Author Topic: The Library (Read 2083553 times)

jane · « **Reply #15440 on:** July 03, 2015, 03:08:07 PM »

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jane · « **Reply #15441 on:** July 03, 2015, 03:09:18 PM »

Quote from: Tomereader1 on July 03, 2015, 12:23:11 PM

I have a quest for those of you who are "history" mavens: What books have you read, either fiction or historical, dealing with the Sepoy Rebellion (Mutiny)?

Tomereader...I must plead ignorance. I don't believe I ever heard of that, or if I did, it's slipped from my memory.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #15442 on:** July 03, 2015, 03:19:40 PM »

It was in India, a rebellion against British rule, if that helps.

maryz · « **Reply #15443 on:** July 03, 2015, 03:44:53 PM »

MaryPage, you might try setting your window as not full-screen. Then you can make the window narrower, and hence the lines shorter. That's one reason why I like to use my windows not-full-screen.

Jonathan · « **Reply #15444 on:** July 03, 2015, 05:13:07 PM »

Tomereader, I have, and I don't hesitate to reccommend Christopher Hibbert's The Great Mutiny. Published in 1978. No doubt there are more recent things on this fascinating subject. Hibbert is great at writing history and he has written a lot of it. Looking over my shelf I see his biography of Queen Victoria (2000) which I've been meaning to read. I would certainly like to hear of other books on the mutiny.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #15445 on:** July 03, 2015, 05:21:14 PM »

If you go to Amazon and type in Sepoy Rebellion, or Sepoy Mutiny, there are dozens of books, many by authors whose names I don't recognize, but then, I probably wouldn't recognize scholarly authors names! LOL

A friend in our book club meeting last night mentioned something she'd read, and was going to check her shelves to see if she still had it. Couldn't remember title or author.

We had read "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" which was a lovely read, and just barely touched on that time in India. So it piqued our interests.

Frybabe · « **Reply #15446 on:** July 04, 2015, 06:41:54 AM »

Tomereader, among other things of that era Peter Hopkirk includes the Sepoy Mutiny in his book, The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. I have read about the Siege of Lucknow, but I don't remember where. Here is a hair-raising, first person account of the Siege of Lucknow which I haven't yet read. https://archive.org/details/siegelucknowadi00inglgoog The Brits were big on diaries/journals, so there probably more first person accounts around. Most of my downloads deal with the period just after the first rebellion, the era of "The Great Game".

MaryPage · « **Reply #15447 on:** July 04, 2015, 08:29:23 AM »

No, I find the effects quite different. I do NOT leave the bookmarks on the page when using my iPad, but always leave it when using my PC.
Mary, how do I set my window at not full screen? That is something I am absolutely totally unfamiliar with!
I read a wonderful book years ago where they put a whole bunch, was it a hundred or so, of women and children down a well. In India. During a mutiny. I remember loving the book, but cannot now recall the name at all. Or the author! Bad memory, except for the horrendous details!
Didn't it all have to do with the Indian soldiers not wanting to have to lick the bullets for their guns because they had been kept in pig fat? Something like that. I guess they kept them in pig fat to keep them from rusting until used? Or what?
Oh yes, I remember Hibbert's book. Very good. But mine was fiction, I am pretty sure. Historical fiction.

Steph · « **Reply #15448 on:** July 04, 2015, 08:34:46 AM »

Oh my, I do love that mouse.. Mine is a boring red on top,,but I do have a wheel.. like yours actually. But I want the mouse itself.. Classy.
My tracking divice is simply not charging and to my surprise the company is sending me a newer model at no extra charge. How very nice of them.I liked the old one,but it simply would not charge and was actually shutting off my USB when I plugged it in.

MaryPage · « **Reply #15449 on:** July 04, 2015, 08:47:11 AM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857

jane · « **Reply #15450 on:** July 04, 2015, 09:00:24 AM »

Steph...paisley mouse came from either WalMart or Best Buy...and I haven't had to replace batteries yet and I've had it for at least a year...maybe longer.

