I know, I know, Beta - But Why?! (The ΩF3 thread)

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Privateday7

·Nov 14, 2014

blackwatch

My first PC was an IBM 5150, which came with one 5.25" floppy drive. No hard disk (disc actually) was offered. I paid for an extra floppy drive and an extra 128K of RAM. The amazing thing wasn't the "Abort, Retry, Ignore" messages (later changed to Abort, Retry, Fail") but that they were as reliable as they were. I have some 5.25" floppies that are 35 years old ( !!!) and still readable. One of these days I'm going to get around to archiving them onto something more durable and faster but that will be a two or three day project. (And of course, NOT all of them will be readable. Abort, Retry, Ignore. And I hate to say it, but if you DO keep pressing Retry often enough sometimes you can read the entire thing.)

After tinkering with Casio PB-700 with BASIC programming, my father bought me an Atari 800 XL on my junior high. During high school we bought IBM-PC XT clone with Intel 8086, two 5.25" drive, no hard disk and puny RAM that I can not remember its capacity. That was our first serious PC. Within several months we knew for the first time existence of non human infected virus.

 

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cristos71

·Nov 14, 2014

I just noticed the likes received button seems to have disappeared.

Not so important I know, and it´s not as though I´m a `like farmer` or anything sleazy like that...😜

 

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Hijak

·Nov 14, 2014

mac_omega

Hello team,

Is there any option to delete older messages from the PM section? I have not seen any yet - maybe I just have overlooked?
If there isn´t any for now would you please implement such an option - would be much appreciated.

I was also hesitant in the beginning but now I become used to the new website. Thank you very much for the load of work you do for the community!

best

erich

At the top, on the right, of the messages page there is a 'leave conversation" button, this will remove your Pm messages.

 

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blackwatch

·Nov 14, 2014

Privateday7

After tinkering with Casio PB-700 with BASIC programming, my father bought me an Atari 800 XL on my junior high. During high school we bought IBM-PC XT clone with Intel 8086, two 5.25" drive, no hard disk and puny RAM that I can not remember its capacity. That was our first serious PC. Within several months we knew for the first time existence of non human infected virus.

I still have every computer I ever bought or put together from parts. That's probably 20 or so (at least 10 still work perfectly), not an enormous number but about 19 more than my wife wishes that I had. We're looking at buying another house soon and I'm afraid I won't have any excuse to keep them at that point (except my first two, the IBM PC and an IBM AT.) I have long planned to cover the wall of my "lab" with old hard drives (something like 50 or 60 of them at this point) but if I were actually going to do that, I think I would have done it by now. More stuff for the bin. 🙁

 

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mac_omega

·Nov 14, 2014

Hijak

At the top, on the right, of the messages page there is a 'leave conversation" button, this will remove your Pm messages.

Thanks a lot! I have found it due to your assistance...

 

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Trev

·Nov 14, 2014·The Architect

blackwatch

Omega Forums BBS. This is the most hilarious thing I've seen in years. And I hate to say but I LOVE IT.

In case you guys are wondering what Blackwatch was going on about, I'd made some changes to his ΩF experience 😉

 

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Georgieboy58

·Nov 15, 2014

personal CSS?

 

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Trev

·Nov 15, 2014·The Architect

Georgieboy58

personal CSS?

Very much so.

 

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Alpha

·Nov 15, 2014·Kilt Owner, Beagle Parent, Omega Collector

Mentioned in another thread. Red box with a number one has appeared next to "Latest" clicking takes me to auctions, back to main page and it is still looking at me.

 

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Trev

·Nov 15, 2014·The Architect

It's your alert count, just go to latest->alerts to view new items.

 

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Alpha

·Nov 15, 2014·Kilt Owner, Beagle Parent, Omega Collector

Thanks Trev, simples 👍

 

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toddle321

·Nov 19, 2014

This may have already been mentioned - haven't been through the entire thread.

When viewing on an iPad using safari, I can no longer hold down on a thread, and have the options pop up that allow me to open the thread in a background tab. It works fine on a PC, just an iPad problem. I tend to open all the threads I want to read in background tabs and then work through them. Also helps on an airplane where things are slow to load. It may be just me, but I tried a few iPads.

Thanks again for all you do, I really like the update! Apologize again if this was already mentioned.

 

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dsio

·Nov 19, 2014·Ash @ ΩF

What version of iOS is your ipad running?

 

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toddle321

·Nov 19, 2014

Thank you for your reply.

Somewhere in the 7's, does it work on 8?

 

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dsio

·Nov 19, 2014·Ash @ ΩF

toddle321

Thank you for your reply.

Somewhere in the 7's, does it work on 8?

Yea I'm on 8 and its fine

 

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Trev

·Nov 19, 2014·The Architect

Confirmed that this affects ios7.x only. Very strange that they don't work on long-tap, they're just ordinary links... no funny business 😀

 

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toddle321

·Nov 19, 2014

Thanks - upgrading now

 

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mozambique

·Nov 19, 2014

I think the new look, looks good. Clean appearance and uncluttered - good job!

 

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Privateday7

·Nov 19, 2014

So I observed the riot time of OF transition is only about 2 weeks. Kudo team a very neat effort indeed. 👍

 

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pitpro

·Nov 20, 2014

I am using FF27.0
I am signed in.
I always start from "Latest"
When I click on a new thread I have never visited before,
I always end up at the Bottom of the page,
instead of the first post in the thread.
Seems the same behavior if I visited a thread I
Have visited before, I am Not taken to the 1st new post
that I haven't read, rather I am taken to the bottom of
the page of the Newest post.