New Format for the forum

[tcbusch]

The problem with the Discus form is the cookies. The cookies store the username and password for you, so when you return to the site you can automatically be logged in. A single website can have several cookie values. On this site there are about 5 or so. The cookies that store the username and passowrd are set to expire on Sept 5 2010. It's a bug in the way the cookies expire field is calculated.

If you move your PC's clock back to Sept 4 you will stay logged into the site. However this isn't a viable solution.

I actually took it a step further and set my clock back. Modified the cookies to expire in 2011 instead of 2010. Write protected the cookie file and moved my clock forward again. I now stay logged in, however this probably wont last long. The cookie file might go away.

Anyways, if someone sends me the source I'll play around. However, I am not a perl guy. One fix might be to fix the expire cookie time to 2012 or something instead of calcualting the time.

 

[mbounds]

Don't know what Charlie did.... but I'm back to automatic log-in again...Hooorah! Thanks Charlie..

Myron B

 

[mbounds]

Oooops!... back to the manual log-in..but he's working on it...

Myron B

 

[aschumacher]

Myron, ya I've be back to manual log-in for about a week. Its not a big deal to me since I mostly read postings. My only occational minor problem is to remember what my log-in name is for this site.

 

[kide]

So, was this ever decided, Charlie? I remember seeing this issue during the time last fall. Just wondering if you ever found support for Discus? I still like the format as is. I'm sure it would take me a few minutes to remember posting a picture, but I always thought that the biggest problem with that was people learning how to re-size 'em (too many people don't know how to find the pics on their PC if they end up someplace other than "My Documents", makes it difficult to post if they don't know where they are). I always thought it would have been nice to have the BBS software resize too large pics automatically, but that would have been difficult to get on software that's no longer supported.

Interesting that the Discusware website is still up, but no forum activity for over a year, support info all old.. The site looks dead.


BTW, just found a variation on "JMHO" - "MOO" =(My Own Opinion). The forum I was reading, I thought they had a bunch of cattle on there posting.

 

[kweaver]

I was on a local lake website for a while and if you wanted to post a pic you had to join someplace like Image Shack and upload it there then insert the link into your post.

I like Discus better and Charlie's deep pockets for the space to store all the pics and bandwidth.

Thanks CP !

 

[thoffman]

Leave it like it is! Don't mess with perfection!

 

[digger]

After talking to many that said we could transfer over to a new format. It turns out that blowing smoke is what they do best, LOL

So between Bryan and I and a programmer I found, It was decided to just leave things alone and see how things work out.

Personally, I just can't get into the thread thing.

So to sum it up. It is what it is, and that's the way it is.

 

[digger]

Kendall,
YES I said Kendall!
Why did you change that anyway?

I like that MOO thing.

 

[kide]

You mean Kendell?? . It was/is a Google thing.. I was turning up too many places... Besides, most of the people I know know me by Gerry (Gary)..

I was just wondering about Discus from a support point of view, in my former life, end of life on software was a big thing, as we tended in state government to run the wheels off anything that was bought and paid for. Our mainframes were always a big problem, Burroughs/Unisys had problems at times even finding parts for us (I can remember a middle of the night run to Holland Ohio to strip parts off scrap equipment in one of their warehouses to get the Michigan LE network back running (big block Chevy station wagons were faster than they looked, especially when you had an almost solid guarantee of an escort if you got stopped...). I was real happy that after almost a year the forum was still comfortable and unchanged (kinda like an old pair of shoes..)

BTW thanks to all for the kind words - I'm still "gut shot" if you know what I mean, but trying to get back on the horse. I never kept house, that was Sandy's province (and she protected it fiercely !), so I'm still learning stupid simple things (for her) that seem to be pretty tough for me. I'll keep hanging around here, friends are good to have when you're down.

 

[kweaver]

Hey You - I told ya to come down here and I'd take ya to the river , do ya good to get out... and I might get my yard mowed too