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Subject: I am a puter idiot From: Bobert Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:39 PM Okay, that being understoood and a given. You know, the idiot part... So I try to post and get the big old "Try later" thing so I do and then after several time just give up and then discover I have posted 5 times. What gives? If it takes then why doesn't it just say so rather then to keep telling me to keep trying.... |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: catspaw49 Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:44 PM Just because it don't and it don't like you either!! LOL.......I thought I was havin' dayjawvu all over again! Many times it does that and generally the message has posted. Open up a new browser and check. I have a cable modem which speeds up everything, even when it's slow, but I also notice that for me, loki and ragtime move better in general. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Dave Wynn Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:56 PM I am a puter techie who often does idiot things. Don't worry it's all part of lifes rich.... |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Sorcha Date: 17 Jan 02 - 08:06 PM If my message doesn't seem to post, I hightlight, copy and close. (Of course, I have high speed cable acess, unlimited.......) Then, I get back on to see if my message posted. If not, I just paste it into the box. Patience is the word, here. Just wait. It will either post or time out. Ususally (!) if it times out, your message is NOT posted. |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Jim Dixon Date: 17 Jan 02 - 09:17 PM That "try again later" message was not sent by the people at Mudcat. The site designers surely would have chosen better wording if they had any control over that. I don't know where the message comes from -- maybe it's from your own browser -- but you get the same message regardless of what web site you're trying to access, if the web site doesn't respond within a certain amount of time. By "respond" I mean, send a message back to your computer. Even though it hasn't sent the message, it may have done lots of other things, like update the thread. We have a bunch of people called JoeClones who have the power to delete messages. If they happen to notice a string of duplicates, they will delete all but one. It happens all the time. |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Den Date: 17 Jan 02 - 09:23 PM Dang, I thought I could have sold some mugs...Den;-) |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: catspaw49 Date: 17 Jan 02 - 09:29 PM You sure about that Jim? He may have gotten this message instead. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Bill D Date: 17 Jan 02 - 09:50 PM when Mudcat is s*l*o*w, and you hit 'send', it often seems to hang and not do anything...but it VERY often sends fine, just fails to refresh the page right away...I highlight the text and 'cut' it...(ctrl X)...then hit 'back' and refresh manually...if my post is there, fine...if not I can RE-send by pasting it in....(or, like above, you can open a new browser)....but everytime you hit 'send', it TRIES to post. |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Amos Date: 17 Jan 02 - 09:54 PM The first thing I used tell all my students was that they had to realize the problem was NOT that they weren't smart enough, but that it is really difficult to act as idiotic as a computer. Humans just aren't built to be that stupid!! The lag in getting the ack back from thge server causes the IE browser to generate that try later message, but what has actually occurred is thta Loki has received the message, just been a tad laggardly in saying "Thank youy"; so the browser feels it has to do something. In IE you use File==New to get a new browser window, from which you can bob over to the Mudcat and see of the thread has your post at the bottom of it. It usually will. If not, you still have the other window open to resubmit but it is advisable not to hit Submit twice unless you are really sure it is necessary. A |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Bobert Date: 17 Jan 02 - 10:17 PM Thaaannnnnkkkkksssss, Amos, but you ain't met this stupid human. Believe me. Danged, I've got a 16 year old can type about 10,000 words a minute, is ranked 153 of 156 in some cyber game in the world, and juggles a half a dozen cyber chicks all at the same time and here I am... an... excuse a computer retard... but.... I try. |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Hrothgar Date: 18 Jan 02 - 05:20 AM Remember, if these machines find out that you hate them, they will look for ways to get even. |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Banjer Date: 18 Jan 02 - 05:55 AM 'Spaw I love that notice.....I am going to forward it to my 'pupter guru who probably thinks that way about me at times...But I am getting better...(hell, I have to, can't get any worse...*bg*) |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: Jim Dixon Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:07 AM OK, here's what annoys me about web browsers. They lie to you! (I use CompuServe, not by my own choice. I'm locked into a 3-year contract to use CompuServe as my ISP, because that was the deal when we bought this computer. There's a big penalty for canceling the contract early. In the meantime, I'm forced to use CompuServe's browser. At least, if there's a way to use Netscape or IE to hook up to CompuServe, I haven't figured out how to make it work.) When I click on a link, a message immediately appears at the bottom of the screen that says "Transferring document (1%)" and then the number clicks up to 2%, 3%, etc. But in fact, it's not transferring anything! It's just waiting for a response. It has no way of knowing whether a response will ever come, or when, so it has no basis to measure any percentage! It's just a way of making something happen on the screen to keep the user from being impatient! If it gets no response at all, the count stops at, I think, 40%, and then you get the error message. |
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Subject: RE: Help: I am a puter idiot From: SharonA Date: 18 Jan 02 - 09:09 AM What I used to tell my students (during my brief stint as an instructor) was: "Don't be intimidated by the computer because all it really does is count from zero to one, many many times, really really fast." (Okay, fellow pedants, I know it should be "really really quickly"!) Now I look back and am amazed that I was ever a tutor. I knew next-to-nothing about computers, but was leading a class of folks who knew less than that. (Talk about the blind leading the blind!) But those were desperate times that called for desperate measures! As soon as I scrounged up enough work that I didn't have to teach anymore, I was outta there. |
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