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Old 10-16-02 | 10:00 PM
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Originally posted by Phil L.
Insomnia ad is officially driving me crazy.

No, not the pop-up, the flash banner.

That thing is damn annoying!
What banner?

I tend to ignore banners unless they have nude women on them

by the way. I am ok with things like this since they help keep dvdtalk alive
Old 10-18-02 | 08:32 AM
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Just get a popup killer.
Old 10-18-02 | 09:11 AM
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If i buy it , will they stop...please...make them stop!
Old 10-18-02 | 11:37 PM
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Insomnia?

You must be seeing things. Get some sleep.
Old 10-19-02 | 10:43 AM
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OK, this one is often enough to be annoying. It drove me to a popup killer. Do advertisers understand it doesn't pay to really po customers?
Old 10-20-02 | 11:30 PM
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Half of the pop-ups load fine. The other half take upwards of a minute to load, during which time my browser is frozen (can't scroll or push the IE buttons). This is the same reason I had to stop reading at EZboard.

Is anyone else having this problem? Any work-arounds? I know this is supposed to stop on 10/23, but for future referecnce, this may be helpful, especially if Geoff has to do this again in the future.


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Old 10-20-02 | 11:38 PM
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From: On the road to reclaiming Lord Stanleys Cup, Turlock CA
Re : Every 15 minutes a Pop-Up

Just got 2 in under 5 minutes

edit, make that 3 in less than 7
Old 10-21-02 | 09:44 AM
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hehe, dek has AOL
Old 10-21-02 | 11:47 AM
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Originally posted by bothanspy
Half of the pop-ups load fine. The other half take upwards of a minute to load, during which time my browser is frozen (can't scroll or push the IE buttons). This is the same reason I had to stop reading at EZboard.

Is anyone else having this problem? Any work-arounds? I know this is supposed to stop on 10/23, but for future referecnce, this may be helpful, especially if Geoff has to do this again in the future.


SPY
Two suggestions: a pop-up killer will usually close them before they finish loading (the one I use is no longer available but a google search will find many others). But, in my experience, the easy way to deal with pop-ups is to close them from the keyboard as soon as the little window starts to appear. This is done on a "wintel" machine with a [Cntrl-W] command (this command will close windows for many types of programs, not just browsers). On a Mac I believe that it is [Apple-W]. To toggle between windows use [Alt-Tab] on a
wintel machine.

Whether this will work if your computer is locked up with a loading window I don't know. But it is worth a try.
Old 10-21-02 | 12:23 PM
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The only catch is that the window doesnt appear while its loading. It locks up the computer, then after a minute, loads normally.

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Old 10-21-02 | 02:03 PM
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The pop-up that ask if pacino and williams have been in a movie together is wrong. It says that they starred in awakenings together.
Old 10-21-02 | 02:50 PM
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From: On the road to reclaiming Lord Stanleys Cup, Turlock CA
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hehe, dek has AOL
Yeah! FU! It's for my parents who are stuck in the stone age. I just got them the other day how to open a digital photo I sent them.

Add that to the fact that everytime I ask an AT&T bastard "When can I get Cable modem or DSL?" they either laugh, or say "In like, 2 years" doesn't help either. At work I am in heaven with DSL, home I am in hell.

Go dance with Brett Farve the injury boy!
Old 10-21-02 | 03:48 PM
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2 days to go!!!
Old 10-21-02 | 07:57 PM
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Dek, funny artwork.
Old 10-24-02 | 11:22 AM
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