057 Robot School

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by fafner+Aug 26 2005, 11:05 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (fafner @ Aug 26 2005, 11:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--jeffbert@Aug 26 2005, 03:06 AM
In the caption the ... game, I posted a picture for others to caption. However, it was at the very bottom of a page, so I repeated it at the top of the next page.  When 1 or more of the pics on the 1st of these pages was no longer available ( the web-hosting account was closed, etc), the 1 that was at the very top of the second page was found near the bottom of the 1st page.

Either I do not understand what you say, or you have misinterpreted something. It is impossible that a missing image could change the page where a posting will appear. Images are processed on the client-side (the browser), the server only treat them as text, not as images. Therefore their existence or non-existence won't change anything for the server.
Can you reproduce that in some way? For example by finding a post belonging to you that would have the same properties as the one whose image is missing, then deleting temporarily an image appearing in it, and see if some postings change page. [/b][/quote]
Perhaps I was mistaken. I was trying an experiment to test my theory, but the photobucket hosted pics would not load, & I needed to go to bed. Anyway, there are more than a few pages that have many more than 15 posts. When I looked at the first 13 pages of caption the picture game, the vertical scroll bar on my browser was the same size every time. I refer to the 'raised' part on which you place your mouse pointer when you want to drag & scroll. By this, I take it that these pages are about the same height, regardless of how many posts there are in them. I could be wrong, though.

[Astro Forever]

I think one of the best threads to check this would be the "All 1980s Astro screenshots" thread. On page 7, there are no picture at all in the posts, while other pages have tens of them. I still see 15 posts per page everywhere, and here the "raised" part of the scrolling bar is a lot bigger on page 7 then on, say, page 9, as it should be.

[fafner]

Originally posted by jeffbert@Aug 27 2005, 05:48 AM
Perhaps I was mistaken. I was trying an experiment to test my theory, but the photobucket hosted pics would not load, & I needed to go to bed. Anyway, there are more than a few pages that have many more than 15 posts. When I looked at the first 13 pages of caption the picture game, the vertical scroll bar on my browser was the same size every time. I refer to the 'raised' part on which you place your mouse pointer when you want to drag & scroll. By this, I take it that these pages are about the same height, regardless of how many posts there are in them. I could be wrong, though.

Did you count a number of posts different from 15? If yes, are your number of posts per page in the options panel set to "default"?
Better: have you a URL? I want to see :wahah:

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by fafner+Aug 27 2005, 08:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (fafner @ Aug 27 2005, 08:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--jeffbert@Aug 27 2005, 05:48 AM
Perhaps I was mistaken. I was trying an experiment to test my theory, but the photobucket hosted pics would not load, & I needed to go to bed. Anyway, there are more than a few pages that have many more than 15 posts. When I looked at the first 13 pages of caption the picture game, the vertical scroll bar on my browser was the same size every time. I refer to the 'raised' part on which you place your mouse pointer when you want to drag & scroll. By this, I take it that these pages are about the same height, regardless of how many posts there are in them. I could be wrong, though. 

Did you count a number of posts different from 15? If yes, are your number of posts per page in the options panel set to "default"?
Better: have you a URL? I want to see :wahah: [/b][/quote]
I do not recall ever messing with the settings, but mine is set to 40 posts per page. However, I just now changed it to "forum default."

In caption the picture game, this makes it 72 pages compared to 27 before I made the change. I think I liked better the other way. <_<

[jeffbert]

Now that I have thought about it, it could be that in changing the posts per page parameter (setting it to 40), the positition of that post moved from the top of one page to the middle of another. But I have no memory of ever doing so. In fact, I do not even remember seeing or even knowing about the preferences control before yesterday.

[fafner]

Originally posted by jeffbert@Aug 28 2005, 05:34 AM
Now that I have thought about it, it could be that in changing the posts per page parameter (setting it to 40), the positition of that post moved from the top of one page to the middle of another. But I have no memory of ever doing so. In fact, I do not even remember seeing or even knowing about the preferences control before yesterday.

Maybe you played with it a long time ago and then forget I often find odd things that have been done, and could only be done by myself and no one else because the access is password-protected, and the password only known by myself. And if some hacker had been breaking through the "door", he/she would have done far more than just changing a few insignificant options
A funny one: recently Astro forever linked to a page where I had supposedly talked about Atlas, which I didn't remember :huh:
Have I done that, really?
Or maybe a hacker broke into my server, put it there and posted it on this forum in my name? ^_^

[Astro Forever]

Originally posted by fafner@Aug 28 2005, 05:07 AM
Maybe you played with it a long time ago and then forget I often find odd things that have been done, and could only be done by myself and no one else because the access is password-protected, and the password only known by myself. And if some hacker had been breaking through the "door", he/she would have done far more than just changing a few insignificant options
A funny one: recently Astro forever linked to a page where I had supposedly talked about Atlas, which I didn't remember :huh:
Have I done that, really?
Or maybe a hacker broke into my server, put it there and posted it on this forum in my name? ^_^

That is funny!! Maybe some hackers care a lot about Astroboy! B)

I remember doing things and when I looked back at it, I'd be like "what was I thinking? How did I do that?". However, I don't remember having totally forgotten about something I had done, at least not this way. I'm sure I'll think of you if/when it happens!

[jeffbert]

recovered pics