Posts by rproffitt

I am in no way an expert on this but there was a time this was buggy in .NET 4.0. Also it would be somewhat useful to know what code the call threw at you. My bet is it was some "denied" code like 80005000 or such. You can find the bug in the old .NET with a google on just the word PrincipalOperationException.

As far as an (ugly?) workaround, this may be the time to use try and catch.

The second idea to try is run the app and command line with an elevated permission.

I asked about this and from memory Dani wrote that messaging for most is a feature that you pay for. For moderators this means the easy way we had before is gone.

So we apparently get the same interface to message as a paying member. Which you described.

I too have to write that not only was the ball droped but there is no ball now. Don't get me writing about the Home page. I put my shortcut back to the Home page but it's such a pain to see and not useful at all.

Latest W10? There's some issue with associations. No, I can't tell if this is your issue but I found myself back at the command line to fix it.
https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/windows-10-file-associations-text-files/

"Use the ASSOC then the FTYPE command in an elevated command prompt. Read how at https://superuser.com/questions/841497/windows-open-with-application-not-appearing-as-an-option/1020255

Using this I changed my text editor to Notepad++. Screen shot follows."

Since this is a rather recent W10 glitch, my bet is you'll have to ask the source for what to do.

I came up short on any Windows API to do this. But I want to at least mention Reader Mode in FireFox and f.lux.

I did answer something eerily similar on CNET so here's the rundown. For this laptop I'd change the HDD to SSD and max out the RAM for such work.

As to use the real Android device I do that because it's fast and I get a better feel for how the app is going to work IRL.

I can see the error but notice how hard it is to click "Remove file"?

The error message does not show until you mouse over. Then the message challenges you to click remove.
Finally the overlay is so light that I can barely see the "X".

That's odd. A twofer.

My mistake. That was larger than I remembered.

And will it place text down low?

I do have some original PC hardware work ready to share. I have it up on CNET now and this, when working will make it easy to post it here.

It's a little bit about upgrading old iron. But hey, folk ask me all the time about such things.

Bizarre results. Preview seemed OK but the reult isn't as it was in the preview.

test then image.

And text below. This is going to make tutorials easy again.

If I dismiss my Microsoft mobile story then I have to write that the current feed is showing things like Jane viewed this article. X endorsed Y. Very few new posts if any and rarely a reply to a discussion. If there was any interest in X viewed an article it would be one I wrote at least if you are striving to match something I wrote about. I checked the top left card's discussion and I don't see or feel any connection. Many cards note "viewed a topic" 2 months ago.

I saw you changed the algorithm recently and instead of a nearly blank page, seemingly random stuff shows up. But right now it's feeling like rummaging around a trash bin. If only one could filter and links would work.

I think everyone wants this to catch on.

I'm for trying out new things but this is a missed opportunity from what I see at the homepage. As to the apparent conflict of seeing viewed, and wanting a way to quickly get to the new reply, I may have to write about it more but I think to fix the biggest irksome thing about the home page is to make the date+time link work just like it does on Latest.

The next thing would be to give members control of what to see on the home page. This is deja vu to me. I was there in the Microsoft meetings with cellular carriers and developers and watched what happened. The developers all wanted Microsoft and the carriers to give up control of the home screen. I learned a lot during those years and felt sad when Microsoft didn't budge.

We knew the carriers didn't want to give up control of the home screen and used their influence with Microsoft to maintain that position. I'm sure you watched Apple swoop in and give this screen back to the consumer. This is why I have the deja vu feeling all over again.

Thanks for the contact methods. I'm under the gun on a factory test app for a few more days.

Small world. I am working on making a new post about such an upgrade to old gear and did use the 1050 Ti. Here's a link to that successful upgrade: https://www.cnet.com/forums/post/3ef4c495-10ec-4348-8dc1-1322367b0f7f/

The PC in that discussion has only a 320 or so Watt PSU and is very old. I used a P3 Watt Meter to be sure I'm not stress this PSU. Turns out it was never an issue with the 1050 Ti.

As to your PC it looks like the usual home built so I'd start smaller with the motherboard on cardboard to see if you can get a BIOS screen.

As always before we upgrade such we bring the BIOS to its latest before we change GPUs.
Also, since it looks home built we find many folk installed too many motherboard mounting pins and short out the motherboard. Always check for that.

"Viewed a Topic" is an example of a filter for the home page that should be under user prefences. If I ran a site this would be interesting to me but for me I want to see new and unanswered posts. Still don't see why Endorsements need to be on a home page. If there was traffic on a normal scale and what I think the home page is doing, this would look like noise.

My advice as little weight it has is to hand some control back to the members. And fix the homepage so we can click on the date+time and be taken to the discussion exactly like it works in Latest.

I hope someday we'll meet and I can get your pitch on this as well as my war story about Microsoft Windows Mobile and its home page lockdown and then the dawn of the Apple iPhone that was a game changer. Microsoft missed the boat by very little here. If only they had allowed the phone owners to do what they want with the home screen, the outcome would have been different. I'm talking Windows Mobile days, not Windows Phone which was another story as well.

