Posts by MidiMagic

This is the wrong place to post questions about mail.

Go up to the top of the page, and select the Tech Talk forum "Microsoft Windows" (Windows Programs).

Post your email trouble there.

Wow, I have the power to block your boss! I will use it. BLOCK!!!!

The trick is to provide a button the USER clicks to open the window.

Any window which opens without the USER deciding to open it by clicking something is a popup ad.

I still have my 64K Tandy Color Computer - the first home computer able to run UNIX. And it was totally virus-proof (except when running UNIX).

The only reason I don't use it anymore is that I can't get supplies for it. It can't operate any current printers or disk drives, and I can't ger materials for the old ones.

Even still i know all this although there was a very limited amount of things that could burn in those buildings for safty reasons. What i was actually saying was that they were encountering molten metal in the debris for up to a week after the collapse and that it is strange because there would have been nothing hot enough to cause this. Which i said was a bit of a mystery.

I never heard any of this from reputable news sources. But there are a few possible causes for melting metal in the compressed wreckage:

- The story that a worker pulled a steel beam out of the wreckage with the other end still melting is bogus. The entire beam would have been too hot to handle if that had been the case.

- If workers were unable to shut off some power, a short circuit not large enough to trigger power company breakers could have melted metal.

- Fire in compressed wreckage could have become hot enough to melt metal.

- Chemicals which are normally safe when not together may have been stored on different floors of the WTC. The collapse may have brought the chemicals together.

- What about all of the automobiles filled with GASOLINE which were parked in the parking garage under the building? Those cars also had BATTERIES in them, which would produce heat when the body of the car was smashed flat against the battery terminals or wiring.

Even with fire proofing the heat from the jet fuel would not have been enough to do anything structually to the beams.

Wrong. The quoted "temperature needed to melt the beams" is about twice the temperature needed to anneal the hardness out of the steel. The jet fuel easily produced these temperatures.

The plane may well have knocked aspestos off the beams on the level that the planes hit but not on the lower levels.

Even if the asbestos jhad remained intact, it wouldn't have protected the beams from a vfire that large. Asbestos is a heat sink, not an insulatng material. It protects by carrying the heat away from the hot spot. But if all of the area is hot, asbestos doesn't work.

Due to safty regulations there was no other gas in the building that would have gotten hot enough to melt the steel.

The steel didn't have to melt! It just had to lose its hardness. When it changed from steel into iron, the steel in the horizontal beams lost the strength needed to hold up the concrete floor.

I also still don't see how they towers could fall so perfectly it just never seemed right to me.

This can be blamed on the design of the building. They put ALL of the vertical supports around the OUTSIDE EDGE of the building. They did this so there would be no load-bearing walls inside, so the floors could be freely remodeled.

Each floor was …

Addendum: Based on some information I've seen, the WTC buildings were supposed to have Asbestos fireproofing; the 'no asbestos' argument lead to a substitute being used. Supposedly, the substitue was weak enough at bonding that the plane slamming into the building would have knocked it off the surfaces it was supposed to have been protecting.

The asbestos scare hadn't materialized yet when the WTC was built. The asbestos fell off because the binder was faulty.

Ah, but you can't prove that UFOs didn't cause that phase shift that caused the blackout

But why do we need to presuppose a UFO, when starting a large air handler or industrial motor was enough to cause it?

Electric motors normally cause this kind of phase shift. All coils of wire do this. Normally the power generators soak up some of this phase shift, if they are close. The power companies install capacitors at various locations to compensate for the rest of the phase error.

The phase between voltage and current was hovering right at the trip point before the blackout, as shown by instrument readings on a chart-recorder just before the blackout. This was because a power plant in Ontario was down. That plant normally absorbed phase shifts in the area. Its absence put a phase-shifted load on New York generators.

No doubt some conspiracy theorist will come up with a crackpot idea about the CIA having some secret device that makes people think transmissions come from somewhere else than they really do.

That wouldn't fool a ham. The beam antenna is NOT SENSITIVE to signals from the wrong direction, so it would not receive any fake signal coming from the wrong direction. The CIA would have to place a source in space at the fake location of the spacecraft to get all of the beam antennas in the world to receive signals from the correct direction.

If they had produced a fake signal, …

1. What part of a car travels farther than any other part?

2. How do you get down off an elephant?

Actions speak louder than words, but politicians won't shut up.

More info:

When it does this, the little spinning thing Firefox makes suddenly appears under the quick reply box, but the one up on the menu bar is NOT spinning. The progress bar is blank.

Code it manually. Use tr for each table row, and td for each table data cell. Close all tags.

