Very close to last post.

[jwar]

I have been having problems posting and making replys. Seems the reply page will not accept a key stroke and go's to another page and is like a lock out untill I hit HTML source editor. I have no problems anywhere else and I may well be in my computor. However its rather frustrating at times trying to post a picture and things disapear and do it a few times,LOL Im not whineing mind you and accept that this is the way it is. My subscription is running out this month and may not be able to get back on here as I am holding the envelope untill I get this sorted out. I was a scriber before it was mandatory to support the forum, as I like this forum so much I kinda felt gilty on the free ride LOL. So anyhow before I get totaly locked out, have enjoyed the help you guys have given my and am delighted to in turn help others, So take care and I will of course be over at railimages...John Warrem

[SpaceMouse]

I don't know about your computer problem, but here is no requirement to subscribe to log on here.

[jwar]

Hi Chip...I could be wrong but I thought only subscribers could post on this forum and a non-subscriber could only look around. I could be wrong...doubt if it would be the first time, and I know not the last...LOL take care...John

[NeO6874]

I'm not a MRR (or any other Kalmbach Pub.) subscriber, and I can still post.  The subscription allows you to get some of the "extras" on the trains.com sites (articles, videos, and the like i think)

[Vail and Southwestern RR]

Hi Chip...I could be wrong but I thought only subscribers could post on this forum and a non-subscriber could only look around. I could be wrong...doubt if it would be the first time, and I know not the last...LOL take care...John

To put it politely, yes, you are mistaken.  You can register for the forums without having a subscription to the magazine.

 

[joe-daddy]

Hi John,

Hope you get your computer straightened out.  How's the layout coming along?  I haven't checked your picture album in a while.

 

Joe Daddy 

[jasperofzeal]

I'm not a MRR (or any other Kalmbach Pub.) subscriber, and I can still post.  The subscription allows you to get some of the "extras" on the trains.com sites (articles, videos, and the like i think)

This is how I understand things to work on here as well.  Subscribers (I happen to be one until June), get to look at extra "goodies", which I've yet to do, that are not available to non-subscribers.  So I think your assumption is correct.

John,

The problems with your postings, are you having problems with your computer?  Have you tried to do a system restore, I'll assume you have windows XP.  This might fix your problem.

[superbe]

Hey jwar,

I experienced this several times and I think it was beacuse I hit the enter key on the key board instead of clicking on post. Just a guess.

Bob

[jwar]

Hi Joe...Havent done much as I have been working at the Church (1.3 M in fire damage)should be back on the layout in a month or so. Perhaps I will email you about my glitch if you dont mind., your pretty savy on such things. Did you expand into your shop area. Take care bud....John

[twhite]

I have been having problems posting and making replys. Seems the reply page will not accept a key stroke and go's to another page and is like a lock out untill I hit HTML source editor. I have no problems anywhere else and I may well be in my computor. However its rather frustrating at times trying to post a picture and things disapear and do it a few times,LOL Im not whineing mind you and accept that this is the way it is. My subscription is running out this month and may not be able to get back on here as I am holding the envelope untill I get this sorted out. I was a scriber before it was mandatory to support the forum, as I like this forum so much I kinda felt gilty on the free ride LOL. So anyhow before I get totaly locked out, have enjoyed the help you guys have given my and am delighted to in turn help others, So take care and I will of course be over at railimages...John Warrem

John--

Are you on dial-up or DSL, or some form of it?  The new forum was driving me plain NUTS until I got DSL, and then everything straightened out for me.  You live in Oroville, I think, don't you?  DSL can be gotten through your TV cable system, and believe me, it's so much easier than Dial-Up, especially the way this new forum is 'formulated'! 

I'd miss your posts--AND your Western Pacific!  Check it out, okay?

Tom

[jwar]

Thank you Tom, the My better half has suggested getting off dial up, using Juno now and havent had a problem before. Tom.... now I owe you two cups of coffee and a donut. Thanks again...John

[jwar]

Bob, Tony...Thank you for your kind info. Now I feel with this input I may be able to do somthing. I was about ready to adjust this thing with a backup-mallet and not the steam kind either. Thanks...John

[selector]

John, you sound like a faint voice crying in the wilderness.  I am happy that so many have come running to your aid.  I am certain that you have a bug, or you are actually, mechanically, doing something wrong.  Do you clean out your temp files regularly and do a defrag about once every 60 days or so?  Have you dumped all your cookies and webpages to start new.  I have no such problems, so I'm afraid it has to be something about you or your setup.  I wish I could nail it for you.

You definitely, most assuredly, do not have to have a subscription to the magazine, only a registration for this forum...and it has zero obligations except that you agree to be a good boy when posting.  I should know, since I have only ever purchased the mag over the counter, and have a huge post count.

Please consider paying a knowledgeable IT type for an hour at your computer and let him figure out what needs updating, upgrading, or a trip to the dump.

[TheK4Kid]

Use Firefox as your browser, get rid of IE ( Internet Explorer--it's th worst of all browsers and full of perils!)

Defrag ONCE A WEEK!!!

 

Yes, and IT guy could probably do wonders for your machine.

I am lucky to have one a s a good friend.

he also helped put together a really neat program called Windows 98 Lite Profesional which separteed Windows from IE, which at the time was the best you could use along with Firefox .

My old PC still runs on it, and has for 7 years! 

[loathar]

I've been having problems too. (DSL) I was using AVG and Adaware but they weren't getting every thing. I switched to Ewido antispyware and it caught a lot more stuff and a couple of Trojan viruses. Things seem to be working better now.

