Anyone else having performance problems while on TR

It only occurs on TR. If I have been on TR awhile, my system will suddenly become sluggish. If I am typing a post when it happens, the words do not immediately show up on the screen. Exiting TR fixes the problem.

I thought I had a keylogger or something on my system. I ran Spybot and Hijaak This and just found Wild Tangent. That program is not supposed to be malware, but it was logging something. I deleted it and it was better for a day or 2, but the problem started happening again on Monday. Ran Spybot again and no spyware found.

I'm not sure whats up.

AV

however the problem went away when I installed Safari
Beta (and used it). It has problems on other sites, but
browses TR fine.
Using IE6, IE7, and FF in Win, Vista, and Linux showed the
same sluggishness, to the point of end task on the
browser.
It was more or less random, whether I got a few links
clicked, or if I could stay 'nice' for 30 min.

Try a different browser, TR has become IE/FF unfriendly
apparently.
P.S. -- look at all of the cookies that load with TR these
days! I wonder if they are causing the issue(s)

There are products advertised on TV for "performance problems". "If your disconnection lasts for more than four hours, see a doctor." Or the TR Merry Marching Immoral Maidens...

Using FF with NoScript. zdnet.com and com.com allowed, all others blocked

I guess it is time to try a few new browsers.
I too wondered about spyware or a keylogger and ran a bunch of tests with no (serious) results.
Thanks again.

And I am running OS X and mostly use Safari. TR is the
only site that stresses this system.

Pass what you find on to Doug of CNET. He seems to be
the goto guy for site issues. Or pass them to Beth and
ask her to pass them along. Also, I hadn't noticed but
make sure that "feedback" is in your tags. That gets
noticed.

I will send a link to this thread to Beth and ask her to pass
it along.

I know that they are trying to improve the site but
unfortunately, it takes time.

contents of my hosts file
127.0.0.1 *.atdmt.com
127.0.0.1 adlog.com

Have one or two flash-based ads can slow down a browser, but four is a bit much, unless you've got a really really fast PC.

problems typing down to one character every 15 seconds.
This was only at work and some numpty has reset the macrappee enterprise a/v back to it's defaults and I'd put it down to that.

Everything else was as slow as **** anyway.

flat list. :p

The only problems I've had were ones that TR admitted to having. I use FF 2.0.0.12. I ran No Script for awhile but have had it turned off for the past couple of months. I haven't run CCleaner or cleared my cache/Private Data on FF shutdown for a few months either. Everything on my pc has been running extremely well.

I do run Adblock Plus with the default settings.

had one heck of a time responding to the last post to this thread that I was reading! Had to close IE, reopen and come in again.
Naturally occuring irony is too cool. ;)

edit the usual

They've got "Articles" and "White Papers" separately. Why???

"Software" and "Downloads" separately; again why???

"Blogs"; for no useful purpose other than ego massage but could have been put with "Articles" for those who are insecure and are badly in need of some sort of image recognition; regardless of whether it's either a positive or a negative image.

"Photos"; "Videos"; "Webcasts"; could all have been lumped together under a heading of "Media" perhaps.

"Jobs" I think this was a joke. Who in their right mind would be looking for a job here unless they were really desperate and had exhausted all the real job seeker websites.

"Store" ??? Well I guess they're trying to make a buck any way that they can but ROTFLMAO, where are the hats, jackets, mugs, t-shirts and belt buckles???

IMHO TR is badly in need of some rationally coherent streamlining assuming, of course, that TR has any rationale left.

there's a limp list? Do tell JD...

Around 10.30am GMT. Waited seven minutes and four refreshes for a page load.

Running Opera as I was trying to speed things up after a problematic slow loading FF.

What else do I have to do to keep getting on this site? More often than not lately, I've had to give up.

GG

[B] GOAL!!! [/B]

Pass the monitor wipes, though, please Mae....

GG

been a lot of that going around lately.....

Heck, we only recently upgraded to a 5M down 1M up connection.

