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I believe I may have found a bug on the CP forum
If you change your name, then submit a message, then try to modify the message you can't as the password is invalid
I may have done something wrong, but I thought I should mention it after discussing this with David Wulff
Basically I changed my name from:
Peter Mayhew
to
Peter Mayhew 
This was mainly as I was curious if the smiley face would appear next to my name in each posted message.
When I realised it didn't work, and it only printed the text " " next to my name i thought I’d remove it. But on doing so I was asked for my password. After several attempts I realised something was wrong.
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Peter M
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I don't know really why this is, or whether it is intended behavior, but what happens is when you change your name on a post a random password is assigned to it. You can get this password by doing the "forgot password" link on the "enter password" page; it'll send an email to the account listed on your settings page with the password for that message, which you can then enter and edit the message.
Shog9
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And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
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Since changing my name back I am now able to modify all other messages. I only sent one message under this new name which was was merely a test message. So I’m ok now.
Obviously your aware of the problem I experienced since reading your reply message. Thanks for replying.
On another point, I thought that we were able to change our names to post anonymously. Would that mean that you would be given a new random password each time you changed your name to make an anonymous post?
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Peter
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Peter Mayhew wrote:
Would that mean that you would be given a new random password each time you changed your name to make an anonymous post?
I've never bothered to check, but my guess is each anonymous post gets its own password.
Shog9
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And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
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How do you compute status (i.e. bronze, silver, gold) ?
I have seen inconsistencies with this, I don't want to give names, but I have seen members labeled as "silver" but have only submitted around 40-50 message posts and 3 articles and under a year's time as a member.
On the other hand I've seen members over a year's time, and 30-40 messages and 1 article, but they are still "bronze" (should be silver due to +1 year membership).
Whatever the formula is, it should be consistent. I can provide examples, but would rather do that confidentially, I want to respect people's privacy.
Have a good day!
Soliant | email
"During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software.
" - Alex E.
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The tooltips for the links to the messagebords show the "subtitle" of the forum and in the lounge this looks like "For lazing about and discussing anything that takes your fancy. <b>No programming questions please.</b>"
...if you're under 8 or younger. Chris Maunder, the Lounge
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When I typed some articles keywords to search some great examples. When I wanted to search again,
I found that I couldn't choose (or mark)any word to delete and re-input.
It makes me inconvenient to search again and again.
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Chris,
Sometimes in the header of CP, I see the following text;
"Your Visual Studio .NET homepage", (an example here: view top of page http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ShareTheResource.asp[^] ) but why Visual Studio .NET ??
After all Visual Studio .NET is an IDE for development and this site is way more than just IDE related stuff, right?
Maybe something like "Your Microsoft .NET homepage" or "Your .NET Programming Homepage"
My 2cents.
Soliant | email
"During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software.
" - Alex E.
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Because .NET relates to sooo many other things (or only one thing: XML webservices if you've been listening to Microsoft attempt to define .NET), whereas CodeProject is specifically about developing using Visual Studio. The current version of Visual Studio is called Visual Studio .NET, hence the byline.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
Q172653: Sometimes Barney Starts Playing Peekaboo on His Own
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Either I do not understand what the rating is or there is a bug in the calculation.
on:
http://www.codeproject.com/internet/GetIpNr.asp
The rating is 4.25 with 2 people voting. I do not see how this could be calculated from integers. Take care.
"I need a new sig
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Ratings are weighted; see this post for details...
Shog9
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Crazy lady with the shiny shoes, where are you?
Kick your feet and calm the space that makes you hollow
Live, Insomnia And The Hole In The Universe
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I guess it's about time to teach article submitters how to format their articles, especially the width. From the 5 latest updates, more than half CANNOT be read : even when the browser is fullscreen, I have to use the horz scrollbar to read each line.
Authors should see in huge bold, in one of the wizard pages, that their lines in <pre> code sections should not exceed 40 to 50 chars, so it looks fine in the end.
Or better, as it sounds there is some processing behind the wheel when you submit an article in the last page of the live wizard, why not pause submission with a warning page after processing?
I know that's more work for you CP admins, but heck if the articles can't be read, they are not worth a sh*t.
