Lately I Have Noticed A Lot Of These Avatars

[Semper]

Wonder why?

[noob7]

Maybe you spend to much time online, to look for things like this?

Edited November 27, 2012 by noob7

[Semper]

Maybe you spend to much time online, to look for things like this?

Well, sometimes the avatar is more interesting than the topic/post.

Seriously, I was thinking if there is something wrong with my browser settings as this started a couple of days ago.

[MJCM]

Just guessing here, but it could be that the avatars were hot linked from a site which doesn't allow hot linking anymore and thus show that image ?

Edited November 27, 2012 by MJCM

[NomadJoe]

On a few occasions I have encountered a strange phenomenon where any page visited on the net never fully loaded and I would get a lot of those unfinished images. Try a different browser perhaps, or maybe re-install it. Try also power cycling the router/modem and restarting your OS.That should sort it.

[Semper]

power cycling the router/modem

How do I do this....... pressing the reset button on the router?

[MJCM]

power cycling the router/modem

How do I do this....... pressing the reset button on the router?

Power Cycling is just an expensive word for Turning off and turn on again

Edited November 27, 2012 by MJCM

[noob7]

power cycling the router/modem

How do I do this....... pressing the reset button on the router?

Power Cycling is just an expensive word for Turning off and turn on again

It crowd:

Roy Trenneman: [picking up the phone] Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again? Uh... okay, well, the button on the side, is it glowing? Yeah, you need to turn it on... uh, the button turns it on... yeah, you do know how a button works don't you? No, not on clothes.

Maurice Moss: [picking up the phone] Hello, IT... Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

Roy: No, no there you go, no there you go. I just heard it come on... no, no, that's the music you heard when it come on... no, that's the music you hear when... I'm sorry are you from the past?

Moss: See the driver hooks a function by patching the system call table, so it's not safe to unload it unless another thread's about to jump in there and do its stuff, and you don't want to end up in the middle of invalid memory! [chuckle] Hello?

Roy: Oh really? Then why don't you come down and make me then. Huh, what you think I'm afraid of you? I'm not afraid of you. You can come down here any time and I'll be waiting for you! [slams down phone] I told her!

Roy: I mean, they have no respect for us up there! No respect whatsoever! We're all just drudgeons to them!

Moss: Yes! If there were such a thing as a drudgeon, that is what we'd be to them.

Roy: It's like they're pally-wally with us when there's a problem with their printer, but once it's fixed--

Moss: They just toss us away like yesterday's jam.

Roy: Yes! Yesterday's jam. That is what we are to them! Actually, that doesn't work as a thing, because, you know, jam lasts for ages.

Edited November 27, 2012 by noob7

[Semper]

On a few occasions I have encountered a strange phenomenon where any page visited on the net never fully loaded and I would get a lot of those unfinished images. Try a different browser perhaps, or maybe re-install it. Try also power cycling the router/modem and restarting your OS.That should sort it.

Tried that, didn't help.

[Semper]

This is a "print screen" 1 minute ago from General.

[MJCM]

Which Browser are you using ?

Did you try to clear your Cache or reload the page with Ctrl + F5 ?

Edit: //

Try and see if you can load this website: http://en.gravatar.com/ as a lot of the avatars used on TV come from this site.

Edited November 27, 2012 by MJCM

[jpinx]

This is a "print screen" 1 minute ago from General.

Could be a slow connection to a specific hot-linked page of avatars, or a slow connection generally, or a "filter" in your isp's system, or a dodgy browser, or a browser cache full, or maybe the image actually doesn't exist anymore.

Try to rightclick on the image and you can look at properties, view the image separately, etc.

Hope that helps

[Semper]

This is a "print screen" 1 minute ago from General.

Could be a slow connection to a specific hot-linked page of avatars, or a slow connection generally, or a "filter" in your isp's system, or a dodgy browser, or a browser cache full, or maybe the image actually doesn't exist anymore.

Try to rightclick on the image and you can look at properties, view the image separately, etc.

Hope that helps

For example, I can see your avatar, but not MJCM's (see post # 11).

[MJCM]

This is a "print screen" 1 minute ago from General.

Could be a slow connection to a specific hot-linked page of avatars, or a slow connection generally, or a "filter" in your isp's system, or a dodgy browser, or a browser cache full, or maybe the image actually doesn't exist anymore.

Try to rightclick on the image and you can look at properties, view the image separately, etc.

Hope that helps

For example, I can see your avatar, but not MJCM's (see post # 11).

