Your further diy web site thoughts?

[Barman]

No, I did mean GPS. Global Positioning System or is it sattelite?

That's what they said to me on the blower anyway. I assume that's how it werks without wires or the need for a telephone. Bit like sat nav?
What's a GSM then?

GPS (Global Positioning System) is a receive-only system that purely tells you where you are.

Your unit will effectively have a mobile ?phone in it so the technology will be GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). 

[GROWLER]

No, I did mean GPS. Global Positioning System or is it sattelite?

That's what they said to me on the blower anyway. I assume that's how it werks without wires or the need for a telephone. Bit like sat nav?
What's a GSM then?

GPS (Global Positioning System) is a receive-only system that purely tells you where you are.

Your unit will effectively have a mobile ?phone in it so the technology will be GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). 

Yea, that's what I meant to say.
GPS was just a slip of the keyboard...a typo.

First page of the instruction manual says 'firstly you need a telephone'

[Grumpmeister]

No, I did mean GPS. Global Positioning System or is it sattelite?

That's what they said to me on the blower anyway. I assume that's how it werks without wires or the need for a telephone. Bit like sat nav?
What's a GSM then?

GPS (Global Positioning System) is a receive-only system that purely tells you where you are.

Your unit will effectively have a mobile ?phone in it so the technology will be GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). 

Not forgetting PCN or Public Cellular Networlk, an alternative protocol used by certain service providers.

[Misunderstood]

No, I did mean GPS. Global Positioning System or is it sattelite?

That's what they said to me on the blower anyway. I assume that's how it werks without wires or the need for a telephone. Bit like sat nav?
What's a GSM then?

GPS (Global Positioning System) is a receive-only system that purely tells you where you are.

Your unit will effectively have a mobile ?phone in it so the technology will be GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). 

Not forgetting PCN or Public Cellular Networlk, an alternative protocol used by certain service providers.

What's wrong with a GPS card system?

It's terribly important to know exactly where the machine is when you put your card into it.

In case it runs away with your card or you were not actually in the shop that you thought you were...

Shit like this happens....  best to be prepared ... 



Anyway, what's wrong with the POTS method?   

[Barman]

No, I did mean GPS. Global Positioning System or is it sattelite?

That's what they said to me on the blower anyway. I assume that's how it werks without wires or the need for a telephone. Bit like sat nav?
What's a GSM then?

GPS (Global Positioning System) is a receive-only system that purely tells you where you are.

Your unit will effectively have a mobile ?phone in it so the technology will be GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). 

Not forgetting PCN or Public Cellular Networlk, an alternative protocol used by certain service providers.

What's wrong with a GPS card system?

It's terribly important to know exactly where the machine is when you put your card into it.

In case it runs away with your card or you were not actually in the shop that you thought you were...

Shit like this happens....  best to be prepared ... 



Anyway, what's wrong with the POTS method?   

POTS... 

[Snoopy]

No, I did mean GPS. Global Positioning System or is it sattelite?

That's what they said to me on the blower anyway. I assume that's how it werks without wires or the need for a telephone. Bit like sat nav?
What's a GSM then?

GPS (Global Positioning System) is a receive-only system that purely tells you where you are.

Your unit will effectively have a mobile ?phone in it so the technology will be GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). 

Not forgetting PCN or Public Cellular Networlk, an alternative protocol used by certain service providers.

What's wrong with a GPS card system?

It's terribly important to know exactly where the machine is when you put your card into it.

In case it runs away with your card or you were not actually in the shop that you thought you were...

Shit like this happens....  best to be prepared ... 



Anyway, what's wrong with the POTS method?   

POTS... 

You had to ask didn't you?

[GROWLER]

Been having a spot of trouble getting alterations/editing to show on my web site.
It does, eventually, but can take several hours sometimes, and very occassionally days.
 Loaded a new picture in the gallery this morning, and it's only just showed up now.
Stupidly I'd already put this picture in the gallery, so it's a bit irrelevant now and will have to be deleted.

I sent a ticket to the server, and they've replied stating that it will probably be because of my server.
Oh?
Really?

What's THAT all about then, and how do I 'fix' the server?

TBH, I'm not actually too sure what the server does...apart from serve up what I see on here I presume?

[Misunderstood]

POTS... 

You had to ask didn't you?

   Plain Old Telephone System.

Know by the trade as POTS

[Misunderstood]

Been having a spot of trouble getting alterations/editing to show on my web site.
It does, eventually, but can take several hours sometimes, and very occassionally days.
 Loaded a new picture in the gallery this morning, and it's only just showed up now.
Stupidly I'd already put this picture in the gallery, so it's a bit irrelevant now and will have to be deleted.

I sent a ticket to the server, and they've replied stating that it will probably be because of my server.
Oh?
Really?

What's THAT all about then, and how do I 'fix' the server?

TBH, I'm not actually too sure what the server does...apart from serve up what I see on here I presume?

