At 8/11/09 04:22 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: I hate these fucking ads, they keep crashing my Netscape 2.0 Browser on my windows 3.1 supercomputer.

It's too bad if you want to format, too. I stole your floppies.

At 8/11/09 02:33 PM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: I know. They're slowing down my computer and everything takes longer to load now too. Sometimes my browser will even freeze because of it, and it's all because of dumb MMORPGs that are suggestive and free for a while but then they secretly charge you later.

What the hell are you talking about? They're two IMAGES. Nothing else has changed.

Btw, all your subscription fees are being refunded as we speak. What.

Google's domain expiry is currently sometime in 2011. In case you hadn't worked it out already, you can renew the domain registry well in advance of it expiring. Nothing to worry about.

I may write more tomorrow, since I'm really, really tired at the moment.

It was good seeing people, those I'd met before and those I hadn't.

I'm sorry if I didn't get to talk to everyone, I'm kinda shy and get a bit embarrassed when someone introduces themselves and I don't recognise their NG names (and don't know what to say in cases like that, since I've nothing I can think of to talk to them about without going away and thinking about it).

That's not because I don't necessarily KNOW their usernames, either - more often than not it's just because they're pronounced differently to how I think they might be pronounced when I read them on NG.

There were also a couple of people who either came to talk to me in instances like that, or as I was trying to round up the last of the people in Namco to go to Hyde Park, and I was pre-occupied with getting that done.

I also have a bit of trouble sometimes concentrating on a conversation if there are other conversations going on around me, or if there's strong background music at the place we're at, at the time. That happened with a few people, so I apologise for that.

You gotta give credit to guys like Afro-wolf and Sealander, for having parents who were prepared to let them both come to a meet up like this, and accompany them to it, and let them just get on with it. I regret not speaking to either of them (other than Afro-wolf, who helped me out with the crappy payment machines for the dodgems (and I didn't twig who he was until after that)).

It's one thing for young users to get their parents to accompany them to conventions, where there's tons of different stuff to check out, and have them stop by the NG booth at those events, but it's quite another to convince them to spend a whole day based around an NG-specific event. That's parenting as it should be!

Hope everyone had a good time.

P.s. Dean, I owe you a beer.

cdex

Let me clear this up. There is some correct information in here, but some very incorrect information.

Pre-automated portal (April 6, 2000), you got one experience point for every section of the site you visited. At the time there were either 9 or 11 (I forget exactly) active sections of the site:

1. Front page
2. Portal (with Tom's submissions there only - non-automated)
3. Cat Dynamics
4. Club a seal
5. Beep me Jesus
6. Assassin (since adapted into a collection)
7. Pico
8. Telebubby Funland

and at lease one thing else I'm forgetting.

You would accumulate one point for each of those sections, but it was UP TO YOU when you deposited those points. You could, for example, just visit the front page and deposit those points, and that would be you done for the day. Or you could continue to all the sections and THEN deposit - basically, however many of these sections you visited and deposited your points afterwards, was how many points you got.

As has been already said, there used to be a referral system as well. However, contrary to what has already been said, that came LONG before the redesign. It had a very short lifespan - possibly around a year at most. It ended way before I started doing voluntary work for the site in September 2002.

This system would give you X points (I think it was 5) per person you successfully referred.

Experience points are rarely removed from users and if memory serves correct, the last time that happened was during the period that the referral system was in place. Those who abused the system by referring "false" people had their points removed.

User level fluctuation pre-redesign was not due to experience points being removed. It was down to the way that the levels used to work, which was on a FLOATING scale based on the highest ranked user (a percentage of his points). If he continued to deposit points and you didn't, then that's why your level dropped, because the requirements for each level would go up every time he deposited his points.

The levels are now based on a FIXED scale.

I think that more or less covers it.

At 8/3/09 08:59 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 8/3/09 08:26 PM, liljim wrote: Nah. The guys I'm thinking about are actually funny. I think they broadcast the shows (or have started to) on one of the BBC channels.

Flight of the Conchords? They're from New Zealand, a music-based comedy duo known for their amusing songs such as Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros.

Yeah, those are the guys. I apologise to New Zealanders and Australians for having confused the two nations.

I couldn't find anything on youtube for them other than a couple of links, this being one of them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWrU2NVa lU

NOTE - this is part of a live comedy sketch rather than the shows that they put out.

