h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Eenteresting...

On my posting page, and I note that the last post I made was 15 minutes ago. I hit reload, and that same posting comes up as being 14 minutes old...

Quit playing with time machines and make a transporter

I want a transporter
I want it now

Me too!

*gets out poster board, markers, sticks, and tacks*

OK, who exactly should we picket to get some R&D done on this?

http://www.teleportec.com/

It's used as a video conferencing tool, that puts a colour hologram of you behind a lecturn. It's unfortunate that it costs as much as a shrewdly priced three bedroom semi. A lovely piece of kit, they had one at the school I worked at and another two at the local City Learning Centre.

If you want to stay where you wish to teleport to however, it's being worked on by some boffiins in Australia I gather. The main problem in teleporting more than one atom is having a system that encodes the position of every single atom in your body at the last possible moment in location x, then reassembling the body in the correct order in location y. No doubt you'd have to find a way of compensating for heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

Getting back on topic...

The problem that you've noticed is due to the servers not being synchronised. I think Jim is aware of it but there are a few other problems that need work on first.

I like the time machine hypothesis better

*wonders up sniffing the air and staring about #
Hmm, something is very definately up.... and before someone says 'the sky'...
Hmm,
*brandishes towel Hmm, eddie is in the space time contineum The site certainly seems to be its 'normal' cantankerous self at the moment

For some reason, my person space hates to load, but If it hit "refresh" it loads instantly.

wants to be able become a big virus free file (pheloxi.idf) to be send to any hootoo'er who wants meet me.

Has anyone else been recieveing pop-ups when they login?

Not me ... but then again, I'm not someone else.

a few times but I think they were caused by cookies from other sites...after I cleared out the temp folder it stopped


()

*goes off to clean out the temp folder*

Well, I've removed every "cookie" "spy" and "pop" I could find that was not vital to the workings of another program.

Dear Friends,

I notice that some others are having problems. Well I know that I am old, and not as quickwitted and slow to learn etc. etc. but it really is beyond a joke when I have to log in with my name and password every time I want to go onto the hootoo website. Only after we have gone through the charade three times and I am then locked out temporarily do things begin to look up. I am given my password and asked for the secret answer. When I give it I am then accepted as a bonafide member except that on the ONLINE now I am listed as smilingAlsoRan1 (new member) I acutally joined two years ago.

I was unable to find my old page in spite of typing in the number. I have now befriended myself and having found a letter that I had written on one of the underguide entries I was able to get onto my old home page and befriend AlsoRan1 with smilingalsoRan1.

Ingenious, neat and I think for a lady of 75 years shows considerable initiative even though I say so myself!!.

Cookies - does one know where to find them All I know is that they are there and one cannot operate without them!

I really think that it was easier in the good old days when I had to type in all the instructions and I was able to create magnificent data bases with DBase3. Now I can hardly understand a word of what they say!!
Kind regards

AR1 U186829
now known as smilingAlsoRan1

I kept the bbc cookie. And i'm still getting popups! Even when the internet isn't connected!

I tend to blame my computer problems on the fact that we've had this machine for about 5 years now, and I've been told that my assumption that moving with it 8 times could have something to do with our problems as well...

But Mr C, that's just

AR1 -
You did very well getting all the parts of yourself together on one page!

I had to keep at it, the same thing happened to me. It took 20-30 times (within a few days span) before I was able to stayed logged in.

The cookies should automatically add themselves, unless you have them blocked in your browser.

Glad you made it!

There seem to be about 700 cookies in my
computer. That seems to be why, in the middle
of the night, my computer will mysteriously
turn itself on. It just wants a midnight snack.

HAHAHAHAHA That's it exactly!