FORUM UPGRADE - now completed!
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So do I but they seem to slow the site down somewhat !
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No speed issues here.
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
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I can't see any snowflakes (but I suppose it has turned much warmer today).Mrs C. wrote:I love the snowflakes!!
Mary
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Neither can I, Mary. Perhaps they were an aberration this morning?MKM wrote:I can't see any snowflakes (but I suppose it has turned much warmer today).
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Snow-flakes require Javascript to be enabled (which it is in most browsers)......
Thought they'd be a nice touch.....
J
Thought they'd be a nice touch.....
J
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I an see the snowflakes in IE (and they're very nice) but not in Firefix, even though I have javascript enabled.
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So long as the snowflakes stay in here they are OK, but once let them out of the computer and I just don't want to know.
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I have the java thing enabled on firefox and no snowflakes-i went onto ie which i hate using ans there were snowflakes-its just not fair
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thanks VonnyVonny wrote:Poor Amy
I can see them!
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As an occasional visitor, I have to say that I am very impressed by this new format. I like it very much indeed. Great work Julian.
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Sorry folks but it is like the new versions of other major programs - even Yahoo and Netscape mail give you the opportunity to use a faster, older version which this doesn't.
I don't lnow about snowflakes - I would be happy not to get the black screens between asking for new posts and getting then, I would be happy not to have the time to get a cuppa after every post whilst it goes up and as for the total loss of ability to originate PMs and the incorrect addressees (according to PM) on the list of members ..............and I would be happier if 80% instread of (?) 8% of my posts went up.
sheeeeeeeeeeesh - they call it progress.
Not your fault Julian - it is what they give you .
David
I don't lnow about snowflakes - I would be happy not to get the black screens between asking for new posts and getting then, I would be happy not to have the time to get a cuppa after every post whilst it goes up and as for the total loss of ability to originate PMs and the incorrect addressees (according to PM) on the list of members ..............and I would be happier if 80% instread of (?) 8% of my posts went up.
sheeeeeeeeeeesh - they call it progress.
Not your fault Julian - it is what they give you .
David
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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David - is there any possibility that the fault is your end? I have accessed the new forum on 3 different computers (Mac, Apple laptop and at work where it is a Word network system) and I have not had any of the problems you describe. So far I have only sent 2 PMs, one the person has not visited since I wrote it, the other got through correctly and I had a response.sejintenej wrote:Sorry folks but it is like the new versions of other major programs - even Yahoo and Netscape mail give you the opportunity to use a faster, older version which this doesn't.
I don't lnow about snowflakes - I would be happy not to get the black screens between asking for new posts and getting then, I would be happy not to have the time to get a cuppa after every post whilst it goes up and as for the total loss of ability to originate PMs and the incorrect addressees (according to PM) on the list of members ..............and I would be happier if 80% instread of (?) 8% of my posts went up.
sheeeeeeeeeeesh - they call it progress.
Not your fault Julian - it is what they give you .
David
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Of course it could be; I don't have the luxury of alternative computers to try. I am using the same PC, with the same software, the same OS (Windows XP 5.1), virus checker (AVG) firewall (ZoneAlarm), software (IE and Firefox (tried both), AdAware and Spybot (neither running in background), I have about 48% of hard disk free (everything is cut to the bone) and 128mB of Ram which I know is towards the lower end of desirable**. All this is being run by ethernet cable via a 2009 state of the art machine using broadband. In fact nothing whatsoever changed except the Forum software.Katharine wrote:
David - is there any possibility that the fault is your end? I have accessed the new forum on 3 different computers (Mac, Apple laptop and at work where it is a Word network system) and I have not had any of the problems you describe. So far I have only sent 2 PMs, one the person has not visited since I wrote it, the other got through correctly and I had a response.
Just for the record the machine is checked regularly for oddities like file fragmentation, irrelevant registry entries, temp files, unnecessary
process files (after due examination and research have cut out about a dozen .exe files and 20% of the rest are antivirus!)
**Don't say "get some more" - they haven't sold it since the last millenium!
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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I am just intrigued why you appear to be the only person suffering these problems, David. You have mentioned them before and nobody has jumped in to say 'Me too'. (as they did with snowflakes!)
Katharine Dobson (Hills) 6.14, 1959 - 1965