[OT] Rant at the forum

Every dang time i come to this forum, what do i see?
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Notice the new look? We've updated to a fresh new visual design. But we haven't changed any of the content and functions here that you are used to.Grrrrr.
Sort the damn watch list by last modified time, like you used to.
Where is the autologin?
Sorry, had to vent. Enjoy the rest of your day.

no... see, those changes happened before the last change to the look, so the message only applies to the changes to the appearance. All those other things were broken in the previous change. (Granted, the message said the same thing then, if I recall ;-)
I notice the code button finally got fixed yesterday, at least.
Anyway, I'll list my top things that need to be fixed:
1) Auto login - I see no reason whatsoever for removing this.
2) URL tags.
3) Make tabbing out of the message entry field move to the watchlist checkbox and post buttons like it did before, instead of the links along the top of the page.
4) Permanently block goldie.
I'll take any 3 of those 4 and be happy.

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Can't see who has replied to the thread in the forum, its pointess?

What's the point in creating a system where you can't see who has replied to the thread? Its absolutely F**CKING pointless? Does anyone at Adobe have any brains or are they all sitting with their heads up their backsides?
Surely before you release such garbage you test for these very simple issues, right?
osgood_(NOT M Golding) If anyone at Adobe is monitoring this please get my screen named changed to what it was previously as well.

It needs a 'latest reply' on the posted list page like the old version otherwise you have no idea if anyone has replied to the post or not without opening it.
Latest reply: May 3, 2014 2:17 AM by . osgood_
The line below is not that necessary in the order of priority, which for all intense and purposes is quite useless. I don't really care about how long ago something was posted or where it was posted but an indication to show 'updated' posts and by who is vital.
9 minutes ago in Dreamweaver support forum
Why do we even need 'Dreamweaver support forum'. We already know that's where we are! I guess a selection of posts from other forums may appear in a 'general' postings list somewhere, but who really cares - if I'm asking a question related to DW that's the forum I'm going to, not a general list as I don't care a monkey knackers what's been posted in Fireworks or InDesign or Illustrator. If I did I'd go to those forums.
If you are tracking several postings it is going to become hugely annoying for both the person who has asked the question and the people helping the original poster as many replies will potentially go unnoticed and not resolved.
And what's with the silly horizontal scroll bar being created for long lines of text? That's annoying too.
Plenty of teething issue you need to get your head around over the next few weeks.

Logical AND not working in the forum search box

Logical AND of search terms does not seem to be working in the MSDN forum search box. Example: I go to the Project Customization and Program forum and type the word
subproject
in the search box. I get a lot of hits. So now I try to reduce the number of hits by typing
subproject AND read
Surprisingly, I now get MORE hits than before. The same thing happens if I enter
subproject & read
Do the MSDN forums not support the standard logical AND combinations of search terms? If they do support these combinations, what is the syntax?
Jim
...Jim Black

Cheers, you're welcome.
There's a thread going in the Suggestions forum with plenty more requests for updates to the search tool. You may want to add your voice there too:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9cf8ad4b-5111-4f84-9809-99cd8f1b7152/make-the-forum-search-tool-useful?forum=suggest
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New To The Forum And Looking For Speed Help!

Hello, After trying to find information about my problem on the Internet and then speaking to the BT Indian Call Centre, I stumbled upon this forum. I am hoping, having looked at so many helpful comments and contributions, that I might be able to shed some light upon my connection speed issue. I have had a very pleasing and stable Internect connection speed of nearly 8Mb. However, I recently moved my router to the Master socket in the house which was better positioned to give a good WiFi signal throughout my house. However, when I have plugged in the router and booted it up, I can only connect at just over 4Mb regardless of what I try. I know I am at risk of sounding a touch ungrateful here because there are many more people with bigger problems than I but I would be very grateful for some advice / assisitance as to why my problem might have occurred and how I might regain my previous speed. Thank you in advance for any help! Cheers.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

