Bonecutters comparison and Kamis making them

mtngunr said:
I am not talking about reorganizing the precious website but talking about compiling an organized history from the info on the site for people who care more about the company and its history than the website. I seem to be a minority. This is the second time i have been jumped on with both feet by supposedly loyalist posters for suggesting such, and the LAST time. With friends like you, who needs enemies. Go right ahead, and as before, and when anyone wishes to know something, let them pore through disorganized stickies, run hours of searches and still miss stuff, and generally waste their time. Time better spent nattering on about whatever rather than any organized effort to save the story of this company in which they could help assemble. You obviously have far better things to do. 25 yrs from now, this site, if it does not crash, will be your personal monument.
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~sigh~.....
I hadn't expected to see this come up again after the last episode. I don't expect to have to address it again.

There is no way to re-organize the forum into categories. That is just not how the software works. Everything on this forum is categorized as it happened, except for bumped threads. The history of HI is pretty much here and intact as it was written. If one wishes to have it further categorized, they are more than welcome to put forth the immense time and effort it takes to organize links into some sort of fruitful compendium. The closest I was able to come is the "Link Library"....and believe me, just getting that done was no easy feat.
 
Karda said:
~sigh~.....
I hadn't expected to see this come up again after the last episode. I don't expect to have to address it again.

(...) Everything on this forum is categorized as it happened, except for bumped threads. The history of HI is pretty much here and intact as it was written(...) The closest I was able to come is the "Link Library"....and believe me, just getting that done was no easy feat.
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I understand the effort for the link library. As for the integrity of the history. The text is there for sure. Not so much for so many accompanying pictures.

Here the only known real picture of a Yeti and it was taken in the mountains near the BirGorkha Factory
submarine.jpg

What makes it even more challenging is the capped search results. You only get the few first pages when searching text that has too many hits.
 
Karda said:
...Everything on this forum is categorized as it happened, except for bumped threads. The history of HI is pretty much here and intact as it was written.
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mtngunr said:
...my problem using search features here was noting the default settings had to be deselected even if others selected, and also paying attention to date range desired.....
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I never use the "Advanced Search", I just use the "Search Forum" option that's located right above the link to the Last Post for the Cantina (on the main HI Forum page). No changing defaults or entering date ranges, just give a search term and indicate whether the results should be whole threads or individual posts. This will give results from both the main HI forum as well as the Cantina.

As for the important historical posts at this forum, I was thinking that a good place to start would be by looking at all the posts made by Bill Martino. Yesterday I tried this, by finding an old post by him, clicking on his username, and then clicking "View Forum Posts". This resulted in 24 viewable pages of threads where Bill at least made a comment, but the results only went back to 2004. Searching for some specific terms can bring earlier threads (from around 2000 or 2001 at least).
 
Steve Tall said:
but the results only went back to 2004. Searching for some specific terms can bring earlier threads (from around 2000 or 2001 at least).
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Did you tried chronological order in both ascending and descending?
Because of the cap result limitation, sometimes I was able to get the whole by looking from both ends.

Never mind... I just tried it. You only get 8 pages of Bill stuff from 2001 to 2002.
 
Steve Tall said:
Hmm, looks like I might need the "Advanced Search" to do this.

Maybe the gap in Bill's posts between 2002-2004 can be found by specifying date range.
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That would be great. How do you specify a range?

I found a partial answer here... Not much hope unless we get the help and willingness of techie baleforums admins.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49608

It does involve some coding... As VB will not allow to craft and http->post a custom DB query easily.
 
snowwolf said:
...How do you specify a range?...
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If it's not possible, then I must have misunderstood a previous comment about specifying the dates when searching.

BladeForums has a Himalayan Imports Archive site (which has a random mix of posts displayed in the Cantina section) and it supposedly has more posts there from Uncle Bill than on the regular HI Forum site.

When I went to Uncle Bill's user page, and clicked on Find Latest Started Threads, the 40 pages of visible results went back to April, 2002. So maybe we have the whole range covered already.
 
Steve Tall said:
If it's not possible, then I must have misunderstood a previous comment about specifying the dates when searching.

BladeForums has a Himalayan Imports Archive site (which has a random mix of posts displayed in the Cantina section) and it supposedly has more posts there from Uncle Bill than on the regular HI Forum site.

When I went to Uncle Bill's user page, and clicked on Find Latest Started Threads, the 40 pages of visible results went back to April, 2002. So maybe we have the whole range covered already.
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are you able to see all 40 pages?
Because I can't rely on what is shown. I start with the last page then decrement by 10s until I can view an actual page.
 
snowwolf said:
are you able to see all 40 pages?...
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Yes, I am able to go through the listing of pages, from page 1 all the way to 40, by starting at page 1 and continuing to click at the highest numbered page option (jumping from 1 to 4 to 7 to 10 to 13...) until page 40 is reached.
 
Well I wonder how much good stuff we are missing out on because of this glitch? Ill have to go try it out. Glad yall are figuring this out:thumbup:
 
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