Eric Bliss
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Just for reference, here’s a list of characters to avoid in your filenames to protect yourself from problems with UNIX…
/ \ ‘ ” * ? ( ) < > [ ] { } ~ ! $ & ; | # @ ` %
Yes, I know that’s virtually everything that’s not a number or a letter. Hence, the rule of only using letters, numbers, and the underscore.
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Didn’t you just admit to me that he actually says “Everything looks WORSE in black and white” ???
However, I do know a guy who would consider it a sin to Photoshop out a girl’s freckles. Me, I consider them optional, as long as she has that wonderful red hair that’s so often associated with the freckles.
Eric Bliss
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Okay. Your first post just said that you were having to reset cookies every time you tried to make a post. Could you describe exactly what is happening that is causing you problems? You said it seems to have something to do with your attempts to post, but it also seems that it doesn’t happen to you all the time.
We haven’t made any major changes to the posting system in the past month or so, which is part of why I’m trying to figure out when this started for you. If it only started recently, it makes me think that the problems that you are having may be originating somewhere near your end of the connection – your computer, perhaps the network that you connect to the Cow through, etc. If that’s the case, it’s probably not going to be something I can fix.
So, if you could narrow down roughly how long this has been happening for you (few days, few weeks, more than a month), and describe exactly what the problem is that you are having, it’ll help me figure out if it’s something I can fix for you.
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Hello Greg.
You are correct that the magazine page is related to your cookie problem. The system stores a cookie on your system telling us that you’ve seen that page, so every time that you reset your cookies, it forgets that you’ve already seen the page, and tries to show it to you again.
How long ago did you start having a problem with your cookies? Also, possibly related, have you installed any new programs on your system for cookie blocking, ad blocking, spy-ware blocking, etc? Sometimes some of these programs will cause issues with the system, since the cookies do store your name and e-mail address so it can auto-magically fill them in for you.
Eric Bliss
systems design and integration
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Hello Jay.
I just looked into this matter, and it turns out that there was an old virus-blocker in the system that was rejecting all .mov files (one of the extensions used by Quicktime), along with a few other standard media files. I’ve disabled this blocker, so now your e-mail should be able to come through. You should just try to send it through to Kathlyn. If you still have more problems with the movie file, please let me know. (eric@creativecow…)
Eric Bliss
systems design and integration
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Who’s Linda??? Don’t know anybody here by that name…
I’m afraid that the problems you’re having with the magazine ad have to do with the fact that you’re wiping out your cookies every day. When the page tells you “This will only come up once or twice a year”, it says that on the assumption that you actually let your browser KEEP your cookies. When you click on one of the buttons on the page, it sets a cookie telling the mechanism that you’ve already seen this ad, and not to display it again. However, if you insist on destroying your cookies every day, then it’s going to be displayed every day, because your browser is telling the site that 1) you use cookies, and 2) that you don’t have the cookie set that means that you’ve already seen the ad for the magazine.
Your “third option” of ignore this ad forever, would also need to be kept track of with a cookie, and so you would still be getting the page every time you wiped out your cookies. So that isn’t really going to work.
If you keep destroying your cookies like this, I’m tempted to ask why you even bother allowing cookies to be set at all? The point of cookies is to allow your browser to remember information about your preferences for different websites that you visit.
If you never want to see the ad for the magazine, you either need to stop deleting your cookies, so that the site will be able to know that you’ve already seen the ad, or you need to turn cookies off completely in your browser. If you choose the second option however, many useful features of the Cow will no longer work for you (things like automatically filling in your information for posting, keeping track of the post view settings you prefer for each forum, etc.). Of course, I can’t really say how well any of these features is working for you right now, since you keep deleting that information.
You’ll need to decide what solution best fits your needs, but I’m afraid that this is something that will require you to change the way that you surf our site in order to have it stop occuring. Either stop deleting your cookies, or else disable them completely. Either solution will cause the ad to stop displaying, but I leave it up to you to decide which way you want to do things.
Eric Bliss
systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Netint main(void) {
printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}