Yeah, I am in Murrieta California using a borrowed wireless connection and my laptop.

Internet is still not an economical adventure where I live. I hope to have it soon though.

The good thing is, without the net, I have no ambitions to get a new computer, so I am saving 1,000's on hardware.

Sadly, My main PC is down and I cannot even play ofline games because the vid card fried out on me.

I am currently investigating an ATI 3850 AGP 512 card made by Saphire. It seems to be the last of the big AGP cards made.

Hi, sorry I've been real busy these past few weeks and unable to check back in here.

Yak_Fighter - I apologise for the issues with the pits. The problem with the upload/edit/delete links not working with IE has now been fixed - this was caused by IE not handling spaces in the javascript function which opens the popup windows, and the inline link descriptions (eg "edit folder" or "add file"smiley were breaking things.

I see there are some layout issues with IE and the pits page though, so I'll try and fix that up when I get a chance, and I'll add a multiple file upload form too.

Right now I have no idea why a period is being appended to the uploads - this did not happen on the beta site and does not happen with my local development version of the site. The process for saving the files is the same as for maps etc, so I shall have to look at this more closely first chance I get.

Orpheus - I would like to make it clear that no content has been lost from the old site, be it your tutorials or anything else. The database has been reorganised, but the content is exactly the same, as are all the files. There are also backups of the original database and most files to ensure that nothing would be lost. If you are unable to find anything then please tell us what it is so that we can check whether it is in a different section or if a section of the database is not being displayed correctly. Many articles (especially older articles) were not associated with a particular user id and some did not have categories etc - therefore the articles simply may not be appearing under your name, or there may be some orphaned articles that aren't being shown amongst the current categories. If I do not know what has gone I am unable to find and fix the issue, so please let me know!

Also, I do not wish for anyone to feel that they are being forced into using a particular browser. However I have coded firstly for standards compliance (although I am bound to have made mistakes in places) which means that the site should render correctly in Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari, Opera, Konquerer and basically any Webkit or Gecko based browser.

IE's rendering engine is notoriously fickle, and while I can code one version of the site and have it work on all the above browsers I then have to go through and code an IE6 version, and IE7 XP version, and IE7 Vista version (IE7 acts differently on XP/Vista), and IE8 'compliant' version.

This can take quite a bit of time, and I may not catch everything that isn't working as my main focus is not this area. This is also why I asked everyone to try and help as much as possible by using the beta site, but feedback there was unfortunately limited and there have been developments since the site has gone live.

The site has specific code for detecting browser versions, and rather than trying to force you to use FireFox there are actually IE specific bits of internal code and IE specific stylesheets. Visit the main page on IE and style_ie.css and news_ie.css are loaded for example, along with some differently formatted sections by the internal code, rather than the normal style.css & news.css . Thats 4 different stylesheets just for the index page, and then 8 if you consider the alternate stylesheet. Then theres places with _ie7.css etc.... you get the picture

I am sorry if my lack of attention to the latter has caused you problems, however my main focus has been functionality for the majority of users. I will continue to work at providing legacy compatibility with IE, but I hope you can understand that I am working from a standards-first base and IE tweaks will take time to find and implement. The support is there though, and I will get things working.

If you have any bugs or layout issues then please TELL ME what they are - if I know what they are I can fix them more quickly.

Flood control is enabled but the timeout limit is pretty short as it is mainly intended to prevent spamming. Increasing it will prevent double posting, but probably just annoy everyone else.

Dark Tree - all the issues you list seem to be related to cookies, so check something isn't causing them to be cleared for this site. In FF3 go to tools>options>privacy>cookies and look down the list to "snarkpit.net" and see that they're being saved ok. Feel free delete the entry then revisit the site to check that they're being recreated ok.

Broken Links - I had hoped that most would have been fixed... I wrote some scripts to convert old links to new ones and for the most part these work (else you'd notice a lot more broken stuff!). If there are bad links please post them and where they appear - chances are that if they are of a particular pattern it should be no problem at all to fix them and all similar links like them.

i've got a fairly decent AGP somewhere, not sure though that its still here. If it is, I will send it your way.