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Admin and Support => Manband Forum Central => Topic started by: Jules on July 19, 2008, 12:13:17 PM
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If, while visiting the Forum, you discover any bugs, defects, faults, problems, issues, anomalies, or errors (or any other way you want to describe them), then please post a message in this Topic.
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Jules. If you click on the "W3C XHTML 1.0" logo at the bottom of any page, the validation fails with over 40 errors.
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A lot of them are caused by the scrolling list of gigs at the top of the page.
Whose bright idea was that?
;D
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Whose bright idea was that?
;D
To be 100% accurate, I actually suggested a sticky topic. :P
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Jules. If you click on the "W3C XHTML 1.0" logo at the bottom of any page, the validation fails with over 40 errors.
Thanks Mark. 43 solutions required then. Forgive me if I go to Leicester instead.
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Forgive me if I go to Leicester instead.
Only if you post a *!$%*%$!??* review....
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Only if you post a *!$%*%$!??* review....
Jules, do you think we should tell 'em what they missed??
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Jules,
As I type this my PC thinks the time is 23:23 on Sunday November 2nd (which is correct), but the Manboard, as shown in the top right corner below the MAN logo, thinks that it's 'November 03, 2008, 12:23:12 AM'. I don't think that it's normally in a different time zone. The post I made earlier in the main forum is shown on the front page with a date of 'November 02' rather than Today as I would expect.
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Jules,
As I type this my PC thinks the time is 23:23 on Sunday November 2nd (which is correct), but the Manboard, as shown in the top right corner below the MAN logo, thinks that it's 'November 03, 2008, 12:23:12 AM'. I don't think that it's normally in a different time zone. The post I made earlier in the main forum is shown on the front page with a date of 'November 02' rather than Today as I would expect.
Thanks Mike. The timezone offset is one of the values you can modify within your own profile, under the Look and Layout Preferences menu.
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The timezone offset
Great name for a band!
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On the Music page: http://www.manband-archive.com/music/index.php (http://www.manband-archive.com/music/index.php), some of the image links attached to album covers fail with an error message:
Invalid request, that page does not exist on this site
yet if you go to that album via a link in the lefthand column, it works.
The affected albums are:
Man: 1999 Party Tour (the image link on the 'Man - Live' page does work)
Family & Friends: Things May Come..., Thousands on a Raft, Return of Ken Whaley, You Always Know Where You Stand, Black Hole Star, Tales from the Blue Cocoons, Doing a Moonlight, Before Your Very Eyes
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Thanks Mike. I'll fix that.
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Jules,
Avatar's Missing.
What's happened to those nice little pictures everyone had?
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Not sure about that one Pete, I can still see 'em. Anyone else noticed their avatars going missing?
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I haven't seen any avatars for a few days now.
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I have avatars displayed.
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Curious... avatars have disappeared for me, on both Firefox and IE. Tried disabling and re-enabling avatar display in profile, makes no difference.
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No avatars here in Iceland - I'm on Firefox.
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I looked through some old mails yesterday (funny to see how everyone was struggling with the new forum) specifically looking to see if avatars were visible. A couple were, but the majority were missing, just the missing icon (square with a cross in).
In the current "Introspective" topic I can only see Gavin's Effigy Music avatar, all others missing. I can see Dave Scotts only in "Cover versions..", Gavin, Tony, Dave Scott, Dave Bardsley, Martin H, visable in "Kingdom of noise..", need I go on?
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Mike Cross's can be seen - but none of the others'.
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Mike Cross's can be seen - but none of the others'.
Mike Cross is one I can't see..
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i see a lot of question marks ???...but on posting this comment i see my own-peace
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I shall investigate further.
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Curious... avatars have disappeared for me, on both Firefox and IE. Tried disabling and re-enabling avatar display in profile, makes no difference.
Actually, now I have *most* avatars displayed, but not all. Curious.
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I can now only see Davey's avatar since he changed it. No-one else's, not even my own. :'(
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I can now only see Davey's avatar since he changed it. No-one else's, not even my own. :'(
Me too.