MaryPage...on my computer browser in the extreme right corner, there are two things that toggle back and forth. One looks like one screen, click it and two screens ..one that looks as if it's on top of the other. I click that and my screen no longer covers my entire computer screen. I can click the top browser window, hold down the mouse left button and move the screen around my desktop. I always keep my computer screen like that.

MaryPage · « **Reply #15451 on:** July 04, 2015, 10:32:06 AM »

Oh, That! Yes, I have known about that feature, but it does not make this site shrink up from side to side at all when I switch back and forth. It only affects my whole screen, with the single box enabling me to move the site screen around somewhat, while the double box does not. But bottom line, it does NOT decrease the width of the actual sentences and/or paragraphs visible on the screen. Would that it did!
The thing is this: These posts used to take up less than half of the width of my screen. Over on the right they were. NOW they are taking up almost the entire width of my screen. Do you see the difference?

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #15452 on:** July 04, 2015, 11:09:44 AM »

OK new problem today - here we are celebrating 4th of July Independence Day so we should not be talking about problems but rather they be known so in time they can be addressed.

Today there were a list of discussions on my window that shows the discussions with new posts since I was last here - the word new was next to the title but not inside the blue oval shape and when I hit the word new it brought me to the very first post in that discussion and so I went to the bottom of the page to hit the last number of the last page that had an entry but then you have to read through to figure out what was the new entry

Now I do notice a new heading for 4th of July since yesterday and wondered if that has to be entered on each of the discussions and if so if that is why there was a longer list of discussions that showed a new post because on two of the discussions for the life of me I could not figure out what was the new post.

marcie · « **Reply #15453 on:** July 04, 2015, 01:27:03 PM »

Barb, how did you get to that list of discussions that had new posts? If you used a bookmark/favorites, you could already have read those posts. If you go to any discussion page and click "Show new replies to your posts" (at the top left, just below "HELLO [YOUR NAME]" you will get that list of discussions in which you have posted at least once that have any new messages since you last opened the discussion. If you click the word NEW next to (right after) the title of the discussion you should go to the first new post in the discussion (since you were last in the discussion). If you accidentally click on the title, you will go to the first page in the discussion. I'm not sure what you mean by the "blue oval shape."

Tomereader, as Jane said, we'll look into the Notifications issue. Meanwhile, you might want to try getting around the discussions with the "Show new replies to your posts" method. I've found it a very useful way to keep up with discussions in which I've posted.

jane · « **Reply #15454 on:** July 04, 2015, 01:31:50 PM »

Marcie...I think Barb is referring to the blue oval NEW we had in the old software. It's been replaced with the square box and the word NEW. I like that better, since you can actually read the word new. It takes me to the first new post since I was here last.

Barb...I don't think the 4th of July newsline should make any difference. They're entered in the Newsline in exactly the same way as the other News announcements are. They show on all pages in a random order.

jane

marcie · « **Reply #15455 on:** July 04, 2015, 01:39:30 PM »

Oh. Ok, Jane/Barb. I understand about the Blue oval that we used to have and which is now the word NEW (next to the discussion title in any list of discussions). In my browser, I just see the word New right after the discussion title if there are new posts since I last opened the discussion. There is no box around it. Other browsers might show it a bit differently but it should be in the same position and should work the same.

ginny · « **Reply #15456 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:31:54 PM »

Mary Page,

I wonder if you could be confusing the appearance of this site with that of Seniors and Friends where you also post and in which the posting box actually on my computer is not even half the page, it's a little to the right of the middle of my page?

On the left is a large area full of photos and illustrations about various areas of the site, and the photos of the individual posters and their avatars are a lot bigger than they are here. Hence there is less room for the actual posting lines?

This website has never had that configuration and we have had to take a lot of screen shots over the years, which illustrate that, so it's not here you're seeing it because of the website itself. I am not sure what your computer may be doing, but we've never had it here.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #15457 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:32:56 PM »

My screen no longer shows "show new posts" or "show new replies to your posts".
actually it does show "new replies to your posts' at the top of the screen, but basically the screen is blank, not entirely. Is there a way I can send a copy of the page I'm getting, so you can see what I mean?

