1. Thanks (e:uncutsaniflush), he helped me discover what everyone thought was the apostrophe eating bug in the chat. It actually had nothing to do with apostrophes, and everything to do with a few spelling errors in the spell check module (does anyone else see irony in that.) It was incorrectly trying to fix the word I'm (contraction: I am) and couldn't without the apostrophe.
In the future when anyone has a bug with the chat and/or any estrip feature I would like more information about the error, such as a copy of the text you are trying to send. I also need to know the operating system, the browser, if any errors showed up and what media plugins you have installed. Oh how I dream of the days when I had (e:twisted) on QA. She was the best bug squasher ever.
I am no longer dealing with bug reports that start out with it just doesn't work. I need more feedback or it's not getting worked out. This is not a commercial site where anyone has paid for service. I provide the site and thousands of dollars/hours of my personal time and require only a few things when people report bugs so that I don't have to spend hundred of hours hunting down the problems.
This issue could have been over months ago if anyone had given me an example of what they were typing when the chat "ate" their line of text. It is a lot easier than me having to try and type every possible word variant. I was not just any apostrophe as was obvious by the fact that I could type don't and won't and wouldn't, it ws very specific.
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2. On another note, if you are an (e:strip) user and are running linux. Do you find that it crashes firefox? I am using firefox and konquerer on Suse 9.3 with no prob on a sony viao laptop. I have also used centOS with no problem on a server workstation. I have previously tried Fedora with no problem, but not recently. However, (e:uncutsaniflush) is using some debian based linux flavors that are having a problem with crashing firefox? Anyone else have linux experience to report about. Good or bad, I want to hear. You can just respond as comments on this journal entry. I would really like to figure out what is wrong for (e:uncutsaniflush) and (e:leetee). My thoughts are that it is a media plugin related issue and I am going to test their linux on my laptop. It certainly does look pretty.
update -wow it downloaded in 45 minutes using my adelphia connection.
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12/14/2005 01:03 #30190
Upgrades and Linux UsersCategory: bug fix
12/13/2005 21:56 #30189
Hangman and Chat UpdateCategory: estrip
I updated the chat and the hangman game. Hangman now works for IE in addition to firefox. I also squashed some minor chat bugs that may have caused problem on some comps. Seems snappier in explorer. Apparently, surebert didn't like the empty xml files it got sometimes. I can't blame the surebert people because that was also my code, lol.
12/13/2005 18:49 #30188
Dr Chlorine is Retiring as DJCategory: radio
The radio is retiring with him. Shortly, we will bring you a new music station. Until then it was fun and thanks Dr. Chlorine!!
12/05/2005 18:47 #30187
IE Download Page DramaCategory: estrip
I saw the problem at work today where the site tries to be forced to download on IE 6 for windows XP. I am writing this in IE now but on this computer it doesn't do it. At work, there are lots of security restrictions on IE because of some javascript bug that makes the computers vulnerable - so maybe it is that setting that is tampering with it. Anyone have any idea, I wil try and look into it tommorow.
12/02/2005 02:29 #30186
Major File Load UpdateCategory: estrip
You can now upload image files up to 1024k (1MB). They will be resized automatically making it easier if you do not have image editing software. I may make it higher in the future.
After we move the server to the artvoice network, I will most likely increase the size of files that can be stored.
After we move the server to the artvoice network, I will most likely increase the size of files that can be stored.
Thanks paul, (e:leetee) and I appreciate all your efforts. I, for one, always try to make sure that errors are duplicatable before I bother to mention them to you. And if I get an error message associated with the error, I always try to include that. And I think that (e:leetee) tries to be specific as possible as well because if something breaks or crashes on our boxes (especially after I upgrade something) she tells me what she was doing and if there was an error message. So she is used to giving error reports to me.
Just in case I wasn't clear last night, our main distro is SimplyMepis, I'm running 3.3.1 on one box and 3.4.1 on another. It's debian-based. Firefox uses the mplayer plugin. Elive is just something I play with since I don't mind farting around with cvs snapshots just for the fun of it. Yes, I like the eye-candy of elive. I like e17 because it isn't based on any existing window manager and the developers started from scratch in designing and coding it. It does look a bit like osX but the gui is very different (to me at least)
I've not bothered to see which media plugin it uses.
I also use pclinuxos and again i've not checked with the media plugin is. If these distros all used the mplayer plugin, that could be the problem.