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[maki]

I absolutely love the reviews Steve offers, and these forums are a great feature - but, is it just me, or is this forum particularly unreliable? Seems to often show jumbled characters and code before it displays the actual page(if it does without a reload), or sometimes just shows blank screens saying it's done. Kind of strange, isn't it?

maki

[eric s]

I don't have this problem at all. The worst problem I get is that I use a web proxy which filters out things like pop-up ads and a few other things. It can interfer with the running of this forum, but it never causes these problems (just some buttons stop working.) I've learned what the problem is and I just disable it if it gets in the way.

What browser are you using? What version? Are you going through AOL? What OS?

Eric

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by maki

Kind of strange, isn't it?

When was this? You do know there was a hackattack here a week ago, do you? See http://www.stevesforums.com/phpBB2/v...ic.php?t=13779. I couldn't get in at all (from the UK) for several days when I returned from a week's holiday on 30Sep.

[PrmseKpr]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I returned from a week's holiday on 30Sep.

Wow! Alan has a time machine! Can you get me the winning lotto numbers?

[Alan T]

30Sep
Wow! Alan has a time machine! Can you get me the winning lotto numbers?

Very good. Vaguely related to topic:
Hamish (in pub on Isle of Skye):"Well Donald, it's June now, and it's been raining since September."
Donald: "And which September was it that you were meaning, Hamish?"

[maki]

Originally Posted by eric s

What browser are you using? What version? Are you going through AOL? What OS?

I primarily use IE, latest version. AOL - ew. I'm on XP Pro - I don't know why it happens, maybe only on occassion, but seems to happen quite often. Random pages full of code and jumbled characters, blank pages, sometimes takes many reloads to view a page/message properly. I have a broadband connection and never have this problem with any other forums. It's only a minor irritance though, if it persists, I can deal with it, but again - kind of strange. :roll:

maki

[eric s]

Very strange. I use IE 6 with all the patches (thinking of that, there was a new OS security patch today... sigh.) So I'm not sure what it is. I would check my computer adware/spyware. Both ad-aware and SpyBot work well.

Probably paranoia... but some times it's justified.

Eric

[RSD]

i've never had any of those problems
but the one i get usually is that it says the site is temp. unavailable while steves0digicams still works