PatH · « **Reply #15458 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:35:01 PM »

Jonathan, thanks for the reference to the Hibbert. He should be good. When we were reading [/i]The Moonstone[/i], I learned just enough about the Mutiny (it's part of the background events) to know it would be interesting to read more. Tomereader, let us know what you read, and something about what you learn.

PatH · « **Reply #15459 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:40:08 PM »

At the top of the screen on the Home page, where it says "Hello, PatH", and my avater, there is the line "show replies to your posts". I don't use that feature, but I assume if clicked on it, it would be turned on.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #15460 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:44:07 PM »

There is a multitude of info about the rebellion. So much that I wouldn't even attempt to get into it. A visit to Wikipedia simply boggles the mind! For the particular book in question, my friend gave me an author's name (Kay Scherer), but I can find nothing by her. I tried an alternate spelling for the last name. Has anyone heard of her? Friend has not yet enlightened me as to the book being fiction/non-fiction, so that doesn't help.
Maybe at some other time. Thanks for the interest, and I will post if I discover anything about that particular book. Have a safe Holiday.

jane · « **Reply #15461 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:45:14 PM »

Tomereader....look to the right up there at the top and see the words:

Simple Machines Forum and then to the right of those words there's a white carat. If it's facing down like a V ...click on it and have the point face up. Then that Show New Posts...will, I hope, appear.

jane

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #15462 on:** July 04, 2015, 03:54:35 PM »

"Show new replies to your posts" (at the top left, just below "HELLO [YOUR NAME]" you will get that list of discussions in which you have posted at least once that have any new messages since you last opened the discussion."

Yes that is how I do it...

No this is not what happens... "If you click the word NEW next to (right after) the title of the discussion you should go to the first new post in the discussion (since you were last in the discussion)."

It goes to the first post ever made in the discussion -

I do not see a square box and as of yesterday I was still seeing an oval blue football that today is not visible only the word New - which is just fine - but hope it would bring me to the newest posts since I was last in the discussion...

but not yet

because I know y'all will have me

and sending you

MaryPage · « **Reply #15463 on:** July 04, 2015, 03:56:31 PM »

The siege and massacre at Cawnpore was the specific setting for the novel I remember reading, but when I examine the list of books about it I do not see a title that jumps up at me and says "That's It!"
Makes me so mad that I no longer have complete control of my memory. I DID read Hibbert's book, but I think it was because of the novel that got me interested. Blast!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Cawnpore

MaryPage · « **Reply #15464 on:** July 04, 2015, 04:00:56 PM »

It was quite likely this book, as I read a lot of the Flashman books back in the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashman_in_the_Great_Game

And Jules Verne wrote a book about Cawnpore, too. "The Demon of Cawnpore."

Steph · « **Reply #15465 on:** July 05, 2015, 10:46:39 AM »

I think mine is working well, but still much much lighter and anything I click to make it darker does not work, thus far..I will would prefer much larger print on most of the site.

jane · « **Reply #15466 on:** July 05, 2015, 11:00:28 AM »

Steph....so holding down CTRL and moving the wheel on your mouse doesn't both darken and enlarge your font here for reading?

ginny · « **Reply #15467 on:** July 05, 2015, 11:31:16 AM »

Barbara, if you could take a screen shot of what you see and email it to one of us it would be most useful to see what you are seeing.

I had experienced something of the same sort, being taken back to the first post. It appears that you have identified a glitch.

When you click on the word New or on the New button, it will take you to the new post. But IF you decide to forgo that and instead click on what is listed as the last page in the sequence shown....see the screen shot below for Fiction...if you ignore the New button (or the word New) and instead click on page 147, thinking you will then be on the last page, then it will not take you to the last page, it will instead take you to the first. Thank you for identifying this, and we can add it to the issues raised.

Till we can have this adjusted, don't click on the last page shown, if NEW in any form is present, but rather the word New.