welcome to the forum
in order for the forum members to help please can you post the adsl stats from your router may need to 'show detail' to get all stats (if hub enter 192.168.1.254 in your browser and navigate to adsl or use a-z, if netgear enter 192.168.0.1) and run btspeedtester (MAC users may have problems) http://speedtester.bt.com or http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9354/c/346,4740,5520 and post the results .
are you connected directly to the NTE5 master or test socket or to somewhere else? Is the master the only phone socket in your home?
Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone. if cordless phone you may hear a 'dull hum' which is normal
Someone may then be able to offer help/assistance/suggestions to your problem
If you like a post, or want to say thanks for a helpful answer, please click on the Ratings star on the left-hand side of the post.
If someone answers your question correctly please let other members know by clicking on ’Mark as Accepted Solution’.

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Greetings, My name is Jeff, I'm from Netwrix Corporation, which is a Microsoft partner. I have a problem with accessing Microsoft TechNet forum. After signing-in to my account: [email protected], I go to TechNet
forum, and get a message that: "Your account does not have access to the forums system." And also I've noticed that all my posts were deleted from TechNet forums. Can moderators tell me why did that happen? Why didn't I receive any warning
about my account suspension?
I've already submitted 2 tickets to MSDN Site Feedback Inquiry but didn't receive any answer.
I've called Microsoft TechNet at 800-344-2121 and Professional
Support team at 1-800-936-5800. But everybody send me to the MSDN Site Feedback Inquiry from which I didn't get any answer.
Anybody can help me with my problem?

Hi,
Is this the profile you're referencing?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Profile/netwrix
It doesn't appear to be banned, but you're definitely right about there being no activity listed.
I'd suggest contacting the forums team directly by sending an email to fissues (at) microsoft [dot] com. The admins do monitor this forum, so you'll probably get a response here as well.
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IPhone 4s looks shut down all the time.especially when the 3g is on.in the forums its said to push the use button and the power button at the same time.the people calling me cannot reach at my phone.what should i do ?

my phone looks like offline all the time.its all about me to notice that its offline.then i have to push the main button and the power button together to open it.then the apple sign comes on the screen and the phone turns online.but i cannot receive the information of who called me at the time that my iphone 4s turned offline by itself.i cannot receive messages at all.what can i do now ? i sent the phone to the service and they just told me that they installed the current version.but i guess nothing happened.its doing the same thing again.i cannot use my iphone.
From Turkiye.

I've tried all those.But nothing works.The phone seems to be shut down.But it is not.When i get it out of my pocket, for example to call someone, i touch to main button but nothing happens.I solve it by pushing the power button and the main button together just for a couple of seconds, as its said so in the forums.
also, people told me that they were calling me, my phone was ringing but i didnt answer?...i checked it for millions of times, it seems to be shut down, but its normally not.then i push the buttons together and the apple sign comes on the screen.it searches for the network.and it works.
but i do not see any calls, texts anything.but for the others, they say my phone seems to be workin.
I thought it was 'cause of the 3G is switched on but when I turn 3G off, it does the same thing.it seems to be offline all the time.

How do I add a signature to my messages on the forum?

I would like to ad a signature to my messages here on the forum. I have seen others with them. I have visited the preferences section of my account here at Adobe but saw no where to make one. Have I missed it? Thanks

I use TextPander to store stuff like that. but often am going too quickly to add it.
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1. How can we search the Forum to see if a question has already been asked? 2. Can I send a Web Page and not just its Link?

1. How can we search the Forum to see if a question has already been asked? Search goes back to Help and out of the Forum.
2. Can I send a Web Page and not just its Link? Explorer allows it.

1. How can we search the Forum to see if a question has already been asked? Search goes back to Help and out of the Forum.
2. Can I send a Web Page and not just its Link? Explorer allows it.