Sorry Dani. I shouldn't write about the past. Also I know how much work we put into our creations. The new user account sign up system you have now is great. Very easy for folk to get onboard.

As to the homepage, it's fundamentally broken for me. I see the date of the new reply and it's unusable. I find that it's better to just hit Latest and I'm at a page that works well.

I can land at the homepage if you wish, but as it stands, I look at it, wonder why it is that way and then click Latest. I don't want to frustrate you so I'll change it back and wait.

I see some changes to the homepage, but what it is trying to do is a mystery. Hopefully some user testing will help find a direction.

It's great to see the sign up is fixed. Marking as answered. Changing my DW link to land on Latest which works for me.

From memory you can only perform "Like" on string types. I bet if you google the error you'll find examples to convert to string for the like.

Marking as solved.

"Sorry, but there is no valid Member with ID 120589" after clicking the first (?) button in the email. Since I can't tell if there is information I shouldn't share publicly I forwarded the email to Dani.

About the error message. I tested this across 3 Windows 10 laptops. 2 are so vanilla it hurts. And on my Moto G 5 Plus phone and a Nexus 9 (phones and tablets use Chrome) and not once did I get an error about the upload or image dimension size/limit. I didn't try it on the iPhone 6 which has Safari and now, Chrome (due to that discussion about the hamburger.)

It was simple. Attach the image, you see it update and an icon with a checkbox. Click Post Reply and only the text made it.
Since the image dimension limit change is in, I truly doubt that message woud fire today and for years.

My only feedback is that not everyone will consider reducing the file size with simple tricks like color count reduction.

Thanks for that. My everyday laptop is 1080p or 1920x1080 so that's pretty much where a screen capture size happens today.

Even then I often cut the file size by reducing the color count to 256 or even B/W (2.)

I didn't find the limitations on any help page so maybe I was not good at searching or it just is what I call "tribal knowledge."

In the circles I run, we don't like tribal knowledge since tribe members (employees) come and go and soon only an elder knows where something is or how to accomplish a feat.

As to another editor is so I don't have to learn markdown just for this site. If the Imgur markdown had just worked, then this would be an OK workaround. As to the image limits, I can't find a page with the limit documented so I have to guess. Again, I can see a valid reason to limit file size but image size? Today we are seeing UHD 4K and 5K screens and it appears the size limit forbids a screen capture.

One of the key mantras to apps and sites is to keep it simple. Some will tell me "use markdown". Sure, but no other site requires this. I'm calling this solved for me as making how-to's and tutorials is optional. Making it harder just changed my choice from I'll do that to "too much trouble."

Inline images worked before a recent change. My worry here is between image size limits and inline that requires you to have another editor means the end of tutorials.

I'll look one more time for limitations but the inline missing alone is a dead stop for tutorial or writing about issues and how to overcome them.

This is just me testing. I tried various images and some work.

You explained why but I can't see where that limit is. Because of this I think that's the end of tutorials. First for dimension, not size limits and second for the broken editor that doesn't allow inline images. I've read that one can go get a markdown editor and that's just another app that would be just for this forum and then the images may or may not post.

At least I know there is some limit and not to think further of any more tutorials. Sorry if that sounds bad. It's not really but it's a shame this is how it is.

I did look around for any article about limits to discussions and limits but came up short.

1. Don't see any error message. The image uploads, you click Post Reply and the image vanishes.
2. Sadly this means the end to tutorials as some screen shots can be full or near full screen.

I tried using Imgur's markdown and hoped the images would show inline but that doesn't work. Another blow to tutorials today.

(Edited) If this is to keep a limit on image file sizes, then make the limit on files sizes, not dimensions. Then I could make the images with 8 bit or mono color palettes for file size savings without much or any information loss. And then there's Imgur. If the Imgur markdown worked, that would fix this also in another way.

I'm marking it solved and will give up the idea of more tutorials on things I run into.

I don't see why these images won't upload. Strange.

Here's an Irfanview report on bad then good image.

test

Here we go again.

This is from my iPhone 6. The hamburger is dead in both Safari and chrome.

Sorry Dani, I can't tell when these items broke or why. I can only check from a small army of PCs, phones and tablets at the office.

Just tried Chrome on my iPhone 6 and the hamburger does nothing.

As to the upload, it looks as if it completes. Not stuck, done. Just nothing shows up in the post. Others will have to work on this since I can only offer it's non-functional on many machines and phones. I could list them but it's over 3 W10 PCs, 2 Android Phones and 2 Android tablets. All are very vanilla.

My bet is you'll get most complaints about the graphic attachments but for now the hamburger is Alan's issue so all I can do is write "me too" and note what platforms it's dead on.

As you wish. One thing at a time. The hamburger is dead on my iPhone using Safari. It's an iPhone 6 w/64GB and very vanilla. iOS 12.1.

