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cannot preview long comments in askme
posted by andrew cooke to Bugs at 6:34 AM (16 comments total)

what happens when you try?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:35 AM on April 12, 2006


or here.
posted by andrew cooke at 6:35 AM on April 12, 2006


sorry, still experimenting. it just hangs waiting for a reply from the server.
posted by andrew cooke at 6:36 AM on April 12, 2006


same with posting.
posted by andrew cooke at 6:36 AM on April 12, 2006


you seem to be posting here fine, does it fail more often than it succeeds? what browser/OS are you using?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:37 AM on April 12, 2006


it's long comments. hang on, still trying to work out what size matters.
posted by andrew cooke at 6:37 AM on April 12, 2006


ok, i had to break this in to 3 pieces to post. othe wise both preview and post "just sit there" - i click on the button, the browser says "waiting for ask...." and nothing else happens.

firefox 1.5 on win2k. not noticed anything odd elsewhere. have not tried to delete my cookies....
posted by andrew cooke at 6:42 AM on April 12, 2006


weird, it worked fine for me.

Here, I'll try it on metatalk too:
my partner (chilean woman) hitched the length of the country, with an all female group of friends (they'd have been about 18, i guess, so this was some years ago...).

not sure riding a motorbike is that good an idea (is this a che thing?) - there's basically one road, goes up and down the entire country, and it's rather busy (and often just two lane). but if you have the appropriate licence (prolly need an international drivers licence) then of course it's possible. the buses here are excellent and very low priced (my weekly commute is $20 for a 7 hour overnight trip in a luxury coach with seats a bit like airline business class - three seats across the vehicle width, blanket + pillow, small breakfast)
my partner (chilean woman) hitched the length of the country, with an all female group of friends (they'd have been about 18, i guess, so this was some years ago...).

as signal said, you're probably best finding someone to travel with in a hostel (no need for month long commitments - just someone to travel with that day, weekend, whatever).

you certainly get more crap (comments, whistling, very rarely even contact) as a woman here, than in the uk (same person mentioned above frequently turns round and starts arguing/abusing the source of comments, and is generally met with embarassment and silence), and there's a certain amount of petty crime (snatching bags, wallets, etc) that i suspect comes with the wide range in wealth, but i've not heard anything to suggest that rape is more prevalent here than elsewhere. i feel safer here (santiago) than in a big american city, but i speak spanish (and am male). the culture is very much anti-confrontational, non-agressive, but it's also somewhat macho, very insular (you didn't mention your skin colour, but expect to be stared at and occasionally questioned by strangers, if you're african american/asian - even being "white" gets the ocasional odd look outside santiago), religious/conservative, and homophobic.

being friendly to others counts for a lot - smile, make conversation, hold doors open, greet people like they've been lost in the desert for the last 6 months, etc etc. this is even more true outside chile (but i think americans are better at this than english/europeans anyway).

in my limited experience argentina is similar, but perhaps more extreme - people are both friendlier and more agressive. it is also even cheaper (at least, was a while back).
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:50 AM on April 12, 2006


what is the exact error you get?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:50 AM on April 12, 2006


i press the post button and the browser just sits there. the little circle spins in the tab and it says "loading". at the bottom of the screen it says "waiting for response from ask.metafilter.com" (or similar, that goes away when i change tabs). i'm just waiting now for something to actually timeout.

weird that you can see it. i assumed you'd made a database field too small by accident. i'll try internet explorer on the same machine.
posted by andrew cooke at 6:53 AM on April 12, 2006


same problem on ie. i'm going to powercycle everything (this computer, firewall, modem). sorry - i guess this is my problem, not yours, if you can post.
posted by andrew cooke at 6:56 AM on April 12, 2006


incidentally, no timeout in 6 minutes waiting. still sitting there. rebooting now...
posted by andrew cooke at 6:57 AM on April 12, 2006


ah! and the timeout is just the usual - "The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."
posted by andrew cooke at 6:58 AM on April 12, 2006


same problem on linux machine (firewall). also going down now...
posted by andrew cooke at 7:02 AM on April 12, 2006


sorry about that. now works fine. i assume my firewall was mangling packet ids or something (don't have a clue really). no idea why - it had been up for months.

my partner (chilean woman) hitched the length of the country, with an all female group of friends (they'd have been about 18, i guess, so this was some years ago...).

not sure riding a motorbike is that good an idea (is this a che thing?) - there's basically one road, goes up and down the entire country, and it's rather busy (and often just two lane). but if you have the appropriate licence (prolly need an international drivers licence) then of course it's possible. the buses here are excellent and very low priced (my weekly commute is $20 for a 7 hour overnight trip in a luxury coach with seats a bit like airline business class - three seats across the vehicle width, blanket + pillow, small breakfast)
my partner (chilean woman) hitched the length of the country, with an all female group of friends (they'd have been about 18, i guess, so this was some years ago...).

as signal said, you're probably best finding someone to travel with in a hostel (no need for month long commitments - just someone to travel with that day, weekend, whatever).

you certainly get more crap (comments, whistling, very rarely even contact) as a woman here, than in the uk (same person mentioned above frequently turns round and starts arguing/abusing the source of comments, and is generally met with embarassment and silence), and there's a certain amount of petty crime (snatching bags, wallets, etc) that i suspect comes with the wide range in wealth, but i've not heard anything to suggest that rape is more prevalent here than elsewhere. i feel safer here (santiago) than in a big american city, but i speak spanish (and am male). the culture is very much anti-confrontational, non-agressive, but it's also somewhat macho, very insular (you didn't mention your skin colour, but expect to be stared at and occasionally questioned by strangers, if you're african american/asian - even being "white" gets the ocasional odd look outside santiago), religious/conservative, and homophobic.

being friendly to others counts for a lot - smile, make conversation, hold doors open, greet people like they've been lost in the desert for the last 6 months, etc etc. this is even more true outside chile (but i think americans are better at this than english/europeans anyway).

in my limited experience argentina is similar, but perhaps more extreme - people are both friendlier and more agressive. it is also even cheaper (at least, was a while back).

posted by andrew cooke at 7:11 AM on April 12, 2006


damn. and i left my coffee pot on teh stove while doing all that. sorry again. please close.
posted by andrew cooke at 7:16 AM on April 12, 2006


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