General Chat

There is a time and place for everything and imho the reading room is not the place for a smart phone or any other kind of phone. I like to read any of Sporting Life, l'Equipe, the FT, MicroMart, TheTimes, Le Monde or El Pais depending on where we are, paper version as I believe in recycling.

Our neighbour's smartphone suffered the same fate he says and now he is pestering me for an old feature phone. He appears to have recovered the SIM card tho' I thankfully have no details.

I am too lazy to sort out the cats cradle of dead and unloved relics so he will have to wait. He should not spend all his spare cash at The Goat and Tricycle.

If the Home Office wants to restore civilisation in the UK then finding some way to deprive the under 30s of mobile phone usage for a period would be more effective than anything else.

Mine has any amount of stuff coming in, not a lot out. I regard it as a non optional item of torture.

In previous times it technologists wore hair shirts and were regarded as saints and heroes e.g. the Venerable Bede, Alan Turing. Now the hair short has been replace by the smart phone and the I.T. guy is regarded as an overpaid and stupid disciple of Beelzebub.

As for Smartphones mine fell down the loo last week...best place for the bleddy thing I say :-D

I have been making a few investigations. The current slowness is down to GRu yet again making a mess of integrating the latest twists and turns in Google Analytics and Ad Tracking. The reason for the changes lie partly with the increasingly popular AdBlock program ( which does not block DoubleClick ).

Some sites are giving up on revenue from web advertising and implementing paywalls eg Murdoch, the Economist, FT, Telegraph. Some are very ez to work around others less so. However there is a pretty finite limit to how many of these subs most people can run to. GRU does not in fact make gadzillions from its ads ( industry sources ) and I for one would prefer a subs only site. For classic members ( no records ) this could be done without any massive increase in subs. Performance would improve no end and encourage a growth in subs.

It is all very well for people to regard a PC ad plug it in and go / if it ain't broke don't fix it. These tend to be exactly the computers full of malware, taken over by botnets and worse.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss but not when running windoze. Those who like fit and forget systems would be well advised to use Apple, both for desktop/laptop and smartphones.

If you would like a step by step guide in plain English of what Rollo is saying (correctly but maybe in Swahili for some) then please PM me and I'll put something together.

Again, thanks Rollo

I agree Jax......

I havent a clue sometimes how things are explained by Rollo, do not get me wrong if you are that way inclined with a computer and a techy then thats fine but there are soooo many on here including myself who have no idea whatsoever what is being posted :-(....

I'm in the queue as well Errol.

I was going to do some work on here today, don't think I'll bother. Yet another day when I go over to your competition GR. At this rate I won't bother adding anything more onto my tree on GR.

If it doesn't improve I may not continue my membership as at the moment it's a waste of time trying to do anything. :-(

Rollo

You may know what you are talking about....but a lot of people who use this site do not understand a word of that gobbly gook.

My knowledge of pc's is turn it on and go to site end of

What do you mean Joy?

Cheers Rollo

Just bookmarking general chat or whatever won't save you from google tags you'll have to edit the host file.

And mine Joy.

"bookmark a forum eg general chat"

- that is how it is bookmarked on my computer.

The current burp seems to be that they have added in googletagmanager for the advertising. If you have a slowish connection it won't be much of a help.
If you don't want google tagged ads then:
Find the hosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

( it is a text file with no extension, notepad will do fine )

and add these lines:
127.0.0.1 d.unamis.com
127.0.0.1 www.googletagmanager.com

save the file
Restart yr web browser
( if you have Vista or Win8 you will need to run notepad as administrator)

but bookmark a forum eg general chat rather than the home page as otherwise startup will be slow while it waits for googletags and eventually gives up.

Errol can give you more how-to it's not my forte.

Members of GR have been assured in writing by GR staff that the browser used is irrelevant.

However, my computer is vista and the browser is chrome, both up to date.

The slowness of GR right now is appalling and is unacceptable.

:-|

Connecting to this site took ages...about 5 minutes.I can't ever remember it taking that long before.I'm in Australia,by the way.

Margot.

Rollo is quite right in what he says in some ways but the issue here is the sudden reduction in service rather than the ongoing issues many members have suffered.

so what has that got to do with GR being so slow....nothing

Don't use Internet Explorer 6,7,8.

These versions of the browser have all kinds of compliance problems.
One result is that web sites give degraded performance or in some cases won't run at all.

Even worse IE8 has some pretty awful security holes which all the patches in the world cannot fix. Microsoft encourage people to upgrade and they are right.

Some things are forever but not web browsers or computer operating systems.

Rollo

Any chance we could have that in English pleeeease .....

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/announcements/thread/1330245

Speed of the site - update
21 Aug 2013 11:47


We're really sorry to hear that some of you are having problems using the site. We know that it has been really slow for some of you recently. Our technical team have been working on this for the last couple of days and are doing their best to get it fixed. They know what part of the problem is and they're just trying to find out exactly where it is happening. We realise how frustrating it is for you when you're trying to carry out your research. And again we are really sorry.

The Genes Team.
...........

Don't know about 'Some' probably 'All'! - its only the minority who use the boards on a regular basis who have publicly complained about it.

Joining the queue and would like
to thank eRRol for being our front man
:-)