How Do I Find the Full URL for Linking to Messages in the Forum

What is the best way to find the URL that links directly to a message I've posted in the forum?
When I receive an e-mail notifying me that a reply has been posted in a thread I'm subscribe to, there is a link to that reply in a format similar to https://support.mozilla.com/questions/862631'''#answer-279005'''. I discovered that if I hover my mouse over the '''Helpful / Not Helpful''' buttons next to each message when I'm using '''IE9 as my browser''', the specific answer # assigned to any message can be viewed in the status bar at the bottom of the screen (e.g., https://support.mozilla.com/questions/862631/'''vote/279005'''), but I can't figure out how to do this in Firefox.
Most other forums I post in assign a number to each message in a thread (e.g., message 7 of 25) that has the URL link embedded so that you simply right-click on the message number and choose '''"Copy Link Location"''' to obtain the direct URL for any message.
Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * NIS 2011 v. 18.6.0.29 * Firefox 8.0.0

Adobe Reader Touch (Windows Store app with "modern" UI) is not really accessible.
If you have a device running the Windows 8 operating system (as opposed to the Windows RT operating system), you can install and run Adobe Reader XI (desktop app with classic UI), which offers better accessibility support for screen readers. It also has the "Read Out Loud" functionality.

Can't see this topic in the forum

Hi,
I thought I posted this ttopic yesterday - but icant see it in the forum; if it is there I apoligise in advance.
here it is:
Hi,
I got some great help before on this & am hoping for a little direction. I have a class that calculates the tax from an xml like below:
<Taxes>
     <Tax TaxCode='code1' Amount='101.00'/>
     <Tax TaxCode='code2' Amount='102.00'/>
     <Tax TaxCode='code3' Amount='103.00'/>
     <Tax TaxCode='code4' Amount='104.00'/>
     <Tax TaxCode='code5' Amount='105.00'/>
</Taxes>Now, my method below, gets the last 3 values and sums them and applies the code "XT" to it & returns a HashMap that looks like:
{code1 = 101.00, code = 102. 00, XT = 312.00}.
public static HashMap getTaxAmounts(String xml) throws Exception {
          HashMap taxes = new HashMap();
          DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true); // never forget this!
        DocumentBuilder builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document doc = builder.parse(xml);
        XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
        XPath xpath = factory.newXPath();
        XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("//Tax/@TaxCode");
        Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
        NodeList nodes = (NodeList) result;
        XPathExpression expr1 = xpath.compile("//Tax/@Amount");
        Object result1 = expr1.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
        NodeList nodes1 = (NodeList) result1;
        for ( int i = 0; i < nodes1.getLength() && (i<2); i++) {
               taxes.put( nodes.item(i).getNodeValue(), nodes1.item(i).getNodeValue());
                if( nodes1.getLength() >= 3){
                    float total = 0.00f;
                    for ( int i = 2; i < nodes1.getLength(); i++) {
                            total += Float.parseFloat(nodes1.item(i).getNodeValue());
                    String xt = nodes.item(2).getNodeValue();
                    xt = "XT";
                    taxes.put( xt, total);
       return taxes;
/code]
all that's fine - but now I have to replace the tags in the original XML file so that they look like:<Taxes>
<Tax TaxCode='code1' Amount='101.00'/>
<Tax TaxCode='code2' Amount='102.00'/>
<Tax TaxCode='XT' Amount='312.00'/>
</Taxes>
any ideas how I would this???

what am I doing wrong here? i'm just trying to delete the last 2 Tax nodes? what if I want to replace them with the hashmap values - I can't even get the remove bit working??
public static String buildDom(String xml, HashMap taxes) throws Exception
        String newDocument = xml;
         DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        try {
          DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
          Document document = builder.parse(xml);
          HashMap newMap = getTaxAmounts(dd);
          Element elem = document.getDocumentElement();
          NodeList taxList = elem.getElementsByTagName( "Tax" );
          int count1 = taxList.getLength();
          int count2 = newMap.size();
          for ( int i = count2; i < count1; i++ ) {
              Element Tax = (Element) taxList.item( i );
              System.err.println("Tax == "+Tax);
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How to edit a post here in the forum?

