Technology's Reach and Security's Grasp

I get the error in FF as well. I don't have another browser installed so checking in a different one would require more work.

I can confirm it works in Opera. It also works in Konqueror and Arora. No luck with Firefox. Weird...

Time to file a bug report with Mozilla, I guess.

I'd say a Firefox bug except that it doesn't work in Links either. :P

techiem2,

Tried all three in turn worked on getting to the standard's blog pages. The only difference between the three is the last link yielded a new topic: "The North Dakota Badlands and the Making of a President", new for Sat. the 29th.

I am running Firefox 3.0.13 on Ubuntu 8.04 that is fully patched for my set of applications. Since others have tested Konqueror I will not bother. The only other difference that might be playing a role, is I am running with an old AMD 32 bit CPU, XP 2600+. Are those that are having problems running a 64bit version of Firefox? If so that is a common characteristic, you may have found a bug in Firefox.

I'm using the 32 bit version of Firefox 3.5.2 as packaged for Pardus.

I guess I could not resist, works almost the same way with Konqueror. Just caught off guard with its popping up a new window for each link. Otherwise exactly the same, but again I am running a 32bit system.

Interesting. I can see it at home, but not from my parents' house.

32-bit Firefox in both places.

One more test, running on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4 and Safari 4.0.2*, which just like Konqueror popped new windows for each link. The CPU is an Intel Core Duo that I suspect is a 64 bit chip, however, I am unsure about Safari even having a 64 bit version.

* My daughter's machine.

All of techiem's links work from here (home) with Firefox 3.0.13 on Slackware 12.2 (13.0 is waiting for a free weekend to burn to CD and install). I'm using an AMD Sempron 3400 processor (single core, 64 bit capable).

It works on my wife's work laptop running Windows and FF 3.5.2, running at home. I am running mint 7 on my laptop which has FF 3.0.13 on it. It didn't work on the old laptop running Ubuntu 9.04 with FF 3.5.4pre. This is really odd.

Works with opera and firefox 3.0.13 here, but fails with ff 3.5.x, chromium and elinks (all 32-bit).

I contacted Updegrove and I learned his site had been hacked. In addition (see copy of email content below), they have been unable to reproduce the problem. So whomever experienced the problem, could you try again and send screen shots of the problem with error messages etc.?

From: [e-mail:Contact me with internal LXer email for the address]

Hi [TxtEdMacs],

Thanks for the note and information. This has been a tough problem for us as we know many users are having the problem but none of us (those working on the problem, host, developers, sysadmin) can duplicate the iusse. Could I impose on you and ask that you send me a few screen shots of the page and errors you are getting?

Many thanks, Stirling

Stirling Thomas Director of Information Technology Gesmer Updegrove LLP 40 Broad Street Boston, MA 02109 V 617-350-6800 x 376 F 617-350-6878

Don't they have logs, or something? The error I get says:

"An SQL error has occurred. Please see error.log for details."

Well?

jezuch: It would probably be useful for Updegrove if you can tell him the exact time that an error occurs and what your IP address was at that time. It makes searching big error logs a lot easier!

Well, everything works fine for me today... So maybe they found the logs without my intervention :)

Yes, works for me too with all browsers and I confirmed the same to Stirling.

It seems the problem has been solved as the last posts here seem to indicate. Thanks for the help is expressed below, here:

Quoting:[TxtEdMacs],

I believe we have resolved the issue and have confirmed with a number of users that have contacted us with the issue. Would it be too much for to ask you post that we think we've got it fixed?

Thank you again for your assistance.

Many thanks, Stirling

and here:

Quoting:Thanks very much for helping us out with this - we wouldn't have been able to figure things out without the help from the field. I'm much obliged. I'm hoping that the folks at LXer who were having problems will now all be able to log on without difficulty (and will let us know if that's not the case).

Best,

Andy

Please note the request that anyone having problems getting to their site contact them. If you need Stirling's email address, contact me using the LXer internal email.

Txt.

Stirling and Andy, grateful to a Microsoft shill?

I'm shocked! SHOCKED, I say!

gus3,

Why Not? Now everyone can be see for themselves the radical, offensive people they are [all to help my kind, benign benefactor*, of course] convincing people that closed, proprietary software cannot be beaten. Moreover, our software is easy to install and maintain, unlike that free junk. And it's safe too with built-in malware protection that the Free stuff lacks.

By the way, take your fingers out of the power socket and my actions will be much less shocking.

Your Buddy Txt.

* Submitted by the Official, Resident LXer MS Shill [All Others are Fakes!]

Sorry, I've been swamped with schoolwork this week. But yes, it seems to work fine for me now.