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I work for a living and do not wish to be tracked. 
Cleako
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Users with a user id should not be allowed to post messages.
Especially those with a user id of 7741? 
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What is I made my username George Krakshaw?
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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You've seen them - posts without a name attached (nothing shows up under "author".
I suspect it's a flaw in the registration page that lets them save data without having a user name.
"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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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Not a flaw, a feature. I went to check it out and it let me sign up for an account without supplying a valid username. Later when I posted a message with that account the screen you compse the message in told me I should fill in a username, but didn't have to. I agree, this is a stupid feature.
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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Are you talking about all the top level posts that show up without a name? It's a bug in CP's code. The users actually do have a name, it's just not showing up in top level posts.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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You mean "without"?
Also: the no-name bug is on my list. Will nail it when I get back on Monday
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hello everyone,
I was wondering if it would be nice to have a *notify me by mail when answered* like button for forum posts, so that I for example could get notified when somebody would answer a message that was posted by John Doe  It would be useful, because sometimes I am also interested in the answers to different questions posted by different people and would be nice to get notified by mail other than start looking whether this or that post was replied by someone.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - W.Churchill
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That would be extreme strain on the CP servers.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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This is constantly asked for, and the answer for the time being is NO.
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: answer for the time being is NO
I feel, it is not just for time being -- it might not be a feasible at all, considering the volume of users.
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OK, lemme say up front, that I am sorry if this post smells like a rant. Its
not intended to be. But I couldnt immediatly spot any answers to my questions
in any faqs, and couldnt find happiness through any digging downward from the
top page...
Anyway, my question is this...
Does CodeProject emphasize or standardize to any particular version of ZIP ?
Im running MSXPSP2.something with the standard (I think) integrated WinZIP pkg.
(I cant guarantee this. Im a lowly programmer, and havent slayed any cavetrolls on the job yet, so Im totally at the mercy of my corporate computer IT/firewall group.)
My problem is that I cannot open roughly 50% of the project ZIP files that I
download from this site.
When I doubleclick on an new 'incompatible' one, I get a message that says "Cannot open specified archive. blahblahblah" -and- "... Try downloading again ..." etc.
I *CANNOT* confirm that there isnt some problem here on my end, but I wouldnt
know how to tell. All I can say in this regard, is that half of my example
downloads *DO* work fine.
So, Im wondering, what can be the problem? What does TheCodeProject have to
say/suggest about this (i.e., what can I download thats GUARANTEED to work?).
And, if so, where is this specified?
Here's an article's ZIPFILE which I highly desire, but which I *cannot* open (both ZIPs fail to open on my PC)
http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/AlternateDataStream.asp
Here's an article which I can download, and *can* open just fine...
http://www.codeproject.com/shell/explorerdragdrop.asp
FYI - Im using Netscape 7.2, and the NS download manager creates the same
file over and over again, so its (seemingly) NOT getting corrupted.
Anyway, any help/guidance/redirection would be appreciated..
Thanks
-DaveBrown
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CP doesn't standardize on any version of .ZIP that I know of. Anyone is free to use their favorite ZIP utility to post whatever they need to in their article
There's a couple of thing that can be wrong. BTW: I don't have problems opening any of the files you referenced, so the server-side .ZIP's aren't corrupted.
The firewall your company is using can introduce small errors if it is having problems keeping a connection going or if it needs packet's retransmitted.
Local network problems can also cause this.
And NS's download manager might also introduce problems when it tries to reassemble the pieces of the files. Skip using the Download Manager and see what happens.
The ZIP utility that you're using to unzip these things might not be 100% compliant.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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davidjaybrown wrote: Here's an article's ZIPFILE which I highly desire, but which I *cannot* open (both ZIPs fail to open on my PC)
http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/AlternateDataStream.asp[^]
I had no problem with those files, they both open just fine using the built in zipper in XP SP2. I downloaded them using FireFox 1.5
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
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STOP USING OLD BROWSERS
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'll use which ever browser I feel like. What is to you anyway?
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
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Well because people use out dated browsers It means that us developers have to go back to each and every one and make sure it all works. This means that we constantly have to give up functionality for compatibility.
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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If you developers targeted only the newest browsers it would force everyone to update their browsers if they want to use your site. That becomes your problem, not mine. Every site I visit (CP, MSDN) works just fine with my current browser so I am not going to waste the time needed to download the latest and greatest on my speedy dialup connection.
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
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We can't target the newer browser because you dont upgrade.
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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Catch-22, why would I upgrade if I do not have to?
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
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Because you don't want hundreds of angry web developers outside your house with torches. And also if people would take it upon themselves to upgrade we could start providing you with much better content. Win-Win
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: Because you don't want hundreds of angry web developers outside your house with torches.
At least then I would know that someone actually cares.
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
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Are you a web developer?
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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No, just a hobby C++/MFC programmer. I know just enough HTML to make my CP articles look presentable.
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
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Ok well then you know the basics. I guess you probably have done a tiny bit of javascript or CSS before. For a long time your standard HTML thrived and was an esy standard for browsers. Since then the web has evolved dramatically due to increased resource and interest. CSS and XHTML is what we have to deal with. No two browsers deal with them the same way. I am not even going to go into the many JavaScript flaws.
The fact is that your "FireFox 1.5" contains a plethora of errors that completely compromise our designs. We unfortunately have to support it because we cannot personally tell our users what browsers to use anymore so we have to cover all bases. The problem is not solved in later browsers but it has been greatly improved. Imagine if you had to write an application that had to run in 98, XP, Vista, OSX, Every Linux distro, Solaris and every Unix distro, and you only had a limited set of functions that mean something completely different in every platform and you had no way to properly identify what to install. Also you don't now if your user even has support for the lmited set of functions and you somehow need to notify him only using those same functions.
Can you see the problem we face?
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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