Posts by MidiMagic

I noticed that the forum list is UNDER the sidebar in the screenshot.

This might be because something (e.g. a URL) is too wide, combined with the script for the ad.

Whenever a sportscaster talks of a team "activating reserve players," for some reason, I think of Frankenstein's laboratory. "Activatating" is the perfect word for this.

This reminds me of the joker who wrote "suggestions" on the slot for the shredder at work.

There is no prohibition of tables, And I use CSS to format tables.

What is discouraged is using tables to create overall page margins and other website elements that are now covered nicely by CSS.

But there is nothing wrong with using tables if you need a rigid structure that won't fall apart when the browser window size changes.

You can set the number of columns in tables by doing one of the following:

- Use the colspan="2" attribute on rows that need only one wide column.

- Start a new table with only one column where you need only one column.

- Put a <br /> tag between td tags for an empty cell.

Why mess with the fuss of doing that? Load another page instead.

Easier:

ans = getinfo();
if(ans!=1 && ans!=2){ans = getinfo();};

I think you are confusing IE's interpreter by changing the data type in a comparison in mid-run.

While JS normally doesn't care about data types, it might configure the comparison or the parameter pass to work with the types of values it finds the first time the comparison occurs.

Another possibility is that the var is making the variable x not start over the next time you run the script with the same load of the web page.

Try using a number such as -100, instead of changing a numeric value to a string.

Try using two different functions, one for the initial call, and one for the iteration.

You don't have the right to take over the user's computer.

And there are three other ways to paste without using the keyboard.

Instead, you should make your script reject any non-numeric input and ask for a correct entry.

Booong! "Entry must be a number" {OK}

Server-side scripting using PHP or another server-side language, along with a database on the server.

This is one thing you really do not have control over.

Why not instead try to make your conde cross-browser compatible.

And we need this capability why???

I know that AOL and Hotmail sometimes block ISPs because spam came from there (or appears to have come from there).

If this has happened, the sysops at Hotmail will have to fix it.

I have checked for malware. None is apparent.

I would think that, if my home PC was too slow, the disk drive would be continuously being accessed. But instead, the drive light is off during those delays, until half a second before the next thumbnail loads.

And, as I said earlier, I can speed up the loads by clicking on each empty thumbnail space in order, causing the full screen versions to appear on the slide in quick succession (and the thumbnails to appear with their full screen version). This is definitely not a slow computer problem.

It's almost like there is a deliberate delay between loads.

I do not see any other symptoms of an overloaded computer. I have plenty of hard disk space, and nothing else shows any delays.

Other than this, DaniWeb is the slowest thing I encounter, due to the ads.

This sounds like either a damaged installation, or a protocol problem between Outlook and your ISP (which is why NS said to try another service).

There is a possibility that malware has invaded the Outlook environment. Or it might be that a malware scanner quarantined one of Outlook's files.

Another possibility is a damaged registry entry that tells Outlook where files go.

Try these (in this order):

- Scan for malware.

- Reinstall Outlook.

- Try reinitializing your service with your ISP (they will have to initiate this).

- Try, even on a temporary basis, a different email service.

Have you noticed that the new money is the same color as the monopoly money of the same denomination?

I would use a table format to get the whole site on one page. It would be a great timesaver for me.

Changing a system which works for 99% of the people out there doesn't make any sense.

Tell that to Microsoft, the FCC, and the HDVD and Blu-Ray people.

I see some things:

- You have an absolute size and a surrounding style in the same style entry. Don't put padding and width in the same block object. You can put a padding of 0 in such a style entry, but that is not what you did.

- When you specify a value of 0, you do NOT put a unit of measure on it. Thus, it should be 0, not 0em. The 0em causes a style error, throwing the browser into quirks mode. It put in the default padding, not 0 padding.

You can execute commands on the server with the above methods.

You can NOT execute commands on the client computer. That is an Internet security violation.

It could still be a security setting. IP addresses are usually counted as not trusted, and so the security won't allow scripts.

He plugged it in without turning the computer around to see the jack color.

If empty space appears to the right of a table, then one of the following happened:

- An extra td pair appears in one row.

- an unclosed tag.

- use of the deprecated width= attribute in strict DTDs. Use CSS instead.

- An object inside a containing div, but outside the table, might be placed to the right. It could be a typo after the closing table tag.

- The use of a float in the table tag or its style.

- Absolute positioning messes up when screen resolution or window size changes.

WYSIWYG = Weird Yucky Stuff I What You Get.

