Posts by MidiMagic

Hispaniola has two countries.

Mine was the secretary who stuck her floppy disks to the file cabinet with magnets, and then wondered why they quit working.

One time, I had a floppy disk drive that worked, but only when it was not in the client's computer. A substitute floppy drive worked in the computer, but didn't match the front panel (the customer was picky). The suspect drive worked in every other computer I tried it in. Finally I found the problem: One end of a label had peeled loose on the hard disk below the floppy drive. It rubbed on the drive belt of the disk drive that failed, but missed the belt on the other drives made by different companies.

Microsoft kept installing a standard mouse driver over the graphics tablet driver the client wanted. I had to make a copy of the tablet driver and rename it mouse.com to fix it.

One time, we had a computer that kept rebooting every time an orders clerk left her desk. I suspected trouble in a PlugMold strip behind her chair. It supplied power to the computer. Space was tight, so her chair hit the strip whenever she left the desk. So I got a big rubber mallet to tap the strip with (to see if I should call the physical plant about the wiring). When the secretary asked why I was there (to buzz me in), I was holding that big rubber mallet on my shoulder when I said, …

Various ones I collected (but often didn't collect who said it):

- In order to know something is wrong, you must make an odd number of mistakes.

- The more funding a project has, the longer it takes to make the mistake that leads to the breakthrough.

- The glove can become dirty, but the dirt can't become glovy (my preacher).

- Ice hockey: kicking an ice cube around the kitchen floor (an ex-girlfrined).

- Car hockey: Figure-8 racing (Jesse James)

- Alibi: being where you weren't.

- When a body is immersed in water, the phone rings.

These are mine:

- Life as we know it is a dirty trick.

- Using the product voids the warranty.

- Every time someone perfects a foolproof device, someone else perfects a better fool.

- As soon as you tell someone the truth, somebody else changes what the truth is.

Example:
A to B: "Your box is on the kitchen table."
C enters room: "Hey! Whose box was that which I just moved from the kitchen table to the closet."

- Nothing will make a hidden defect in a digital product show up faster than releasing the product for sale will.

- A CD player is just as useless without CDs as the CDs are useless without a CD player.

- Once you standardize your music into one recording format, that format will be …

Which disaster movie is this?

Who gets to set the borderlines?

NaBr

Democrats controlling the economy.

Security: blanket and thumb.

Totally virus-proof computer: Tandy Color Computer. The OS is in ROM, so it can't be compromised.

Granted, but a goat just ate it.

I wish we had a law that a computer operating system could never be changed by the manufacturer, except to fix errors.

The bad words filter now works on the reputation system.

Does this mean that we will have {expletive deleted}-for-tat censorship?

:icon_cheesygrin:

It's not even a gradient. It's a well-known optical illusion. There are two gray bars of different shades, surrounded by a white border. The shading changes are actually contrast effects.

When browsing, I prefer tables of links over dropdown menus.

That's actually just two bars of different shades of gray, surrounded by a white border. The other effects are a well-known optical illusion.

Yeeesh!

I hate rollover changes. I wish they had never added that capability. They make me hit my back button.

Frames are deprecated, and will not be supported by future browsers.

Frames are deprecated. They will not be supported by future browsers.

DON'T!

There are several reasons not to do this:

1. For accessibility, many browsers allow the owner of the browser to turn off changes to link colors and define overriding colors.

2. If a browser is set to override, and you use a background color that matches the standard text color, the link disappears because it matches the background.

3. Link colors are pseudo-classes, and affect all links the same way. They will all be changed to the color of the last change encountered.

I have done it. There is a trick to it:

Don't use the same block element for both something using a defined width or size (either absolute or relative), and a surrounding style (margin, border, or padding). Nest them in the order you want them defined.

Why:

- Firefox puts the surrounding styles OUTSIDE the defined width or size of the block element.

- IE puts the surrounding styles INSIDE the defined width or size of the block element.

If you nest two blocks, o0ne with defined size, and one with surrounding styles, then YOU get to define whether the surrounding styles are inside, or outside, the defined sizes.

It might fail if the browser is set to override the web page to show the standard formats for links.

This is a good reason to never change the styles for links.

list-style-type: none;

Don't use Dreamweaver?

There is nothing wrong with using a table when the div method can't do the job. The code will validate.

The use of tables that is discouraged is the table used solely to provide a margin around a page. This was done before CSS existed, because there was no other way to do it.

What using a table for formatting does do is violate the accessibility requirements dictated by the religion of Political Correctness:

When a reading program for the blind encounters a table, it gives the table name and the cell row and column numbers at the beginning of each cell. This is deemed "inappropriate" by the PC dictators when a table is used for layout purposes.

Trick: For cross-browser-compatibility,You can't have defined widths in the same div that has margins, borders, and/or padding. Nest them in the order you want.

An id can be used on only one element in a web page. The second occurrence of the same id causes an error.

You can get it within +/- two days (no matter the length of the interval) just by integer-dividing the the output of the above formula by 7, and then multiplying by 5.

To refine it more, you need to know what day of the week each day is, and add or subtract up to two days, according to which days of the week each day is.

If the start and end dates are the same day of the week, no adjustment is needed.

I tracked it down.

First, you have to use Esc to undo the edit that started the trouble.

Then, you have to remove all of the cells in the erroneously created table at one time:

Use control ` to display formulas. Now you can see the affected range. Then select the entire range at once, and press Del.

