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I understand the level of frustration he's experiencing. It's damn hard to enter a message if you're cutting pasting, especially if it starts to get even a little complex.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I understand the frustration, and I am myself frustrated that there aren't more hours in the day. I'm not sure how this means being polite is no longer necessary.
Regardless, I spent a few hours Sunday which will hopefully improve the situation.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It was meant as gentle, even respectful, ribbing.
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"Glad to be of service." -- The door
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Agree with the attitude comment from CM, but understand the frustration...
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I voted up a programming forum answer by clicking the 'Good Answer' link and I received 1 point for the voting. However, I found out later that I had already voted up the same answer twice on different occasions and got 2 points already. Now is this really a bug or a recognition of my generosity in voting?
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Your rep events are showing you received multiple points for voting on the same post?
Interesting. I'll look into this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I tried to post a reply in the lounge, with a quote from Bill Gates, and got a refusal:
Items that need attention:
Please do not use Unicode characters in posts. ASCII only
There were problems with your new message
The problem? The code paste had translated quote characters to "& # 3 9 ;"
I.e. You are telling me off, for something you did! 
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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It's just a "don't make me do that again" warning really.
And have you tried someone else's quote?
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You think it might be Bill's fault? 
Well I'm using Chrome, so he didn't meddle with that...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I saw that a few weeks ago too. The paster alters the text to something the poster won't accept. Can't we all just get along? 
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A long time ago we had an issue with spammers and non-english speakers posting a lot of messages in chinese. The only way to stop the rash - and it stopped it instantly - was to ban unicode characters.
However, I know that encoding has changed, as have times, so I'll remove that check.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Leave the check by all means - just stop the paste from converting to unicode! 
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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The check was incorrect - it was merely checking for HTML entities of the form &#N;, whereas it should have been checking to see if N was outside of the ASCII set.
It's served its purpose, and if I need to bring it back I'll fix it properly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This user[^] posts spam-answers in Q&A, he needs three more smacks and he will be history.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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Too late - he gone
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Good riddance to him. I deleted his spam-answers in Q&A as well.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Too late - he gone
Yes, you right! 
Cheers!
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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No, not a commercial spammer, just posting repeatedly nonsense-questions, always with the same stupid subject line "simple question.............".
One of his aliases is umairshoaib[^] by the way, can't remember the third account name, since he didn't use it for quite a while, but after his aliomar02-identity got squashed, he surely will use the other ones now.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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Sorry for not getting back in time but I did take a look a couple of weeks ago and it seemed that this member had posted the message before the account was removed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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When hovering with the mouse over the votes cast for an question the displayed voting statistics is not completely visible when the question is short.
For this question[^] I only see a small upper part of the statistics.
This question[^] is longer and I almost see the complete statistics.
The vote statistics are cut off were the Posted and Perma link portion of the question start.
I am using FireFox 6.0 but I am also seeing the same thing in IE 8.0.
Does anyone else have this problem?
modified on Saturday, August 27, 2011 5:53 PM
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[This has nothing to do with my recent email.]
It seems like all the pages on this site will fit very nicely in a 1000-pixel width page.
1. Is that the official site width?
2. In doing so, are you following the recommendation of some web site standards body?
Just being curious.
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Surprised you didn't know, but;
The computer used to do the layout development actually has a horizontal resolution of 1024, but there is a line of post-it notes (or stickies as some call them) down one side, which slightly hang over the viewing area by exactly 24 pixels. Now rather than remove the 'stickies' and risk loss of the master admin passwords for the web servers, sql servers and of course the god password, Chris enforced a design rule relating to the 1000 pixel width.
Simples...... 
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1024 - scrollbar width and then some leeway.
Guess what the resolution of an iPad is? 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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