Re: Issue with GNAT GPL 2009 and GtkAda

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message 
> news:uljnej5hp.fsf@stephe-leake.org...
> ...
>> I tried searching at http://www.ada-auth.org/search-ai05s.html, but I
>> with Firefox only get a blank screen in response. MS Internet
>> Explorer gives a results page. But there are lots of results for
>> 'aliased parameter', and none for '"aliased parameter"'.
>
> Aside: The "blank screen" problem seems to be somewhere between our web 
> server and the broad Internet, because it sometimes happens when I surf out 
> as well as surf in. It seems to be caused by overloading with too many 
> requests (especially a problem because of spammers constantly pounding our 
> mail and web servers); 

When I switched from Firefox to MS Internet Explorer, the problem was
immediately and consistently solved, so I don't think that's it.

> usually all that you need to do to deal with it is click on the
> "Refresh" button.

That didn't fix it for me.

> I suspect that you could get similar effects with other browsers, but I 
> don't have any first-hand knowledge of that, because I rarely use other 
> browsers (and that seems to be true of the vast majority of the humans that 
> visit our web site as well).

Ada caters to minority programmers :)

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