The computer I'm running is an 11 year old Dell Dimension 8300 2.7 GHz with XP. Never have issues with it.

How's it work with IE?

Indeed... It would be greatly appreciated if the site administrators would crank that up from whatever ridiculously low value it's currently set to. Sometimes you may not wish to use the "Remember Me" feature for various reasons and it is rather annoying to have to log back in repeatedly every few minutes.

I realize it might cause extra server load/memory usage tracking extra active sessions if it were set way too high but I can't imagine with the this site's apparent load that it would be a problem if it were something like 30 minutes to an hour or even more, although even 15 minutes would be an improvement if it's necessary to keep it relatively low for some reason. :)

"Thanks, Admins!" for all your efforts that make the site run smoothly!
Keep up the great work! :thmbsp:

VK Forums Access Woes
 

Hi Kamakiri,

Thanks! for the reply.

The XP machine is a NetBook PC running FireFox 32.0 and works well.
This is the one i am using to communicate with right now.

The old machine is WIN 98-SE running FireFox V2.00.20 and won't connect.
IE is V5.5 and won't connect either. Being limited to FireFox versions compatible with WIN98SE, i can't upgrade the browser.

By won't connect i mean this: if you're already displaying a web site and call up VK via a Favorites link, the page will never load.

The Favorites are not corrupted, none of the VK forums nor the main site page can be loaded.

The same thing happened 6 months ago, then was resolved, probably because someone else also had connection problems.

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

If you have (or can upgrade the hardware to have) enough ram and disk space on that 98 machine it might not be a bad idea to upgrade it to XP. I used to have a 98 machine and did the upgrade a year ago as the 98 I had was so slow it was effectively unusable.

Hi Electronic_M,

The machine is powerful enough for XP: Pentium IV 2GHz, Asus P4B-266 motherboard, Mega-tower format, 3x 120GB HDD, 3.5" floppy, Asus CD-ROM, LiteOn 48x CD-Burner, DVD via SCSI, G-Force graphics.
2GB RAM but i would add more (WIN98SE wouldn't allow that).

My concerns:
- Buying XP today, preferably a french version, i need the AZERTY keyboard with accented characters for text work.

XP not being supported by Microsoft any more, what about the final registration of the OS?

Would this imply the need of a "cracked" version?

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

Hey, I use Win 98SE 800mhz and firefox 1.508 and these forums work fine....

The problem is with the ADs and scripts they load. go to google and find the site that
has old programs. Get a copy of NoScript that will run on your version of FF. That should
more than take care of it.


These forums are very old technology and display well on very old browsers. Take out the
scripts by the AD companies and this forum will also run on Netscape 4.7, and 6, and 7.
Yah, that's right, my old 200mhz mac system 8.6 running netscape 7 will load
this forum...

You might also want to check your name servers as they can cause complete loading
problems. Try a public name server you can find on google, or use google's NS's....

.

Non-english keyboard support in windows is something I don't have any knowledge on. I hear Ubuntu is good with foreign language keyboards.

There are various places like 'the pirate bay' where 'cracked' (if I'm properly understanding what you mean by that) OS versions can be gotten, However I don't know if they have the language support you want.

You may have to do some digging to determine what the best course of action is for you. If you depend on that computer then I suggest getting a cheap hard drive, install whatever OS configuration you want to try on it, and confirm it meets your needs before over writing the your current OS on your current hard drive.

And for all I know 98 may be a good OS when it is not run on a memory starved, virus/malware infested clunker. Mine used to take long enough to load/preform many programs that one could walk away and make a sandwich while waiting. What was the end of the OS was when something took out it's ability to connect to the internet...It was using a dial-up modem back then, but latter attempts to get it to work with LAN networking also failed so it came time to start anew...

Whatever you choose to do with it I wish you luck.

Also an important thing to do.....

Open a DOS window and type ipconfig/release_all

then type ipconfig/renew_all

This is a win 98 fix for some connection problems for win 98. I have had to do it
plenty of times....

Hmmmmmm Im on 98se also and Im running IE6 and things thankfully load good... The site is quite fast :)

I 99% of the time have ACTIVE SCRIPTING disabled which helps quite a bit :) (Its safer and stuff loads much faster)

Im glad to see more 98se users..... 98 is an amazing OS!!


What happens on Firefox 2.0??? (It should work as Firefox 0.8 works fine (I have tried 0.8 so I know (I dont like it as much as MyIE2 though (IE wrapper))))

Hi to All,

First of all, many Thanks! for all your advice & wisdom.

VK with WIN 98SE + Firefox 2.00.20 works again as of today.

I did nothing, therefore a mystery! like last time.

Advice needed:
I am going to convert the old gal' to XP.
Having good USB support + over 120Gb drives is the incentive.

I've purchased some new legit genuine Microsoft software. One was already installed, the other 2 are new, never used.
Question: as XP is no longer supported, will i be able to get a definitive post-installation product key when the machine connects to MS for registration?

You may ask, why XP rather than WIN 7 or 8.1?
Simple: i use a very old version of ACT! which won't run on either of the above. It runs on XP.

I've been told about running a "Virtual XP machine" inside WIN 7 or 8, but i'm not familiar and ...scared. Sounds complicated.

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

Yesterday evening and today I've been having issues with threads on this site loading slowly or not at all...Unless I try multiple times.

Firefox has been giving me connection reset and site not found messages on this site and only this site...I think there is something wrong here.

For months I have had wierd occurences with here,AK,fantasticforum.com/1res and one other site....

My Subnet Mask changes to 255.0.0.0 and these sites wont load with that.... I have to RELEASE ALL AND RENEW ALL (Ip info) then my subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0 and all sites load correctly.......

