After the Chooseday Tantrum, here's the Wenzday W00t

[acompton]

I've been helping a relative move her work onto a new computer. Last night I installed her family history software and tried running it - crashed with a divide by zero. I went onto a well-known search engine and found that the software is no longer supported by the suppliers, however there is an active forum. So I visited that and entered "divide by zero" into the search facility -
it gave me the answer in seconds, with instructions on downloading and installing a FoxPro patch from M/Soft.

Respect to internet forums with a prominent search facility (hint, hint)

[Darren B]

Whats that you say "search" Argh that will be somewere in my toolbar, i think i use google :D

[george]

I'll have that search facility and see you with this one (http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php).

Thank me later etc.

[gabrielcrowe]

well, google, pinny and i worked in tight collab. to make this:

http://www.asylumunlimited.co.uk/actoogle/

[TraceyHand]

LOL Gabe
you're slightly strange but in a hilariously funny kinda way...has anyone ever told you that?
:p

[gabrielcrowe]

w00t, you've pulled, get your coat/goat.


actually, i'm a nutbucket. and yes, i get told it, every day. thanky.:D

i'm just on a high today, since i'm so close to completing our actinet project. the most complex parts are done. i worked all last night to get them ironed out.

and tonight, i'm DJ'ing. that always pumps me up. all those goth chic.... err, pleasant people in the club i know.

*ahem* :o

[fergusw]

"Surchin' Actinic" / "I'm feeling Goaty"

LOL :)

[TraceyHand]

saddest part is...it actually works!
I'm not sure whether to bow down in admiration or call the men in white coats
:p

[pinbrook]

well, google and i worked in tight collab to make this:

http://www.asylumunlimited.co.uk/actoogle/ Cool i presume its the same as my "how to search the forum using google" post, but does all the clicks/selects for you - its bookmarked

[gabrielcrowe]

sorry, i couldnt find that post, the forum's search facility was rubbish.

actually, i missed that one entirely :(

yes, its very similar in approach. this one uses javascript to put the querystring together, becasue its the technology i was working on at the time when i started reading this thread. :)

pff! little miss 'i got there first you cheeky mr crowe!'

:D :D

ok, ok, i'll edit the post to include you as a contributor.

[TraceyHand]

of course it does depend how many pages of the forum are listed in Google and how regularly/recently they were updated as to how effective the search actually is...

[acompton]

all those goth chic....
That would be my daughter :eek:

[TraceyHand]

sorry, i couldnt find that post, the forum's search facility was rubbish.

actually, i missed that one entirely :(

yes, its very similar in approach. this one uses javascript to put the querystring together, becasue its the technology i was working on at the time when i started reading this thread. :)

pff! little miss 'i got there first you cheeky mr crowe!'

:D :D

ok, ok, i'll edit the post to include you as a contributor.

psssssst..Gabe secret google search post thingie (http://community.actinic.com/showpost.php?p=175792&postcount=12)

[gabrielcrowe]

i counted 5,290

so, i guess you're right.

how many pages are there in here? probably billions of unanswered noob posts.

hehe, yes, i did find it. and thats the exact same way i did it too.

[george]

...maybe a thread should have to attain searchable status... ;)

[pinbrook]

actually, i missed that one entirely

yes, its very similar in approach. this one uses javascript to put the querystring together, becasue its the technology i was working on at the time when i started reading this thread.

pff! little miss 'i got there first you cheeky mr crowe!'

sadly you did it better :eek:

and I've already ripped off the code and added it to my default page to show when opeinng FF

[gabrielcrowe]

ooo, i'v just had a great idea.

a start page full of goodies.

i'll spend a few mins fiddling then i'll get back to yall with some juicy gadget.

brb.

[TraceyHand]

i counted 5,290



ok...admittedly that's a lot
But I searched it for "occupgrade"

Actinic results :101
Google results :17

My problem solved...page 3 in the Actinic results (Oct '05 thread)..nowhere to be seen in Google

Not knocking it...just sayin' is all

[Darren B]

Gabs you make me die - DJ for goths, what ever next.

Sweet site - cool obviously not posting enough problem for you;)

[george]

Gabs you make me die - DJ for goths, what ever next.

Sweet site - cool obviously not posting enough problem for you;)


gothmatch dot com


:rolleyes:

[Darren B]

afternoon G

gothasylum.com :D

[gabrielcrowe]

Gabs you make me die

you'd be interested to know, that we 'goths' as you refer to us, run your country.

its a brave new world mr darren. black is the new black.

[Querying whois.nic.uk]
[whois.nic.uk]

Domain name:
gothasylum.co.uk

Registrant's address:
15A Main Street
Shildon
Durham
DL4 1AJ
GB

^ thats us.

we pwn the goths.

[TraceyHand]

you'd be interested to know, that we 'goths' as you refer to us, run your country.



Wooooooohoooooooooo
Gabe for Prime Minister
:D

[gabrielcrowe]

heheee :p
MIB-tacular

[kathynewman]

Wooooooohoooooooooo
Gabe for Prime Minister
:D

Well I'd vote for him! Always wanted to be a goth - just never quite got round to it :)

Kathy

[TraceyHand]

Well I'd vote for him! Always wanted to be a goth - just never quite got round to it :)

Kathy

BTDT...black is very slimming ..LOL

Actually still wear 80% black but the rest tends to be pink :D (including the hair from time to time :eek: )

[gabrielcrowe]

http://www.asylumunlimited.co.uk/actoogle/index.php

how 'bout this?

beta, obviously.

[TraceyHand]

Gabe...do people actually *pay* you to work?
Just wondering :D

ETS...lmfao at letter L and number 7!

[gabrielcrowe]

Gabe...do people actually *pay* you to work?
Just wondering :D

ETS...lmfao at letter L and number 7!


i get paid, and i ahve the best working environment anyone could ask for.

it just happens that amongst the multiple development rigs here, most of them are loaded with php and sql tech. its not a case of me going really out of my way to make these odd web gems. i can pull much code together quite quickly.

for instance, that start page thinger is bascially a magpieRSS reader, pointed to the forums RSS feeds.

the feeds arent linked, so its a simple case of using the default path for the vbulletin rss feeds. they are split over topics and even over forums. in this case, they are configured to show recent posts.

the structure is xhtml/css. i have plenty of templates ready for that kind of thing. since i'm working with them in actinet every second of every day.

and the images were in photoshop, i have the actinic 'wavy logo loop' is one of my photoshop brushes.

no magic here. :) move right along. :cool:

[TraceyHand]

no magic here. :)

shame...I was gonna book you for my boy's birthday party :D

As for the RSS feed...I had that on my bookmarks toolbar for a while but found it a bit slow to update...it never seemed to be very current but I didn't bother to work out why ..better things to do 'n' all that.

anyways...

[gabrielcrowe]

you're right. lets get that fixed chris.

let the rss feeds be real time!

[Darren B]

Gabs - nothing against Goths - got my vote for PM, perhaps you could get the goverments wonderful computer systems to actually to talk to each other

As for all the other stuff you lost me after line 3 :D