I have noticed several posts in which the original author of the post went back into it to edit it.
How is that done? There have been many times I wanted to go back and edit.
Thank you.
Lorna in Southern California

Jabberwock, the experiment went like a slide on ice.
I did say that I would return in 15 minutes to edit a second time, but I got tied up in other things and returned to my office in about 40 minutes. I clicked onto my post as it existed in the forum list, but when it came up, it did not have that icon of the pen, so I figured that too much time had elapsed and I just let it go.
Lorna in Southern California
Edit: Oh oh. I think I discovered what might have happened. When I sent this message to be posted, a copy of the message remained "behind." THAT message had the pen icon on it. So my mistake was to go to the forum topic list for my message rather than to return to that particular page that acts like a holding tank for messages that I recently posted.
I might be way off base here, and if I am I hope someone clarifies so that anyone who is just starting out won't be misled by what I say here.....
Lorna in Southern California
Message was edited by: Lorna from Hawaii

I would like to know where the forum tree structure is so I can see what I'm doing and not be led around to irrelevant information.

I'm having trouble '''Finding''' the forum where I can look for the information I need. I keep ending up in '''endless menus of non-helpful information. '''
I got a popup message, I needed to upgrade to 3.6.17. After allowing it and rebooting, I couldn't start FF anymore, just got a crash report. I tried going to the restore point I had set with no luck and I tried creating a new profile. I lost all my bookmarks (only the Cache remained). And I sat in live chat for an hour waiting for help. German live chat had one helper and English live chat was closed.
So I gave up on help, uninstalled FF 3.6.17 and downloaded FF 3.6.15 and installed it. It loads but all bookmarks are gone. More importantly, now when I load the bookmarks, I can't '''retrieve''' them except by storing a new one. '''Only''' when I create a new bookmark can I see the folders I've created. I can't get to the organizer so I can't use the bookmarks to retrieve websites.
I'm disturbed that I can't get to the tree-structure forum where I can get the help I need. This "lead me around" labyrinth from one question to another, without being able to look through the forum for the information I need, is not helpful.
Thank you.
Foxhunt

I believe you just are able to delete them from iTunes.
Hope it will be helpful

After installing a new version of Firefox, I get the error message "The procedure entry point JS_GetOperationLimit could not be located in the dynamic link library js3250.dll" when I try to start firefox. Elsewhere in the forum a complete reinstall is su

After installing a new version of Firefox, I get the error message "The procedure entry point JS_GetOperationLimit could not be located in the dynamic link library js3250.dll" when I try to start firefox. Elsewhere in the forum a complete reinstall is suggested; however, I can't do that because of my company's IT policies. Is there any way to solve this problem WITHOUT a complete reinstall? Thank you!
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I installed a new version ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB6; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648)

If you can't reinstall Firefox yourself then you need to contact your IT department and ask them to check the Firefox installation.
It is possible that some files got broken with the latest update.

Time Machine spends hours partially backing up and then fails with "Time Machine couldn't complete the backup due to a network problem." Tried suggestions I've seen on the forum.

