Posts by Ratha@PCTorque

I used Goo Gone on my ThinkPad's LCD screen after my nephew scribbled colored pencil all over it. (Colored pencil is wax-based... it wasn't coming off without some sort of solvent.) YMMV - I would test it on a corner of the screen or...

Hi Henrik and others, .php3 was the file extension used on an old version of the site, from I think a year ago or more. When we moved the forums to a new server last month, the Apache rewrite which was forwarding those older file...

Quote: Originally posted by aussie I found there is no need to include the page number in the URL as long as you use the "showthread.php3?s=&<postid>#post<postid>". It always seems to work no...

Aussie, Sorry it took so long, but I've followed your advice. The <link> button now should give the whole ugly URL shebang (the rewrite has been dropped), BUT, the URL now includes the page number so it should always go to the...

Quote: Originally posted by captain were you looking at a multi-page thread when you tried this? for example, if you try to call up tn.com/8215/83963, it should call up postid=8215#post83963, but since that thread has 4...

Quote: Originally posted by captain i don't think so, the ? after the two ()'s indicates that they're optional. In what you wrote: HTML Code: # Short URL format: /[threadid](/[postid]) RewriteRule...

Quote: Originally posted by captain you *should* be able to do it all in one line and not two separate rewrites (hence the (\#)? I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to smash two perfectly clear rewrites,...

> paste your rewrite? it should work just fine It didn't work. It would not jump down to the specific post in the thread, it only would go to the thread. It happened not only in Firebird but in IE too. This seems to indicate...

Quote: Originally posted by captain yeah, seems to work like a charm. tested the link and it works. however, did you leave out the [L] ? ... that way, people don't need to use the link button, they can just grab it straight...

Quote: Originally posted by captain sure, a little something like this: [...] somewhere in your vhost apache config or htaccess. How's that? (see new button called "link" next to the "quote"...