[dba-Tech] WTF? It was fine this morning

Kathryn Bassett kathryn at bassett.net
Wed Oct 22 12:08:41 CDT 2014


Did you reboot? That's the first thing I try when getting weird stuff.

Kathryn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-
> bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: 22 Oct 2014 9:36 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] WTF? It was fine this morning
> 
> Something has happened to my laptop. Suddenly Waterfox is giving me this
> message:
> 
> The proxy server is refusing connection
> Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections.
> Check the proxy settings to make sure that they are correct.
> Contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is
> working.
> 
> As far as I know, I'm not using a proxy server; in fact, I'm not sure what
a
> proxy server is.
> 
> The desktop beside my laptop is working fine. As far as I know, I haven't
> done a single thing to the laptop that may have caused this.
> 
> I don't know where the proxy server settings might be, but assuming that I
> find them, can I simply delete whatever I see there and go back to the way
> things were?
> 
> Thank God I have two computers!
> 
> --
> Arthur
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