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2005-02-21

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Posted by Fred 2005-02-21 12:01:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred, for those of us who are somewhat forgetful, please do me a favour and title the pages -- perhaps something along the lines of Page 1: WoT Violence, Page 2: WoT Other, Page 3: Of Interest.... Six months from now (when I remember) I'll be grateful. Thanks lots!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-21 2:24:07 AM|| 2005-02-21 2:24:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm confused - I don't know where I belong.

Posted by Howard UK 2005-02-21 5:09:59 AM|| 2005-02-21 5:09:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 You belong on this side of the pond,H.

Posted by raptor 2005-02-21 7:25:13 AM|| 2005-02-21 7:25:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Howard you belong in Florida sipping a beverage on the beach. :D

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-21 7:29:34 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-02-21 7:29:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Couldn't we keep Page 2 the same topic, as we already know what's there? Make Page 3 the new "Military Operations and Wet Work" page.

What's Page 0?

Also, how do I tell Rantburg to always display articles with comments? I hate it when it collapses them because there's too many articles.

Posted by gromky 2005-02-21 8:33:41 AM|| 2005-02-21 8:33:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Fred, I've yet to make it to through the new format without my ancient W98 machine locking up. Not saying it's the format, but it's either that, or some coding in Memri.org, or I've got an undetected virus.

Posted by longtime lurker 2005-02-21 9:36:07 AM|| 2005-02-21 9:36:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll ditto the request for more "user-friendly" names for the pages so their content will more readily apparent than by number. Of course, if page 3 will have "Page 3" girls, the name suffices as it stands!

Posted by Dar 2005-02-21 9:46:11 AM|| 2005-02-21 9:46:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 gromky, click on "all articles." That will give you absolutely everything -- except opinion -- on one very long page. That's what keeps me from hitting the computer. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-21 9:47:21 AM|| 2005-02-21 9:47:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Page 3 girls--explanation, please.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-02-21 9:48:10 AM|| 2005-02-21 9:48:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Lol - Jules 187, I love you!

The link to Page 3 is on the left side. I don't think you'll enjoy it quite as much as I do, but that's how the wiring diagram is intended to work... i.e., it's not a bug, it's a feature, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-02-21 9:58:29 AM|| 2005-02-21 9:58:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Hmmm...that's a disappointing development for a few of us rantburg readers, who come here for a moment away from the MSM sexual fixation. Some rantburgers may seek a Page 4 soft porn page for women in the spirit of equality, but that wouldn't really spin my wheels. I come here for levity sometimes, but mostly for political discourse.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-02-21 10:21:21 AM|| 2005-02-21 10:21:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Well that's an interesting response.

Just to ease your fevered brow - the one with all the serious disdainful wrinkles at the moment:
Fred was joking.

Posted by .com 2005-02-21 10:29:41 AM|| 2005-02-21 10:29:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 I think the lock-up comes from photos. If they're hosted somewhere else there's a lag as they're pulled, barely noticeable if you're lucky. If they're not there, then your machine will keep trying to pull them until it gives up. That's more lag, and definitely noticeable.

It also takes longer to pull a very large picture. I try to keep the stock photos here under 15k.

Posted by Fred 2005-02-21 10:39:33 AM|| 2005-02-21 10:39:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 And Page 0 is bugs... I gotta find them and kill them. Arrrr....

Posted by Fred 2005-02-21 10:44:34 AM|| 2005-02-21 10:44:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Jeez, fevered brows and everything! What a great site!

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-21 10:56:11 AM|| 2005-02-21 10:56:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Also, how do I tell Rantburg to always display articles with comments? I hate it when it collapses them because there's too many articles

When comments are collapsed, doesn't that actually use up more bandwith? I load through a lot of extra pages to see the comments. Sometimes I am not even really interested in the details of article in question. Perhaps there is a compromise where comments are either available longer before collapse or page can be requested with collapsed articles but all comments available. Also maybe only articles with many comments could be collapsed, showing a number of the first comments where we could perhaps see if comments are degenerating into a spat.

