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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 13 2014,06:54   

I've fixed several of these in the thread so far.

When you open a "url" tag for a link, please close it with a "/url" and not a "/quote". The unclosed url messes up formatting in posts following it.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 13 2014,08:09   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Sep. 13 2014,06:54)
I've fixed several of these in the thread so far.

When you open a "url" tag for a link, please close it with a "/url" and not a "/quote". The unclosed url messes up formatting in posts following it.

Got it. Will do.

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 13 2014,11:44   

I noticed it too. Might be something out of sync in one of the replies.

Uh, I mean in the HTML coding that it produces, not the contents of the replies.

Henry

Oh. I posted this before seeing the next page of this thread, so never mind.

  
Reciprocating Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 25 2014,20:17   

Noticing that clicking on a participant's name from within a thread triggers an error:

"Not Found

The requested URL /features/aebbexp.php was not found on this server.

Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at antievolution.org Port 80'

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 25 2014,21:20   

Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Sep. 25 2014,20:17)
Noticing that clicking on a participant's name from within a thread triggers an error:

"Not Found

The requested URL /features/aebbexp.php was not found on this server.

Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at antievolution.org Port 80'

Yeah, there was some reason I pulled the plug on that. I'll need to revisit that and figure out whether it is safe to restore.

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 03 2014,01:14   

Finally got around to fixing Search. Let me clarify that. It now runs, but it is still the same old Ikonboard search.

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 10 2015,13:48   

A backup snapshot was taken about half an hour ago. I am going to be getting the server OS updated. If anything goes wrong, I will be stepping back to that update.

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 10 2015,15:26   

The upgrade appears to have been successful, so carry on.

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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 10 2015,16:59   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Jan. 10 2015,13:26)
The upgrade appears to have been successful, so carry on.

Bravo!  :D

   
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 26 2015,22:04   

Record 194 users here last night.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 27 2015,11:30   

Quote (Henry J @ Jan. 26 2015,23:04)
Record 194 users here last night.

weird

   
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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 27 2015,16:38   

Quote (stevestory @ Jan. 27 2015,11:30)
Quote (Henry J @ Jan. 26 2015,23:04)
Record 194 users here last night.

weird

They heard Rich was drawing boobs over on the Gaulin thread.

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 25 2015,13:54   

Spam post on "Science Break"?

Good-bye, Donella07.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 25 2015,15:28   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Feb. 25 2015,13:54)
Spam post on "Science Break"?

Good-bye, Donella07.

You might want to take a look at the posts of "Pasban888", which strike me as having the spam nature.

  
Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 25 2015,16:02   

Quote (Cubist @ Feb. 25 2015,15:28)
Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Feb. 25 2015,13:54)
Spam post on "Science Break"?

Good-bye, Donella07.

You might want to take a look at the posts of "Pasban888", which strike me as having the spam nature.

I didn't see any links involved, which seems to make it ambiguous between "spammer" and "spastic".

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(Permalink) Posted: April 28 2015,19:49   

I can't log in to PT because the Google login is no longer supported, Opera and Chrome on my tablet can't display the WordPress login, and I don't have any of the other accounts.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: April 28 2015,20:03   

I will pass that on to Reed Cartwright.

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(Permalink) Posted: June 22 2015,18:35   

AtBC loads so unbelievably fast that i wondered if chrome was pre-fetching it.

   
Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: July 01 2015,21:46   

When things work right, it hums. The software package running it is about 13 years old now. I think it was geared to work OK on the servers of the time.

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 11 2015,13:02   

A branch across a high voltage line disrupted power and fried various pieces of gear, including the Verizon MOCA junction box. Other casualties included a monitor, a KVM, and the VM host machine that handles running the VMs that actually serve up this domain, TalkOrigins, and more. Fortunately, Marc had a second VM host on hand and the SAN array was unaffected. There may be a couple more interruptions for reboots as updates are applied to the VM host, but the site should be mostly back now.

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 13 2015,04:54   

Just an observation. I've tweaked a few pages for small companies. In one case a parts list table generated by a code generator package had a file size of 10 megabytes.

I imported the data into Access and hand coded a VBA script to generate the web page. My page was 20 k.

