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Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 | Please note that one thing that is eating a surprising amount of bandwidth are all the animated gifs that we use as avatars. Until we get the issues with the load on the site dealt with, the avatars are going to be turned off. Just posting this so you all know we have done this intentionally and it is not an error in the board.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,219 | It seems to be working much better now that the Avatars are off.
I for one would rather have the board run fast and get no error messages than go through what I have been doing just to read posts.
Thanks, Brian.
Jerry
Jerry
Retired Dentist, 59 years old at diagnosis. SCC of the left lateral border of the tongue (Stage I). Partial glossectomy and 30 nodes removed, 4/6/05. Nodes all clear. No chemo no radiation 18 year survivor.
"Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger"
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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Avatars, animated and unanimated are still on for my screen?
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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Joined: May 2006 Posts: 720 Likes: 1 | On a laptop running Macintosh OSX v.10.4.11 -- below the names of the people who had avatars, there are now no avatars at all in Firefox (v.2.0.0.12) and little blue "question-mark" boxes in place of the avatars in Safari (v.3.0.4) -- so on this page of posts there are "question-mark" placeholders for avatars for Brian, Jerry and David. But just in Safari.
And the message about pages not loading are still showing up in Safari, but only intermittently. No problems in Firefox.
Hope this info helps.
-- Leslie
Last edited by Leslie B; 03-19-2008 05:50 AM.
Leslie
April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.
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Joined: May 2006 Posts: 720 Likes: 1 | Now I am at work, using Internet Explorer v.6.0.2900.2180 on a computer running Windows XP (Service Pack 2) -- Brian's (drops of water moving on a window) and David's (fox) avatars are showing up, but Jerry's is not (just a box with only a small red X in it).
-- Leslie
Leslie
April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.
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Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 212 | I still see the avatars...Vista, IE v.7.
Cancer of Tongue, SCC early Stage 1, Dx 3/13/07, partial glossectomy 4/14/07 found no residual carcinoma and a granular cell tumor with pseudo epitheliomatous hyperplasia.
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Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 | You are looking at things which your computer has cached. Just dump your browser cache and look at the pages again or reload them again without the purge. They will go away. The server is not "serving them up" anymore that is for sure.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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Joined: May 2006 Posts: 720 Likes: 1 | I emptied the cache in Safari, closed the browser, reopened it and called this page back up. There are still the little blue question-mark boxes in place of people's avatars, as if the page is trying to load a picture but can't find it. They remain even after the page is reloaded.
Firefox loads the page with no indication that any avatars ever existed, which is presumably what you want to be happening.
And when I hit the button to submit this posting (using Safari), I got this message: The requested URL /forums/ubbthreads.php was not found on this server. The message was posted, though.
Just thought you should know...
-- Leslie
Last edited by Leslie B; 03-20-2008 03:03 AM.
Leslie
April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.
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Joined: May 2007 Posts: 622 | [quote=Leslie B]I emptied the cache in Safari, closed the browser, reopened it and called this page back up. There are still the little blue question-mark boxes in place of people's avatars, as if the page is trying to load a picture but can't find it. They remain even after the page is reloaded.[/quote]
This is ummm "normal". Safari is rendering the page a little differently than IE or FF. This is the kind of stuff that drives web developers nutts.
18 YEAR SURVIVOR
SCC Tongue (T3N0M0) diag 06/2006.
No evidence of disease 2010
Another PET 12-2014 pre-HBO, still N.E.D.
�Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. It matters that you don't just give up.�
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Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 212 | LOL, now you know I should have remembered the cache...of course, that's why I see the avatars. DUH! And I can't even blame it on drugs.
Cancer of Tongue, SCC early Stage 1, Dx 3/13/07, partial glossectomy 4/14/07 found no residual carcinoma and a granular cell tumor with pseudo epitheliomatous hyperplasia.
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