Only the original license holder can upgrade your copy, so that means your employer has to upgrade his volume license..

Before I realized you were replying to the wrong thread, the thought of an "original license holder" brought to mind the image of The Architect character in The Matrix. "As the original license holder, I created the Lounge as a place for good…until the evil forces of Jive came and destroyed it…"

Yay! (It's been so long, I was forgetting the proper syntax!. )

Message was edited by: Kami Bambiraptor to make HTML work

the_wine_snob wrote:

 

Well, that just might be great news!

 

Tried it early in the week, and it was still a no-go.

 

Hunt

 

[Edit] Still not working for me, so might be Chrome?

 

Since I do not get phantom line-breaks, and it lets me post images to the Adobe forum, I'll just do without it. Guess that I could always do it in AI, and then post it as a raster image...

Seems a go now.

Here's what I posted:

<b>Just Testing<i> to see if <u>nested</u> tags </i>work.</b>

the_wine_snob wrote:

 

…How did you get Strikethrough?…

HTML editor.

StevieJV wrote:

 

I was trying remember back to the beginning, the saved book thread in the repository goes back to October 2002, that thread must have been started a month or so after the great lounge creation, does anyone remember?

 

I miss those days.

I was here then, back in 2002.  I accidentally stumbled onto the Lonuge via a forum search on my name, and found a nasty, despicable thread here where I was being libeled and insulted behind my back, among many other victims.  This place was a veritable cesspool and a repository of mindless drivel and garbage back then.

I'm happy to stress that I quickly became persona non grata in very short order after I found this place.   I have no knowledgde of when it started, but it was a well established mosh pit when I found it.

____________

Wo Tai Lao Le

我太老了

the_wine_snob wrote:

 

… one of the reasons to have a "Lounge."…

The Lonuge spelling was not a typo on my part in my last post; no need for scare-quotes.    That's what the Lounge came to be called in the vernacular.

well as someone who was here from day one, i can say it was the exact opposite of ramon's observation. he may have had a run in with one or more of the people who became "regulars" back in the day, but i suspect much of it was a carry over  (spill over) from the lively <cough> debates and discussions taking place in the mac photoshop forum at the time (america thread anyone?). between that and the growing amount of off topic banter/drivel in the main ps windows forum due to the people who helped the most becoming friends and starting to chat off topic (naturally) the mgmt decided to create a place for these growing friendships to continue without disturbing the on-topic posts in the main forums.

in the beginning there were threads like favorite music, favorite lyrics, cool stuff (a favorite of mine ... here's my fav from that one: http://www.savageresearch.com/humor/insanityTest.html ) biblioholics anonymous, never ending story, just to name a few. later on as the diverse population grew and grew, and discussion turned towards more serious topic (war religion etc) an effort was made to keep those often cantankerous discussions in one thread "the politics and war thread"... not always successful, but mostly.

as years went by, a couple of disgruntled individuals (for one reason or another) decided to troll the place, to the point where one actually threatened to kill another and their family. the beginning of the end. bans were handed out and ignored. ip addresses blocked and still the troll(s) refused to go away. in the end they got what they wanted. the photoshop lounge shut down, (now this is the general lounge) many of the original posters who had thousands of helpful posts outside of the lounge banned for life and a bitter feeling for those left behind.

i seem to remember 9/11 going down when the lounge was here, so it was definitely created pre-sept. 2001. in fact, it was soon after that (again, iirc) that the politics and war threads were first created.

dave milbut        19
nilk narf            0
steve v            1
mathias v        888
Grass Hopper        007
graffiti            867-5309
phosphor        1933
NJOS/Magill        100
Margaret        14
Kathy Harris         OU812
John Kallios        13
cls            22
mrsd            57
beagslie        1776
dré as in Andrea        666
DS Nelson        667
Zeb            Googol
Kath Howard        54
T.C.            42
Proudest Monkey    41
Lawrence Hudetz    1912
Ann Shelbourne        84
Laura Hickle        86
Dion            ∞^∞
susan walters        7289 
timothy foolery        420
r_harvey        0x8000 (-32768)
Jay Chevako        "I'm a panda not a number"
Susan S.         √2
John Slate        bleen
Kamilyon Bambiraptor    999
Gene Trujillo        789
Thee_DarkOverLord    2n8   
John Joslin         PI
buko            69
victor maldonado     5
tineke linthout        19072001
LenHewitt         √-1
skua            82
patty clarke        12
Katherine Lawson     333
Gustavo Sanchez     PI-PI (2PI)
Nancy S         241
Christine Krof Shock    151
John Levine        967869
luk a            106
Papafrosh        206
Bert Philippus         6.0 x 10^23
Paz            108
Roger Benedict      1969
povimage        -(1+√5)/2
Kami Bambiraptor    999.1.1.1.0
Kelli Aylesworth        24601
Brightside        77
johnkissane3        705 (?INT(RND*10000)) 
Lisa Spike        44
Ho             454
PowerChild        555
Scott McCullough    419
Jason Drabek        101
Seizer8            8
Penny Keeley        72
Lesh            59
Emma d'Anise        27
Liz Bice         217
Kyle Sessions        239
Richard Sohanchyk    111
Jennifer Lathrop        3
Chris Baham         010101000111011101101001011101000110001101101000010011110101001101011 000
Thomas Ireland        6063
BusinessNunya         1972
Brutus Maximus     71077345  (=419)
BranderChatfield     1,913,192,419,461,966
chrisjbirchall         2006
Dirk            2
Coral D.            7 of 9
William Byers         11ty8
Alucard 44         ABD-4D4
Ramón G Castañeda    91465 (honorary)
Michael Gianino        0112358
josie celio         9035768
-shep-            1after909
Pierre Courtejoie    255.255.255
David Crawford        0303
Cathleen Clapper    49 and holding
Mindy Baker        383

several original members stayed for years and still left before the creation of panda numbers. viol8ion (carl) yrbkmgr (tony) and bludvls come to mind as some who aren't on the list.

What dave said.  Spot on.

he may have had a run in with one or more of the people who became "regulars" back in the day, but i suspect much of it was a carry over  (spill over) from the lively <cough> debates and discussions taking place in the mac photoshop forum

thinking this over, and being a windows guy, i believe that's how i met Ramón in the first place. in the middle of what he describes. someone was trash talking him (i don't recall exactly who). but his persistence and knowledge over the years turned me from an outsider who was first introduced to him by observing the coarser side of his keyboard, into someone who respects and even admire's him for his knowledge and his ability to eloquently defend his positions..

71660,1644 thankyouverymuch.

dave milbut wrote:

 

… that's how i met Ramón in the first place. in the middle of what he describes. someone was trash talking him (i don't recall exactly who)…

…a guy to whom I ended up referring to as "the rabbit" because his last name coincided with the name of an imaginary 6' rabbit in a Jimmy Stewart movie classic…

I certainly miss the old days (pre-troll(s)).

maybe i'm thinking of when we went into iraq and not 9/11... you're probably right. i can smell bacon, and i can also smell pencil shavings and coffee. hmm...

<click>Like</click> @ dave, but I think the doom was not preordained.  Most participants in 'difficult' threads were able to converse respectfully.

Most participants in 'difficult' threads were able to converse respectfully.

why yes, yes we were. even the most ardently oppositely oriented people were having great discussions before it was ruined by a (very) few ............... .