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Your links are mixed up
Feb 17, 2004 10:29AM PST

You're posting from Linux I bet. Your last two links led back to the post. The Linux clipboard messes up on me sometimes too and I've never figured out why for sure. By "messes up" I mean that copying something, then pressing ctrl-p vs. using the middle mouse button can paste two different things. Different clipboards I guess.

DE

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That's not it....
Feb 17, 2004 10:36AM PST

It has to be a software glitch on the server side. I did copy and paste the link, using Knoppix, but even that would not yield a link pointing back to the post itself, that would require editting the link after pasting it to get a link back to a forum message that doesn't yet exist. The link I pasted was http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35608.html

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You're right
Feb 17, 2004 10:44AM PST

I looked at the source for that frame and your url shows up correctly and points to that article, yet when it displays on forum it points back to the original post. Strange.

I noticed a brief forum outage tonight and another one or two prior.

DE

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Re:You're right
Feb 17, 2004 10:47AM PST

This is not the first time this has happened to me. Me thinks there is an intermittent bug in the forum software.

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Curious
Feb 17, 2004 10:54AM PST

Were you using Knoppix every time it happened?

I'm running an old version of Mandrake, going to switch to PCLOS when the new kernel gets in there.

DE

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Re:Curious
Feb 17, 2004 10:59AM PST

No, but it's always been with Mozilla or Firefox under Knoppix or Windoze 2K.

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Maybe the Mozilla parts then?
Feb 17, 2004 11:04AM PST

But thinking again, probably not. It almost has to be the forum software, for all that I can figure. Why would the source show the correct link, yet clicking on it send to the original post?

Using Opera 7.23 here now.

DE

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Re:Maybe the Mozilla parts then?
Feb 17, 2004 11:08AM PST

That's always been my thought. Maybe someone that uses IE, god help them, can let us know if they've ever experienced the same.

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Double Double Quotes
Feb 17, 2004 11:37AM PST

That must be it. Here's a cut and paste of your post from the "view source." Note the double double quotes:

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Here ya go ladies...<br><br><a href=""http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35608.html"" target="_blank">The biggest ever diamond has been found floating in space. The gem, estimated at close to 10 billion trillion trillion carats, is at the core of a dead star (BPM 37093) - a crystallised white dwarf.<br><br>The newly-discovered diamond in the sky is a whopping great chunk of crystallised carbon 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is 2,500 miles across (the moon is approximately 2,200 miles across) and weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds...</a></font></p>
<p><font face="MS Sans Serif, Trebuchet MS" size="-1"

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Compare that to a cut and paste of an URL from one of my posts:

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Something relaxing, re <a href="http://www.cswnet.com/~devans/barry.jpg" target="_blank">Barry</a><br><br>DE</font></p>
<p><font face="MS Sans Serif, Trebuchet MS" size="-1">

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So I guess it's the double double quotes.

DE

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Re:Double Double Quotes
Feb 17, 2004 11:44AM PST

When I created the original post I used single quotes with the url BBC code though. Somewhere in the conversion to an anchor tag the double quotes got created. I've used single quotes ever since the forum software was changed and it had the double quote bug. Perhaps the use of single quotes is the cause of the intermittent bug.

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Let's see
Feb 17, 2004 11:50AM PST

Trying a link to the "Barry In The Crosshairs" pic using single quotes:

'http://www.cswnet.com/~devans/barry.jpg'

BTW, I think double quotes work just fine now in the body of a message, but they still won't work in the subject line.

DE

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Well that screwed the url up....
Feb 17, 2004 11:54AM PST

and gave me a weird hybrid url. But view source shows double quotes surrounding single quotes in the url.

DE

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Re:Well that screwed the url up....
Feb 17, 2004 12:57PM PST

It may take numerous tries to duplicate it. I've always used single quotes since the software was changed but the link back to the post only happens 1 or 2 percent of the time. Most often it posts correctly.

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Re: Moon-sized diamond found in space -- boy, THAT could pay for the space program!
Feb 17, 2004 11:56AM PST

Of course, it would drive down diamonds to be worth about the same as cubic zirconia!

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Re:Moon-sized diamond found in space
Feb 17, 2004 8:14PM PST

Wouldn't it be nice if we could bring people back to tell them they were right after all? Whoever wrote the verse (about 200 years ago according to the link below) would be well gratified by this new finding, i.e.

Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are.

And now we know!

http://www.thegreatstory.org/stardustprelude.html

Of course, since we are all carbon-based, doesn't that make us all little diamonds eventually to be made into one big one when our own sun becomes a white dwarf?

I shall from now on think of myself as a little diamond, even though the rest of you might think of me as a (insert your own word!).

Regards (PS What's the new way to say Lots of Love since LOL has taken over. Though I guess LOL would do in this case...)

Mo

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(NT) PS to Evie - You haven't laid claim to it already have you? Regards Mo
Feb 17, 2004 8:17PM PST

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