alanback: The probability looks quite high, though I'm not discounting totally other reasons. But that Fencer banned the person it suggests 'not a bug', so I guess it was a hack or something of the like.

Bernice: Check the original account.

Artful Dodger: As I am mine.

Artful Dodger: No, that's not life. That's an opinion. In the end it'll be up to Fencer and HIS opinion on how the matter is resolved.

It's not a case of "pity", it's a case of real life.

Artful Dodger: It's only unfair if misused Dan. There are genuine cases where people get ill and end up in hospital.

Artful Dodger: Sometimes there are good reasons, you cannot punish the whole because of one or two abusing the system.

rod03801: I thought the talk was to limit the extra days you can get in one year, sure someone is entitled to buy as many memberships in a year as they please, but the talk as I have mentioned was a limit, maybe such as only an extra ten or fifteen days a year.

Vikings: It certainly has helped my chips.

Fencer: Don't work.. I've turned off 'style animations' and I still get the dragon.

coan.net: I see your point. I think your option "1" is a good idea, and prevent abuse of the system which some do. It's getting like KM again in some ways where a loophole has been found in the system and people are cheating on their ratings because of it by only playing games they will win. Or by making it that some just time out just to get the free space (such as pawns) as the game has been delayed so long.

It's not right.

Fencer: Yep, but why can't there be a little update to the holiday system. If you move on a day then you can't be classed as being on holiday. As it is upto the player to play the least time games first as I think most of us do so we keep our holiday for genuine reasons.

Eriisa: Don't forget the wiping, especially on those icky teething ones.

Hrqls: Funny thing was that the lady at MS did not know anything about the policy... I had to send a copy of the email to her from the laptop company. That's when they/she said sorry.

rabbitoid: I don't.... I've only seen two articles on MS recently. This one and another which reported a mess up by MS over a patch that caused some people to lose the internet connection thanks to compatibility problems with a firewall program.

.... I in that case had to phone MS to find out which patch to remove.

.... Oh there has been one incident regarding MS though over policy which I took them to task relating to a laptop makers ability to keep software before a certain date that was basically essential if the laptop went unstable and needing a complete wipe and reload.

..... In the end MS said sorry and sent me a free copy of XP sp3 for my partners laptop.

Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.

Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it.

"Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the "underlying vulnerability" was present in all versions of the browser."

"The message needs to get out that this malicious code can be planted on any web site, so simple careful browsing isn't enough."

Foxy Lady: Well there are so many multi nicks on this site now it's crazy. I've got someone using my old name Pm'ing me at the mo. Oh they admit it's a fake account, but as for who it is in reality they won't say.

I've told the Globs about it being a multi nick account, but I've heard no news over what they've done.

ScarletRose: The usual. Unplug your modem and give it a minutes rest, use a window washer, a registry cleaner, cookie manager and possibly combofix.

... Unplugging the modem and giving it a few minutes rest usually works.

Fencer... what is it with the fav boards? I have 3 for NO HOLES BARRED, and only one takes me to the fellowship the other two just take me to the discussion boards list.

anastasia: The only problem I've found with firefox is that certain sites don't like it very much. They seem to work better with IE. So I tend to use Firefox 95% of the time and IE occasionally. The google one though fast is not yet (so I hear) as secure as it could be. It might be worth waiting a little while on that one for them to tweak it a bit.

Tuesday: A full democracy?? Mmmmmm Is there such a thing these days?

Hrqls: Best solution.

rabbitoid: .. swiss bank account numbers you'll tell

Hrqls: Yep. Pogo is the same. ... Join the club (pay) and it's ad free.

Bernice: Yes this is a small bit of the cyber world yet it means so much to many. You can't argue with that.

Andersp: Better tell most of the worlds goverments that then. They love to do it.

Jim Dandy: Best thing. Much more important matter I'm sure.

Jim Dandy: Long term? It ain't been that long and no-one knows how long it might last.

.. Maybe Fencer.

Jim Dandy: Yes. Easyjet. I gave up checking ticket prices last night as each page was taking 40-90 seconds to load.

And it's a local shop

Well, BK was playing up.. so was pogo. So I switched off the pc, unplugged the modem and restarted both.

... Pogo is still slow.

joshi tm: I clicked on the english flag before I logged in.

brainking.com wasn't loading..... brainking.cz did.

MadMonkey: .. It might also be common to certain internet providers.

Andersp: Oh yes it will. You'll get more exercise.

Andersp: Maybe not, but it's better then sitting there waiting for a screen to load.

... pogo is good and offers uk residents a chance to win free stuff when bk plays up.

Andersp: Well the speed difference here between IE and Mozilla is BIG.

Oh well.

Andersp: Ahhh I just saw your problem. You are using IE not Mozilla. IE is slow on this site, while Mozilla is much much faster.

Andersp: I expect so. But I got the feeling it's more then just the route taken.

Do you clean you comp on a regular basis? Defrag?

Andersp: Ours use to be like that.. sometimes. Then we installed window washer... It cleans the junk that you get from browsing, etc.

.. Now it's rarely slow.

... Plus it could be the USA circuit.

Andersp: I'll pay £22 for a years mem. My speed has been fine.

Andersp: It would be us that would have to pay for it through higher membership costs.

.. No problem with loading speeds this end. Usually helps to clean ya comp with something like window washer once a week.

... We're on a 4mb line.

Fencer: No 'buy me now' price like on ebay?

coan.net: Auto vacation works well, and I suspect most don't really care if they lose a few games. Otherwise it's setting up the possibility if the site goes down again for a few days we who are not having a national holiday to have to wait yonks.

coan.net: Then you'll get everyone wanting their countries national holidays added. I thought that idea was dropped??

Thad: Surgery.

Andersp: ?? Oh it did go down, but I just went and did other things. It ain't like the big crash a while back when nine months of playing got lost.

TarantinoFan: Hardly slow here not even when people have been complaining, and if it is there is always the option of doing something else.

I think it's the expectation that Fencer should drop everything just to answer questions to which the answer is obvious and the indignation of peeps who don't get the reply.

.. He's trying to fix things, if he keeps having to answer every time someone posts it'll delay the fixing. Quite frankly I'd rather have him sort out the problems.

Hrqls: The site has been pretty good apart from yesterday. Some minor glitches but nothing fatal or end of the world

TarantinoFan: Maybe if people just stopped with the digs in the first place Fencer wouldn't need to reply to them.

Oh yes, he doesn't need to.

Fencer: She's sending a request for a pic to be added to her profile and it's not working. She's not getting the usual message that it's waiting for approval by the administrator or anything.