PS: This only happens when the NEW button is present. Without it, the last page takes you to the last page, but when NEW is there, it won't.

Hope this helps.

(This is what I see):

CubFan · « **Reply #15468 on:** July 05, 2015, 11:32:47 AM »

Greetings -

I can't explanation why, but I haven't had any problems with the upgrade. The print is the same size and brightness it always was and all the discussions have worked fine. The overall page has a little different look but the layout is the same and the page size is the same. I haven't made any adjustments, just keep reading your comments.

Mary

jane · « **Reply #15469 on:** July 05, 2015, 11:42:11 AM »

Thanks, CubFan!!

It's amazing how different "machines" show things differently. On my laptop, I see the blue oval for NEW. On my IPAD, I see a square that is transparent and has the word NEW in it.

jane

ginny · « **Reply #15470 on:** July 05, 2015, 11:43:15 AM »

Mary, how nice to see you! Thank you for letting us know how the upgrade went for you!

Are you still attending ball games with your grandson? I thought of you when my 8 year old grandson was reading a book from school about a little boy whose grandfather was sad that some historic ball field was to be torn down and so they both visited it. And that started them on a pilgrimage to all the old ball parks in the US. It was the sweetest thing. He keeps checking it out from the library.

We don't have any ballpark anywhere near us and he's a Messi (soccer) fan true and true so I can't have the same experience, but I think the one you told us once that you did was wonderful.

So good to see you!

PatH · « **Reply #15471 on:** July 05, 2015, 11:53:32 AM »

I haven't had any problems either. The print is smaller, but not lighter, and the size is not an issue for me, though it would be for many.

I'm really relieved that the switch was made so seamlessly, and especially that we didn't lose any files (remember the horrors of the old SeniorNet switch?)

Many thanks to all of you who worked so hard to make it possible, and are still working hard to fix these remaining problems.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #15472 on:** July 05, 2015, 12:09:31 PM »

Like Pat, my print is a little smaller, otherwise, everything has been fine for me for the last week! Thanks for all your hard work at doing this.

Jean

marcie · « **Reply #15473 on:** July 05, 2015, 12:44:05 PM »

Tomereader, I use the "Show new replies to your posts" right below HELLO [MEMBER NAME] to get around the site. When the list of discussions shows up after I click that link, I click the word NEW --which is displayed right after the title of the discussion. That takes me to the first new message that has been posted since I last opened the discussion. Does that work for you?

Frybabe · « **Reply #15474 on:** July 05, 2015, 01:07:34 PM »

I am using Firefox. Haven't seen any problems yet except that the default font size does seem a little smaller than before.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #15475 on:** July 05, 2015, 01:37:23 PM »

Oh lordy I lost the entire post - Oh Ginny I was attempting to copy and past exactly what I do since I do not know how to take a photo and put it on an email - somehow you are supposed to be able to do that with your phone and as much as Ty attempted to show me last Christmas it has not stayed with me

I will come back - I am worn out from all the typing trying to get it exactly as I do it - and yes, I hit the phrase
- Show new replies to your posts - even though that page when you scroll down shows the discussions with a new post.

The icon on my Firefox bookmark toolbar is set to bring me to the page Updated Topics - After I hit the phrase that is located under my name on the top of the page the new page shows a heading with a red script font saying, Happy Independence day with green fireworks (why green) on either side of Happy.... and then a more orgainzed looking list of only those discussions I visit with a new post - early today I came in and there were not new posts and so there was nothing listed.

The word "New" for me is pale and not sitting in a blue field - - some discussion with new posts are listed in bold and some not - they all have who started the discussion in bold and the description of the discussion in italics

Here is a copy of one - only just now saw that the word New is actually a link that when you hit it an underline appears - there is NO indication that is true till you hit it.

