Well, they're zip files, aren't they? You need an unzipping utility. I don't see what your browser has to do with anything.
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Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2004 8:36:37 am PDT #8042 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dana - Jul 16, 2004 8:37:36 am PDT #8043 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yes, but once you unzip it, it's a very large HTML file.
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2004 8:37:50 am PDT #8044 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How much memory do you have on your system?
My 900 Mhz G3 iBook has 640 Meg of RAM. It takes a while, but Mozilla eventually gets it open.
I don't think I ever used IE to open an archived thread. I've de-installed it so I can't test it now.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2004 8:38:18 am PDT #8045 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah, there's the rub.
Aims - Jul 16, 2004 8:38:49 am PDT #8046 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
And if there anything Matt knows how to do, it's unzip something to get something large.
Tip yer waitresses.
DXMachina - Jul 16, 2004 9:50:18 am PDT #8047 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
If you can threadsuck an entire thread, you should be able to open one of the HTML files in the archives, because all they are are saved threadsucks. On a Mac, you may need some software to open the zip file to get at the HTML file, but Stuffit will do it, and I'm sure there are other utilities that can. FWIW, I've been able to open the HTML files in Netscape 4.78 on a PII-266 machine with Win 95 installed with no problem other than it taking a couple of minutes to load. I realize it's now a Mac, but it's hardly state of the art.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 16, 2004 12:43:25 pm PDT #8048 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The unzipping's not the problem, nor do I think it's a memory issue (I have 1024 MB RAM on my work computer, and a 1.4 GHz processor). Whatever the problem is, it's hitting me when I try to open the saved html file in IE. Large threadsucks tend to take a while to process, but they don't freeze the program up like the archived threads do.
This did motivate me to look into installing a newer version of Netscape, so maybe I'll have luck with that. (Hopefully it's not all buggy like 7.0 was...)
ETA: Netscape 7.1 seems to handle it just fine. I still have no idea why IE locks up trying to open the files, though.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2004 8:07:38 pm PDT #8049 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There has been an error. It's of the type we call fatal. Please don't be scared. You're not the one that's going to die.
Okay, where the $$&#&(@#& are the developers?
Posted in Movies. Post went through anyway. The problem's probably on my end, since I've been having Internet issues all day (pages not loading on the first try), but just notifying.
Gus - Jul 23, 2004 8:08:49 am PDT #8050 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
PSA: The map hosting is going away for good on 7/31.
Liese S. - Jul 23, 2004 8:22:05 am PDT #8051 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww. We've been properly warned, Buffistas. Can we take over hosting the map, for she is lovely?