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[Kulyok]

Yes, Ashara, I meant exactly the same. But I just noticed what jcompton mentioned - I can't believe I haven't noticed it before! - and yes, indeed, it is rather strange.

[Yovaneth]

The USSR backstory, where "you are not like others" was the ultimate insult, proves my point well enough, I suppose.

It proves far more than a point; it illustrates something that, because we all use the same language, we forget all too easily. A set of words in one language does not have the same semantic meaning as in another. This particular illustration actually quite saddened me because the words "you are not like others" are quite often a compliment in a native-English-speaking country.

Thank you for a timely reminder, Kulyok.

I also get very angry at the "hijacking" of words and 'deviant' has been badly hijacked by the gutter media to the extent that in the native-English world it is now impossible to apply it with its correct meaning. Another good/bad example is the word 'gay'; when I was much younger we used the word in its correct semantic context and it was part of everyday language. Now, thanks again to the gutter press, you cannot use it in its correct context without getting either complete misinterpretation or without raising a 'knowing snigger'.

I have a very deep seated antipathy for two groups of people, both of whom have suffered some savagely vitriolic attacks from me, both verbally and in the written word, in the past. They are the gutter press and the politically correct brigade. Between them they are destroying the rich heritage of my language and they have the effrontary to congratulate themselves as they are doing so.

Seb; I say this with a heavy heart because to say it means that my language has once again been hijacked by those two groups; I believe both Kulyok and Ashara have a very, very strong case for requesting a change of 'rank' from Deviant to something that is more acceptable to them.

-Y-

Edited by Yovaneth, 03 November 2005 - 04:40 PM.

[Azazello]

Just to get back to reporting potential forum bugs...

For a few days now, my firewall has been prompting me with this message:
Generic Host Process for Win32 Services (svchost.exe) is being contacted by a remote machine [66.94.25.120] using local port 3033 (PDB - PDB).

Protocol: UDP
Hostname: www.shsforums.net

This appears to happen when the RSS feed begins to update when I first open my browser, Firefox 1.0.7.

I've been rejecting this request; but am wondering why a RSS feed would initiate a remote call to my machine.

Edited by Azazello, 11 November 2005 - 12:48 PM.

[Shed]

I imagine because the RSS feed isn't coming from your computer.

[kharan5876]

Not sure if this has already been reported but when I reply to a post all the animated smiley icons on the left animate extremely fast.

[jester]

Well, not a bug, but I could not find the random minor praise thread at once. The edit function is really very neat.



Edit: just for the heck of it and cause it was so easy too.

Edited by jester, 13 November 2005 - 01:41 PM.

[Shed]

Cool, isn't it ?

[King Diamond]

Small BUG.

There's no [code=auto:0]-tagged text formatting in PM section - all EOLs ignored and text is appearing as a long single line.

It looks good for "Preview Message" but doesn't work when you look at your actual posted or incoming PM.

[Ascension64]

QUOTE bug/limitation...

As you can see below, more than 10 quotes screws it all up...

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KD's code bug happened to me as well...I literally had to press Enter on all the line returns

Edited by Ascension64, 15 November 2005 - 08:10 PM.

[SConrad]

[quote name='King Diamond' post='228480' date='Nov 14 2005, 01:08 PM']There's no [code=auto:0]-tagged text formatting in PM section - all EOLs ignored and text is appearing as a long single line.[/quote]
I've seen this myself several times, and it bugs me too. I'll see if there's something I can do about it.

[quote name='Ascension64' post='228604' date='Nov 16 2005, 04:59 AM']QUOTE bug/limitation...[/quote]
It was the same way with the old software as well, which I solved by hackin' and slashin' a bit. I might be able to do the same with the new IPB as well.

[Ascension64]

It was the same way with the old software as well, which I solved by hackin' and slashin' a bit. I might be able to do the same with the new IPB as well.

I guess you know when you fix that little bug when my post above gets annoying HUGE.

[SConrad]

Heheh, yes, I suppose so.

[Ascension64]

[quote name='King Diamond' post='228480' date='Nov 14 2005, 11:08 PM']Small BUG.

There's no [code=auto:0]-tagged text formatting in PM section - all EOLs ignored and text is appearing as a long single line.

It looks good for "Preview Message" but doesn't work when you look at your actual posted or incoming PM.[/quote]
Just an update on this, I'm not sure if this is what KD means (since I believe he is talking about [code=auto:0] stuff):

ALL text in PM is not showing line returns.

[the bigg]

I'm getting a rather strange image corruption in some screens, for example when searching:
http://bigg.spellhol...t/other/bug.jpg or on the main pagehttp://bigg.spellhol.../other/bug1.jpg. Ideas?

(WinXP SP2 with latest stable firefox, if it isn't apparent from the shots)


Scrap that, I just DLd Firefox 1.5 and it works now

[Archmage Silver]

What's this new "Posts in this topic" feature that shows the first and the last post and lists the others below? It's annoying!

[Shed]

Options in the top right.

Change to Standard.

[Yacomo]

There's something strange going on when you try to change your avatar:

Mine is stored on the SHS server. When I tried to upload a new one yesterday, the board only resized my current avatar to the size of the one I just uploaded, but the image itself stayed the same. Even removing the old one before uploading the new one didn't change anything apart ffrom the size, the old one reappeared with the size of the new one.

[Archmage Silver]

Options in the top right.

Change to Standard.

Just got back to boards, thanks for the tip, I was beginning to get really annoyed!

[ronin]

In the last few days I get the following error all the time. Can you up the max_user_connections a bit so it doesnt happen. If not its no biggie I can deal with it.

SQL error: User spellhol_forum has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections
SQL error code:
Date: Wednesday 07th of December 2005 04:00:28 PM

thanks

ronin