Volley Talk Housekeeping/Ideas: Please Read

[Odin]

***IMPORTANT -- PLEASE READ***

Several things have come up recently, just trying to keep up so that this forum can keep running. Please at least glance at the following.


**VOLLEYTALK 'BLOG':
If you are interested in contributing to a Volley Talk Blog, one hosted under the domain volleytalk.info (or .net I haven't decided), then please send me an email [e-mail] or a PM. This would be a free service to read and contribute to.


**DELETING ALL UNACTIVATED ACCOUNTS:
As of March 1, 2007, all unactivated accounts at VolleyTalk will be deleted. This includes all accounts not activated since the upgrade to Proboards version 4 (spring 2006). This is a very large number of users. If you need help activating an old account, send an email to [e-mail] before 3/1/2007 with your old username and the email address that it would be registered under.


**DELETING INACTIVE ACCOUNTS:
As of April 1, 2007, all accounts which have not been accessed since 8/1/2006 will be removed. If you have concerns about this, send me a PM or an Email [e-mail].

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LOG-IN AS INVISIBLE, PLEASE EITHER SEND ME A NOTE OR EMAIL [e-mail] OR CHANGE YOUR SETTINGS TO LOG-IN NORMALLY BY 4/1/2007.


If you have additional suggestions, concerns, comments, please post below or send them to me in an email [e-mail] or PM.


I will be cleaning up comments to this post as they are addressed or as I see fit.

[Gelatinous Mass]

I would like to keep my account, in spite of the posts I put in here. I would also like to be invisible and maybe thinner? Thanks

[cyberVBmidwest]

First of all, great job. How long as it been since you took over the responsibility, one or two years?

This feature may exist but I keep forgetting to ask. Is there a lo-fi version of volleytalk similar to what is available on the volleyball magazine forum?

I check out the forums using my Treo browser and it speeds things up in lo-fi. The lo-fi seems to only affect my access on the Treo. I get the full hi-fi version when I open up my pc browsers.

[Odin]

cybermidwest said:

First of all, great job. How long as it been since you took over the responsibility, one or two years?

29-months

This feature may exist but I keep forgetting to ask. Is there a lo-fi version of volleytalk similar to what is available on the volleyball magazine forum?

Yes, and no.

If you are logged in, you can modify your profile to not show graphics, and several other features which will speed up data transfer a little bit. You have to be logged in though for these to work.

The RSS feed I have been experimenting with is nearly ready and would send a smaller packet of information, however the format is only "latest" content and not necessarily in context.

[Guest]

While you are doing this housekeeping gig you should include cleaning up the fanbase page espically the Hawaii fans. I bet there isn't more than 5-10 Hawaii fans still registered with VT.All the good ones left long ago.

[BearClause]

idahoboy said:

bearclause said:

I'm wondering why I'm still seeing that a big sublimated VolleyTalk graphic logo in the background only on Safari (version 2.0.4) but no other web browsers.

What the heck kind of engineer uses a Mac at any level? What, do you engineer Barbie dolls?

It's my home machine. Really - only Unix or Linux workstations are suitable for the tasks at work anyways. The iBook sits on a coffee table and is the machine I typically use for web-surfing and photo editing.

I'm not a big HTML expert, so I'm just looking for a technical reason why it looks so funky on my machine at home, and why it started about the same time as the snowing volleyballs.

[BearClause]

gorf said:

bearclause said:

I'm wondering why I'm still seeing that a big sublimated VolleyTalk graphic logo in the background only on Safari (version 2.0.4) but no other web browsers.

It's in the background for me using IE 6 and IE 7.

OK - I tried that. It's a different look than I see with Safari. With Safari the background is white with the logo in blue. With IE 7, the background is blue with the logo in several different shades of blue. Weird.

[IdahoBoy]

Safari is crap. That is the best excuse I can give you. Apples, too, are crap. Ipods are the work of the devil.

Its not an HTML deal, the design is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and apparently some JavaScript.


Regarding using "Unix or Linux workstations are suitable for the tasks at work anyways": I highly doubt that's the case.

[BearClause]

idahoboy said:

Regarding using "Unix or Linux workstations are suitable for the tasks at work anyways": I highly doubt that's the case.

Well - unless you know something I don't, Cadence NC-Affirma (I guess now referred to as "Incisive") is only available on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, or Linux platforms. I've heard of previous ports to some Windows platforms, but that was eventually discontinued. The last time I tried using a Windows based HDL simulator/verification environment in technical class setting, it was ridiculously slow. And that was run on a machine with raw processing power that would theoretically blow the doors off of an older Unix box.

[UHvbFan]

idahoboy said:

Apples, too, are crap.

Road apples, I presume.

[IdahoBoy]

bearclause said:

idahoboy said:

Regarding using "Unix or Linux workstations are suitable for the tasks at work anyways": I highly doubt that's the case.

Well - unless you know something I don't, Cadence NC-Affirma (I guess now referred to as "Incisive") is only available on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, or Linux platforms. I've heard of previous ports to some Windows platforms, but that was eventually discontinued. The last time I tried using a Windows based HDL simulator/verification environment in technical class setting, it was ridiculously slow. And that was run on a machine with raw processing power that would theoretically blow the doors off of an older Unix box.

Cadence NC-Affirma must be crap, then.

Regarding the faux-environment, they are tricky to setup, but the biggest problem always comes down to network speed.

[BearClause]

idahoboy said:

bearclause said:

Well - unless you know something I don't, Cadence NC-Affirma (I guess now referred to as "Incisive") is only available on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, or Linux platforms. I've heard of previous ports to some Windows platforms, but that was eventually discontinued. The last time I tried using a Windows based HDL simulator/verification environment in technical class setting, it was ridiculously slow. And that was run on a machine with raw processing power that would theoretically blow the doors off of an older Unix box.

Cadence NC-Affirma must be crap, then.

Regarding the faux-environment, they are tricky to setup, but the biggest problem always comes down to network speed.

The vast majority of design engineers in my industry want Unix or the Unix-like for their electronic design automation tools. When the tool suite license costs upwards of $200,000 per seat (per year) for all the various software pieces, an expensive Unix machine doesn't seem to be a big investment.

My Windows box at work just runs Microsoft Office and maybe a few graphics tools. All the heavy-duty work in my industry is still on Unix, but with Linux taking on a bigger market share.

[sexy]

i suggest we all must come together in person and perform a dance in the woods around a bonfire while skyclad to honor the volleyball gods!!

[encyclopedia brown]

gorf said:

bearclause said:

I'm wondering why I'm still seeing that a big sublimated VolleyTalk graphic logo in the background only on Safari (version 2.0.4) but no other web browsers.

It's in the background for me using IE 6 and IE 7.

I've got it on Safari, too, on my FABULOUS Apple iBook that is sheer manna from heaven, IB. :--)

[Mac]

"**DELETING ALL UNACTIVATED ACCOUNTS:
As of March 1, 2007, all unactivated accounts at VolleyTalk will be deleted. This includes all accounts not activated since the upgrade to Proboards version 4 (spring 2006). This is a very large number of users. If you need help activating an old account, send an email to [e-mail] before 3/1/2007 with your old username and the email address that it would be registered under. "


Sorry, what does this mean.

Please just activate me.
Thx.