When I log onto my computer at school, I must go first through the school site and then onto google where I enter "word day" and "I'm Feeling Lucky." That brings me here. I could bookmark it, but the way the school server is set up I'd have to go through several files to get to my personal bookmarks.
OK. When I go to google, often I'm kicked off and get the "Illegal Operation" window. Sometimes I'll make it to google, but when I enter "word day" and "I'm Feeling Lucky," I get kicked off with the same message of illegality. Sometimes I have to sign on about four or five times, changing nothing, till the server decides that I'm not performing illegal operations.
What's going on here?
Thanks for any insights.
WW
P.S. This doesn't occur on my laptop at home.
Not that I know anything, but I'm wondering if it could be your school's protective system? Our schools have one--they don't want the kiddies logging into porn sites, etc.
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Recall the bottom line thing the computer understands is a binary command. An "illegal instruction" means the computer has come across a command that it doesn't understand. (Not every combination of bits necessarily makes a legitimate op code - instruction - any more than every combination of letters makes a legitimate word.)
It's not clear that it's your server that's deciding you have performed an illegal operation.
I'd start by making sure that my system had the latest service pack on it. If I still had the problem, I'd install the latest browser. If still a problem, it would depend. I might switch browsers or upgrade to another OS.
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If I might dash in with Ockham's Razor for a moment: WW, memorize "wordsmith.org." From there you're just a click away from the board. Or, if you can manage to keep "wordsmith.org/board" in your head, you'll get here immediately (well, assuming you type it in and all
).
wordsmith.org/board
Yes, but would it "recognize" who she was? Or would she have to log in every time (what a pain)?
it might be problems with fire walls.
Your "bookmark" file might be on a secure server, and you can't get from there to the internet.. (but you can take information from what ever terminal you are at, and store it to the secure server (a one way street for information)
so you might be able to save bookmarks, but not just click on a bookmark and get to a proxy server that has internet rights..
(a very alice in wonderland type thing.. you know, when she see the door, just 3 inches high, but she is full size, then eats the mushroom, and gets to be three inches high, and looks up at the glass table to see, the key to the door is now out of reach..)
try this.. copy your bookmarks onto a floppy!
cut and paste the urls into wordpad, or some other text file, and then make copies of the file.. stick the floppy into what ever terminal you are at, open the file (text files, ie, file with a last name of (dot).txt will open on 99.9% of machines. then highlight the url, copy (control +C) move to the address bar and Control +V (paste) hit go or enter..
there might be simplier technical ways to get arround the problem, but since i don't know how things are set up, what firewalls or service packs (which by the way are usually for servers!, not for laptops) what OS, or any of the other details about the network, i don't know what the real problem is, or the best solution.
you could even burn a cd (they are cheaper nowdays i think than floppys!)
(Fiend, WW is brilliant, but is a late comer to technology. if you start at the beginning, and move through, she is quite capable of understanding computers and networks. but to throw out terms like service packs, is like asking Benjamin Franklin to fix your TV. sure franklin knew about electricity. but he could not fix a TV right off the bat.. he would have first learn new the technology.)
exuse me, what I'm feeling lucky does? i think it's directs you to the first url that one would have get after googling. am i right?
why don't you just type wordsmith.org/board into the address bar? it's not too hard to remember
Yeah, I suggested that, too, dodyskin.
That's what I do when I'm away from my own computer.
If you don't have wordsmith cookie, you don't get in. School computer might not
accept cookies.
sorry darlin' , skim reading always gets me in trouble
Gets me in trouble, too. It's their fault! Ifn they'd jus oney have threads that stayed innernestin all the way through we wouln't miss so much stuff.