[time-nuts] HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse

[Keith Malcolm]

Rex,

seems to run OK for me using XP and Firefox on a Toshiba laptop.

I'm not sure just what I should see, but I got the eclipse path and 
the software lets me look at profiles for places that I specify.

Keith G Malcolm
VK1KM/VK2AEM



>Message: 5
>Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:50:15 -0800
>From: Rex <rexa at sonic.net>
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse
>To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
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>John,
>
>Thanks for the reply. I expected to hear from someone besides me who was
>also experiencing problems trying to run the link. I wonder if anyone
>can confirm that they are able to use the page successfully from an XP
>machine (or other MS OS), using the Firefox browser. Perhaps someone can
>confirm that this combination is capable or working or not.
>
>I wouldn't expect this machine to be challenged. It is an Intel Quad
>Core processor at 2.8 GHz and has 4 GB of RAM. That is not
>state-of-the-art, but is pretty high performance. I haven't seen any
>other software problems in the ~6 months I've been using this PC.
>
>Today I was wondering if I could find a way to update the GE plug-in in
>Firefox. I couldn't, but I checked for a Firefox update and there was
>one. After updating Firefox, it automatically started loading a new GE
>plug-in, so I should now have the latest versions of Firefox and the
>Google Earth plug-in. When I tried the page again, I got basically the
>same hang result.
>
>The browser window fills with what looks like a very noisy picture of
>several copies of one window. So much video noise that I can't tell what
>the windows are, but they look like empty windows with some kind of
>control or status along the bottom. On the right half of the firefox
>window is one big area of just blank video noise. While this is going
>on, any cursor movement doesn't happen for 5 - 10 sec after I move the
>mouse. I can eventually kill firefox if I gradually move the cursor to
>the upper-right X and click it. If I let this continue for several
>minutes I eventually get a box that says a script is not responding --
>asks to stop it or continue. If I stop it, I eventually regain control.
>
>I started to try it in IE earlier but didn't let GE load so no
>information gained. Just now I did it again with IE and let it load
>Google Earth. The page does run under IE, so seems the the application
>script has some compatibility with Firefox and the GE plug-in. Surely
>anyone else will see the same problems if they are using Firefox. I
>abhor IE, so I guess I won't be running this tool.
>
>Do you have any connection to the page owner? Can you pass this report on?
>
>-Rex