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Topic: Why do i have to be a "Noobie"

Posted By: PinkPangolin
Subject: Why do i have to be a "Noobie"
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 07:04

Why do I have to a Noobie - what do I have to do to leave this behind? I suppose you should say "Noobie" in the way that Dr. Cox says it on "scrubs" then I can cope with it...

You can probably guess what I like from the name (and from my reviews...). I'm in my 40's and of old I loved Pink Floyd, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Gong, Traffic and ELP. I lost much interest in music during the 80's when music seemed to go very bad, but I had a revival particularly in Pink Floyd, Genesis and Jethro Tull about 5 years ago.

When my wife told me to stop "living in the past" so much (I bought another copy of "Living in the Past" by JT to really wind her up), I decided to try some new bands that could give me the music of the old days - with the added bonus of being able to see them live and take the kids - so I turned to your website, and found Porcupine Tree, Mars Volta, Oceansize, Amplifier, Ozric tentacles etc... (what others would you recommend?)

The name Pink Pangolin is a combination of my love for Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree's music - Pangolin being a little close to Porcupine - and interestingly Pangolins was the name of an imaginary band I made up when I was a kid, but never came to pass (despite doing my own tapes of their music). Imagine my fascination when I found out that "Porcupine Tree" was formed on the same basis (Steve Wilson doing his own tapes of their music!)! And yet (unlike the Pangolins) did become for real!!!!!!!! Especially 'Pangolin' being so close to 'Porcupine' in name!!!!!

Replies:

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 07:14

Everyone new here starts that way. I worked my way up to four star prog reviewer fairly quickly by writing some good reviews that caught the attention of at least one person higher on the food chain here. I'm in my 40's, too. You will find more stuff on this site old and new than you'll probably be able to handle. My philosophy is never turn your back on or give up the old stuff. I was pleasantly surprised to find a new generation of prog musicians as well as a new generation of prog frans here.

On the new side, I'd recommend Pure Reason Revolution, Talisma, Pineapple Thief, Parallel Mind, Phideaux, The Reasoning. Already into Porcupine Tree and Ozric Tentacles, discovered before I found this site. Big%20smile

I'm not sure how you make it to five star status, I'm thinking you have to sleep with a five star member or something. LOL

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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 07:19

Slartibartfast wrote:

I'm not sure how you make it to five star status, I'm thinking you have to sleep with a five star member or something. LOL

Hey there! What the heck are you suggesting? Wink

BTW, a warm welcome to Pink Pangolin! Hug

Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 08:14

Welcome Pinkpangolin! See you've been helped on your way already.

As for the five start thingy: are you sure you want that many up your sleeve? It takes 100 forum posts to get past Newbie, so just stick around!

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I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected]

Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 11:17

Angelo wrote:

It takes 100 forum posts to get past Newbie, so just stick around!

Doesn't it take 20 to become a Groupie, and then 100 to become a Senior Member?

Edit; Oh yeah, almost forgot: Magma.

Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 16:22

Shakespeare wrote:

Angelo wrote:

It takes 100 forum posts to get past Newbie, so just stick around!

Doesn't it take 20 to become a Groupie, and then 100 to become a Senior Member?

Edit; Oh yeah, almost forgot: Magma.

40 actually as far as I remember. BTW, a warm welcome from me too!

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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski

Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 18:13

Howdy from Texas and welcome to the club. As far as being a noobie, it's a lot better than having to wear a beanie with a propeller on top and wearing a tee shirt that says "Elvis lives!"

I, too, like some of the groups you mentioned and I'd recommend "Space Revolver" by the Flower Kings. I think you'd love it.

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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain

Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: May 26 2008 at 18:02

Thank you for your replies you important senior guys!! It's nice to know someone's listening. Thank you for your suggetsed bands etc.. as well. I'll have to look into those!
As for the suggested 20 or 100 posts, my number of 6 seems rather paltry to your thousands! Don't reviews count for anything? I have 38 I think....

As for the title "Groupie" - is that better than "noobie"? Not sure I'm feminine enough!!

Thanks again!

Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 26 2008 at 18:05

good reviews are your quickest way to stars hahahhaha

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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: May 26 2008 at 18:10

Wow - that was a quick reply - then again 17000+ posts. I have a long way to go! Oh well, at least this is another one - that's 8 now!

Cheers

Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: May 26 2008 at 18:35

Hey another question to you important folks - how do you get that little square picture under your name when you make posts??

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 26 2008 at 19:13

Edit your user profile using the bit at the top of the page that says " Member%20Control%20Panel

Member Control Panel"

Click on "Edit Profile"

scroll down to the section that says:

Select Avatar
This is the small icon shown next to your posts. Either select one from the list or type the path in to your own Avatar (must be 64 x 64 pixels).

