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Chart of Urania? ( 4.00 / 1 ) (#17)
by Ailouros tou Dwdekawrou on Sun Apr 28th, 2002 at 14:17:15 EDT
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Now that articles are posted to the front page, what is the timestamp for this site?
Thanks,
A t D


Time Zone bug? ( 4.00 / 1 ) (#11)
by Bill Sheeran on Wed Apr 24th, 2002 at 21:06:18 EDT
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Just thought I'd mention that the times attached to the comments I send come out one hour later than the time they are actually sent. I am using the BST time zone. For example, I just sent a comment at 1:54am BST which surfaces on the site as 2:54am BST.

If I was using GMT as my time zone, would this automatically upgrade to BST (or vice versa) when the time changes occur? In other words, if I used GMT, would it in fact automatically show BST during the daylight saving part of the year in the GMT zone, i.e. now? If so, I'll change the customisation info.

Hope that makes sense!



  • Fixed by johnnyc, 04/25/2002 01:11:46 EDT (none / 0)
inclusion of graphics? ( 4.00 / 1 ) (#5)
by Bill Sheeran on Wed Apr 24th, 2002 at 17:48:13 EDT
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I'm wondering if it will be possible to include graphic files (jpg) of charts etc. with stories / articles at some stage without having to link to an external web site. Or have I missed references to this in the guidelines?





Are diary entries the same as a new "threads& ( 4.00 / 1 ) (#4)
by Ray Murphy (ray@urania_post.office) on Wed Apr 24th, 2002 at 16:58:02 EDT
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I've been told I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box, so that might explain why I'm asking this question: Are new diary entries on Urania.info effectively the same as starting a new thread on a Newsgroup?
<p>
Perhaps my reluctance to send items to a "diary" stems from conditioning which makes me think that I am writing fairly private things to myself :-)
<p>
I am still reluctant to post items to a diary and pretend I'm writing to myself, when I would prefer to be saying "Hello all" or G'day crew" etc.to a captive audience who have been waiting for me to arrive :-)>


North Node conjunction ( none / 0 ) (#43)
by Basia on Mon Feb 20th, 2006 at 18:57:14 EDT
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Hello. I am looking for some feedback relating to a transit of Saturn conjuncting the natal North Node in Leo, 7th house.  Feedback please?  Thank you.  Basia


Coping with Mars Square Pluto ( none / 0 ) (#38)
by Derestanne on Mon Dec 19th, 2005 at 20:40:26 EDT
(User Info) http://www.freewebs.com/nsmeditation/astrologyservices.htm

Hello All,

I'm new to this Forum. I am a practicing Astrologer and lately I'm seeing a number of clients with Mars Square Pluto in their Progressed Charts.

One of these Clients has Mars Square Pluto until 2008. In the last several years, she had her car broken into and then the theives released the brake and pushed her car down a hill where it crashed into another car. She also had employees who constantly argued with her and stole money and ultimately she lost her business through a "hostile takeover". Now she is trying to cope by turning to fundamentalist religion; this after I warned her of all of these possibilities and dangers!

I fully understand that Pluto Square Mars signifies a terrible conflict between Ego and Subsconscious Self and between different aspects of ones personal will and power.

The reference materials and books I am familiar with don't address the subject to the degree I'm looking for. They also don't offer much suggestion on how one should properly address - and move beyond - the dangers and problems inherent with this Aspect.

Does anyone have Book or Article suggestions for Progressed Pluto Square Mars that I can give to Clients with this most difficult of Aspect?

Help me ease their burden - any advise will be sincerely appreciated!

---Derestanne


Misleading Headings ( none / 0 ) (#36)
by Bryan Trussler on Tue Jun 1st, 2004 at 15:35:17 EDT
(User Info) http://www.aquarianage.org

I finally found the true Help section -- it's called "Guidelines" here.

What you are calling "Help" is what I would call "Tech Bugs and Fixes" because it is a history of glitches and solutions. It's not a structured knowledgebase kind of thing at all.

