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by cookdav
Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: Greetings...and a simple Wine question
Replies: 3
Views: 740

Re: Greetings...and a simple Wine question

>>>BTW, the wine website has a list of programs which run well.

Thx, Geek. That did it.
by cookdav
Mon Feb 01, 2021 12:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Greetings...and a simple Wine question
Replies: 3
Views: 740

Greetings...and a simple Wine question

First off...hello to Jerry and RichB and all the other folks whose names I recognize. (I've been inactive here for quite a few years...I'm from the Mepis days.) Congrats for having risen to top of DistroWatch ! (I did install MX Linux 6 months or so ago, on an old laptop, but I managed fine without ...
by cookdav
Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:48 pm
Forum: Forum How-to's
Topic: Post a message with a leading slash
Replies: 30
Views: 26176

Re: Post a message with a leading slash

Oops...yes, there IS a w-get, which was the cause of my grief.

[Putting tags around the w wasn't quite the total answer, because then those tags don't dissappear
when you view it, if the w-get is within a larger 'code' tagged sequence, so I had to eliminate the code tags.]
by cookdav
Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:58 pm
Forum: Forum How-to's
Topic: Post a message with a leading slash
Replies: 30
Views: 26176

Re: Post a message with a leading slash

wouldn't necessarily call it a problem, rather it's a security check that prevents hacker from downloading stuff from the server and/or using our servers to download stuff from elsewhere on the net. the slash checking rule was modified, but modifying the rule for w get is a bit trickier because it ...
by cookdav
Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:40 am
Forum: Forum How-to's
Topic: Post a message with a leading slash
Replies: 30
Views: 26176

Re: Post a message with a leading slash

Hmmm...this problem is 'messy'. I've got a reply (that I've saved), and no matter what I try, I can't see to find any way to NOT get this 'method not implemented' error when I try to view/post it. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the 'rules'? My prospective post has some normal forward-slashed directory a...
by cookdav
Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:15 pm
Forum: Site Help
Topic: Suggestion for forum feature...
Replies: 6
Views: 4343

Suggestion for forum feature...

[Our forums are already about the most feature-rich, but...] One very cool feature I saw on another forum was that, over on the right in the data-area of info about the poster/replier was (high-lighted in a contrasting color) the fact that they were the 'OP' (aka base-poster) for that thread. VERY H...

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