Termyn8or
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IMO the word geek is no longer derogatory, probably never was except when used by jocks or heads. If it is let me know.
OK, this has happened too many times now. Type up a post and the session times out. I am considering using "Select all" and the Ctrl+C every time just before hitting send. That way I can just drop it into a new window. Actually it is probably a good thing it times out just in case I leave it logged in and leave or something.
The problem today however was worse, and I am trying to figure out why it happened.
Using fast reply I was almost done (one of my shorter posts) and the page refreshed or something and all my text was gone. I am hip to the timeout thing and can deal with it, but this gave no warning whatsoever.
Now I am also aware that this site has some type of autorefresh. I have seen it happen. I don't know if it does it to update the "users viewing" or only for new posts, but when it does does it automatically dump what you have in the fast reply window ? This is the first time this has happened to me. I can understand it though, and if it's how it is so be it, if it is to be more than a few words don't use fast reply.
Other question though, while here I got on to my favorite semi-illegal P2P network which comes with two popups. It is also a resource hog, as it runs I get periodic slight lockups which increase in duration gradually until the system is rebooted, even if I get off it and shut the program down. Even though I have built a few computers, I don't know all that much about software. I am not completely in the dark though, and from what I've read this could be caused by a memory leak, that is an error occurs when a program goes to return the RAM it was using to the system.
Now I know there are people who leave this program running for weeks on end (Bearshare 4.0.5) to download ripped DVDs, ripped miniDVs from people who tape movies in theaters and all that. These files are huge. Now, since the problem gets worse and worse, I would imagine no matter how much RAM you have, it'll catch up sooner or later.
The text you type in the window is in RAM until you hit send. Could this be it ? something like a conflict and Windows (98SE) just dumps it and refreshes the page ? Or is it that someone got a post in edgewise and that refresh is what dumped my text ?
I set up the P2P software to go ahead and be a resource hog, set to primary connection and like a million files at once, because I want the files. Although it rarely even gets close, I let it use like 80% of the available bandwidth.
So should I not run a P2P when on a forum like this or should I avoid using fast reply, or both ? There was a time when I was Da'Downloader. I have around 3,000 songs in the main directory and nearly a thousand more to go in, waiting for me to do the work. I have a whole lot of videos too, I was very serious awhile back. Now it is different. The crowd and I have gotten to the point where it's hard to think of anything else to get. Today one came to me, in case you care it is Alive and Kicking. That is how extensive my collection is. I got R.B Greaves, Gary Puckett, oh yeah. I want the stuff you can't even get on Time Life's 84 CD Master collection from hell for 120 easy payments.
Thing is, when I think of something I want to just get on and download it if available. Once it gets in my head if I can't DL it I will have to pay for it. Then I have to see my music guru. I don't hold him in esteem because he has ten times what I have, alot of it is polkas and all that, I wasn't looking for a collection quite that,,,,,,,diverse. Although now that I think about it a polka or two wouldn't be bad to have. I want a diverse collection, but the focus of the whole thing is oldies, good country and the obscure, but only if it's good. Therefore when I think of something sometimes I have to get on it right away.
Which brings us to the other post, which was in respomse to the "off radar" thread. The reason I have to act on it is I basically can't read or write lol. No joke though, you would never know it until you get a handwritten note from me. I can draw a schematic, design things that work, build, read a ruler. I have no problem with text or typing but I can't even begin to read cursive. I can barely read well formed printing by the human hand.
If you get said handwritten note from me and can read it, it was painstakingly prepared. My signature on checks and the like is more of a mark. It is hard to forge because of the way I hold the pen when I sign. I don't necessarily do this just writing down a part number or a note.
Anyway I think this could be categorized as a cognitive disability, hmmmm, wonder if I can get any money out of this :-)
Anyway, can the P2P network cause this sudden refresh ? Note that the lockups every few seconds lock the whole system including GUI and keyboard. I've seen alot of programs lock up in 98SE, but few of them lockup the GUI. It is a cycle every few seconds, but the duration gradually increases. It gets to the point where you need to do Ctrl+Alt+Dlete alot more than twice to get a good reboot. This is because during these little intermittent lockups the PC is deaf dumb and blind. This behavior has persisted through two motherboards, two different DSL modems and the addition of a router. I have problems with AOL's internal browser now but I don't care, I only use them for email, but this problem came before that. The AOL problem didn't even happen when I changed ISPs and used BYOA, the AOL problem happened when I changed network cards. The lockup problem happened before that.
This is obviously a cascading problem with the resources. Could it maybe be processor time instead of RAM ? This is the kind of stuff I don't know. In any case, I have had three different P2P programs on this OS and they all do the same thing. I had Overnet for a short time, still have WinMX but it won't work anymore, so now I use the Bearshare. However the problem is not peculiar to Bearshare.
So if anyone wants to show off, please do. I am at a loss here. I like to show off especially when it can help someone. I have gotten alot of good answers on forums. One day I replying to someone on an electronics forum and a buddy shows up and says "Something for work ?", I said "No, payback". I was giving an answer. Put it this way, I got alot of answers from that forum and in one case something like "R136, 130K ½W" made my company $300.
So I am not being sarcastic when I say show off. I would love to show off for the R136 guy, and make or save him a bunch of money. If I can't someone else will. Then perhaps I will have that person's answer in the future. Comes around goes around.
Update: OK, the lockups are getting longer in duration. Right now when it locks up apparently it is still able to store keystrokes somewhere. I'll type a few letters and they do not appear, then they do in a second or so. I have let it go longer, and it loses this ability after a while. I must reboot while I still can. There is nothing hot on my list right now, when there was I would let it go, but eventually it will get to the point where the only way to reboot is the power button.
Now I got a guy telling me to get Limewire, I told him I would get it AFTER I cloned the system. But I don't see how it'd be any different. All three I've had have done the same thing.
I was just thinking, this is as about off topic as it gets, lol. But it did start out at least related to ............
Whatever. Really though if anyone has any ideas on how to solve this computer glitch or whatever, I would be glad to hear it.
T
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