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#197670 02/25/11 02:59 AM
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I'm just wondering if anyone else is having trouble with the main forum page loading? Checking the Activity in my browser(Safari 5.0.3) shows me that this file:
http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_ads2.js is the one that is holding things up. It usually adds several seconds (10-15) to the load time.

just curious....


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I am not, but I have had myself "logged out" and had to
log in three times today, even tho' I have the box
checked to "remember me".


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Nope. No problem here, other than the electricity having gone off sometime last night.


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thanks. it's quick as a whistle today, so I'll see how it goes.


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Ah, the age of computers; I get mad when mine is slow.
And to think I remember the penny postcard and 3 cent
mail delivery.


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My lovely laptop is nearing death...the sound fluctuates on and off, it randomly shuts down, restarts or doesn't hibernate when told, it is creating and deleting folders...funnily enough one thing that it doesn't do (when the office tech is not "not responding") is slow my internet connection down and loads things extremely fast...it is very odd what different computers do with the same things and the same websites...


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Originally Posted By: bexter
My lovely laptop is nearing death...the sound fluctuates on and off, it randomly shuts down, restarts or doesn't hibernate when told, it is creating and deleting folders...funnily enough one thing that it doesn't do (when the office tech is not "not responding") is slow my internet connection down and loads things extremely fast...it is very odd what different computers do with the same things and the same websites...


I swear they have a mind of their own, and far more
advanced than I am, they get me more incensed than any
student in any classroom ever.


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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8

I swear they have a mind of their own, and far more
advanced than I am, they get me more incensed than any
student in any classroom ever.


They do have a mind of their own (just one), it is insidious, I am more advanced than you are, I'm going to take over, and there's nothing you can do to stop me! Bwah-ha-ha! Oo, looks like I just blew my cover.

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It is the Bwah-ha-ha that gave you away. Beware: I am
now aware of you.


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Haha! If you ever feel like reading a book with an insidious AI that manipulates people have a go at William Gibson's Neuromancer - written before the Internet really arrived and before hackers existed - very good book and it raises the question. Can computers write music?
p.s. a good joke a friend of mine plays is logging into someone elses account (her younger sister's) and sending herself emails...ie
to: cassy@emailaddress
from: cassy@emailaddress

I am watching you


her sister being quite young the first time this happened started screaming that the home computer was going to eat her...


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