Write your own code.

One suggestion is to put a div around the whole right column, and add a left border to it to make the line. But that requires knowing how to code. You would also have to remove the present code that makes the line.

P.S. It's not ugly. It's better than all of the sites that put text on top of images and expect people to be able to read it.

If the data are on the server computer, javascript can't see them, because javascript runs on the client computer.

Something you are doing is telling the browser it needs to resize.

Try applying styles to the containing fieldset to define its size.

IP addresses as web addresses are obsolete.

1. Don't use IP addresses. Use of an IP address in a web address is usually a sign of sneakiness. Some firewalls block this (keeping your user from getting to your site). An IE security setting may be blocking this.

2. If you used a relative reference to the JS file, the browser expects to build the path to find the script by using the url of the current page. It gets lost when an IP address appears instead.

This is one of the required security features. Without it, any website could upload malware.

This is phishing or malware spam

It has nothing to do with your computer or your email service. The notices are phake. This is usually used for phishing, advertising, or downloading malware to your computer.

The entire notice was dummied up to fool you. No undeliverable email mentioned in the notice ever existed. The phakers are trying to get you to click on the links in the email. When you do that, they can do whatever they want to you.

In this case, the numbers at the bottom were an attempt to install malware on YOUR computer. It was sanitized by your ISP.

Just throw them out without opening them or following any links.

I would say this is a character set mismatch, with some other character in an extended character set being mapped to the underscore key.

- Make sure the browser is using the same character set the server uses.

- If an alternate set is used because the user speaks a foreign language, instruct the user how to create the correct character with Alt key codes. (This happens when alphabets have more than 26 letters, such as the Cyrillic or Greek alphabets.)

- The % sign or the ? mark (depending on brand) appears when a character can't be displayed in the character set the browser is using.

- Another possibility is to create another entry point without underscores.

This happened to me, and it was a stuck keyboard key that initiated it (it was not a toolbar, but a hotkey someone had installed).

After I fixed the stuck key, the browser windows continued to open, even after the computer was rebooted. But this was because the requests for the pages were still in the server. We had to keep closing the windows until all of the requests were gone.

More info.

Once it loads the thumbnails, it works correctly if I use PowerPoint again in the same work session. The thumbnails take a long time to load only when it is the first time I use PowerPoint after a boot.

I know it's solved, but this happened the last time I got a call to fix a no-sound problem. After checking all they usual software settings, I took a look around behind the computer. The speakers were plugged into the mic jack.

Go into Format/Cells/Alignment and check Wrap Text.

To force a new line, use Alt+Enter.

Another way is to create a text box in Word, and then paste it as an object in Excel.

There is NO WAY to place something at the bottom of the visible browser window that works with all browsers and screen resolutions. Stop trying.

A tfoot tag works within a table. Place the tags as shown here:

<table>
  <thead>
    contents of header
  </thead>
  <tfoot>
    contents of table footer>
  </tfoot>
  <tbody>
    body of table
  </tbody>
</table>

You need to either put in all three of the thead, tfoot, and tbody tags, or leave them all out.

The tfoot tag goes before tbody, so the browser can render tables that span more than one printed page easily. Each page printed will have the header at the top of the printed part of the table, and the footer at the bottom of the printed page.

I expected the unclosed tr. I have done the same thing.

IE and FF have different defaults for how text adjusts itself inside a td cell. To get them to behave alike, you have to define the vertical-align attribute in the CSS.

Note that is is impossible to make a page perfectly fit vertically in the browser window in a way that works with all browsers and screen resolutions.

Note that the nature of the div is fluidity. It can't be nailed down. If you need a nailed down structure that won't slither away, tables are better.

What is needed is a <dr> tag, to work with divs the way <tr> works with tables.

Is the button changing size when this happens??

Is a margin, border, or padding appearing and disappearing with the mouseover?

Try applying a style to the field.

Some sites are greedy, and change your homepage. Do not visit them.

The setting you are making turns off the security that prevents malware on sneaky sites from running itself on your computer. You should not make that setting.

Check to see if the .zip and .rar extensions are in the file types list in My Computer. This is what tells applications what extensions are valid and what program to open files of that type with.

I mean the Slide Design thumbnails in the Task Pane on the right. Use Format/Slide Design to open them.

More information:

- I tried the Picture Manager bug. There were no deleted paths.

- I have not upgraded to Office 2007.

- Each thumbnail takes 15-20 seconds to load.