The Library New
Started by BooksAdmin in The Library « 1 2 ... 386 387 »

now when I hit the - Show new replies to your posts - there is a list that looks on the page more organized - in sections with a darker look to the section that gives the number of replies and views - at this point there are four discussions that i have visited in the past with new posts - every other discussion listed is in a beige looking background and ONLY the discussion in the beige background are the titles of those discussion in bold and NONE of the four discussions with the word "New" show me a number of how many new replies or is the word "New" made to look any different other than a typical UNbold or UNitalic word.

New experience - if I have visited that page in the last it appears maybe the last 24 hours when I hit the word New it takes me to the last post I last read - where as if I had not revisited that discussion since the other day I hit the word New and it takes me to the very first post ever written in that discussion.

None of the "New" links are surrounded by blue that I was calling a football and according to your post above is actually a rectangle and again, there is no indication at all that the word "New" is a link but I know to hit the word "New" to be taken to the discussion and only the discussions that i frequent with new posts are on the list.

Again I am running windows 8 with Firefox - the other day I used control + to make the font size larger on the entire site including the message area as I am writing a post - hurray - and it holds so that I have not had to repeat the process.

OK I have attempted to explain even though I said I would be back - just got into a roll - but I am not now going to do the work to copy and paste and then have to make bold the words that do show bold and the words that do show as Italics as i did earlier - hope this helps - sheesh - an

that is me panting... need one showing me wiping the sweat from my brow

ginny · « **Reply #15476 on:** July 05, 2015, 03:59:36 PM »

Pat H, yes indeed who could forget that time on SeniorNet, it's enough to give anybody nightmares and thankfully this time it's gone much better. Thank you for your comments.

Thank you Jean, and Frybabe, for yours also. Things do seem to be going along well.

Barbara, I am so sorry you had to go thru all that and I appreciate your efforts.

Your grandson I think was trying to show you how to take a photo of your screen with an iphone of some kind? I think you have described it well enough now that you needn't bother, but if it's an iphone it's quite easy. The "screen shot" is something else with your computer.

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....in bold and NONE of the four discussions with the word "New" show me a number of how many new replies or is the word "New" made to look any different other than a typical UNbold or UNitalic word....

The NEW will not be showing you how many new replies there may be, it just shows there are new ones. And when you hit it, it's supposed to take you to where you left off reading. You are saying that just today it's doing that?

Can you try that a couple of more times and let us know if it's taking you to where you left off or if it's taking you to the first page again?

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #15477 on:** July 05, 2015, 04:17:54 PM »

Gotta leave here Ginny but a quicky - no way of knowing if it is locked or not - nowhere can I find an indication and I right clicked as well seeing if I could find something that gave me a clue if it is or is not locked - again like the "Show new replies..." after I click on it an underline appears so that if i was not familiar with the site and how we do things there would be no evidence that it was a link and the same with the word "New"

Did link to mysteries that I had not been keeping up with however at one time I posted in that discussion and it come us as having new Posts and when I clicked on "New" this time it did just as we want it to do - which is go to the newest group of posts although if the click was accurate it should have taken me back to the last post I read which had to have been at least a month ago - I am not concerned over that discussion - my real concern is the discussions that I do follow on a daily basis - let's just let this ride a day or so and see what happens - I do think it would be good if the phrases and words that are actually links could be noted somehow by either a line under it or a change in type of a color.

OK gotta run

jane · « **Reply #15478 on:** July 05, 2015, 04:55:07 PM »

Barb asked "green fireworks (why green)" on the fireworks. Uh...because that's the way whoever made that graphic colored the fireworks. It's a premade, free graphic because I don't have the skill or time to do that sort of design work, so I use what I can find that's free and offered with no copyright restrictions.

Jonathan · « **Reply #15479 on:** July 05, 2015, 05:41:51 PM »

Everything is coming up just fine for me. The print was a little too small for me, but was quickly adjusted using the CONTROL/+ method. And talking about ball games, I must say I enjoyed watching the game at St Benedict's, with the teacher smashing the ball through the headmaster's car window.

Am I right in thinking the time now shown is EST? I could wish my message box a little bigger. Some days I have so much I would like to post, but can't for lack of space.

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Author Topic: The Library (Read 2083553 times)