Posted on 02/22/2015 11:38:22 AM PST by Wage Slave
When I click on a thread why does it jump to the last comment or page? I want to start reading it from the beginning. It happens almost every time but once in a blue moon it stays at the beginning. I am not drinking.
Darn, I was all excited that you solved my problem but it doesn’t seem to matter where I click from. :(
It’s an Asus with Windows 8.1.
W8.1!!
*Horrified screams, the souls of the damned gnash teeth as they wail, and a mime bursts into flames for no reason*
..Asus with Windows 8.1..
Oops... jumped to assumptions again.. ;-)
I don’t have anything good to say about WinAte.. Or WinAte tablets..
Face - is this the thing you had that gave you nothing but trouble? (Asus tablet..)
Yeah, Windows 8.1 sucks but I got used to it.
>Remember our phony insider/necrotroll?<
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No, I don’t. Too technical jargon for me.
To me FR is a great news and opinion source. I’m just curious how many outsiders are interested in this blog.
I do remember that and wondered where it went.
I’m using DOS 3.1 and I’m not having that problem.
I hope you get that fixed soon.
No, I don’t have an Asus but Busdaddy does. His is a desk top all-in-one.
Mine is a Toshiba with Win 8 and I hate the machine and the OS.
Yep, that’s the reason.
We used to have this individual who would pretend to be related to, connected with, or in some way involved in a story.
Usually looooong after the fact.
They would do this to see how many posters they could fool into believing them and defending them.
Usually they would misstate things and be obvious.
Nephew has a laptop with W8.1 on it.
I poked around on it a bit.
And proceeded to invoke Belial on the program team.
“For what unholy reason did you idiots move THAT?!” was a common utterance.
This can happen if your computer is upside down.
Couple random suggestions. This really is a random problem, if it really really really only happens at FR
1. Could be stuck key, but that doesn’t explain why only FR, unless FR is hooking certain keys for scroll processing ... which I doubt.
2. When I first got a computer with a touch pad, I would type (it was an Asus in fact) and my thumbs would bump the touch pad and all hell would break loose.
3. When I first got a mac, similar things would happen, simple because windows is different from mac. I hate when you move the mouse off the screen to read, and Mac thinks you want to minimize all windows.
4. Bush / Racism / Income Equality / Campus Rape could cause this.
5. Question: Does it LAND at the bottom when the page come up, or land at the TOP and RUSH visually (scroll as in the verb ‘scroll’) to the bottom - i.e. you see it scroll.
What if we're both upside down?
To abbreviate the reason, they lost out for technical reasons and I haven’t played around with it because it didn’t seem important.
The long reason: a brute force increment to the database with each view was too spammy on updates, instead I batched aggregate counts in process and updated the affected records periodically. This was performed in a single process within the load balancing software and it was beautiful. Then I switched load balancing packages and lost the ability to use this method. This was before the database was super awesome as it is now. I haven’t tested spam updates or a similar aggregate and periodic dump within our custom software on each of our four forum servers. I’ve been investigating alternatives to our Perl code base, Perl is a great language with a very rich suite of libraries for this type of job, but I want to try a new language platform. We’re also looking a bit long in the tooth these days, I don’t want a straight port but the next great leap in forum design. These agendas have kept me busy, mucking about in the existing code base doesn’t seem as productive.
Sounds like fun!
Wish I knew coding, it seems interesting.
But my infamous typos would probably break reality.
Good luck, and thank you for keeping the “under the hood” bits of the forum going!
Ah, head to post 58.
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