- If I click on the empty thumbnail frame, the full sized image loads in the slide immediately.

- The thumbnails load one at a time, in the order they appear in, (left to right, and down to the next row after each row fills). Each take 15 to 20 seconds to load.

- If I click on the next unloaded thumbnail, it loads immediately in both the slide and the thumbnail.

- If I click on a lower thumbnail, the image loads in the slide immediately, but the thumbnail stays empty. When the thumbnail just before the one i clicked loads, the one I clocked also loads without the delay.

- If I click on several consecutive thumbnails, one at a time, they all load at once when the previous thumbnail finishes loading.

A meeting is where minutes are kept while hours are wasted.

Answers to test questions:

1. What state is west of Rhode Island? Connuctic

2. What was the result of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand? He got assinated.

3. What happened after Germany invaded Poland? Some other things happened.

4. What was the Balfour Declaration? Take your base.

5. What is a histogram? A medical test for allergies.

6. What threat was developed next after the A-bomb? The B-bomb.

7. "Relief" was changed into what government program? Rolaids

8. Name three personal rights: Life, liberty, ice cream.

9. Define energy and work: What I don't have enough of, and what teachers give us too much of.

10. Define kurtosis: A disease of the liver caused by drinking too much.

11. How many countries are in Central America? All of them.

12. What happened at Ft. Sumter? The start of the silver war.

13. What was the Monroe Doctrine: A prescription for truble.

14. Who was Julius Caesar: Sid Caesar's brother.

15. Write a sentence about Vitas Gerulaitis: Vitas Gerulaitis is tissue damage due to a loss of blood flow during surgery.

16. Name the three branches of government: President, Logistitative, Military.

17. Name three things Thomas Edison invented: Light, sound, tickle tape.

18. Why were the colonists angry at King George: Taxacation without represington.

19. What branch of mathematics was invented by Isaac Newton: Gravity

20. What two astronomical theories competed …

10. The seventh commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery.

Is this the Clinton Commandment?.

Paste a code which supports your claim.

I'll have to wait until it happens again.

IE is known to have serious problems with rendering XHTML, plus it is excessively strict. HTML 4 Strict works just fine. So unless you want to cut off the IE crowd or feel the pain, stay away from XHTML.

I test my pages before publishing. And I know how to fix the rendering problem.

Check the Windows settings for this in IE.

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Note that all of the mass transit proponents live in southern California. They don't know about freezing temperatures, bridge bottlenecks, unpaved roads turning into quagmires, foot-deep snow on unshoveled walks, thunderstorms, and flooded sidewalks.

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That is sort of what I was saying. In the US, only the 15 largest cities are really well distributed enough for mass transit to support itself. It works very well in Chicago (I have used it). You can get almost anywhere in two hours or less. New York City isn't so well sited, because of the bottlenecks at the bridges.

In smaller places, mass transit is provided at government expense, solely for people who don't drive. It takes forever to get to any one destination, because the bus takes a circuitous route to reach all of the nursing homes, retirement villages, and dormitories.

I have seen only one smaller town where it might work. The town runs along a river valley. It is long, but only three blocks wide (with two streets running the full length end to end). A steep cliff and the river prevent further development from making the town wider.

In rural settings, forget it.

In my city, I could not ride the transit to work, because the first bus from my home gets to my work an hour after starting time. The last bus that leaves the area of my work passes before I get off work. And one day a week, I have to go to a location 22 miles away.

How far you can walk to the transit depends on your age and abilities, and how much you have to carry.

The demands for swiftness in business …

- Bicycle riders who won't obey the traffic laws (a bicycle is a vehicle, not a pedestrian).

- People who demand an absence of religion in politics, and then inject religion by try to ban the religious beliefs and practices of others.

- The 72 percent total tax on individuals (counting taxes hidden in product prices).

That's why I suggested that only the title bar across the top be the same. Make the main parts of the pages individual. You get it both ways.

Here is a place to look: a pile-on problem.

If you are constantly putting different objects in the same div or cell, it is quite likely that something won't display because it is UNDER something else.

This is especially true if you do this:

- Display an image in a div.
- Hide the image.
- Write text in a div inside the original div.
- Hide the text.
- Try to display the image again.

The image is now under the second div, because you wrote text to the div, bringing it to the top. The background color of the div is hiding it.

Your script needs to check these things. That's what if statements are for.

Look at the contents of the fields, and send the user back to the form if they are not filled in.

Look for an existing user with that login before registering a new user.