At 8/3/09 08:21 PM, HeartbreakHoldout wrote:

At 8/3/09 08:14 PM, liljim wrote: I'm reasonably sure that advert is based on an Australian duo who have a comedy show that's based in London. The name of the show escapes me at the moment, but when I find out, I'll post the name of it.

Is it the guys in the advert?

Nah. The guys I'm thinking about are actually funny. I think they broadcast the shows (or have started to) on one of the BBC channels.

At 8/3/09 07:23 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: I don't care what it tastes like, it has one of the worst adverts of recent years.

I'm reasonably sure that advert is based on an Australian duo who have a comedy show that's based in London. The name of the show escapes me at the moment, but when I find out, I'll post the name of it.

As for the food... I bought a 12 pack of pot noodle when I came home from the pub one night, expecting to want to eat all of them as I got in. I haven't touched any of them. They're the Chicken and Mushroom flavour, though.

Now that I think about it, you might also want to approach students who're leaving college, or those in the year above you, and just ask them if they have any books they're done with.

I got a few hand-me-downs from people I'd befriended in years above me, who were doing the same course as I was doing.

At 8/3/09 06:59 PM, Bolo wrote:

At 8/3/09 05:08 PM, liljim wrote: I suppose your opinion on whether or not he was racist depends on what definition of 'tribe' you choose to use in your decision, of which there are quite a few.

I think given his history as a military member of a 19th century

And I think a) You mean 20th Century and b) that you can find various other sources that contradict items in that article (that, amongst other things, is Austrian-based (guess where Hitler was from), full of grammatical errors, put the quotes in context (which it fails to do), yadda yadda yadda).

Regardless of any of all of that, let's not derail this thread any further. Churchill is long dead. I have little interest in, or no time to research his history, and he is not what this thread is about.

That stuff is way behind me now, but I'd be tempted to look for books on amazon market place or ebay if I were in your situation.

At 8/3/09 05:25 PM, Figter wrote: Liljim what the hell are you doing on the General forum?

I'm always here. Watching.

At 8/3/09 04:29 PM, Bolo wrote:

At 8/3/09 04:26 PM, TheTrooper5 wrote: Hell look at Churchill, he was one witty brilliant man as offensive as anything.

He was not brilliant, nor was he witty, but he was a racist. He was a decently inspiring orator, who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

"I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes ... to spread a lively terror"
-Winston Churchill, 1919

I suppose your opinion on whether or not he was racist depends on what definition of 'tribe' you choose to use in your decision, of which there are quite a few.

I think he was brilliant and witty. I doubt that he was a racist, given the involvement he had with the Gurkha regiments at the time of world war 2, and with his family's outspoken comments about mistreatment of the gurkhas in recent times.

At 8/3/09 04:23 PM, citricsquid wrote: I saw this a while back, I've lost so much faith in our country. Not that this isn't to be expected, but he has to apologise for a light hearted joke? I mean, really... come on.

No-one complained about it to the industry watchdog, so your lack of faith is misplaced in this particular case.

I just thought it was a funny excerpt - more so given that he says something along the lines of "Politicians have to think about what we say", then comes out with that, and then more or less immediately apologises after the event.

...might make a

These websites are not accurate and should be used as a guide only. For example, Alexa gathers its rankings based on users who've installed the Alexa toolbar, so there could be very few people who visit newgrounds with that toolbar installed and newgrounds be outranked by some other site that has a bunch of visitors that do have the toolbar installed.

You can read more about all that in Alexa's breakdown of how they calculate traffic ranking:

http://www.alexa.com/help/traffic-learn-
more

Other sites compute these rankings in their own ways, none of which is based off actual traffic logs. The results are therefore skewed, but they do still serve as a rough guide.

As for hit counters... the nineties ended nearly a decade ago.

Something similar was in development 8 years ago - a robot that would remove slugs from farm land and power itself off of their decaying bodies. Dunno whether they ever got anywhere with it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1542 588.stm

Or simply change: newdiv.setAttribute('class','field'+type );

to:

newdiv.setAttribute('className','field'+
type);

This is a known problem with a specific Argentinian ISP (I'm not sure which one). I'm not sure exactly what the issue is, but it's to do with how they're (not) routing traffic correctly.