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i can see everyone's now....
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Hmmm. It appears to me that the ManBoard has been hacked:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=307717.0 (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=307717.0)
We have a recent new member called "krisbarteo", which is mentioned in the text of the link above.
http://www.manband-archive.com/forum/index.php?action=mlist;sort=realName;start=120 (http://www.manband-archive.com/forum/index.php?action=mlist;sort=realName;start=120)
Oh dear.
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everything disappeared again,but today, when i re-put up this picture of my slow motion prototype poster(oh aren't i special?) by rick griffin(bought at the now defunct "psychedelic solution" poster store on 8th st and 6th ave. manhattan, along with a "here now" grateful dead "wake of the flood" poster, and a ravi shankar poster -live at the filmore east 1968,dang that one has a tear in it,must be/can be remedied.oh, giving people superfluous info, what joy it brings me,the idea that someone might care,that they are hanging on my every word,although i've come to realize this may not entirely be the case )the avatar appeared once again.would suggest a re putting up of pictures as maybe rectifying said hack...well i have the night off which is ok because i have a sore throat and my voice is lacklustre.that being said, my friends are dj spinning downtown(60's,garage,pop,psychedelic,early 70's?) with some film(actually i think i supplied one of them this week"tales of the dean's wife" 1970; it's just tame enough with some fish eye lense sequences and psychedelic multicolored vignettes)projections and one of them playing in one of the bands in the back as well.it's at otto's and it's called "real gone".i will be dancing(for exercise mind you)with maybe some added air guitar,not saying too much.it starts at 10 goes till 4.i like to get there on the ground floor when i can.they have it once a month.if you are ever in nyc check it out if you'd like :)
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...lived to tell the tale... :) ;) :D
.would suggest a re putting up of pictures as maybe rectifying said hack...
...unless you already tried that :) ... infinite thanks to the moderators for moving one of my other posts :) ...
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Hmmm. It appears to me that the ManBoard has been hacked:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=307717.0 (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=307717.0)
Many thanks to Mark for alerting me to this problem, and also for digging into the issue and coming up with some answers while I've been away. Definitely worth a pint next time we meet.
The bad news is that we had indeed been hacked again, along with what seems to be many other bulletin boards using the same underlying engine. The good news is that, as this is a well supported engine, the backroom boys had done a great job in creating some validation and correction scripts to confirm and then repair the damage. All applied now, as has the series of upgrades needed to remove the vulnerability.
Some avatars are still missing, but please feel free to re-instate yours now if desired (the hack was originally inserted through a rogue avatar). Let me know if it's still not displaying for you.
We're none of us ever safe from malicious attacks whilst online, so be very careful out there.
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I've got aphids on me runner beans!
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I've got aphids on me runner beans!
Look at this green fly crawling 'cross my page....
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Jules. If you click on the "W3C XHTML 1.0" logo at the bottom of any page, the validation fails with over 40 errors.
Sorted now. New scroller for the gigs list on the default theme for this page.
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Jules. If you click on the "W3C XHTML 1.0" logo at the bottom of any page, the validation fails with over 40 errors.
Sorted now. New scroller for the gigs list on the default theme for this page.
Not quite. It doesn't render correctly in Firefox 3.5.2. The scrolling text is right up in the top left corner.
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Not quite. It doesn't render correctly in Firefox 3.5.2. The scrolling text is right up in the top left corner.
Working fine for me in Firefox 3.5.2.
Maybe clear the cache and try again, as I see you don't have the border around the scroller rendered (which means you're probably not showing the latest scroller version)
I haven't tried Opera yet, 'spose I should......
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Not quite. It doesn't render correctly in Firefox 3.5.2. The scrolling text is right up in the top left corner.
Working fine for me in Firefox 3.5.2.
Maybe clear the cache and try again, as I see you don't have the border around the scroller rendered (which means you're probably not showing the latest scroller version)
I haven't tried Opera yet, 'spose I should......
Clearing the cache fixed it - thanks.