My -0.5 cent.
sometimes it helps to look at the IL generated code
a MS guy on develop.com "answering" .NET issues
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StephaneRodriguez wrote:
My -0.5 cent.
 your taking the money instead of giving, what a nice person you are 
but it is a good idea.
1001111111011101111100111100101011110011110100101110010011010010
Sonork | 100.21142 | TheEclypse
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StephaneRodriguez wrote:
From the 5 latest updates, more than half CANNOT be read : even when the browser is fullscreen, I have to use the horz scrollbar to read each line.
Yes, this is becoming a nasty problem; i've more than once given up in disgust after having to constantly scroll.
Shog9
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If you really what to get shitfacde tell a crowded bar that is is yourt borthday and hife your wallet. you ka will many more friends.
- David Wulff, Brithday selebrations, 9/19/02
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We try our best to get "scrolling" articles "unscrolling" when they come in, even if it's not a full edit...
Regards,
Brian Dela
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StephaneRodriguez wrote:
I know that's more work for you CP admins, but heck if the articles can't be read, they are not worth a sh*t
It is hard enough for us editors to get the horizontal scrolling right, so I doubt article authors will get it right anytime soon.
Anyway we do our best and you just need to please be patient with new articles that are submitted which scroll horizontally.
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Shouldn't "prev" go back and "next" go forward?
I've only noticed it now, obviously been blind for the past year.
Cheers,
Simon
"Sign up for a chance to be among the first to experience the wrath of the gods.", Microsoft's home page (24/06/2002)
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SimonS wrote:
Shouldn't "prev" go back and "next" go forward?
It works the same as most email systems...
If your at page 1... you go to the next page... then to go back to the first page you go to the previous page you were at. Think it makes sense... but maybe it doesn't. 
Regards,
Brian Dela
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SimonS wrote:
Shouldn't "prev" go back and "next" go forward?
It does; but back and forward are related to the ordering of the posts. In this case it is a descending order based on the date posted (posts go from the newest, first, to the oldest, last).
Back should take you toward the first post in the order, in this case the newest post; and next should take you to toward the last post in the order, in this case the oldest post.
James
Sig code stolen from David Wulff
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The name may be "the lounge mirror".
Purpose:I hate the lounge sometimes,It always too hot in seeming a settled time in a day,when a hot discuss occurred,it left other's postings pages behind.
Then no one will bother to navigate pages to reply to someone.
So I think it will be nice to give such postings' author an chance to repost the original ones to get attentions in the "lounge mirror".
But of course the chance is only once,one can not post back to "lounge" again.
this is my signature for forums quoted from shog*9:
I can't help but feel, somewhere deep within that withered, bitter, scheming person, there is a small child, frightened, looking a way out.
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Or better still, there could be a setting which would allow only a limited maximum number of messages per thread. If a user wants to see the full thread, he/she'll have to click on a link to get a full view. If the user wants, he/she can choose to have the settings as they are now, ie view all the messages in the threads. This will ensure that threads do not fall off due to a long and popular thread without the need of any duplication.
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
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When a topic gets audience, it should automatically start a chat room. There is indeed no point in having twentys of two-word posts.
sometimes it helps to look at the IL generated code
a MS guy on develop.com "answering" .NET issues
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I agree.
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I often see myself histerically move the mouse to click on Prev/Next buttons when browsing the CP forum for next message pages.
It gets on my nerves to have to scroll just to find this button.
What follows is a humble suggestion as a general navigation improvement, taking advantage of a keyboard accelerator.
In fact, this navigation experience could be enhanced, and simplified with a key shortcut, for instance Alt+X to go next page.
How does this works. Well, you CP administrators know that the Prev and Next buttons are in fact simple links. What is needed to enable a given accelerator is just add a value for the accessKey="X" attribute in the <a href="..."> link.
Now when the user presses Alt+X (X is near the Alt key, which is fine), the hyperlink gets the focus. In turn, we add this tiny onfocus event handler : onfocus="location.href=this.href"
which as anyone guesses will execute the link itself. For sake of Netscape/Opera compatibility, it can be even simpler to just reproduce the actual link on the focus event handler, instead of javascript code.
What about that ?
if you start putting in too manay features, it no longer remains useful for beginners
quote in a CP article comment, shiraz baig
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Unless you have acessibility stuff in mind, I think this would be of litle use.
Buy a mouse with mousewheel.
"In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence." Peter's Principle
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