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Support / Re: Upon package download, strtr(): Ignoring replacement of empty string
Last post by Steeley -
Yea, it even outlasted my Zenith Data Systems XT.  :wink:
(I confess I had to take apart and clean up the floppy drive units - they were pretty gummy, but once they were cleaned and freed up they booted, and ran a space battle game floppy I had (the first software I ever actually purchased - which I thought was criminal ... actually selling software?) Greedy Heretics... :unamused:

Anyway, I resurrected it for a party about 4 months ago, figuring some friends would  be amazed and their grandkids would enjoy it, but it was the adults that took it over. 
Fly to a sector, CTRL+L for long range scan, "radar' paint shows a Klingon ship (+)  in the sector behind a planet (0).  Type Ctrl+T/47 [enter], fire a torpedo (47 degrees), display repaints, shows hit.. Ctrl+W/2/180 [enter] to back up at warp 2 because the Klingon fired a torpedo at you.... Slower than snot on an icecube but the wait was great - "Did I hit it?" Oh hell, it shot at me, enter next command quick.. now wait..  did it miss me? Did it MISS ME???  Ah It missed me, YeeHaw! :stuck_out_tongue:  Let's see what's in the next sector...

The 5 y/o loved "Worm" which was also on the floppy.

BTW, if you ever get the chance to fire up a MS-DOS v 5.0, (or earlier) you will discover that, yes, you can delete a file using the stock DOS command C:> del filename.ext  
..but you can also erase it using the (undocumented) CP/m command C:>ERA filename.ext. I think MS didn't remove the original CP/m commands from the pirated CP/m kernel until DOS 6.1  or 6.2...
If Gary Kildall at DR had been on the ball he could have owned Microsoft..
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Support / Re: Upon package download, strtr(): Ignoring replacement of empty string
Last post by Steeley -
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Might contact Musk and see how he's coming along with Neurolink.. 

[Uber driver posted up in another forum about a girl he picked up at a bar to take home.
 She got really upset and told him that thing he kept messing with on the console was
 really bothering her, and asked him to stop playing with it.
 She'd never been in a stick shift car before.  :joy:  ]

Quote from: Sciller4 – Doing it manually sucks, but it's better than nothing.

Ahh, how far we've come.. my first computer was the latest Xerox 820, 64K ram, Intel 8080 chip, dual 5 1/4 double-side double-density floppies, no hard drive. The only software provided was the CPm operating system. If you wanted it to do anything, you had to write your own code.. [BTW, I still have it, after 45 years, it still works!]
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Addons / Re: Giphy for Elkarte
Last post by vbgamer45 -
FYI it looks like Giphy is going an expensive paid route staring at $8999 a year.

IF anyone uses this addon. Let me know I can port Tenor gifs to Elkate as an option instead.
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Support / Upon package download, strtr(): Ignoring replacement of empty string
Last post by Sciller4 -
I go to download, say, Optimus:
Paste the link in, click download - it says strtr(): Ignoring replacement of empty string
No progress.

First time I did it, it gave me the choice to go in and change some file perms by myself, which I can do. But now I don't have the choice at all, and I can't "delete" my FTP data anymore.
Possible issue is - I use Nearly Free Speech, and they're rather opinionated about FTP. They don't like it, but they still allow me to do it - though not "automated". Is what I am doing automated? Maybe? If so, it's likely blocking it.

As a band-aid, I'd need to delete those saved FTP files.

Any help would be much appreciated.
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Custom Themes / Re: [Theme] Leisure
Last post by Sciller4 -
Ahoy!

Necroposting to say I love this theme. It's by far my favourite one. I just wish it were narrower (and hey! I know enough CSS to do that.)

Only problem is - The "advanced" editor just isn't there. And the question marks you click on (eg. the ones next to every field on the admin centre) take you to a new page instead of creating a popup. I'm handy enough with HTML and CSS, but I'm not sure what system that uses, or why the theme breaks it, or if it's even fixable.

Note: If you need to see how it looks, I've a link to my page on my profile.