Time Machine spends hours partially backing up and then fails with "Time Machine couldn't complete the backup due to a network problem." I've tried various suggestions I've seen on the forum but nothing has worked. TIme Machine worked fine for the last two years and just suddenly started having this problem every time. The only thing that was a little different is that the computer was off for a week while on vacation and then I added a large amount (20 GB) of photos. Now the requested backup size is 82GB, which is large, and process proceeds very slowly for 2-3 hours before failing with the message mentioned. I have more than enough available backup storage space for it. Before failing, Time Machine has backed up no more than 12GB or so of the backup. It fails during different files each time.
I've turned off the computer sleep feature, and I've checked that the NAS is set to never automatically power down. I normally backup over Wi-Fi, but I've also tried connecting to Ethernet and it still has the same problem. It's odd because I also have a MacBook Pro that is still backing up fine to the same NAS using the MacBook's Time Machine.
I am using an iMac with OS X 10.6.8 and an Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 NAS.
I have system logs that I can share if helpful. The logged messages vary a bit from run to run, but here are some messages that I've been seeing:
I always get this message near the beginning of the backup:
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
I've gotten this messsage a number of times:
Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
One Day
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
Another day
1/7/12 10:44:20 AM
mDNSResponder[18]
PenaltyTimeForServer: PenaltyTime negative -112916, (server penaltyTime -1132397006, timenow -1132284090) resetting the penalty
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ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0x1106be94
1/7/12 10:46:37 AM
kernel
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Volumes/TimeMachine prevTrigger 0 currTrigger 1
Another Day
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Copied 7.5 GB of 67.0 GB, 8866 of 8866 items
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No valid tickets, timing out
1/6/12 8:29:44 AM
mDNSResponder[19]
PenaltyTimeForServer: PenaltyTime negative -148702, (server penaltyTime 2056822773, timenow 2056971475) resetting the penalty
1/6/12 8:59:22 AM
kernel
ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0xa5ac380
1/6/12 8:59:22 AM
kernel
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Volumes/TimeMachine prevTrigger 0 currTrigger 1
1/6/12 8:59:22 AM
kernel
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Volumes/TimeMachine
1/6/12 8:59:22 AM
kernel
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: soft mounted and hidden volume so do not notify KEA for /Volumes/TimeMachine
1/6/12 8:59:22 AM
kernel
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/TimeMachine
1/6/12 8:59:22 AM
kernel
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
1/6/12 8:59:22 AM
kernel
ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS: sock_settclassopt got error 57
Another day
1/5/12 3:48:55 PM
mdworker[2128]
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
1/5/12 4:24:54 PM
mDNSResponder[19]
PenaltyTimeForServer: PenaltyTime negative -42698, (server penaltyTime 1148718961, timenow 1148761659) resetting the penalty
1/5/12 4:29:58 PM
com.apple.backupd[2074]
Copied 586.4 MB of 67.0 GB, 9891 of 9891 items
1/5/12 4:39:00 PM
kernel
ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0xa1c0380

bokon0n wrote:
1/11/12 8:53:30 AM
com.apple.backupd[1169]
Warning: Destination /Volumes/TimeMachine does not support TM Lock Stealing
1/11/12 8:53:30 AM
com.apple.backupd[1169]
Warning: Destination /Volumes/TimeMachine does not support Server Reply Cache
Those indicate that your NAS is not fully compatible with Snow Leopard.
1/11/12 8:53:35 AM
kernel
jnl: disk2s2: replay_journal: from: 67182592 to: 78680064 (joffset 0xa7b8000)
1/11/12 8:53:39 AM
kernel
jnl: disk2s2: examining extra transactions starting @ 78680064 / 0x4b09000
1/11/12 8:53:39 AM
kernel
jnl: disk2s2: Extra txn replay stopped @ 79056896 / 0x4b65000
1/11/12 8:53:49 AM
kernel
jnl: disk2s2: journal replay done.
1/11/12 8:53:49 AM
fseventsd[41]
event logs in /Volumes/Time Machine/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (253512 14 253512)
1/11/12 8:53:50 AM
kernel
hfs: Removed 1 orphaned / unlinked files and 0 directories
That looks like a problem was found with the file system (data) on the TM disk. I don't know the details, but OSX tried to recover it from the journal, and found extra data on the drive. Likely a result of the incompatibility mentioned above.
1/11/12 9:47:40 AM
com.apple.backupd[1169]
Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
That's a problem writing to the NAS drive.
But the backup continued after all this.
1/11/12 1:25:07 PM
kernel
ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0x9d00b44
Something caused a disconnect. Can't tell from the log what it was.
I doubt it's a problem with something in OSX being damaged or corrupted, but reinstalling OSX isn't a major hassle, so might be worth a try.
To be incompatible with Snow Leopard, this NAS must be at least a couple of years old. It may be beginning to fail.
Contact the maker. See if there's an update to make it compatible with Snow Leopard. If so, that might fix it.
If not, or if that doesn't fix it, see if they have any diagnostics that will shed any light.

In the forum I CANNOT SEE the "Accept as solution" button...... :(

In the forum threads I simply Cannot see the "Accept as Solution" button FOR THE LIFE OF ME.........
- Can you help me locate it,please ?
This question was solved.
View Solution.

Hi,
In looking at the posts you participated in, it appears that the thread was started by another user. You can only see the “Accept as Solution” button on thread started by you.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Valerie
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