Posted on 10 September 2007
I wrote a post; I actually did. However, I had just logged in after having been kicked by the system (on both sides), and when I posted it, it told me I did not have the authority to edit A Brief Nine Hour Errand.
The title itself should tell you why I am not attempting to rewrite it now. Besides, the last time this happened, the post reappeared the next day, so I’m not going to rush things.
–M. J. Young
M. J. Young - who has written 463 posts on The Gaming Outpost.
Author of Multiverser, Multiverser-related game books, and books on Christian faith; Chaplain of the Christian Gamers Guild
[...] appears that the Brief Nine Hour Errand post I mentioned writing yesterday has not resurfaced. Permit me to summarize it briefly, if that is possible. These were the things [...]
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September 11th, 2007 at 6:49 am
MJ-
I really don’t know what I can do at this point. GO is running a completely standard, unmodified version of Wordpress, exactly the same as I run on several other sites, as well as by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. And I’ve never seen, nor heard about, this issue. Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to track down anyone running the browser you are consistently enough for the problem to reproduce itself. I do know that the Wordpress administration area makes use of some programming tricks that might require something of a newer browser (by newer I mean released in, say, the last three or four years), but I have no idea of that’s the issue. However, because you seem to be the only person having this problem and you’re the only person (I know of) running a rather old version of Netscape, I’m willing to bet the two are related.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
That’s probably true. It seems an annoying waste of time, though, to upgrade from a perfectly functional system with which I am comfortably familiar to a possibly buggy new system which will have changed features so I’ll have to re-learn a lot of things. I really hate it when for the first several months of a new version of a program I hit a key sequence and get the wrong result. I am still irked by the fact that Word 2000 automatically resets cntl+pgdn to whatever you did last (go to section, search for word) instead of retaining the Top of Next Page function of the previous version–and I can remember how long it took me to get use to the fact that that key sequence took you to the top of the next page instead of moving the cursor to the bottom of the screen.
It also doesn’t help that at my age anything less than ten years old is new. I don’t think I’ve ever owned a car younger than that, and I use things until they break, and then I try to fix them.
However, I will consider upgrading the Netscape. What’s not known, of course, is whether the current browser will work with my operating system, and I’m not about to let Microsoft push me into one of their ridiculous resource-intensive newer operating systems. I’m still mad that my Norton Commander works so poorly with the newer systems. That was a useful program.
–M. J. Young
September 11th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
MJ-
I understand where you’re coming from and am certainly not advocating embracing the new solely for the thrill of novelty. And I don’t know that this will fix the problems, but it seems to be the only point of difference between your setup and those of other users who aren’t having the problems.
I think if you take the time to upgrade your browser to Firefox (which is what Netscape eventually became), you’ll be happy. It’s a very nice browser, stable and clean, and the shortcuts should be pretty much the same as you’re used to. Give it a try, I think you’ll like it.
And it’ll work just fine on your operating system (Windows 98, right?).