<p>Example of a 3X3 table. The cell contents describe their locations.</p>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>This is the top left cell</td>
    <td>This is the top center cell</td>
    <td>This is the top right cell</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>This is the middle left cell</td>
    <td>This is the middle center cell</td>
    <td>This is the middle right cell</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>This is the bottom left cell</td>
    <td>This is the bottom center cell</td>
    <td>This is the bottom right cell</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Be aware that browsers let their owners keep you from changing the color of links. Your black background could hide links.

There are several problems with your "solution":

1. The books that I use say that "none" is always allowed as a way to remove a style.

2. Changing "none" to "0px" didn't change anything.

3. The clear style is clearly a kludge. The contents of a list element should not have the power to change the way the list itself renders.

4. The clear style fixed the FF display, but not the IE display. But we shouldn't have to do that.

5. I want the bullets in my page.

6. Doing your whole thing still doesn't fix the IE display. The third column still drops under the first.

7. Setting the margin and padding on the ul to 0px removes the bullets on both browsers, even with the list-style part removed. I want the bullets.

The problem is that the div method of making columns is not yet perfected.

Notepad also makes plain text files.

Sorry Stymiee,but I did not understand, can you explaine,please?

Other than in the temporary Internet storage area, you do not have any right to put files on someone else's hard disk without their permission. Fonts go in a permanent area of a hard disk.

It is against the law to alter hard drives on other computers without permission.

I'm not confused. I just find it easier to hide an element, as opposed to totally removing it.

Just write to the form elements in the same way you read form elements, but with the element on the left side of the =.

Stupidity causes accidents as well, though as yet it is still legal.

That will always be legal, because if it weren't, most lawmakers would be illegal.

Talking to someone in the car while driving causes accidents - legal.

This shouldn't be legal. It is legal because stupid lawmakers want the convenience.

Both of the auto accidents I was in were caused by the other driver not paying attention while on a cell phone. In fact, in both cases, the police officer had to tell the other driver to get off the phone and pay attention aftrer the accident.

Taking too much cough syrup, allergy medication, or sleeping aids may cause accidents - legal.

NOT legal. It is against federal law to use medication in violation of the printed instructions.

At some point people must be responsible for and held accountable for their own behavior. The accountable part is where government comes in. Making everything illegal is not the solution to keeping everyone safe from their own irresponsible behavior.

There are levels above which the activity must be restricted because it causes TOO many accidents. That's why we have speed limits.

Using these drugs causes carelessness without the user being aware he is careless. So any use of these drugs is itself carelessness.

I have also noticed that many people who have used in the past have lost the capacity to reason logically.

The moon is 1.3 light seconds from the earth. So the round trip is almost 3 light seconds. The astronauts also have to have time to react to the received material, look at instruments, and form their replies to unexpected questions. And they have to move their hands to reach for their talk buttons, if they aren't switched to vox (voice operated transmission).

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These conspiracy theories all rest on one salient fact: You can't prove something does not exist or didn't happen in secret.

So the government can't possibly disprove any of the following conspiracy theories, whether they are true or not:

- The government has the bodies of space aliens from a UFO crash.
- President Bush wanted an armed conflict in Iraq.
- The outing of Valerie Plame was done intentionally. (I think it was a case of someone being told secret information in a secret meeting without being told that the particular information was secret.)
- There was a conspiracy to steal the 2000 and 2004 elections.
- Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
- The break-in at Watergate was an intentional plan to spy on Democrat strategy. (I think it might be the opposite - the Democrats planted a false sex scandal and gave just a room number.)

There are some disproofs to other claimed conspiracies:

- I can disprove the "dimpled and prengnant chad were attempts to vote" conspiracy myself. I used …

I want the ones from the '50s and '60s.

Life is a dirty trick.

Have a confederate with a cell phone move the switches while you watch the bulbs and listen to what he did on your cell phone.

How do you get down off an elephant?

It happens maybe every three posts for me.

But there is something strange I noticed. The little spinning thing on the browser that indicates activity does not start spinning until after this delay.

I once noticed that it waited until an animated sequence on an ad finished its cycle. During the period the animation was finishing, the spinning thing was not rotating.

It even happens in the early morning (after midnight), so it is probably not traffic-related. But I noticed that there is a delay of almost 10 minutes if it happens near 4 am. But that one is different, because the spinning thing is spinning during that 10 min delay.

I have Firefox 2.0.0.4.

As long as the glass hasn't separated, super glue works great, at 1/5 the cost.

Drugs change the way people think - permanently in many cases. And they usually make people more careless. Accidents caused by drug use are sufficient alone to keep them illegal.

The text no longer clashes. But something weird is happening on the left and right windows.

If I move the cursor upwards over the window from below it slowly, and stop just below halfway down the image, the text window rapidly opens and closes repeatedly.

