You mentioned it, Boss… so I just had to! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0

Ready… Set… POUNCE!

Well, I didn’t notice much performance issues with the current box, but faster is always good. However, I never liked Linux-based virtualization.. and prefer Hyper-V.

The new machine might even be as fast with the Spectre/Meltdown patches installed as the old one was without! 🙂

-Noel

Colonel Sandurz: Ludicrous Speed? Sir, we’ve never gone that fast before! I don’t know if the ship can take it!

Dark Helmet: What’s the matter, Colonel Sandurz? Chicken?

Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I love watching Spaceballs. Especially Pizza The Hutt.

I’ve heard rumours that the innumerable millions, Woody made from book sellings and the even more millions pouring in from worldwide donations, are partly being spent on this nifty, little setup?

Spectre? Meltdown? Bring it on!

Perhaps by Monday, we will all have gone to plaid.

Lacking any inspirational humorous contribution at the moment, I’ll just wish Woody and his devs the best of luck on Sunday night!

I have unblocked the ad provider (at least one of them) but unfortunately the ad appears to require scripting (specifically javascipt) in order to render anything. I don’t allow advertisers to run any javascript, and their ads have no fallback so I don’t see any ads.

If you want me to see any of your ads your ad-provider is going to need generate the ad server side and provide it in html (“img”, “a href”, etc..), typically in an iframe.

Thanks.

As long as it moves faster than I do…

@woody, might you and we have to “settle” for plain ol’ Lightspeed instead of Ludicrous speed after the Spectre and Meltdown patches are fully applied to said servers (I know, they’re running Ubuntu) or might they not be too terribly impacted performance-wise by the microcode updates once those are released in their final form?? 😉

Bon chance! Break a leg! And any other form of well wishes for your efforts tonight. May the shift be seamless in every way that matters.

It’s back! What’s the warp speed?

It is ripping a hole in the fabric of the space time continuum!

anonymous wrote:

@seff- Since your phone is a Samsung, then it probably has an Android OS. Please do yourself a HUGE favor and go get either Chrome or Firefox (your choice, of course) from the Google Play Store and install it and use it as your default browser on the phone. Either one of them is MUCH MORE preferable to using the built-in default browser on the phone for security reasons. Both Chrome and Firefox are updated very regularly, unlike the built-in browser which is, in many cases, only updated when the either the phone manufacturer or the cell carrier decides to push out native Android updates to their users/subscribers. At least that’s how things work in the U.S. for Android-based cell phones and other devices like tablets that may happen to use the cellular networks.

Don’t Android phones now come with Chrome as the default browser?  It did on my phone, a ZTE ZMax Pro.

Well, I am not positive the switch has been made, but from how ast the site came up today, I would say in the language of the Mercury 7 astronauts, “We have liftoff and all is A-OK!”

My machine is the same as yesterday, but the site actually pops up. No churn, no wait at all. Congratulations!

PS: If the site is still the old one, well something is fixed. So, still congrats!

Not seeing a whole lot of difference, frankly, though I didn’t really have any complaints before.

I see that the reply nesting seems to be gone.

-Noel

No speed issues, assume the update went fine. But I really did not have any problems before hand, so hard for me to judge.

One thing to report is the times on the posts are off .  For example there is a post dated February 19, 2018 at 10:52 pm ( post #168732) and it is only 5:12 CST as I am submitting this post

Sue

woody wrote:

I just blocked a bunch of ad categories. It may take a day or two from the new settings to take effect.

Only seeing seven trackers. No whiplash yet.

For me this afternoon, the AskWoody homepage has failed at handshake, prior to loading content, several times. I have arrived here through an archived sub-address, and have not yet attempted to load the homepage.

The difficulty appears specific to AskWoody. Several other domains that I frequent, not related to technology, load with normal speed. This is tested within the same PaleMoon session, in separate tabs. Hope all is well with others. Will check back later.

