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Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

zotero firefox plugin here

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3504

I also found this, while looking .....

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10187

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

added, so it doesn't get lost!

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=259068#259068

otropogo · Joined: 24 Oct 2009 Posts: 774 Location: Montreal

My apologies if I've failed to find a previously published answer . I admit I've only read the first post of this thread carefully, and skimmed through the rest.

Am hoping there's a simple explanation of the structure of one of the three pre-set searches, the "view unanswered posts" search.

What frustrates me is this.

When I run this search, the first page (page 1 of 230) shows posts from the current date (Nov.6, 2009), yet when I click on the last page (230), it also shows posts from today's date.

And then, when I open the second last page (#229 today), I'm looking at posts for 2005!

Page #1 had 7 posts dated today, page #230 had 9, and all the posts on page 229 were dated 2005...

On third glance, I see that the poster's name in the "last post" column is given as "guest" in all of the posts on the last page.

My first thought was that these were posts by unfortunates who had been banned and converted into "guests", and the database somehow kept their orphaned posts perpetually current. But I see that all but two have an active username in the "author' column.

The other interesting thing is that all nine of these "guest" posts have the same posting time (on the search page), and that this time is always the current time on my system (ie. the last time I looked, it was 11:42 for all the posts).

When I viewed the posts, all displayed time stamps from months or years back (the oldest is from December 2007), except for the one at the bottom of the page ("Puppy Linux in Linux Format"), for which I got a "no posts match your search criteria".

I ran a little experiment with this last post by replying to it. Will see whether it now disappears from the last page of the search...Yep, it's gone!

OOPS! Not so fast. It's gone from the bottom of the last page, but reappears on page one now, with legendofthorn as the author "0 replies" and otropogo as the last poster... The original post is still nowhere to be found. Have asked the author about it via PM.

More weirdness...

After posting this message, I ran the "view unanswered posts" search again to see where my new post would land - and I couldn't see it on either the first, 230th, or 229th (after reloading the pages).

Why not? It got posted, as it's listed in the correct thread, I was able to access it via that route, and it hasn't had any replies...

Explanation(s) please...

Pizzasgood · Posted: Fri 06 Nov 2009, 20:07 Post subject:

Some of the guest people probably were really guests. We used to allow guest posting back when the forum was new, before spam started getting bad.

As for the temporal anomalies, I'm not sure what's going on there. The posts themselves seem to know when they were made. Maybe threads have their own "last reply" timestamp rather than relying on whatever is in the last post in the thread, and maybe it got borked on those ones. I don't know.

As for the one you replied to, it sounds like maybe the post had been deleted but not all the entries in the database were adjusted correctly, so that when you replied, your post became the first post in the thread. And apparently the threads have their own entry for who is the original poster, which did not get updated when you replied (which it shouldn't, since a reply is by definition not the first post.... except when things are screwy).

Maybe these things are a result of the forum crashing in the middle of those people's posts being processed or something.

otropogo · Joined: 24 Oct 2009 Posts: 774 Location: Montreal

Lobster · Posted: Sat 07 Nov 2009, 00:28 Post subject:

I have made the search engines mentioned into a mini shell script
which has been kindly made into a pet
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=359024#359024

====== old info - use pet ========
- Click on the File icon on the Puppy desktop
- go somewhere (NB: Windows users - please stay in the room) Smile

- right click
- New / Script
- post in the below code replacing the bit at the top
- make the resulting file executable
- move where you want it

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 07 Nov 2009, 01:45 Post subject:

otropogo · Joined: 24 Oct 2009 Posts: 774 Location: Montreal

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

otropogo · Joined: 24 Oct 2009 Posts: 774 Location: Montreal

Béèm · Posted: Sat 07 Nov 2009, 15:07 Post subject:

Nice little applet.

otropogo · Joined: 24 Oct 2009 Posts: 774 Location: Montreal

On December 9th, I got the following notice in my gmail inbox:

Pizzasgood · Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:51 Post subject:

The post which triggered the email was spam, and somebody removed the spam before you attempted to view it.

Brdog · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 3

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Pizzasgood · Posted: Thu 17 Dec 2009, 17:10 Post subject:

I think there was a post about that recently (within a week, probably three days or so ago) that referenced an older thread. I didn't read about how they actually did it, but if they used wget (which is very likely), you could modify the code to give wget the --wait=SECONDS option, where you replace SECONDS with a number. For example --wait=2 would cause it to wait two seconds after downloading each page before downloading the next.

By the way: people will be more inclined to help if you post when sober.