Kuba Komet on Ebay

[cbenham]

Originally Posted by Josef

http://www.ebay.at/itm/ws/eBayISAPI....:B:WNA:AT:1123

Greetings and a happy new year!

Why does Vk truncate the eBay URLs?

It appears like this in the post:
http://www.ebay.at/itm/ws/eBayISAPI....:B:WNA:AT:1123

Note the section missing in the middle.

Or is it my PC?

Thanks for any help.
Cliff

[Phil Nelson]

There's nothing wrong with your PC. The forum software automatically truncates the displayed (and highlighted) representation of a URL when it exceeds a certain length. This is done to reduce visual clutter for very long URLs.

The actual (full-length) URL is hidden in the HTML code that makes up the page. When you click on the shortened display, your browser goes to the actual URL. You can see how this works if you view the HTML source for this page, but that's only interesting to HTML geeks.

For some time now, all eBay links shown in VK are dead unless you right-click on the link and choose Open. Don't ask me why this happens. It may be related to the forum software that automatically highlights and makes links out of certain commercial words and phrases.

Phil Nelson

[Geoff Bourquin]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

For some time now, all eBay links shown in VK are dead unless you right-click on the link and choose Open. Don't ask me why this happens. It may be related to the forum software that automatically highlights and makes links out of certain commercial words and phrases.

Phil Nelson

That's interesting. I can left-click them and the Ebay page opens in a new tab. Maybe it has something to do with your browser settings or security software. I'm running OpenSuse 11.4 with Firefox 16.0.2 on a Gnome 2.something desktop.

I also noticed that the CRT in that Komet doesn't seem to fit the mask properly. I wonder why...

[ohohyodafarted]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

It's one of those love-it-or-hate-it sets. I personally love it! One of the coolest and widest sets ever made in my opinion. "Atomic Age", "Mid-Century", "Jetsons" - it's hard to narrow down how to describe it, but it just screams "'50's!"

Just to balance the discussion I will play "devils advocate" and express my opinion that this is an example of a seriously deranged and misguided designer. I guess he never heard the widely accepted design axiom "form follows function" There is absolutely no way the design of this product has any relationship to it's function. IMHO the Kuba Komet sucks the big one.


I will never have any German made electronics of this era in my collection. My dad owned a German table radio of this era, I think it was a Blaupunkt. It was the most God awful nightmare of crap to work on of anything I ever got into. Seemed like they spent more money on gimmicks like push buttons and fancy mirror polish lacquered cabinets, and on the inside, simple components like tube sockets and other basics were of poor quality that suffered badly from heat decomposition.

Now all those of you who are lovers of German stuff, please don't get your knickers in a bind. This is just one mans opinion; Mine. And I have the ability to express my disdane for the Kuba Komet just as you have the right to sing it's praises.

Have you seen the newly posted "Bob's Bunker" construction pages? Construction is on hold due to cold winter weather setting in; but I posted the stills from day 1 till we had to stop construction till spring.
http://antiquetvguy.com/Web%20Pages/...e%20Story.html

[Sandy G]

The Germans DO have an unfortunate tendency to take something simple & make something FIENDISHLY complex out of it.

[Down Under]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

The Germans DO have an unfortunate tendency to take something simple & make something FIENDISHLY complex out of it.

Soooo true. I like the Komet, but I'd bet that the internals were awful. I used to repair appliances for a living and Miele dishwashers are so complicated compared to most others. They seem to have a philosophy "why use one part when we can use 15?"