Why dat den ? I can’t get rid of the little yellow prompter . No big deal , but might be symptomatic of something nasty
I see them new most every time, but visiting the thread and reading the new post clears it. I’d delete your cookies, and lower your shields to get a new LSC cookie and then raise them again.
I found that LSC executes some mobile code that is stopped by my firewall, by clearing cookies, disabling the firewall, going back to the forum, logging in again, it fixes it. I then re-enable my firewall.
This is one of the few forums I need to do this for. I use ZoneAlarm Pro as my firewall.
Regards, Greg
Greg ,
All of the other posts auto clear , just like you said . These don’t . As I said , no big deal , but why has it just started ?
Mike
It also clocks up another view score , possibly two .
And I cannot get rid of it .
Mike
Very bizarre, that forum should not act any differently than the others. It works fine here, on 3 different computers.
Did you try clearing cookies? Might also delete all temporary files (these operations from tools… internet options… in Internet Explorer).
Regards, Greg
Mike -
Try viewing ALL the pages, not just the last page. If someone edited a post on an early page since you read that page last, it is legitimately NEW to you.
This had me going for quite a while. Ric of all people pointed out the answer to me.
Jon
Jon , I always read all of the new posts .That’s why I could not understand it .
It is now even more weird , because I did as Greg advised (I have to say I haven’t a clue why he said do that ) and it promptly deleted all the “NEW” logos that I had already read , but left those I hadn’t . Fine , except that when I finished looking at all of them , I "Refreshed " the screen and they all came back again . After all that , I went to check my mail , then came back here , and ----------
dammit , they’re all lit up . I refreshed again and they all went–except for the one that started this off .
Do not beset yourselves my friends , it takes but a moment to check and see if the post is new . And if you’re wondering why I should be interested in shows etc. that I can’t get to , it’s nice to read about people enjoying themselves .
Now you have me really intriqued.
Try tools… internet options…then on the center of this menu… settings …
Where it says “check for newer versions”… try the every time option, rather than automatically.
that should FORCE your browser to reread the page.
Weird…
Regards, Greg
p.s. did you download SpyBot yet? Also, you might have a browser hijack… the Windows Defender product should catch this. Also, make sure you have fully updated windows.
Greg ,
There it was , gone !!! Nice one .
Yes , I have spyware --or should that be anti spy—and it has stopped a lot of things , including , oddly , all the emails for Viagra . Well , of course , I have no definite knowledge that it stopped the bumph , so I shall have to put it down to coincidence , perhaps ?
Like I said , my understanding of computer software and some of the logic behind it is almost non existent .
I had serious problems with the logic of some of our software team when working on Radar design .
What seemed blindingly obvious to them was a mystery to the hardware engineers . Also for the customer , so they had to change their logic a bit .
You may find it interesting to know that Military Aircrew efficiency drops by 28% as soon as the wheels leave the ground , and gets worse as the flight progresses . So we had to make sytem operation almost automatic , but for operational reasons give a manual fallback . The software blokes took this as a personal insult --their software would never fail , would it .Would it ?
Thus are we smitten from within . Even the sales people say like it or lump it .
We used to pacify these artists by asking them if they could design software for the aircraft that consisted of a two way switch , entitled
FLY / LAND
thus cutting humans out altogether and save the servicing teams a lot of "no fault found " scenarios .
They mostly failed to see the humour .
Hmmm .
Mike
ps Greg , yes , I have done all the above , the computer now seems to work faster . Thanks .
You’re welcome Mike! Glad to be of some service.
My background is originally in software, and back in the late 70’s I worked on a data collection system for the government. It collected all kinds of data about the ocean, from satellites, shipboard data, instruments in the ocean itself, planes, and other stuff I can’t talk about.
All of these data streams came into the building in different formats, and on different interfaces.
I took an HP computer/controller and wrote the program to make all the communication connections, handshakes, get the data, decode it, and do some basic stats on it, and store to tape.
Also sent the combined data off to another remote computer.
They wanted it to be simple to use, and also to be tolerant of failures. I made it as easy to use as I could, then wrote software to handle all kinds of data interruptions, bad formats, etc. Finally I made it gracefully recover from a power failure. The system saved data to tape every few seconds so that very little could be lost.
I wrote a nice manual, short and sweet on how to recover from various problems, what to do, how to monitor it to see everything was ok.
20 years later, I just happened to be at that building again. It is on the cliffs above a northern beach in La Jolla California. Was just enjoying the view and remembering working there.
I noticed an open door, and lo and behold, there was my old system chunking away, and an elderly woman sitting in front of it.
I asked how the system was running, and she said fine. I asked what she did when something went wrong (it didn’t seem that she even knew what the data was, thought being the department of defense, that might be good)
She said, if the screen looks funny, she just unplugs the computer and then plugs it back in.
Automatic indeed…
Regards, Greg