I type too slow for KB

**davereid** · 21st March 2009, 10:21

Yes, its bloody frustrating, but when I was a lad, you wrote your letter on a bit of paper, and the pretty girl in the typing office fixed all your mistakes, and typed it for you. And she went to the movies with you on Saturday and life was good.

Now we have computers. And the pretty girl in the typing pool is no more.

Instead a gorilla called Gordon who calls himself the IT DUDE makes me type my own letters.

And then I try to print them over a $20,000 computer network to a printer we all share, as it saved spending $100 on a printer just for me.

But anyway, it means I type with 1 or maybe 2 fingers (same way as I wave.)

And by the time I have written a bloody post on KB, I have been automatically logged out for inactivity, and my post goes to binary heaven. Or hell.

Can I change the inactivity log out setting ? Help Gordon.

**Maha** · 21st March 2009, 10:33

Firstly.........click 'remember me' when you login, that may help a little.
Secondly....if you automatically logout whilst typing a reply when you 'send'....click the 'back arrow', it will take you back to what you have typed. Copy it, re-login and paste it.....

**klingon** · 21st March 2009, 10:50

Originally Posted by Maha

Firstly.........click 'remember me' when you login, that may help a little.
Secondly....if you automatically logout whilst typing a reply when you 'send'....click the 'back arrow', it will take you back to what you have typed. Copy it, re-login and paste it.....

All good advice.

Otherwise, if you know you're going to type a long ramble, do it in something like 'notepad' then copy and paste it into KB when you're ready to go.

**Her_C4** · 21st March 2009, 11:20

Originally Posted by davereid

Instead a gorilla called Gordon who calls himself the IT DUDE makes me type my own letters.

Gawd - I have one of those too!

Originally Posted by Maha

Firstly.........click 'remember me' when you login, that may help a little.
Secondly....if you automatically logout whilst typing a reply when you 'send'....click the 'back arrow', it will take you back to what you have typed. Copy it, re-login and paste it.....

Good idea

Originally Posted by klingon

All good advice.

Otherwise, if you know you're going to type a long ramble, do it in something like 'notepad' then copy and paste it into KB when you're ready to go.

Yep this too - in fact way back when I used to write long posts on KB this was my workaround - now I just just write short posts full of tripe....

**McJim** · 21st March 2009, 12:16

Originally Posted by davereid

Yes, its bloody frustrating, but when I was a lad, you wrote your letter on a bit of paper, and the pretty girl in the typing office fixed all your mistakes, and typed it for you. And she went to the movies with you on Saturday and life was good.

Now we have computers. And the pretty girl in the typing pool is no more.

Instead a gorilla called Gordon who calls himself the IT DUDE makes me type my own letters.

And then I try to print them over a $20,000 computer network to a printer we all share, as it saved spending $100 on a printer just for me.

But anyway, it means I type with 1 or maybe 2 fingers (same way as I wave.)

And by the time I have written a bloody post on KB, I have been automatically logged out for inactivity, and my post goes to binary heaven. Or hell.

Can I change the inactivity log out setting ? Help Gordon.

How long did it take you to write this post?

**Racey Rider** · 21st March 2009, 12:55

I'm constantly having to re-login too. tick box don't work no more since my computer crash. Just figure it's my old poxy computer.

**Okey Dokey** · 21st March 2009, 12:59

This has happened to me a couple of times, but although I have to login again my post DOES get sent. I'm not sure why mine would make it while yours go to binary hell?

**Nasty** · 21st March 2009, 13:00

Originally Posted by Racey Rider

I'm constantly having to re-login too. tick box don't work no more since my computer crash. Just figure it's my old poxy computer.

I figure that you are probably right there

**Racey Rider** · 21st March 2009, 13:05

Orrrrrrr ...

Thats Just NASTY!

**CookMySock** · 21st March 2009, 13:17

When you figure out what a tab is, leave a page loaded in another tab and reload it and login, and then swap to the tab with the posting and submit it.

Steve

**pritch** · 22nd March 2009, 15:52

Originally Posted by davereid

Yes, its bloody frustrating, but when I was a lad, you wrote your letter on a bit of paper, and the pretty girl in the typing office fixed all your mistakes, and typed it for you. And she went to the movies with you on Saturday and life was good.

Yeah, I knew her, got engaged to her in fact...

Originally Posted by davereid

And by the time I have written a bloody post on KB, I have been automatically logged out for inactivity, and my post goes to binary heaven. Or hell.

Never mind, you've got a nice avatar

**MotoGirl** · 22nd March 2009, 16:21

Originally Posted by klingon

Otherwise, if you know you're going to type a long ramble, do it in something like 'notepad' then copy and paste it into KB when you're ready to go.

This is what I do, except I use Microsoft Word so I benefit from the spelling and grammar check too.

**Mikkel** · 27th March 2009, 15:31

Yep, for a long rant use the notepad. There are so many way that your carefully typed out scorn can be blasted into null-space when trying to post just using your internet browser.

**CHOPPA** · 17th May 2009, 12:52

I just wrote out a race report and went to enter it and it said my token had expired and to click the back button, i did that and all my fucken info had gone!!

Had it lots in the classified forum as well, wrote a big story then forget to put in price, gets rejected then lose all my txt! Must remember to use control c!!!