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I've gone with the picture thingy. The articles probably a bit long to copy out all the text, it's a full A4 side.

HumanWindmill wrote:If you are in close proximity to anybody who has the programme ' AbbyReader ' or similar, ( perhaps a workmate or a neighbour, ) you will be able to use this programme to convert PDF files to text files.

There might even be the odd free programme with limited features which will allow you to do the same. Other than that, I have no idea.

Has someone just hacked Windy's account?

I thought he was going to suggest handwritting it out with a quill.

Adam D (Hobo) wrote:

HumanWindmill wrote:If you are in close proximity to anybody who has the programme ' AbbyReader ' or similar, ( perhaps a workmate or a neighbour, ) you will be able to use this programme to convert PDF files to text files.

There might even be the odd free programme with limited features which will allow you to do the same. Other than that, I have no idea.

Has someone just hacked Windy's account?

I thought he was going to suggest handwritting it out with a quill.

That would have been my first choice, mate.

Is it possible to enable topic owners to remove posts? I don't want to be a mod, but I do want to control my topic when it gets out of hand.

unfortunately not.

If we could give you that power, we would - software limitations I am afraid.

I would ask the mod of your section to help out if you want a thread to stay on topic.

Boooo, down with software limitations!

And up with reasonably priced training!

Has the Jokes Thread been removed ?

It's been removed for the time being due to people telling very inappropriate jokes for the forum

that would be me then

Mods & Co

I have two PMs in my outbox which aren't going anywhere. One has been there for a couple of weeks now. None of my mailboxes are full.

Any ideas?

Thanks

They'll remain there until the recipient opens them, MPB.

Perhaps if he is online you could prompt him to check his inbox.

Oh really, ok thanks HW

You're very welcome, MPB.

Not a big thing, but I noticed the film section is called The Film Thread.

It's not a thread.

It makes no difference to my life what it's called but I thought maybe Hobo might want to change it.

Cheers.

Only taken us 10 months but we got there!

Thanks and changed

You changed that quickly Hobo!

I just checked back, saw it was called Films and thought I was going mad.

Can anyone tell me where to find that ordering through Amazon thing that was floating about yesterday?

I've looked but can't seem to find it.

Thank you.

Hibbz - slight technical difficulty.

Will have it sorted by tomorrow - sorry for the delay.

Oh okay, no sweat.

Thanks again.

has anyone else noticed the site being really slow tonight?

Its ok for me CF (on firefox with Sky ISP)

im on firefox as well. This is the only website that is slow for me tonight.

yeah been a bit slow for me too, not terrible but a bit on the slow side

I've noticed its a bit slow since just logging in, its been worse before though.

Adam D wrote:Hibbz - slight technical difficulty.

Will have it sorted by tomorrow - sorry for the delay.

Any news? Black Friday is almost upon us

Its in hand Davie, no need to panic.

Do I look like I'm panicing? I was just wondering which "tomorrow" you were talking about - but then I got a horrid mental image of the Hobonator singing the song "tomorrow" from Little Orphan Annie and I started to get Herbert Lom-like twitches which were quite disturbing until David Tails reminded me about the breathing into a paper bag trick

How come in the golf section I can see a global announcement about the Amazon shop being (re)opened, yet when I click on the announcement it says it doesn't exist?

Fixed.

Can we get a spiralling ball smiley to celebrate the American Football board surpassing 10,000 comments???

WTF is this 'maintenance' cowpat about??!! just wrote a long reply n lost it all!

whoops, note to self - don't post when drunk!

on a side note, where'd the SPOY discussion thread go??

Is it possible for you guys to get One Direction on here or something so we can ask them questions, coolest band around.

its in the other sports section at the bottom of the sport section home page.

Hi, how do I turn off topic reply notifications? Hit the button accidentally on Az's massive Khan thread and my inbox is filling up with all the damned things!

Evening tophat

It should be below the page numbers and it should say stop watching this topic

How'd I miss that??!! Thanks Fernando! :beer:

Can you guys please help. I am again getting millions of topic notifications in my email. Can you please tell me how to stop that. I have clicked the 'Dont alert' me message but it just wont stop.

What has changed that i now get these messages again?

https://www.606v2.com/t21647-topic-reply-notification-emails-and-how-to-turn-them-off


PS remember to clear topics your already watching

Cheers mate, the lads helped me out earlier

Just a general question. I access this site from both my home PC and my Blackberry. Home PC, no problem posting. However, on the odd occasion, when I'm using my Blackberry, I go to post something (having been signed in for ages) and suddenly get a message from "Onlineguardian.net" claiming my message is suspicious and I'm blocked. Then I have to verify myself which takes ages on a Blackberry to unblock it. Why is this, even though I save the site? Also, what happens with this information I give to Onlineguardian?

No idea Cari - not heard this before or experienced it myself.

Hmmm...I hope it's not a scam or something, unless it's connected to BB in some way.

I have had a quick look online and found there website. Dont know if it is any help for you though
http://www.onlineguardian.net/

Ha no you're right there! I'm not a techie person, so I haven't a clue how it works. I'm assuming it's something to do with perhaps a child control or something on Blackberry rather than this site (this is the only forum type of thing I use).

you need to save it or disable it so it doesn't block it due to according to them we don't exist


It's basically thinking we're the equivalent of a porn site so it's blocking it as it's like a child proof to stop them going where they shouldn't

I can still get through, just asks for verification, so it's no big deal. I just wondered what it was.

Cari can you think of any words that would trigger it ? Using short form ie Pathetic Pthtc is often all that's needed to trigger it.

How do I change my username and the email address linked to the account?

The reason being I am linking several american football sites I use to the same username and the email address.

If you pm me with the changes I will get them sorted for you Mike. Once the changes are completed I will drop you a pm to confirm the details.