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This has been going on for over a day now, so I thought I'd report it. On any Reply page, the page load is stalling at http://ds.Serving-sys.com/BurstingRes/Site-845/Type-o/{######}.gif and never completes. The result is that all of the top banner area content and most of the smileys are blank spots. The upper right of the page where an ad is usually displayed is blank, but there's a link behind it, judging by the change in cursor when hovering over the space. I suspect you have a dead server at one of the advertisers sites.
I've seen ad servers screw up the site before, but never this badly, nor for this long a time. Maybe we should submit a RFC for a new standard which requires a timer that allows content a specified time to load, then skips it and moves on with the rest of the page on timeout. 
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Only on the reply page? Can you please do a tracert to http://ds.Serving-sys.com[^] and let us know if there is an issue? Looks like it's a Microsoft ad that is having problems.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It seems to be working this morning, though the tracert got tangled at a server in Los Angeles, and resolves to a static address registered to Qwest in Denver. It could be MS - who else would use such a ridiculously long and indecipherable URL?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I'm probably going to get slammed for this as this site is mostly geared around microsoft/windows technologies but, what are the chances of having a forum/section geared around mac & iphone development. (please be gentle on the reply's) 
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
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teejayem wrote: this site is mostly geared around microsoft/windows
The key word there is mostly, as that's historically where this site came from. It has grown though, with LAMP sections, so hang in there. If there are enough good articles, I'm sure that Chris will consider it; hint: write some good articles.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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We typically don't add sections for a specific technology, but instead organise our sections around topics. Each article is then tagged by the specific attribute that it relates to, so for Mac and iPhone development you'd tag an article by 'MacOs' and/or 'Mobile/iPhone'
If you've got content we'd love to see it!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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How to get the "Send me an e-mail if someone replies to this message" checkbox to default to checked. It used to be but today has defaulted to unchecked.
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The theory is the four checkbox options get persisted; it works for me.
BTW: I would prefer to see them on the "My Settings" page too.
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Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: The theory is the four checkbox options get persisted; it works for me.
It used to be that way, or it might have been a recent clean-out of my cookie jar. In any case, I did get notified of this one.
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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The same thing happened to me a week ago and I was 'manually' checking replies. You can imagine how it should have been like... Chris fixed it after I reported that.
And the bad thing is that now, the bug seem to have reinstated itself and it has happened to my account again along with you. I'm now manually clicking on "Send me an email if someone replies to this message" option. 
[ADD] When I clicked edit to add something, the "Send me an email if..." has been enabled.  [/ADD]
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Can we change the Visual Basic forum name to VB.Net or "Visual Basic (not VB6)".
I can't believe the number of VB6 question in the last month, and they seem to be new projects AaaaaaHhhhhhh.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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and also start a new "Archaeology (VB6, ...)" forum...
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But the VB'ers will still post in the VB.NET forum...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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What if Visual Basic changed to VB.NET if you held down the Ctrl key while hovering?
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Steps to reproduce
Open a message --> pin it
Click on the message title (as if to close it again) (not on the pin icon)
Unpin the message (the message closes now)
Try and open the message again
---> on the first click the message doesn't open
---> on the second click the message does open but the subject line doesn't have a background
Once this the message has been opened without background (second click) going to another message and back doesn't change anything (the background is still gone)
Happens in IE / FF / chrome and is constant
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OK, you get the prize for the most esoteric bug find for the week
[Edit: fixed on local. Will upload the fix to live today]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
modified on Friday, May 8, 2009 10:48 AM
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Chris Maunder wrote: esoteric
Had to look that up
Chris Maunder wrote: prize
What do I get? 
What can I say I'm just weird
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: What do I get
A bob stamp: ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Always wanted one of those
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Even the most esoteric bug gets fixed right away, what a service
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In the comments on this article: Reading Data from MSI Database[^], some posts are not visible until you expand the last visible post (titled: Need examples). Seems there is an issue in the HTML.
I use FF 3
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All fixed - thanks
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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After reading the post below I noticed that when a message has been removed, the subject of the message is still readable in the permalink, the header of IE / chrome / FF and also on the members profile (messages posted).
Perhaps turn that into a non permalink (just a number or so then) since it is possible that the subject contains content not for display.
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Tom,
In User Profile - Messages Posted, I see the friendly URL with the content for the specific illustration. However, when it shows as 'Message Automatically Removed', I believe, it has already defaulted to the fid and messageid.
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