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I, as most probably, ask a lot of hardware questions as well as programming questions. I was wondering if there was a possibility of adding a new message area for general computer hardware questions. I don't necessarily like the idea of cluttering the Lounge with them.
Who am I?
Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design.
Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming.
Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console.
My website: www.GP32US.com
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Hi,
as you know when I reply to somebody
there is the checkbox: Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message
It would be a very useful improvement to have samething similar in two other places:
1)
At the end of each message
like:
[Reply][Email][View Thread][Get Link][Notify me]
2)
and at the end of each article !
Is that possible ?
That would be great !
Marcello
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Marcello wrote:
[Notify me]
Thats a kind of subscribing to the message's response. This seems nice, but this 'loads' the bandwidth like hell, especially in Lounge and other non-programming board.
If thats for articles.. yes, it has good idea behind that
I was born intelligent Education ruined me!.
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Atleast let people know why they got 'less' votes. The reason for 4 or 5 in the votes are ok... but we would be curious to know why people votes us... 1, 2..
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To the best of my knowledge, all areas on CP where it is possible to vote (articles, forums, polls) also provide a means of leaving comments.
If the person voting wishes to comment, they are able to.
If they do not wish to comment, there is no way (short of, perhaps, standing behind them with a whip and a threat) to force them.
But in the end, it's all just database access right? And that stuff is just plain boring.
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Shog9 wrote:
If the person voting wishes to comment, they are able to.
Thats enough for now!!
I was born intelligent Education ruined me!.
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Would it be possible to allow people to choose to view more than 50 posts per page in the forums (i.e. 75, 100)?? It seems like 50 isn't a lot, especially when some threads have a bunch of responses. Thanks!
Agent 86
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u got my vote
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Since it probably isn't that hard to do, why don't CP make an input edit box and the user uses a customized value like 55 or 101 so on...
Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.
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Actually I found a message similair to this one and put it on my sig.;P
Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.
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Actully speaking.. I didnt think of that.
But I dont think that this would be wasy to carry where the cookies/session variables are blocked!!!
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I imagine it would increase the load on the database server(s). And if the DB servers get swamped, the whole site suffers.
--Mike--
Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | 1ClickPicGrabber New v2.0.1! | RightClick-Encrypt
There is a saying in statistics that a million monkeys pounding on typewriters would eventually create a work of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know that this is not true.
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It happened to me once, and I've since become ever mindful of it. I voted an incorrect number, and wished I could've recalled it.
My suggestion is (in the form of a question), "If the person cannot correct an incorrect vote, how about his/her ability to nullify the vote?"
IOW, he/she cannot vote a second time for the same article, but at least he/she would have the ability to correct the error made (in a way).
William
Fortes in fide et opere!
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That's a very good idea - Especially if an article wasn't so good and then the author updated it and improved it. In that senario I'd like to be able to recast my vote to reflect the new improved nature of the article.
--Colin Mackay--
EuroCPian Spring 2004 Get Together[^]
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
if an article wasn't so good and then the author updated it and improved it. In that senario I'd like to be able to recast my vote to reflect the new improved nature of the article.
This sounds a 'reasonable' reason
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Good call. Added to the TODO list. This will most likely not appear until CodeProject v2.0.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
CodeProject v2.0.
When Chris???
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SPS wrote:
When Chris???
When it's finished.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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ad:
One change I have made is in this newsletter. I will no longer be
listing every single article posted or updated on the site over the
previous week since a list of 70 articles is daunting at best. Instead
only those articles that are either unrated, or have been rated and
have a score above 3 out of 5 will be included in this newsletter.
what about new param in user preferences for this?
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Good idea.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Isn't it a good idea to convert each month's articles categorized in separated sections(.net, mfc, ...) to CHM help files. This way all articles are available for download each month.
Don't forget, that's Persian Gulf not Arabian gulf!
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Good idea
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I agree.
--Colin Mackay--
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How would advertising revenue work from within CHMs?
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Brian Welsch wrote:
"blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans.
Crikey! ain't life grand?
Einstein says...
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