If I wanted someone to perform, I wouldn't let them be on TR in the first place.....

Ok.

Gone for the meds....

]:)

GG

I have gotten several times in the last few days a really long lag, like 15 or 20 seconds, between the time I type something in on the "body of reply" box and the time it displays. Sometimes longer than that.

It happened again last night, around 11:50 PM Eastern time. Took me ten minutes to type in a two-paragraph response, because any time I had to correct an error or insert a word I had to wait for my typing to finish displaying, the cursor to reposition, the new text to appear, etc. Happened in the middle of the day from a different computer, too.

Your my role model...

Having that surgically removed WOULD cut your IQ in half...... :p

You can't do any better than that??

C'mon JD, I expect more from your kind. (maybe that's part of the problem)?

you forget your talking to a guy. There are only two things in life that mean anything, beer and boobs, and the beer is more to GET the boobs than anything else.

Lets see if I can remember the formula.

flowers -->candy --> chloroform --> mommy parts.

I can't remember the last time the "My updates" in the side bar worked.

I can't remember the last time the "All of your updates for the past 90 days" in our profile showed more than the last two days.

Many of the blogs are opinion pieces instead of informative articles. While I don't care about Mac's, I did find your approach to that writeup interesting. Too much seems to fall into "Is IE more secure than FF" or of course the OS religion rants.

Deal with a topic, "FF and security", "IE and security". let them stand on their own instead of comparing apples to pudding based on opinions that are largely unsupported.

Technical writeups like Chad does are of interest, to bad it is hard to find the good writeups. The emailed newsletters really should take a page from the way Jay handled them. Lots of information, in an easy to follow format. Kind of a quick "Week in TR", if you will.

Features like the babes of TR are fine with me. It doesn't bother me at all the idea of featuring different groups.

I didn't like the switch from categories to tags, and I like it even less when the whole list of possible tags was hidden, and you could only click on certain tags. Where did the list of tags by popularity go, and why was it taken away?

I still primarily use the "post by my contacts", and find it amazingly easy to miss out on so much here.

My $0.02 worth.

I ain't having any problems. There was a lunar eclipse last night. That's probably the cause of your problems.

I mean, isn't surgical removal a little extreme?
:0

After all most females would simply ask the guy to withdraw. :D

Edited because Beth carries a big stick!!

Changed my attitude about the poster practically 180 degrees around. Filed it under live and learn. Like I tell people when I learn something new and unexpected, "Now I have experience."

I never did see the yuk that got yanked. I know that some of the yuks aren't very funny to me, (old videos and jokes and lame ones at that) but I think, "if that's what floats your boat so be it." Every once in awhile someone posts something funny, to me. (Notice the emphasis-"to me"?) Doesn't happen often though. Some of the funniest stuff can happen in the middle of a "serious" discussion anyways.

I don't get racist crap and people can stick all that where the sun don't shine. I don't buy it. Never really have, I'm not that ignorant. I used to have to fight an attitude towards the Japanese because of Pearl Harbor but I've gotten that all worked out and am over it. Not open to discussing it.

Since I feel like venting my spleen... One of the things in discussions that irritates the *beejeebers* (not what I wanted to say) out of me is when people act like kids and have to be "hot" to one another. Give me a break. Most of us seem to be married or are in a long-term relationship and couldn't give a *beejeebers* what someone else looks like. Who the *beejeebers* cares what you look like? Saying you're hot doesn't make you hot. If that's what you want to believe go right the *bejeebers* ahead but it looks childish. People seldom get beyond that level. I really don't give a rip if females here have a good opinion of me or not. I don't look at them as if they're "available" women and I'm an "available" guy, I look at them for what they appear to be and FFS I have certainly been wrong, as wrong online as I have been in real life and that's saying something.

