<Thanks Gary. That message indicates a file-locking conflict--somebody else is trying to post at the same time.

are you sure? I got it every single time I tried posting to the cloning or zionism threads t current evetnsj just now. and the chances are slim that on all four times there was someoneelse posting. . . more in email. . .

I need to replace those cryptic diagnostic messages with human-friendly ones. This one would translate into "The system is currently busy. Please refresh this page to resubmit your message."

"how about the system is busy, please refresh your browser" because refreshing is not requitred to submit.

Have you considered trading in that piece of crap Netscrape Nagivator 4.7 for a modern, non-obsolete, non-buggy browser? The fact that you're clinging to the thing despite its obvious and deep flaws is ample evidence that your hatred of Microsoft is based entirely on emotion and has nothing to do with technical realities. After you've spent six years designing and building Web sites, then maybe we should talk more about it.

I fear this one will be heading to the flame board soon, Garry its your call on how you respond. . .

With Apache, on the other hand, you have to return to the bygone days of hacking the source and recompiling the entire damn thing, followed by an extended period of regression-testing to determine what else you've broken in the process.

well at least you 'could' hack the code. Think of all the things you can't tdo with microsofts servers because you don't have access to it. While I've only had experienc with apache on my own server, I only needed to compile the code, and not do a single thing to it. there were simple to edit settings files that were not part of the code to set everything up.

That antiquated and unproductive approach has been superseded by object-oriented and modular software approaches that have been standard in the industry for a couple of decades.



don't get me started about my complaints with regads to object oriented software. . . then agin yo've ehard it before from me. ;-)

I've been hearing for almost 3 decades that UNIX is the operating system of the future, and I believe it--it's as true today as it was in the '70s. I'm still waiting.

your wait was over 30 years ago ;-) its still here and growing. . . unix came and is still here, FreeBSD came and is still here, Linux came and is still here. . . Msdos came and went, win3.1 came and went, win95 came and etc. . .

-Justin Kelly