Because it knows there's 'corruption' around, and it tries to "tread carefully"...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
On my Windows 7 pc, since an hour or so I cannot pull up any websites in Firefox, my preferred browser, apart from ILX and my webmail. I restarted my pc, didn't do anything special, but nothing (from Google to eBay, from bbc to tumblr) will show, Firefox showing me that "check your network" error. Apart from ILX and webmail!
Anyone got any idea as to why this is?
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
here's a google result from a similar query, since you can't google? No experience over here - but I am a lifelong, crazy, Opera browser girl.
I had the same problem with a website i was visiting and finally found what seems like a fix. heres how i did it.
1) go to tools and click options
2) click on the advanced button and then click the network tab
3) then under connections click settings
4) click auto-detect proxy settings for this network.
hope this works for you as it worked for me.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks Lex, but no dice. I also checked if windows firewall was off as it's supposed to be, and it still is.
It's bizarre to me that ILX works but nothing else does, not even Google...
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm just shooting in the dark but here's another post I found, maybe? It is a very bizarre problem!
The problem is not Windows 7 , the problem is within Firefox 7, and it is because of the network.http.max-connections that were set to 256 , and that is way to much. You need to change it to 48, follow this steps In the address bar, type about:config If it shows up, click on I’ll be careful Filter for network.http.max-connections Click on network.http.max-connections Change this from 256 to 48 Restart Firefox
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks again for all the help and effort FFM. Shortly after, last night, I lost connection completely. Went through firewall settings, safe mode, back to an earlier restore point etc, all to no avail, but it turned out my DNS settings had changed. I'm completely in the dark about how that happened, but that was the problem. Still can't grasp why ILX did work and the rest didn't, or why Firefox didn't work but Maxthon did. I hate these (Windows) problems that just arise out of nowhere, but am counting my blessings at the moment. Thanks again for helping out!
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm happy to have tried! How very bizarre...I guess they knew it would be cruel to take away ILX as well as everything else ;)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 6 January 2012 13:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Like you expect Windows to do things that make sense?
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Friday, 6 January 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Too right ;)
xp
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 13:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know Lee, mad naive
hah so i dug up this thread to ask: does anyone know why my apple devices tend to self-assign themselves IP addresses when they can't quite connect to the nearby wifi? (my current logic for it being something like 'because they do not want to disappoint me by not having an IP address at all', which I understand involves giving them rather too much of an internal life)
and discovered that this was a problem Alba was having seven years ago! and people didn't really have much of a way of explaining it then.
endlessly recurring boring computer problems, oh no
― c sharp major, Thursday, 26 April 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
5-yr-old macbook has randomly shut down completely twice in the past hour. never had this particular problem before. this means it's dying right? and i should replace it? ok, been gearing up to that for a while. but more pertinently is it only going to work in half hour bursts from here on in? because i have urgent work to be doing now and aaaarghhhhhhhhhhh
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Friday, 11 May 2012 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
also advise me re: replacements. this is a 5-yr-old macbook OS X that i bought for about £600 iirc. what's the best basic equivalent model these days? is "around the same price" feasible?
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Friday, 11 May 2012 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
why is my macbook randomly downloading files called things like "l.php" from the internet without me telling it to
when i open them they're empty text files, i don't know where they come from or what they are and they don't seem to be doing any harm?
i hate this computer so much but i have no idea how to buy a new one
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 08:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
http://www.codehesive.com/index.php/archive/facebook-privacy-and-the-mystery-of-l-php/
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 09:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh ok but why are the files downloading to my computer?
they're not always called "l.php", can't remember offhand but "comments.php" has happened. they're always php files though
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 09:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
why? why why why why why is it doing this?
textedit is just...not saving?
i closed my macbook lid last night with several document open in textedit. if i change them today, they all save fine, except ONE - it just says it can't be saved, doesn't give an explanation. i tried duplicating it and saving that as a new document - no error message appears but the new document doesn't save at all, anywhere. the same thing happens if i try to create new documents from scratch, as well. WHAT is going on and why? this makes no sense. this is bloody TEXTEDIT, what on earth is there to go wrong? and why must it happen on a monday morning?
― lex pretend, Monday, 3 September 2012 07:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
Argh. This is driving me fucking bonkers. For two weeks solid now any and all NPR podcasts are taking forever to download through the iTunes store. Like 41 to 57 hours. All other podcasts are download at their typical speeds with absolutely no problems, this is only happening to the three NPR podcasts I subscribe to. I've asked around and no one else seems to be having any problems, so apparently its not like a widespread issue. I've tried unsubscribing and resubscribing to them all, no dice. I've tried downloading them each directly from their individual sites and from feeds, with the same extremely slow download speeds. This is infuriating and I'm just going to have to quit listening to some of my favorite podcasts now. Anyone ever dealt with a similar issue?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 September 2012 03:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
this started happening with random things I was downloading; I eventually "fixed" it by repeatedly pausing the download, waiting and resuming the download to check to see if the download speed had picked back up
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 03:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
anyone else got the 'green dot moneypak' virus? got it on the laptop i do most of my writing on in the middle of the night while i was working on a couple of things with deadlines, really fucked me up. have already gone through the motions w/ one site's advice on how to fix it to no avail.
