Dear friends,
I just got an email form our chief of IT security. The problem has been found and fixed. Normally, everything should work well again.
Thanks to AA, HCS and LL for their fast intervention – you guys are the best!!
Have a super-wonderful week-end everybody!
The Saker
Yes, thanks to those behind the curtain.
Great news.I had a bit of trouble yesterday with access.But it was intermittent during the day,and came back fairly quickly.
I didn’t even notice! Glad everything is ok now.
Rgds,
Veritas
I was only a little annoyed I couldn’t get here for a few hours, but figured it was a computer/server thing as happens from time to time and you guys would fix it before very long since you are so good with these things.
Would my own computer and ISP problems get fixed so fast! Every time I boot the computer up I wonder if the thing, and the ISP network, internet and email will work — several times a month is doesn’t, and is out for a couple of hours or even days. I never figure out why, or why it starts working again (and apparently neither can the ISP ‘tech support’ line (and it’s about the same with the Tracphon)).
Near as I can tell the tech industries are being run by the same crew as those who make US foreign policies.
If you’re on WiFi get off it, back to ethernet cable. Buy a new cable, ideally a bit longer, to avoid straining it. Or at least turn it around (swap ends on it) trying for a better connection. While you’re there take the cover off and check their end is firmly connected, too.
Reboot the computer for browser/memory issues. These develop with time, should not be at startup. Always do cold reboots (total power off). If problem is at startup its the ISP, in this case switch off and reboot the router. This might get you onto a different modem or apache server on their end. Use a separate browser window for email then close it; they are fairly heavy on CPU and RAM both, and keep checking 10 times a second for new mail.
Did you clear out all the useless “services” ? also no wallpaper no screensaver, and bare minimum icons on desktop, 16 bit colour is plenty.
I’ve cleaned out turned off what I could find, and knew I could do that was not essential.
I have new ethernet cable (cat 6 I think) which came with new DSL modem. And I clean the contacts. But when I can’t get a network connection, or I can but the internet is out, or it keeps cutting out, then that’s the ISP and I have to wait and try reconnecting periodically.
I can usually make a decent guess whose problem it is generally, but beyond that it’s complex and I have decent diagnostic tools. It worked much better before Century Link took over the local company, but has been going downhill since.
I notice with the older Firefox I need to clean with CC more frequently since I uses a huge cache — haven’t found any controls for that yet — and that helps. I gave up on frills like wallpaper long ago. Once or twice a few years back I had everything configured like I wanted it — but then some stuff upgraded and somewhere some software ‘automatically’ changed settings without my permission, and threw everything off: this stuff is not properly protected and can’t be backed up effectively. (Like every time I turn around zip files are again treated as directories. I don’t know what’s changing the setting and register entries.)
Using an old cheap computer doesn’t help, of course, although it used to be reasonably fast before they added all the junk to software and websites. Bigger and more is not what it’s cracked up to be in the empire, although if I had a $3,000 computer instead of a $300 one I guess it would work better. Not about to, though, and I doubt it would solve any fundamental problems, and I don’t have a staff of system administrators to figure it all out — which is becoming needed more and more as the years pass. These things are not made for individual citizens now — but for some corporate system, and are way too complicated.
…Like the empire…
Control panel >> system>>advanced>>performance [settings] >>advanced >> virtual memory [change] (phew they like to hide stuff) once there
O Custom size
initial size = 2 1/2 times your installed physical RAM
maximum size = 4 times your RAM
click [set] click [okay]
COLD REBOOT.
3-4 times a year set it back to System Managed , reboot, go to C:\pagefile.sys and delete that file. Then all the way back again and reset your chosen parameters (and yeah, reboot again). This zeroes your swap file. . It can’t be deleted without first returning to System Managed. If you don’t delete it, it just reopens the old one when you go set it up again. If you let Windows manage it, it makes the usual hash of it (they think 50% extra is enough; if it needs more you sit and wait while it finds some nice fragments space on the disk to write it to, then makes you sit and wait every time it goes hunting for it).
Never defrag the hard drive. Too much can go wrong. Only gets fragmented if you write a lot of text you keep going back and changing. Video doesn’t fragment either. Safe and fast defrag if you really really want to — copy all documents to thumb drive, delete originals, reboot machine COLD, copy back.
Thank you guys you are awsome