Ron Lindeboom
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COW Coins
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[Mike Cohen] “…our tiny heads are planted on top of proportionally larger torsos.”
And some of us, are more “proportionally unchallenged” than others. I like to refer to us as The Board of Rotundity.
😉
Increasingly rotundulating, I fear,
Ron Lindeboom
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Another point I would add to Mike Cohen’s advice, is that keep the old address coming but send it all to a folder that you rarely check. Every once in a while, go through the folder and eyeball it to see if anyone is writing you that you may have missed informing of the change of address. Empty and season to taste.
The sad tale is that some of us are not in a situation where we can change our email addresses. I tried but I gave up as far too many of our customers just did not want to update and kept writing me at my old address. So here I am, all these years later hiding behind a wall of rules, filters and exceptions that allows me to function — just enough to be practical.
😉
Ron Lindeboom
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[Chad Brewer] “Have you ever used patch cables as nunchucks?”
Yes, but “only XLR cables are used in these cases because they can hold up well under the prolonged stress of repeated use on some of the numb-skulls that I must hunt down and work with,” says Bob.
Oh, and he is quite skilled in using them, sort of like Indiana Jones — but without the really cool hat.
But let’s be fair: Indie doesn’t have Bob’s hair.
Ron Lindeboom
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We put Steve there to the right and you there to the left, as it seemed…well, only the right thing to do.
There was a certain symmetry to it all, especially for those of us that know you both so well.
;o)
Boomer
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Unfortunately, it may be becoming common with HP but it does not follow the standards of naming and so my recommendations would be to use a TinyURL.com conversion and post that.
No wonder the Linux core of this site doesn’t know what to do with it, what a mess. Damned Microsoft “web standards.” I can’t imagine a server admin setting something up like that.
But TinyURL looks like it will be getting a lot of new business if these things get very popular.
;o)
If you use TinyURLs in our site, Lyn, they will have to be manually approved as we look at all TinyURLs because porn sites and spammers use them to try to circumvent security and filtering on sites that use them. We do approve them if they are valid, they just need to go through an extra step is all.
Have fun, Lyn.
Ron Lindeboom
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I have no idea what to tell you, Lyn. The only time we ever see an error of this nature is when it is Linux trying to complete an incomplete address.
Would you mind emailing me the address in an email so that I can test it and see what is happening?
Thanks,
Ron
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My reply wasn’t an attack on you, so please do not take it as one, Chad.
It is just that we even have leaders who participate in an area of the COW and know that there are forums for a specific tool or process, but even they refuse to use them because “I know that there’s an area for this question, but I want to ask my ‘homies’ here in this forum, so…”
I wish there were a perfect answer … but we are working on one that we think will lend a lot of muscle to the COW’s users, and we are not talking about the stop-gap measure we are implementing in the FCP forum. (That one is just a bandage, the real mechanism comes later on, in Q1 2010.)
Thanks, Chad.
Ron
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And you really think anyone would use it?
Me, I know better…
;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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Uhm, uh…here?
;o)
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[Ben Holmes] “…if you want to reduce the number of misplaced posts in half you just need to put a large note at the top of the forum informing people about the basics forum.”
Wanna bet? The majority of people will come right out and tell you that they know it’s there but don’t want to use it because the “heavies” are in the main forum and they want the “real” answer.
They haven’t taken the time (and won’t even when you tell them) to figure out that the people in the Basics forum are heavies also, but that they are patient people that can endure the same questions over and over — without wanting to choke the life from the person asking.
But you are entitled to your opinion, Ben.
Ron Lindeboom