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And help to annoy the rest of us on dialup that have to load that extra 5kb and those that hate animation where it doesn't belong. Every time this is brought up, people want another couple kilobytes to tack on to what is already more than plenty. If you can't fit it into those dimensions and file size, it's too much content for a forum signature.

Signatures are a small mark about you, not a billboard. They're fine the way they are now...

If the thread was of interest to everyone else on the forum, they would be replying to it and discussing the topic you have posted. If you have a need to constantly keep bumping your thread, the community doesn't see any value in it. The market place doesn't really matter how much you bump, since posts don't get counted toward your post count and are removed after a few days of inactivity anyway.

That replys sounds like you have no freaking clue what he's even talking about. Anyway, you should be able to hide most of them by right clicking the task bar and going into properties. Next to the 'Hide inactive icons' button on the taskbar tab, the 'customize' button will let you select what is done with each individual icon. It does a pretty good job but some icons that update their status frequently can cause problems with it hiding them all the time. It should do the job for most stuff though.

You should be able to just export your bookmarks from the windows version via the 'organize bookmarks' option in the bookmarks menu. Importing into the Linux version should work the same way after you copy the .html file over. There are also a few synchronizer extensions floating around that would do the same thing via FTP, webdav or the Foxmarks website.

I would definitely suggest practicing on much simpler PHP pages first before you even think about touching database powered programs. Trying to dive right in before you have a handle on the language itself will only lead to errors and exploitable holes in your code that will cause headaches later. Letting hacked together code loose into the world where random people can try to exploit it isn't a good idea. :P The links posted by JoeDaStudd along with the official documentation at php.net are great starting places. You'll find a lot of example code in the docs for various functions with proper ways to use them and validate input along with user comments on other methods. Getting a strong handle on PHP itself before you bother try anything database related will make development so much easier. If you don't have a strong handle on HTML, you'll need to start there before moving on to PHP too.

Refreshing that often will more than likely end up getting at least a temporary IP ban set on the offending IP by the web server. There is absolutely NO reason to be requesting pages that fast from the server. How it effects the server depends on the hardware it is running on. The costs of bandwidth also won't be revealed by the staff.

The search button is your friend.

Reporting posts and warning users were available as MODs, meaning you install them and deal with them on your own. phpBB3 integrates them into the project, making it more reliable and better supported (if something breaks, you don't wait months for the MOD author to fix it). Features that people want getting integrated into the official system is much better than someone possibly breaking their forum using a MOD. As Albosky and rick have said, there are also a lot of backend improvements that make it much better from the administrative side. I also don't need to check a random forum in your sig to know whats going on with Olympus. I've been playing with my own copy off and on since the early beta releases. Admin access to your own copy is much better than some random guest login that limits you to viewing things. :mrgreen:

On top of some simple research via the phpbb website. Some of the "What's new" stuff was previously available via MODs, but will now be officially part of the system, on top of the other additions and improvements they've made.

If you think you can do better than the current list and get the community to support the change, make one up, post it, and see what people think. Without some major support and more than "the rank list needs changing", this isn't happening.

Other than stare in aw that he still has something around that runs Windows 3.1, pretty much nothing.

Why should Tip.It waste CPU power and bandwidth because someone is too lazy to resize their image first? The CPU cycles and bandwidth wasted in loading and resizing huge images can be put to use in much better ways.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/7ea7180d-6ea3-48dc-8b64-8b53884b11d01033.mspx?mfr=true Looks like it's just a second way to remotely manage the server when a network connection isn't available and there's no local keyboard/mouse/screen plugged into it. The page above also says it isn't enabled by default, so hardware that doesn't support it shouldn't be a problem.

They most likely used Remote Desktop or VNC to remotely view the screen WoW was running on. This is in no way WoW running on an iPhone. It's a view of WoW running on another more powerful machine. Even if you could do the above, it is an insane waste of money. For $600 you can build a real machine that will actually do more than make phone calls, play music and browse the web (faster than AT&T's crappy network too).

Would just be a simple change to the templates to move it. The problem is actually talking Albosky or someone with access into doing something this worthless. :?

The feature is already there. Check the 'notify me when a reply is posted' box when you post. You can also turn the feature on permanently in your profile settings.

All of this is available for phpBB2 in various mods that can be installed or is already included in the default installation. There are also alot of mods and tweaks installed behind the scenes here that the users never see. You can be sure the staff here are keeping a very close eye on how phpBB3 is coming along. They'll make sure to let us know when they feel its time to upgrade. :P

He's using InvisionFree mastermule. He can't add his own code like that. Raven494, you should start by reading the info found on InvisionFree's website instead of demanding we spoon feed you the instructions.

May be a stupid question on my part, but did you check the BIOS boot order to make sure the cd drive was checked before the harddrive?

All of the staff avatars are automatically applied by the forum software. A change to the original is automatically applied to all the staff with that avatar, so it wouldn't be any major work to update all of them if it were done.

Safari for windows is currently in Beta testing and shouldn't be used as a day to day browser. That's why I linked to the slashdot story detailing the problems in my last reply. Regardless, blocking the ads is not the solution. It wastes Tip.It's time in switching providers and cuts off the income that keeps the site up.

Interesting indeed, given the huge number of security holes that were found the day it was released to Windows. :lol: People should donate because they feel the need to, not because it will only take a tiny amount to get ads off the site or give them a shiny little avatar. It costs hundreds of dollars a month to run just one of Tip.It's multiple servers. Tiny little donations here and there are not enough. As Merc said before, the javascript that generates the ads in posts is only run after the page has completely loaded. A bit of work could be done to help speed loading around the banner ad (moving it to the bottom of the code and floating it into position so it loads last all the time) but there is little difference in overall load time compared to the burstnet and google ads. I'm posting this from dialup and I still see the forum server taking longer to send content than the Adbright server does. :? Edit: The javascript file weighs in at about 30kb, which is a bit large for some. It does get cached though (unless you're crazy like that and browse with caching off) so it doesn't make that much of a dent in loading times. Moving it to the bottom of the page with the banner (suggested above) would help things render a little faster.

Selfish? How is tip.it selfish? It's their server, their forum and their bandwidth. If you don't like how they go about trying to pay for it, find another forum to use. People complained that that ads were bad before hand, so they are working on new solutions. Yep, no effort. That Paypal button is just there for looks. Give me a freaking break. It's been there for years, yet the ads are still needed to keep the site running.

This is the kind of question Google exists to answer. :wall: