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Remove Filter  | Here is the order of what happened. Some of it seems weird: 1. I downloaded a web page with Firefox Save Page As. The site should be trustwoirthy (a local newspaper). 2. I edited the HTML file with Notepad to remove everything (ads, scripts, etc) from the page except the …  |
| | I have an HP 7600 tower. When I try to commect a microphone, the Recording tab on the Sound window says "No audio devices are installed." Right clicked to show hidden and disconnected devices. None found. Troubleshoot recording could not find the trouble. Speaker Driver tests as the current driver: … |
| | I keep getting the following error when using certain websites: "The connection has been reset." I never see it with other websites. Does this indicate a bad internet connection, something wrong with the website, site overload, or a denial of service attack? |
| | I made the following css: .mo {font-family: monospace; font-size: 9pt;} td {border: solid thin #000000; padding: 4pt;} With the following html (part of a table) <td class="mo">abcdefg <br />hijklmn</td> The text is not displaying in a monospaced font in Firefox. The i is narrower and the m is wider. The … |
| | My brother has Windows XP with a large number of art programs that don't work in newer versions of Windows. Last thrusday, he got a an art file from a colleague with a .rar extension. He downloaded WinZip to open it. It would not open the art file. Now the … |
| | I wrote a web page with one Russian word in it, using the Cyrillic alphabet character entity names (found in a list of all Unicode characters that I have). The page works fine in every browser I tried. But the W3C validator won't validate the page because the Cyrillic character …  |
| | I had the Yahoo Real Player until Yahoo discontinued it. The player continued to work, but was not updated. The problem is that the computer it was installed on died. The replacement computer has XP on it, but not Real Player. I tried to get a new version of Real … |
| | My computer stopped booting normally 3 days ago. Here are the particulars: - The computer is a Dell Optiplex 840 with 1 MB RAN and 40 GB hard drive. - I have Windows XP because I have legacy software that can't be upgraded. - I have a USB keyboard and … |
| | I have a Dell Optiplex PC with a legal copy of Windows XP. But the Dell hardware seems to be failing. The problem is that the XP distribution CD I got with the computer is a Dell distribution disk, possibly with files specific to Dell (It says both Dell and … |
| | I don't need a Rolex - real or fake. A Rolodex would be much more useful to me. Yet the one kind of spam my spam filters never remove is offers for real or replica Rolex watches. I have absolutely no need of either. But they seem to have ways …  |
| | I want to copy a folder full of folders to a backup on another disk. But if a duplicate filename already exists on the other disk, I want Windows to prompt to ask whether or not to replace the file for each file separately. Windows XP just gives me the … |
| | My DSL connection failed. They reset it, but now the router no longer works. The DSL works if I plug one computer into the modem. The ATT man told me I have to bypass the PPPOE in the router to make it work. How do I do this? I have … |
| | How do you make a style that affects the font attributes of [B]only[/B] the numbers in ordered lists (ol) without affecting the contents of the list items? No kludges please, and the solution must validate as XHTML 1.0 strict. |
| | I teach a beginners class using Excel. During an examination, some of my students misread the instructions (provided by the department, not by me). These are the kinds of errors only a novice could make. This caused the following two errors to occur. - Instead of just putting data into … |
| | I have relative links in a menu page of the form: [CODE]<li><a href="info.htm#part1">See Part 1 of the problem</a></li>[/CODE] In the target page, the anchor is made as follows: [CODE]<h1><a name="part1">Part 1 of the Problem</a></h1>[/CODE] Now, after upgrading to Firefox 4, I am getting a 405 error: URL /Part1.html not found. … |
| | Normally, when I put a photo on a website, the photo stays the same aspect ratio on both widescreen and normal monitors. But I have one web page where I need to resize the photos to all be the same width. I used the CSS width attribute, with an inch …  |
| | The W3C validator site is not working right for me. A few other sites (but not many) also say the file I sent is blank. Other sites are working with no troubles, and receive uploads normally. The facts: - Two different computers are doing the same thing. - Both computers … |
| | I need to search for all files on my computer that contain certain html tags. I tried the search function that comes with Windows Explorer (My Computer), and it can't find html tags, even in files I know contain them. I have Windows XP. |
| | I need a way to practice using PHP and MySQL. But I have the following limitations: 1. My ISP requires me to change my URLs if I upgrade to its service which provides PHP and MySQL. 2. If I change my URLs, all of the resumes I already sent out … |
| | When I start my computer, I see a strange icon I don't recognize in my system tray. It is picture of a cowboy with an orange face and a white cowboy hat. It shows up for just a few seconds during start-up, then vanishes. If I try to doubleclick it, … |
| | I am searching for the latest developments on an engineering problem. The problem is that the search engines return thousands of pages on the subject, most of which I have read many times. Is there any way to limit a web search to sites that appeared within the last month? |
| | There is now a reason to use tables and css for layout, instead of divs and css. Employers now prefer the table method. Our technical school instructors are now teaching this, instead of div and css. Why? Job performance! It takes an average of four times as long to create … |
| | I want to do the following: - Connect to DSL from two computers. - Transfer files between the two computers. - Use one printer from either computer. - Occasionally isolate one computer from this setup when running certain software (due to latency requirements) The computers each have one Ethernet port …  |
| | Design your pages for accessibility. In my position as a college instructor, I see many places where fancy web page design gets people with visual problems, dyslexia, or learning disabilities into trouble. Here are my suggestions for making your web pages more accessible: 1. No angry fruit salad. If you … |