Cascadian

AskWoody has definitely gone to Ludicrous Speed – 90 seconds to log in and an average of 1 minute to load a page.

I’m not feeling the love here 🙁

Edit to remove HTML

AskPlaidy just doesn’t sound right.

Giggled with the suggestion, and the responses. I have a wide format on my monitor, and the extra space on some blogs is filled with a repeating background design. Could be a humorous homage, while keeping surf-cruiser woody paneling intact. Gotta be careful on whose tartan may be referenced, though.

Reporting the bargain basement windows ads seems to have stopped them from showing upon visiting the site, but it likely may have taken revenue from Woody.

Thanks for the info @GonetoPlaid.

I have a policy of keeping Adblock Plus enabled on my desktop machines and make an annual donation to this site to reflect that. I’m not prepared to risk compromising those machines which hold a lot of personal data and adopt a pretty strict approach to adverts generally.

On the other hand my phone is used purely for browsing a handful of bookmarked sites like this one (usually while I’m sitting in a coffee shop waiting for Mrs Seff to join me from the shops!) as well as the usual phone calls and texts. I don’t have any email accounts set up on it and never use it for transactions or personal data, so I allow this site to display adverts on it.

This way I try to offer a fair and balanced return for the invaluable advice I get here, and the only problem I encounter is on the phone where accessing the site produces an intermittent warning that the security certificate has a conflict between the name on the certificate and the name of the site – it would be good if that could be fixed.

The AskWoody ads have had a change of settings in the last week or so… sounds like @gonetoplaid is talking about the older arrangement initially. We really need to know about current problems, rather than from before the new situation (things we can try to change, rather than things we can’t). 🙂

PS if in doubt, a link could be checked with virustotal.com

…the only problem I encounter is on the phone where accessing the site produces an intermittent warning that the security certificate has a conflict between the name on the certificate and the name of the site…

The above quote is from @Seff in message #168458

Seff was referring to the ability to access this (askwoody.com) site from a browser on a mobile phone.

@Bob99 here. I also use a phone on occasion just like you have, i.e. no email attached to it, no really personal info on it, etc., and I use Firefox on said phone, currently version 58.0.2. When I just surfed to this site, I got no warning about the cert, and when I went to inspect the cert using FF’s built-in tools, I noticed the cert was good for both “askwoody.com” and “www.askwoody.com” named sites. I also ran a check on my desktop computer with FF 58.0.2 and got the same results.

This begs the question…which browser are you using? The warnings could be due to a configuration snafu within your browser’s settings.

Hold on a sec, lemme go run this site through ssllabs.com to see what their site inspection says about the cert(s) for this site…and they turned up clean, both listed askwoody.com and http://www.askwoody.com as alternate site names.

OK, enough said for now, as this is getting off topic. @PKCano, @Kirsty or @woody, feel free to move this reply/message to another thread if you see fit.

Thanks for the info. BTW, how do I report bad ads?

PM Woody – See “Direct Message” button at top of blog

I had used the tiny gray ‘x’ button to close it and told Google it was a bad advertisement. (I forgot the list of choices.) The button isn’t always present for advertisements, generally the advertisements here are fine so they remain enabled for viewing.

Don’t be afraid to change. You may lose something good but you may gain something better!

See you all on the other side!

-Noel

The phone is a Samsung with it’s own default browser.

@seff-

Since your phone is a Samsung, then it probably has an Android OS. Please do yourself a HUGE favor and go get either Chrome or Firefox (your choice, of course) from the Google Play Store and install it and use it as your default browser on the phone. Either one of them is MUCH MORE preferable to using the built-in default browser on the phone for security reasons.

Both Chrome and Firefox are updated very regularly, unlike the built-in browser which is, in many cases, only updated when the either the phone manufacturer or the cell carrier decides to push out native Android updates to their users/subscribers. At least that’s how things work in the U.S. for Android-based cell phones and other devices like tablets that may happen to use the cellular networks.