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    marye
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    Having trouble posting? Getting strange results when you load a page? Report these and other strange occurrences in the desert here! (Feel free to mention what OS and browser you're using also, as it helps nail the problem.) Thanks!

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  • Alaskahead
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    member identities not consistent
    So under the tour page posts someone will post a message. Three times now I've tried to reply but the link to their supposed name goes to a search page, when I manually input the name on a compose link within inbox, the name doesn't appear on the search list. How can an identity (member name) appear underlined atop a post, but then not be there to respond to, or find under a search? I've fiddled around and wonder if the name gets corrupted, like adding a space, or an erroneous digit at the end of their name when they post their message? Anyway,it's disconcerting cause I'm trying to respond to someone's need for tix. thanks so much, mark
  • marye
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    it's not going through
    please try again.
  • Steve-O
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    Uploading
    I've tryed posting a new pic of my boy and I twice. It still hasn't shown up yet.Thanks Peace
  • Parcher
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    Oh duh I'm retarded
    Thanks tons for: 1. The HTML tip. I'm pretty familiar with HTML 2. The proof of my dumbness because of the preview button. Now I can use the scientific method of trial and error. I'm actually supposed to be quite intelligent . . . possibly "gifted" because my brother is. However, human error and plain dumbness is not alien to my procedings. Thanks for the help which you did perfectly. Peace, -E
  • Mr. Pid
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    Fan photos can be uploaded by using the "Submit content" item in the nav stack to the left in the my dead.net section. Forum posts allow standard HTML syntax. Whether or not client browsers will properly render the tags is another story. Note that there is a Preview comment button you can use to assess how your post might render. Direct editing of committed posts by users is not an option. If you really want something altered, you could try sending a PM to our beloved mod Marye. As she has previously posted, no guarantee such requests will be implemented. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
  • Parcher
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    Several questions
    How do you: 1. Put fan photos into your profile? I searched under the "Edit" area but could only change my personal information. 2. Post Youtube clips in a forum thread? Since there is no way to edit posts, I can't experiment. Many forums have the [yt] [/yt ] thing or the [youtube][/ youtube] thing . . . but I have no way of knowing how to embed short videos. 3. Post pictures in a forum thread. Is it the standard [img ] type of thing or is there something I don't know? Also, is there a way to edit posts that I'm just not getting? My ignorance in these areas is profound . . . I am in desperate need of education!! Thanks oddles!! -Eric
  • Mr. Pid
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    Sally
    The chat room uses a browser technology called Flash. If you're accessing the site with a regular computer and web browser you can get the appropriate plugin for your browser for free from Adobe's website. Anecdotal evidence suggests that if you're using a Wii or a PS3 to access the site that they do not support a recent enough version of Flash to access the chat room. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
  • littlesallysanctus
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    CHAT
    Just signed up for the site. Tried to utilize chat function. screen went black and failed to load so for right now i'm not able to use that feature. what did i do wrong?
  • TigerLilly
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    Hey now Stuman
    Think not-but we got lots of new friends chatting nowadays. It also seems as if that after someone's in the chatroom for a longer amount of time, they no longer show up on the "who's online" list. Or sometimes anyhow. Some of the ways of the chatroom still seem kinda random and mysterious, or perhaps just to me :-D********************************** It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
  • stuman
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    chat room
    ok while we are on this topic ,, I don`t use the chat room too much but the other day I noticed a few kind folks on line , so I entered the chat room to see johnman ( who did show as on-line ) and there where like 6 names that did not show as on-line (according to the side bar thing ).. in fact I never seen a few of those names before .. Is the chat room shared by other web sites besides dead.net ?
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Having trouble posting? Getting strange results when you load a page? Report these and other strange occurrences in the desert here! (Feel free to mention what OS and browser you're using also, as it helps nail the problem.) Thanks!
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If you refresh that page what happens?
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I'm still there. It's only happened a few times. There is not a single person who would log in as me b/c nobody knows my top secret password. Nobody knows I'm here for that matter really. Strange things are abound...
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well, if the problem persists, let us know. I've encountered this when I've had multiple pages open and logged out on one of them, but I don't usually get too far without being asked to log in.
