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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2014 6:28:28 GMT -5
I can barely type words . I get hyperlinked words in my text when posting threads. When I open this forum my CPU usage jumps to 25% and it loads my computer down. Brand new MAC. It screams thru flickr files and does other functions seemingly more demanding than a forum with no effort. I notice you can pay $6 a month to be add free. Some virus must have snuck in to my forum. The hyperlinked words is just strange. And 4GB memory is pegged out at 3.98 GB when forum is on. Ever had such problems?
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2014 7:44:25 GMT -5
Just opened the RTH on windows computer and all is fine. Problem is specific to MAC. Me or the MAC is the problem. Maybe forum settings ? No, not forum settings, MAC security settings. Because I am having no problems on the Windows computer.
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Post by stephent on Apr 7, 2014 9:19:55 GMT -5
You get it figured out yet jamesp? I'm running Fedora Linux and Firefox and everything seems on the up and up with page contents and advertisements/pop-ups even. Firefox and Linux CPU/memory usage look ok.. nothing jumping out at me. Maybe a Flash/Java problem?
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Post by mohs on Apr 7, 2014 13:36:35 GMT -5
Good Luck James !
in the meantime something to read
The Holy War: Mac vs. DOS
By Umberto Eco The following excerpts are from an English translation of Umberto Eco's back-page column, La bustina di Minerva, in the Italian news weekly Espresso, September 30, 1994.
A French translation may be seen here.
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Friends, Italians, countrymen, I ask that a Committee for Public Health be set up, whose task would be to censor (by violent means, if necessary) discussion of the following topics in the Italian press. Each censored topic is followed by an alternative in brackets which is just as futile, but rich with the potential for polemic. Whether Joyce is boring (whether reading Thomas Mann gives one erections). Whether Heidegger is responsible for the crisis of the Left (whether Ariosto provoked the revocation of the Edict of Nantes). Whether semiotics has blurred the difference between Walt Disney and Dante (whether De Agostini does the right thing in putting Vimercate and the Sahara in the same atlas). Whether Italy boycotted quantum physics (whether France plots against the subjunctive). Whether new technologies kill books and cinemas (whether zeppelins made bicycles redundant). Whether computers kill inspiration (whether fountain pens are Protestant).
One can continue with: whether Moses was anti-semitic; whether Leon Bloy liked Calasso; whether Rousseau was responsible for the atomic bomb; whether Homer approved of investments in Treasury stocks; whether the Sacred Heart is monarchist or republican.
I asked above whether fountain pens were Protestant. Insufficient consideration has been given to the new underground religious war which is modifying the modern world. It's an old idea of mine, but I find that whenever I tell people about it they immediately agree with me.
The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counter-reformist and has been influenced by the ratio studiorum of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory; it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach -- if not the kingdom of Heaven -- the moment in which their document is printed. It is catechistic: The essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation!!!
DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that not all can achieve salvation. To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself: Far away from the baroque community of revelers, the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment. You may object that, with the passage to Windows, the DOS universe has come to resemble more closely the counter-reformist tolerance of the Macintosh. It's true: Windows represents an Anglican-style schism, big ceremonies in the cathedral, but there is always the possibility of a return to DOS to change things in accordance with bizarre decisions: When it comes down to it, you can decide to ordain women and gays if you want to.
Naturally, the Catholicism and Protestantism of the two systems have nothing to do with the cultural and religious positions of their users. One may wonder whether, as time goes by, the use of one system rather than another leads to profound inner changes. Can you use DOS and be a Vande supporter? And more: Would Celine have written using Word, WordPerfect, or Wordstar? Would Descartes have programmed in Pascal?
And machine code, which lies beneath and decides the destiny of both systems (or environments, if you prefer)? Ah, that belongs to the Old Testament, and is talmudic and cabalistic. .... mostly
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2014 16:21:36 GMT -5
Dear Mr. Mohs Ed
I called the 'Apple Help Line'. An American answered resulting in the first heart attack. He was polite and patient with my ruptured ear drums from too much Lynyrd Skynyrd at 80 percent volume in my younger days. He nursed me along and set me straight.
The guy asked for the serial #. He gave me a little routine to go thru, namely, blocking '3rd party' cookies and advertisements. As a service to Mac owners the changes we made are recorded to my Mac serial # for all future communications. From now on I call them so records are kept. My kind of service.
The above comparison you provided was unreadable at the time of conflict with my Mac. After being massaged and set straight by the help line from above was i able to settle to reading such a poetic assemblage of the forces at hand. Enlightening and humorous, I greatly appreciate your obtuse humor and ask that you continue to captivate w/such(their's that Jim Morrison slash again). You know they left that poor boy in the crib under the hot Florida sun way too long...
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Post by stephent on Apr 7, 2014 19:17:19 GMT -5
Ummmm... I'm maybe going plumb sidewayz here jamesp .. but are you using Opera for a browser?
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2014 20:04:06 GMT -5
Ummmm... I'm maybe going plumb sidewayz here jamesp .. but are you using Opera for a browser? I have no idea stephent. Not very computer savvy. But follow instructions OK. The Mac guy had me turn off 'extensions'. Extensions are third party developers that customize and enhance sites for enhancing web sites. You can get to extensions by selecting Safari, then clicking preferences, then the extension icon. Then flip the switch off/on. Off to loose the clutter from 3rd party websites. Had the CPU burdened to 60-75 %. Now back to 97% ave. So be it. Whatever the Macman says!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2014 22:17:59 GMT -5
Opera on Mac? No Jim is using safari I am sure.
