New dress for the forums

[jeeza]

This is not a suggestion, rather I wanted to comment on the new appearance of the forums, since the gray fields were changed into a kind of Venetian yellow (about 10 minutes ago).
All in all, they look better this way. More lively.

[YODA74]

Hmmm you must be seeing something I missed?? Ahh looks like the same old forum?

[jabarnutcase]

:D
Yes- I was looking for that strange new "Venetian yellow" too but just couldn't see it.
Thanks for clearing that up YODA! :p

[jeeza]

To me, nothing has been cleared up.
Just before I wrote my post, the grey fields had changed to a soft yellow (the grey fields between the lavender ones).
Naturally, I supposed that the webmaster had accomplished this little change.
Sure enough, as I accessed the site again now, it's back to its previous look... :confused:
Some joke.

[YODA74]

Strange.. how's the monitor? Vid Card? any other problems? :D

[jeeza]

Originally posted by YODA74
Strange.. how's the monitor? Vid Card? any other problems? :D
There is nothing wrong with the monitor or with the video card, I am certain. It's something with the webpage.
Just before browsing this thread, I took a look at the "Announcements" forum, and I made sure I got the page source, because there were some things in the "rated" column which shouldn't be there as far as I know.
Here is the source code :


Edit : there is a problem. The source code is much too long, I can send only max. 10000 characters at a time. What a bore.
How am I going to count these characters ?

[jeeza]

I must admit I am getting fed up with this. I have to cut this HTML source code into pieces but don't know how long I can make them I tried to post the first one anyhow but then it says that there are too many img tags in it. So I copy/paste the HTML code into notepad and want to edit out those img tags, but the search function says it is impossible to find "img" !
What's wrong with this ?

[jeeza]

Anyway, in the "rating" column there were several lines with text in it.
Now I have gone back to take another look, and it is gone.
I will try to find that text in the source code.


I have taken a look at the HTML code with my browser, and have found that it is not text inside that column, but images. On each row of that column, there is a placeholder for an image (I saved the HTML as html, not as php, so I suppose this is why the original content of these fields is not visible). The HTML page apparently has to be viewed over the web because it has a .php extension, without which no images are to be seen.

[jeeza]

Originally posted by YODA74
any other problems? :D
I hope I have answered your question to your satisfaction ? :D

[jabarnutcase]

Well, there is one more question that may help solve the "visual problems" you are having.....Is that really you in the Photo that YODA posted? :D


(Just kidding) :p ;)
At least I hope I'm just kidding. :eek:

[Mark Miller]

I am lost, what exactly was the question of this post?
Mark:D :D

[jabarnutcase]

jeeza is seeing strange colors.....(See Photo above) :D

[YODA74]

Here's the color code still don't see any venetion yellow??? This may have something to do with your system?? not the forums
body bgcolor=FFFFFF.. 000000text... link=000080.. alink=000080"

Have been seeing some good green mexican agriculture thou;)

[jeeza]

All in all, I almost prefer one of those banned guys' posts to these stupid comments you fellows felt you had to post...Nothing any of you wrote here has contributed anything positive or constructive whatsoever.
Sorry, that's how it is.

[YODA74]

Well ya know fella were not seeing what your seeing the forum is the same color that it has been..consensus here in the posts have pretty much concurred so look to your system as being the problem...It's not the board,,I would suggest you contact IXL maybe he can enlighten you.
good lord if ya can't take some ribbing or jokes yahoo is a great place they have a lot of yellow?

[PrntRhd]

Jeeza,

My guess would be a video cable for your monitor going bad or loose.

:)

[jeeza]

I have already wasted far too much time with this.
Obviously something brought these changes about. If no one else had them occur on his or her pc, then it's here on my pc.
And I suspect some kind of trojan, and moreover, a connection with my Spybot problem I talked about in my Distrusted sites thread in Applications and Security.

[jeeza]

Originally posted by PrntRhd
My guess would be a video cable for your monitor going bad or loose.

:)
Why do you think so ? There was nothing wrong at all on my screen.
The only "new" thing was yellow fields instead of grey ones. I mean the grey ones inside the tables.
That doesn't look like a hardware problem to me.
Come to think of it... listen to this.
About a week ago, i had one of those pages on my screen where you find the sub-forums listed. I clicked (or thought I did) on a forum name, but must have been hasty or distracted and clicked next to it, in the table cell containing the forum name, because all I got was the border of that table cell was kind of highlighted rather than the link, which is strange.
Why don't you try it ? Just click in the empty space around one of those links and see what happens. For me this happened once or twice at that occasion and right afterwards it was back to normal.
Besides, I had this kind of phenomena only while browsing the PCGuide forums, so a problem with a video cable seems out of the question.