Posted by DO 2005-02-21 12:20:26 PM|| 2005-02-21 12:20:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 The comments collapse after they've reached 200 on a page.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-02-21 12:30:18 PM|| 2005-02-21 12:30:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 I just reset it so that it won't fold up until the combined article and comments count reaches 500. With fewer articles per page (3 pages vice 2) it shouldn't be a problem.

I think.

Posted by Fred 2005-02-21 1:28:31 PM|| 2005-02-21 1:28:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Shipman, luv, I think when Rantburg manages to add flashing eyes and heaving bosoms... why then .com will never leave ;-) even if Fred does keep it safe for work and my quietly amused female wiring.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-21 2:06:31 PM|| 2005-02-21 2:06:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Fred, can you have the front page (rantburg.com) actually redirect to the Page 1 viewing page? Clicking (non-comment) links from the front page makes it load the whole damn thing again instead of just plopping down to the relevant part of the page. In Firefox, at least.

Posted by someone 2005-02-21 2:06:37 PM|| 2005-02-21 2:06:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Ack, wait, the Page 1 page is forcing reloads too -- I guess because the non-comment links are now date-coded as well. Hmm.

Posted by someone 2005-02-21 2:08:46 PM|| 2005-02-21 2:08:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Got that one fixed, I think. Holler when something else goes wrong...

Posted by Fred 2005-02-21 2:27:19 PM|| 2005-02-21 2:27:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Dang, when I hit the precedent day on page 2 or 3 to review the page 2 or 3 of that said precedent day, it redirects me to that date's page 1 only. That's depressing, I think I'll go slumming on porn sites to cheer me up.

Posted by Anonymous5089 2005-02-21 2:29:28 PM|| 2005-02-21 2:29:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 I think I've got it fixed. When you get back from the porn site, let me know.

Posted by Fred 2005-02-21 3:12:10 PM|| 2005-02-21 3:12:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Fred, I just got an error when I tried to post a news link, Unfortunately dissapeared too fast to read.

BTW, top of my RB wish list is comment search (unless there is a way to do it already?)

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-21 3:55:53 PM|| 2005-02-21 3:55:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Why Phil? Just print everything out each day and keep it in a big honking binder and do your own indexing on key words. I'm still working on "what" from three years ago. DeHaveline usered it a lot.

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-21 4:39:00 PM|| 2005-02-21 4:39:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 I've been thinking I should copy the website using winhttrack and do it myself.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-21 5:06:58 PM|| 2005-02-21 5:06:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Just do a Google search in the www.rantburg.com domain. Doesn't work at the moment because the links have been changed, but it will do...

Posted by Bulldog 2005-02-21 6:37:49 PM|| 2005-02-21 6:37:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 hmmm - after starting, I think Ship was playing with you. I've got 10 pages each with "Ima" and "thinkr" links

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-21 6:49:16 PM|| 2005-02-21 6:49:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Format Changes- Fred I like the new look, I was going to suggest that to the web master/rant and rave designer. Yes, Save Paris Hilton type posting's for another life! Some of the W.O.T.
become depressing- I enjoy a "well rounded" choice of posting's. **THANKS**

Andrea

Posted by Andrea 2005-02-21 6:50:38 PM|| 2005-02-21 6:50:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Page 1, Page 2, Page3, Fred has quite the newspaper running here. Now all we need is sports....

Time to renew my subscription.

Posted by john 2005-02-21 7:43:28 PM|| 2005-02-21 7:43:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 occasional glitches when I hit View All Day

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-21 7:46:56 PM|| 2005-02-21 7:46:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 everything else - great!

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-21 7:47:26 PM|| 2005-02-21 7:47:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 Thanks BD, I just tried and Google Advanced Search does find stuff in comments. Working currently, so I guess Fred didn't change any archive links.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-21 8:23:20 PM|| 2005-02-21 8:23:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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