Posts by MidiMagic

Problem solved. AT&T changed the way DSL works just enough that the 7-year-old modem mo longer works correctly. They sent me a new modem, and the new modem contains a router. There is only one set of addresses for both.

The new modem also has a SETTING for disabling DHCP IP generation. Neither the old modem nor the old router has such a setting in its menu (or it's an acronym I don't recognize as that).

I am going to leave this open for further suggestions, as I still want to learn about this.

OK I found that.

Maybe bridging us not the right term either.

It was explained that only one of the two devices is allowed to establish the throwaway IP number with the ISP using PPPoE. How do I tell the other one to not do this?

They are blocking them for several reasons:

1. To keep you from wasting time on the job.

2. To keep you from inadvertently or vertently revealing company secrets.

3. To keep their internet bill lower. Those sites eat up bandwidth.

Well, there is more to the story. That man on the pole I mentioned earlier DID cause the trouble. He left the splice box open. Two sparrows ripped into the wiring and built a nest in there. Every time it rained, the DSL stopped working. They fixed that today. But I was not here to talk to the repairman.

I was not given any settings when the DSL was installed. I was given a CD that sets it up automatically. But it doesn't work anymore, because my ISP changed hands after I started the service.

They won't tell me those settings. They want to sell me THEIR new combination modem/router instead, or charge me for someone to come make the settings for me.

I have that same instruction book on a CD.

Can I read those settings from the modem? I do know how to access its registers. What I don't know is whether I need the internet settings or the settings to access the modem itself. And do I need to change any settings in the modem? Naturally, the router and modem have different names for some of the settings.

I am getting all kinds of conflicting information from different sources here. The phone company does tells me I should bridge the router. The router company tells me to put the modem settings in the router and bridge the modem. Neither one will tell me how to bridge their own device, and I see no settings for bridging in …

If you are being blocked by your parents, your school. or your employer from accessing Facebook, then you have no right to bhypass the block. You are using equipment belonging to others, and must respect the rules imposed by the owners of the equipment.

The hardware is exactly the same as it was before this happened.
The PC configurtation was not changed from how it was before this happened.

The problem is that I do not know what was in the router before this happened, to put it back in.

The router software is asking for the following values:

login type (PPPoE, single IP, RAS, PPTP, L2TP, MTU, and two more with names of countries)
IP address
subnet mask
default gateway
static dns 1
static dns 2

What belongs in these settings? I don't want numbers as much as I need to know where those numbers come from.

Which login type do I use?

Is the IP addres the address of the modem?

Do I need to bridge either the router or the modem?

If so, how do I do that?

I can't chat because others need the computer (with two computers unable to connect).

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?

They are trying to not be sued by copyright holders. Most of the people using that much bandwidth are downloading entire movies.

It is also wrong for copyrights to last the 95+ years they last now because liberals worship artists. A copyright should last for three to ten years, not the virtual infinity (longrer than the lifetimes of most people) the law now provides for.

The problem is that somehow the configuration of the router was erased when they reset the modem. All of the settings are empty blanks.

Last monday (4/1), I had nothing but errors "The connection has been reset" all day. Nobody could do any work on the Internet. The connections between internal computers still worked. So I called ATT, thinking the guy that was up on the pole the week before messed up the connection. They reset the modem. Then nothing worked - even using the printer through the network.

The serviceman came the next day. He said he was not allowed to repair it if the router was there. We took the router out, with just one computer connected to the modem. After entering the new password, the modem started working.

Afterwards, the router totally breaks the connection if inserted. And even with just the modem, I still occasionally get an error "The connection has been reset" but very rarely.

I have DSL from ATT - lowest speed service
Modem is Siemens 4100
Router is Cisco BEFSR41
3 computers, all of different brands, connected to router.
Shared printer connected to one computer (the reason I need a router, not a switch)
One shared flash drive

Originally, the software provided with the router automatically set it up. It will not do that now. It is asking for information I do not have.

login type (PPPoE, single ip, RAS, PPTP, L2TP, MTU, and two more with names …

I have posted many new discussions, but today is th4e first time I have seen this. It is extremely annoying. I hate ALL mouseovers and popups.

A popup keep bothering me on daniweb pages asking me to share with my social network. I don't like social media, and want to get rid of it.

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 a CISCO BEFSR41 wired router.

HTML needs a script to do any math or display any numbers from a data source. Used alone, HTML can't do anything but control how a web page is displayed.

Anyone can read the javascript source code from the web page, and figure out the password.

That is of little use when the computer can't take more than 1 GB.

