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I've been seeing an awful lot of Internal Server Error messages these last couple days. Probably 2-3 for every five messages i post.
Why does IIS hate me so? 
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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I've asked the hardware guys what's going on. Seems to be a network issue somewhere.
Remember: it's the season for squirrels to come out of hibernation. Anything could happen.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Most suggestions on correcting the voting system (as seen in the recent thread) are focused on cutting the "random" votes.
May be we should go another way - and encourage voting? So all "random" votes will be (statistically) screened by the fair ones.
Many readers that e-mailed me are even unaware that they could vote for the article. I think that placing something like:
"If you find this article useful - please login and vote for it (voting form is in the end of the article text)."
at the top of every article will help a lot.
Best regards,
- Dmitry.
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Dmitry Khudorozhkov wrote: "If you find this article useful - please login and vote for it (voting form is in the end of the article text)."
Or, maybe, just fix the voting form such that it's always on-screen...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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As I understand the idea of voting form now (being below the article) - the user is expected to vote after reading the article.
I think that the ever-on-screen voting form will rage (some) users rather than promote voting...
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Dmitry Khudorozhkov wrote: I think that the ever-on-screen voting form will rage (some) users rather than promote voting...
Some users are just never happy. 
Personally, i like things to be available when they're relevant. It irks me to scroll hunting for the voting, bookmark, "articles by this author" etc. links - i'd much rather they were always ready-at-hand. But that's me - others have notably different opinions on this... 
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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You mean something like the W3C logo that accompanies some of their pages where the div which contains all the useful stuff is at a fixed location on the viewing page rather than relative to the document? Like this[^]?
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Yeah, something like that.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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The Grand Negus wrote: A hundred or so should suffice
Hundred is too much; most articles on the site have 10-20 voices at least.
As for me, the "If you like this article..." message and 35-50 voice cut seem nice.
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1. 35-50 out of 12,000 (or so). 4,024,511 are never present on the site; most of them registered once to download a single code snippet;
2. How many people browse a single category? I don't think too much. Even less people vote for the articles. Yes, C#/.NET are overpopulated, but what about others?
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The book you mention was issued in Russian in 1992. I've read it "diagonally" (oh, shame on my head...), but, as far as I know, now it is a recommended reading in all database-related courses.
As for the book - it was an interesting reading, but I coundn't dive too deep into it. My customers want "good-old" solutions, and not interested in investing in anything that comes out of a standard RDBMS 
Starting to fill the gaps in knowledge.
P.S. as soon as I come with any thoughts - I'll let you know.
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Just to be pedantic we have around 3 million readers visiting the site each month (numbers from IPRO auditing). So yes - we do need to encourage more voting.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Sorry Chris, I meant that 12+ thousand users at any given instant, not in a timespan, hope you understand
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I understood
I'm just proud top have that many developers coming through our doors each month.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I would be to, especially if I got a penny for every one 
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extend beyond the right side of the browser window requiring scrolling.
It seems a *lot* of articles that are submitted initially have this problem. Why not use some css magic to ensure that this is never a problem in the first place?
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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If you know of a COM object that will automatically wrap code snippets then I'll buy you a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) . In fact I'll buy you a slab. It needs to know how to wrap XML, VB.NET and C++ syntaxes.
We have a CSS rule in place to add scrollbars for wide PRE blocks which Mozilla handles nicely and IE just ignores.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: We have a CSS rule in place to add scrollbars for wide PRE blocks which Mozilla handles nicely and IE just ignores.
Probably not what you had in mind but have you considered setting the max width in the CSS pre tag? IE 6 then adds scroll bars when needed.
PRE
{
background-color: #FBEDBB;
padding: 7pt;
font: 9pt "Courier New", Courier, mono;
white-space: pre;
overflow:auto;
width:80%;
}
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Won't work. We need a fixed width sidebar for layout, so a proportional width on the RH portion of the page won't gel
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: We need a fixed width sidebar for layout, so a proportional width on the RH portion of the page won't gel
I’m going to pretend I understood what you said. I do see the auto collapse feature isn’t part of the pre tag, but adjusting its width, with the IE Web Dev toolbar and everything seems to work. The width CSS property can use relative or absolute values (px, cm or em) for setting the width.
Sorry if I’m being a pest, just trying to help out.
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so:
overflow-x:scroll is ignored?
Brad
Australian
- Me on "Public interest"
If you actually read this let me know.
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Bradml wrote: overflow-x:scroll is ignored
Just tried it and yup, IE could care less about it without specifying the width.
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A page that lists all the current running ads? I can't tell you the amount of times I have just seen something interesting whilst leaving a page and then spent the next 5-10 minutes refreshing in hopes that it comes back (twice).
Brad
Australian
- Bradml on "MVP Status"
If this was posted in a programming board please rate my answer
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So you are saying all your posts should be on a separate page?
[Sorry]
Brad
Australian
- Me on "Public interest"
If you actually read this let me know.
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There used to be a little "advertisers" graphic beside the top banner... doesn't look like it's there anymore.
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