At 7/24/09 01:14 AM, BrianEtrius wrote: How about adding as part of a flash/audio/art submission when you're crediting the various people you can credit someone as influence.

It would make sense for all the Madness and Clock Crew and whatnot submissions to credit the original artist.

It's already there in the flash portal submission process.

At 7/22/09 02:02 PM, urbn wrote:

At 7/22/09 01:27 PM, liljim wrote: display_errors should be OFF in production environments

With out being funny I didn't see him mention anything about final products, customer sites etc.

Nor did I. I just didn't presume that he was on one or the other, which your post did.

He asked whether there was a way to turn errors off, and he was given the best example by gammaglob, which you attempted to refute.

And I also said generally, yes error logs are far better, and I would always recommend having it on

I'm sorry, I didn't see that in your post. (I still don't, actually).

HOWEVER, he also said that he didn't always have his server on to host the site, and so he wanted to use another server "(hosted somewhere else)", which also likely means that he doesn't have access to the php.ini

If he doesn't have access to php.ini he could use error_reporting() to suppress the error.

This is cumbersome if you have to explicitly set that in every script, but he could also set it in a file that's automatically prepended (which you can set in php.ini, httpd.conf, or .htaccess, if he has access to any of those).

Without knowing more about this other site he's got the php file on, of course, it's not possible to determine whether or not that's feasible, but the possibility should not be dismissed.

He can also set all of these values discussed using ini_set();

www.php.net/manual/en/ini.list.php

So if he's just using one php file to handle this stuff, he has options open to him - both with respect to suppressing the warning/notice AND logging it somewhere, when necessary - rather than just sticking an @ in front of the function and forgetting about it.

At 7/22/09 11:56 AM, urbn wrote:

At 7/22/09 04:07 AM, gammaglob wrote: Turn the display_errors setting in php.ini to off.

And what happens if something plays up, but doesn't display any errors? For one small "error", php generally shouldn't be told not to display ANY errors...

That is what log_errors is for. Generally speaking, display_errors should be OFF in production environments, so as to preclude pertinent information about the architecture of the site from prying eyes on warnings/notices etc, but ON in development environments to inform the developer that something's up.

Turning display_errors to off doesn't stop developers figuring out what went wrong in production environments if log_errors is on and error_log is a file that's accessible to them.

What's with everyone wanting popups all of a sudden.... We've been trying to eliminate those bad boys for a long time.

I'm still up for suggestions as to what to put down there... It's just that most suggestions so far have been wan... err, bad. Feel free to post suggestions in the thread that's linked up above, though.

At 7/21/09 06:27 PM, Masculine wrote: Well, there is Rob or Bob or James.

This is a CSS issue, therefore one for Bob. However, I'm pretty sure he's already aware of the problem. At one point, this was happening on the BBS, too, though I'm not sure whether that's been fixed already.

It'll catch up. There's a heavy process going on right now on one of the database servers.

Always interesting to read a bunch of speculative statistics thrown around, which are based upon absolutely nothing.

To answer: far more than those who have been parousing the forums.

Straw polls like this in the general forums are never going to receive accurate responses, btw, because the majority of bbs regulars are here just to use the bbs, unlike the majority of other NG users, who're the silent masses. Hope this helps.

At 7/17/09 09:38 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 7/17/09 09:31 PM, Archon68 wrote: Click on "My Account" then "General Info". Edit your name, (Say... "John Doe")

Then, under the option where it says "Display Name", choose, "First and Last Name".

I think he meant his username (the name in parenthesis, when in any submission).

No, he didn't. Usernames contain only alpha-numerics and hyphens. He's talking about stuff that's in the portal(s), like one of Tom's submissions, whereby Tom's name would be displayed as:

TomFulp (Tom Fulp)

Which is exactly what Archon68 was referring to in his instructions.

At 7/17/09 05:01 PM, TheBoob wrote: I have an xml file and i want to import it into php, and print it out as just one long string.

$string = file_get_contents('file.xml');

I know this is not what you're wanting, so elaborate.

I tried parsing it and creating the tags with the start and end functions

What are you attempting to parse it with, and what start and end functions?

I'm guessing you're not going to get too many replies unless you give an example of both the xml file and what you're trying to do with it, code-wise. In short:

- show sample (even if fake) xml file.
- show code you have.