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Just a DNS thing.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Is there any way to get it straightened out? who is in charge of such things?
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A guy named "Sparky", who's office is located in a converted Minuteman missile silo somewhere in the mid-western United States. Don't go looking for him because you won't find him. If he had a static IP address, it would be 0.0.0.1, and he's been down there since DARPA started the NIPRNet.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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Thanks, John. I'll contact mister Sparky and tell him he should get his act together. If necessary I'll pay him a visit. My other sources have told me already that IP address, and some related ones, are located in Riverside,CA at (lat 33.9469, long -117.3960); with my special Google Earth plug-in I can see there's only four Minutemen at that location, so that wouldn't take long.
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Straightened out? No. Worked around? Yes.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Wouldn't it be possible to detect the URL and redirect to codeproject.com?
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I understood both http://digital-clipart.de/ and http://www.codeproject.com/ are already pointing to the same IP address, by some mistake in the .de DNS tables; so I would expect the German registrars should be made aware and asked to remove such definition.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: I understood both http://digital-clipart.de/ and http://www.codeproject.com/ are already pointing to the same IP address, by some mistake in the .de DNS tables; so I would expect the German registrars should be made aware and asked to remove such definition.
Not specific to digital clipart, but anyone can point their domains to CP's IP address (for whatever reasons they have). So I was wondering if there could be code that would detect the URL, see if it's codeproject.com and if it's not, then redirect to codeproject.com.
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Yes, and this code is already part of our system, but we have it turned off to give us some flexibility in other areas.
Easy enough to turn it back on...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: some flexibility in other areas
as in someLetter.codeproject.com? where someLetter is some letter, Latin or Greek?
you might check there is codeproject.com in there, and show a mysterious error page when there isn't.
however, IMO all this is just curing symptoms, not fixing the cause of the German masquerade.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: not fixing the cause of the German masquerade.
You cannot fix the cause. One reason people do it is for an improved google rank. Example, I register supercodefromspace.com and redirect it to CP's IP (via DNS). I post a few links around the web till Google picks on it, and I wait for Google to think that it's a mirror domain. My domain's page rank shoots up immediately, at which point, I set up a script/cgi so that any page request on my domain shows an ad or two. If I am smart I retain the CP page content and insert my ads all around the page. Lots of traffic, ads, and money. It's kinda parasitic but in a passive way since Chris and CP are not really affected. But it's still unethical and so the url-detection and redirect-to-regular-domain trick will prevent people from doing this.
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Wow. I never looked at it in that way. So I would definitely check "codeprojec.com" is present in the URL before presenting the page content.
Thanks for the insight.
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Or basically prevent people from accessing the site through other URLs.
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Not in the bug list, but probably a repsot (as far as the bug goes, not the details mentioned here):
reading one of my T&T[^] once more, I discovered a lot of UL tags got added somehow, demoting some list items to a deeper nesting. I removed them manually (going from revision 25 to 26).
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This bug has been fixed but not yet deployed. Hopefully we'll have this live in the next few days.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks.
I'll revisit the T&T in a couple of days, as it still has some extraneous ULs.
BTW: have you considered showing a version number and build datetime, so we can see if and when you have deployed new stuff?
you then could say "will be fixed in version 3212".
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At the very bottom of the page, under "Last Updated" you should see a version number.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I see it, thanks. Why don't you use it in your communications then?
BTW: it also says "Last Updated 10 Aug 2007", that is a very stable application!
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Luc Pattyn wrote: Last Updated 10 Aug 2007
That's the individual page, not the framework version
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris/Site Admins,
Can you make some improvements in Voting? The author should know who is voting and what's their rankings. You can put a link either in the Article page or notify the Author using mail notifier. It will be easier to understand who is voting for the article.
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This will not be done. The reason is that Chris, et al, are afraid that will lead to revenge voting, and I have to say they're probably correct in thinking this would happen. The maturity level exhibited by the bulk of the members here proves the theory.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: This will not be done. The reason is that Chris, et al, are afraid that will lead to revenge voting, and I have to say they're probably correct in thinking this would happen
That logic is kinda flawed. 1 and 2 votes now do show you who voted. And it's 1s and 2s that can result in revenge voting. 3 is kinda a gray area. Maybe 3 should require a comment too (like with 1 and 2).
Right now the anonymous votes are the good ones, which won't result in revenge voting anyway. In fact I think people who vote 4 or 5 should manually post a complimentary message anyway just to be nice.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: In fact I think people who vote 4 or 5 should manually post a complimentary message anyway just to be nice.
Nish, I agree all votes on articles should require a message, hence the voting tool should not be on the article page, it should be on the edit reply page. However Chris[^] wants to favor lazy positive people over explicitly positive people. As a side effect, as higher votes are easier to cast, article scores are inflated and actual article appreciation could be less than their score would lead you to believe.
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I agree. The voting links need to be removed completely. You should only be able to vote when you start a new thread in the article forum. I don't see the point of comment-less votes, even if they are 5s. Other than boosting the author's ego (which is nice for sure) it doesn't serve any purpose.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Chris, et al, are afraid that will lead to revenge voting
Revenge voting is facilitated by the current voting system. As you say, given the maturity level of some members, it's inevitable they will use any tool at their disposal, and this includes the 1-5 voting system. A system that eliminates 1-5 voting would also eliminate revenge voting.
[update: Thanks for the 1 vote. Flaming red letters wouldn't have made my point better.]
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