Replies to post #15521 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[AKvetch]

Matt, see you've got gotmilk doing your dirty work. Now, please look at the prior post, and see how the closing carat in my <g doesn't show up. This happens for lots of other posters too. Hey, this is important to us a--l retentive types. Put this on Bob's To-Do list please! AK

p.s. FedEx delivered the donuts--should I save any for you?

p.p.s. Gads, the closing carat got dropped off in this post too!

[gotmilk]

Life's so simple when you know the rules. <g>

But then, if given the opportunity to have me deep freezed
and sleep 5,000 years to wake up in the future and have to
learn the rules over again, i would, yes i would.

But first i would visit down south from here Boston, and buy
a few of them Krisky Kreem donuts i have heard about.

Guess some folks would refuse to deep sleep 5,000 years
unless they knew them donuts were still sold in the future.

But then, deep freeze a 50 year supply
or eat
2 for breakfast
lunch = 3
dinner = 2
late night snake = 2
sleep walking = 2
for
10 a day
3650 a year x 50 = 182,500
or
round number of 200,000 KK donuts
incase one does any deep frezzed sleep eating

gotmilk
Si's Doug AK

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

The settings take effect immediately when you hit the "Update" button. The info is stored to the database and is fetched directly from the database each time a page is read in case you changed a setting.

However, it's possible that settings are getting cached by the local browser. I always set my browser to check for changes in a page each time it loads. If you've got a broadband connection, you can actually disable caching completely, but it does generate a bit of a load on websites like this one.

I've got an easy-to-find variable in the Favorites routine that I told Matt to adjust if he saw utilization go too high. It's a number of seconds to add to everyone's refresh rate to reduce the number of automated hits to the Favorites page, which is still a pretty expensive one as I haven't done the heavy-load tweaking to it yet.

Doug, I'm not sure if you're right or wrong, but here's the situation with those first two options.

The first option toggles auto-refresh on and off. Has nothing to do with whether or not the contents of the favorites page will change each time you go to it. It's dynamic and is put together from the database every time it's used. As such, the first two options go hand in hand. If you've got it set to Off (False), the second option become meaningless.

A good way to test to see if caching is a problem is to make sure the date/time display for Favorites is enabled on the same screen. If it is, but the timestamp isn't changing on each reload or automatic refresh of the Favorites page, your browser is caching too aggressively.

Regarding the Investors Hub window grabbing the focus (if you're in another browser window) or flashing in the taskbar if you've got another program running in the foreground, whether you see a difference in your MailBox number will depend on what you've got in "Alert Browser Window On New Messages".

If it's set to "On", that's the most aggressive setting. It'll focus on the iHub window anytime there's a new message in any of your Favorites boards. If you have it set to Off (which I think is the default), Auto-Refresh will still work, but the iHub window won't grab the focus. If you have it set (as I do) to "Message To Me Only", the focus-grab will only happen if your MailBox count has changed since the last time Favorites loaded; not when new posts are written on Favorites boards.

For those who don't know "grabbing the focus" is just geek-speak for "Making the iHub window the currently-active one on the screen."