Recent content by JohnDuncan

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    Beginning to lose patients with the forums text editing and posting.

    Should be fixed for both of you now - apologies. If anyone else has problems, please mail Parksy to ask to be placed in our 'unmoderated users' group, which always avoids the captcha. I say Parksy rather than me directly because he'll be in a better position to say whether you can be trusted -...
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    What is the file?

    No LB - does it say what the file name is or anything?
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    New Posts

    This website is built on an open-source content management system called Drupal, which has a forum built in. Though it's not as good as IPB or vBulletin or whatever, it serves its purpose, is free, and can be extended quite easily to make the forum more functional. The advantages are that it...
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    New Posts

    How long've you got?
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    Internet Explorer 9

    Beware beta software full stop. I mean look at the trouble we had with this new site for the first couple of weeks...
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    X Factor

    I saw him with Randy Rhoads before he died. Dundee Caird Hall, 13 September 1980. I'd only just turned 14 and forgot to pay full fare on the bus and got into trouble. Caught Lee Kerslake's drum stick when he threw it into the crowd and was promptly set upon and relieved of it by some big...
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    X Factor

    I *love* X Factor...
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    Can't open latest postings in a thread

    Oh agreed, it was totally delete- and ban-worthy...
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    Can't open latest postings in a thread

    That's about the gist of it yes - when comments get deleted, the process which updates the 'latest post' stats doesn't recognise it. It's on my list for a permanent fix, but I'll fix it temporarily today...
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    Emmerson

    Nothing ever sours my beer Emmerson...
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    Reply to Parksy email topic

    I've marked it as a sticky now, which should update shortly. I don't have access to the database from here though so can't sort out the spurious 'no. of replies'... EDIT - take it back, I fixed it with some witchcraft...
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    Emmerson

    Good, glad Steve got you sorted Emmerson - welcome back.
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    Reference to previous viewed or posted input

    There was briefly, but we turned it off when we were having big performance problems, to take all load we possibly could off the server. We won't be turning it back on again until we move this site to its 'proper' server, which may happen this year, but more likely early next year some time...
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    Emoticons

    Primarily because...why would you want to? And what do you propose to do with them when you get them?