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Author Topic:   dBoard 4.1 Release Issues
dwise1
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Message 9 of 85 (894186)
05-06-2022 11:44 AM


Re: Odd
My biggest issue is that it's called 4.1
I like even numbers.

If you could update to 4.2 and redeploy that would be great, thanks.
Retired software engineer (2018) who was schooled on IBM S/370 and then worked with Data General and then VAX-11 minicomputers until 1987, at which point I used PCs for the rest of my career. MS-DOS, then Windows 3.1, then Win95 and so on.
The point of that is that I experienced a lot of the MS-DOS/Windows culture, including exploding chicken heads* (which almost all programmers of a certain age will remember).
 
The common wisdom was that you should never buy Version 1 of any software, but rather you should wait until at least Version 2. The reasoning was that the initial release of any software product would be filled with bugs because it had to be rushed to market with insufficient testing. So basically it's their customer base who has to be the gorillas ferreting out those bugs. You do not want to be that gorilla!
I remember when Microsoft released a brand-new product to its Office suite and we all noticed that instead of labeling it honestly as V1.0, it was released as the same version number as Word, Excel, etc which had already paid their dues. I'm pretty sure that that was Outlook which was released in 1997 as "Version 8.0".
 
 

 
* FOOTNOTE:
Exploding Chicken Heads
The following is from the documentation on the sound() function in Borland C++ 3.1 Help (1992):
quote:
/* Emits a 7-Hz tone for 10 seconds.

True story: 7 Hz is the resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity. This was
determined empirically in Australia, where a new factory generating 7-Hz tones
was located too close to a chicken ranch: When the factory started up, all the chickens died.

Your PC may not be able to emit a 7-Hz tone.
*/

 #include 

 int main(void)
 {
    sound(7);
    delay(10000);
    nosound();
    return 0;
 }


  
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Message 25 of 85 (894212)
05-06-2022 6:59 PM


qs Boxes Display
I could swear (in the positive sense this time) that qs boxes had a white border around them. Now they only have the qs blue background which is of a shade of blue only slightly different from the main text background. That makes qs boxes ("boxes have borders") rather difficult to see.

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Message 28 of 85 (894216)
05-07-2022 2:35 AM
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Re: qs Boxes Display
OK, so what do you mean by "a hard reload"?

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Message 38 of 85 (894309)
05-11-2022 4:19 PM
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05-11-2022 8:03 AM


Re: Another New Feature: No Edit Comment for First Ten Minutes
Tested this new feature in Message 38 over in Stile's test thread.
Seems handy for when we post a message and then we need to go in and correct some typos that we never see before we hit Submit Reply.
Cool!
quote:
From Deutschland 83 (available on Hulu):
Technician (seeing for the first time an IBM PC they had to smuggle in from the West): Cool!
Stasi Boss: Sage nicht «cool»! ("Don't say 'cool'!")
Technician: OK.
Stasi Boss: Sage nicht «OK»! ("Don't say 'OK'!")


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Message 84 of 85 (894888)
05-31-2022 2:55 PM


Underlining
No dBCode for underlining?
Just a thought for later. I use the HTML tag anyway, but I always try square brackets first.

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