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Some people might. 
Who's that peepin' through my window?
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Following on from a thread in my most recent article I think it would be a good idea to have some way of linking to articles rather than absolute URLs. Often articles are moved, whether from unedited to a section, or from one section to another. Although the error page is good at detecting it, Uwe Keim recommended something that seems pretty good:
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CountryListBox.asp?select=353698&df=100&forumid=13660&msg=353698#xx353429xx[^]
A kind of CMS tag that could be parsed. However, to avoid overhead with processing each page I suggested using some kind of ArticleRedirect page:
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CountryListBox.asp?select=353698&df=100&forumid=13660&msg=353698#xx353698xx[^]
That uses some kind of article identity number on the querystring to forward you to the correct article. That way, when the article is moved it can still be found successfully. The ArticleRedirect script would just perform a look-up on that number and Response.Redirect them on.
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Paul
"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
- David Brent, from "The Office"
MS Messenger: paul@oobaloo.co.uk
Sonork: 100.22446
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Dunno what's up, but I don't get "dynamic view" as an option any more. I don't want the normal view, preview, or threaded view. I miss my dynamic view, I want it back. 
And I don't even see the toolbar aka buttons while writing this message. No smiley buttons, no &, no <, no >, clickety button, no nothing. Not even the preview button. (Er, is it because of any design changes or is it just me?)
And (yes, there's more) for the past week or so (eternity?) I can't seem to be able to shrug off the "new" messages. All the messages are new. The lounge has more than 5k new messages now for example. I logged off, came back as an anonymous user, cleared history, cookies, refreshed so many times your server must have thought it was getting a DoS attack. Nothing happened. I work from home and connect to the net from this machine only, so I can't see whether this happens from other machines too.
Please oh please do something about it Chris, and save a fellow human (CPian) from further distress.
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
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You're not alone, Rohit. Several CPians have reported troubles of this sort recently. Rest assured that Chris is hard at work trying to solve the problem. In the meantime, have you considered some of your alternatives? Daylight, for one. Fresh air. Long walks... Drinking heavily and mumbling incoherent ramblings to complete strangers... I don't recommend that last; I haven't tried it but for some reason it just popped into my head as something that might be fun to do sometime. If you do try it, let me know how it works out...
"My child was Inmate of the Month at Mohave County Jail" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City, AZ
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The problem is solved now Roger, thanks.  Except that I still cannot shrug off the "new" tags. All the messages are new. I have 5500 new messages waiting to be read in the Lounge for example now, according to it. As I said in my original thread, I did all I could to get rid of it, but in vain.
As for the alternatives, daylight and fresh air I get from the big window in my room, which I keep open most of the time. I take a walk every evening. Allows me to stretch my legs a bit too, and I get to mumble incoherent ramblings to complete strangers sometimes when I want to. Yeah, I have actually done this on a number of occasions. It's fun really. Once I shouted "Fatty!" in the ear of a really obese guy. Of course I took to the heels after that. He could have powdered me with one hand. On another occasion I said something to the effect of "Old guy, but still dresses young and colourful" in Hindi to a really old guy. It's more fun actually in Hindi, the effect is lost in my poor translation. The original Hindi phrase, an often used one, if translated literally means "Old horse, red seat". The poor guy was in a red T shirt, red trousers, red shoes, a red cap, and was riding a red bike. Dunno where he got all that, or whether all that was for some fancy dress party or something. Imagine, a guy in a completely red outfit.  I would have never been able to forgive myself if I let that opportunity go. The guy was just asking for it. He found it very insulting and was hurling abuses at me, but I didn't mind, since I was the one who started it, and was laughing so hard I couldn't care less anyway.
So if you want to try this yourself, go ahead, but be sure to pick a harmless sort of guy, or someone smaller than you.   
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
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LOL!!
While I don't advocate causing hurt feelings to anyone, random acts of bizarre behavior are occassionally good for the spirit!