Can you export to Excel? If so, importing is easy.

Australia is a continent.

Have you configured your player software to the new drive?

Download, then play.

Or it might be that you are trying to use the player directly without a web browser doing the interfacing.

I don't think you can do that.

The adobe browser opens inside an IE or FF window, but is a separate browser not controlled by HTML.

IE6's quirks mode is different from IE7's.

I think that is better than some of the "professional" overkill many sites use.

Another possibility is that they edited the files offline, and then uploaded them nearly simultaneously.

If you want to change the color the selection becomes when selected, that is a Windows setting, not a web setting. The setting is in the Control Panel, and is under the control of the owner of the computer, not the webmaster.

These settings are found in the file assignment and security settings, not Excel.

My Computer:

- Check to see if the file type .wks has been removed from the File Types list (tools / folder options) or set to some program other than Excel.

- Check the security settings in Internet Explorer. They affect operation off the net too.

Did you have the caps lock key on when you typed the password?

FireFox does not support those nonstandard styles.

If you want to protect it, don't put it on the Internet.

I predict the end of the concept of "intellectual property" within a few years.

I had the same problem. IE goofs up the rendering if there is not at least one cell with no colspans in it in each column.

Define column widths in cells without rowspan or colspan. Width doesn't always work right in a cell with a colspan in it.

Make sure a colspan in one cell does not collide with a rowspan in a different cell.

Make sure that every cell space is defined. IE does weird things if a cell in the middle is not defined, and cells around it are defined by colspan or rowspan.

Your browser dropped into quirks mode because the content violated the doctype. It is no longer rendering XHTML on the page.

Use the W3C validator found here:

http://validator.w3.org/

Have one page with the menu on it, and put links to that page in all the other pages.

Or edit each page separately to add the item.

The second way does not validate. The div tag is not self-closing. A tag is defined as being either a tag pair, or self-closing. It can't be both.

Many browsers totally ignore a pair of tags with no contents.

1. Assign an id or a class to the textarea.

2. For css, assign a color string ("#rrggbb") to background-color for the id or the class.

3. For JavaScript control, use a statement such as this:

document.forms.myid.style.backgroundColor = colox;

where colox contains a color string.

The problem is that, when both errors occur together, I can't get rid of the repeating error message.

Santa Claus - The Movie

Other favorites:

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (stop-motion)

Miracle on 34th Street (the original)

White Christmas

Strange lines I have come across in movies, TV shows, and articles:

Can I scrootch him now Cloyd? Can I? Can I?

You just said, "Cheese in my pants makes me happy." (in French)

I don't care if he runs through the store with a rubber glove on his head screaming, "Hi! I'm a squid."

Have a bamboo shoot? Tastes like porch furniture.

Ask a silly question and I guess you get a silly road.

I'm glad the average crook has a brain smaller than that of a walnut.

Don't cross your bridges before they are hatched.

Because the county made a rule in the county that you can't take anything that's in the county out of the county if it was in the county when the county was not yet a county.

The shortest distance between two points is a row of corn.

Move that crate. That light ain't gonna get any greener.

Come move this transmission so I can take a bath!

You can lead a horse to water, but not to broccoli.

They filled my foxhole with peas and carrots.

I'll garnish my weapon and let the police shoot me.

Look at this cheese. It's got holes in it.

Last week, we got two gross of pith helmets. (in the arctic)

Isn't it elf-explanatory? I'm an elf.

The only requisition that's been filled is the one for more requisition …

Supercar (same company, but before Fireball XL5)

See my avatar for a pic.

A close second was Space Angel.

Others:

Colonel Bleep
The Jetsons
The Flintstones
Road Runner
Ruff and Ready
Astro Boy
Josie and the Pussycats
Star Trek (animated series)
Archie
Clutch Cargo
Johnny Quest
Top Cat
The Astronut
Mr. Magoo
Beanie & Cecil
Marvin the Martian

I have several favorites, of which Flashdance is the best:

- Chariots of Fire
- Electric Dreams (Mostly the Jeff Lynn tracks)
- UHF
- Fame
- Blade Runner (the original, not the revised version)
- Return of the Jedi
- Amadeus
- Revenge of the Nerds (the last track)
- The Little Mermaid
- batteries not included
- Xanadu

Here they are: THE ANSWERS:

1. What point on the earth's surface is farthest from the center of the earth?

The summit of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador.

2. What point on the earth's surface is highest above sea level?

The summit of Mount Everest, on the border of China and Bhutan.

3. What is the tallest mountain on earth, from base to peak?

Mauna Kea, Hawaii, US. It is 33000 feet tall, base to peak. But almost 20000 of that is below sea level.

4. What point on the solid surface of earth (ignore whether or not it is under water) is closest to the center of the Earth?

The lowest point on in the Fram Basin the ocean floor, close to the north pole.

5. What point on the solid surface of earth (ignore whether or not it is under water) is farthest below sea level?

Challenger Deep, in the Marianas Trench, off the Marianas Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

6. Which explorer got closer to the center of the earth when he made his most famous expedition?

- Admiral Richard Byrd (flew over north pole)
- Roald Amundsen (dogsled to the south pole)
- Jacques Cousteau (deepest bathyscaphe trip)

Byrd. He flew low over the icecap, which is close to sea level at the north pole.

(Amundsen was on higher ground at the south pole. And Cousteau was six miles farther from the …