The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Nan, you might want to slip your post over into the computer section here. I don't use Firefox, as you know, but a short search brought this page up.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes

They list a couple add-ons, plug ins if you will, to watch out for.

Adobe (Macromedia) Flash
Shockwave
Real Player or Real Alternative
Java
VLC Media Player
Yahoo! Application State plugin for Yahoo! Mail

There are some more suggestions as well. One has to do with making sure, in some cases, you're running in Win 2k that one I wouldn't know how to do.

Even if you don't use Bills version to use the net, sometimes updates are needed for other things, check the windows update site for anything current and always use the custom search on it for updates. Hell ya already paid him for it, might as well use it. You did pay him didn't you? Now it kinda makes sense if you've updated Firefox recently, one of the plug ins might need updated as well. I get a problem with some apps, like Quicktime not being up to date and bouncing me out of the net when I hit a certain type of page on it. And since that is an Apple product if I try and auto download it, Windows won't let me, gee now there is a surprise. Just try to remember the last couple changes you made before the problem started, working backwards can single them out sometimes. Run your anti virus? Done a hard drive check? It's a right click on your hard drive letter, properties, and then under tools. Is it plugged in and did you put film in the camara? Don't forget the lense cap.

You checked to make sure your fans are all running? Cleaned it lately? Although if you can run Explorer fine, it does sound like a software glitch and not over heating.

I finally got my new video cards in and damned if I didn't start getting the freakin BSOD (blue screen of death) it turned out letting windows do the update from the old to the new card type wasn't a good thing to do and I knew it. I did it the right way, problem solved.

Like the guy said the other day over in the computer section....I use to be a computer geek, now I'm just an idiot.

Miss you, get well soon.

Ya know with this whole unsettling thing with that unnameable web place and the whole unspeakable organization, I'm reminded of something. You can judge yourself, by the enemy's you keep. Not a real sound way to look at yourself, but bare with me. I'm better than that, I've decided I don't even want them on my enemy's list.

I think it may be time to stop posting on the AS site.

Maybe read their comments, but otherwise leave them alone.

I say this because I saw the comment about us harassing them. I've had to deal with that sort of attitude before and learned the more we respond to it, the more we feed it. The funny thing about the internet is that it sees a certain type of individual that will push and prod and say all sorts of things and make all sorts of comments, but the worst ones only come when they don[t see any attention. Why is that, other than that they crave and will do anything for attention?

The types of comments people are commenting on there are the types that I have personally seen come from cyber-bullies. When I quit responding to them, like they said to do, their comments got nastier and more persistent, in a way that indicated they wanted me to abuse them just so they could be the center of my attention.

If we're going to deal with the ideas they put forth about autism, it maybe best to either stick to what their leadership asks us to do, or just deal with it on this site or other ones like it.

Hi y'all. We have just picked up a young Canadian from err ..Saskatachawan!! !! ! anyway prairie country. She is on a Rotary Exchange. At present she and Jim are practising the Canadian and Australian antems on recorder. No doubt they will perform at the dinner tonight!

Move over Nan, I'll pull your hair out and you can pull mine. Humm, might not be fair, you have some and I don't. I'll be damned if I didn't hook the second video card in the other machine, fire it up and GEEZE LOUISE!@% &%$^*! !! !! I have never gotten a chassis intrusion error in my life. So me being all smart and all that, I take out the card I had added in SLI and fired it up with just the original card. GEEEZE LOUISE!! *&%$$&* ^%$$@@! !! Same freaking error. I'm lost, upset, down right lethargic about life and thirsty. I can fix one of those and maybe the others, but not a damn clue under the bright blue sky why the f**k that error is freezing the start up. The door is closed and so what if it is open, the pins are disabled!! GRRRR!! ! See there is a logical reason I have two machines, I make my own and one is always broken. Oh well I may have to learn to clear the CMOS or if I get really lucky get into my BIOS, so far no, and hope I can disable the sob from in there. Worthless fail safe on a home system if there ever was one and I can't even blame it on Gates.

Gosh my heart goes out to both of you....national anthems..computer mutinies...when will it all end?


On the bright side...that whole sentence above passed spell check with no errors Hope that info makes you both feel better about life.

Thanks Kaleido,

I'm off to bed in a few minutes but will do a goggle tomorrow.

@nannarob: Please say hello, from me, to your visitor from So-Scratch-Me-One! kd lang is also in Australia, she performed live on TV this morning! (Maybe Channel 7 only showed it in Sydney.) kd comes from a small town in Alberta, close to the Saskatchewan border.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLK70Ipe-tI&NR=1