― some dude, Monday, 24 September 2012 03:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
Saw someone else mention this, but at least through iTunes I can't even pause these ones for some reason! Its only giving me the 'x' to completely cancel the download.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 September 2012 03:09 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't download podcasts, maybe you can't pause them
can def pause music/apps
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 03:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
All of my other podcasts download over 100 kbps, but these are all at 3-4 kbps on the high end. I just can't figure it out. If all my downloads were this slow, it'd obviously be a speed or connectivity thing, but it's just these three things. And the fact that they're all NPR gives me a common denominator to make me think its on their end, but no one else seems to be having issues with them and they won't respond to feedback.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 September 2012 03:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
A little searching shows that people have had problems if they download directly to an external hard drive, which I do, but disconnecting that and downloading directly to my hard drive doesn't help. Also saw a suggestion to turn off the firewall or adjust settings to allow iTunes to connect. Tried that, still no dice. So its apparently not an iTunes thing or an external hard drive thing. This is baffling.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 September 2012 03:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
Alight, so tested this on my wife's laptop on three different occasions and same problems there. Is there some weird reason our router would just be having trouble with downloads from one particular source?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 September 2012 03:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
P much just liveblogging this for my own amusement at this point, but tonight's update: one of the three downloaded as usual in like 25 seconds, the second says its going to take about 2 hours, the third keeps stopping with errors after giving me estimated download times of 128+ hours. WTF.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
you've tried multiple computers in your home, have you tried your work computer? or wi fi at a cafe or something?
― boxall, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yeah I tried downloading one of the three at my office today and it seemed pretty normal, took like 2 or 3 minutes.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
And I've narrowed it down a little, both of the ones I'm still having problems with are associated with WBEZ Chicago, more specifically than just NPR. So there's a common link, but I still don't get why it would be with just stuff from that site.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
the way their pledge break requests make it sound, every public radio program seems technically and fiscally responsible for the bandwidth of their respective podcasts.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't know. I thought I had gotten somewhere with both of those two, but they timed out with errors. I sent their tech support an email, but never heard back from them.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
i remember emailing TAL once asking if they thought about torrenting their podcasts to reduce bandwidth costs and they said they were considering it! but... I guess they were just considering it.
They should change their name to All Things Considered...but only Considered.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
lol
So after more googling I see this isn't a rare problem, found a lot of advice about making sure you have the latest iTunes (I do) but to also try flushing your DNS cache or trying to download with your Firewall off. Tried both, still no dice.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
This is really frustrating.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
i dunno if it screws up your itunes thing or anything, but I believe TAL and most wbez programs let you download directly as standalone MP3s? (at least for the latest week's show)
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
That's what makes this so frustrating, completely setting aside iTunes, trying to download the mp3 files directly from the TAL or Sound Opinions sites results in the same insanely slow speeds. Which, like I said, leads me to believe this is a WBEZ issue but they refuse to respond to emails and no one else seems to having problems. Its like my router just refuses to play nice with their download server. I've tried with/without fireall, through iTunes, through the sites directly, I'm lost.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
urm... not to make ira glass mad but um... here:tpparty.com/447.mp3
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
Thanks, I'm actually more interested in figuring out why this isn't working. So following the trail, it actually looks like these two podcasts in question (TAL and Sound Opinions) do come from different servers, so that isn't the common link I thought it might've been.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
Before I give up again for now, one last silly question. Is it possible that its an issue with just my provider? Like Comcast is just having issues with these particular servers? Does that even make sense?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
You could be having packets being dropped between you and the host. Open up a terminal and ping the domain.
― svend, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
i was able to get it pretty fast so i think it is something on your end (either comcast or your setup)i dunno if comcast still caps people's bandwidth? have you tried the ol' turn off router, turn back on litany?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:49 (7 months ago) Permalink
No packet loss coming back when I pinged the domains.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
Everything else I download has been absolutely fine, I mean just now I downloaded another podcast that was twice the size of TAL and it was done in about 45 seconds.
if you have a wireless setup, the QOS might be messed up? Also, if you got it already, I'm going to remove it for fear of Sarah Vowell showing up at my doorstep with a billy club.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
Go ahead and take it down, thanks, I wouldn't wish her on you.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
this might be a long shot but type this in a terminal and see if it downloads faster that way:
curl -O http://audio.soundopinions.org/podcasts/sooppodshow356.mp3
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
Started out decent, but within about 30 seconds it was estimating 11 hours to finish.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:06 (7 months ago) Permalink
Oh well, thanks for the suggestions, I'm giving up for tonight. This is giving me a headache. I keep hoping it'll magically clear up the next day, but after 2 weeks I don't think that is likely.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
crossposted from the RSS thread I bumped a little while ago
The way Firefox handles RSS feeds, as folders full of links to the constantly updating list of stories, is perfect for me. In almost every other respect, I've started to loathe Firefox. Is there ANY way to get Safari or Chrome to do this, either via a setting I haven't figured out or a plug-in or extension?
― Dr. Alfred P. Falfa (WilliamC), Monday, 4 February 2013 17:29 (3 months ago) Permalink
Never used it, but try Foxish for Chrome?
― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:08 (3 months ago) Permalink