Jul 21 2003, 11:42 PM

Guest Viewing Board Index Jul 21 2003, 11:37 PM

Guest Viewing Board Index Jul 21 2003, 11:36 PM

Guest Viewing Board Index Jul 21 2003, 11:30 PM

Guest Viewing Board Index Jul 21 2003, 11:29 PM

Guest Viewing Board Index Jul 21 2003, 11:28 PM

Guest Viewing Board Index Jul 21 2003, 11:28 PM

Hoha ha:
1 brave soul logged in.
teeheehee :lol: ROTFLOL :D ;) :blink: :wacko:

sylph

28th July 2003, 11:58 AM

Originally posted by Thomas Knierim@Jul 15 2003, 09:00 AM
If you use Internet Explorer, select Tools / Internet Options, click on Delete Cookies and login again into thebigview.com. If this did not help, please also delete cache and history: Tools / Internet Options / Delete Files, Clear History.
i tried that, but to no avail. everytime i close my browser and open a new one to go to the main url of this board, it calls me a guest. :huh:

i'm not sure if this has to do with it, but my privacy settin on IE is 'medium':
-blocks third-party cookies that do not have compact privacy policy
-blocks third-party cookies that use personally identifiable information without your implicit consent
-restricts first-party cookies that use personally identifiable information without implicit consent

i wonder if anyone else is having this problem... :huh:

Thomas Knierim

29th July 2003, 09:44 AM

Dear Sylph,

It definitely has something to do with cookies. thebigview.com uses cookies to identify users and to store session data. While it can also handle session data without cookies, it cannot recognize returning users without cookies, hence the login dialog.

What perplexes me is that the 'medium security' setting in Internet Explorer does not work in your browser. It works fine in my case. I am using 'medium security' in IE 6.0 and I am recognized by thebigview.com, amazon.com, and so on. Perhaps you use custom security settings?

Try this: select the Privacy tab in the Internet Options dialog and click on the Edit... button in the Web Sites group. Enter http://www.thebigview.com into the 'Address of Website text field and click the Allow button. Click OK. This overrides the standard settings for thebigview.com site.

Cheers, Thomas

sylph

29th July 2003, 12:51 PM

yeah, i was thinking of doing that... it works now, but you better not be using my cookies for shady purposes. <_< :D

btw, i'm using ie 6.0 too. :huh:

Thomas Knierim

29th July 2003, 01:49 PM

sylph: ...but you better not be using my cookies for shady purposes.

Fear not, because your cookies are only used for completely ethical purposes, such as determining your political orientation, past delinquencies, sexual habits, annual household income, and mailing them to reputable direct marketing companies, honest operators of pornographical websites, and respectable secret service organizations of the world's top ten regimes.

:lol:

Cheers, Thomas

rich

30th July 2003, 02:56 AM

Originally posted by Thomas Knierim@Jul 29 2003, 12:49 PM
sylph: ...but you better not be using my cookies for shady purposes.

Fear not, because your cookies are only used for completely ethical purposes, such as determining your political orientation, past delinquencies, sexual habits, annual household income, and mailing them to reputable direct marketing companies, honest operators of pornographical websites, and respectable secret service organizations of the world's top ten regimes.

:lol:

Cheers, Thomas
ugh, ohoh. ethical porn web master, sexual habits, etc.?

Who,why, where, when and how? A N D H O W !!! ??

sylph

30th July 2003, 08:53 AM

that's funny. :lol:

however, sigh :( , it worked yesterday, but today i was a guest again. it's pretty weird... my cookies work on other message boards...

rich

30th July 2003, 10:10 AM

sylph's kookee cookies.:wacko: :lol: :P ;)

sylph

11th August 2003, 09:02 AM

now, i am a guest on the main page, but when i read a post, i am logged in; after, when i return to the main page, i am logged in again. however, sometimes the help desk forum disappears from the main page...

rich

20th August 2003, 01:27 AM

Dear Thomas,

It was a disaster, :o
to 'e' the webmaster, :huh:
about thebigview
no where to be seen, B)
on anyone's computer screen.
Related to the blackout of 2003? :unsure:
Let's be patient, and we will see. :lol:

Thomas Knierim

20th August 2003, 11:06 AM

Richie: Related to the blackout of 2003?

Sort of. This particular blackout was caused by thebigview.com domain name hitting its expiration date without me being notified. So, it disappeared from the TLD DNS for two or three days. My apologies.

Cheers, Thomas

a random hack

25th August 2003, 10:49 AM

...hitting its expiration date without me being notified...

Ggrrr, that pisses me off! Just thought you'd like to know. :D

rich

26th August 2003, 07:14 AM

Thomas, God's little secret is our expiration date, even TLD DNS, who/whatever those initials belong to.? :unsure:

rich

26th August 2003, 07:25 AM

Dear Hack,

To make you aware that smilies, fonts and other goodies do not function under signature. ;)

a random hack

26th August 2003, 02:55 PM

Thanks, I know.
;)

rich

27th August 2003, 10:11 AM

I am wise,
To those guys,
who sneak in replies,
and while replying
are anonomously hiding,
within The Board of Discussion
their identification,
from others to see.
I am wise to me,
or am I wise to I?

sylph

28th August 2003, 09:28 AM

i'm using Opera now, but i have the same problem... it shows me as a guest on the main page, but when i go to other stuff, sometimes i'm suddenly logged in again... weird.

maybe there's just something wrong with the main page?

rich

31st August 2003, 10:56 AM

sylph posted:i'm using Opera now

Carmen, Tosca or La Traviata? :unsure: ;)

rich

22nd November 2003, 10:35 PM

Thomas,

How on this good Earth can the real time of this post be earlier than the post, posted last night?

Last night's post: Buddhism
Buddhist philosophy, practices, and traditions.
8 340 Nov 22 2003, 12:59 PM
In: Zen Buddhism
By: rich

A post made after mine:
This one:
rich
Posted on Nov 22 2003, 10:35 PM
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

avttas

6th April 2004, 07:10 AM

Okay, I have no idea where to post this, or if I should since it has to do with another forum.

E-Sangha, I was kicked off today, and haven't been able to get back on. I know other members here go back and forth between these two forums. So, is anyone else having problems??? This has been going on since this afternoon. It is 6:12 pm on Monday April 5th

Also, there are times when I log on here and after it accepts my info, it then goes back and calls me a guess. I have to put in all the info again. Why is that?