Posted on 10/25/2012 9:35:59 AM PDT by SMARTY
Jim has already stated that outside IT expertise has been refused, offered gratis or not. There are at least 20 of us here (active FReepers) who are/were high-level sysadmins.
Thank you.
wroye the same yesterday...you’ll notice my name is included in his response....that said...I gave em the name number and reason this ain;t workin from the IT folk....you see what was said......basically pound sand
You are so right CedarDave. Anyone in a business that believes they are ‘indispensible’ needs to be immediately involved in training their skills and passing on their job.
Otherwise, the business is under threat of collapse should something, ANYTHING happen to that person.
Even emotional and personal stresses. Which can also include boredom.
You may want to grab your tinfoil but I think the site has been targeted by those who don’t appreciate the conservative nature of FR. JMHO.
The world wide web is overloaded by all of us disemployed Americans who have nothing better to do.
Hey, Jim posted a nice notice the other day, about this. If I remember correctly, the money given for new routers, etc, is in the bank, and John is doing everything possible to keep FR up and running. I know Election Eve will be a mess,but that is the way it is. Lighten up, if it wasn’t for FR where would you go for unbiased information???
Oh well. Can only offer assistance. It is frustrating.
It seems to me that these problems have been creeping forward in intensity over the last few years, really. Almost imperceptibly so, but this is my impression.
If this truly is the case (slow degradation over the years) perhaps the reason lies at the increase over the years of people FReeping while using smartphones and similar technology.
I don’t know anything about computers (probably obvious to those who do at this point) but my thought is this: all the smartphone /mobile tech users don’t add more traffic or load, but the “interface” they use isn’t as compatible as normal PC browsers, and this is causing conflicts at FR’s end.
As if the browsers smartphones/other mobile devices use a language the FR system can “understand” but not very well, so the system is slowed as it, in effect says to smartphones logging on, “Wait, what did you say? Say it again..”, and this causes the slowdown.
Again, I don’t know (obviously). Just something I’ve thought for a while.
Re: Time stamps
IIRC, the code for FR was rewritten several years ago to allow FR to recognize the correct time based on the user’s computer time and location.
Occasionally, the code stalls. When that happens, it reverts to the default Pacific time zone. When that happens, sometimes reloading the page will correct to the ‘local’ time. Sometimes, I have had to close and re-open the browser.
Oh. I thought Libertarians were for small gov’t, which is something I favor.
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Nope. Not at all. Libertarians might give lip service to small government ideals. Just like Republicans might give lip service to conservative values, but the ugly truth of the matter is that libertarians - like Ron Paul - acutally vote for their favorite big gubmint pork projects like anyone else.
And the # 1 agenda of libertarians? Pro-marijuana laws. And when you press them to admit why they want legal dope, they’ll tell you.
To tax and legislate it.
In other words... The want BIGGER government and MORE taxation.
What I don’t get is why so many conservatives on this site are under the delusion that they are libertarian.
When you look at the modern realities of true libertarians, you see nothing more than occu-tards who bathe regularly and actually work for a living.
True enough. I remember reading on yet another thread about this a few weeks ago where a guy had offered gratis the services of the techs who keep amazon.com up and running.
Jim has been straight up that John will not utilize outside services. He has been straight up that it's not a problem with the hardware. He's been straight up that it's not a DOS attack problem. So far, John has been unable to locate the problem.
Jim's done his best to tell us the nature of the problem. I don't know what else he could do to make it anymore clear than this.
I am assuming FR traffic is much lower than it was before the Guiliani Purge four years ago. Is that not true, is traffic that much higher? And the computers are much faster now as well.
My other complaint was around MSN Games which is not likely to be a Righty site. It is a pretty bad site in general at all times though.
This is something I’ve been getting for the last few weeks too I don’t know if it would be helpful:
Response Error.
Technical description:
502 Bad Gateway - Response Error, a bad response was received from another proxy server or the destination origin server.
Heh, that’s not an unreasonable assumption.
SOLUTION! Pay to Say. Those who want LIVE COVERAGE on the election can sign up on a ‘pay to say’ site. Preregistration is necessary and the entire post can be viewed by FR after the election.
Very interesting comment. Add in those who are retired and I think you are on to something.
When I try to open a thread, it takes forever, so then I drag the headline into my desktop and open it there. In that process the FR original page will open. Sometimes that works, sometimes it don't.
One think I did notice, sometime,somehow one of my ICONS (a website I save to desktop), changed looks. Now it is a golden eye looking thing. Don't know how that happened.
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