MetaTalk posts tagged with help

Please take it easy

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:14:42 -0800

If you can, please kindly refrain with the judging anonymous in this AskMe thread. Just a personal request to cool it just down a notch. The asker seems to understand enough to acknowledge the mistake he made and probably would be better off with factual answers.

The Locked Door Mystery Comes to AskMe

CunningLinguist — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:22:23 -0800

AskMe to the rescue - in real time!

hope me get rid of the blue nasty

stresstwig — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:44:15 -0800

I stupidly clicked on that post that was just deleted that showed the terrible picture and tried to force videos. None of the videos opened-- the browser bounced around. I force shut down my computer by holding down the power button. Now whenever I open firefox 3 on OS X (leopard) that website appears. What do I need to do to fix that/secure my computer? I am posting this to metatalk in case anybody else was also affected.

Greasemonkey script question.

flibbertigibbet — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:02:25 -0800

I'm trying to find a specific MeFi greasemonkey script. It would 'bookmark' the last comment you read, so when you returned to the thread, a grey scrolling bar would appear on the left-hand side, pointing down, until you hit the last(ish) comment you read, when it would turn into a slightly different shape. What was this thing called? I cannot find it on userscripts.org.

asking for programming help

signal — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:17:20 -0800

I am finishing work on a short python program for my master's thesis. I am a newbie at python, and would like to ask for help optimizing the program in AskMe, by posting the actual script and having people with more experience give it a look. 2 questions: 1) does this sound too do-my-homework-ish? 2) the program is about 130 lines, would it be kosher to post the whole thing inside the question (not on the front page, obviously)? Or should I just link to the .py file on a server?

Close the thread

LobsterMitten — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:47:32 -0800

I think it might be time to put this thread to bed. The poster has now said that the answers have helped her get what she was looking for. The only purpose that is served by keeping it open is to invite namecalling.

How do you get those nice one line down returns when you post?

Smedleyman — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:15:25 -0800

How do you get those nice one line down returns when you post?
(I tried HTML, didn't see it in the FAQ. WTF am I doing wrong?)

Help Me Find Nuclear War Thread

cellphone — Thu, 04 May 2006 21:54:41 -0800

I remember sometime ago there was a thread about an article speculating what would actually happen in a full nuclear war at the height of nuclear proliferation. I'm having trouble searching for it because of the bulk of threads devoted to the topic of nukes. Do you remember it?

Unsure what to do

spira — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:47:11 -0800

I'm writing a post in which I'm making an offer of direct help, and I'm really not sure whether that offer is a good idea (I'm not sure whether it's a good idea whether to make the offer, and if it is a good idea, I'm not sure that it's a good idea to post the offer where others can see it). It's nothing illegal, I think, and certainly nothing wrong, if the circumstances are what they appear to be, but I have no way of knowing if circumstances are what they appear to be, and if they're not, what I'm offering to do could be a very bad idea. Anyway, I obviously don't want to post any more specifics, so who can I ask what is appropriate in this situation?

I screwed up a link when revising my post

Meredith — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:42:27 -0800

In revising my post, I screwed up the very first link in this thread. Should have been this instead of the same link I posted later in the description.

Yeah, so how do you do the tiny text thing?

electric_counterpoint — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:22:28 -0800

Yeah, so how do you do the tiny text thing? You know what I'm talking about. It seems it's not the "h6", "small", "tiny", "font size=""", or "li'l" tags...

Donate banner howto

Taken Outtacontext — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 06:14:37 -0800

Is there a resource Web page for creating the type of banner that appears in the upper right hand corner of Mefi (to donate to the Red Cross)? I can grab the javascript from the code, but was just wondering if there is another page devoted to "how to."

I NEED HELP.

ColdChef — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:51:28 -0800

I NEED HELP.

Okay, I know this isn't the point of MetaFilter, but I'm desperate and I don't have time to find out this information on my own.

I have a friends mother who is trapped in New Orleans and I need to find out who I need to contact to let them know where she is. Red Cross is no help. If anyone out there knows who I can contact, please let me know.

New Orleans MeFite refugees need shelter

Civil_Disobedient — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:21:39 -0800

Public service announcement: There are some MeFi members that may need temporary shelter from the evacuation of New Orleans. If anyone lives in the area and has an extra bed or couch handy, please post here.

Having some problems with making links in AskMe

biffa — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:39:55 -0800

Having some problems with making links in AskMe, tried to add a couple to this post but preview reorganises the html, seemingly at random, ie added two links, one worked, one didn't, went back to fix (then delete) one then other one went wrong, even after I switched to cut and pasting a couple of symbols were added to the end of the URL.

Writers helping each other?

dobbs — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:19:55 -0800

Wondering if any of MeFi's up-and-coming screenwriters / tv writers are planning on entering Nicholl or Austin this year and if they'd be interested in helping each other punch up their scripts. (Feedback from the working pros is appreciated as well, of course.) {more}

the process of posting with a link evades me

ifoughttheapemen — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:57:06 -0800

True, I have battled many an apeman. Yet the process of posting with a link evades me. Can anyone give me the quick skinny?

AskMe Post Inadvertantly Promotes

scarabic — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:05:28 -0800

Admin hope has been requested here. Tankoo.

Help with new user signups wanted

mathowie — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:49:30 -0800

¡Finalmente! I'm finally going to turn on new user signups, and I'm shooting for doing it on Monday. But I could use some help [more inside]

Where do I find my member number?

pejamo — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:07:11 -0800

sorry to ask what I'm sure is a stupid question. Where do I find my member number? I'm trying to sign up for the CD swap and that field is required. I've looked high and low, and I'm stumped.

help me with posting a link in a thread

tami3_3 — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:35:24 -0800

I'm new to this so I was wondering if someone could help me with posting a link in a thread. When the prompt comes up for the url, I copy and paste it. But when I preview it, it doesn't come out as a link but the whole thing with the brackets and all. (I don't know what you call that) I figured it would come out ok as the link when it was posted, but it didn't. Could someone please tell me with what I'm doing wrong?

Jeez I hate CFMX.

mathowie — Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:28:02 -0800

Jeez I hate CFMX.

Help me out by posting all bugs you find here.

HELP page

SEWilco — Sat, 15 Sep 2001 07:14:05 -0800

I don't see a MetaFilter HELP page anywhere...and I think some is needed.

For example, tinkering with Preview shows me that some HTML is accepted, but as it looks odd there apparently are restrictions that I can't find. I do see that a simple blank line is fine, and a Paragraph tag breaks the MF formatting.

Looking for someone out there who knows the ins and outs of greymatter

crunchland — Tue, 05 Jun 2001 20:24:17 -0800

Looking for someone out there who knows the ins and outs of greymatter... Jonathan is having issues with it and photographica.org. It's choking on the update of the index page. He managed to get it going for a short while this morning, but when he tried to delete the dupes and test messages, it choked again. From the backside, off the greymatter control panel, it looks like people's entries are being saved, but the main page just isn't getting updated.

Can you help?

Plotting zipcode data

mathowie — Tue, 15 May 2001 22:15:29 -0800

Anyone have ideas on how to plot zipcode data? I haven't found anything free or near free on ESRI's site or at any of the ColdFusion code exchanges. Are there any opensource simple GIS programs? I could have sworn there was a mapping component to ArsDigita's ACS some group was working on. Anything in PHP? Perl?

I'm looking for something that can spit out a simple map of the US with little dots where the zip code data shows up.