Rohit Sinha wrote:
So if you want to try this yourself, go ahead, but be sure to pick a harmless sort of guy, or someone smaller than you.
That's why I hang out at a place where the old folks like to relax, rather than a bar where the stupid, angry youngsters congregate, looking for a fight. I call the place 'Menopause Manor' and find it comfy there. Should a fight ever break out, there's no one there I can't outrun And, I'm happy to say, I've never lost a fight in the first five miles!
As to your 'New' message problem, you might try emailing Chris about it. I'm fairly certain that the display is controlled by the date of your last visit, and that is probably stored in a cookie on your machine. For some reason it's not being updated properly; perhaps he can suggest a fix for it.
"My child was Inmate of the Month at Mohave County Jail" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City, AZ
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Go to http://www.codeproject.com/script/misc/browsercheck.asp[^] and if it shows that you are on Web2 for the server, then you're screwed. Refresh the page and hope that from now on you are fortunate enough to connect to Web1, 3, or 4.
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past.
-Chris Maunder
Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round.
-Peterchen on VS.NET
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The issue with Web2 has been fixed - though as always let me know if weirdness occurs elsewhere.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
let me know if weirdness occurs elsewhere.
Weirdness is what passes for normal here in Bullhead City. CP is the least of my weirdness troubles...
"My child was Inmate of the Month at Mohave County Jail" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City, AZ
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1. Eventhough I bookmarked an article, why the page still displays the "Bookmark this".
Is it a bug?
2. One more, if you click "Bookmark this", it would be nice to bring up the popup window saying it's done. Just like the way, when you rate somebody's message.
3. On "Your Bookmarks on the Code Project" page, it would be better if you could show the color index. (just like the What's New page)
4. Why some new smileys like ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) ![Heart | [heart]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) are not shown here[^]
5. It would be nice to show how many users currently logged on the Front Page.
6. How about customization of the CP front page?
Kant
Sonork-100.28114
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Kant wrote:
Why some new smileys like are not shown here
Easter eggs... we have to have some fun hidden stuff.
![Good Stuff | [The good stuff]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/vegemite.gif)
--Mike--
"Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things."
-- Silent Bob
1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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1. Because I didn't implement this (it's an extra query on the DB server that I didn't think was justified)
2. People seem to hate popups. A variation on this would probably be useful though
3. Added to the TODO list
4. See Mike Dunn's post
5. Added to the TODO list
6. What sort of customisation? (I have ideas, I'd like to hear yours)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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>6. What sort of customisation? (I have ideas, I'd like to hear yours)
Visit http://my.yahoo.com[^], you will know what I am talking.
Out of the following 4 options, I would suggest 2 and 3.
1. Change Color
2. Choose Content
3. Change Content
4. Add/Delete Pages
Kant
Sonork-100.28114
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It would be cool if we could rate users (not a global rating, but our own personal rating of a user) and if they are rated high they get an angel picture beside their user name, while low would give them a dunce picture or something. That way we could easily ignore messages from our dunce group.
I know this will probably never happen, but it would be cool none the less.
Jason Henderson
start page ; articles
henderson is coming
henderson is an opponent's worst nightmare
* googlism *
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 I can just picture my inbox exploding from the outcry.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Oh well, I knew it was an idea before its time.
Btw, I love that last eye twitch on the OMG image.
Jason Henderson
start page ; articles
henderson is coming
henderson is an opponent's worst nightmare
* googlism *
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Jason Henderson wrote:
Btw, I love that last eye twitch on the OMG image
Ah - my art is finally appreciated
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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When do I get my modelling fee for the twitch?
(although I will have to share it with my employer, since they're the cause)
Software Zen: delete this;
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someone tell me how to get started on DX?
any books rec?
asap
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There are several articles on it here with a link on the CP homepage I believe.
Jason Henderson
start page ; articles
henderson is coming
henderson is an opponent's worst nightmare
* googlism *
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