PROBLEMS

[Seldom Seen Slim]

I think I remember that blank page -- from the past.  I don't know why it happens, but, as usual, wil refer the problem to Bob, the Web Elf.  Look, by the way, at the avatar on his posts -- it's a single wheel motorcycle.  I know he rides trials, but that's going way too far (in my modest opinion).

[bobc]

Hey, Adam Raga rides his Gas Gas with the forks and front wheel removed... hop hop hop..... am I going too far in trying to ride mine with the *back* wheel removed?

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Bob:

How come I've got three green stars by my name and you've got five red/orange stars?  I think that's aproblem befitting your web elfitude, hey?

[Seldom Seen Slim]

And I'm getting a blank page for Page 23 of the Marlo Treit build diary.  Yesterday someone posted that he had a blank on P.22.  I see you were the most recent poster, Bob -- but I don't get your post to load and show.

[Bob Drury]

Hey!  I thought elfitude was a curse word...................  see you in a couple of weeks (I hope.........)

[Seldom Seen Slim]

I'm going to resurrect this thread to ask if any of you have received "spam" like the one that another of the Forum regulars did today.  It was in the form of an email from a guy/company that said he wanted to help get landracing.com listed on foreign search engines -- and so on.

I get these frequently and almost always just dump them into the spam folder (which teaches the Apple here to automatically call them spam (and don't bother to show me).  You're welcome to do the same -- or if you're not positive you may send them to me and I'll look and decide.

The one thing I can't do, though -- is guarantee that you won't somehow get such an email.  I do not give out the names or addresses of folks on this site -- but as you all know, if you register as a user you can search the listing of members and thereby get email addys and such.

Thanks for being Forum members, boys and girls.  And -- Happy Thanksgiving.

[theazoldcrow]

  And the same to you and Nancy. See you both on the Salt next year.        Also, thank you Jon for this site.  It makes my life down here in the middle of nowhere alot more tolorable.     Crow.

[Dr Goggles]

Hey Slim,the compostion screen jumps up and down when I'm trying to write anything longer than the size of the window...you can scroll down but as soon as you start typing it jumps up and you can't see what you're doing ....what gives?

Thanks for all your work here it keeps me off the streets..............

[Seldom Seen Slim]

I dunno.  I don't get anything like that so haven't needed to see if there's a fix.  Maybe you're typing during an earthquake. . .

If others around the Forum have noticed this -- mention it and we'll submit it to Bob to see if he's got an idea of what's the issue.

[LittleLiner]

I have the same thing happen . . . . so apparently it is not just Dr Goggles issue. 

To get around it I just type what I want to submit in Word and then paste all of it into the 'Post reply' window. 

And concerning the SPAM - No I have not received anything like that . . .

[McRat]

Hey Slim,the compostion screen jumps up and down when I'm trying to write anything longer than the size of the window...you can scroll down but as soon as you start typing it jumps up and you can't see what you're doing ....what gives?

Thanks for all your work here it keeps me off the streets..............

I get the same thing on certain computers, but others, no.

This computer (my tuning notebook, Dell, Win XP) works fine with Google Chrome, a free web-browser written by Google.  I do know that one computer I have with MS Internet Exploder (sic) does the Dancing Box routine.

[bbarn]

Mine jumped up and down like mad with Internet Explorer. Using Firefox I don't see the issue. (Go Microsoft, go!)

[McRat]

OK, this computer is XP with IE 8, and it jumps.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Ah, there's a clue.  I use Firefox on this iMac.  No problems here.  Maybe I'll visit the library and use one of their machines with IE and see if it's nervous.  Thanks for the feedback.

[bbarn]

It looks like it is only the newer versions of IE that have issues. That's rather common with the new browsers to behave badly on older technology sites (not a slam of anykind intended). There is an option on the new IE8 to view a page in "compatibility mode" just to the right of the address bar. It will only show on pages that may benefit from them. Pressing that may solve the problem. I don't have IE8 loaded on my DEV box at work, so I can't test it.