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#58577 - 2001-08-26 01:06 AM INFO - Ripping code from posts
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	There were a lot of threads a while back on the fact this BBS has changed, making it difficult to rip code from the posts with the formatting intact. While Netscape users can cut-and-paste, us IE users have to come up with more resourceful ways. It was suggested that the code could be blocked and copied from the web page to WordPad, but some formatting is still lost. Someone else suggested the page be opened for editing in FrontPage and the code ripped from it. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't have FrontPage and it's kludgy. I found that you can block and copy it from the browser to MS Word and the formatting remains intact. From there you can do a Ctrl-A to block it again and then paste into your favorite editor. Hapiness is not having to install Netscape _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#58578 - 2001-08-26 01:13 AM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11631 Loc: CA	Did Bill pay you to say that? I didn't know M$ was headquartered in Canada... Hapiness is having the ability and right to install any browser you feel like using. Hapiness is being exempt from the normal user lockdown
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#58579 - 2001-08-26 02:07 AM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	Now, now guys - happiness is the freedom to hate whatever browser you choose - and I'll choose to hate Netscape !!! Les - thanks for that info - I've been severly kixtart.org download challenged for quite some time !!! -Shawn
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#58580 - 2001-08-26 03:22 AM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	This isn't a case of M$ versus Netscape. Simply one of laziness and conformity. When it comes to IE, better the devil you know than the devil you don't. I'm not suggesting you run out and buy Word. I already have Office and IE forced upon me by one of those corporate IT standards (Model Client). I can say that, I'm branch plant IT. At least I finally found a use for Word! NTDOC, I'm very happy you have the freedom to choose. I just march to the corporate drum. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#58581 - 2001-08-26 04:27 AM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11631 Loc: CA	Les, I tried your idea and it worked good. I did not think to use it because typically if I try to do a copy paste from a Website, Word would try to convert it to HTML on the fly, etc.. and ruin the formating anyway. Well I guess I have changed Word to not do that, or MS changed that type of behavior on Word 2000. Anyways, this DUAL copy/paste works better then Netscape. Thanks again... Now to try out Opera
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#58582 - 2001-08-26 03:21 PM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	heh. this really is usefull one. still, there is script to do the stuff for ppl not using word. like US army (or was fbi, does anybody really care...) which choosed to use star office instead. then you can use BBCodeParser to do the job. assuming you have winhttp installed. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#58583 - 2001-08-26 04:28 PM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Lonkero, If you're going to try to speak Canadian, it's not heh, it's EH! Heh (hay) is for horses. That's great that someone (you I presume) took the time to write the BBCodeParser that works with WinHTTP but remember, I'm lazy. Too lazy to install Netscape even. I don't know who gave you less than 5 stars 'cause you're 5 stars in my book! [ 26 August 2001: Message edited by: LLigetfa ] _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#58584 - 2001-08-26 05:59 PM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	NTDOC, Opera eh, singing or listening? Quote >"Hapiness is being exempt from the normal user lockdown" I guess you would not want to be a non-admin on my network! It is IE only and locked down to the hilt for some. - All users' Home page set to our intranet - Tools pulldown grayed - Toolbars locked - No Address bar for some - No favs or history for some - Visited link colours don't stick for some - No Regedit and certain reg perms read only for some Freedom is the right to do whatever you want with your own computer, at home that is! IBM did us an injustice calling it a "Personal Computer". At work it is a business tool. My users like to try things out on their PC at work 'cause they know I'm around to pick up the pieces. No so at home! I've got one ace up my sleeve. I have a 'Model Client' cloned image and I scrub their machine and put it back to the 'standard' when they 'individualize' their 'Personal Computer'. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#58585 - 2001-08-26 07:10 PM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	lol - user's can be clever - around here, we try to lock-down their NT boxes as much as possible. Regrettably, "some" of our front-office folk like to "sabotage" their machine. They tell their supervisor that their machine is f*cked and the supervisor calls for a re-image. Of course, while it's being re-imaged - the devious user is having an extra long coffee break . Doesn't happen too much but it has happened. Even still, we're slowly relaxing our security (especially with Internet Explorer) ... -Shawn
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#58586 - 2001-08-26 08:00 PM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Shawn, Do you use Policies? If so, setup a group; call it something like "PenaltyBox"; and setup the policy with severe limitations and a few 'stigma' settings like perhaps "Hot Dog Stand" desktop theme etc.. Then when you get a bad actor, put them in the group for a while. Do it under the disguise that you're putting them in a "test" environment to troubleshoot their frequent problem. Others will recognize that they're in the penalty box and perhaps peer pressure, if not the sanctions, will cure their wiley ways. At the very least, you can have the satisfaction that comes with retribution. We have the long coffee break thing beat. Our hard drives are on pullout trays. We have ready images on spare HDs in our office. We swap the HD and they're back up and running in the penalty box, sans their fav's and fancy mouse pointers etc. It usually doesn't take too many of these to stifle their individuality. I've got the regulars pretty well trained, it's the new hires that need to be broken in. I go the opposite way, starting fairly lax and tightening as they rebel. [ 26 August 2001: Message edited by: LLigetfa ] _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#58587 - 2001-08-26 08:56 PM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Just got to thinking... I can just about feel NTDOC's loathsome stare and the sound of his teeth grating. Relax NTDOC, here in the Canadas, we don't have stuff like the constitution and ACLU to deal with. Being under the rule of the monarchy for so long has stifled our taste for freedom and individuality. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#58588 - 2001-08-27 09:03 AM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11631 Loc: CA	Oh no Les, I was just wondering what fun it would be to be a user at your site. I could give you such hell, but then I saw these posts and realized you don't need someone with experience giving you hell, normal users seem to be able to do it. http://kixtart.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=002143 http://kixtart.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=002148 Good luck... and have fun you little lock down Hilter - FLAME SHIELD ON....
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#58589 - 2001-08-28 05:05 AM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Now Now NTDOC, I know I provoked you a little but comparing me to a maniacal mass murderer... I don't know what your job is, but if you were part of a skeleton IT crew responsible for hundreds of PCs in an 24/7 industrial setting, how would you make sure they kept running? BTW, you'd be on call 24 hours too. I've got users doing every conceivable thing to PCs. When I lock up the PC, they sabotage the keyboard and mouse. I replace them with a touchscreen and they complain they don't like to have to lift their hand up to the screen. I give them a new mouse, they break it or remove the ball. I give them an laser mouse, they steal it. They even put a pickaxe through one PC. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#58590 - 2001-08-28 05:21 AM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Bryce Bryce KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-02-29 Posts: 3167 Loc: Houston TX	...and i thought that my users were bad! Bryce
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#58591 - 2001-08-28 10:11 AM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11631 Loc: CA	No, I don't feel provoked at all. It was all in fun. I do not see or compare you in reality to him. If I owned the company and the money was coming out of my own pocket, yeah I would be all for lockdown also. We are slowly moving to a lockdown state... I'm just a rebel (without a cause) I thought you said your users were "Being under the rule of the monarchy for so long has stifled our taste for freedom and individuality" Sounds like there ready for an uprising to me if there doing that much. Our users are no where near that rebelious
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#58592 - 2001-08-28 10:15 AM Re: INFO - Ripping code from posts
Anonymous Anonymous Unregistered	If you want any ideas about making it users impossible to to their work, and get away with it.. Read the http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
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