I seem to have difficulty accessing the Profiled items in the evenings. The machine just freezes up and I need to perform: CNTLR+ALT+DEL and from Task Manager end the browser process to get everything going.
Anyone had similar experience. It happened on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Paul Morris of AccountingWeb ' what have you done to the system?
Regards,
Jay Tanna
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Thanks to Kevin for the development view
Kevin Glass and our webmaster (Paul Morris) have put the technical point of view very effectively, and I'm sorry that the editorial team hasn't been able to keep up with this thread.
Aside from the housekeeping/Netscape issues that kicked this thread off, the discussion about cookies is something we do have a policy on - and one which we will adjust to remain within the bounds of whatever laws apply, as Kevin (or chief technology guru) explained.
We use cookies and profiling data on AccountingWEB to speed up your experience of the site and to tailor it for your needs and interests of our users. Much of what we publish is free and the profile data we collect helps us define the audience available for our advertisers - who help pay the site's running costs. We also use the data to plan new content and direct you towards material that matches your interests.
When you next visit the site, click the link that says "visitor" or your name at the top left of the page and you will be taken through to the profile section. Telling us about your job position and which topics interest you will clear your access to all of AccountingWEB's free content.
You can also add or remove newswires from the "My Services" menu. Because the profile data is held on a secure server, some Netscape users may experience problems. If this is the case, email [email protected] and we will fix it for you. Thanks as always for your interest and comments on Any Answers: the interaction with our members is another key feature of AccountingWEB!
Profile link:
https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/profile
How many REAL web technicians does it take to change a light bul
Re: Re: Gareth Lewis
"'Cookies....protective web technicians'
The use of cookies across the internet is widespread. Ever visited Amazon, Yahoo, Lastminute, BBC?"
A billion flies may eat s**t, but it still doesn't taste that great to me.
"Micro$oft did not invent cookies, a protocols manager in Netscape's client product division wrote the cookies specification for Navigator 1.0, the first browser to use the technology."
This comment must have been displaced from your response to Jay, since I never said Microsoft invented cookies (I would be hard pushed to think of anything they actually invented) nor would I, since I did know where cookies originated, and how their use has been since perverted by coders on automatic pilot.
"'Profiled Items take longer to view'
When you read a profiled item, there are no extra reads/writes on the database than for any other page you view on the site, there is just an extra check to see whether you can view the item based upon your user profile and how the item is protected. This check takes micro-seconds."
Can't see where I said this either - and the fact that you have acknowledged (the obvious point) that there is differential processing occurring for access to profile-only elements might support my charitable suggestion as to where the critical weakness in your system may lie.
"'these intrusive mechanisms which power the pop-up/banner ad revenue stream'
Most of AccountingWEB is a free resource" . . . etc
Kevin, you're obviously not just a web technician; you also understand your business model - which currently depends upon these intrusive mechanisms which power the pop-up/banner ad revenue stream.
And I presume from the deafening silence regarding my other question that Sift have no contingency plans. Maybe I'll start a separate discussion. Or maybe not.
(Answer to header question - just one, but it has to be an Open Source light bulb or the REAL web technician will just sit in the dark saying rude things about it)
Thanks, Jay
Actually I know how to access my profile. There are a number of ways in addition to your suggestion.
My problems is that they don't work, and as I have said, it is probably the firewall settings on my organisation's web access server that cause this to fail.
That'll teach me . . .
. . . to make jokes about cookies. I forgot temporarily how protective web technicians can be about these intrusive mechanisms which power the pop-up/banner ad revenue stream.
And of course it meant that the point of my posting (that it might be the additional validation processing for profiled items which is the source of the problem at back up time - since there appear to have been no complaints regarding non-profiled items) was lost.
Never mind. I'll stick to light-bulb jokes from now on.
No profile, no problems
Just to comment that I haven't completed a profile and I've had no problems with freezes.
Maybe it's something to do with profiling causing the infinite number of cookies created by normal use of the site being doubled, with our poor little PCs not being able to cope with a mathematically fantastic number.
And while we're on the subject, is there a contingency plan for Accountingweb if Europe does make cookies illegal, particularly given the current furore over in the US about the issue?
AW Big Freeze-up
You should try it at 2 or 3 in the morning,Jay! It freezes regularly and leaves me hanging by my fingernails until I do a re-boot - or go to bed! I also note that the titles on the right hand pane are in larger scrip than they used to be. Is this also deliberate or is it my screen settings?
Slow response from AccountingWeb.co.uk
I'm glad to see that some of our members are so committed to the community that they can be found surfing the accounting super highway at such late hours, when mere mortals such as myself are tucked up in bed.
To answer your queries at around the times you are having problems our database begins its nightly back up, which causes a large strain on the system and can make responses to browser requests rather sluggish.
I don't however believe this to be the cause of your machines totally locking up, overuse could be one factor ;o)
Profile and response
I can't access my profile EVER. I suspect the firewall settings at work are the culprit.
Slow responses in the evening may be the fault of your ISP. I have a couple of accounts set up. If I really need to access a particular site and the response is poor, I try another connection. This often solves the problem. Probably due to different routing between me and the target site.