What I want to know is why software keeps getting bigger. There is no real increase in function.

I still have a 1 MB MS-Dos 6.22 computer I need for a wonderful music composition program. The company went out of business after getting hit with the forced change to Windows, and two years later, with a totally incomatible Windows 97.

I worked in a lab in the 1990s, and the conversion to Windows made hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment unusuable, because the new OS could not work the old hardware. We kept as many DOS computers as we could running, but ran out of working hardware.

What happens if the user turns off Javascript? He gets into the page with no password.

The more I use my wife's Windows 7 computer, the more I appreciate XP. The new versions of Windows are clumsy, and often do things that get in the way.

I think that no mouseover functions should ever be allowed. The computer should never do anything until you actually click on something.

"But where does that end? Maybe all column layouts should be illegal because they can trip up screen readers and confuse the blind? I have yet to actually find a large website that doesn't have a multiple-column layout."

The XHTML etiquette manual I have says for this very reason to not use tables for layout, unless there is actually a table in the document. Whenever I can get DIV tags to do the job, I use them. They don't cause many errors in screen readers. The trick is to place the material in the order it is intended to be read in the actual XHTML file itself.

Sometimes the DIV refuses to work correctlty with more than one screen resolution. This usually happens if I want a column of text and a column of photos. In this case, table format still works properly with the screen reader, because the material is still presented in the correct order.

I have worked with people with dyslexia in the past. They have a big problem with mouseovers that do things to the display, because they think they somehow made a mistake and lost what they were working on. They panic. I would love a total ban on the mouse doing ANYTHING without the user actually clicking.

What is the difference between the 7600, the D7600, and the DC7600?

Windows is updated. Checked for driver updates. The driver "High Definition Audio Device" is "current".

I tried installing the HP driver. I get an error message saying "Windows can not start this driver."

Read my post again. No devices are listed on the Recording tab. There is no entry for the microphone or anything else.

In other words, it's extortion.

I think all mouseover changes should be illegal, because they confuse the visually challenged.

When I roll the mouse over any ad, the rest of the screen goes black. That is extremely annoying. It also makes it hard to navigate. Ads should not control the site.

I keep a list of the ads that cause probolems on websites, and make sure to NOT do businesss with the perpetrators of the annoying ads.

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: "High Definition Audio Device."

Microphone is plugged in. The sound is part of the motherboard.

The driver HP provides for this computer will not start. But they have no drivers newer than XP.

Windows 7, 2GB RAM

Need it in two days.

There are several reasons:

• Incompatibility with existing add-ons

• IT departmnents not allowing upgrades (or even updates) until they are security tested internally.

• Incompatibility with websites used by the user.

• The upgrade is not free.

I need compatibility with existing software. 8 is everything but.

7 is also harder to use.

It's cute, but it's hard to do any work on it.

All of them are causing auto accidents as drivers try to use them while driving.

Another Y2K coming is IPv6.

I want an operating system that is stable over all time, not one that has to change so a greedy company can get richer.

I just got updates today.

We need laws protecting consumers from the upgrade scam.

The law should state that either the computer or software manufacturer provides service and support for its products for 20 years (like the parts law for automobiles) or the patents and copyrights on the abandoned products go to public domain the moment they stop providing service and support.

One other reason I am keeping XP: I have real-time software that would have to be upgraded if I changed operating systems. (Real-time software drivers always have to be upgraded to work with the timing of the new OS.) The problem is that the company has gone out of business. There are no drivers available.

I am still getting the security updates.

I will tell you why XP is still my operating system. I have used 7 at work, and it is much worse:

1. I love the XP paint program. I hate the one that comes with 7. I want pure physics colors, not artist colors. And I want straight lines without dithering. It won't let me have the color palette I want. I want line art, not a photo painter.

2. I would have to buy a new computer to upgrade, so there is a much larger upgrade cost. My RAM max is 1 GB. Vista and 7 use most of that for the OS. It's a scam between Intel and Microsoft to sell more computers and operating system copies than are needed.

3. The windows look awful in 7. I like the sharp windows of XP, not the ghostly 7 ones.

4. The search tool will not search the entire computer for a mismoused file. I have to search by top level folder.

5. I hate the tab grouping on the taskbar.

6. At times, Windows 7 takes hours for updates. If I boot needing the computer in a hurry, I can't have it.

7. I have legacy real-time software that needs the XP driver setup. It won't run on a newer OS.

8. I do not want touch screen capabilities I never would use.

I found the trouble. Firefox 4 somehow dug up a week-old version of the menu page from the cache. The urls of those pages were different in the old version. Yet, FF 3.6 had displayed the new version correctly for a week.

