Survey posted 2004-02-25 06:52 by Morgan.

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Well, no not because magnus is doing a good job -- and I am sure that he is -- but because I have not been around here lately. I have been making my own webpage, and it is rather all consuming as pertains to my time. What has been going on any way?

-W-

I just haven't noticed any overall. Magnus must be doing a good job ;-)

There was the fact that the "return to poll results" link was gone...I mentioned that in the last poll. I just noticed that they didn't celebrate my half birthday in a news item as well...that's a serious mistake... ;)

Yes, that was one of them! However I did catch that before you :-)

oh really? well did you catch that the URL's are just "http:///" when it is left blank? I mentioned that about 6 news items or polls ago...(In IE put your mouse over the Web Page link and look at the status bar to see what I mean...)

yeah, i had been wondering about all of those "http:///" lying around...

I am not entirely sure what you two are referring to. Do you have a specific example or has it been fixed?

Look at my link. That should do it.

He was joking...he had fixed it! Thanks!

oooh! *hits head*

Yes! Thanks!

But we never got a poll for Jrock's birthday! :'(

'Nother question: You know those little orange icons next to your userID? Well, if somebody is hiding their user information, why do they still get the icon? Before it just wouldn't show up.

Also (as Jrock pointed out below... or maybe above), the http:/// problem popped up some time ago. Why did it change?

whoa, i just found out something interesting. Albert Einstein and Sierpinski were both born on March 14, pi day! I think i had heard about Einstein being born then once before, but i forgot about it. And Descartes was born on March 31! He invented the Cartesian coordinate system, which is the x,y axis system we use on our graphing calcs today! Yay! Ill have to bake birthday pie and make a sierpinski's triangle of candles in it on March 14! That'll take a lot of candles though...

Oh, a sierpinski triangle with candles? That will be hard... good luck ;-) (don't light the house on fire)

I think Albert Einstein also died on my birthday. Or maybe not. *shrug*

YES! There's a pi day contest at our school! Nobody will ever beat me! *evil laugh*

Ummm...I should get MORE than a poll for my birthday. I shoudl have a news item and instant uploads of all my programs I submit.... ;) j/k

AND you can get your own subdomain (jrock.ticalc.org)... but that's not all! We can play a happy birthday midi in the background, we can change the logo so it has "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JROCK" in the background, and you can get access to the root of ticalc.org ;-)

LOL...and they can PAY me to upload files! mwahaha (not a reference to Magnus's initials...see one of last posts...)

i noticed three things:

First, a few weeks back, magnus posted a post (whatever) that just said "test" and then posted and said "it seems to work now" or something like that.

Second, i noticed the missing "return to news item" or whatever and i wasnt sure if it had ever really been there, maybe i was just crazy. But then jrock pointed that out and i realized i wasnt crazy after all.

Third, in the pi day preparing poll magnus posted another "test" and then another "it works now" and then i posted something and the "return to news item" thing was back. And I was happy! :)

I noticed the same thing, I think the first was the http:///
Now he did another test post (below), what was that for...

You haven't noticed that it has been FOUR days since we got file updates? There are 138 files that need to be put on the site. One of them is mine, although its only around #40 :)

It has stopped updating files. The server must be behind or somebody (hmm... I wonder who) is not putting it on the server for download. hmm.... someone must have planned this.....

I have a theory: If you put 1,000,000 typewriting monkey in charge of 1,000,000 internet servers for 1,000,000 years, you will end up with 1,000,000 programs being uploaded to ticalc.org per day. We should try that! Oh, wait...forgot. Of those 1,000,000 programs, 999,999 of them are 83+ Basic Quadratic Formula programs....nevermind... ;)

Score one for the Jrock.

-It's also kinda funny that half of them don't even work properly

Yeah, if you can't make a QuadForm program (that's what most of them seem to be called) then you shouldn't even program...

