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tommyrot - Sep 13, 2007 2:58:12 pm PDT #2752 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Works fine for me. I'm mystified why the loading fails partway through.

You could try clearing your cache and see if that helps....


meara - Sep 13, 2007 7:17:55 pm PDT #2753 of 25496

It works for everyone but me? Damn. I tried clearing the cache just now too (um, you mean just hit the "clear cache" button under preferences in Firefox, right? There's nothign more complex than that?)


meara - Sep 14, 2007 8:24:32 am PDT #2754 of 25496

Was still unable to fully load pages of the Seattle bus stuff....apparently it's my internet connection, rather than my computer--I just surfed to a neighbor's open WiFi, and downloaded everything Just Fine.

So, WTF is up with my internet, yo? Why would it not work for that one site/domain? Everything else seems to load fine--b.org, LJ, NYtimes, etc.


tommyrot - Sep 14, 2007 8:28:24 am PDT #2755 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I dunno.

I'm not the web design expert, but I looked at the code and properties of that page and nothing stuck out as particularly strange.

One thing that occurred to me - you know how some pages take forever to load because some ad server is slow? Maybe there's some graphic or somesuch that got blocked by your ISP?

Just a guess.


Mark Eddy - Sep 14, 2007 9:02:59 pm PDT #2756 of 25496
Here I am

meara—I don't know what the odds are that the same thing is happening to you that just happened to me, but I went through a week or two where I thought maybe the internets were slowing down. Certain web sites would take forever to load. But then large files would download speedily. Then one day I came home to find my Airport Express was floating belly up. The light was off and no one was home. Turns out it's a thing. My express was indeed within the range of serial numbers mentioned in the page just linked. I bought a new Express and the internets are once more working at peak capacity. Except when Safari randomly freezes for 30 seconds or more . . .


Theodosia - Sep 15, 2007 3:04:33 am PDT #2757 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I've joined the Vista family as a result of having to buy a new computer and not having any choice in the matter. However, for the paltry few things that I've had to do on it so far, it's just ducky. Will report back later when I've tried to run some of the software I'm supposed to use for school....


meara - Sep 15, 2007 6:23:17 pm PDT #2758 of 25496

Nope, Mark, I'm on a macbook, but using a....something not mac that I'm too lazy to go look at...for wifi. Which probably DOES need to be rebooted or something. Thanks for the suggestion!


Deena - Sep 15, 2007 7:18:08 pm PDT #2759 of 25496
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Hey guys. I have a media center m1270n. The cat and the dog had a fight on it while it was plugged in. It wouldn't turn on again so we replaced the power supply. Now it powers up but asks for a boot disk. I don't have a boot disk. Hitting F10 does nothing good. Hitting F1 seems to show that the BIOS recognizes there is a hard drive on there but I'm afraid to do anything in there for fear of screwing things up.

I really need to at the very least recover the data on it as soon as possible and as cheaply as possible. I have a project due for a client on Monday morning that was half done and (stupidly) not backed up anywhere else, and a half a dozen other projects due over the next week, also treated stupidly, and no more money in until those are completed and handed over to the clients.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I would very much appreciate any advice you can give me.


DCJensen - Sep 15, 2007 7:34:49 pm PDT #2760 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

Deena, I have to go to bed, but here is the HP page for errors and power up issues for that model:

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Deena - Sep 15, 2007 7:41:43 pm PDT #2761 of 25496
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Thanks Daniel.