Another thing, as long as I'm here... Why don't we all just abbreviate everything (i.e. FFS)in our post as much as we can? I'm certain that everyone has the time to look up IRL, FSM and the letters of the day. I'm guilty of it too and you know what? I don't like it when I do it and I sure don't like it when everybody else seems to do it too. It annoys the *bejeebers* out of me. It often makes as much sense as, "It was as if an occult hand had reached down from above and moved the players like pawns upon some giant chessboard." There. I'm in. (obscure reference intended)

I often get a kick out of how some people freely express their opinions and seemingly think that because no one challenges them they are somehow, "right". It may just be that the opinions are so borderline pathetic, idiotic, repetitious and/or underwhelming that others don't feel a need to comment. This happens mostly in off-topic threads where weight of numbers or who posts the most long-winded rant about something are supposedly, in possibly only their own minds,
the ones with the right answers. You know what? It's extremely rare when someone here says something that's going to affect the way my day or my life goes. It happens but it's rare.

Everyone seems to get a wild hair about the environment, politics, whatever and use their debating skills to somehow win an argument about "the people in my country are better than the people in your country" or some such *bejeebing* crap. Again, who really changes their position based upon what some relative stranger posts here at TR?

I have a sense of community with a few people here but in real life it mostly doesn't matter much.

If I have an itch I still have to scratch it. "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friends nose." (Words to live by. You're welcome.)

I have previously been a lot more wrapped up into TR than I am now. That may or may not change. I do know that the one thing in life that IS constant is change. One other thing I'd like to see change is, "Print/View all posts." Didn't anyone one of the pro's at TR raise their hand and say, "hey, look how everything loses it's white-space using Print/View all posts!?" Nobody? It's just me that thinks that should've been fixed by now?

Okay... here I go complaining. I realize it didn't cost me a dime to get into TR and it's provided me with quite a bit of real life help and support over the past couple of years. I like it here but I'm not blind deaf and or dumb to TR's faults, TR members faults, or my own faults. Most of the time I do just like everyone else likely does, I keep it to myself. I didn't this time so sue me.

Everybody is, of course, free to make whatever they want of this post and me. Maybe there's more going on here than I let on that tweaks my attitude from time to time. Maybe there is for you too JD but just because I think of you as a friend doesn't mean that I don't think that you aren't as *bejeebing* messed up as me from time to time. I think we all (male, female, pro and amatuer) get stoopid from time to time and man oh man I'm done talking about it now.

I'm not even sure there's a point in any of that anywhere. It is what it is.

I had posted humor on that YUK! post for the first time in a long time. Then the entire session was pulled.

I may not agree, but I do understand that TR must act/respond if people get offended by something they can respond to. For each regular poster, there are a lot more readers. I just read posts for a long time before I joined. So it is not just the posters that may get offended. I always appreciated humor, if I did not find it funny, I just passed on it for another.

It just seems they could have just pulled the offending jokes so the rest of us could have a clue. It is hard to have really good jokes without offending SOMEBODY!!! I still remember the '7 Words You Cannot Say on TV' by George Carlin. Now you can say all those words on TV and radio.

since I've been threatened with a whooping stick! I'm skeered now.

No offense meant w2k but I don't often see you post anything with much depth to it. I'm not saying that's a bad thing it's just how I see it. Your posts tend to be a little boring, to me, but then it's not your job to entertain me.

Cool that you see the predictability and that it's not just me. It's like you almost know that so and so is going to chime in with such and such. Bleechhh!

You're gone forever, then you come back and post something about drugging cats! What's up with that??

When we get political "jokes" posted, most of them are far from funny. Hate is not funny. Repeatedly calling someone stupid is not funny.

There was a time we were left to fend for ourselves and police ourselves. That time has passed. Don't know what or when the policy change was, but the place is not the open west it was four years ago.

Different people here have different buttons to push, but it is usually intended as playful teasing among friends, not trying to be hurtful or hateful. The adults here take it in stride, knowing it is all meaningless.

