"Leave the Kernel alone!"
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.
Yeah, it’s broken. It’s crazy, but to fix that I need to upgrade the operating system kernel (due to a dependency of a dependency requiring a more recent version of the Linux kernel.) And that is almost certainly going to require a trip to San Jose, which will happen later tonight. I didn’t notice the problem until after I started the upgrade of the last remaining hold-out of the system updates (which had been running most of the ‘odds and ends’ programs on the site i.e. everything that wasn’t an article page or index page.)
John,
Great changes on the site, but one nit to pick if I may. Can we get the old formatting back on the Pings page? The new formatting, where all the text is the same size, is a lot harder to read. Thanks, and have fun with the hammer!
}:-)4
funny...I read your entire paragraph without a hitch! guess that study was right! LOL
While I am griping, I also hate the "comments" page. It is hard to read now. Weren't the comments divided by a horizontal rule before? Is this a work in progress or is this the final layout? If it is, it will take some getting used to.
On a positive note, FR is still on the internet and for that, John, I thank you. :-)
"Leave the Kernel alone!"
A problem just started today on our FReepmail.
The “replied” indicator is not showing up.
[Mr] T
Another thought to ponder...after leaving a thread, it’s nice to use your ping list to go back and find that thread again to see if new posts have been made. Would it be possible for the layout to be the same as before—the new ping list is so hard to read and very close together, making my navigating method very difficult.
That would help NEWBIES immensely. I've searched on the Home Page and stabbed around in the 'SEARCH' function for FR tutorials. I'm still learning how to navigate FR since joining 2-14-08. I honestly don't even know how I managed to stumble onto this thread, but glad I did.
hey John........HAMMER THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!/ sarc
I always wanted to say that to the boss...............lololololol
Clear pings does the job. The compressed format is also okay. We’ll get used to it.
I'm one of those with way too much time on their hands who has fancified up his profile page way too much.
I wouldn't want to lose it.
Guess I'll set up a cron job to copy down my profile page every day to one of my backup servers.
If anyone else is reading this and would like me to backup their profile page as well, give me a holler. I should be able to add your profile page to my backup script easy enough. If all goes according to plan, this will enable me to recover the contents of any such profile page, to any requested day in the past, on or after today.Would you like me to backup your freeper profile page?
John, could you disable “you can edit this page” or something, until it's no longer a loaded .45 aimed at users privates ... er eh ... publics?
Is there an “undo clear pings” function? I clicked it thinking it would just get rid of that constant “New posts to you” display at the top of the screen, but seemed to delete all pings since sign-on date.
I understand if there is no “undo clear pings” function, but thought it would be worth mentioning.
Thanks for all you do.
It looks like you have also hard-coded out ‘LIVE’ threads showing up in latest posts?
That’s a good thing.
They’re still in the “View All” area even when they’re cleared.
For me, I use this as sort of a to-do list. The indicator stays lit reminding me that I haven’t decided (or haven’t had the time) to respond to something. With the old behavior my indicator clears when I view the ping, then I get busy, get distracted, and forget all about writing a response. Maybe it’s just me, but this new behavior provides a better work flow.
Thanks for the explanation.
I think this is great revenge on the posters who diss California all the time....Heeheehee..
Step away from the computer, and no one gets hurt!!!!
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