Your connection to the internet is via your IP's server - that 'serves' the internet to you.   Your site host has a 'server' that stores your site and serves it on demand to anyone that asks - if it can.

That generates a lot of traffic in the internet for supplying servers dishing out the same old data time after time to the same people that keep looking at it (the owner for example) and the usual method to reduce frequently requested site information locally where you access it (and think you are looking at the live site).

Most of the time nobody notices and all's well but when you are looking for posted changes to appear the latency of a cached page becomes obvious, depending on the frequency of your local server's update of the live page you can spend minutes, hours or even days before you receive the updated site.

Sometimes, it can be your own fault by not clicking on 'Update' or 'Refresh' and end up continuing looking in vain at your own computer's cached image believing it to be live.

[GROWLER]

So in a nutshell, what do I do apart from clear my cache, which I've done with CCleaner, and lost all my passwords as a consequence...some retrieved, some not, YET?

[Misunderstood]

So in a nutshell, what do I do apart from clear my cache, which I've done with CCleaner, and lost all my passwords as a consequence...some retrieved, some not, YET?

Not much you can do really except for refreshing the page you are viewing in your browser.  Arguing with your IP about their update intervals is usually futile.

I have found accessing the site from another computer to be helpful as I know it will be taking a fresh look at it.

I don't know about IE but I use Firefox and it has a bolt-on that refreshes my pages automatically every minute, two minutes or 5 and so on to save me the bother,  but it's a bugger when trying to do this (write a thread) as it keeps renewing the page and erasing what I've written, you need to disable it or write very quickly...

[Barman]

So in a nutshell, what do I do apart from clear my cache, which I've done with CCleaner, and lost all my passwords as a consequence...some retrieved, some not, YET?

Not much you can do really except for refreshing the page you are viewing in your browser.  Arguing with your IP about their update intervals is usually futile.

I have found accessing the site from another computer to be helpful as I know it will be taking a fresh look at it.

I don't know about IE but I use Firefox and it has a bolt-on that refreshes my pages automatically every minute, two minutes or 5 and so on to save me the bother,  but it's a bugger when trying to do this (write a thread) as it keeps renewing the page and erasing what I've written, you need to disable it or write very quickly...

What he says?

Another good way to get around the ?caching? (if that is indeed the problem) is to use a proxy ? if you go to http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html you can get a completely ?fresh? look at your web site from an external perspective. it is also good for finding those little links to your hard drive that you can never spot?
 

[GROWLER]

Just tried that B/M, and it didn't seem to do much other than show an annoying pop up and oh, my entire gallery had disappeared too.
What exactly is supposed to happen? I wasn't expecting dancing bears or owt, but I was expecting something exciting and different.
I feel somewhat disillusioned and let down now.


Getting away from this aol crap may well help, yes?

[Barman]

Just tried that B/M, and it didn't seem to do much other than show an annoying pop up and oh, my entire gallery had disappeared too.
What exactly is supposed to happen? I wasn't expecting dancing bears or owt, but I was expecting something exciting and different.
I feel somewhat disillusioned and let down now.


Getting away from this aol crap may well help, yes?

If you use Anonymouse and type in your web address it should allow you to see it as others do ? i.e. it will not be using any files that are stored in your browser or on your PC.

It is actually a tool for hiding your IP address and location when you are surfing the ?tinterweb but I use it as described above.

I also get the annoying pop-up ads which go away if you actually buy it but I only use it rarely and haven?t bothered.

AOL does have some limitations I?m afraid although somebody on another site was swearing by it (not at it) the opther day providing you don?t use any of the AOL ?tools?.

[GROWLER]

Just tried that B/M, and it didn't seem to do much other than show an annoying pop up and oh, my entire gallery had disappeared too.
What exactly is supposed to happen? I wasn't expecting dancing bears or owt, but I was expecting something exciting and different.
I feel somewhat disillusioned and let down now.


Getting away from this aol crap may well help, yes?

If you use Anonymouse and type in your web address it should allow you to see it as others do ? i.e. it will not be using any files that are stored in your browser or on your PC.

It is actually a tool for hiding your IP address and location when you are surfing the ?tinterweb but I use it as described above.

I also get the annoying pop-up ads which go away if you actually buy it but I only use it rarely and haven?t bothered.

AOL does have some limitations I?m afraid although somebody on another site was swearing by it (not at it) the opther day providing you don?t use any of the AOL ?tools?.

So, in essence, what you are saying is that my bloody gallery is not on show to anyone but me?!
Greeeeeat.

Have considered getting out of aohell, but quite a few have warned me to expect major problems completely getting away from them, all their software being buried in here now apparently, and extremely difficult to eradicate completely.
They aren't too bad in many ways, and i am used to the layout which I find user friendly and easy to navigate my way around.
As an example of their quirkiness though, look at the trouble me and Degsy had getting in here....no authorisation emails received for aol users.
 What's THAT all about then?