The image uploading appears to upload but when you post, no image. The trick you noted to download from imgur only worked one time so that's dead too. I see others uploading an image now and then but across about 6+ machines and phones, image upload is so dead that I just don't try. Just put it on imgur and share the link.

PS. Sorry. There are no error messages. It just fails to show up when you post your reply.

In my experience, you or your good staff at the usual trade show booth showing your products and services.

The difference between plus and minus has dozens of articles on the web. As to RW, you use that when you want to be able to erase and try again. I used that when testing how to make Video DVDs and then the -r or +r when I was ready to made media for distribution.

I think I see why. Lines 6 to 10 "New" or create columns. Line 11 adds 5 more columns.

Just for giggles I looked at the page source with a browser. The products do not show in the page source so scrapy and maybe CURL won't do that for you. Instead of scraping their web site, if you want product details from this company, just ask them for it.

I see two questions. As to can you buy, that depends if you have the money and means to buy it. This is not something you should be asking here but to the seller.

As to looks great my view on bought email lists is that you get stale rotten lists with so little responders that instead of the 1% responders I'm hearing that spammers are getting lower then 0.01% responses. To see if that's going to work for you take 10% of that or 0.001% response rates who are not buyers but just those that hit reply.

Email lists are dead. Except to those that sell them.

Let's avoid you feeling beat up over the lack of detail. No one can code this for you since so much was not told.

That out of the way, why not start with you write a query for 3 things?

1. Total number of records.
2. Records with negative.
3. Records with positive.
   Show those results. I would do this first since we have to know what happens if there are records that are not positive or negative.

I think we can sum this one up as you have to migrate off the now dead mysql API. Example priors at https://www.google.com/search?q=mysql_connect+php+7

You need to choose the new API and change your code. Notes at http://php.net/manual/en/mysql.php

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Have some good vacation time and hopefully some new ideas will gel.

Today I look at the homepage and now I see two cards about "Endorsement". Not at all interesting and no way to dismiss them or control what is on that homepage.

So my question is, why does these endorsements show at all? And how to control what is on that homepage? If there is going to be no member control of the homepage, this reminds me of Microsoft's Windows Mobile homepage fiasco. They forbid the user from changing the Windows Mobile homepage. Only Microsoft and cellular carriers were allowed to change the homepage. Then Apple phones happened and Microsoft still didn't give up that control. The history is there in many places about giving control back to the users, members and the public.

@Camille_2

Just so you know, it's rare to find responders in 7+ year old discussions. You want the best help so here's how to get that.

1. Use old or other discussions for ideas about your issue or problems.
2. Create a new discussion so you get your discussion it's own platform.

In your new discussion you must supply the laptop make, model, age and the story or you just get asked for that rather than getting down to ideas.
If you can, for Windows PCs I like to check out the PC details with a Web Speccy report. How? Read https://www.piriform.com/docs/speccy/using-speccy/publishing-a-speccy-profile-to-the-web

Besides https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53455359/how-to-fix-reading-the-file-in-java I looked and looked and it wasn't clear where your code read the itc-1 or itc-2 file. Maybe you left out some code.

I'm going to upset someone here. After decades of such work, we backup the entire server when it is not "live." We can use any number of methods you find on the web to backup the entire server and have never had to look for software to do this for us as almost every Live Linux on USB, DVD can give us the "dd" command to clone the entire drive. I'm going to skip supplying google searches since you are running a RedHat from the year 2000 and by now you know how to do that work.

But when you ask about converting your physical RedHat 6.x to a virtual machine, RedHat gives GOLD in the instructions at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/v2v_guide/chap-v2v_guide-p2v_migration_converting_physical_machines_to_virtual_machines

I have to ask why anyone would run a server without performing backups on a regular basis. I won't write badly about you but it's always interesting why folk do this.

This appears to be the same in Java and other languages. http://net-informations.com/faq/net/shallow-deep-copy.htm is a nice treatise about it.

I've seen that. Since the file system changes may not be seen by the file explorer I know to try closing the app and relauching or rebooting the phone. (Added with edit) To close the explorer app I tap the SQUARE icon at the screen bottom and swipe or use the X on the app(s) in question.

I also have seen phones that don't let the files be seen while you are using the USB connection to the PC. There's some limitations to how USB MSC works so this happens.

If you are inside the time limit on edits you move your mouse near the vote up+down area and the action icons will ghost into view. One of them is the Edit action.

Getting there.

Parting comment. On low memory Androids we trim the fat by going to Settings, Apps then find the apps we don't use and are careful not to do the following to system apps. Look at an app you never use then see if it has a DISABLE BUTTON. On current Android phones this will do two things. 1. Disable that app. 2. Uninstall updates to that app. I also tend to look to see if it has a CLEAR DATA button since that can free up more in some apps.

Again, we have to know what the app does since I did have some client go in and disable apps that were required for how they used their phone. "What do you mean I have to leave the messaging app enabled. Shouldn't messaging work without that?"