Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

[Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:30:21 Basil Chupin wrote:
> Rodney Baker wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:53:39 Basil Chupin wrote:
> > > Clayton wrote:
> > > > > Which version of Firefox are you using - IF you are using FF?
> > > >
> > > > Firefox 3.5.3 as well as Seamonkey (latest) and others.  It doesn't
> > > > seem to be related directly to the browser.
> > > >
> > > > I still have to spend some time trying some of the recent suggestions.
> > > >
> > > > When this problem hits, it only seems to affect loading webpages in
> > > > any browser... like port 80 was briefly closed or something.
> > > >
> > > > I have to dig deeper into the Router logs to see if there is something
> > > > there... and also test the access to the router itself is actually
> > > > interrupted or if it was co-incidental.
> > > >
> > > > Interesting about the Firefox thing.  I might have to try downgrading
> > > > to an earlier FF version... just to see if it makes  a difference.
> > > >
> > > > C.
> > >
> > > These sorts of problems are a bugger to try and resolve :-( .
> > >
> > > Especially when people either do not provide the correct answers or
> > > deliberately mislead you when answering your questions -- but none of
> > > this refers to the above, just a preamble to the following about trying
> > > to solve problems....
> > >
> > > I spent 3 months of agonising over why one particular person could not
> > > stay connected more than 10 minutes to the BBS I was operating. Of
> > > course the problem ONLY happened when he connected to "my" BBS and not
> > > any other BBS in the city (naturally!). I told him to try quite a number
> > > of things to try and eliminate step at a time where the problem may lie.
> > > One of the things I asked him to do was to either, or both, go to
> > > friend's house in a different suburb/telephone exchange and see if the
> > > problem persisted, or borrow another modem and see if the problem of
> > > disconnection persisted. He told me that he did both -- and the problem
> > > persisted. (Yet nobody else of the other 600+ users was having the same
> > > problem).
> > >
> > > This particular person was living with 2 or 3 other fellows, sharing the
> > > house and the phone line. The problem was finally resolved by another
> > > person living in the same house whose name, would you believe it, was
> > > (Andrew) *Clayton* :-) , really, who pulled the phone cord from the
> > > socket one night when X was connected to "my" BBS (we had dial-up
> > > connections at the time) - and the problem disappeared. X who kept
> > > complaining about his inability to maintain a connection to "my" BBS was
> > > telling me BS stories about doing what I asked him (about going to
> > > another suburb, etc) - he didn't do anything of the kind. The problem
> > > all along lay in the new telephone model which our telco was installing
> > > for new customers: the phone would draw power from the 'phone line every
> > > 10 minutes to recharge its NVAM and this caused line noise which the
> > > modem(s) would see as unacceptable line noise and therefore drop the
> > > connection. Problem solved, but for 3 months I was given the run around
> > > by a person who could not tell the truth about doing what I asked him to
> > > do. (And he ended up in the IT industry!  :'( ) But that's history
> > > now...... :-)  .
> > >
> > > BC
> >
> > Ah, yes. The good old days of dial-up modems and the early Telstra "Touch
> > Phones"...
>
> Yes... the ol' (?)1000 Series wasn't it? :-)
>
> (But *not* Telstra 'Touch Phone". It was Telecom - which later became
> Telstra after being partially privatised and had that middle-management
> AT&T hack (for the life of me I cannot remember his name!) appointed by
> President Johnson to run it.)
>
> BC

Quite right - it was Telecom Australia back then. I may be showing my age, but 
I can remember as a young boy when the PMG was split up to form Telecom 
Australia and Australia Post (way before the days of push-button phones, tone 
dialling and all that...but now we're getting way OT...

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