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Hmm, that was strange. Your permissions showed you didn't have permission to start or receive PMs, or to upload attachments. Try it again, if you will.
It looks like everyone's permissions changed for some reason. It may be the default setting for one of the last software updates that users cannot upload attachments. It can only be changed through the admin control panel.
I'll talk to Dave and see if there was a reason that members are not allowed to upload attachments to conversations by default.
As for the latex editor, it appears to still be broken. I'll mention that as well.
Thanks Matt and JimB. I would have no problem with it being turned on for regular members only or something like that. I keep the file sizes small too so as not to take up too much server bandwidth. I usually use .gif for drawings as i find i can make the file size pretty small, always under 100k and usually much smaller.
In practice resolutions always up being "all or nothing ", especially when issues develop. An aside: I do believe that brand new members really can't upload anything which is good thing. You may typically only have to choose for whatever options are available. You can't at a whim say, after at least one post with a delay of 24 hours before the option is enabled.
Your "stuck" with what the software provides.
You can't arbitrarily have an option in the conversations for everybody that says "User accepts attachments" that is initially off. Even if you had such an option, you inevitably would never find out until you send, which is also annoying. That, sort of, behavior would keep the spamability pretty low.
I would hope, that having PM privs would at least be delayed 24 hours after registering or after having >1 post. PM ing of moderators should always be permitted.
Other comments:
It initially opened wierdly, like covering the entire screen or hiding on an entirely different FF window.
The instructions are "borderline stupid"
"Please enter you latex above"
Nothing about tags or having to paste it into the message body
Hey, once a grad student said, see if you can crash my "network terminal handler" tat he wrote for his Thesis. I thought about it for maybe 5 minutes, walked over to a logged out terminal and typed three characters. "Crash". It was a special case. My sequence caused the character position to go negative. I had prior knowledge of the issues because of helping a friend patch the OS to handle scope rubouts. We were fortunate to have the sources of a major OS of a minicomputer.
I thought it always popped up in a separate browser window. It always did for me.
I generally don't use tags, I click and drag the image of the formula into the reply window. I'm not familiar enough with Latex to be able to simply punch in the code.
It looks like it is working again. My suggestion would be to have someone test it from time to time to make sure it still works because so many people have used Latex in their posts and so they could easily become unreadable if the Latex engine stops working for any reason. I've seen this happen many times in the past.
It could be that after a software update of some kind that it breaks something that allows the Latex code to show properly.
It looks like it is working again. My suggestion would be to have someone test it from time to time to make sure it still works because so many people have used Latex in their posts and so they could easily become unreadable if the Latex engine stops working for any reason. I've seen this happen many times in the past.
It could be that after a software update of some kind that it breaks something that allows the Latex code to show properly.
LaTex is actually using one of the PDF libraries to do all this... I googled complex latex equation and was limited by the number of chars I could put in.
Anyhow.. library got corrupted somehow... crash on write or reboot on write... don't know but file was locked and ZERO length...
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