&*%@#@$ Sun machine...

[CosmicDust]

This dang forum works even WORSE on my office computer than the old INTP forum did. Even reloading doesn't allow me to read a lot of pages. And in some cases not even closing and reopening the browser and signing back in again is working. Maybe these things would load if I gave them time, but I'm impatient.

Well, I suppose something had to encourage me to spend less time ditzing around so I can get some work done...between this new INTP forum and the change in the EIDB with the unmoderated EIDB refugees' board being (a) not viewable from my Sun workstation and (b) slow in recent times anyway, and then my upcoming time at home and then on vacation in Maine, I just might get used to less forum time.

But then, what do I really get from this anyway? If the point is to enjoy life before I die, to make this road less miserable to walk than it could be...well, in a sense we're all island Universes, and nothing is guaranteed. So I guess I've gotta work on my relationship with the rest of the Universe. I can do that when I'm up in Maine, perhaps.

[paladinoflunaria]

If the point is to enjoy life before I die, to make this road less miserable to walk than it could be...

That's a tough walk. Suffering is a very complex system.


well, in a sense we're all island Universes, and nothing is guaranteed. So I guess I've gotta work on my relationship with the rest of the Universe

Do you mean studying other people's islands rather than your own, or do you mean studying the ocean that all of these islands are in?

[CosmicDust]

Yay! I was able to read this. (Every once in a while my Sun computer will let me read one of these.) Also, there's a new uncensored EIDB-spinoff community that I can view from my office.

I really don't know if there's a clear way to minimize suffering. There are probably ways to increase it, but I'm not even sure if maximizing it is a realistic possibility.

The rest of the Universe includes both the ocean and the islands within it. It's also interesting to reflect on how everything is connected to everything else...life and material migrates between islands through the ocean and the air.

[file cabinet]

So why is it your workstation has problems viewing this site?

[CosmicDust]

I don't know for sure, but I think it's that the crappy Netscape is just not always quick to load stuff or good at loading stuff. I can view the site fine from my office, but when I try to read the topics there it's hit or miss.

Of course, IE has its own problems...I do automatic Windows Update so the basic security stuff is probably taken care of sufficiently for my usage, but it crashes fairly often for no reason. I'm thinking of switching to Mozilla because of this. Do you know if it crashes less than IE?

[file cabinet]

Mozilla or Firefox are known to be more reliable. What version of Netscape are you using?

[CosmicDust]

I forget, but I think my office has 4.75 or something - really low. That's the problem. And since it's part of a huge network where the internet and similar stuff are shared among computers (my workstation is really nothing more than a smart terminal, and I can access my same files and logged in/out status from any Sun workstation in the network), I don't know if it's kosher to download a new web browser. I'm also not sure how I'd make it work if I did. It's just a minor annoyance. I can live with it. I have other forums to browse when I don't feel like working (which is probably more often than not).

[CosmicDust]

The browser works for all the stuff I need to do astronomy research. So why should I raise a stink if it prevents me from goofing off? Wouldn't that be kind of a good thing? Besides, I saw this e-mail about some of the computers being upgraded soon...I don't know if mine is going to be one of them or not, or if it already happened.

There's probably a reason, like time or money, that they haven't upgraded the browser. It's a freaking HUGE network.