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me too sometimes I go on and gratefulmom is on 2 times, even when I log off sometimes it says I'm still on...weird :/
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I'll try to avoid getting too technical here, but I have definitely noticed differing page rendering when logged in vs not, specifically a high proportion of stale pages when not logged in. By that I mean pages that are missing content that should be there, such as recent posts that I saw when logged in, but which do not appear when logged out. My suspicion here has to do with browser caching. There is an HTML tag [META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"] (replace the squares with angles) that will force browsers to reload each page from the server every time, that will probably cure this syndrome, but will also slow everyone down a bit, not to mention burning a LOT more bandwidth. Alternatively, as drupal is built with php, you could also try ' header(”Cache-Control: max-age=0″);' You might run this by your developers. It may help. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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Now what the hell happened to my picture? Profile? How did these things just get erased? I logged on earlier today and everything was there. I never erased anything, how did that happen?
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in the machine :o and it eat our pictures :)yep they are all gone!
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I really liked the pictures.
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Welcome to the Machine If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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May i humbly recall that i solved the real nature of the problem(..Ghost)allready 1page ago....
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will be back! Various experiments behind the curtain, I guess...
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does anyone know where I can find the answers?
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Me and some pals figured them all out about 10 years ago. I'm sure it will all come back to me if I see the picture. Time to investigate...
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I bow to Mr Pids technical know how. Here's a couple of tips Phantom Log Ins This happens often to me. It seems to result from not logging off properly. When you log out, make sure that the process finishes completely before closing your browser or heading off to another site (wait for 'Done' at the bottom of the screen in Firefox). Also do not log out and then use the 'Go Back' button on your browser, once logged off it is best to close Deadnet and then reopen when needed. Stale Pages This is getting annoying. For example in 'Show Recent Posts' I often get the current page from when I last logged out. The only way to get the most recent is to log in .it makes browsing without logging in a real pain (which must use more bandwidth too).
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can you please please please please ask the tech people to fix it so that we can see the most recent post first. It is such a pain having always to head for the last page and work backwards through a thread. This has been requested many times and cannot be that hard to achieve (after all Personal Messages are sorted like that). I am sure Mr Pid knows how to do this ;-)
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There is a way to do this already. If you retrieve the Forums topic, any topics with new posts will have a link showing the count of new items. If you click on that link, instead of the topic name, you will get the page with the new posts, already scrolled to the first new post. Note that this is NOT yet implemented on the All Recent posts page, and only seems to work when logged in. Then again, if you're not logged in, all posts are "new," so to speak. "New" is a client session level concept, not a server level concept. Likewise, there is also a link to the last item posted, and that will take you directly to that item as well. This functionality appears to have been (silently) rolled out within the last week or so, and I just happened to notice the more correctly formed urls when I inadvertently hovered my mouse over one of the links. Hope this speeds your reading, Badger. BTW, hope all was well with the wifey's canine inclusive bday. I trust you got her something nice for the garden. As for the avatars disappearing, this is probably an unintended server configuration issue. It could be something as simple as a missing or malformed item in a properties file. As I have virtually no experience with drupal, we'll have to wait for an official assessment. When it comes to web apps, I always "roll my own" and prefer to use java/JSP instead of php. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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Unlike before it does work via the forums (fora?), but as you point out, not via 'all recent posts' which I use more often to navigate. Hopefully they'll fix that soon. I love the way they leave us to discover these things! We had a great birthday thanks, although I am still not talking to the dawg. As for the garden..been planting fruit trees today!
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If they would just compose the urls on that page the same way the do on the fora pages, then your wish would be granted Badger. Maybe "they're" listening... Perhaps they don't announce new functionality rollouts so as to preserve the opportunity for some Joy of Discovery as we wend our way along our respective journeys. Fortunately, they don't require us to communicate in Latin. There's only so much of it I remember. Semper ubi sub ubi. Nothing like a bad pun to set the tone. As for el Poochie....back to that topic. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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My PC and iBook both have my info auto entered when I have to re-log in. Last week after the board maint. I couldnt get in for a few days. I tried to have me PW sent to my email and nothing came to it. I even tried getting a new id and nothing came to me email. Now everything is ok, or at least from my iBooks prospective. Anyone else run into this?? Oh yeah, no avitars either? Eric
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Where'd my pics go?? Help!!