...and follow the instructions.

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Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 06:30

DarqDean - As you can see, I managed it! (it was a bit of a struggle, mind)

Thanks for the help

Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 09:43

Welcome to PA n00b!

Just stick around,get to know the forum and join in on the many discussions here and you won't be a n00b for long.

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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 10:06

PinkPangolin wrote:

Why do I have to a Noobie - what do I have to do to leave this behind?

Keep posting over and over - think quantity over quality. Wink

Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 17:56

I think I was a noob for maybe a week or so.

Once you start posting, you can't stop

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Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 18:47

Thanks for the advice!

Oh yes -there's another one (quantity eh?)

Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 18:02

Good news, guys - I'm not a "noobie" any more. As soon as I hit 40 posts it went up to "Goopie"

Not sure I like the term "Groupie" though (not sure what it implies!!)

What have you got to do to reach "Senior Member" ??!!??

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 18:18

step one: find out how to post pictures

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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 18:38

^ Step two
find the Hot Babes thread

Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 18:44

As Micky once told me, you don't really become fully initiated to the forums until you have a post removed for inappropriate content.

Sorry Dean, don't mean to encourage additional work for the Admins.

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Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 06:04

To darqDean (or anyone else) - you say find out how to post pictures. I've tried hard hard but I just can't figure it Confused

Please - how do you do it?

Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 06:09

Here's a thread: forum_posts.asp?TID=12630 - How Do I post Pictures?

And let me quote one of our admin's post from that thread:

Tony R wrote:

First two important points to remember:

1. Picture content: The forum administrators have made it known that no pornographic, unsuitable or copyrighted images, cartoons or gif animations should be posted on the site-failure to comply with this could result in expulsion from the forum.

2. You cannot (at the moment) cut/copy and paste directly from your Pc. I advise joining an on-line "imagestation" like Photobucket or Sony Imagestation. Photobucket accepts Gif animation uploads whereas Sony only permits Jpegs.

For the purpose of this guide I will describe posting images using Photobucket.

Photobucket : http://photobucket.com/ - http://photobucket.com/ is free to join and remains free if you only want to use up to 50 mb of storage space (about 200 average photos and Gifs).Fill in the registration form and away you go.

Images From Your Computer:

In the "Your" Album area of Photobucket click "browse" and select the image you want to upload from the folder on your PC.Click submit and after a short while (depending on you connection speed) the image will appear in the "album." Beneath the image you will see 'URL', 'TAG' and 'IMAGE'.Click in the box next to URl and it will highlight in blue. Right-Click and click "copy".

Next we are going to post the image on the forum.

In the 'Post Reply' box click this button: javascript%20openWinRTE_image_window.asp,insertImg,toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=0,width=400,height=200"> . An 'Insert Image' box appears. Click in the 'Image URL' box and clear the contents.Right-click and click 'paste' and the address of the image (which you copied in Photobucket) will appear. Click 'OK' and the image should appear in the box.
Note: the image will only appear if you have the full address of the image including "http:"

Images From The Web:

To post an image from the web right-click the image and click 'properties'. Find the text that says 'Address URL' and highlight the address starting "http:" (double left-click and it will turn blue) right-click and click 'copy.'
In the post reply box follow the instructions above under:Next we are going to post the image on the forum.

You can also put these web images in Photobucket by clicking "[ http://photobucket.com/albums/v619/reedlover/?addtype=web -

This is by no means the definitive way to do this and some pictures on the web will copy and paste directly into the forum.It is, however, the way I do it and it works for me

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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski

Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 06:11

Another post from that thread showing one more way to post a picture:

Tony R wrote:

Another simple way to post pictures from the Internet:

Right click on the picture/graphic and select "properties". Where it says address highlight the info which starts "http" eg (try on zacs sig pic above)http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b51/zacm1587/magnus2.jpg
(to highlight the full address left-click anywhere in the address then double-click to select all the info) with the text highlighted in blue right-click and select "copy".
Now in the post reply box or wherever you want to post the image do the following (IGNORING THE " " s)
type:
"["IMG"]"
after the last ] press CTRL on your keyboard and V to paste the address(Ctrl+V),then type "["/img"]" (of course without the " )

Like this:

Your image should appear eg

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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski

Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 06:14

One more thing: to get javascript%20openWinRTE_image_window.asp,insertImg,toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=0,width=400,height=200">

button you must enter the full reply box by clicking

.

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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 12:35

It's really dangerous to let folks know how to link to pictures. I am a prime example.

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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:17

I think I've managed it, but I'm not that good at it yet!

Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:20

Thanks folks for the advice!

Now I've managed that - how do I do that thing where I include comments from previous posts so I can discuss them better?

