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CypherJF - Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:07 am
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This happened last night... and i'm not exactly sure why it happened... i event went back into the game and alt-tabbed out and it was still the same... weird.

Mr Ekted - Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:16 am
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Happens once in a while. I think it's some subtle bug in the menu code with a bitmap handle getting corrupted. Never been able to find it.

Gravitron - Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:38 am
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MS-DOS - Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:34 am
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I had the same trouble a few months ago Cypher.

Solo Ace - Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:37 am
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I had some of the character becoming purple, a few months ago.

Poor Nikon+, is that techhelp?

Dr Brain - Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:39 pm
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No, it's not techhelp.

D1st0rt - Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:33 pm
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Yeah I got that same thingy a while ago, and they're working on some top secret project that I forget the codename for

CypherJF - Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:39 pm
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lol its just a question about a SQL statement.

D1st0rt - Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:44 pm
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its a mambo site yes?

CypherJF - Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:25 pm
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a what?

Solo Ace - Fri Jan 28, 2005 1:22 am
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One of those "I-am-too-lazy/lame-to-build-my-own-html-index-for-my-files" content managing systems D1st0rt uses.

D1st0rt - Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:15 pm
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Solo Ace wrote:

"I-am-too-lazy/lame-to-build-my-own-html-index-for-my-files"

you're damn right I am, I hand coded all previous websites I have done, the last one in ASP.NET since that's the server I had, and I didn't feel like it was necessary

Cyan~Fire - Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:47 pm
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Content management is dumb. It takes very little time to add your own crap, and the code looks much prettier.

i88gerbils - Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:28 pm
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Why reinvent the wheel?

Solo Ace - Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:31 pm
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What wheel?

Those pre-made things are ugly, and you won't win any prize in an originality contest.

It's easy to just make an index, and even if you're too lazy to do that, the index page generated by the webserver is better, cleaner and makes more sense.

If I understand your "Why reinvent the wheel?" correctly, I think you're being naive.
What if the web (or a smaller range of websites: the Continuum community) would only have such pre-made website lay-out's which can be slightly modified, wouldn't this be a damn boring place?
You're not reinventing "the wheel", crappy pre-made websites are triangle-shaped, they're far from being wheels.

Anyway, nice topic switch.

SamHughes - Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:45 pm
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Anyway, I thought that CMSs were the ones reinventing the wheel

(yeah I'm twisting your analogy)

Mine GO BOOM - Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:46 pm
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Solo Ace wrote:

What if the web (or a smaller range of websites: the Continuum community) would only have such pare-made website lay-rout's which can be slightly modified, wouldn't this be a damn boring place?

It means I would actually be able to find content on some websites, and others it would make look actually prettier. Another bonus would be google would work a hell of a lot better (can't search flash) and you could easily resize and reformat pages to work well on cellphones, or even design a mini-web browser to use in games even.

I'm sorry. I'm an engineer. I'd rather have function over form anytime.

Smong - Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:56 pm
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Look at sscentral.com, built from scratch I'm guessing. It's falling apart all over the place and still isn't even finished. subspacehq.com is probably the only decent website, although I very rarely visit it.

I think someone should host SS Times again so players can submit news regularly, and with a filter option so I don't have to see squad/league news.

Solo Ace - Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:09 pm
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I agree on some pages things are hard to find, but I think that's the same for the crappy pre-made websites.

Some websites really mess everything up, sometimes it's just like a big maze.
The last time I saw D1st0rt's website I thought that was a small maze too.

I think if you'd rather have function over form you'd choose for the small home-made websites than one of those bloated pre-made ones.

D1st0rt - Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:32 pm
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I don't think of it as a small maze, because I have set up many ways to get to the same thing, and if you guys want I can give accounts out for people to post news. The reason I picked this layout is that I made my own but it was terrible.

Cyan~Fire - Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:13 pm
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

(can't search flash)

True, I'd rather content management over flash crap any day. I still think it's rather stupid.

CypherJF - Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:16 pm
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Wow this has gone a long way off topic.

Gravitron - Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:06 am
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The original SubSpace HQ over @ subspace.vie.com = the pawnzor of you all and best designed site. -nt-

Solo Ace - Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:25 am
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I think it's pretty cool how spiders/bots/crawlers can't index flash (although, google claims to have a very advanced bot, which can index pdf files, flash would be a little harder, but if they're so "1337" why not?).
I like putting "Disallow: /" for all User-agents in a robots.txt, but using flash makes them unable of indexing your page, even if they disrespect the robots.txt.

Indeed, I hate crawlers/robots/spiders, let them die instead of letting them take your personal information and cache it/put it on the web once more in a place you can't control (on google you can request removal of indexed parts, but that sucks and takes months)!

I'm smelling MGB power here.

Me thinks this site is pretty nice (has nothing to do with SS, I know, whatever), it's not really user-friendly though.

CypherJF - Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:06 pm
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I'm not sure if I'm the only one whose gone to a flash page, and navigated through their "pages"; and accidentally clicked the back button on the browser, thinking of going back to a previous flash "page". Thats the only anoying thing I find about flash. And some take extremely too long to load on dialup.

Oh and yeah, I'd like to see SS Times start up again, simply because SubspaceHQ doesn't report hardly anything useful. Except for the few once a month articles.

Gravitron - Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:17 pm
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I love them bots.
They're the only reason I can still access sites/graphics of days gone long before.

Pests - Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:27 pm
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I used to hate CMS porgrams too like PHPNuke, ect. Then I found a new one that I really like, called Exponent. It allows you to place which modules you want, and where, as well as changing the layout completely and defining where modules can be placed. Modules have different views too, main calander for a page or a mini calander for the sidebar, either running off the same data or each seperate. Using a CMS with all systems built in can also make development easier.

But I do agree some of them look way to defaultish, ect.

SuSE - Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:58 pm
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CMS is good, it's just most of them suck