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I've looked at the scroller in Opera. Yuck! Not sure I can be arsed to come up with an Opera version though, but I may look at the stylesheets to see if the scroll bars can be a little less intrusive. Opera works fine with Marquee though.
I did notice last night that Firefox lacks a bit of sensitivity when pages are updated. If the change is subtle (like swapping a ' for a " for example) it thinks nothing has changed, and keeps the cached version. If you get a bit more brutal (like splitting a line in two for example), then it behaves more sensibly.
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Jules
I've noticed this happening over the last few weeks - I'm typing away but sometimes, once I get to near the bottom of the text entry box, the bit I'm actually typing disappears off screen and bounces up and down and my poise lost.
In fact this has just happened on my entry regarding Mr Crisp under the 'Hmmm' thread.
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I've noticed this happening over the last few weeks - I'm typing away but sometimes, once I get to near the bottom of the text entry box, the bit I'm actually typing disappears off screen and bounces up and down and my poise lost.
Interesting. :-\
Have to say I'm not sure what would be causing that. I'll have a play with the text entry screens and see if I can replicate the problem, which may give me some more clues.
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....see if I can replicate the problem, which may give me some more clues.
Yo. It certainly doesn't happen every time, but I'll let you know next time it does....
In fact...I've just managed to replicate it! If you type without copying and pasting anything into the text entry box (such as inserting a quote) it scrolls ok - but if you copy and paste then type it bounces when you get near the bottom! Maybe I'm the only one who has come across this phenomena as many of my entries are long and waffly without actually achieving anything constructive. Obviously the Manboard Forum is so electronically sophisticated that it can recognise drivel and attempts to throw it out. Another interesting thing about me is (bzzzt crackle unplug)
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Obviously the Manboard Forum is so electronically sophisticated that it can recognise drivel and attempts to throw it out.
Nah. If we had a drivel filter it would have shut us all down long ago.
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Jules
The link to George's site on the front page of the Manband Archive should now be http://www.myspace.com/georgejonesuk (http://www.myspace.com/georgejonesuk)
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Nice to see that it is still British Summer Time in Manband Forumland.
My meridians are all muddled.
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Nice to see that it is still British Summer Time in Manband Forumland.
My meridians are all muddled.
And now it's winter....
Does the time come from a system clock or our own pcs?
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AFAIK the time comes from the servers, but the offest value is whatever you have set within your Forum profile. That's why it looks different if you view as a Guest, or after you login.
Surely we're all used to operating in multiple time/space continuums now? Basic Manfan skill is being in several places at the same time.
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Surely we're all used to operating in multiple time/space continuums now? Basic Manfan skill is being in several places at the same time.
Different planets maybe ;D
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...peace Jules i've been having a problem in the last week or two: when i click on "show unread messages" it's been saying there aren't any to show,even when there are more than a few new things posted on the board...... btw there was a post a while ago in another thread about the pros and cons of root canal.well my girlfriends' filling chipped a few weeks ago and we dumbly didn't do anything about it because she wasn't in any great pain...until last night, we were up all night and had to go to the dentist today.she is scared to death of the dentist.it was quite a production.well they gave her some pills and she nodded out,they did some work,now she's pain free at home sleeping like a baby.it cost a pretty penny but i'm happy she got through it.from what i've seen if she can get through root canal most anyone can.that's all...peace
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...peace Jules i've been having a problem in the last week or two: when i click on "show unread messages" it's been saying there aren't any to show,even when there are more than a few new things posted on the board......
Speculation on my part but you've left out the "since last visit" part of the link. If you visit the site and leave without checking this out, any that you hadn't read at that point would be excluded on your next visit.
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i don't think that's it .when i got on just now i clicked on"show all unread posts since last visit" and nothing came up.but a whole bunch of new stuff was there. such as it is .maybe i'm missing something.it's only been happening recently though.i'll live...peace
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Hi Davey, I'll need to see if I can replicate your experience here. It's working fine for me using IE8 on a Windows XP machine. Could you drop me a message to confirm what browser and version you're using? Useful also to know what operating system you're on.
