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Pleo Stuff => Pleo Archives => Archive -- Non-pleo => Topic started by: allosaurus on April 10, 2011, 08:20:17 AM
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..... That the site has been very, very, slow for around a month?
Sometimes, when I type the link into the address bar and press enter, it doesn't load at all. Fortunately, that's easily fixed with a refresh, but it's still a bit annoying. Forum pages are also taking much longer than usual to load.
Is it just me? Or is anyone else noticing this?
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I'm not sure allo, my computer is always slow. No apple computers for me. :)
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I noticed this earlier this week, and I kept getting a error, internal error message and Apache servor, and would have to hit refresh and this happened for about 20 minutes and then seemed to clear up, I do have a computer that is fairly new, purchased I think in Sept or October, so I have plenty of new memory. I also do not have an Apple.
RedwoodsMama
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I have been noticing this problem on and off for at least the last month. I guess maybe how many other people are on the site makes a difference?
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I haven't had trouble with forum pages but I have had trouble with the site itself loading slower. It could be because I am now running Internet Explorer nine. One of my friends is a frequent guest and a great fan of the Bob the Pleo commic strip. She has reported that those pages are taking longer to load as well.
Talon
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Yes, I've noticed a slight "slowing down" on these message boards recently too.
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All A-Ok at this end, but then I haven't been around much for a month :(
Talon I highly recommend updating to Safari, Firefox or Chrome ASAP, internet explorer is a security nightmare.
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Firefox fan here, though I have noticed a few brief delays here and there.
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I use firefox too. :)
I have been trying to find reasons why it could be going slow and have noticed that it is often slow or trouble some when there are lots of us on - including guests. Also if someone is uploading photos it seems to slow down and if I am uploading photos than I have no chance at all of looking at anything, even in another window until the uploading is done. :)
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I use Google Chrome --one of the very fastest, safest, browsers there ever was-- and yet BTP is sometimes incredibly slow for me, or just won't load at all until I refresh.
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honestly, I didn't know that I could use something besides explorer, I knew firefox could be used for videos but that's it. Although my computer came with windows installed, so it set me up with explorer to begin with.
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That's the problem, and that's what all the hackers rely on, they rely on people who aren't very computer savvy using internet explorer and making a mistake at some point.
I would say that Chrome and Safari are probably the safest browsers, but Firefox is very popular, as long as you exercise due care it is usually ok.
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I am not having any problems with page loading while using safari. I could not get the page to load last week at work while using Internet explorer. I thought it was our server, guess not. :-\
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Thanks for the advice, guys. I'm not sure how my screne-reader works with other browsers. Never tried Safari or Google Chrome although Google itself works beautifully. Firefox is a definite no-go. It's too.... mouse-dependant and most screne-readers use keyboard commands. I'll have to ask one of my more daring blind friends what they're using. I certainly wouldn't want to endanger myself or anyone else by running something with a bajillion security holes in it.
Talon
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Safari on my Mac has a screen reader, but I'm not sure about Safari on windows. Which screen reader do you use?
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Oh I forgot about that. Macs come out of the box with Voiceover already included. Alex has to be the only reading voice that I've ever heard that actually breathes. Anyway I use JAWS. It's a windows-bassed screne-reader and probably wouldn't work with Safari now that I think about it.
Talon
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No apparently it won't work with Safari on windows :( Hehe searching for JAWS and safari came up with some interesting web pages :P
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Really? Google finds a lot of stuff on JAWS. Most of it's really old stuff about JAWS 5.0. We're up to version 12.0 now. JAWS is actually an acranym. Hope I spelled that right. It stands for Job Access for Windows with Speech. Interestingly, its logo is a shark. It's main voice is called Eloquence and can speak nineteen languages at my last count. They come included. There are also some really nice reading voices from Realspeak Solo direct and a company called Nuance that you can use to read longer documents so you don't have to listen to Mr. Robot for hours. They have two Austrailian reading voices named Karin and Lee. I like all the reading voices that speak English. There are forty something of them altogether but only ten are English-speaking. They are as follows: Daniel- United Kingdom, Emily- United Kingdom, Serena- United Kingdom, Karin- Australia, Lee- Austrailia, Thom United States, Samantha- United States, Jill- United States, Jennifer- United States, and Sangita- India but she speaks English. If your system supports any WMA files, you can go to www.freedomscientific.com. Go to the search box and type in Realspeak Solo Direct Voices. Haven't been there in a while but you should find a page that lets you download and sample the voices and no they won't work unless you have JAWS.
Talon
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I still think it's no fair Talon, you need more voices... I keep trying to make my bf use the astronaut voice in our GPS because it tells us we've landed whenever we arrive.. I guess I'm too easily amused but I think you'd like that voice too.
I'm on Firefox and I've noticed it's a little bit slower too and hitting some errors where I get the page but it just loads white with all black text and no pics. But I've also noticed we have a ton more people so I figured the slower pace was just because of more folks accessing it.
- Sarah
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Yeah more voices would be awesome- maybe one or two with some special effects too like someone standing in a cavernous lecture hall or castle with a big boomy echo or another in a forest with a small stream. I'd also like to have a person with an Ireish accent to read to me. There are some other voices you can buy from... somewhere. They're called Accapella Voices and supposedly they're like state-of-the-art in human-sounding speech. They probably have a human-sounding price tagt too. Lol!