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I thought it was my computer, but it seems everyone is having some sort of trouble!I have trouble logging in, a screen pops up saying " out for coffee" or "try again later", today I logged right on but no pictures still!! Whats up??????
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but I have duly reported it! kj, the problem we've been seeing off and on with mailing new passwords to new people is that various systems reject those messages and don't put them through. Comcast and hotmail are frequent culprits, but we see it in all kinds of places. So if this persists on either of your machines speak up.
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weirs stuff is going on.f ex.i recieved a pm from a guy saying he will help me with my studies(sic)and in fact offered me a strange websiteadress somewhere in russia.i did not use it,naturally,but this security cookie thing worries me,because i see some pms which are coming to me.im called by my username,but they make absolutly no sense.as it says..somebody has stolen my identity and is using it i do not know how O°L°OThat aint no good....
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as i see,the double of me on the "whos online" list has disappeard.who would be such a nerd to hack the dead site.....does somebody wants to get "secret" conversations:-)(-:
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I entirely agree you should not be getting Russian spam here so please forward it to me offline and I'll pass it to the tech wizards pronto.
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I was going to send the viners my new address, but I'm guessing there's a problem with that bc I can't even check if I've got any messages. I'm not the only one right? Well, not a big deal, I post it in another forum. Thanks for all your hard work & patience PEACE
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There's no reason for this to be happening as far as I know. Are you saying you can't get into your inbox?
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Yes, my inbox used to be under "my account" or over "Log Out", not sure which, but it's gone & if I go to your page & try to send you a message, there's only the "Block Message". This has gone on for a few days, & I just assumed it was the whole site, like the picture issue? Am I wrong?
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but this shouldn't be happening for any reason I'm aware of. I'll pass this on.
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There's no problem here. I must have (un) checked the box that allowed me to get messages. Who knows, Anyway ~ Its all right now. PEACE
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Still no pics!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey Steve-O I can see the pics today!! There you are with that little cutie pie!! :) Peace!
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This site seems to be running slower than usual in the last days. Other sites I visit on the web are loading at the same speed as usual. It's only when I try to get into the forums that it seems to be doing it, and not all the time either. Maybe it's just when the server is busy in the US? I tried at 7am this morning and it was ridiculously slow. Anyone else having the same experience in Europe or is it just dodgy German service providers? It is normally a fast connection here. Are you kind?
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Hello , I have an older putter with windows xp , the flyplayer opens and wants to play , however the status bar just sits there , it say`s playing but nothing happening ?? I also use a wireless card , have great signal , and good connection ,.. I can listen to older tapers section , and I can listen to the recent Dead hour , am very confused and would love to be able to hear the beutiful music that makes my day`s so worth waking-up for . anyone have any sugestions ?? thank you to anyone that can help .. Have a greatful day everyone ... peace ... stuman
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i am in the tcheque rep. and yes i have the same problems,sometimes going that far that its so slow u cant even turn the page:-)(-:peace
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you are not alone. Various technical stuff is going on behind the scenes... Sorry for the issues.
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great news, thanks!
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I'm clueless, but I'm on a Mac. PC folks feel free to weigh in here...
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My pics are back!!! Thanks again for the cutie pie comment. He makes us all smile bright!! PEACE
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Hello, am very confused,that seems to be normal by now,lol, . but still no flyplayer? I can listen to older tapers,not any new tapers. I can`t even listen to the Road Trips ?? got windows xp.I even tryed opening with diferent browser, and nothing... flyplayer opens but status will not move,, ..
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when i go to Venue>US>any state, all it shows now are city names with a number next to it, highlite city and i get red arrows and blank , no venue names,ie;uptown theatre, auditorium,etc.but it used to
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MIght be a temporary glitch, but I'll pass this along. Thanks!
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this may sound like a stupid question, but, i keep getting an error on page messege at the bottom of the screen.?? this happens on most of the dead.net pages ,,.? could this be the site , my computer , internet explorer , ? as you may know i do not have great knowlege of computers , ect.. this is not a complaint ! just a question .. thank you for any help .... i just do not know what it means ,..?