Eric

They show up for me, but the two pages do have something in common on the back-end, so I am definitely interested in hearing whether other people are having this problem. When you say they don't work, can you be more specific? Are you getting an error?

What I mean is that I hope they learn to be selective about which parts of the Qur'an they follow, just as modern Christians have done with the Bible. (I mean no disrespect to Christians, but there is some nasty stuff in the Old Testament, like selling your daughter into slavery, possession of slaves, no contact with women during menstruation, put to death anyone who works on Sunday, etc.) Threats like guns on airplanes, for example, which most likely would have ended the situation as quickly as it had come up.

Good thing there weren't any airplanes during the crusades. Ahh well, give them a few hundred years and they'll even out.

And 20's the new 10.

Once you're looking at your profile, there's a button on the top-right that says something like Edit Profile.

I would do step 3, then 5 thru 10. The other steps aren't necessary since you're not in the middle of the software installation.

Thank you I'm 30 today, and I don't think the jokes here at work are going to end until I leave.

I can't speak to how the feature worked before as I didn't even realize it was there before, but I will say that there are visual ques to show you which topics are new and which topics have unread posts on the topic list page without having to go to the View New Content page. Below are examples in both of the forum skins. In the ATX Community skin, you can tell which topics are new by the color of the icon to the left. If it's faded, then there are no new posts: In the CleanCut skin, it's the same, and also topics with unread post have titles in bold font: The View New Content feature seems to be entirely different. Read/Unread status doesn't come into the equation. I have topics in there that have already been read.. it just lists everything that's been posted since my last visit, whether I've already taken a look at it or not.

You know this isn't true if you don't hear anything about it besides through an email forward. Gun owners would be going nuts. I know I would be.

Yes, that's right. As for the original question, I'm not sure I understand the problem. I don't use the View New Content feature, so I'll have to do some poking around. EDIT: ok, did a little poking. I didn't even know the "View New Content" button was there in the old version of the forum software. It looks like what it does is shows you where new posts are made since your last visit. When I tested it, there were a number of new posts, then I logged out, logged back in, and checked again, and nothing was listed there at all. If I log out, wait a few hours, and logged back in, only threads with new posts since my last visit would be shown. So, it seems to me that read/unread status doesn't affect the "View New Content" feature. It only compares the date/time of your last visit to the dates/times of forum posts to show you a list of anything that's happened since you were visiting last. Now, I'm not sure if this behavior can be changed or not, I'll have to do some more poking.

"Grok" from Stranger in a Strange Land has even made it into the dictionary, although the definition is somewhat lacking. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Grok

Wondering which of his books it came from, I Googled it. I'm in between books right now, so I think I'll pick up "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" this weekend.

On the topics page, in the column that shows the number of replies/views for each topic (Stats column), click on the number. For example, if it says "6 Replies" click the number 6, and it'll open a little popup window with that list of people along with the number of times each person has posted in that topic.

It is, and should always be met with a heavy dose of skepticism. Especially on the internet.

Wow, watch New Moon for free?! I guess I'm not the target audience for this kind of trick. Yuck.

I would be amazed if a program that runs fine in Vista 32 bit didn't work in Vista 64 bit. It may not be an officially supported platform, but I'd be willing to bet that it works just fine. Every single 32 bit piece of software I use (that works in Vista) works perfectly in Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. If it MAX doesn't, they need to seriously get their $#!* together. The memory restriction on a 32 bit operating system alone is a huge reason to head to 64 bit as soon as possible. Computers with 4+ GB of RAM are becoming very common. EDIT: I'm talking about software applications here. Hardware drivers (for printers, scanners, sound cards, cameras, etc) are a different story.

If it weren't for that pesky four letter search term requirement, I would have searched for "TRX". Instead I didn't use any search terms at all. The search returned ALL of your posts from that time period, and I quickly skimmed the topic titles for anything relating to TRX. Advanced Search is here: http://www.atxcommunity.com/index.php?app=core&module=search I typed Margaret in the box for Author, and used the date range boxes to limit the time frame of the results.

Posts about tax software boring?! Never! The posts are still there. I found the threads using the Advanced Search option to get all posts made by you between April 1, 2009 and May 31, 2009. Here are links:

Sounds like jainen throws quite the post-tax-season party

I realize that the header still takes up a lot of space.. there's just so much up there now, that because of the way it's structured, I can't change it much. But now, in comparison to the way it used to be, there should be very little difference in where the pinned topics start (bottom two red lines) The header logo is bigger, but at the same time, that top location went from three rows down to two, saving space. The Breadcrumbs and pagination take up more space than they used to, but the removed headings for the pinned topics "Important Topics" gave back most of that space as well. So while things do look bigger, it isn't very far off from where it was before. With a little more tweaking, I'll be able to make it even with where it was before... although it may still not "feel" like an improvement. Happy Thanksgiving! EDIT: Oh! One last question. Does the Donations tab fit up with the rest of the tabs at the top at 800x600, or does it drop down to the next line?

I've tweaked the ATX Community theme just a little bit to try and use less vertical space. The following graphic shows the current difference between the old layout and the current "ATX Community" skin. The top two horizontal red lines show the difference between top of the Topic List. The bottom two red lines show the difference between the top of the first post. Removing the headers for "Important Topics" and "Forum Topics" reduced the difference considerably.

Congrats, Margaret! Also, that's not the only recent milestone! The ATX Community just hit 1000 members :)

Google Search the ATX Community One of the problems with the internal search is that it's unable to search for words with less than four characters, making it difficult to find threads containing a particular state abbreviation or common three letter acronyms like EIC, NOL, AMT, etc. The Google Search doesn't have this limitation, and is also quite a bit faster than the internal forum search. The only drawback is that you don't have the same level of control over the searches (searching for date ranges, or posts by specific users)

Web software like this forum needs to be constantly updated so as to not become vulnerable to hacking. This was a major version change, and unfortunately the older version is no longer being maintained. You'll be happy to know, though, that these major upgrades don't happen often, so it'll likely be quite some time before the next big overhaul. Please, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask here or send me a private message!

Filling out your profile and changing your forum settings To edit this information look at the drop-down box next to your name. The look and location depends on which forum "skin" you're using: There are three categories of Settings: Settings, Forums and Profile. Settings You can change your time zone, daylight savings time settings, your password, email address, personal messenger settings, and other important aspects of your account. Forums Email notifications, manage watched topics, manage watched forums, choose from different forum layouts, whether or not member avatars, images in posts, and signatures are visible to you. Profile Your profile contains information about yourself that might be interesting or useful to other members of the community.