I'm not a subscriber either.

[simon1966]

One thing that trips me up on occasion on this forum may be the same issue that is impacting you.  When you first click reply, the response dialog appears and then there is a couple of second lag as the rich-text formatting buttons appear.  Now I am on hi-speed cable modem and find that if I click too quickly in the dialog box then it is off to another web page on the Trains site.  If you are on dial-up I suspect it takes some time for the input screen to get itself displayed fully.  I really don't think it has anything to do with your browser.  I use IE7 and also FireFox on occasion and have no problems on here with IE7, which has become my preferred browser of late.  It is popular to blame Microsoft for everything, but IMO they actually did something right with IE7. 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I'm definately not a subscriber (have NEVER subscribed to Model Railroader or any of their other publications) and my computer setup is nowhere near new. I'm using a computer that I built from the workbench up. I'm using Windows 98SE with IE (Internet Explorer) 6 with service pack 1 and am having no problems. I have no problems posting replies, pictures or anything else. I've used Norton and McAfee in the past to catch viruses and whatnot and found them seriously lacking in the reliability department. I switched to Defender Pro and haven't looked back since. No more viruses, no trojans, no adware, no pop-ups and very, very little spam.

[Virginian]

I never defrag, as that is the one thing that has caused me program problems in the past.  I run IE, BUT I have not yet upgraded to version 7, because a lot of software has not yet been upgraded to IE 7 compatibility.  Yet.  If you run completely automatic updates, you got 7 as a "critical" update.  I put up with the little red 'X' on my Symantec icon and sent them a dirty email.

I do not love MS, but in my opinion there are advantages to running their products.  The main one is that anybody in business who is worth a hoot usually tries to fix any problems 95% of their customers are having reaching them in rather short order. 

Note, I do not consider a few people having select issues on a free forum something I would consider a critical issue from a business standpoint.

[joe-daddy]

Hi Joe...Havent done much as I have been working at the Church (1.3 M in fire damage)should be back on the layout in a month or so. Perhaps I will email you about my glitch if you dont mind., your pretty savy on such things. Did you expand into your shop area. Take care bud....John

Hi John,

On your computer issues.  Of all the advice you have received so far, I'd say the getting off Dialup is probably the best shot.  Frankly, I have not used a dialup connection on anything but my smart phone in 3 or 4 years, I can only imagine how weird using the internet can be with it today.  So many programs do so much behind the scenes that it is really easy to 'get ahead' of the computer, stacking several inputs before you get the required response from the first input.  This delayed response thing will not only confuse the web site program which is waiting on your first input, but it is really confusing to you, when things you have asked for it to do don't happen.

I run XP pro SP2 on everythign I use and have not had issues with spyware and browser corruption since MS finally cleaned up their act in early 2006.  As for IE and Foxfire, IE6 and Foxfire 1.5 and 2.0 both work well on this site. I have had 'some unbeliveably nasty adventures' and avoid it like the plague.

 

No, I haven't started the expansion yet.  I decided that I needed to 'clean up' some wiring, solve a couple of reliability issuse, finish the block control system and get 1/3 of the current layout with some reasonable scenery before I doubled the plywood vista!  Realisticly, summer time might be a good time to do it.

 

Feel free to send me a PM if you need to talk offline!

I know your Church is thankful to have your services, my good brother!

Joe

[modelmaker51]

One thing that trips me up on occasion on this forum may be the same issue that is impacting you.  When you first click reply, the response dialog appears and then there is a couple of second lag as the rich-text formatting buttons appear.  Now I am on hi-speed cable modem and find that if I click too quickly in the dialog box then it is off to another web page on the Trains site.  If you are on dial-up I suspect it takes some time for the input screen to get itself displayed fully.  I really don't think it has anything to do with your browser.  I use IE7 and also FireFox on occasion and have no problems on here with IE7, which has become my preferred browser of late.  It is popular to blame Microsoft for everything, but IMO they actually did something right with IE7. 

I have the same issue but on DSL, I didn't have it with high speed cable, so I suspect that it's a speed issue.

If you're a Verizon customer, the change to DSL from straight dialup is only a difference of $7-10/month. I pay $17/month. Well worth it IMO.

[jwar]

Just a moment to thank each and every one of you for your input on this glich of mine. I have got this thing working much faster but still using the HTML feature. Im just thankfull for what I got, will see what happens when I get on a DSL. THANKS AGAIN...John

[jasperofzeal]

The next easiest thing to do if you don't want to do too many complex things on windows, would be to simply delete your "cookies".  There have been times when I want to log on to the forums here and when I want to log on to my eBay account and the pages act funny or don't show all the information or some other anomoly.  I just delete cookies and try to log on to the problem site again and voila, it works.  I'm not sure why, but sometimes cookies can get corrupted and cause problems.  If you don't know how to delete cookies, I'd be glad to help.

Also, what are your computer specs?  How fast is your processor and how much memory is installed?  I ask because that also can be an issue.  I have 3 computers (2 desktop and one cheapo laptop), the desktops have 2ghz and 2.2ghz cpus and 512 megs of RAM each while the laptop is a 233mhz cpu and 128 megs or RAM.  I have cable internet (very fast ) with a router that lets me share the connection amongst the 3 computers.  This site that we post on runs like a dream and super fast on the 2 desktops, but on the laptop, the internet is so slow (because the computer hardware can't keep up with the internet data) that it reminds me of the days when I had dial-up.  What I'm saying is that even if you have a super fast internet connection, you will still get dial-up results with slow hardware.  I'm also saying, suggesting, that you might want to try and delete them cookies.