Trouble is - I think that's a little dangerous (taking things out of context and all that!)

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:26

PinkPangolin wrote:

Smile

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/new_reply_form.asp?M=Q&PID=2881849&PN=2&TR=28 - Quote ] button at the top of the post and edit away. The forum is driven by BBcode, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode ), so if you want to split up a quote you have to insert your own code to to that

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Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:32

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/new_reply_form.asp?M=Q&PID=2881849&PN=2&TR=28 -

Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:33

Oh - that didn't work...

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:52

PinkPangolin wrote:

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/new_reply_form.asp?M=Q&PID=2881849&PN=2&TR=28 - Quote ] button at the top of the post and edit away.

Like this?

Thanks Dean - you've come up trumps again!

don't delete all the extra text (all the stuff in square brackets is needed!)

it should look like this, but with [ ] instead of ( )

(QUOTE=PinkPangolin) (QUOTE=darqDean)

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/new_reply_form.asp?M=Q&PID=2881849&PN=2&TR=28 - Quote ] button at the top of the post and edit away.
(/QUOTE)

Like this?

Thanks Dean - you've come up turnips again!

(/QUOTE)

...whatever is between QUOTE & /QUOTE is the quoted text - your relpy goes outside that.

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Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 05:19

darqDean wrote:

PinkPangolin wrote:

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/new_reply_form.asp?M=Q&PID=2881849&PN=2&TR=28 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/new_reply_form.asp?M=Q&PID=2881849&PN=2&TR=28 -

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 07:11

^ that's the way

Incidentally - you should NEVER change someone else's wording (unless you make it obvious and it's for comedic effect) - the purpose of quoting is to carry-on a discourse in a thread that has multiple discussions going-on, or to single-out specific points to comment upon. Changing what people have written to make them look bad or stupid or to alter the meanig will be dealt with swiftly and punitively.

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Posted By: Mousoleum
Date Posted: July 22 2008 at 23:53

KoS wrote:

^ Step two
find the Hot Babes thread

Found it!

Nope. Lost it.

Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:14

What's happened to my thread - it seems to have gone below the belt!

Anyway - I seem to have been uprated to Senior Member now - having cleared 100 posts (they weren't all pointless - honest!)

I'm surprised it was only 100 (thought it would be a lot more than that, but I'm not knocking it). I guess some of you are thinking - what? HE doesn't deserve that....

Thanks for all your help from you chaps above.

Trouble this - this thread doesn't make any sense now, because I note that on all my posts I have been uprated to Senior member. I mean - eh? Why is this senior guy moaning about being a "Noobie?"

Pinky

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:16

I'll happily delete this thread if that's whats needed to bring some sense to it....

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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:23

Dean wrote:

Incidentally - you should ALWAYS change someone else's wording (unless you make it obvious and it's for an annoying effect)

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:27

rushfan4 wrote:

As Micky once told me, you don't really become fully initiated to the forums until you have a post removed for inappropriate content.

yep.. .I think I could have made senior member alone based on that LOL

.... I have had a few... I am a bad boy sometimes.

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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:31

Dean wrote:

Changing what people have written ... to alter the meaning will be dealt with swiftly and punitively.

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:32

PP; you can always change the thread title by going back into your first post

Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:33

Dean wrote:

Changing what people have written ... to alter the meaning will be dealt with swiftly and punitively .A night on the town at Tony R's favorite pub. Offenders.. get tossed out the front window

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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:36

micky wrote:

Dean wrote:

Changing what people have written ... to alter the meaning will be dealt with swiftly and punitively .A night on the town at Tony R's favorite pub. Offenders.. get tossed out the front window

...and that has quite a different meaning in the UK than I assume it does in the USofA.

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:40

hahahhah.... and what meaning does it have there.... an...err.... even worse punishment than being thrown out out a window LOL

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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:42

micky wrote:

Dean wrote:

Changing what people have written ... to alter the meaning will be dealt with swiftly and punitively .A night on the town at Tony R's favorite pub. Offenders must sit through 5 hours of Britney Spears and Hannah Montana music

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http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm

Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: August 25 2008 at 11:41

PinkPangolin wrote:

Smile

Wow ! I`ve been on the site since the beginning and I still haven`t figured out how to post pictures. I guess it doesn`t help when your computer is from the mid- sixteenth century. I`m still living in the past myself. I`m listening to Songs From The Wood right now with old Duke at my feet.

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Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: August 26 2008 at 05:53

Judging from what you've all written, I think it would be good to leave this thread in (and not change the title), because its got very funny LOL

- although I think a couple of the above should be deleted for inappropriate content Confused

- the American/ British confusions can be alarming sometimes (I leave that for someone else to explain!!) - may get some senior members then!!!!