Fellowship pages will be much shorter in BK 2.0, it should solve this problem.

What about setting the Messages per page really low??

Aragon: Messages wont help on the Felowship page that has the list of members if that is long.
(I know its different on BK 2.0 though Fencer LOL).

Lately i have started getting little red crosses all over my game boards. Sometimes where pieces should be or just squares etc...(also on GT as well so its a PC problem i guess). It seems to happens more when the site gets busy or i have lots of windows open even though i have broadband. I have had this problem before and think Fencer told me it was something to do with Java, but why and why is it back ?
Any ideas anyone ?

i think its a bad network connection , i used to get it alot before i went to broadband , only get it now if theres problems with the sites

It has nothing to do with Java.

ok, what did you think it was before then, i cant remember.
Before i had i dial-up connection, but now i have broadband so cant really be speed, and its all sites :(

could still be your connection , a fault on the line maybe .

It could also be that your CACHE is clearing out out certain images Ian, then when a page loads instead of looking on the site for it it checks the CACHE (thats how they load real quick) however, if it does this and has cleared a few of the image files needed (ie, on the flames for boats, a king in chess etc etc) then they come up as a small square with red X meaning that image file cant be found, if you hit refresh i bet it will come up!!

Sometimes if i hit refresh a few times all the pieces or squares appear, OR if i make a move for example, the moment i pick a piece to move or a place to go everything shows up.
So wot do i do to sort it Darren, or cant i :o(

Don't use Internet Explorer. I never had such problems with other browsers.

Which one do you use Fencer ?

I would set your cache level either really high or at zero :)) I have mine at 5gb which is huge and then manually clear it every few months.

But Fencer is right, it seems to only happen with IE, although it does not happen with me since I set it so high :)

Netscape 7.2.

I tried Netscape on someone elses PC a couple of years ago, has it got better ?

Otherwise I wouldn't use it :-)

OK - silly question. Can my PC run both versions or will they conflict ?

Yes. I have Internet Exploror, Netscape, and Opera all loaded on my PC.

I use Internet Explore most of the time, while my wife uses Netscape. (This is mostly because of sites which use cookies for sign ons and such.) (For example, this site - in IE, It has my signon all ready. In Netscape, it has her signon all ready!)

(I mostly use Opera for testing my own webpages to make sure they look good.)

Cool thing about the newer Netscape is that you can use tabs instead of windows for different pages!

OK, so where do i download Netscape 7.2 from, and how much room will i need for it.

http://www.netscape.com - Is where I would start. Haven't looked there recently, but I think they had a few different option on "space" - that is you could just download the browser, or also download all the extras like mail, composer, etc.... or whatever else they had.

Ok i have found Netscape 7.1 on there site, where is 7.2 ??

All I found on the main sites is 7.1 (7.2 might be available as a "test" version, but not released to the public... unless you search for it somewhere maybe?)

Maybe Fencer wrote an update :-)

<Google it. There's a sh*tload of links. ;>

7.1, of course :-)

aahhh you have 7.1 :o)
Another silly question as i have only ever had one browser on my pc before (IE). They will not conflict with each other, so i just run which ever one seems better, or can i open one window in IE & one in Netscape ?

Of course they will not conflict. How do you think I test new BK features by simulating more users on my notebook? :-)

Do you really want me to answer that LOL ?
Now be a good Fencer and go and mend Amazons so there can be a loser LOL

My firewall keeps comming up with this message:

Someone from 218.78.209.59, port 1886 wants to send UDP datagram to port 1029 owned by 'Windows Explorer' on your computer.

Details about application

c:\windows\explorer.exe

Then asks me to Allow or Deny - i keep denying, but it keeps comming back. Any thoughts ?

After doing a quick search, i did not find anything - but I'll keep looking.

My gut is telling me to keep denying it - possible a "worm" type program that sends out request to random IP addresses (yours) to see if it can get through to something or not.

Thanks BBW, i was thinking along the same lines. I would cut the worm in half but hten i would have 2 to Deny LOL :o)

UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is one of the protocols for data transfer that is part of the TCP/IP suite of protocols. UDP is a “stateless” protocol in that UDP makes no provision for acknowledgement of packets received. UDP enables an application to send a message to one of several applications running in a destination machine. Some problems arise because Internet applications are not exclusively TCP-based. UDP is stateless -- it differentiates sources and destinations within hosts and provides no other services. Often services do not use predefined numbers, so filtering on the basis of "well known ports" will not work.
Port 1029 is often one of the first port used by the operating system for outbound connections, thus it is likely you will see outbound connections from port 1029. If you run netstat you will see something like:
[root@funky web]# netstat -vatn
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 1.2.3.4:1029 2.3.4.5:22 ESTABLISHED


