Interesting Snapshot from the LinuxQuestions Slackware Forum
 

<Link to snapshot removed>Interesting market push from Microsoft. I'll keep the snapshot up until June 22, 2003. I don't fault the web hosts, they need the money to help bring linux to the masses.

Hmm....

I don't get it. Was the page not loaded fully yet?

Peace...

It was an animated add from Microsoft. I used a screen capture program to show that the add was on this linux site and caught the Microsoft name as it scrolled.

Ahh...

OK. We see tons of those ads and posts regarding them too.

:D

whitehat, why don't you just turn the banner ads off? Your a contributing member.

Mine are off. I'm telling the other guy (shepper) that we've seen a ton of those ads :)

What's curious though is that at least earlier today, sometimes these ads seemed to cause everything below them to not get loaded (as seen in the screen shot referenced in the original post). Maybe it was just a weird transient condition, but at least for me, as I checked in on LQ a couple of times this afternoon, the page would only get as far as the banner and then it would stop. Hitting the page reload button had no effect. This was more of an annoyance than anything but it was a bit peculiar. Did anyone else experience similar behavior? I'm running Mozilla, haven't made any changes to my preference settings, and I don't recall seeing this in the past. As I say it was more irritating than anything else, but during the occasional free moment during the day I like to check into LQ, and got kind of bummed out by seeing this partial page load phenomenon. -- J.W.

moved to a suitable forum - Website Questions and Suggestions

J.W.,

It happened to me also. I am in the process of having the ad removed.

--jeremy

This is happening to me right now. I can't view the forums from my Red Hat 8.0 system with Mozilla 1.3.

I am currently posting this from my W2K machine with IE 5.5.

I go to www.linuxquestions.org and press the 'forum' button, that page starts to open, the Logo comes up, the blue navgiation buttons come up, then the Microsoft Ad, then NOTHING after that.

I thought the site was under attack from some Microsoft dweeb.

regards...

Well, I just became an Contributing Member.

Now, all I have to do is login directly from the home page, and no more ad worries or locked-up pages, apparently.


regards...

I am in the process of having this ad removed (or fixed). I apologize for the problems it is causing.

--jeremy

Jeremy,
Just FYI, the MicroSoft ad "recognizing Jtech" has appeared in about 99% of the pages I've viewed here in the last couple of days. I don't know if there is some mechanism you have that allows advertisers to pay more for more exposure, but I just thought I'd mention this.

Yep only the ad loads for me sometimes to, this is the only site. It has only been happening for a few days.

Jemery said that the advert was actually specifically targetted at this site, that'll be microsofts clever tactics. Did also generate a fair amount of money (as far as ads go).