Feeling left out

[Randi Grail]

Literotica is not nice to me.

The site I mean, not you wonderful, crazy people. It's the code and rules and stuff that is being mean to me.

I posted my first poems this weekend...and got a whole busload of great comments on it. Then of course...I wanted to return the favor and give feedback to the poets and poems that I read and liked.

This is where the problems started. You see, I sit in this little country village where broadband is something you wrap around wine barrels. My connection to the net is a shitty 28.8 kbps modem, and most of the time it is even slower than that. So I have decided to turn picture viewing off.

And you know, to send mails or post commetns here you need to see the little pictures with the code.

Not it gets really annoying. I CAN see the pictures...if I click on where they should be. And then I go back to fill in the code. Hey ho, what do you know, the code has changed! Grrrr! Poooout!

Please help. Is there any solution for me, or am I lost? Turning picture viewing on is not an option, since that would melt my poor modem. It's a world of difference in load time...which equals money I don't have.

*sniff*

/Randi

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Randi-

If you try to see the image, it will automatically generate a different one.

Instead of clicking on the image to show it, and I'm assuming you're using IE, right-click on it and call up its Properties. If its location is, for example, http://www.literotica.com/stories/secretimage.php?key=d550, the code will be D550.

 

[Kundalinguini]

Randi-

If you try to see the image, it will automatically generate a different one.

Instead of clicking on the image to show it, and I'm assuming you're using IE, right-click on it and call up its Properties. If its location is, for example, http://www.literotica.com/stories/secretimage.php?key=d550, the code will be D550.

Actually not. But if you copy that link and paste it into a new browser window it will show you the code.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Actually not. But if you copy that link and paste it into a new browser window it will show you the code.

Hmm- Yes, you're right. Unfortunately Randi won't be able to see it because the images are turned off...

I think. Let me try that out.

 

[Kundalinguini]

Hmm- Yes, you're right. Unfortunately Randi won't be able to see it because the images are turned off...

I think. Let me try that out.

No, it works, because in that window it won't regenerate a new image when clicked to see it... it's already got a key so it doesn't ask for another.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

No, it works, because in that window it won't regenerate a new image when clicked to see it... it's already got a key so it doesn't ask for another.

Yes, I just tried it out.

 

[Randi Grail]

It's working!

Thank you Lauren. And thank you Kundalinguini. I didn't think that the image URL would be the actual code either - that would be too easy for spamming hijackers to figure out.

It's still quite an excersise, so I might not post as much as some of you, but now I can when I really need to.

and

 

[fawnie]

pc woes...

It's working!

Thank you Lauren. And thank you Kundalinguini. I didn't think that the image URL would be the actual code either - that would be too easy for spamming hijackers to figure out.

It's still quite an excersise, so I might not post as much as some of you, but now I can when I really need to.

and

i'm having troubles myself..glad ur going through the hastles though..such is life hah?
anyhow, i'll be shut down for a couple months while me and my daughter go vacation then settle into our new home in florida.
but i'll ber back..i always come back! lol
tc!

 

[JCSTREET]

WHY 28.8 kbit/s Randi ???

56K modems have been standard on all new PC's for many years

and for ppl changing out - a 56K modem card costs the same as one night out in a club

add onspeed.exe - available for free trial at www.cnet.com downloads

and cheap to buy if you decide to keep it - I found onspeed to actually work reasonably well for dialup when my cable is down

I've been ruminating about why you would punish yourself by continuing to use an obsolete modem and--apart from religious reasons--and REALLY abject poverty--I can't "suss it out" as the English say (from the verb savoir - to know (je sais - I know = I suss once the English got around to corrupting Norman French into pronunciations they could recognize

carl

I've been forced back to dialup on occasion recently and even with 56K (nominal) which really equates to 30-40 I sometimes feel that committing seppuku would be preferable (though I haven't actually tried it)

 

[Randi Grail]

Re: WHY 28.8 kbit/s Randi ???

56K modems have been standard on all new PC's for many years

and for ppl changing out - a 56K modem card costs the same as one night out in a club

add onspeed.exe - available for free trial at www.cnet.com downloads

and cheap to buy if you decide to keep it - I found onspeed to actually work reasonably well for dialup when my cable is down

I've been ruminating about why you would punish yourself by continuing to use an obsolete modem and--apart from religious reasons--and REALLY abject poverty--I can't "suss it out" as the English say (from the verb savoir - to know (je sais - I know = I suss once the English got around to corrupting Norman French into pronunciations they could recognize

carl

I've been forced back to dialup on occasion recently and even with 56K (nominal) which really equates to 30-40 I sometimes feel that committing seppuku would be preferable (though I haven't actually tried it)

JC dear, your info says you live in Ontario, Canada. I can imagine that you have working telecommunications, DSL providers and all that.

I live in a little village in southern Italy (closest larger town is Casarano) that isn't even on the maps, we don't even have decent regular phone lines. So I have only a 28.8 modem, because I never even reach that speed to my provider, the only one operating in those backwaters. There is talk from the politicians to upgrade the phone net, which would mean I could buy a faster modem, or even ADSL. But this is Italy, talk is cheap here.

 

[Vampiric_Mirage]

To whom it may (or may not) concern,
Although I don't live in Ontario where JCStreet is from, I do live in a small farming community in Canada.
Like Randi I am unable to get high speed becuase there is no service provider willing to let the tiny farming community I live near have it (I don't think they like farmers lol). I have a 56K modem, but I connect at 28.8K maximum & actually have connected as low as 14.4K quite often. On rainy days, for whatever reason, I often can not connect to the internet at all... & even though I am by no means poor, there is no way I am even considering paying the high prices to get Shaw or Bell ExpressView Satellite (through a TV dish), which more than quadruples the amount I am paying now.
So, for those of you who don't understand why we have slow speeds, quite often we have no choice! We appreciate your advice, but it is useless to us - we are unable to get faster connections! To all of you who also suffer from slow speeds, I feel for you!

*cough* umm, OK that's about all I wanted to sort of rant about...lol