I am using the standard TV avatar so none to be seen.

[Semper]

This is a "print screen" 1 minute ago from General.

Could be a slow connection to a specific hot-linked page of avatars, or a slow connection generally, or a "filter" in your isp's system, or a dodgy browser, or a browser cache full, or maybe the image actually doesn't exist anymore.

Try to rightclick on the image and you can look at properties, view the image separately, etc.

Hope that helps

For example, I can see your avatar, but not MJCM's (see post # 11).

I am using the standard TV avatar so none to be seen.

Ok, I'm seeing this:

If you see the same, then TV have changed the standard avatar.

[jpinx]

Semper -

This is the information about your own avatar

http://static.thaivi...-49205.jpg?_r=0

You must have loaded it into your account in TV I think.

Now take a look at the properties of the ones you can not see and post them here for us to analyse.

What browser and version are you using? I am guessing this is a recent problem, so what settings or configurations have you changed recently?

added...

MJCM's avatar information is this

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4130bcb44fd60b516780cccfd8b10da3?s=100&d=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.thaivisa.com%2Fforum%2F%2Fpublic%2Fstyle_images%2Fmaster%2Fprofile%2Fdefault_large.png

so it looks like a hot-linked avatar that TV use - based on MJCM saying that he uses the "standard" TV one...

Edited November 27, 2012 by jpinx

[noob7]

I think, he can't see this one:

http://i2.wp.com/sta...fault_large.png

Question, Semper:

Did you try another browser? Opera, Firefox, IE, Chrom, safari, lots of options!

Edited November 27, 2012 by noob7

[jpinx]

screenshots are not much use cos we need to see what your system sees as the properties of the missing avatars

But for the sake of it - here's a couple of screenshots to show you what I see....

[Semper]

Semper -

This is the information about your own avatar

http://static.thaivi...-49205.jpg?_r=0

You must have loaded it into your account in TV I think.

Now take a look at the properties of the ones you can not see and post them here for us to analyse.

What browser and version are you using? I am guessing this is a recent problem, so what settings or configurations have you changed recently?

added...

MJCM's avatar information is this

http://www.gravatar....fault_large.png

so it looks like a hot-linked avatar that TV use - based on MJCM saying that he uses the "standard" TV one...

Ok. I'm using IE9 and this is the info I get from the "properties" of MJCM's avatar:

[MJCM]

Semper -

This is the information about your own avatar

http://static.thaivi...-49205.jpg?_r=0

You must have loaded it into your account in TV I think.

Now take a look at the properties of the ones you can not see and post them here for us to analyse.

What browser and version are you using? I am guessing this is a recent problem, so what settings or configurations have you changed recently?

added...

MJCM's avatar information is this

http://www.gravatar....fault_large.png

so it looks like a hot-linked avatar that TV use - based on MJCM saying that he uses the "standard" TV one...

Ok. I'm using IE9 and this is the info I get from the "properties" of MJCM's avatar:

I see this with IE9

Semper, can you open this site ?

http://en.gravatar.com/

[jpinx]

That's the same info I have - so I reckon your browser cache needs emptying, or you have made some changes to the settings and/or configuration recently. Did you try re-starting your computer completely? That's the usual fix-it for problems in MS stuff

Edited November 27, 2012 by jpinx

[Semper]

That's the same info I have - so I reckon your browser cache needs emptying, or you have made some changes to the settings and/or configuration recently. Did you try re-starting your computer completely? That's the usual fix-it for problems in MS stuff

I restart/start the computer every morning. Have I made some changes. Well, there was an upgrade of a software we can't discuss on the forum about two days ago. So maybe this upgrade recognize the "standard avatar" as an (dare I say it) ad. ?

I'll make a restart (without said software) and see what'll happen.

[Semper]

Lol. That did the trick and as a bonus, I now know where to by a 1 bedroom condo for 2.4 MB.

Obviously I'm going to reset to the former settings and accept whatever the avatars look like.

Edited November 27, 2012 by Semper

[jpinx]

ah-ha --- I asked you about recent changes

Almost certainly this is the culprit. There will be settings in that software which will allow things to happen normally,,,,

pm me for private discussion about the "software"

Edited November 27, 2012 by jpinx

[MJCM]

As I am not running that kind of software, I'm still glad to see that your problem has been resolved

Edited November 27, 2012 by MJCM

[Semper]

As I am not running that kind of software, I'm still glad to see that your problem has been resolved