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Earlier today I was thinking, more and more people are using their Cell Phones, PDAs and other mobile devices to surf the internet. And while browsing through CodeProject with my phone, I realized that the layout was horrible and the content was pretty much thrown everywhere.
I doubt CodeProject was designed for both computers and mobiles, but I think with the increasing rate of people surfing with mobiles, that CodeProject might consider improving this.
Any chance of this happening sometime soon?
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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It's definitely going to happen but I can't give you a when. Not yet.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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CP was the first site I visited when I setup my wireless network and tried browsing the web with my PSP. Difficult is an understatement!
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The forums are ucked with an F. What's happening?
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Forums aren't transactional so things get mixed up. Let me know which thread and I'll kick it.
Yes, we're going to fix it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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If you know how to fix when it happens then why can't you fix the cause? Is it one of those really obscure bugs that you can't stand but can't understand wtf it is happening?
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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It's one of those bugs that is caused by an architecture that was meant to deal with 3,000 members, not 3 million. The fix is in progress
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I know you are bizzy.... but could you tell me what is causing it (like failing functions that try to do too much) or failing DB connection or what?
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Bradml wrote: but could you tell me what is causing it
I suspect it's Bob falling off the wagon. 
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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When I vote on a thread at home that I've voted for at work, I get a message saying somebody with my IP address has already voted or something to that effect. I believe this is a legacy from the days when anonymous users could vote and only one anonymous user per IP could use it. It should say "You can only vote once.".
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott
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No it is all IP based.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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I doubt that, otherwise I'd be able to vote from home even though I've already voted from work using the same account name.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM
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My apologies, I miss read that. Basically what happens is this:
- Your IP is checked
+ If has voted you are not allowed to vote ||
+If has not voted proceed >
- Your userID is checked
+IF has voted you are not allowed to vote ||
+If has not voted you are allowed to vote <>
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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That is how it used to be, but you can only vote now if you're signed in, and if you are, it doesn't matter what your IP address is because a lot of signed in users share the same IP address, but can vote as individuals since they're signed in. Thus, the error message is obsolete.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM
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IP tracking is still used to stop counterfit votes.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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How is that possible if a user can log into any machine and vote, but cannot vote without logging in?
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM
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You seem to be having trouble understanding this. Basically it boils down to people wanting to swing votes one way or another, and so they create duplicate accounts to vote numerous times. Now the best way to authenticate an individual is by their IP (or SSN). So basically you have to check IP, User logged in and maybe even as a last resort: cookies.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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And how do you tell the difference between one person logging in as different users using the same IP address and two people logging in as different users using the same IP address? There was a news story a week or so ago where Wikipedia or somebody blocked one person's IP address and it turned out to block their entire country's internet users since all of that country's users shared the same IP address from their only telecommunications company. If IP addresses are still used, then that is a problem for many users.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM
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You are arguing about something that is not worth arguing about. Although it is a frustration that we cannot verify individual users we CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT and therefore you must understand that webmasters have to use whatever they can to stop unfairness.
I am tired now so I don't fell like explaining concepts like this. Perhaps a google on "user verification" will turn up one of those primary school tutorials on why you need to do this.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: If IP addresses are still used, then that is a problem for many users.
It's a problem for many users. See this thread.[^]
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Yes. What he said.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: it doesn't matter what your IP address is because a lot of signed in users share the same IP address, but can vote as individuals since they're signed in
Not so. If someone else has voted and he/she shares your IP address, you cannot vote on messages. Smitha and I cannot vote on the same message from home, since we will both be on the same external IP. Chris is aware of this and at the moment, he doesn't have any plans on working around this situation. There was an earlier thread (this page or the next page) where I have suggested an possible solution.
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Damn, but if you can only vote when you log in, then that should create some protection. If someone (Kyle) is going around creating multiple accounts, then they're still gonna come around and post messages even if they can't vote, but you cripple honest people's capability to voice their opinion. How many people are creating accounts to just vote and not post that we had to disable voting per IP?
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Damn, but if you can only vote when you log in, then that should create some protection. If someone (Kyle) is going around creating multiple accounts, then they're still gonna come around and post messages even if they can't vote, but you cripple honest people's capability to voice their opinion. How many people are creating accounts to just vote and not post that we had to disable voting per IP?
It takes just one bad apple to... 
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But if different users can create multiple accounts to post from the same IP address, but not to vote, isn't that a lot worse for potential abuse? Or are IP addresses unique to accounts for posting as well as voting? If so, then they way it is is fine for now. Liked your suggestion on fixing this by the way.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM
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