Important Question...Please take a moment...

[lala_rawraw]

Click on either of these two links and tell me if you have problems accessing the pages, such as "page not found" etc. If you do have problems, please note who your ISP is. Thanks:)

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_Permanent_Republican_Majority_1125.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_permanent_Republican_majority_Daughter_of_1127.html

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If you have ATT or BellSouth, please try this and also the Google cache.

If you don't have those ISPs, see about the Google cache.

[lala_rawraw]

1. keeping kicked

[porphyrian]

2. Nope, I got both of them. -n/t

[lala_rawraw]

5. who is your ISP?

[porphyrian]

9. Comcast, in Tallahassee, FL (wherever that puts the server). -n/t

[Phx_Dem]

3. both worked for me. nt

[RebelOne]

4. They loaded, but slowly.

[lala_rawraw]

7. something damn strange is going on...

I could not load both either from my two computers or from my neighbor's machine. We have the same ISP. I tried to get the google cache, but it too is missing.

[drm604]

22. It looks like Google hasn't cached those pages.

There doesn't appear to be a Google cache for either page, so I doubt that the lack of a cache is a problem with your ISP.

[lala_rawraw]

25. how does google cache work?

do they not cache daily?

still can't figure out why we are not able to access the links. i need someone who is on either of those carriers in the south to try this out.

[drm604]

35. How often they cache would depend on how often they spider a site.

I would imagine that a news site like rawstory would be spidered daily. I don't know all of the details about how they decide whether or not to cache.

It looks like the second link hasn't even been indexed yet. The first one is indexed but with no cache.

A website can put things in the page or the headers that tell search engines not to cache pages. Do you know whether or not rawstory does anything like that?

[lala_rawraw]

49. well i for one

have not a clue as to how any of this works... i am just happy to have power back and access to those pages again.

[spanone]

6. both worked for me

[madokie]

8. It came through all right, my isp fairpoint communications

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Both worked fine for me -- a little slow, but not too bad. n/t

[BuyingThyme]

11. Fine, fine.

[lala_rawraw]

12. are any of you on AT&T or BellSouth?

[drm604]

13. Both loaded rapidly.

Even the ads.

Verizon DSL.

[lala_rawraw]

14. Can someone with AT&T or BellSouth try?

[lala_rawraw]

15. Anyone on AT&T or Bellsouth out there?

[Annces]

17. I have AT&T in Wisconsin and both links work for me n/t

[lala_rawraw]

18. okay, but that is north backbone...

I cannot account for why my neighbor and I cannot access either link or the Google cache.

[Vincardog]

16. They both worked for me

[blogslut]

19. Both worked fine for me

I am on one of the providers you mentioned.

[lala_rawraw]

21. north or south?

[blogslut]

23. I live in West Texas

That's as much info as I care to give.

[lala_rawraw]

26. no prob, thank you:)

[blogslut]

33. Do try the usual measures

Clear cookies and cache, history. Scandisk. Defrag. Run anti-spyware programs. Check firewall settings. Also, use this baby. It fixes a lot of bugs:

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

In addition, my former dial-up ISP used to block certain sites on port 80. Only it didn't do it when I used Firefox.

Just throwing ideas out there for ya.

[lala_rawraw]

34. I only use firefox...

Tried every measure I could think of, including cleaning cache, defrag, rebooting, same issue. On both machines and neighbor. I will try that baby you got there...maybe that will work. But how would it be possible for a bug to be in two separate homes?

[blogslut]

37. I would have to be sitting in front of your machines to find out

But most definitely use that software. They don't call it crap cleaner for nothing. You might also want to try looking at the programs that autostart when you boot up. There is a program called XTEQ that allows you to tweak hidden files and programs, including auto-loading programs. As well I like HiJackThis because it kills Browser Helper Objects. HiJackThis is free but XTEQ cost money now. Although, if you wish I can arrange for you to download an older, free version ;)

[lala_rawraw]

48. is there a way to see if

your computer is being accessed? i have firewalls and such, but hell, given what i do, i am developing tin foilitis;)

and sure, any software would be great... i did download that cleaner, but since the power came on, i can access the two pages (strange, though).