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Post by stephent on Apr 8, 2014 1:29:41 GMT -5
Well... a few weeks ago Opera (and Safari) was having some problems with non-compliant WW3 standards extensions "calls" that are used from within web pages. But Opera runs just fine inside a "real" Mac...as does Firefox or Safari... until non-standard calls or code gives them the heeby-jeeebies. Cheap Web pages designed strictly for MickySoft Internet Exploder come to mind here.. lol I surf with stuff having to ask permission for anything except the web page I am on to accept the cookies. I get a little pop-up asking me for permission...and I know who's cookie is asking too this way. Mostly 3rd party cookies are ok. It could be anything on a page from ads from outside piped into the web page that support the site... to someone's sig on their post even. I'm just happy that this forum web site knows how to handle the different browser (and OS) referrer tags really well.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 8, 2014 5:50:54 GMT -5
This Mac is apparently got the latest Maverick updates. Whatever that is. The Apple tech was surprised to get a call on this new software. He looked it up and said it was purchased 11 days ago. I was in Best Buys raising Hell because they said it would not run Maverick on 4GB ram. Well, i was angry that i bought an incomplete system. Then the Apple tech said it will be fine on 4GB for what I was doing. And lets get it running efficiently on just 4GB. And he did. It pops up big flickr photo files as fast as i can click the button-good enough for me. I think it was $77 for two 4GB ram chips and i could replace them myself. That's fine. It will be a good update. I like to hear you guys talk about the lingo. It is educating me. Have a lot of learning to do. I too like to give permission via pop-up if it helps keep garb entering. Thanks for inputs.
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Post by stephent on Apr 8, 2014 11:44:36 GMT -5
Sometimes...when they (some web pages) pop your Clipboard contents or search engine history to track your surfing habits...it's done clumsily and the browser/OS objects. And "they" do try to pop your clipboard and search history...it's easy to do...usually. Google does it and also keeps track of "who/what/when/where" when you enter it in the search bar. So do the rest of the search engines...web pages used to try to pop it too...now they just get it mostly from Google or other search engines. That's "how" they tailor the specific ads to you on the web pages. But mostly it's just bad data sent to your "extension" inside your browser and it don't know how to handle it.
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Post by mohs on Apr 8, 2014 13:28:53 GMT -5
Glad to hear its running good On the Umberto Eco article I don’t believe all it is written by Mr. Eco Just the Mac vs. Dos part A concern of taking things off the net Willy-nilly People easily tamper with the text Best to go to trusted sites mostly
but would Descartes program in Pascal? is too funny
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Post by gemfeller on Apr 8, 2014 13:53:44 GMT -5
On the Umberto Eco article I don’t believe all it is written by Mr. Eco Just the Mac vs. Dos part I don't know much about computers but the Eco piece is one of the funniest things I've ever read. I doubt the author of "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucalt's Pendulum" did the Mac vs. Dos part but I have a hunch who did.
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Post by Pat on Apr 8, 2014 14:29:16 GMT -5
jamesp, so you are all ok now? I have a Mac Mini and use Safari 5.5.10. Haven't had that problem. Now and then I clean out my cookies and dump my cache just to keep it clean. Also turn it completely off when I think of it a few times a year. Glad you have reliable help.
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 8, 2014 17:32:32 GMT -5
Sounds like a virus James-we had to take ours to "Best Buy" and have them remove our virus....Glad you have it solved buddy.........
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Post by gemfeller on Apr 8, 2014 18:34:11 GMT -5
I notice you can pay $6 a month to be add free. Some virus must have snuck in to my forum. Who do you pay James? When I was running XP I never had ads on this site. That may be because I had my settings working right. I bought a new computer and am running Win 7. Now I'm getting ads here and everywhere else I go...it's driving me nuts.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 8, 2014 20:41:04 GMT -5
Who do you pay James? When I was running XP I never had ads on this site. That may be because I had my settings working right. I bought a new computer and am running Win 7. Now I'm getting ads here and everywhere else I go...it's driving me nuts. Read more: forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/65208/rth-giving-fits-any-ideas?page=2#ixzz2yLfj9vHLRick: If you goto the bottom of this or any page, it says 'click here to remove banner ads'. When you click it a new page will come up with the offer to go add free by Pro Boards. pretty certain that it is in your settings though. A flip of the cookie switch and all was fixed. 3rd party advertisements were blocked I believe. That's how the Mac handled it anyway. I think you need to fix your settings. You may still get trash if your settings are not dialed in.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 8, 2014 20:46:56 GMT -5
jamesp, so you are all ok now? I have a Mac Mini and use Safari 5.5.10. Haven't had that problem. Now and then I clean out my cookies and dump my cache just to keep it clean. Also turn it completely off when I think of it a few times a year. Glad you have reliable help. I like your simple approach Pat. The Tech on the phone had a simple approach too. The problem was not the approach, it was which of a million do you use LOL.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 8, 2014 20:50:50 GMT -5
Sometimes...when they (some web pages) pop your Clipboard contents or search engine history to track your surfing habits...it's done clumsily and the browser/OS objects. And "they" do try to pop your clipboard and search history...it's easy to do...usually. Google does it and also keeps track of "who/what/when/where" when you enter it in the search bar. So do the rest of the search engines...web pages used to try to pop it too...now they just get it mostly from Google or other search engines. That's "how" they tailor the specific ads to you on the web pages. But mostly it's just bad data sent to your "extension" inside your browser and it don't know how to handle it. They do tailer certain adds to your searches. They are in my business. We need to send them some manure cookies back.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 8, 2014 20:55:40 GMT -5
Sounds like a virus James-we had to take ours to "Best Buy" and have them remove our virus....Glad you have it solved buddy......... It was a setting Michael. Kind of like a filter that needed to be activated. A simple thing.Made all the difference though.
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