Posted on 04/07/2008 3:18:37 AM PDT by John Robinson
First up, made a change to the My Comments (aka Pings aka "New Comments to You") page. You can now clear your comments page by using the new "Clear Pings" link. This is the only way to remove the "New Comments to You" indicator. (You can still view all past comments to you via "View All")
Next up on the menu: I've been upgrading the system software on all our servers. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way the spell checker broke and the new version of that software depends on software that I haven't yet been able to upgrade (because that software depends on a kernel feature that isn't available using the ancient kernel I have installed.) What this all means is that I will be taking a drive up to San Jose in the very near future (Monday night) to perform delicate surgery with a very large hammer. Once that is done, the spell checker will work.
I'm also aware that the time zone preference is not working, and I believe that problem may also be fixed by the same large hammer that will fix the spell checker (it's a very big hammer.)
So in summary, clear your pings, don't make any spelling mistakes until Tuesday and kick back and enjoy the California sun.
My profile page isn’t blank. But when I click on edit it is blank.
Can you please call Bill Gates into your office and shoot him on sight?
I know he had nothing to do with this software glitch, but please do it anyway. Just for kicks and giggles. He’s guilty of something. He had it coming.
When changes like this come up, its always difficult to find a thread about it if you dont happen to be on when the discussion is hot. So, threads pop up all over asking about the changes. I propose either linking a thread like this at the top of the main page,
This would be a very good idea. He could put it on the far right in a little blue box -- may be on top of Popular Keywords. (Free Republic Resent Updates)
I hope he sees your idea.
I've been reading that several people have this problem, so finally decided to check mine. When I click on "You can edit this page," my html code is in the box like always. Hmmm....
Fixed.
Yep. Thanks. It is fixed.
Shoot Bill Gates anyway just for fun :-)
Sure it’s not his fault. Who cares? If they can blame Bush for everything, we can blame a lib like Gates for stuff he didn’t do.
I just tied mine again and it works..The html is there!
tied...tried!
Thanks for the Ping, Flyer.
I found this thread earlier today, not really sure which tab I clicked on the top. I see it’s listed in the sidebar, also.
I wish there was a FR tutorial for NEWBIES, maybe there is and I just haven’t figured out how to find it yet. If you, or anyone reading this, knows of a FR tutorial thread please send it my way.
Thanks.
NEWBIE HELP: [Links To The Best Help Threads]
Me ^ | 9/29/2006 | Me
Posted on 09/29/2006 8:14:31 PM PDT by Fiddlstix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711011/posts
Lots of help here
My company’s firewall does NOT like your new changes.
Take a look at the FReepathon bar at top of each page:
2008 Q2 FReepathon. Target: $72,000A little quick math with this suggests that we have a total annual budget of under $300,000. The whole thing: equipment, bandwidth, electricity, gas for John's car, salaries, legal bills, and cat food (those Viking Kitties eat don't they, or do they just feed on trolls?)
Experience at bazillion dollar companies informs one little about the necessities of running an active project, live, nonstop, for a decade now and ongoing, on a budget that couldn't pay for two of the better people at the big company, sans all else.
Work that is divided across multiple people, groups and departments in the big company is carried around in different parts of the brain of a man named John. It's Jack Bauer, versus an armored division with full support. It's the victims belt, hurriedly re-purposed as a tourniquet, versus an entire M.A.S.H. unit.
You really are dealing with a person here, not with an org chart. What gets done has to fit in the head and gut of that person. The org chart of General Motors has a fundamentally different shape than John's gut. It's not like the difference between a Viking Kitty and an African lion, where one is a miniature version of the other. It's more like the difference between a single Viking Kitty and a pod of whales.
The amazing thing is that John is still going at this full tilt after a decade. Very few people can last that long in such a job and still be fully engaged. Not even Jack Bauer.
Thanks, John.
Would you care to drop us any hints as to what's happening? Understand that it's rather unlikely that your company's firewall cares one bit about John's changes, but perhaps if we had some clues as to what you're seeing, we can send you off in more useful directions to look for solutions.
Thanks, John.
I cant explain the problem except to say that it locks up the computer sometimes and didn’t before.
It might just be a cluster-fudge caused by something else.
Yeah. You went back to the old ping format. Thank you.
And my posts are highlighted in green. Awesome. I like it!!!!!
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!
I like my pings TO people being in green because now I can go back and find the last green post and know where I left off. It’s a tremendous help.
I like the new mods even better than I liked yesterday’s lot. Huge improvement in functionality: my stuff in green, others stuff in black. “Mark all as read” — great. #X of Y — great. It is intuitive and much nicer to use.
Thanks, John! Well done!
Me too. That's a nice feature.
Also happy and relieved to see the more traditional Comments Page has returned. Thank you, John!
It’s so much easier to FReep when you don’t have to think about what you’re doing.
Uh, that didn’t come out right....
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