What annoyed you today?

[Hybridphotog]

Even better if they can supply a little code to go in a PHP or HTML block to go with it. 

Heh... coward.

[Mick]

Heh... coward.

Doh   , rumbled again.

This is about my limit.    The code used in a HTML - BBC block

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<img height="200" alt="" width="160" align="middle" src="/forum/tp-images/Image/albanner1.jpg" />
<center>
<a href="http://www.ambientlife.co.uk/"target="_blank">Ambient Life!</a>

Work by Professional Photographer<br> Tim Wallace™

Well worth a look
</center>


[Mick]

why not vary it each month? A different tog with a site to show...

If you look in the member profiles it looks like you could last a couple of years before coming round again - and that's assuming no new sites turn up in the mean time.
Maybe you could call it 'site of the month', or 'photographer of the month'.

Let the person who is featured pick the next site, but it can't be one that's been used in the last 2 years or similar...

There are some excellent sites by some excellent photographers on this forum, and they're not all pros either.

Sounds like a good plan Andrew.  I'll look into how to do this on the testsite.  I should be able to give mods more access to editing blocks etc, so this stuff can be done by other members and not just me.

[Hybridphotog]

The HTML looks ok on its own, so I had a ganders at the front page source. To be honest, there's no real way of improving the banner code as it stands; the whole front page would need a rewrite.

More on the "How to unlock a Vodafone phone" story. It looks like I was dished-up page two of the nosupportasaurus script...
"You need to contact the person who sold you the phone and purchase the unlock code from them".

Hmm. I bought the Vodafone-branded, Vodafone-locked phone from Vodafone... and I've already advised them that they stopped charging for the unlock code two years ago.

The saga might trundle on.

[Mick]

To be honest, there's no real way of improving the banner code as it stands; the whole front page would need a rewrite.

Lost me already Dave. 

[Jonathan]

I'm very busy trying to put together a updated version of this site using the latest versions of the Forum, and Gallery software.  The ones we are using now will soon be unsupported.

Don't take this the wrong way - but I don't know why you bother.

Forum admin must take a chunk of your time and some money.  Plus sleepless nights when it gets hacked or when there's a security panic or your web server crashes.  Plus dealing with people saying "where's the upload button".

It would take less than 5 mins and no money to set the whole site up on Flickr.  It might even attract new members.

[Mick]

Don't take this the wrong way - but I don't know why you bother.

Not at all Jonathan.  You're probably right to be honest.  But I do actually enjoy the challenge, and get some satisfaction out of putting it together and seeing it work, (or not).  Plus I have to say I've learnt quite a bit at the same time.

[spinner]

WAMT? People who post replies to questions or comments on threads that have nothing or little to do with what's been posted before (not something I've experienced here let me say) .

I'm thinking of buying some replacement body panels for my Jeep. I posted a question on a Jeep forum I've been a member of for several years. I simply asked if anyone had 'experience' with them and by extension an Auto paint shop that could properly install them. Think of it as asking, "does anyone here have experience with apples and how do they taste?" Instead I get back something like " I can sell you an orange for 2 p."  I know the nuances of the English language don't always translate without facial expressions but some times an apple is just an apple.  

[Hybridphotog]

Lost me already Dave. 

I can tell there's a slight difference in how we put a website together.

[krennon]

The birds this morning...or more to point the parliament of crows (there must've been at least 8 crows there) that decided to gang up on 2 magpies....The noise was unbelievable....  The crows cawing and the magpies chattering in consteranation at being ganged up on...So much for a Sunday morning lie in  ....and wouldn't have got any shots as the crows were moving to quick, the magpies were trying to defend their tree by staying in it and I woul d have been shooting into the sun.....and it's now clouded over and it's spitting with rain....we need it though....so that's actually a bit of a positive really I gues......I used to be indecisive now I'm not so sure...

[happypaddler]

My case arrived today for my iPhone 4 so that I get rid of the occasional "death grip" issue... then Apple launches a press conference to say everyone is getting a free case... ah well I suppose I'll have a spare!

[Oldboy]

US bank Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550m (£356m) to settle civil fraud charges of misleading investors.

The charges concerned Goldman's marketing of mortgage investments as the US housing market faltered.

In April, the SEC charged Goldman with failing to disclose "vital information" that one of its clients, Paulson & Co, helped to choose which securities were packaged into a mortgage portfolio that was then sold to investors in 2007.

It claimed Goldman did not disclose that Paulson, one of the world's largest hedge funds, had bet that the value of the securities would fall.

The SEC alleged that investors in the mortgage securities, packaged into a vehicle called Abacus, lost more than $1bn (£650m) in the US housing market collapse.

All of that $1bn was then paid out to Paulson, who - unknown to the investors - stood on the other side of the deal as a "short" investor in the deal.

The UK's Royal Bank of Scotland, which is now 84% owned by the UK taxpayer and lost about $840m in investments, will receive $100m compensation.

RBS has indicated that it may sue Goldman for the rest of the money it lost, saying that it would "carefully consider all of its options".

German bank IKB Deutsche Industriebank will receive $150m of the SEC fine, meaning it will recoup all of its losses on the Abacus deal that was the subject of the SEC's investigation.

This is despite the fact that RBS's investment in Abacus actually ranked senior to IKB's investment - meaning that RBS's investment was supposed to be safer.

Some will argue that Goldman Sachs got off lightly. The remaining $300m will go to the US Treasury.

Goldman, arguably the world's most prestigious investment bank, had escaped relatively unscathed from the global financial meltdown.

Since then, the company has become a lightning rod for anger over Wall Street's profligacy and seeming arrogance.

It received $10bn of government aid under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp) in 2008 - money that Goldman has said throughout that it did not need.

The company also received a $12.9bn cash payout from AIG - the full amount owed to it - after the failing insurer was saved by the US government in by far the most expensive single bail-out of the financial crisis.

Despite these rescues, Goldman went on to record $12.2bn in profits in 2009, on top of the $16.2bn handed out to staff in pay and perks.

At last the truth is out about the banking collaspe. The 'record fine' is equal to 1.2% of their annual profit. It's nice to know crime doesn't pay! 

[picsfor]

LR3. It appears there may be a performance issue akin to the iPhone 4 signal strength thing.

LR3 is causing performance issues by hogging memory and bringing machines to a stand still. So hacked off because it's almost stifling my ability to use it.
At this rate i'm gonna have to revert back to LR2 - thank god i hung on to my LR2 catalogues before upgrading cos LR3 catalogues are not backwardly compatible!

[spinner]

Last couple of weeks actually. I've done something to my Firefox settings and it won't log me into the site automatically anymore.  I know it's not the site because my Ubuntu machine still logs me in fine. 

[Hybridphotog]

What's annoying me atm..? The cheap-arse mouse on my PC! The mousewheel doesn't respond properly. If I don't scroll one click at a time, web pages end up scrolling a line in the other direction.

Not only that, its optical setup is less than impressive. Last week I had to remove one tiny hair from its optical area, as the pointer tended to go in other directions to where I was wanting it to go.

Ah well... come the new PC... and other stuff...