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Sorry to all I feel the need to vent my angst. I had just completed a long (read very long) new post about CF speeds with many links and ideas, hit post and low and behold the login screen comes up I login and am presented with a "blank" new post topic box. (this one)



Well I'll get to typing all that out again soon in the meantime feel free to read this post instead.

p.s I was already logged in it ad simply timed out whilst I was typing/searching.

yraen69

I've been around computers too long to trust them so when I was doing my long 2 topic 80-400 VR review recently I played safe and periodically copied all the text in the post to a document open in a text editor as a "just in case".

Of course if the PC crashed I'd have lost the lot

I look forward to your post. From experience, when you lose something under these circs the second attempt is usually more polished anyway since you've got in your head the totality of what you said before.

Cheers

Windows can be annoying like that. After having used all iterations of windows since it has existed i can say that it has improved, however it is far from perfect. (Chance for a Mac dude to slip one in here).

Notepad can be useful in situations like this. A simple CTRL-S can save more than just your text, but your time also.

Sweet.

Not sure how long ago that occurred, but you can normally get back to the original post by clicking on Back... However, I must confess that I normally CTRL-C before submitting long posts...

Type it in Word first (then you can spell check it too ). Then copy / paste it into a new message. Annoying when you lose a post isn’t it. My sympathies to you

Adam

Grumpy wrote:Type it in Word first (then you can spell check it too ). Then copy / paste it into a new message. Annoying when you lose a post isn’t it. My sympathies to you

Adam

I do the same thing, type iy all out in word &copy & past it into the post & away you go!!!!

Cheers
Ray

I don't think this is a Windoze vs Mac thing. It seems to me that lately the D70User.com site has a shorter timeout than before. I will often be logged out after a period of inactivity and have to log in again.

Cheers
Dean

Deano wrote:I don't think this is a Windoze vs Mac thing. It seems to me that lately the D70User.com site has a shorter timeout than before. I will often be logged out after a period of inactivity and have to log in again.

If there's such a timeout, it's going to be within your settings or your local environment.

Whether I use the system from the office, or from home, using IE or Firefox, I do not get logged out.

And using it from home, we're actually using the external pathing rather than the internal pathing to get to the site too, so we see the site in much the same way as everybody else does.

Gary,

Any clues as to where (with IE 6) I would find such a setting?

Cheers
Dean

I'd be looking at privacy/cookies ...

But don't overlook your firewall and/or AV settings. Zonealarm can be pretty oppressive in this area, as can NAV, which I find to be intrusive in the extreme.

If you're sitting behind a good hardware firewall, you can often disable any software firewalls that you have installed.

Killakoala wrote:Windows can be annoying like that. After having used all iterations of windows since it has existed i can say that it has improved, however it is far from perfect. (Chance for a Mac dude to slip one in here).

Notepad can be useful in situations like this. A simple CTRL-S can save more than just your text, but your time also.

Sweet.

Mac dude slipping in - since I have had OSX not one crash

Chris

It's not a crash, it's a time-out.

And why not just check the "Remember me" bit when you log in?

You might want to check your browser / any privacy type software you are using is accepting cookies. Without the cookie for the forum, the remember me checkbox won't work.

I work with computers all day, and they annoy the sh*t out of me too

Jon

A thread I started in a momentary lapse of focus, resulting in a "venting of angst" has produced some valuable replies. Thank you all. I use firefox, and also work with PC's on my home machine the remember me box is ticked. Here at work it is not.

Oh no not macintosh users, you underdogs We have some at uni as well quite nice machines really although I do not have much experiance with them. One thing that does annoy me is having to put the cd rom drive into the trash can to eject it do you still have to do that?

IE 6 settings are under Tools -> Internet options there is a plethora of boxes to tick and untick and sliders to move around to your hearts content just don't do it on any machines that contain mission critical work.

Good start is to dump IE6. Besides being full of security holes, it generally refrehes pages on the back button. I use Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org. In the scenario described, where I am presented with the login screen, I can continue through the login, hit the back button twice, then submit. Too easy.

Timing out?? Weird. Cookies?? At very best I only allow cookies for the session. Close Mozilla and they are gone. Mozilla is quite good at remembering Login details if you want them stored. In fact, no matter where they are entered in a site, Mozilla remembers them for any login point in the site.

ZoneAlarm is a particularly useful tool for detecting nasties that change program components or try to access the internet. AV is reactive, not proactive, so is always behind. ZA goes someway to filling that gap. I also sit behind a hardware firewall. Think of it as inner security.

NAV? Does anyone actually use this. Besides being a resource hog and not particularly effective, this is not something that is installed, it infests. I use NOD which is everything that NAV is not.

Cheers

Matt