[arachne] Re: Attempting to scroll right results in crashing my computer

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Hi Sam,

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:11:54 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> Hello Folks:

> The consternation stated in the subject header of this message afflicted
> me twice consecutively when I tried to read the news story at this
> offending URL:

> "http://shenandoah.com/frame/?headlineID=12254";

> The above named webpage seeems to load fine.  Whenever I attempted to scroll
> right my computer crashed.  I got a black screen and a flashing cursor.
> The three finger salute wouldn't get me out of it.  I had to turn off the
> power switch and do a cold re-boot.

    I had no problem with this URL, except that the advertising placed
itself over the text of the article. Scroll is OK, with the mouse and
keyboard.

> I am running the current Arachne GPL version, 190j1.  I have never before
> suffered a problem like this with any version of Arachne.

   I am running arachne 1.90JG, with 64 MB RAM, 800x600, 256 colours,
with 5000 pixels virtual screen, on an AMD K6, 600 MHz. MS-DOS 6.20.

Regards,
        Ron


Ron Clarke
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