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I've been in touch with our good friend Barrie AKA Grebeman who continues to have problems with both Serious Compacts as well as Mu43. I asked him to write exactly what the problems are with as much detail as possible so that we can try to figure out what he can do, as the conventional methods of clearing his cache have not worked.
After reading, please if any of you have computer knowledge that relates - post here in the thread and then I will email Barrie with your suggestions. Many thanks in advance!
After reading, please if any of you have computer knowledge that relates - post here in the thread and then I will email Barrie with your suggestions. Many thanks in advance!
This is a plea for help and suggestions from “grebeman”. Following on from the recent problems with both Mu-43 and Serious Compacts where there was no service for some hours due to the sites bandwidth limit being exceeded, I have been unable to log on, or if I have been able to log on I'm logged out again within seconds.
The computer I normally use to access the internet is running a 1.6Ghz Intel Atom processor D510 with 4 Gb of RAM. I use a Puppy Linux operating system, namely Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 with a Linux kernel 2.6.33.2. My browser is Firefox 4.
I use a slightly unconventional method since Puppy Linux is capable of storing an operating system on a bootable DVD to which can be written all the system configurations that you make to personalise ones operating system, additional programs, etc. Then when you boot up the operating system and all its configurations are written to RAM and the system runs from RAM, not from a hard drive. Since I don't save browsing history my browser cache is empty at the start of each session, so advice I have seen issued to others who have signing on problems about clearing the browser cache would seem to be not applicable in my case.
On Mu-43 I find that I can often sign in and have even been able to post the odd picture to my gallery, then I get a screen up that suggests I might have malicious intent and requests that I put in some jumbled text to prove that I am a human being. Unfortunately I can rarely read such text (whether that is due to my astigmatism or not I don't know, that condition is supposedly corrected by the glasses I wear), that lack of ability to read such text extends to other sites that use such security means. My inability to correctly enter the text means I don't know if things would then be normal on Mu-43.
On Serious Compacts again I can sometimes sign in but find that as I try to carry out any action such as posting to a thread I have become logged out and cannot proceed without constantly logging back in. Since that occurs every few seconds the ability to make any progress on the site is severely limited and frustration gets the better of me.
Before the problem referred to above I would stay logged on for some 20 minutes on Mu-43 and about 10 minutes on Serious Compacts, assuming I was not carrying out any actions on the sites. If I was carrying out some actions on the sites then I stayed logged in.
I have also tried to access the sites from computers running Fedora 14 and Windows 2000, both with versions of Firefox as the browser with the same difficulties as outlined above.
All other web sites that I access on a regular basis are behaving normally. Since, when I worked professionally I spent much of my time technical fault finding on complex control systems, my gut feeling is that any fault lies elsewhere than at my end of the chain. However, you might know different, please help. I have tried the oft repeated advice of clearing the browser cache which does not cure the problem in my case, and as stated above I start each session with a clear cache
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Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.
Barrie