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General Chat / RE: Official Avatar Discussion

« on: December 06, 2003, 07:53:06 AM »

nah, I just changed the extension to .txt.  It's a way of spoofing the geocities offlinking restriction.  You are allowed to offlink a txt file, but not a picture file.  changing the extension to .txt will allow you to offlink it, and any reasonable browser should be able to figure out it's a picture from the MIME type.

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General Chat / RE: Why you should drop IE

« on: December 06, 2003, 07:51:10 AM »

I don't know....  I thought it might have been your skin, but it isn't.  I just got the same skin as you (orbit red right?), and I am having no problems with my scrolling...

What build are you using?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Another advertising blitz!!

« on: December 06, 2003, 07:19:52 AM »

right click... save link to disk...

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General Chat / RE: Official Avatar Discussion

« on: December 06, 2003, 07:17:02 AM »

Murk, I hosted your avatar here

[Ghost_of_a_Flea]

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General Chat / RE:Why you should drop IE

« on: December 06, 2003, 07:14:16 AM »

manunited, I have a copy of Windows Server 2003 sitting about 4 feet away from me, but I have never used it.  Personally I am thinking about migrating to Linux permanently.  But I give MS credit for making 2 good things:

1)  Windows Media Player (Reasonably fast, plays almost anything, doesn't crash, has become bloatware though)
2)  Visual Studio (I actually really really like Visual Studio... it's insanely bloated though)

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Originally posted by: Ghost_of_a_Flea
Grey Ninja, quick question... since I went up to Firebird 0.7 I have a "part-time" scrollbar?  Half of the time my scrollbar is completely missing, and other times it's there.  I haven't really looked for anything on it, just curious to see if you have any ideas.  

The only other problem I have is more with the JRE; some Java chats close after about 5 minutes... it happens every time (but that's not a Firebird issue)... HOPEFULLY Sun will get that fixed eventually; everyone who goes to the same chat and uses JRE has the same problems (so I know it's not just me).

The scrollbar shouldn't display if it's not needed.  If the page you are viewing is smaller than your screen area, no scrollbars appear.  That's about the only thing I can think of that you might be talking about.  Never had a problem where I couldn't see everything myself.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Baten Kaitos

« on: December 05, 2003, 07:43:03 PM »

http://www.planetgamecube.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=4961

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: General Quit key combination in GameCube

« on: December 05, 2003, 01:56:56 PM »

That only works in some games though correct?  I have used that many times to reset my controller, and it only exits to the title in some games...

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General Gaming / RE: Final Fantasy XI - Who's Playing?

« on: December 05, 2003, 01:54:33 PM »

Crash to Desktop is my best guess.  

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General Chat / RE: Why you should drop IE

« on: December 05, 2003, 01:49:11 PM »

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Okay, so after many times hearing it on tv and from others here, I decided togive it a try. I like the tabbed browsing, always thought that was cool. One question I have that I noticed when browsing the preferences. Where you can set the homepage, it says "Clicking the Home button takes you to this page or group of pages". Does this mean that it will open a set of say 5 sites at once when I click on the home button? And will they open in different tabs. It would make it really easy to open my game sites right away. Also, how would I set it up to load all those sites. Would it be in a file? or just enter them all inline there in the text box?

Yes, you can set up multiple home pages if you wish.  I believe that using the button when you have multiple tabs open will set each of the pages to open whenever you hit home.  I prefer a single home page myself.  I use that feature though by setting aside folders of similarly themed items in my bookmarks.  I have a folder labelled "Dailies" that I can right click on, then select "Open in Tabs" to open up all bookmarks in the folder in tabs.  I also do the same with a folder labelled "Porn", and so forth.

On the quick subject of porn, Firebird makes it easy to get hentai comics, or just to view all pictures in a gallery too.  That's primarilly where I used tabbed browsing.  Middle clicking on each link in a hentai comic's index will open up each scan in a new tab, then you can go through each one, saving as you go.  For free porn galleries, there is an extension where you can just middle click on a picture, and advance forward and backward through the gallery without having to go back to the main index.  It's also a good way of finding pics that aren't in the index too.

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EDIT: Is there a way to turn off quick reply?

If you are talking about the forums, I don't think so.  I haven't seen an option for it, but I have never looked for one either.  I find it useful.  

