Why is FR so hard to access these days??

February 3, 2010 | self

[JimRed]

Constant cyber attacks?

[svcw]

Yea, eventually I get the process to work, just can’t figure out why after all these years the last few months have been googly. (Googly my granddaughter’s word for things without explanation.)

[Dr.Zoidberg]

When I’m having trouble accessing FR, I do what every good FR addict should.

I get out the Hoppes #9 and start cleaning. It’s very relaxing and I just love the smell.

Give it a try, you’ll find you feel so much better afterwards.

[floozy22]

Whether it's overloaded servers or something more sinister, we're all in the same boat.

Technology isn't perfect, and anyone who has worked in a company that uses servers and computers for everything on a daily basis has gone through this. We depend on technology - for our livelihoods and much more. We're at the mercy, so to speak, of IT professionals.

When calculating what I gain from FR vs. the occasional problem, they are not even close. I think this website does a terrific job, present issues notwithstanding.

[gunnyg]

and, most likely, its OUR TAX $$$$$ being used by (guess who) to do all this, too...

[La Lydia]

What he said.

[Vendome]

Lets see what the nOOb has to say about our manners and less than charitable commentary.

Oh, and there was a hottie ping yesterday that I missed out on because I couldn’t access FR.

I can see it on Ping and Trace and the pathing and returns look fine but when I can’t access it, very frustrating.

1...., 2....., 3.....

[Vendome]

Wow I didn’t think you would actually show up again on this subject. but there you are....

[La Lydia]

Don’t take life so seriously... You’ll never live through it. — from someone who has been happily freeping since 2000.

[Vendome]

What’s that? “We are ungrateful wretches”?

Is it that nOOb La Lydia again?

[Vendome]

Great Idea!

[Magic Fingers]

“What’s that? “We are ungrateful wretches”?”

Yeah, the nerve of wanting a site to work most of the time! Outrageous!

[JRios1968]

Is Ralph messing with the Zot9000 again?

[Erasmus]

I recommend reading "The Cuckoo's Egg" for some pre-internet cyber-spy true crime fun.

Highly concur on "The Cuckoo's Egg." They even did a lighthearted docu-drama on it on PBS.

One quibble: This was in the era of the internet (that's what the interloper used), but before widespread introduction of the World Wide Web.

[Erasmus]

At the time, it was actually ARPANET, but the term ‘internet’ was already in circulation, and it was about to be used to connect to commercial services and to become the internet that we know today.

[lefty-lie-spy]

>>I recommend reading "The Cuckoo's Egg" for some pre-internet cyber->>spy true crime fun.
>Highly concur on "The Cuckoo's Egg." They even did a lighthearted docu->drama on it on PBS. >One quibble: This was in the era of the internet (that's what the interloper >used), but before widespread introduction of the World Wide Web.

Quite true. I should have used "Web" over "Internet" in this case. The "Internet" had been publicly available to universities, corporations and essentially anyone that could afford a T1 connection at the time since the late 70s (and had nothing to do with Al Gore whatsoever).

[Cyber Liberty]

Dang, you’re tough! Must be the Snuggies....

[La Lydia]

It is the leopard-skin Snuggie that does the trick. Purrrrr...grrrrowl. Got a little pink one for my Yorkie because I couldn’t find a leopard-skin one for her. Sweet.

[JoeProBono]

[La Lydia]

Way cool. Looks like Ron White’s evil twin.