What you have under "Guidelines" is what I would call "Site Help" or "User's Manual" because that explains Voting, Comments, Ratings. But the title "Guidelines" makes me think of "How to Submit an Article" or "What's Acceptable" -- ie: editorial guidelines, or how to pass our community standards. But there's a lot in there about how to get mileage out of this site and that's important.

The FAQ section was mixed. The upper topics are really just simple background info about the site -- foundation chart, leading players, etc. Trivia questions and answers really -- interesting and informative from a research point of view but without immediate application if the user is lost or confused. The lower topics -- what are sections, diaries and topics -- these are important for the user to know, but they should also be included or duplicated in the Guidelines section where everything else is explained.

So in summary, what I want to say is that you have all the information a newbie needs to know, but none of it was coming up in the places where I would most expect to find it. The nomenclature is off the mark somehow.


site coding problems ( none / 0 ) (#33)
by Bill Sheeran on Mon Jul 1st, 2002 at 19:11:04 EDT
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Johnnyc - the coding for the 'comment box' needs attention. It has collapsed! Try to send a comment and you'll see what I mean.

Also, when clicking on 'more diaries' to find your Q&A diary in order to post this comment, it came up with '0 entries found'. I was able to find it via the search facility.

Bill



  • Fixed - at last by urania, 07/02/2002 01:50:57 EDT (none / 0)
    • Whew by Axel Harvey, 07/02/2002 16:07:19 EDT (none / 0)
Posting Rate Exceeded - Bug ( none / 0 ) (#32)
by johnnyc (johnnyc@urania-dott-info) on Fri Jun 7th, 2002 at 10:45:31 EDT
(User Info) http://www.livejournal.com/users/johnnycampbell

If any of you have attempted to post in the past day and recieved this message:

You have exceeded this site's maximum posting rate. You are only allowed
to post a certain number of comments or stories in a short period of time.
Your user account is now locked from posting for a few minutes, after
which it will become normal again. Be warned though: if you attempt to
post again while you're locked out, the timeout period will double, and
this will keep happening as long as you keep trying to post. Walk away for
a few minutes, have a nice cup of coffee, come back, and everything will
be cool. Thanks.

..please ignore it, though do take the advice about waiting for a few minutes. I'll hopefully have this resolved by the evening.

If any of you found the tone of this notice offensive, please let me know and I'll do what I an to change it. The purpose of this precaution is to protect the site against people who post for the purpose of 'crapflooding', but clearly those who've recieved this message were not guilty of this.

Apologies....

--johnnyc


test - please ignore ( none / 0 ) (#31)
by johnnyc (johnnyc@urania-dott-info) on Fri Jun 7th, 2002 at 10:38:32 EDT
(User Info) http://www.livejournal.com/users/johnnycampbell

Just a test - some have reported problems when posting comments. Will advise soon....


Writing comments offline ( none / 0 ) (#28)
by johnnyc (johnnyc@urania-dott-info) on Thu May 16th, 2002 at 19:34:17 EDT
(User Info) http://www.livejournal.com/users/johnnycampbell

Opening up the ability to use email for posting might result in a wider set of participants.  Web activity is cost prohibitive for many quality thinkers.

Are people aware that you don't need to be connected to the Internet to write comments, only to post them? The reason I ask this is because I've known a couple of people who've had the mistaken impression that starting a browser is what connects them to the Internet. I know one individual who, when he got disconnected from the Internet while writing an email at hotmail, thought he'd lost everything he had written. He believed he had to exit the browser and restart it to connect to hotmail again. In fact, all he had to do was reconnect using the dial-up networking entry for his ISP.

This mistaken impression stems from the way Windows is often configured to dial-up to the Internet. Many Windows machines are configured to dialup to the Internet whenever a browser is started. This is fine, but if you don't know that you can connect to the Internet without starting your browser it can be frustrating. You might think that while composing an email at hotmail you have to be connected to the Internet, when all you need is to have the browser window open to the page you're composing your email in.

