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Compact .NET Article Area

18-Dec-03 20:34

Could you please remove the "Women's Clothing" posts from the bottom of the following article: http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/vbnettreelistview.asp[^]? They are offensive and not befitting for a family-oriented site.

Thanks!

Plug and Play IP address

Bassam7217-Dec-03 20:33

Bassam72

17-Dec-03 20:33

Hello guys,
Any one could suggest me how to obtain an IP address from a wireless network with out changing my network configuration?

Clearly, I would like to get an IP, subnet, gateway, and DNS information from a hot spot network without changing my network configuration (whether my configuration is static or dynamic).

Is there a protocol called Address Request Protocol (ARP) that lunched directly after the booting procees?.

Need your help

Colin Angus Mackay17-Dec-03 5:06

Colin Angus Mackay

17-Dec-03 5:06

I didn't find any area for Compact .NET. Can one be created? There are a few Compact .NET articles kicking around on CodeProject and it would be nice to see them all in one place. Also, it might encourage more to be written if there is a dedicated home for them. [And as I'll be using Compact .NET soon I might be encouraged to write new articles for such a section]

Regards,
Colin.

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Re: Compact .NET Article Area

Chris Maunder17-Dec-03 14:09

Chris Maunder

17-Dec-03 14:09

This will definitely happen

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Project Section?

AAntix12-Dec-03 6:29

AAntix

12-Dec-03 6:29

Chris -

Have you ever thought about extending CP to include a project management section; something similar to sourceforge.net?

Something like http://www.freevcs.de could be used on the backend for source control (there's a SQL server implementation). You already have the forums architecture in place, so each project could be provided a message board for users to report bugs and request features. You have the ratings system in place for articles, so this could be applied to projects as well.

I think that CP has most of the functionality already built to make this a natural extension. The source control on the backend would probably be the biggest integration effort.

Jim
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Re: Project Section?

Michael Dunn13-Dec-03 11:12

Michael Dunn

13-Dec-03 11:12

It's been tried already (CP² - CodeProject Code Projects) but all the projects moved elsewhere because CP just wasn't set up to handle that sort of thing.

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Re: Project Section?

Ian Darling13-Dec-03 11:23

Ian Darling

13-Dec-03 11:23

Isn't this what GotDotNet (.NET projects) and Sourceforge are for.

I think adding it to CP probably is trying to do too much, and would require Chris to find more cash to pay for the extra bandwidth and servers, etc.

Of course, you could just apply the codeproject style sheet to one of the above sites Smile | :)

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Delete unused user accounts

Alexander ^M.,11-Dec-03 4:28

Alexander ^M.,

11-Dec-03 4:28

Hi again,
why don't old, unused user accounts get deleted?

greez, alex

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

Chris Meech12-Dec-03 7:08

Chris Meech

12-Dec-03 7:08

1). What is an old account?
2). What is an unused account?
3). What is the benefit derived from 'delete from user_table'?

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Alexander ^M.,13-Dec-03 8:20

Alexander ^M.,

13-Dec-03 8:20

and old acc is one, that a user has forgotten, so he registered a new one.
an unused acc is one, that was not accessed for e.g. 3 months.
the benefit is, that we have less users, so the database gets smaller!

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

Ian Darling13-Dec-03 8:43

Ian Darling

13-Dec-03 8:43

Alexander M. wrote:
and old acc is one, that a user has forgotten, so he registered a new one.

And we know that someone has created a replacement account how?

Alexander M. wrote:
an unused acc is one, that was not accessed for e.g. 3 months.

So someone takes a sabbatical or extended holiday something, and we kick their account off the site? Doesn't seem right to me.

Alexander M. wrote:
the benefit is, that we have less users, so the database gets smaller!

In this day and age, I don't think database size is really an issue Smile | :)

Anyway, if the database is set up correctly, then deleting the user would require deleting the posts and articles they may have put here too (it's called referential integrity). So would you have the articles and posts deleted, just because someone hadn't accessed the site recently?

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SpamAssassin marks CP Newsletter as SPAM

Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa20-Dec-03 23:22

Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa

20-Dec-03 23:22

Ian Darling wrote:
So someone takes a sabbatical or extended holiday something, and we kick their account off the site? Doesn't seem right to me

Thank GOD, CP didnt do that.... I was out of CP for such a period!!!

