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  • ..Iapetus is pictured here in 3D

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Alan Ianson on Tue Jul 13 09:06:00 2021
    Hello Alan Ianson!

    ** On Tuesday 13.07.21 - 00:20, Alan Ianson wrote to All:

    Astronomy Picture of the Day

    [...]

    ..Iapetus is pictured here in 3D. ..


    That script locks up an older browser and pc up tight. It's
    hard to recover due to the delays that Windows is involved with
    when it locks up.

    On my Win7 and a more recent FF browser, it's fine.

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    ../|ug
    --- OpenXP 5.0.50
    * Origin: (2:221/1.58)
  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.3 to August Abolins on Tue Jul 13 21:46:28 2021
    That script locks up an older browser and pc up tight.

    You mean when you visit the apod website it locks up your PC?

    It's hard to recover due to the delays that Windows is involved with
    when it locks up.

    Computers and web browsers seem to change so fast these days that things that worked yesterday may or may not work today in favour of whatever the new thing is.

    On my Win7 and a more recent FF browser, it's fine.

    I don't actually have an older OS or web browser I can run. I've noticed that ftp links don't work anymore in my FF, v 90.something.

    That's a real bummer for me but I guess that's progress, or something.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.3)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Alan Ianson on Wed Jul 14 01:43:00 2021
    Hello Alan Ianson!

    ** On Tuesday 13.07.21 - 21:46, Alan Ianson wrote to August Abolins:

    That script locks up an older browser and pc up tight.

    You mean when you visit the apod website it locks up your PC?

    Well.. as the APOD page was trying to render, there was nothing
    I could do to. I couldn't move the mouse, keyboard commands
    were unresposive (even ctr-alr-del to get the task manager
    wouldn't work) ..to the point where I was ready to force a hard
    shutdown 'cuz nothing seemed to be changing for a very long
    time.

    But, I noticed that the wifi-light on the pc was still showing
    activity, so I gave everything a chance and waited a bit
    longer.

    On my Win7 and a more recent FF browser, it's fine.

    I don't actually have an older OS or web browser I can
    run. I've noticed that ftp links don't work anymore in my
    FF, v 90.something.

    Yeah.. ftp from the browser was very convenient. I liked it.

    That's a real bummer for me but I guess that's progress,
    or something.

    It's breaking the enjoyment of visiting some web-bbses that
    offered file areas directly from the browser.

    --
    ../|ug
    --- OpenXP 5.0.50
    * Origin: (2:221/1.58)