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Is there a reason why The Code Project doesn't use GZIP to compress it's web pages?
I was using Fiddler and noticed that the average size for a CP message board page was 100k and wasn't compressed at all. With compression I think it would be around 16k since it's mostly text. There are also a bunch of articles on here about using GZIP in IIS, which I happen to have used to enable it here at work so foreign offices don't have to wait so long to load our Intranet sites.
The only reason I ask is that it would probably speed up the pages for me (Work Internet is slow) and I'm guessing that it would also save CP on bandwidth usage.
Anyway, the site is still great, with or without GZIP 
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We do use GZIP. It's a bit weird though since some GZip check utilities say we do, some say we don't. Yahoo's YSlow and Port80 both report correctly that our content comes down the pipe zipped.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks for the quick response!
Upon further investigation (Calling IT and Fiddling at home), our proxy server at work decodes all GZIP and Deflate compressed files before serving them to the rest of the network.
I guess I'll just have to deal with slow work internet for now...
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 A message with the following content is output: "The name you supplied has already been registered. Please choose another, or try retrieving your password if that is your member name".
That appears to be a bug. Please advise.
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No, it's not a bug. It's there deliberately to stop members from trying to pretend they are other members.
What name are you trying to use? I can look it up and double check if you wish
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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My name is registered as Member 1078443 and I want to change it to Philippe Roy (my own name).
Maybe the message could be less confusing. If I was trying to do something that is not allowed, it should say so instead of the obscure message that is actually displayed.
Thank you
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I'm not sure how much clearer I can be then "The name you are trying to use has already been registered"
What would be better? An explanation of why we do this? Suggestions on another name that's available? Simpler / Different wording?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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First, I am not trying to register. I am already a registered member.
Second, My name is 'Philippe Roy', and I really can't do much about that. If there is another person with the same name, these things happen. Imagine if my name were 'John Smith'! If the database logic assumes so kind of unicity of the name, then that is a bug (it should not). On the other hand, if you guys want to ensure that I am not impersonating someone else's identity, I find this noble and good, and I will work with you in order to build your comfort to a level that you will see that I am not impersonating anyone else, but I should still be able to keep my own identity as it is with my own name.
Third, I also tried to register myself as 'P. Roy' and that produced the same result.
How could we get that resolved?
Thank you.
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Member 1078443 wrote: On the other hand, if you guys want to ensure that I am not impersonating someone else's identity, I find this noble and good,
This like almost all the restrictions on the site were implemented because some kidiots were abusing the feature before. Some sites will suggest alternate usernames if the one you requested is already taken. How hard would implementing this for the CP display name be?
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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dan neely wrote: How hard would implementing this for the CP display name be?
Easy to implement, harder to implement efficiently (I think). I've bumped this up on the TODO list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Or did someone just upset them last night?
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From what we can surmise a Microsoft patch that was applied caused a database server to go a little weird on us. We gave it a good, hard kick and it seems to be behaving again.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: to go a little weird
Is that the technical term for it?
Glad everything is back to normal anyway. 
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Chris Maunder wrote: Microsoft patch that was applied caused a database server to go a little weird on us
Microsoft would never...ever...do something like this  
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Visit my Blog
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I click the link and nothing happens.
FF 3.0.4
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Working now, I think this may have been a case of user error since I'd been playing with the User Agent Switch extension and accidentally left it IDing as IE when I was done.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Apologies if this has already been suggested before; however, in the last few weeks, I've seen 3 individual users post "articles" through the submission wizard when they mean to ask a question on one of the boards. Would it be possible to place a link to the discussion boards, possibly with some red text on one of the pages of the article submission wizard, to make it crystal clear what the wizard is for, and help prevent this from happening?
As has been seen with the Lounge etc it is not always 100% successful, but it may help.
Regards,
--Perspx
"A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year."
-Andrew Tanenbaum
"Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer."
-Fred Brooks
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Seriously? Used the article wizard recently, and you'd have to be amazingly dense to wade through several pages, fill in a pages full of html, just for an urgentz question...
Iain.
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Serbia is like waste land on the map, as if there's no CP members which is certainly not true.
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It's based on some old geolocation data which we are aware needs updating. We're working on it!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I am not getting anything in that page. Do I need to have any plugins for that?
Apurva Kaushal
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It uses Google map but I am not sure whether you need any plugin. FF3 and IE7 show it nicely.
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Ohh... I was checking this in IE as I don't have FF available here. But I think it should come in IE as well.
Apurva Kaushal
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