wahhhhh, did not mean to post, cant delete

Also a great way to search for an old thread you want to find is just to post a new one with the exact same topic and let the losers who want to kerble everyone find it for you. No more wading through page after page of search results, plus it makes those chaps feel good about themselves for a while. Way to go champs?

Don't mind me! I'm just postin' this because E.C.'s username makes the filter on my office computer block the entire C/NC forum.

Okay this is a new one:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 524288 bytes) in /var/www/phpBB2/search.php on line 351

ERawk wrote:Reminder and for Newbies:If you don't have Firefox to use the Google Electrical search app, bring up old threads in Google this way by typing in the dialog box the following:site:electrical.com "topic of choice"It should work pretty well.It's worth noting that this search string will return a number of pages on older versions of the board in addition to the new board. If one replaces the "phpBB" or "phpBB2" in those addresses with a "phpBB3," it will often result in a "Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later." error. Making that substitution and also adding a "www" to the front of the address will typically bring up the newer version of the older thread.For this reason it's been recommended to make the Google "site" limitation "www.electricalaudio.com" instead of simply "electrical.com." I dont know if this will change the set of results returned, but it will minimize the amount of futzing around you have to do to get to the thread you were looking for.Bad as it often was at returning usable results, I sure do miss the search function.

just curious, what happened to the original post in this thread? was it egregiously inflammatory or offensive?

milkmeat wrote:just curious, what happened to the original post in this thread? was it egregiously inflammatory or offensive?no, not at all. I posted the first sticky post in this thread. It just answered a question I had been asked a few times, so it is written like a response. anyway, I like the new search function on the phpbb3 format. works great. even better than the last one by quite a considerable margin. Tree pointed out to me that you can search within threads themselves, which is a new and definitely improved thing.hep.