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okay grey, here's another problem i'm having with firebird...pgc doesn't show up correctly. the formatting in the news posts is off. instead of ending at the vertical line, the text runs clear to the end of the window. this causes the thin vertical line that would normally end where the text ends to run through the entire length of the post.

i guess it doesn't effect anything that much, but i find it ironic that this thread has gone on for 5 pages on a forum for a website that doesn't work properly with firebird.

Just opened up IE to see if I could tell what you were talking about.  After closing all the popups and flash ads and stuff, I got to a news story, and compared the two side by side.  The two browsers rendered things a little differently, but I didn't see anything like what you might have been talking about.  Sorry.  Can you give me a screenshot?  I probably can't help much, as it's likely a coding problem with the site, but I would be able to pinpoint what's causing it.

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What differences are there between Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird? I'm sure it was said already but there's too much reading to sort though.

Nothing.  Mozilla is the same as Firebird at the core.  The difference is that while Mozilla comes with a big suite of applications, Firebird is JUST the browser.  It's the same as Mozilla, but it's been stripped of all the excess features.  Firebird is scheduled to eventually replace the Mozilla browser when it comes of age (sometime next year), as it's obviously the better product (as stated by the Mozilla developers).

The intention is to use Firebird as the browser, and Thunderbird as the mail component.  Everything else that you have enabled by default in Mozilla will be available via extensions in Firebird/Thunderbird.

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Develop using the standards. My site works fine in both. Been using Firebird since it was phoenix, the naples release. Things have gotten much better.

My site works fine in everything but IE, and is completely coded according to standards.  That gives me a great deal of pleasure.    I have been using Firebird since Phoenix 0.4

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should i completely delete ie now that i have this thing??? by the way, this this i way better then ie. i admit i dont know anything about computers, but ie was just wasnt working.

Not a good plan.  IE is integrated directly into your operating system, so there is simply no way of removing it and still being able to boot Windows.  Besides, there are likely to be some sites that won't work in anything but IE.  There aren't very many at all, but one of note is Windows Update.  IE is unsafe to run, and generally unpleasant to use, so I wouldn't use it much if I were you, but keep it around, just in case.

In case you are wondering, the main reason some sites (such as Windows Update) don't work in Firebird is because it doesn't support ActiveX or VBScript.  These are two MS technologies which have the ability to screw around with your computer in ways you would rather not know.  They are the root cause of many of IE's biggest vulnerabilities, and ActiveX in particular is inheritantly unsafe.

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Alright, I've played around with it for a bit and I'm impressed. One thing that always bugged me on Netscape and Mozilla was loading the IGN Boards. The browser would always freeze for a few seconds, this is now gone with firebird.

Is there a way to import my bookmarks from Mozilla?

The freeze upon loading a page was always one of my biggest gripes about Gekko based browsers.  Phoenix/Firebird was the first non-IE browser I used since Netscape 4, and I have to admit that I was seriously shocked that not only did it not freeze upon loading a new page, but it ran circles around IE.  

And, yes, you can import your mozilla/netscape bookmarks

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General Chat / RE: ign and gamespy merge

« on: December 04, 2003, 08:18:04 PM »

heh.  just found the new PA strip (it hasn't been posted yet, so a direct link is all there is), and I have to say that I agree 100%

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NWR Feedback / RE: More moderation please

« on: December 04, 2003, 08:03:57 PM »

We really do Bloodworth.  

[Gibdo Master]

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General Chat / RE:TIME-TRAVELER

« on: December 04, 2003, 06:50:42 PM »

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Originally posted by: Gibdo Master
Click here I think this kind of raises a good question about time travel though. If it were actually possible why haven't we had anything happen like this before for real? One thing I've thought of even though I really don't believe it is that all these alien abductions you hear about are actually caused by evolved humans that have traveled back in time to study the past.

That was always one of my primary arguments too.  Since all I know about this story is what you just linked me to, I have absolutely no way of saying that the guy is lying.  About the only thing I can really see wrong with his story from reading that is that he claims to be from 200 years in the future.  I highly doubt that the human race will last that long.

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General Chat / RE: ign and gamespy merge

« on: December 04, 2003, 06:41:29 PM »

Since I read neither... I really don't care.    I mean, it's not like IGN or GameSpy make games.  They just report about them.  Badly.  The only thing about this that could concern me at all is Fileplanet, which I actually do use at times.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: another zelda: collectors edition query

« on: December 04, 2003, 04:55:33 PM »

unknown my arse:

http://www.planetgamecube.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=6878

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General Chat / RE: Why you should drop IE

« on: December 04, 2003, 04:38:03 PM »

I am a web developer.  I develop for an intranet that only supports IE.  Some of the things I need to do to get code running on IE SERIOUSLY irritates me.  I created this thread as a form of release.  Firebird is a much "better" browser, and if I can help get rid of IE in the real world, I feel better.