[blogslut]

53. Hey, sometimes a reboot is all it takes

I'm not a true geek, I just play one on the Interwebs. I am not skilled or knowledgible enough to tell you how to detect true spying. I would definitely check to see if any rootkits or keyloggers are installed. Your firewall should protect you from most physical attempts to scan your machine. Truth is, there's a lot of adware/spyware/malware out there and there's are new variants made every day.

In fact, I had to clean my Linux PC of cookies because RawStory displayed a kinda scary geo-targeted ad. I may have picked the bug up from another site and it kicked in when I visited Raw. Does RawStory take ads from Dick Blick Art supplies? Not accusing, just curious.

I'm thinking there's some new, hellish Flash exploits out there that are screwing with my browser.

As far as that program, I will PM you with a link.

[lala_rawraw]

20. can a techie tell me if there is a logical

reason for this so I don't go all tinfoil?

[drm604]

29. I can tell you that there is very likely a logical explanation

although I can't tell you for sure what it is. What do you see when you try to load them?

[lala_rawraw]

32. I get

Page not found error. When I go to cache, I get nothing at all. I tried this on both computers and also my neighbor, same problem.

[drm604]

36. Can you load other rawstory pages?

Can you load the main page?

[lala_rawraw]

40. yes... all of them

[drm604]

41. Did you see my suggestion in post #38?

Try that and tell me if it works.

[lala_rawraw]

45. i did just now...

but it did not matter, because as soon as i got power back, then it all worked. i guess storm glitch, right? or no? i don't know how this all works in terms of storms and pages on a site, etc.

[w8liftinglady]

24. no prob-ATT in Texas

[bdamomma]

27. kick

[jtrockville]

28. Both quickly loaded with Verizon FiOS in Rockville MD (nt)

[lala_rawraw]

30. Let's try it this way...

Anyone with those two carriers in the southeastern part of the country... please give this a try. Apparently the north and west are working fine. So that still leaves open a region in which I am currently at...

[lonestarnot]

31. No problem either link.

[drm604]

38. Lala, try loading the www version of those pages.

Put www. in front of rawstory.com in those URLs and see if that works.

[lala_rawraw]

44. okay...

so there is a storm and the power went out... when it came back, i could access the pages. was it a storm glitch then?

[drm604]

55. Not likely.

It's more likely that the computers rebooting fixed something. Either that or it was some sort of net glitch that coincidentally was fixed during the time the power was out. Or maybe there was some kind of page or address caching going on somewhere.

Anyway, glad to hear that it's working now. I was pretty sure that it wasn't some kind of conspiracy, but these days I can't blame you for being a little suspicious.

[sinkingfeeling]

39. Both loaded just fine for me. n/t

[tjwash]

42. cox.net loads them both up quickly here in San Diego

nt

[Fleshdancer]

43. both worked for me. Time Warner. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

46. No problem I guess Time Warner is not playing the games

:-)

[Richard Steele]

47. I'm in NC, on Verizon, and both links work OK. nm

[mmonk]

50. No problems.

[lala_rawraw]

51. thank you everyone...

it appears the storm, power down, then power up resolved the issue - i don't know how exactly, but it works now. magic perhaps, but thank you for trying to help:)

[annabanana]

52. We all sport the foil chapeaux now, m'dear. . . You might just

be our Canary, so we have to pay attention.

[JuniperLea]

54. AT&T Downtown Los Angeles here...

Worked well for me!

[tkmorris]

56. I'm on Bellsouth, both worked nt

[kineneb]

57. no problems on MediaCom cable

... serves a bunch of rural areas. They tend to have very light filtering, mostly for e-mail spam.