Talon
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What would crack me and my family up is a GPS thing that would cuss at you (telling you directions to places). LOL
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Oh my! *big eyes* Not for me. If something were cursing at me telling me where to go I'd chunk the thing out of the window and wing it.
Talon
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Me neither - I've not found a voice yet that I don't end up shouting back at. I'm not keen on being told what to do even by people I like, a disembodied voice has no chance!! %)
I'm likely to turn left instead of right just to annoy it!! :P
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That's the problem, and that's what all the hackers rely on, they rely on people who aren't very computer savvy using internet explorer and making a mistake at some point.
I would say that Chrome and Safari are probably the safest browsers, but Firefox is very popular, as long as you exercise due care it is usually ok.
Thanks, I'll proboally switch to that because my free spyware just expired. Will it change my stuff if I switch? Oh well, I'll deal with clean up one way of another :P.
Btw Kristy, that's too funny, I'm getting an image of a GPS yelling to stop and ask for directions too :D. Last year our class got one of those new "Smart" boards, and it had a mac hooked up to it, irronicaly the gifted/honors class's favorite thing to do was have the voice set to "bad news" and listen to it talk when we typed or used the calculator :D :D :D.
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I like the sound of the 'bad news' voice! ;D
I could just about cope with the Furby toy Shelby's 'bad mood' voice (from holding them upside down). I still carry one in the car to annoy so I have company when I'm grumpy and stuck in traffic. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozzf10AMGjQ
To get back on-topic, yes I've had a few error messages come up in the last few days too.
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LOL, that is too cute Crewella, boy that is exactly how I feel some days, and I am not even in traffic. I hate playing constant "doorman" to my cats constant parade of going in and out the back door, sometimes as much as ten to fifteen times in an hour and I get cranky, and then my husband ( who is in the other room enjoying my ranting and raving comments to the cats.... %)) has the nerve to say, " you are so negative", be polite to them and show some love, blah blah blah,, yeah I show them love all day and it never fails I sit down to eat something and the blooming phone rings, the cats meow to go out or worse yet, one of them scratches with her claw like fingers on a chalk board till I get up to let her in, and then as soon as I am headed back to the couch to sit down and try and eat my lunch, dinner or what ever morsel it is, "MEOW. LET ME OUT PLEASE!" THIS GOES ON ALL DAY ALL NIGHT UNLESS THEY ARE ASLEEP..... Makes me want to run and hide. but I can't leave the back door open as some cats can't go out into our back yard and no we do not have one of those pet doors as we are renters and the land lord won't let us put one in..
Oh, Excuse me, one of the darling puddy kats wants out again....get the point. Send that Shelby to my house he will get used on a hourly basis! :D Besides, he is cute and I almost bought one a year or so ago on ebay.. RWM
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Poor Shelby! Anyway. I'm not sure what could be causing this slow-down. I know what's causing my slow-down, though. It has a lot to do with a certain dog who wanted to play the first three times I took him out in the night last night rather than do his business. I'm out of here!
Talon
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LOL That's funny Lucky and Cruella.
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If you are after a good free anti virus try Avast or AVG.
Hehe Talon the Jaws coming up on my search was more related to the movie monster rather than the windows program ;)
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AVG fan here, too! :P
I keep getting 'server reset' messages as well, when I post.
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Really? Those are free anti-virus downloads?
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They are free but be careful when you download it that you pick the free option and not the sneakily placed pay options :P
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Yep. I've used Avast since two thousand eight. I've gone through two fourteen-month trial programs and then I found one that would protect me for two years without having to re-enter my registration key. Plus it speaks to me when it updates and goes crazy with syrons and everything else when something tries to get into your system. I like it for the most part. Some of the scan features are a little clunky with JAWS. I've been told to try Microsoft Security Assentials by many of my fellow JAWS users. I know nothing about it, though other than the fact that it works with JAWS and it's free. I had AVG first but it was causing my computer to Slowowowowow dowowowownnnnnn like nobody's business and because JAWS and Vista are such memory hogs, I could go for a short walk or take a good long shower before my computer would boot completely.
Ha ha! That's funny, IMR- that you only found stuff about the Jaws movie. I was hoping you'd find the real JAWS stuff, though. I wanted to know how they did on the Australian reading voices they have with it. My favorite is Karin. If you can't find them that's okay. I'll try to remember to put a snippet of it in my Ugobe pleo's welcome-home video.
Talon
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Do NOT EVER USE MICROSOFTS ANTI VIRUS!!! Sorry can't stress that enough :P My sister has it and it is a load of garbage. She had the thing for twelve horrible months and had 8 major virus attacks in that time and of course it was myself who had to repair the damage. I downloaded Avast for her and threw the microsoft one in the bin, she hasn't had a virus since :P I found AVG slow too.
I'll look up the voice today sometime :) I have to go shopping soon :P
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Norton's wonderful. It used to be for free, but now it appears to be rather expensive.... :-\
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I use AVG as well and a few extra firewalls on my PC.. I never liked Norton it always seemed very slow and buggy and I always had better results with avg.
"I'm likely to turn left instead of right just to annoy it!!" Crewella.. I heard the UK has the most car accidents resulting from people blindly doing what the GPS tells them to do, so I am very happy to hear that you do the opposite :) "Turn .. left.. here.. " Poof.. car goes off a cliff.
- Sarah