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For the past week or so I have been unable to access the VIP section. I'm a lifetime member. Anyone else having any issues?

I have never been able to access the VIP section for over ten yrs I guess.

besides rights to the site (reach out to support for that), maybe clear your browser cache or another browser; could be something corrupt with the cookies stored.

You have to sign in to the regular forum and the VIP section separately. Didja try that???
Never had a problem with Mac OS or Android OS.....

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I've always been able to access it from my phone but a couple of weeks ago started getting the message that I didn't have the required permissions. I'll try clearing the cache. Maybe that will help. Thanks

Just noticed that my post count must have been cleared about the same time. I've been a VIP since 2004 and am just showing 4 posts. CR Virgin

I've been told by a computer expert who used to be a member that this is two software programs originally clumsily put together and you need a seperate password to get into there.

Since the CD misadventure, nothing there interests me so I quit bothering to access it. I thought it might be worth it to see the multi pics of the girl of the month, but why bother, I see a different one buck nekked once or twice a week in my own bed here, so no big thrill looking at "pictures" of sexy girls anymore, lol.

You might ask administration, I did once, they explained it, I did it, now forgot it, don't care to bother going back, lol.

Good luck with that...

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I just discovered that I was using my original ID I created before I joined VIP. No problem with the system, just dumb user error.

In the IT world we have two phrases..

1) PEBKAC error
2) ID ten T error

Answers"
1) Problem Exists Between Key Board and Chair
2)IdIOt

I always saw it as ID10T, lol.

In auto mechanics, there's also "Loose nut behind the wheel"..

I would classify myself as moderately computer savvy...there's very complex things I understand and simple things I still screw up...

Decades ago (ancient XT and AT dos days) I worked for a company that created a job cost accounting system for the construction industry, I was in sales, and coordinated changes in design, function and user friendliness with our tech boys via recommendations from our users.

We found many I.T. guys, brilliant as they may be, still never got the concept of user friendliness and designed software for average people but they need engineering degrees to comprehend...

Sometimes with my limited computer knowledge, but good math and accounting knowledge, I would recommend some way to change getting to an answer with 2 or 3 steps instead of 4 or 5. They would laugh me off as being not computer savvy, but many times in our next update, my recommendation was done, and I'm assuming they went to the boss and claimed the credit for solving this problem...

I've worked for big companies with I.T. guys, if you reported a problem, they would come to your desk, fiddle with your computer rapidly, not explain anything, declare the problem solved, and get the hell out fast.

Then when you went back to the computer, the problem not solved....or worse, problem solved but now new and sometimes worse problem to deal with...

They would do it again...after lunch...good chance 2nd try worked but sometimes a third try was needed.

In the old days, dos days, I forgot exactly, but sometimes a computer would issue an error statement something to the effect of "hot", nothing to do with the physical temperature of the computer. Sorry I don't remember what exactly, I'm in my mid 60's and am starting to forget what I forgot.

The point is, when we had a new trainee in the accounting software sales, and remember in the dos days, few people know much about computers, and he/she had to demonstrate in front of us how to use the computer and understand the software before being let loose to call on customers.

Sometimes they would screw something up and the error message would appear, in front of typically 10 or so peers and managers. When they appeared befuddled, someone would shout "Is the computer hot???" Which they would reply "yes"...

Then one of us would run up to them with a bucket with a big sign on it...WATER...

We would yell, "Get back, she's gonna blowwwww..." at that point, their pupils were dilated like a cat being chased by a dog, terrified and mortified...then we would dump the bucket (filled with confetti from paper shredders) all over them....big fun...

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I can relate.

I worked for software development companies most of my career. Started writing it, then marketing it, finally figuring out the real money was in selling it.

Being tech savvy just makes it worse that I pulled such a bonehead mistake and didn't figure it out right away.

In college, I did my internship at a help desk. It was the DOS days and AT computers. I created a batch file which had a menu system for the secretaries to launch the programs as the needed it (Word Perfect, Lotus 123, Mainframe etc).

I still remember this one secretary who was a dipsy blonde who looked good but dumb dumb dumb. She loved me for some reason as her computer guy, so would call me directly. One time I went to figure out what was wrong and it was something dumb she did...she asked what was the issue....I told her it was the ID 10 T error...she went telling other folks she had the ID 10 T error but I resolved it. I still to this day wonder if she ever figured that out.

And you are right, I got into the sales Engineering side of things and have done well for years. Luckily saw the writing on the wall and got into the area of Security years ago and still there.

If she was sexy and wore a short skirt, you could have fixed the problem on her computer, then tell her it's in the wiring connection under her desk, get down there, fiddle with the wires and look up her skirt for beaver shots...then program it to fail the next day, come back and do it again a couple times a week...yea, I'm a perv...

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Don't try to understand 'em, just rope 'em down and brand 'em...

If she was sexy and wore a short skirt, you could have fixed the problem on her computer, then tell her it's in the wiring connection under her desk, get down there, fiddle with the wires and look up her skirt for beaver shots...then program it to fail the next day, come back and do it again a couple times a week...yea, I'm a perv... [/quote

But we already knew that.
( I would have done the same thing)

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