Ian Darling wrote:
called referential integrity

Poke tongue | ;-P

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Uwe Keim8-Dec-03 23:20

Uwe Keim

8-Dec-03 23:20

This is the attachment of SpamAssassin to a newsletter:

Spam detection software, running on the system "xxx.yyy.net", has
identified this incoming email as possible spam.  The original message
has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or block
similar future email.  If you have any questions, see
postmaster@yyy.net for details.
 
Content preview:  The Code Project Newsletter
  URI:http://www.codeproject.com/
  URI:http://www.codeproject.com/images/newsletter_header.gif For
  comments or enquiries please contact
  URI:mailto:webmaster@codeproject.com webmaster@codeproject.com Monday
  8th December, 2003 [...] 
 
Content analysis details:   (8.4 points, 5.0 required)
 
 pts rule name              description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 0.3 NO_REAL_NAME           From: does not include a real name
 0.8 FOR_FREE               BODY: No such thing as a free lunch (1)
 5.4 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%
                            [score: 1.0000]
 1.2 MIME_HTML_MOSTLY       BODY: Multipart message mostly text/html MIME
 0.5 HTML_50_60             BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML
 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message
 0.1 HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE   BODY: HTML link text says "click here"
 0.0 CLICK_BELOW            Asks you to click below

Is this avoidable?

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Re: SpamAssassin marks CP Newsletter as SPAM

Ian Darling8-Dec-03 23:37

Ian Darling

8-Dec-03 23:37

Well, the HTML thing is avoidable by getting the newsletter in plaintext (what I do, because HTML Mail == Evil). As for the Bayesian analysis, it might be worth retraining SpamAssassin (if you can do that, I don't use it, but SpamBayes can be retrained), marking the CP letter as Ham.

Then ask Chris to sound less Spammy Big Grin | :-D

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Re: SpamAssassin marks CP Newsletter as SPAM

ZoogieZork10-Dec-03 9:30

ZoogieZork

10-Dec-03 9:30

Looks mostly like the newsletter got accidentally added as spam to your SA Bayes database. Just gather up a few CP newsletters and send them to sa-learn as ham and you should be fine.

The default autolearn threshold for spam is 12.0, so I doubt the newsletters were auto-learned as spam (the newsletters slip right through SA on my mail server).

- Mike

article rating system

Anonymous8-Dec-03 13:50

8-Dec-03 13:50

I suggest to put an on-line description of the CodeProject's article rating system.
Or did I miss it?
The article rating system doesn't seem to be an average of all votes. I saw an article that had
8 votes and its rating was 4.8 or so. The next day the number of votes was 9 and the rating was about 3.9. How could one vote out of 9 change the rating by a whole point? What is the algorithm? I hope the CP editor aren't playing some tricks under the covers? Smile | :)

Has someone else noticed anything strange with this?

J. Dunlap8-Dec-03 15:27

J. Dunlap

8-Dec-03 15:27

Tidbits from different parts of the site, (w/ emphasis added):

Rating is the sum of all votes divided by the number of votes. Voting can only be done by registered members and a persons vote is weighted by their [membership] level *.

Popularity is a measure of how much interest an article generates once it's been read. It's calculated as Rating x Log10(# Votes)

* Membership level calculation:
1-4 articles posted = Bronze. 5-14 articles = Silver. 15-24 articles = Gold. 25+ articles = Platinum. Each 500 messages posted adds one level, and if a user has posted a message then each year of membership adds 1 level. Bonus levels not valid for Gold members. Bronze is awarded at the beginning of the first 500 messages posted instead of the end.

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Anonymous9-Dec-03 6:08

9-Dec-03 6:08

Thanks for the info.
It be nice to link the rating scores
to a page with such description.

BTW: How exactly a vote is weighted
by the membership level? What is the formula?

Michael Dunn13-Dec-03 11:15

Michael Dunn

13-Dec-03 11:15

Anonymous wrote:
How exactly a vote is weighted

Bronze = 1x
Silver = 2x
Gold = 4x
Platinum = 8x

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Anonymous10-Dec-03 6:54

10-Dec-03 6:54

I'd like to make another suggestion.
According to your description if someone wrote a bunch of low rated articles, her/his
vote will weight as much as a vote of who wrote
the same number of high rated articles.

It seems that the rating system is fundamentally
flawed.

I suggest to count the rating of voter's articles
when calculating the weights.