This may seem an obvious thing to some of you, but it is by no means uncommon for people to think that one has to be online to write a comment.

If you want to write a comment offline, ensure you know how to disconnect or reconnect to the Internet without exiting or starting your browser. If you don't know how to do this, email me and I'll try to help you out.

Assuming you know how to do this, then writing comments offline is easy. Hypothetical example:
  • You connect to the Internet in the usual fashion and go to urania.info.
  • At the site, you read a new article or comment you want to reply to, but don't want to write your comment while your online. You click "Post Comment", disconnect from the Internet using the icon for dialup-networking in the "system tray" (bottom write-hand side of the srceen in Windows), all the while keeping your browser window open on the "Post Comment" page.
  • While offline, you write your comment in the "post comment" text box. When it's finished and just needs to be previewed and posted, you connect to the Internet using a shortcut to the dialup entry for your ISP.
  • Once reconnected, you simply click "Preview" and/or "Post". Everything will be as if you never disconnected.
If you need help, ask for it in the Help thread in my diary. I'm always glad to help.  


Cursor problems ( none / 0 ) (#27)
by Axel Harvey on Mon May 13th, 2002 at 12:41:03 EDT
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Sometimes I have trouble placing the cursor where I want inside the text entry field. This happens especially if I have gone to another story to pick up something to cut and paste into my comment. Instead of going where I think I have placed the cursor, the pasted text ends up two paragraphs higher in the middle of a sentence. This is probably a browser bug, but is there a way to work around it?


digest ( none / 0 ) (#23)
by Rab (rab@peterboro.net) on Sun May 12th, 2002 at 08:30:58 EDT
(User Info) http://www.astrocyclics.com

I don't see the option to receive digest anywhere
on the Change Your Info page..

-=Rab
http://www.astrocyclics.com


  • Digest by johnnyc, 05/12/2002 10:07:20 EDT (none / 0)
    • Digest etc by Rab, 05/12/2002 14:08:53 EDT (none / 0)
      • Digest by johnnyc, 05/12/2002 23:04:48 EDT (none / 0)
Site News - Auto Format Mode ( none / 0 ) (#22)
by johnnyc (johnnyc@urania-dott-info) on Mon Apr 29th, 2002 at 17:05:18 EDT
(User Info) http://www.livejournal.com/users/johnnycampbell

In case you haven't noticed, we have a new feature on the site today. We were down for 45 minutes or so due to a minor glitch in the process of upgrading the software.

Get the details by clicking http://www.urania.info/story/2002/4/29/165350/916. And don't forget to check-in periodically on the Everything page. You never know what you might find there.

Feel free to post your comments!


story has disappeared! ( none / 0 ) (#14)
by Bill Sheeran on Sun Apr 28th, 2002 at 10:35:06 EDT
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My article on the school massacre in Germany has disappeared from the queue of pending stories - any chance of re-instating it?

Also, is it possible to add updates to a story, or should that be done via comments?


Directory of Contributors? ( none / 0 ) (#3)
by johnnyc (johnnyc@urania-dott-info) on Wed Apr 24th, 2002 at 11:30:19 EDT
(User Info) http://www.livejournal.com/users/johnnycampbell

Someone has asked me if it is possible to create a "Directory of Contributors" link that would list all urania.info members and authors. I want to address this here because it's something I've thought would be nice and we already do this through the search mechanism.

In the "Main Menu" box, there is a search link which does all kinds of nifty things. If you want to see all the members at urania.info, click "Search". In the "Find" field there is a pull-down menu where you can choose "Users". Just leave the "Containing" box blank and it will return a search result for all members. For the heck of it, here is a list of all our members. It would be a simple matter to add a link to this search in the main menu, but I'm not sure people would want it to be that easy, though there are obvious advantages.


Difference between an article and a comment. ( none / 0 ) (#1)
by Ray Murphy (ray@urania_post.office) on Wed Apr 24th, 2002 at 09:30:20 EDT
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How do we decide if a contribution to Urania is more suitable as an article or a new comment?

Ray


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