It hums because it doesn't know the words.
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Rural phone lines would pick up AC induction from power lines and it would cause an AC hum that could be heard on the phone. We used to tell it to the younger phone people.
I actually had a case of trouble years ago out south of Cedar Hill, south of Dallas. The customer called in with the report, hum on the line. I explained the reason. She was not impressed and actually called in and reported me while I was there. I took my time fixing the problem.
Personally, I'm excited that old threads appearing at the top of the listings will be crushed with this round of updates. Bug fixes generally aren't glamorous like new features are, but they're often far more fundamental and critical.
John
a reminder to posters to furnish more complete info re their system....specifically the "mfg name, the series and model number". Posts often fail to indicate the platform ..desktop or laptop or the complete system names as indicated above. So often poster omit the series such as 'Pavilion' which makes it very difficult to locate mfg docs or compatible RAM at sites like Crucial.com
Regards,
VAPCMD
Here's what we will see when we go to create a new thread:
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/forums/screenshots/createnewdiscussion1.bmp
Basically, wording remains the same. However, my experience is that the 'red text' isn't read consistently anyway, so adding to the bulk there likely will not make much difference. Perhaps there's another way to get the point across?
John
If they have not included that information, then as soon as they click the Submit button with their mouse, they get electrocuted, with an on-screen message, "I TOLD You!!"
Mark
It's sad, but as much text as we put to tell people to include the necessary information, people just don't seem to read it. Honestly, it never fails--no matter how bright, how flashy, the warning is, many people either choose to ignore it or just don't read. I've seen this in many other places besides the forums.
The use of the mouse shock might be the only resort ![]()
-Lee
The on-screen message, "I TOLD You!!" is a wonderful touch! ![]()
Ahhh well, the secret is out noww, but yes, that will be the fix as part of this roll out. We attempted to release that fix last Thursday 4/7, but we encountered some technical issues during that deployment. We'll see how it goes either tomorrow or the following day. I got my fingers crossed.
How was I supposed to know that the files in the hidden floor safe were secret?? ![]()
Might as well divulge another little one - they explored the electro-shock mouse idea, but determined that playing a recording of fingernails on a chalkboard would be more humane. Triggers: omitting critical information and entering "hi" as the subject line. ![]()
John
to the sound of a glass shattering.
http://soundbible.com/tags-glass-shatter.html
the East German cops used a recording of Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini to torture an E German suspect. (Implied it wouldn't work on us Yanks, who thrive on such.)
BTW love your initials. ![]()
....is great news and long overdue. Looking forward to it.
Will this release address the issue of people resurrecting years-old discussions to post spam?
Yes once those spam post have been deleted on reincarnated threads, those old threads will drop back to where they came from. I can't wait! This bug has been bugging me since we launched the new forums backend.
As for the text editor, I'm hoping it works out for everyone. Depending on the browser, copy and pasting into the body field can do weird things, sometimes it works great sometimes it doesn't--it is a bit finicky depending on where you are coping the text from. If all fails, people can toggle to the standard submission form that we currently have and bypass the WYSIWYG editor.
All these years of waiting for this text editor I can't believe it's actually going to be implemented. I've personally been waiting for 8 years to get this into the forums! For some reason or another adding a text editor into the submission form everytime has been a huge challenge--even this time around.
I have my fingers crossed that it works out.
Thanks Josh.
-Lee
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I'd still like to see an Edit option, at least within the first 60 seconds after posting. Would save people having to post again to explain or fix a typo, and allow people to delete a post entirely if it was done in haste and the person regrets having posted it.
Just leave that open for those 60 seconds. ![]()
John
But it left me wondering. What if someone puts a spam on an old thread, and then someone adds a post that isn't spam. When the spam is deleted will the whole thread drop back, or only if all new posts in the thread are deleted?
then it will drop down. If the post is legit, then it stay up top.
Hope this clarifies it.
Thanks,
-Lee
Hey everyone,
Great news! We will be deploying these new features and the forum redesign tomorrow morning (4/14/2011) at 9:30AM Pacific Time (12:30PM Eastern). While this transition takes place, there will be a 2-hour forum outage in which the forums will be placed in read-only mode. If all goes according to plan, we should be seeing the redesigned forums and all the new features at 11:30AM Pacific Time (2:30PM Eastern).
I will have a separate announcement for the outage.
Please wish us luck for a smooth transition.
See you all on the other side tomorrow!
Thanks!
-Lee
Thanks!
-Lee
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You'll have noticed that many of us were having trouble posting inadvertently, blaming it on STUPID COMPUTER! However with the new layout I haven't done it yet, so it must have been CNET/CBS/STUPID OLD SOFTWARE!
I notice that sometimes the Track Thread is selected, sometimes not. (I rarely track.) Maybe it's something I'm doing on the keyboard. Easily corrected, anyway.