All the way to this forum's beginning... |
August, 27, 2003 11:37 PM |
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I was trying to find the posting about upgrade vs. install disks, and at about 20 pages back I got tired of waiting for the next page - BTW, does anyone else find it S L O W moving to the "next" (really "previous") posting page? In any case, it simply changed the thread ID # in the address and went this far back: http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/forum/ forum2.cfm?topic=31&thread=375&threadID=375&start=1801 THE VERY FIRST POSTING!! - a welcome from Ryan. I found this kinda neat (it was late at night too... :)) I also saw a posting for forum improvements with an email link to "jbaker" - who seemed to be someone with control over the forum. Could this be our mysterious "search guru"? Link to this thread: http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/forum/ viewThread.cfm?&thread=46&Topic=31&threadID=423&ct=1#T423 Again, sorry if this is old news to some; I only had so much time and energy for the research involved. It is kind of fun to see who has been here and for how long. |
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RE: All the way to this forum's beginning... |
September, 01, 2003 12:41 AM |
mjohnson1 |
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Our best hope at this point is a long shot. Perhaps Ryan might come back and look at some of the recent threads and feel our frustration with OWC's ignore the forum pleas attitude. Then again, pigs may fly as well... |
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RE: All the way to this forum's beginning... |
August, 31, 2003 5:38 PM |
johnbclark |
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Yeah, it does seem like a continual lost cause. The email I sent was undeliverable, although it will try for 3 days. It seems, from reading the comments on the first page of postings, that there were OWC people who really cared and were interested, at first. I guess the enthusiasm dies off after a short time. In any case, I try to jump back now and then, and see if there is anything that grabs my attention. It is kind of interesting to see the "new" problems people had with upgrading through the 10.1's and the upcoming excitement over Jaguar. Maybe when the postings go back to 2801 we wll look back at or Radeon and Panther issues as trivial too... (Wonder what will be the hot button then? a Sonnett dual G5 for a TAM?) haha |
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RE: All the way to this forum's beginning... |
August, 30, 2003 2:24 PM |
mjohnson1 |
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Yes, a topic jumps to the top when you add a comment, but as soon as people stop posting comments on a particular topic, it quickly becomes buried. I started a topic on this subject (how to get OWC to make the forum searchable) a few weeks ago, but it got very few responses and was quickly relegated to obscurity. I could have kept pushing it to the top, but without much discussion happening in the thread I ran out of things to say myself. It isn't much fun to carry on a conversation with yourself... :) |
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RE: All the way to this forum's beginning... |
August, 30, 2003 12:14 PM |
gx77 |
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they're never gonna change this crappy forum. people have been asking them to do it from day one. have they done a thing? no they don't listen to us or our complaints. it's a load of BS if you ask me. who cares... i'm gonna buy a g5 soon anyway. after that, I won't need this crap anymore. |
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RE: All the way to this forum's beginning... |
August, 29, 2003 8:25 PM |
johnbclark |
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Working with a slow dialup connection taught me to be as frugal with bandwidth as possible, although it took me several months before I realized that I could collapse all responses to a topic and thus shorten page load time. The drawback is that, if a thread topic subject within the thread is helpful, you will never know. All you have is the original subject which may or may not be attention getting enough... As asked earlier - does anyone else seem to find the forum pages loading slowly? It takes sometimes up to 30 seconds to "snap" onto the page. My gut makes me think that it is somehow loading the entire forum, in which case it will only get slower. Even without a search function, I wonder if we could somehow organize these threads. I have been checking out other forums (DSL Reports, AppleLust, XLR8, and a few others). Even these have categories that we could emulate: Video Issues, Sonnet cards, Permission Issues, Threads by model / make, etc. As it stands, this is a absolutely scattered collection of thoughts, and even within the subject heading we sometimes get off topic or, to compound the frustration, onto another topic. Don't get me wrong; I do it as well and I don't think it is punisable - just that since there was no order to begin with, there is no order to uphold. It old style terms - this is NOT a forum, this is a BBS! (With occasional BS, too - but overall a pretty cool group) 1. Doesn't it jump you to the top when you add a post (like now, for example)? 2. I will try to email jbaker, since it is linked - he has a macsales.com address. There are others in the beginning that do too - maybe we can mount some sort of grass roots campaign |
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RE: All the way to this forum's beginning... |
August, 29, 2003 12:58 PM |
mjohnson1 |
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johnbclark, This is kind of helpful - not exactly a search function, but one could try different start numbers to help them to jump around in the forum and get to some of the buried threads. Unfortunately, once you choose a start number of say 1000, you still have no idea what you will see when the page loads and whether or not there may be a relevant thread of info lurking a few pages away in either direction. 1801 topics equals over 72 pages of information when viewing 25 topics per page. No small task to try and get through that many pages to find what you are looking for! I wonder if jbaker is still involved with the website and whether he has seen any of the countless requests for a search function... Another problem - since there is no way to keep a topic at the top of the forum listings, even this semi-helpful info will eventually get buried in the ever increasing multiple posts about the Radeon 7000 card... :( |
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CUDA |
August, 28, 2003 9:41 AM |
jseibyl |
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how about ..."Complete Undeniability that this is a Desperate Attempt" to get the machine back up...... |
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RE: All the way to this forum's beginning... |
August, 28, 2003 9:36 AM |
jseibyl |
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What does "CUDA" stand for anyway, it saved my butt more than once just curious...... |
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RE: All the way to this forum's beginning... |
August, 28, 2003 9:29 AM |
jseibyl |
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bloody fingers from taking apart an 8500, long frustrating questions that don't seem to have any concrete answers, scsi voo-doo, kernel panics, FPM or EDO, cache crash, many reboots, updates that don't help, flashing firmware, IDE partitions, cuda and pram. yeah I guess it IS fun... ;-) |
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RE: All the way to this forum's beginning... |
August, 27, 2003 11:44 PM |
johnbclark |
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Actually, I coudn't get there with the link directly - I went back one page and chaged the start to 1801. It assume this will change as we add more and more, but at least it will give a ballpark for now. The other thread was "Suggested forum improvements" on that page. Have fun - that is really our goal, isn't it? |
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