Also,  PT and AtBC don't load crap from ad servers.

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 13 2015,08:16   

Quote (midwifetoad @ Nov. 13 2015,12:54)
Just an observation. I've tweaked a few pages for small companies. In one case a parts list table generated by a code generator package had a file size of 10 megabytes.

I imported the data into Access and hand coded a VBA script to generate the web page. My page was 20 k.

Also,  PT and AtBC don't load crap from ad servers.

Oh well there goes the IPO!

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 13 2015,08:52   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Nov. 11 2015,11:02)
A branch across a high voltage line disrupted power and fried various pieces of gear, including the Verizon MOCA junction box. Other casualties included a monitor, a KVM, and the VM host machine that handles running the VMs that actually serve up this domain, TalkOrigins, and more. Fortunately, Marc had a second VM host on hand and the SAN array was unaffected. There may be a couple more interruptions for reboots as updates are applied to the VM host, but the site should be mostly back now.

Thank you.

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 13 2015,18:11   

Quote (midwifetoad @ Nov. 13 2015,04:54)
Just an observation. I've tweaked a few pages for small companies. In one case a parts list table generated by a code generator package had a file size of 10 megabytes.

I imported the data into Access and hand coded a VBA script to generate the web page. My page was 20 k.

Also,  PT and AtBC don't load crap from ad servers.

[nods] Makes all too much sense. The closest I've come to that in my life was, a netzine I became editor of. All the pages in the netzine were MSWord-generated HTML (my predecessor was either unable or unwilling to grapple with HTML directly), and the first thing I did was strip out all the MS-derived garbage from the pages.

Doing that one thing reduced the filesizes by a factor of about 3.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 13 2015,21:02   

Maybe "MS" is short for Mega Size?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 13 2015,22:27   

Quote (Henry J @ Nov. 13 2015,21:02)
Maybe "MS" is short for Mega Size?

[snicker] Alas, no—"MS" is short for Microsoft. The reason MSWord-generated HTML is so frickin' bloated, is that when MSWord saves a file as HTML, it insists on including mass quantities of crap which serve no purpose other than to make it possible for the resulting HTML file to be exactly and precisely re-created in MSWord if/when someone chooses to import said HTML file into MSWord. Given that the most logical reason one might wish to save a file as HTML is that one wants to put said file up on the WWW, it is unclear why Microsoft would rate compatibility-with-MSWord as a factor sufficiently vital that it's worth bloating the bejeezus out of MSWord-created HTML files.

It is a mystery. Or perhaps not…

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 14 2015,00:21   

Interesting. I'm inclined to guess that to generate HTML without all the word formatting stuff, they'd have to add logic to bypass the word formatting in the case where it has been told that the content is HTML. I reckon that document formatting is their priority, and HTML generation options is an afterthought.

Personally, when I've done HTML coding I've generally used notepad, or other generic text editor. Heck, I tend to avoid Word when writing text as well, because it has a bad habit of changing punctuation, letter case, spacing, or even spelling when it feels like it, whether or not I want it to. (And since most of what text I write tends to be software engineering type stuff... )

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 14 2015,02:06   

Quote (Henry J @ Nov. 14 2015,00:21)
Interesting. I'm inclined to guess that to generate HTML without all the word formatting stuff, they'd have to add logic to bypass the word formatting in the case where it has been told that the content is HTML. I reckon that document formatting is their priority, and HTML generation options is an afterthought.

Personally, when I've done HTML coding I've generally used notepad, or other generic text editor. Heck, I tend to avoid Word when writing text as well, because it has a bad habit of changing punctuation, letter case, spacing, or even spelling when it feels like it, whether or not I want it to. (And since most of what text I write tends to be software engineering type stuff... )

Use Tools - Options - Spelling & Grammar to enable/disable  options.

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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 05 2016,11:55   

Can't access pandasthumb.org currently. Is it a general problem?

  
Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 05 2016,12:50   

Quote (Alan Fox @ Jan. 05 2016,11:55)
Can't access pandasthumb.org currently. Is it a general problem?

Yes.

I've sent Reed an email about it. Not sure what is up there.

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