Good enough answer for you?

ThePerm, I have Visual Studio 6 installed right now, and when I get enough space on my hard drive, I will be installing Visual Studio .NET 2003.  I don't have any problems with my icons.    But I am glad that you fixed that anyways.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: No region on Hardware?

« on: December 04, 2003, 03:42:28 PM »

Yes.

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General Chat / RE: Whats next ?

« on: December 04, 2003, 03:32:30 PM »

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I can't. I've only been here since nov 26 and have posted 64 messages. *shrugs*

yes.  We all just LOVE your content too.  I have only seen a couple of posts of yours that are longer than one line.  
You seem to ACCIDENTLY double post at least twice a day, in spite of there being a one minute timeout between posts.  You must have some really slow reflexes to accidently click the button twice minutes apart.

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TalkBack / RE: I-Ninja for GC Ships to Retailers

« on: December 04, 2003, 03:27:18 PM »

Wal-Mart lied to me and told me that they had Resident Evil: Code Veronica X for GameCube (on the phone, they asked me if I was asking if they had Resident Evil for GameCube-Xbox, so I wasn't really expecting them to have it, but still....) so when I got to Wal-Mart, I decided to check if they had I-Ninja...  they had neither, so I braved the cold to get home.  I stopped only for beer... then trudged on.

Now I am waiting for my hands to thaw out enough to hold a controller so I can drink some beer and play some Eternal Darkness.  Sorry for the spam.

I want this game.  Bad.  I will probably have to wait until next Wednesday though.

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General Chat / RE: Why you should drop IE

« on: December 04, 2003, 01:40:50 PM »

http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/#ctc

You can try some of these extensions.  I really don't use tabbed browsing much, and when I do, I middle click, so I only installed Tabrowser Preferences, which allows the user the option to select whether links that open in a new window open in a tab or not.  Links that are set to open in the current window will still open in the current window though.  I am not sure if that's what you wanted or not.

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NWR Feedback / RE: More moderation please

« on: December 04, 2003, 01:34:26 PM »

Hostile, get yourself a server that supports server side scripting, and let me know what language you want to do it in.

http://24.66.200.47/

Go there and refresh a few times, watching the quote at the top of the page.  It's done the same way.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Another advertising blitz!!

« on: December 03, 2003, 04:30:09 PM »

heh.  I've seen that 1080 commercial a good 5 times on TV, and have been wanting a permanent copy because it rules so much.  Thanks Berto.  

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NWR Feedback / RE: More moderation please

« on: December 03, 2003, 04:27:52 PM »

Thanks for stopping by Rick.    I know how taxing full time studies can be.  

The problem is that reporting blatant spam doesn't really strike me as the way to go, as it's normally a long term deal, where the person in question doesn't break any rules in any particular post, but has a tendency to build up a lot of garbage over time... it's kind of hard to report that sort of thing.  That's why we really need you back Rick.  You never let that stuff build up at all.  

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General Chat / RE: Whats next ?

« on: December 03, 2003, 03:52:26 PM »

Hostile, actually I have been drinking tonight.  And you have never incurred my wrath because you are overall a pretty good guy, and have a reasonable amount of intelligence (I actually think you have a fair bit of intellect, but that's beside the point here).

I am angry with twinkletoes because he/she has done nothing but spam since he/she has been here, and every second post (oftentimes more) is by him/her.  What's more, he/she has actually bragged about his/her post count, which just infuriates me further.  And what makes me ever angrier is that every second THREAD around here is blatant spam.

result == one VERY pissed off ninja.

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General Chat / RE: Newbie Check-In ... right this way!

« on: December 03, 2003, 03:47:18 PM »

it means that new people who post a whole lot without any substance at all to their posts suck and make this place very unfun to be in.

[RickPowers]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda: Collectors edition promo

« on: December 03, 2003, 03:37:42 PM »

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Originally posted by: RickPowers
FYI: It took approximately THREE DAYS to get my Zelda Disc after registering my games.  That's SERVICE.

Disclaimer - I live in Bothell, 20 minutes from Redmond, so your shipping times may (and likely WILL) vary.

I've been waiting over a week...  (I live in northern Canada)