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I am too slow
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I am too slow // Roundtable
Post by Wigand // Nov 6, 2006, 7:53am
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When I write posts in this forum I am too slow. So many times, I was logged
out if I want to submit. :mad: |
Post by hemulin // Nov 6, 2006, 10:06am
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It happens to everybody at some point. If you get the message 'you've been logged out...haha' just click back a few times, copy (CTRC+C) all that you have written, login and then just paste it into a new message (CTRL+V). Or you could just login when it says you've been logged out, then click back a few times to get to the "reply thread page" and then click submit, it should all still be stored. |
Post by TomG // Nov 6, 2006, 10:14am
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Here's another possibility - write your reply in a text document, word document, or even in a new email. Only when done, click reply on the forum, and then cut and paste what you've written into there.
Personally if writing long posts, every so often I select all my writing in the forum reply box and copy it, just in case I get a time out (as then I can just paste it back in).
Either way should help!
Tom |
Post by Asem // Nov 6, 2006, 10:23am
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Another way would be to (if you're using firefox) create a new tab that views who's logged in since that part of the forum updates every some minutes which keeps you logged in while using another tab to do searching or posting without the need to worry to be kicked off. |
Post by Wigand // Nov 6, 2006, 10:48am
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Now I know I am not alone :) |
Post by Alien // Nov 9, 2006, 7:28am
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I can't recall having this new forum log me out at all. Have you got the cookie option turned on in your user control panel, & did you tell your browser to remember your password? Or are you using someone else's computer? [e.g. school, library, etc.] |
Post by Norm // Nov 9, 2006, 12:52pm
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did you tell your browser to remember your password?
I suspect Alien hit it on head with the "Remember Me" when you login checkbox. Ensure it is checked. I start on a post and get called away and come back sometimes hours later and finish the post and submit it with no problems. Test the theory out Wigand. Let us know how it goes for you please. |
Post by Alien // Nov 11, 2006, 10:23am
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Emma: You don't need to disable cookies & ActiveX to stay [reasonably] safe online. Not all cookies or ActiveX are bogus, some [like the cookie for this forum] are actually beneficial.
In the last... 3 or 4 years I've had a grand total of 1 malware [a trojan, IIRC - spywarequake] invade my system, & that was only because I put my trust in the wrong anti-virus program [not using that 1 anymore].
I use the following software:
Maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com/): browser, uses IE's core but includes both an automatic pop-up blocker & pop-up blacklist, web ad blocker [let's you block pretty-much anything you want to, & accepts ? and * as wildcards], & an ActiveX blocker.
Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/): Not a bad browser, has ad-blocking as well, but to get some of the features that Maxthon has built in requires the use of extensions. [I prefer Maxthon for some things, Firefox for others]
Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.spybot.info/): Does several useful things: downloads a list of URLs that are known sources of adware/malware & adds them to IE's restricted zone [which will affect/work-for any other browsers that use IE's core as well], has an adware/malware scanner for checking your system, & also has a memory-resident tool that intercepts any changes to the registry & asks your permission to allow them. It also includes a bunch of general-purpose Windows-maintenance tools.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 (http://www.kaspersky.com/kav6)
DNSKong (http://www.pyrenean.com/?page_value=-1): Kind of like blocking sites with the Hosts file, except more versatile. :) BTW, the filters it comes with are WAY out of date, so if you want to save the time of making your own from scratch you can use mine (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alien42/dnskong_filters/?M=D). I only tend to do a major update to it every couple of months, as I haven't figured out how to automate the process, & it tends to be a lot of work doing it manually [I get my data from a Hosts file that gets published roughly once a month, but converting the data is the tedious/lengthy part]. I should point out that if you decide to use it you'll want a text editor that tells you how many lines a file has, as once DNSKong's log gets past about 100,000 lines it can get a bit sluggish, so it's a good idea to check it every few days, & clear it out when it gets too big. Also, you may find my filter blocks some legitimate sites, if so, you can just add that site to the pass.txt file [I've put some in there already].
Proxomitron (http://www.proxomitron.info/): a free, highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy.
MailWasher (http://www.firetrust.com/): I use MailWasher to check my email - it's an anti-spam prog [a very good 1], & as all mails are displayed as text only, you don't have to worry about the various vulnerabilities that plague progs like Outlook Express [although I use Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/) for email now instead of OE anyway :)].
You can also limit the risk of bogus sites being able to do any damage with various options available on the Security & Advanced tabs of the Internet Options Control Panel applet, without completely disabling cookies, ActiveX or scripting [you'll need scripting on if you want to try Maxthon, as it uses it for it's plugins]. |
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