[PrntRhd]

Well,
I tried what you suggested and it did not change anything. I would suggest downloading A-Squared program (free anti-trojan) and scanning the PC or one of the free online AT programs on mjc's security posts.
Follow that with HJT after reboot.
You keep pointing to the Distrusted Site thread but I have yet to see you help us fix it, that's kind of boring in it's own way.

[jeeza]

Originally posted by PrntRhd
I tried what you suggested and it did not change anything.
As I said, it doesn't do that here anymore neither, you know.
It's like a UFO I suppose : if you weren't lucky enough to see it, you won't see it again.

You keep pointing to the Distrusted Site thread but I have yet to see you help us fix it, that's kind of boring in it's own way.
Sadly enough, I may not be the only one seeing things others don't see : I pointed just once to the distrusted site thread.
But thanks for your advice, I will do an antitrojan scan. I don't see what else there is to do anyway (except one of those famous HJT logs, of course :D).

[saphalline]

I go with the UFO theory, though I like to think of them more as phantoms or poltergeists. :D Some are harmless (like your yellow/gray thing, tho that doesn't make it any less confusing) and some are nasty (like compatibility problems that crop up after the system has already been working for a few weeks).

I once even had a BSOD in Win95 that fixed itself! :eek: BSOD came up, I moved my fingers towards the keyboard, BSOD went away. I've never seen that again. Very strange.

[ixl]

I didn't change anything -- no practical joking, I promise. ;)

c

[jeeza]

Originally posted by ixl
I didn't change anything -- no practical joking, I promise. ;)

c
c, (I suggest after the TCP/IP Guide is released you change that to c+ - why, why not c++ ! :)) I would have appreciated it a lot more if it had been a practical joke...

As an afterthought : ixl, I have a suggestion (we are in the suggestion box, aren't we ? And after such a long relatively unfertile thread, maybe it's about time one gets made). That soft Venetian yellow is really handsome and agreeable to the eyes, you know. Would it be possible for you to give it a thought and look into this ? I am only talking about those grey fields alternating with the lavender ones in the tables on each HTML page. I have seen them changed into Venetian yellow for a few minutes and the effect is rather nice, you know.(*)
I think that poltergeist was actually a friendly one. Maybe the PCGuide site could adopt him ?
Anyone have opinions about this (the color, not the poltergeist) ?

(*)And I feel it has a kind of uplifting effect on the spirit and on the mood. More so than grey.

[jeeza]

Originally posted by me
I clicked (or thought I did) on a forum name, but must have been hasty or distracted and clicked next to it, in the table cell containing the forum name, because all I got was the border of that table cell was kind of highlighted rather than the link, which is strange.
Just in case there is any need for more specification : between the grey and lavender fields on each page of these forums, there are narrow white lines. The lines making up the border around the table cell containing the forum name/link changed to dark blue. Clicking again on the empty field next to the forum name/link make them go away - in the same way as when you click (or right click ?) on a gif image, I think it gets covered with a kind of dark blue field, so to speak. Or is this only in IE ?
I get a bit confused with these things.

[jeeza]

No ?
No one ?
Are you sure ? :(

[ixl]

I'm not sure what you are asking me, jeeza. I haven't changed anything and it all looks the same to me here... nor have I had any reports from anyone else of problems. I am also not planning to change the color scheme at this time.

c

[jeeza]

I don't know how to explain it otherwise.
Maybe this will work : I wanted to know if there was any chance of having the grey fields in the pages changed to a soft yellow (the advantages, as I perceive them, I have described in my posts above).
But OK, if I die now, I will at least die my mind in peace as I have now the answer to my question (just joking, kind of).

On another note - I don't know what to do with your comment that you haven't had any reports from anyone else. Surely you don't feel that reports from other people are necessary to substantiate my observations ? I have had a few quasi-disparaging comments, but I am still certain of my own perceptions.

But be that as it may, I have in the meantime come to the conclusion that the cause of this malfunctioning must have been the putting to work of Firebird in somewhat extreme conditions, such as several tabs used at the same time and some other application and/or Java working.
I have elaborated more on this in a thread about improved browsing in the Applications and Security forum.

As a conclusion, I have to state that Firebird will apparently fall apart when put to heavy use with minimal RAM.