| | I posted a question about this several months ago, but the search function is so bad that I can't find it again. I again have an image that is being overlapped by a table below it in Firefox. This happens whenever the following is true: - The image file is … |
| | What kinds of microphones work with soundcards? I have some old microphones, and wonder if they can be used. They are not microphones intended for computer use, but for handheld cassette recorders.  |
| | What changed? A web page that worked for over a year suddenly started overlapping an image on top of a table presented under it. The table used to render lower, completely below the image. I didn't change the code. The image is the lower of two .gif images, and the … |
| | Is there an easy (and free) way to copy just the audio portion of an .flv file to another file? Or is there a way to get PowerPoint to play just the audio portion of an .flv file. A co-worker made an .flv video of an event on campus. I … |
| | My Office 2007 just arrived. But it came on DVDs. But I don't have a DVD drive. Short of buying a drive I don't otherwise need, is there any way to install it? I must have it installed in two days. |
| | I have several questions on antivirus and antispyware software: I am trying to settle on a set of antivirus and antispyware products to use. The problem is that I get interactions. 1. Is windows Defender any good? Does it handle spyware as well as viruses? 2. Is there any way …  |
| | I can't install any Windows XP upgrades, including Service Pack 3, after the following sequence of events: 1. I used SpyBot to check for spyware. It found 8 objects and removed them. 2. The next time I turned on my computer, it immediately logged off my user name each time … |
| | My computer was OK this morning. I am running Windows XP. When I started it up after coming home from work, all kinds of things were changed: - The display theme changed from Windows Classic to Windows XP. - My wallpaper selection is gone. - The color scheme I carefully … |
| | There is a Trojan Horse appearing on some websites that claims that it "needs an updated driver" to display a video or similar file. It won't let you back out from installing the "upgrade," opening the same window again and again. But it is no upgrade; it is a Trojan …  |
| | When I start PowerPoint at work, all of the premade slide templates are there when I start working. When I start PowerPoint at home, the image of each template takes about 15 second to appear in the task pane, so it is several minutes before they are all visible. Why … |
| | Why are the icons in My computer all nearly alike now? All of them (except the folders) now look like little blue pieces of paper with a very tiny little picture of the icon that used to be there inside. I can't visually tell them apart now. This makes it … |
| | HELP!!! I have Windows XP and Office 2003. When doing a spelling and grammar check in Word, I occasionally get a "comparison - revise text?" error on text. I have no idea what this error means, or how to correct it. The text looks fine. All of the tenses, persons, … |
| | I was trying to write a formula to find the number of days between two dates in Excel 2003. I decided to test it with the dates of the beginning and ending of the Revolutionary War. I got a #Value error. Experimentation showed me that Excel; does not recognize any … |
| | I teach a class that includes the use of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Access. Everything has been fine until recently. Some of my students have been required by their employers to upgrade to Office 2007. The problem is that I now can't read their homework to grade it …  |
| | How do I center a table horizontally in an XHTML 1.0 Strict web page. The only reliable method I have ever found for centering a table uses the deprecated center tags? In IE, the method used for centering images works, but it also centers the text in all of the … |
| | XHTML has removed the "name" attribute. But the JavaScript method for reading radio buttons requires the "name" attribute to be the same on each radio button. W3C says to use "id", but that no more than one "id" is valid. I need to write an XHTML page with radio buttons. … |
| | How can I get JavaScript to display values and attributes when they are written to input boxes by the script, instead of waiting for a rather lengthy (10 sec) calculation to finish? - IE does not change the boxes at all, until after the script finishes. - FF displays the … |
| | I copied this from another thread because it became buried. So far, all I got were kludges that changed other parts of the page to fix the problem. Divs don't always work exactly the way you want them to, especially when they are inside other layout tags. I gave up … |
| | I had a strange thing happen in IE when I tried to apply multiple styles to td tags: [code] td {padding: 2%; vertical-align: middle;} [/code] Applying the padding style removes the vertical-align style in IE. It works correctly in Firefox. I found a fix: Put a div inside each td, … |
| | You've had the same problem many times. You specify the size of your object on the page, or specify the amount of space it should take up. But you also specify margin, border, or padding sizes other than zero. Now your settings work on one of the two main browsers, … |
| | OK, I know how to address all of the radio buttons on a page as an array, and address all of the radio buttons in a single group as an array. And I know how to create multidimensional objects in JavaScript. But how can I create a two-dimensional array of … |
| | In every book I have on HTML, it shows a database or other file associated with a form. I want to use form elements with JavaScript to control the web pages themselves, without the use of an external file. Can this be done? |
| | I want to understand the difference in parameter passing between the three methods used: - Returning an array in the return statement. (variable a in the code below) - Returning an array copied as a unit from another array. (variable c in the code below) - Returning an array, each … |
| | Ever since Microsoft downloaded its latest upgrade, Netscape won't work right. About once every two minutes, Netscape suddenly freezes. Other functions on the screen (such as the taskbar, and other software) continue to work. This lasts a minute, and then operation resumes for another minute. I opened the task manager … |
| | I have the problem that some people want me to have the "latest" web coding, while others want backward compatibility. I need to know how the following changes affect older browsers: - Adding the closing tags to li list elements. - Adding the space and slash to the ends of …  |
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