a really stupid question, from an inquiring mind?

[Brian Kelsay]

Gary Hildebrand wrote:

>Well it just did its ba!!s-to-the-wa!! thing again . . .
>
>While editing an e-mail using my ISP's program (nothing on my machine
>but the browser), my computer goes into frantic gyrations, with almost
>continuous disk access, and this time lost communication with the mouse
>and keyboard, so I had to do a warm reset.
>
>NOw other times I"ve seen this it would go on for hours, and looking at
>KSystemGuard, the CPU activity goes to near 100%.  Is it just that the
>swap is gone bonkers?  This has no rhyme or reason to it, and is very
>random, usually weeks or months between occurances.
>
does the web page use Java, Flash, asp, etc.  Flash might freak out your 
browser.  It does w/ dillo.  I've had java script lock up the browser on 
a  slow NT 4 Wkstn.

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