Thread: PM Editting problems

OK, I try to post a reply and the screen locks up for a few seconds, I get an IE9 message saying www.practicalmachinist.com not responding and a popup box to close the program and my reply disappears into the vast unknown. Just started today. Anyone else having this problem?

Originally Posted by SteveF

OK, I try to post a reply and the screen locks up for a few seconds, I get an IE9 message saying www.practicalmachinist.com not responding and a popup box to close the program and my reply disappears into the vast unknown. Just started today. Anyone else having this problem?

PM's server VB daemon went Hors d' Combat for about ten or twenty minutes. Box was still up. May have been DB maintenance.

It stalled right when I was trying to post a reply, but the reply I had in-work went in smoothly once it was all back up.

But then .. I don't run IE or Windows, so it would do, wouldn't it?

;-)

Bill

Anything with a link, if edited and text added below link, the new text will be fomatted like the link - what ever you do, like highlight and click on Remove Formatting. Since inception. Whatever the latest version of Firefox here.

ON EDIT:

See example here at post 38 and my comment at post 39:

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...ml#post1855885

Originally Posted by johnoder

Anything with a link, if edited and text added below link, the new text will be fomatted like the link - what ever you do, like highlight and click on Remove Formatting. Since inception. Whatever the latest version of Firefox here.

Huh? Not relevant to the short server glitch, but with an example, I should be able to sort the why of that and/or suggest a fix. I usually have Firefox among the 4 or so browsers open, though it has long-since lost my blessing.

Adding: Nevermind .. seems one has to use the full 'wysiwyg' option to manage html tags. Can't ordinarily be bothered to give up the extra screen real-estate that option wants.

Bill

Seems to be accepting some of my edits now but I am getting "waiting for response from practicalmachinist.com" at the bottom of my browser screen for a couple of seconds.

Again, didn't have this problem yesterday.

test

Steve

Originally Posted by SteveF

Seems to be accepting some of my edits now but I am getting "waiting for response from practicalmachinist.com" at the bottom of my browser screen for a couple of seconds.

Again, didn't have this problem yesterday.

Steve

As said, there WAS a server glitch. There may be some residuals of that still being worked on.

I had four other browsers active at the time, plus some shell logins and other non-browser sessions, and all were working fine. I pinged the PM server, and the box itself was up.

Next time IE throws a flag, see if you can ignore it or clear it w/o closing the app or tab, wait a while, and do a 'retry'.

If it still seems to have lost your input, do a page 'back' and hopefully find what you entered still cached locally.

Bill

I've been having the same problem with IE9 about half the time I try to reply going back at least a month or two. There's another thread in this section on the same topic and several other members seem to be experiencing the problem. It seems to help if you use the Advanced reply option, but that's no guarantee. I've been trying to remember to highlight my reply and copy it before clicking "Submit Reply" since I can't copy if the reply fails.

Mike

Originally Posted by johnoder

Anything with a link, if edited and text added below link, the new text will be fomatted like the link - what ever you do, like highlight and click on Remove Formatting. Since inception. Whatever the latest version of Firefox here.

ON EDIT:

See example here at post 38 and my comment at post 39:

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...ml#post1855885

ACK - but that example found itself fixed at some point, as it is no longer such.

Including (or NOT) text and graphic or a background 'box' with a link is a common html coding decision in either direction. Most visible to those among us who do all that exclusely by hand with a text editor, and sometimes less obvious to those who use a 'composer'.

Problem here is that the html tag open and close are not visible, as they are being 'generated' from the 'rich text' brackets instead of directly from carat-marks.

Makes it harder to know exactly where to place entries so as to either cojoin OR separate them from a link, but a 'Preview' and bit of trial-and-error adjusting to find the needfuls should still work.

Bill

Bill,

"But then .. I don't run IE or Windows, so it would do, wouldn't it?"

What DO you run? I would think probably Unix, I think the Mother of Linux, and Apple OS. Possibly not, as, does Unix still have support to keep updating it."

I have tried Linux, and FF for Linux, a little better, possibly.

The only reason I am not running the Linux machine is that the Windows laptop is so much more convenient. I have a pretty good home built machine in front of me, 25 inch monitor, I prefer the Win7 laptop.

George

Originally Posted by gmatov

Bill,

"But then .. I don't run IE or Windows, so it would do, wouldn't it?"

What DO you run?

Many 'ere are no doubt tired of hearing it ....but since you asked;

OpenBSD 5.2 'snapshot'. Updated whenever the spirit moves me or an app update wants the core libs synced. 'bout a ten minute process every month or three.

Xfce 4.X for the graphical user environment, customized, multiple toolsets and libs, with a mix of apps from each camp.

In use - twelve desktops, with typically 5 different browsers open, each on its own 1600 x 1200 desktop. And a bunch of other stuff. Box is a salvaged IBM Thinkpad T60p.

The prior 'personal' progression was OS X > FreeBSD 4.X > OS/2 Warp Server Advanced > DRDOS > Concurrent CP/M > Modifications of LMI Forth atop CP/M > CP/M > OSI Challenger > 'dumb' terminals via modem to mainframes. 'Professional' use is a much longer list, and 'experimental' OS'en add about 15 more yet, not counting the various Linuces. Which are largely shitte. Bit of a hobby, OS'en have been.

Windows involvement was always 'for fee' from 1.1X thru Vista. And why not?

Doctors are well-paid to TREAT diseases, not SUFFER them...

Bill