THIS DIDNT EVER USED TO HAPPEN....... My lease is 2 days (Would making the lease longer solve it??)


WHY DOES MY Subnet Mask KEEP CHANGING???????? -- I dont think it has anything to do with these sites,but why is this happening??

Part of it might be the fact that your OS (Windows 98) is old enough to drive, vote, and smoke :smoke:

There might be a work-around on your end, but I'd imagine most sites aren't designed to be compatible with something so old.....

Your gateway should NOT ever be 255.255.255.255. Just saying.

OOPS I made a mistake.... Its my subnet Mask,it is usually 255.255.255.0

Often it changes to 255.0.0.0 and these sites wont load......

Well, your TCP/IP stack is bombed. Not the site's issue, definitely an issue on your computer.

Hmmmmmmmm It didnt used to happen though.........


Ill watch for the stack,maybe its overflowing.......


Thank you bud (I didnt think the sites were causing anything)

This is happening to me right now. Related to the AK server move? I'm thinking so but wanted to verify.

http://i.imgur.com/Tkv9Io1.png

Once in a while when I use my win 98 box, this site will not load, most everything
else will, and I have to use ipconfig to release all and renew all then it runs really fast...
Only about a once every 2 - 3 month thing.... I bet it's in a once in a blue moon hop....
Maybe it takes a hop thru the nsa...... 98 too old for their stuff to be hidden...

.

Yea BSD doesn't have ipconfig. ;)

Actually, 98 had winipcfg.

It's only this site that's doing it right now. Other devices affected too.

Seems like Grumpy forgot to switch the IMAGE links over to this site once AK went down.....

Maybe he will do it sometime...... (When AK gets back on)

Just to be clear. I have Win 98SE and it has ipconfig. Just in case there is a
difference, I don't have a 98 before SE....


.

I actually forgot that 98 had it. Nevermind.

Im glad your running 98se buddy! (So Am I)

A wonderful OS!!!

I still use my Win 98 computer from 1998 which is custom made from scratch .

Its a no name Win98. Fire Fox . P2 450 ,10GB HD with 512MB memory with Soundblaster live sound card,Diamond video card,Hauppauge Win-TV capture card,Miro video capture card,Samsung DVDrom ,Philips CD-writer.Digiview 17 inch monitor and Altec Lansing 3 piece speakers.

Now I'm just fed up with all the current crap of software like Adobe Flash and Java and it relatives and what have you they loaded into the websites.
I'll go back and use the win98 machine.

The computer that posting this is a Dell Inspiron from 2008 with Win Vista.

I already had my share of Win 8 and 8.1 on my friend laptop.It sucks.

Meantime I have no issues with this forum loading over here.It runs great with Firefox 36.Thanks.

Windows 8 is almost as big a pain in the ass (especially if you try to get used to using it with a tablet) as winSlows 98 IMHO.

Windows 7 IMHO is the best combo of user friendly and fast with XP in second place.

I'd highly recommend you try a Windows 7 64-bit machine with as many Gb of ram as you can get. It is about the best windows experience there is. That will smoothly run all that net software you dislike in a way that will make you like it.....Unless you still(!) have dialup....In which case may the god of the net have mercy on your soul....Most up to date-ish sites are so optimized to faster connections that trying to use them with dialup is like trying to play an LP or CED video disc on a windup victrola....

This is why I had to make Windows 8 work for ME, since this laptop can't run Linux properly.

http://i.imgur.com/XlvpOnd.png

Proper start menu, and the Aero Glass interface on 8.1.

I only spent a few days with a win 8.? tablet at my summer internship. I did not want to change it enough to bother anyone, and there is a BIG learning curve using a tablet for the first time.

Very good my friend,its good you are awake!!!!!

NOTHING @ ALL WRONG WITH WINDOWS 98se :)

is audiokarma site down for everyone or is it just me ?

It's down for me too, 'database error'

Tom

I'm not entirely surprised. When I refreshed the AK forum page earlier this afternoon, I noticed that my messages count had went down from 1,009 to 1,004. I posted about it in the New Format section, and not too long after that, the database error started popping up. Rather odd... :scratch2:

Now getting back to VK issues, can something be done about the missing format buttons above the message box? All I've got is a series of '?' boxes... :saywhat:
-Adam

I suspect VK issues may not get much attention from the admins until all the AK issues with ZF are resolved, unfortunately.

If you mean on the "Reply to Post" screen, I get some gobbledygook too. Just something we have to live with for the time being while they fry bigger fish over at AK.....

Not entirely sure if it's a matter of 'bigger fish to fry'. My guess is that the image files for the formatting button icons (bold, italics, underline, etc.) in the Reply to Thread screen were shared between AK and VK, and with the switch from VBulletin to Xenforo, those image files are gone. I know that this also used to be the case for some of the small icons in the main thread displays within the forums (i.e. they'd be missing when the old AK forum software went down), but those seem to be intact now.
-Adam

That's probably true.

You are a co-admin buddy,you can goto the admin control panel and change the links to videokarma.org (Leave the rest of each link the same) and it will be fine :)


Why not give it a try??

And I'm the founder of the AK/VK sites.

Lemme share something. When I started AK back in June of 2002, I couldn't do web code to save my life. Here we are in 2016, and the same still applies.

My position relates to interpersonal skills, diplomacy, and site structure, just like Captain Picard on the Enterprise. But I ain't no Geordi La Forge ;)

One good thing about that is you're not too white and nerdy to bowl with the gangstas.

Any idea why I get all these question marks in boxes when I try to reply to a post?