Yay, another opportunity to plug _my_ QuadForm, it's better than the others 'cause it's animated! :)

http://www.geocities.com/ blackthunder746/ThundersGFTIC /QuadForm.gif

Some teachers at my school give the code for the program to students and name it quadform. I don't know too much about it myself because I'm in a different class and could program the quadratic formula with out no one's help :b

that should be:
without anyone's (including no_one's) help

Aren't you not sure thet, I haven't, done noo, mestakes in mi, speling or with, or with, or with, my grammerr! Maybe; "i amn't not doings this" 'cause them there: previous posts made before dis 1 weren't so boring;.
Lets see you try and fix ALL those mistakes. Bet you cant. =b

That should be:
Are you sure that I made mistakes in speling or with my grammar? Maybe, but I am not doing this because the previous posts made before this one weren't so boring.
Lets see you try to fix all THOSE mistakes. Bet you can't. =b

OOPS!!! That's funny...the one word I spelled wrong was "spelling"...lol ;)

Darn, you beat me to it! :)

Yeah, I did...by almost a day! lol... ;)

That reminds me of when i was in the county spelling bee in 5th grade. I totally bombed it because i hadnt been given the word list by my school and had led a sheltered life away from words like hors d'oeuvres. Anyways, this 4th grade girl got every single word right, except "misspell". She got it wrong because she wrote "mispell", then realized her mistake and wrote "misspell" next to it, and was halfway through crossing out her mispelling (i know its wrong) when the time was called, so they counted it as wrong. (we didnt get quizzed one word at a time in front of a crowd, we all wrote each word on a paper and then had them checked)

You missed a bit of my meaning, here is what I thought it should mean:
Are you sure that I have made mistakes in my spelling or in my grammer? Maybe I am doing this because the above posts (on grammer) were so funny. (not boring=funny)

LOL...yeah. And the ones that aren't quadratic solvers are called "COMPLETE ALGEBRA TOOLKIT!!!! ALL THE MATH PROGRAMS YOU'LL EVER NEED!!!!!". ;-)

maybe all of the authors have gotten lazy memorizing pi and have not been making anything new. Come on, chop chop!

We haven't gotten lazy, check out the link. Its the most I have seen on the site ever (although I haven't been here so long). Maybe I should make a program in honor of pi day though. Is there already a program that displays lots of digets of pi?

most ive seen too. Okay, so the real lazy ones are the archivers then i guess, man they really need to get to work (j/k)

Dear God its been 3 days....who here remembers what it was like before...please tell me someone rembers.

On the other hand you have at least 30,000 files...and yet you need more, WOW! I know your joking, but I am just trying to bring the reality of it into perspective.

On another point...I would just like to say that I have well put my share of time in, at least it seems like it....

You're doing a GREAT job Morgan! Good for you! now quit whining and start uploading! j/k ;)

Really, people. Calm down. :) Morgan and Joey are real people too... they have school work and stuff to take care of just like the rest of us.

Everyone who has said anyhting about the archivers being slow (at least all that I have seen) have also had a "j/k" or some kind of joking smily at the end of the post. I think we understand that it's a tough job. BTW, how long does it take to upload programs? I figure that if I'm on as much as I am, I could at least help out...let me know and I might apply if you'll hire me (or rather "allow me to volunteer").... ;)

The reason there has been no uplaods recently is not becasue I ran out of time or have lost interest, its based on a pretty deep debate that we need to resolve prior to continuing uploading files.

Do not worry they will be up as soon as we can figure it out, an don't bother asking what the debate is I'm not going to say.

I am actually really surprised I haven't gotten a single email to filearchive@ticalc.org about someone complaining that the files need to be upploaded, and FYI that won;t do you any good :-)

So what's the argument about? *J/K*

But seriously, you shouldnt have said that. Now we're all gonna die of curiosity and lack of fresh programs.

I think that we need to appease the archivers or else we will be fileless forevermore
<Shout> Oh fortune, why do you mock me? All hail the archivers, who hold the fate of the updates, no, the very world in their hands. </shout>

<Shout> Oh fortune, why do you mock me? All hail the archivers, who hold the fate of the updates, no, the very world in their hands. </shout>
<Shout> Oh fortune, why do you mock me? All hail the archivers, who hold the fate of the updates, no, the very world in their hands. </shout>
<Shout> Oh fortune, why do you mock me? All hail the archivers, who hold the fate of the updates, no, the very world in their hands. </shout>

Woohoo! Cult Rising.

Its working! As of now (there may be more later) I saw a total of 2 files uploaded!!! Lets keep it up!
<Shout> Oh fortune, why do you mock me? All hail the archivers, who hold the fate of the updates, no, the very world in their hands. </shout>
I bet the 2 files will get around 3000 downloads from people who have wanted these updates.