I found the trouble by viewing the source. It didn't match my new code.

Refreshing the page fixed it. I didn't think of it, because the FF 3.6 had been displaying the new page for a week.

Now, how do we keep software companies from changing your settings when they upgrade your software? I found automatic checking for new versions of web pages disabled.

It can't be done reliably on all browsers, because webpages do not care about the size of the viewport, and browsers can't agree on a way to provide the size of the viewport.

The Internet was not designed or intended to display pages that match the size of the current viewport. And there are too many variables to ever make this work:

- Differe3nt screen resolutions
- Different aspect ratios of monitors
- Restored down pages can have any aspect ratio
- Different browsers
- Number of toolbars installed on the browser
- Browser settings

Suggestions:

- Make a large square image with the vital content in the top fourth, make its width 100%, and let the excess disappear off the bottom edge of the viewport.

- Make an image that is not harmed by multiple copies appearing, and make it repeat.

1. Don't use absolute positioning.
2. All other browsers place the margin outside of the object (as seen by absolute and width). IE places it inside the object.

I have relative links in a menu page of the form:

<li><a href="info.htm#part1">See Part 1 of the problem</a></li>

In the target page, the anchor is made as follows:

<h1><a name="part1">Part 1 of the Problem</a></h1>

Now, after upgrading to Firefox 4, I am getting a 405 error:

URL /Part1.html not found.

IE works OK on the same links.

That error message does not even make any sense. Part1 is not the URL for the page.

The problem is the Echo commenting system the paper uses. It's quite buggy. I have had this problem with every paper and TV station that uses it. It also reports a failure to post error, but then posts anyway - 3 times.

Not all browsers do rounded corners. The ones that don't have different spacings.

The absolute positioning can cause objects to overlap at some screen resolutions. This can hide some of the borders under other objects.

IE puts the width and height styles outside any margins, borders, and padding.

The W3C standard, and most other browsers put the width and height styles inside the margins, borders, and padding.

This will affect how different browsers display tags containing both kinds of styles.

Two possibilities:

1. Missing or wrong separator in the data list used by the script.

2. The missing div is hiding under another div.

The <p> </p> tag pairs enclose a paragraph.

A single <p> tag is not allowed to be used as a line break.

The <p> </p> tag pairs can not be directly inside <ul> </ul> tag pairs.

Only <li> </li> tag pairs are allowed to be directly inside the ul or ol tag pairs.

For a single line break, use the <br /> tag.

You didn't tell us what it is doing wrong.

You need to put classes in the table and in the cells.

Use lowercase for your classes.

Use the CSS:

.x1 {width: 85%; border: 0.1em solid black collapse;}
.y1 {border: 0.1em solid black;}
.z1 {border: 0.1em solid black; width: 20%;}

I find that I have to use the cellspacing attribute in the table tag to get this to work on all browsers:

<table class="x1" cellspacing="0">
 <tr>
  <td class="z1">This is the first cell, with a 20% width</td>
  <td class="y1">This is the second cell, without a 20% width</td>
  <td class="y1">This is the third cell, without a 20% width</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td class="z1">This is the first cell, with a 20% width</td>
  <td class="y1">This is the second cell, without a 20% width</td>
  <td class="y1">This is the third cell, without a 20% width</td>
 </tr>
</table>

The question was originally why putting a width style on a picture would cause it to change aspect ratio.

But I was fooled. Two supposedly identical computers were not identical. Someone changed the screen resolution on one of them to use legacy software, and didn't bother to change it back.

The page with the width attribute was displayed on the computer with the wrong resolution. Since someone was using that computer when it was displayed, I checked the other pages on the computer next to it, which was running the proper screen resolution. After I posted the question, I checked the page displaying the4 trouble on the second computer and found it to be showing normal aspect ratios. But I didn't have time to post then.

Changing the screen resolution fixed the problem.

Why don't they make monitors so they display 4:3 aspect ratios on only part of the 16:9 screen, so it is not stret6ched.

Use a general style sheet, plus a style list for each page. Put the url in the page's own style list.

It may be IE that is causing the trouble.

Try designing it for chrome, and then adjusting to make it work for IE.

One big difference:

IE puts the width and height attribute outside any margins, borders, and padding.

The W3C standard and other browsers puts the width and height attributes inside margins, borders and padding.

The trick is to not put width or height styles on the same tag that has margin, border, or padding styles. If both are needed, use nested tags.