TIcalc is fine for me right now. But i remember when i found my 89 an struggled to know what was HW or AMS. So i would like to know i site where i could direct people new to TIs so they could know everything to get started. TIcalc is nowhere able to do that, sorry to say.
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Cd_Slayer

I do a lot of calculator tech support over aolim/aim and spend anywhere from 30 seconds to 15 minutes on average per person, depending on their level of technological aptitude. The quality and quantity of my responses vary greatly depending on how much homework I have left, what time it is, what mood I'm in, and even occasionally what mp3 is playing. My responses range from the rare "RTFM", directed towards someone with a REALLY stupid question blatantly explained in the manual when I'm tired or annoyed, to providing a walkthrough of how to get games from this site, including sending them to the calc. When I'm not in a really annoyed mood and the question is something like "Where can I find games for my TI-**?", I always recommend for the person to search at www.ticalc.org and www.calc.org . (Note to prevent flames: the only reason I recommend those two and only those two is those are the only two I have used extensively, and therefore the only two to which I can personally attest to the selection of games, particularly for a specific calculator.)

However, I do agree that it would be much simpler and easier to provide tech support if there was a hosted site or at least a section on it at one of the major TI fan sites. Then I could just say "goto: [3ld].[2ld].[tld]" or "goto: [3ld].[2ld].[tld]/[dir]/". Items in brackets are:
[3ld] == third level domain
[2ld] == second level domain
[tld] == top level domain (.org, .net, .com, etc)
[dir] == directory

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 hyperoverlylongwinded cents

Congradualations on your 2,000,000 hits. :) This is the only central place for the TI community that I know of, and it is finally great to join it...

wow 2,000,000!
thats great, but just one question...
does it count per hostname, or does it increment everytime you hit the "reload" button?
heh, doesn't really matter, 2 million's always 2 million =)

A request occurs every time a file is requested from ticalc.ticalc.org by your computer. This is done mainly in the background by your computer, as many pages require multiple requests. For example, I've heard ticalc.org's main page is somewhere between 4 and 10 hits. That's approximately the corresponding range on the Richter scale at ground zero when I drop my backpack from about 4 feet. *g*

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 seismic cents

P.S.: consequently, I've named my backpack Thor after the Scandinavian god of thunder.*g* Seriously, it weighs like 50 pounds (for those of you on the metric system, that's about 23KG).

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 backbreaking cents

I guess the mass boredom of high school students after their first week hit the ticalc server with a wallop.

Check the weekly stats in webstats.html . You'll see that the requests continue increasing from about second week of August until around the end of October/beginning of November. If the current trend continues, we may even break 3000000 requests before we start the third millennium ((...replicating firefighter nanoprobes...) yes, the third millennium anno domini doesn't start until 0:00:00 January 1, 2001).

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 noncombustible cents

seems like 2,000,000 wasn't a number hit THIS WEEK!

Good things come to those who wait.

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 proverbial cents (pardon the pun)

Your post was a little premature. So far this week, there have been 2 057 048.

and we still have 2 or 3 days left

you know why i said that, it had nothing to do with the actual nr of hits...

I've got a request for ya... How about not putting one program up and pushing 50 off of the front page? Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

A few more requests:

* When someone updates a program, please delete the screenshot for the old version.

* Return to the old system for POTM nominations.

* Get a new survey already!

yeah yeah
put a new lolita xxx pic each day too

Yes, exactly, and let us use our own screenshots that show the program as it was intended to be used, instead of how some screenshooter decided to use it

I've recently downloaded a .bmp to .gif converter for that very reason.

When looking my author profile (above link) today, I saw that 4 of my 48 programs had bad screenshots. Feel free to look at them (and please download the programs to see how they *really* work.)

82/basic/programs/bmi.zip
(or maybe one of the screenshotters is very short and very fat)

83/basic/math/chisquared.zip

83/basic/programs/lsd.zip
(screenshot is obviously from the wrong program.)

83/basic/math/piechart2.zip
(They didn't even include a picture of the pie chart!)

P.S. Let me know when they try to screenshot VAPOR.