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18:27: mumoss> Tim?
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20:03: [mentat]> Ah, the joys of being a fresher and Queing all over the place
20:04: Phlamethrower> yup
20:04: Phlamethrower> although I'm more annoyed with the accommodation office b****ring up my application, resulting in about 3 hours of commuting a day
20:04: * Phlamethrower notices that mentat has already vanished again
20:07: * Phlamethrower gets to work on his thread collator thingy
20:08: Phlamethrower> wait, got other things to do still...
20:11: Phlamethrower> geh!
20:12: * Phlamethrower has 20megs of email space @ umist!
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20:13: mumoss> 20megs
20:13: mumoss> I'm paying for all my stuff - I can't put up with uni restrictions
20:14: Phlamethrower> lo moss
20:15: mumoss>
20:15: * Phlamethrower fiddles with his account
20:15: mumoss> There's a house meeting about finances soon - or at least, there probably was an hour ago
20:15: mumoss> But I'm too busy sorting out ofla.info stuff
20:18: * Phlamethrower works on threadaliser
20:24: * Phlamethrower fiddles the date-grabber
20:29: * mumoss fiddles
20:33: * Phlamethrower does a full test run....
20:34: Phlamethrower> hmm
20:34: * Phlamethrower wonders why there are massive gaps between each page of posts...
20:36: Phlamethrower> ah, I know.
20:36: * Phlamethrower kicks IE for being stoopid
20:37: * mumoss kicks IE anyway
20:37: Phlamethrower> Because there's no newline between the end of one table and the start of the other, it must be trying to draw them all on the same line. But, being IE, it fails miserably by leaving a massive gap after each table, and drawing the next on another line
20:38: * Phlamethrower has reached the september posts
20:39: Phlamethrower> doh, it's gone and died
20:39: Phlamethrower> big table full of nothingness
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20:41: * Phlamethrower should really DL the forum pages so the script doesn't have to fetch them from TIB all the time
20:42: Phlamethrower> Hmm, it's still leaving massive gaps...
20:44: * Phlamethrower adds page cache code
20:48: mumoss>
20:50: * Phlamethrower tests
20:51: Phlamethrower> yay
20:51: Phlamethrower> Isn't anything fancy, but if the page is in the cache it'll use it rather than request a new copy
20:52: * Phlamethrower goes back to the tables of doom...
20:52: mumoss> Hooray!
20:55: * Phlamethrower realises why there are massive gaps round the tables
20:55: Phlamethrower> I was putting <br> tags at the end of each </tr>
20:56: mumoss> t**t
20:56: * Phlamethrower does the big test again...
20:57: Phlamethrower> Hmm, could do with making it do all the posts in one big table rather than one table per page
21:04: * Phlamethrower investigates page 44
21:05: mumoss> Good luck!
21:05: * mumoss is off now
21:05: mumoss> Bye!
21:06: * Phlamethrower slaps AW for all the garbage on http://www.iconbar.com/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=671&page=44
21:06: Phlamethrower> bye
21:08: * Phlamethrower investigates rich's sig on http://www.iconbar.com/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=671&page=51
21:09: mumoss> Silly
21:09: mumoss> Bye!
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21:10: * Phlamethrower slaps rich for having a newline char in his sig
21:10: * Phlamethrower must now rewrite the code to cope with posts containing newlines
21:14: * Phlamethrower appears to have done something wrong
21:15: * Phlamethrower fixes
21:16: Phlamethrower> Yay! It's (almost) working!
21:17: * Phlamethrower needs to account for the differences between old and new post styles...
21:20: Phlamethrower> ... then work out some way to automatically strip out all the waffle
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21:31: mumoss> BYE
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22:25: Chox> yers
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22:56: The Penguin> Silly
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