The most distressing aspect of this, is that these service ports are wide open to the external Internet. If Microsoft wants to allow DCOM services and clients operating within a single machine to inter-operate, that's fine. But in that case the DCOM service ports should be "locally bound" so that they are not wide open and flapping in the Internet breeze. This is trivial to do, but Microsoft doesn't bother. Or, if there might be some reason to have DCOM used within a local area network, DCOM traffic could be generated with packets having their TTL (time to live) set down to one or two. This would allow DCOM packets complete local freedom, but they would expire immediately after crossing one or two router hops. The point is, there are many things Microsoft could easily do if they had any true concern for, or understanding of, Internet security.
Who knows what known or unknown, discovered or yet to be discovered vulnerabilities already exist those exposed servers and services? This is PRECISELY the situation which hit end users who didn't realize they were running a personal version of Microsoft's IIS web server when the Code Red and Nimda worms hit them and installed backdoor Trojans in their systems. And it's IDENTICAL to the situation when the SQL Slammer worm ripped across the Internet and tens of thousands of innocent end users discovered, to their total surprise, that some other software (Here's an off-site link to SQL-installing applications.) had silently installed Microsoft's insecure and now exploited SQL server into their machines, and that server had silently opened their ports 1433 and 1434 to the entire Internet.
If you are reading this page because our port analysis has revealed that you have open ports lying between 1024 and 1030, it would certainly be in your best interests to configure your personal firewall to block incoming connection requests (TCP SYN packets) to those low-numbered ports.
Unfortunately, since Windows initially initiates outgoing connections from this same low-numbered port range (as the first ports it uses immediately after booting), you may need to be careful with the configuration of your firewall rules. Otherwise you may find that the first several outbound connection attempts made by Windows will fail because returning traffic has been blocked at your firewall. However, any good stateful personal firewall, such as Zone Alarm and probably others, ought to block these low-numbered ports automatically. And, of course, placing any network behind a NAT router provides extremely good hardware firewall protection for your system(s).

IAN i suggest that you configure your firewall to block that port. You should use the Gibson Research Site to check what ports are or are not open and if they are causing a security loop on your machine :))

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

or http://www.grc.com and look for Shields UP

I will block that when it tries to get htrough again, it give me the option to do that with Kerio :o)
I will try those links - Thanks Darren :o)

That Shields UP is cool Darren, suggest you put that on your website :o)
Here is what i got back:

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

Fencer: This Netscape 7.1 is pretty cool (though slower than IE), i can have one window open, but 6 BK TABS at the moment LOL. Takes a little getting used to when you have used IE since 19** lol

One of the things I like about Netscape is the tabs.... but sometimes I will have multiply tabs open, and want to close one of the tab... but by habit, i close the whole window and ALL the tabs.... Ugh!

Have you tried to middle-click on the tab you want to close? :-)

.... it's mostly when I'm in "auto-internetsurfing" - I'm just so in the habit of going to the little X in the top right corner......

i am addicted on konqueror 3.2
When you middle click on one link, or when a javascript tried to open a new window, you can default open a new tab instead a new window. When you try to click on the cross and have many tabs opened, it asks you "do you want to close the tab or the window". It also contains a nice password management utility, which is protected by password (like a passport), and much more.

I think it is available for most unixes, especially Linux. go to konqueror.org if you are not using windows...

:-)

Surely Netscape can restore the tabs from previous session if you happen to close the window by mistake? I think that is essential feature in a tabbed browser and one of the reasons why i'm using Opera :)

Actually I would think there is an option in Netscape that I could set so I did not accedently close everything.... just at that point, I'm usually too upset to look!

Actually i use 3 different browsers regularly - IE, Netscape, and Opera.

Konqueror is kool, but I don't have a linux box anymore. :-(

Fencer: (or anyone else using 7.1) i have come on this morning and the little button to open new TABS has gone :-(
Have i accidently hidden it or is there some other problem, im sure it was there when i logged off last night.

There is a setting in edit|preferences to hide the tabs if only one tab is open. Could this be your problem?

i just figured out the tabs and ive been using this netscape 7.1 a few months now... i wondered what it meant.. this is a nice feature.. is yours working again MM?

Try view, show/hide, navigation toolbar.

volant: Thanks, it was in show/hide, TAB bar :-)
odd thing is, i had never been in there, so how did it Hide itself LOL

<Since BK1 has been back I haven't been able to access the log-in page at all. I get a 'page cannot be found' notice. (I'm currently using a webtv-type thingy).

I have Window XP and Internet Explorer (I have tried Mozilla but still no luck).

I've deleted all cookies.
I've deleted all temporary internet files.
I've deleted history.
I've tried a 'restore' - back to before Saturday and BK2.

Nothing works.

What am I missing? (don't say it!)>

If you have any idea of the problem, please let me know (in plain simple language please!).

Thanks.

Our logs show that you are still trying to use /bk2 context [which is not working at the moment, of course]. The problem is in a cache, for some reason the previous redirector hadn't disappeared [although it should, according to all standards and specifications!].
Wait a minute. We will try some workaround.
However, we cannot be responsible for all such anomalies, not caused by us.

I am no expert as you know Phil (but learning fast lol).
The page you say its displaying is the one the OLD test site is now presently showing. I am thinking even though you have deleted all that stuff, it could be holding onto something.

BK 1.0 was having a small problem earlier but is fine now.

It does look like it may have something to do with that old URL maybe. This is just a thought as i have seen nothing by anyone else about that particular problem. Maybe Fencer could help.

Ian