Stuck in a Time Warp!

[Nikchick]

Charles,

Over Christmas we got the "big mac" hooked up to the DSL through the home network again and I've been able to browse successfully without the time warp problem. I was sick in bed for a lot of December, and we rejigged things to get the airport and iBook working again (I'd been dialing in for weeks prior to that), and mysteriously everything worked just as it should.

Have you considered sacrificing a chicken? I swear, whether my computer works or not is all voodoo.

Good luck, I've definitely felt your pain. I hope not to be stuck in a time warp again in 2003!

Nicole

 

[EricNoah]

Frankly I think we're all stumped. I currently have no ideas about how to proceed on this matter.

 

[mythusmage]

Adding My Bit

OS: Mac 9.2.2 (I'd update to Jaguar, but I don't have the physical RAM)

Browser: iCab 2.8 (the only one that's reliable on this machine)

Connection: dial-up (people see cable and DSL as premium services, so they price it out of my reach)

My Problem: The page listing the forums is the one that doesn't auto-update. All other pages do. So I hit "reload" and go on.

(Contributions to "Let's Get Alan a New Mac" can be made at Mythusmage . Please use the Amazon.com button instead of the PayPal one, I don't trust Paypal (and really should get rid of the button).)

To Charles and those having his problem: Check with Netscape to see if they might have a solution/work-around. Or, go to the iCab (Mac only) and/or Opera (Mac and PC) pages and download either or both of those browsers and see how they work. You can get free versions of either.

Hope this helps

 

[LightPhoenix]

I don't know about Macs, but this is something that could be investigated. In IE, IIRC when you hold down Shift and hit Refresh, it forces the page to reload from the server. Maybe there's something similar for Macs?

 

[Nikchick]

FYI, folks, I'm stuck in the time warp again.

After several weeks of blissful browsing, EN World is once again refusing to refresh my view. I get notices that someone has posted in a thread, but when I click on the link to take me to the new posts, I only see the old posts.

Has anyone been tinkering with anything in the background in the last day or so? Nothing about my configuration on my end has changed, and it's utterly bizarre that it's popped up again all of a sudden.

This makes me a sad panda.

Nicole

 

[Olive]

it's definitely a mac problem... or perhaps a mac on networks problem. at university i have to empty the cache then refresh. simple refresh doesn't work. another friend (mostly lurker) who uses a mac at school has the same issue. using a pc at school in my office, no such problem.

when i was freelancing i was using macs and the same issue happened.

my lurker friend uses a mac at home as well, but i'm not sure if he has the same issues. FYI, it was OS9.1 in all cases, and IE (not sure which ver)

 

[Quickbeam]

Just an interesting FYI...while the clock settings were "fixed" from where I stood (IOW, they matched reality for awhile), they're back to being about 10-15 minutes off again. How peculiar.

 

[Lela]

Just an interesting FYI...while the clock settings were "fixed" from where I stood (IOW, they matched reality for awhile), they're back to being about 10-15 minutes off again. How peculiar.

Yeah, they seem to be ahead by about that much for me. As in traveling to the future this time.

PC Win 98 SE

IE (6.x)

 

[DDK]

Well, the people with problems all seem to be using Macs on networks. Not sure if it's the Mac or the network that's causing it, bit since both are present in most cases, I'd guess it's something to do with the way Macs use networks. I'm also fairly convinced it's a problem at the user's end, not the server's end.

Grr...

It certainly looks like most of the complaints are from Mac users, but at least one or two PC users also chimed in.

Double grr...

Ok... BREATHE... 1, 2, 9, 10!

I count just as many people using IE as using Macs with the problem... why is it everyone always jumps on the Mac and pounds it to pieces whenever there is a slight problem? With no actual knowledge of the cause of the proble, given these two alternatives, I would choose Microsoft as the cause over Apple ANY SECOND OF ANY DAY OF ANY WEEK!

I'm not surprised though. Microsoft could put out shonky software that crashes all the time, requires excessive amounts of RAM, utilizes twenty year old code on twenty year old technology, requires excessive amounts of HDD space, is unintuitive, has annoying little animations that popup all the time asking you if you're writing a letter AND invade your privacy AND practice illegal business tactics AND...

Oh... wait a minute... they already do that... and everybody just keeps on buying and laying crap on the Mac.

OS: Mac 9.2.2 (I'd update to Jaguar, but I don't have the physical RAM)

Browser: iCab 2.8 (the only one that's reliable on this machine)

OS 9x is crud and the only reason it should be used is as a bridging OS for Classic apps in OS X. After all, that's what it was designed for and why it takes huge amounts of RAM to run.

Trust me, you're SO much better off with 8.6 unless you're planning on running OS X on a G4.

And iCab is at 2.9 now. Guess what? He changed the way pages load and I had this exact same problem as the above people. But then I also had my cache set to 20MB. Setting it to 1mb got rid of the problem instantly. I would say this is a cache problem, most particularly a cache problem on Intermittant Exploder for the Mac, not a Mac problem.

 

[Lela]

I would say this is a cache problem, most particularly a cache problem on Intermittant Exploder for the Mac, not a Mac problem.

Um, from the first half of page 1:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;196329&


does this look like the problem you describe?

So, yes. It's Microsoft's fault.

I would like to point out that I blame Microsoft for everything anyway and knew all along.