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thanks jules. i had to "view all the recent posts on the forum" to find this post for example.i'll see if i can get someone to help with these questions and get back to you in a few.i'm computer illiterate.i'm sure they are simple questions,but when it comes to computers,i am a simple man.but maybe it has something to do with my new computer received for christmas,my first ever laptop, a dell.i'll be back with a full report -peace and thanks-davey
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Jules. Occasionally I get the same problem. Is it because I'm a Dave too?
It's not a big issue. The Category page icons show unread messages (green) but when I click on the icon the 'Recent Unread Messagees' page shows 'No Unread Messages' but a drill down to the threads may show one or two with 'new' message buttons - and there they are.
I'm using IE8 and Vista.
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Is it because I'm a Dave too?
Yep, that's the problem, all Dave's must stop using computers..
It's not a big issue.
No, that's a mag you pick up outside Boots..
I'm using IE8 and Vista.
..or are they using you?? Debate.
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I'm using IE8 and Vista.
Thanks Dave. I've got IE8 and Vista on one of the other machines here, so I'll see if I can reproduce the problem.
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for me it has something to do with my new dell lap top ,which is now on the fritz due to an "anti virus"virus that seems to come with the computer as far as i'm concerned.i'm on my old computer,a somewhat antiquated apple i mac,which never had a virus,and the "show unread posts since last visit" is working again-peace-davey
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I get the same thing, and I'm a Dell! Not really a bg problem though.
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A suggestion. Davey, Dave Bardsley & Oric have all experienced the "unread posts" problem. All 3 have a local time set that is different from the server time. Davey experiences more problems than the other two, and his time offset is greater. Is the problem connected with having a local time set that is different to the server?
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Call Doctor Who! :D
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A suggestion. Davey, Dave Bardsley & Oric have all experienced the "unread posts" problem. All 3 have a local time set that is different from the server time. Davey experiences more problems than the other two, and his time offset is greater. Is the problem connected with having a local time set that is different to the server?
Actually, it seems that server time is GMT+1, so UK people should have their local time set to (server time - 1).
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Not sure I understand that, but I would want my clock to show actual time, not a false reading. Also, the occurrence is intermittent and, if it was caused by relative time shifts I would have thought it would be persistant or only affecting messages posted in the last (or next?) hour. My head aches. I can live with the non-problem. (But thanks anyway)
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Not sure I understand that, but I would want my clock to show actual time, not a false reading. Also, the occurrence is intermittent and, if it was caused by relative time shifts I would have thought it would be persistant or only affecting messages posted in the last (or next?) hour. My head aches. I can live with the non-problem. (But thanks anyway)
I wasn't implying that those affected should change their local time, just that local time might be implicated in the problem. That said, I have had my profile set to "Davey time" for the last day, and "show unread posts" seems to be working just fine, so it may be a red herring.
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"Davey time is here again" Davey time is a time that is meant to be fun if nothing else ...i will note that it says the manboard time is 10:21 a.m. here it is 4:23 a.m. i forgot to pick up the computer from the shop today and am still on my old apple i mac."show unread posts since last visit" is working like a charm(4 unread posts;i'm like a kid in a candy store)...cheerio...
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hmmm dell laptop is back from shop."show unread posts since last visit" seems to be working fine now(they didn't even charge me to fix that ;))-cheerio-davey
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Jules,
At 1500 posts, does "Hero Member" become "Oh God, not him again.." ? ::)
..and is it my PC, or has "roll eyes" become veeeerrrrrryyyyyyyyyy slow ?
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..and is it my PC, or has "roll eyes" become veeeerrrrrryyyyyyyyyy slow ?
..think it was my PC.. ::)
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At 1500 posts, does "Hero Member" become "Oh God, not him again.." ? ::)
500's the highest benchmark at the moment, but I was mulling over setting a new one up at 5,000. Only one close contender for that accolade at the moment, just a thousand or so posts short.
Cue a round of applause for Mr Heron - our most prolific poster - who also happens to have spent more time on the Manboard than any other member. Or, perhaps more likely, has forgotten to log out more often than anyone else.
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More space /time continuum stuff. It's the future folks.