It's Snowing!!!!!

Pete Cooper · Post by **Pete Cooper** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:04 am

On this flippin' website

Is it just me that finds this really annoying?

FullCircle · Post by **FullCircle** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:49 am

Ive got firefox and it causes my screen to jump left and right. Yep, a bit annoying, but its Nicks toy, and he can play with it however he likes.

sahona · Post by **sahona** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:52 am

Jim, there's a discreet service that will cure your case of firefox if it's not chronic. Send me your address on a white fiver.

FullCircle · Post by **FullCircle** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:53 pm

sahona wrote:Jim, there's a discreet service that will cure your case of firefox if it's not chronic. Send me your address on a white fiver.

Bill, I know that you and Sahona are about 240 years old, but we don't use white fivers anymore.
I will send you my Credit card details and PIN number instead. Hasn't got quite the same ring tho?

Telo · Post by **Telo** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:08 pm

FullCircle wrote:Ive got firefox and it causes my screen to jump left and right.

Not only that, but because my PC has a wired network connection, the crappy looking snowflakes make the ethernet bloody card chirrup away constantly while I'm in BlueMoment. Like having a field full of cicadas in the machine.

I'm going back to ybw; it's quieter there.

EDIT: I've just checked with task manager, CPU usage jumps from 0-2% with YBW, to over 30% with BlueMoment. That's just the bloody snowflakes without any keystrokes.

sahona · Post by **sahona** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:16 pm

Fine Jim. I called cousin Umbongo and he agreed to help once I forward the stuff to him.
Nothing here yet though.

Post by **Silkie** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:50 pm

This'll be the Bah! Humbug! thread then. Were you saving the other 98% of your cpu for something special?

Post by **Nick** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:36 pm

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Whinging gits. Its a simple javascript, shouldn't be using any CPU cycles - time you got rid of that steam driven PC Donald.

It is also nothing to do with the Firefox jumping thingy which is to do with the way FF calculates menus on dynamically delivered pages with less than a screenful of content. I'm looking at this in FF now on my ancient laptop and it is fine, with negligible CPU use. My network card is not making any noise either - if yours is then I suggest it will not be bothering you for long. (In actual fact the images are cached by the browser and the script runs in-page, so after the first 2 seconds nothing is being downloaded . . . )

I do love a good IT conversation with people who really know what they are talking about. The only comment that is possibly technically correct in his particular instance is Pete's.

Wildbird · Post by **Wildbird** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:56 pm

No problem on my computer with firefox or noises..

Its quite sweet (but I'm a girly...)

Rowana · Post by **Rowana** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:55 pm

Do you get snow in Cornwall

stephenh · Post by **stephenh** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:53 am

Thank you for the snow - very sweet ( and no gender excuse...)

PC + Firefox - no problems

..and a happy new year to you all....

stephenh

Wildbird · Post by **Wildbird** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 1:40 pm

Rowana wrote:Do you get snow in Cornwall

Not so far (but its my first christmas down here). I'm decamping ooopp north in a couple of days hopefully there'll be snow there for the new year.

Merry christmas everyone- and may 2009 be a year in which to fulfil some of your dreams

BLUEMOMENT

It's Snowing!!!!!

It's Snowing!!!!!

Thank you so much for your observations