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Parts Swap Changes/Improvements/Testing

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marty9876

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Just a thought here, no clue how this would work out (and no clue how to do since I'm not a web guy).

For me, the parts swap thread just gets messy- not trying to offend anyone just the nature of the beast.

Could we make a website just for this with some type of web based speadsheet where folks could add/remove items with contact info?

Say a section for NICs, click on it a list of items/users appears.
A section for CPU's ect.

I could house the box, strap some nix thing on it is someone wanted to grab a domain name and point it...with a ton of web site program.

Just saw something shinny per mage...
 
marty9876 said:
Just a thought here, no clue how this would work out (and no clue how to do since I'm not a web guy).

For me, the parts swap thread just gets messy- not trying to offend anyone just the nature of the beast.

Could we make a website just for this with some type of web based speadsheet where folks could add/remove items with contact info?

Say a section for NICs, click on it a list of items/users appears.
A section for CPU's ect.

I could house the box, strap some nix thing on it is someone wanted to grab a domain name and point it...with a ton of web site program.

Just saw something shinny per mage...
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QFMFT

If I can figure out database stuff (never really got into it) this would make an awesome test project. I'm on it ;) It'll be either on my userpage or on my personal machine, I don't think this'll present a problem. If anyone CANNOT access this link (the title of the page should be "Home on FS", but that'll change), please post and let me know what ISP, etc. you're using. Since it's on port 24842, it may be blocked by corporate/school firewalls, but I'd imagine it'll work on most people's home connections.

 
You guys might want to talk to OSUGuy since he does alot of that stuff with his parts spreadsheet and might have some suggestions or ideas he can share. :D

 
I can do something like that in PHP, give me some time, but I'll try it. Could be a fun project.



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p[H]ant0m said:
You guys might want to talk to OSUGuy since he does alot of that stuff with his parts spreadsheet and might have some suggestions or ideas he can share. :D
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As always, let me know what I can do... If I have some spare time here at work today, I'll toss around some format ideas (at least in Excel) and see what I can come up with....

What are you guys looking for? A page that says "Motherboards" and then lists who and what they have? etc? Or are you looking for one page that just lists everything?


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I think that's the idea; but make it as human-free as possible. No one person should have to administer this, as soon as I get postgresql working ( :( ) I'll start on it.

 
I can agree with that... Unfortunately, I'm only familiar with the Excel side... and not even the VBA Excel side... I figured with Excel we could get the basic outline and fields prepped and then export it to whatever it needed to be in


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unhappy_mage said:
I think that's the idea; but make it as human-free as possible. No one person should have to administer this, as soon as I get postgresql working ( :( ) I'll start on it.

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Good idea...I was just about to ask who was going to keep up with this.
 
Okay, here it is: http://resnet-239-47.resnet.umbc.edu:24842/cgi-bin/temp-hw.pl

Things I think are working so far:
Adding items
Deleting items
Sorting by columns
Saving date items were added

Things I need to get working:
CSS stylesheets
Reserving items
Anything else?

This is the copy I work on. When I finish, I will rename the script to something else and it will disappear from this location. The SQL tables will be wiped, and then the fun can really begin.

Please suggest improvements, additions, whatever. I know I'm missing a lot of things, give me some input and I'll try to fix it to a point where it's a useful tool for the team.

 
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I'll take all those items! :D Looking good unhappy_mage. If we could have a date that the item was added that would be cool. Sortable table columns would also be neat.

-Mn Scout
 
Whoops. The name of the server is "fs", and I had a link to "http://fs/cgi-bin/..." rather than a relative link to "temp-hw.pl?...". Fixed.

Also, I've got "sort by column" working in the "working" version; once I finish "delete" it'll move to stable.

 
Update: New stable version. Added:
Sort by (click on table headings)
Remove item option

 
Updated; 7 categories total:
memory
motherboards
misc
niccards
psus
cpus
vidcards

I've added an example entry to each to (hopefully) clear up what to put in each space a little more. Next on my list is saving date items were added. It means adding a column to all my tables, but oh well.

 
I tried so hard all day to be good, sorry guys on this one...

:)
 
How about a section for hard drives? While not required for F@H you need one to build a box able to do UD.
 
What do you mean by "take" do you mean that it's been taken and sent to someone, as it's no longer available?

-MN Scout
 
Right, you'd reserve a part for yourself, and then once it'd shipped you could remove it from the list entirely. This would be handled through email entirely; all the list will do is show you what parts are available.

 
Suggestion: Make it so people have to pm a mod/mage/whoever to get a password to post/delete in this list. Cause some crazy roo(or anyone crazy for that matter) hellbent on the [H]orde's destruction could come by and delete all the items if they want to.

Oldbenwa
 
What about just having to enter a password to get access to the list, and you have to have X points for the [H] to get the password?

And we could make it something the roos would be unable to type, like "IhateVegemite!" or "Fostersisthebest" or something. It'd be changeable by those with the Master Password, of course, should something go wrong.

 
And mage shows me up... again... ;-) Good work! bastard :D

Is there any way to add the hardforum profile to our names or another column so that we could PM each other?


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Added: Timestamp
Fixed formatting on certain fields (e.g. have/want is now a word instead of a number).

As for adding links to vBulletin profiles, I can't find an easy way to look up a username <=> ID pair. The profile links are generated by vB, and I don't know of a page which associates nicks to vB id's. Anyone?

And I've gotta copy the password-protection (which I have written and working) into this script. It's coming, tho. It requires Javascript client-side, is that a problem for anyone?

 
Two of the things most of us consider when buying/trading MBs is whether or not the board has onboard video and/or LAN... any way to add that? or should we just rely on people to put that in the notes?


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Wow. Hosting it on your own box? You're pretty brave...

You are SO lucky. They firewalled our whole campus off--no inbound connections at all. SO obnoxious.
 
OSUguy98 said:
Two of the things most of us consider when buying/trading MBs is whether or not the board has onboard video and/or LAN... any way to add that? or should we just rely on people to put that in the notes?
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Ummmm... I'm not sure how to answer this, especially considering it's been in there the whole time. Link

And Mohonri (I got the name right without looking!) - they only left one port open. And yeah, I'm brave, but this box is firewalled and it's Debian-stable, so how bad can it be.

This will be down over the weekend BTW - I'm installing a new toy (check the disk storage forum for more details).

 
Yeah yeah. I'll add a CSS stylesheet that makes it [H]arder, and even throw in one of the cool changeable thingies like this (Eric Meyer is my hero). Try "View->page style" and pick something else. Best page design ever.

 
unhappy_mage said:
Ummmm... I'm not sure how to answer this, especially considering it's been in there the whole time. Link
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Sorry, must have over looked it........


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Well, yeah. Sorta. I've received a couple of new hard drives or three, and a new controller to go with it, and no drivers for Linux 2.6 working yet. So my server is in Windows ( :( to the max) until I get things straightened out with Tyan and Supermicro. And thus no serving webpages. I'll try to get some work done on the stylesheet in the meantime, though. Shouldn't take too long to get it all working once I've got the server up again.

Also, p[H], you'd mentioned in IRC something about having to wait until the next Mod Meeting to see whether this could get official approval. Any news?

 
unhappy_mage said:
Also, p[H], you'd mentioned in IRC something about having to wait until the next Mod Meeting to see whether this could get official approval. Any news?
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Actually I dropped the ball and completely forgot about it... :eek:

Note to self, talk to moose about it tomorrow. Mage, if you've got any specifics that you think are relevant, go ahead and PM them to myself and AtMo. Thanks!

 
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