If someone takes great offense to an off-color joke, they have more problems in their lives than their lack of humor, and need to grow up. Just remember the poster and don't read any more of their posts and move on with your little life, not a difficult concept for adults.

Will there be a lot of ranting coming up as we enter the REAL political season here in the US? Of course we will. Will people (usually in a rush) poorly explain their position on something and have someone take it the wrong way? Yeah, but so what. Correct yourself and move on. Will I offend someone? gee, I wonder..... Yeah, I can see that happening. Will it surprise anyone here? not one bit. People know where I stand on most issues, and while I might not always agree with your point of view, I am consistent in my views and mature enough to give you the right to be wrong. B-)

That's quite a strong post there!

BTW, have I mentioned lately how hot I am? :)

:^0

No offense taken. Most of my posts are meant not to be in depth, because I lack the ability to word things properly. I leave those mainly to Abs, apotheon, and the like. Often I will write up long posts, and then just decide not to post it as well, because after re-reading I dont like it much, or it should be worded differently. This is another reason why I dont/havent posted any blogs as well.

So basically, I am just not articulate enough

You're consistent, I've got to give you that.

TR's different from what it was even a couple of years ago. I think that if I was to stumble upon it now I wouldn't be nearly as intrigued by it but like I've said before, who cares what I think anyway?

It's comical, to me, to see how some women seem to get treated here and, even better, how they appear to expect to be treated. I should say that it's a vocal few. I don't think it mirrors real-life but then I don't get out of the house much lately.

I've lost a lot of respect and gained a lot of respect for some folks here, men and women, I can say THAT for sure!

BTW-Anybody spare a cigarette? Oh nevermind. I forgot I don't smoke. (I think I'll go shoot/break something now.)

Sometimes I think that people go overboard. I go over-long I know that. You ought to see the crap I type and then delete. No kidding.

I think I've heard that.

I never look at the crap, thats for sure. I will look for that when I get home.

Dan

I had serious issues with F.F. 2, I was totally ticked off because it kept crashing on me. I was ready to quit.

F.F. 3 hasn't crashed on me. Well, maybe once... And I have been running it now for over a month. F.F.2 was crashing mutiple times a day for me at least.

dan

What can I say? When I'm done, I'm done.

sounds like a personal preference! Hey JD is lonely right now :0

Sorry, I had to do it.. No real offense intended!
:^0

I think the 'Gays in IT' podcast is going to come right after the 'D0uche Bags in IT' podcast..

Too weird how some people have problems with TR and some don't. Like I've said, I don't do much of anything special. Adblock Plus on FF 2 point whatever and I'm good to go. Every once in a great while I'll get a page at TR that doesn't display correctly but hitting refresh usually straightens it out. Wish I could help you.

It does speed up loading of pages. Much appreciated.

Dan

go to someones profile and look at the "Site Activity Rating". If they are in the top 100, it will say below the gage to the right #x of Top 100. The "Top 100" is a link to the top 100 list.

I know, they made it a pain to get to when they "improved" the site the last time.

you remembered how much he LOVES being called Marky and just couldn't help yourself, now could you?

actually I got busy try' to learn me somethang. :p -d

Someone obviously cr@pped in your corn flakes...You feeling better now?

You make some points..and i'll agree we can be like children sometimes..but at the end of the day, is it hurting you?

I've never claimed to be *hot*...however..I'd like to think I'm not a complete dog

:)
Have a happy weekend OTR

As far as helping the military... It's not the leaders is it? I always thought it was all of the pesky followers.

I'm feeling much better now. I haven't smoked, drank or gone to jail, yet. That's something positive.

Long story. Had a flood damn near take out our house over the last couple of days and the idea of all four of us being homeless has made me a little bit cranky. I'll spare telling the details but I was this close || to going to jail. I'll be glad when Spring gets here and the county drain commission can permanently fix the problems. Those guys are cool but I'm having a real hard time getting on well with a few of the slow, fat-asses in our Sheriff Dept. I might be going to jail yet. Bail money-Don't leave home without it.