I stuffed your code into the W3C validator, and it spit out the error messages.

You have chosen the XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype, but you are using deprecated elements which are not supported by XHTML. Either change your doctype, or change the deprecated elements to the style sheet equivalents.

Below are the results of checking this document for validity.

Error 1 Line 68 column 34: there is no attribute "height". <table width="733" height=[B]"[/B]40" border="0"> The height= attribute is deprecated in XHTML.

Error 2 Line 71 column 22: there is no attribute "width". <td width=[B]"[/B]254"><img src="images/film-strip-01.gif" alt="film strip" The width= attribute is deprecated in XHTML.

Error 3 Line 71 column 113: there is no attribute "border".

The border= attribute is deprecated in XHTML.

Error 4 Line 71 column 123: there is no attribute "align"

The align= attribute is deprecated in XHTML.

Error 5 Line 75 column 27: there is no attribute "height". <td height=[B]"[/B]25"><h4><strong>Music Samples</strong></h4> The height= attribute is deprecated in XHTML.

Error 6 Line 196 column 17: there is no attribute "align". <div align=[B]"[/B]center"></div> The align= attribute is deprecated in XHTML.

I suggest that you create stylesheet entries for these three lines with the proper styles in them. Either that, or chose a doctype which accepts these deprecated attributes. But doing the latter will eventually require you to do the former at a later date.

There is a way to do it, but it requires work on your part.

Have them email you the comments, and then you edit them into an html file when you receive them.

Always poofread your work to see if you any letters or words out.

The trouble is that there are several versions of different characters in Word. I would suggest you change some settings:

- Go into the Word spellchecker and turn off the functions whcih make smart quotes and long hyphens.

- Make sure the server, your computer's default, and word's default are all the same character set.

- The only character in this area which is universally defined is the minus sign. Real hyphens and long hypens are in extended character sets.

- If you have trouble after that, choose the US ASCII character set in the editor. Your text won't be as pretty, but it works anywhere.

It has to be that wide to be able to hold the selected item once you choose it.

<style>
.bgim {background-image: url(myimage.jpg);}
</style>

....

<div class="bgim">
stuff inside
</div>

Use background-repeat to tell the browser whether or not to use repetition, background-position to adjust it.

You can use any box object in place of the div.

I can't see the style sheet, so I can't help.

I'd say you have some styles which are assuming their default values.

I just made several divs with 1px borders of different colors, and nested them.

There are several ways to procede:

- The best way is to define a style with the font you want, and a font-family to use if the font isn't there.

- Another way is to tell the users where they can download your font.

- If the font is to be used for a title, you can make a jpg file of the title, and upload the picture to your site.

But remember this: Not everyone is going to like your font. Some fonts are quite hard to read, especially on a higher-resolution monitor.

I, for instance, have trouble reading fonts with serifs. So I specify a font-family of sans-serif. I also hid all the serif fonts from my browser.

You need to realize that the user can put settings in his browser that override anything you try to put in for those values. If the user has selected any value other than "let the document decide," his colors will always display instead of yours.

For this reason all web page designers have to design their pages so they still work if someone has set colors for these items. Don't try to change them.

To test to see if this is it, go into the menu and find the settings for link colors.

The problem is not doctypes, but the actual difference in the way IE and Firefox treat box objects.

When you define the size of a box object, IE uses that size as the outside edge of the margin. So the margin, border, and padding are all INSIDE that dimension.

When you define the size of a box object, FF uses that size as the inside edge of the padding. So the margin, border, and padding are all OUTSIDE that dimension.

So the trick is to make sure the box object you define a size for has no margin, border, or padding.

Your images are breaking apart, which means they are not uploaded as single images. Why are you doing that? It's stupid. Upload images as complete image files, and they will stay together.

I can see where padding or margins on objects causes the sliding over of some objects. Use the following style as a class to take away these attributes from your box objects, and they will fit together properly:

.fxbox {margin: none; border: none; padding: none;}

This is most likely one of these:

- The browser doesn't have the right player.

- The file is too big for the cache or the ISP.

- The ISP is blocking certain file types.

- You have a case error in the filename.

- It is taking too long to download.

align= is deprecated.

And the W3C clowns gave us no good way to center images in nondeprecated ways. They are thinking book and newspaper layout, where images are never centered.

So I do this:

<style type="text/css">
.cenx {text-align: center;}
.ceni {clear: both;}
.bxfix {margin: none; border: none; padding: none;}
img {padding: 12px;}
body {padding: 5%;}
</style>

Then for the image itself:

<div class="bxfix cenx">
 <img src="mine.jpg" alt="my mine" class="ceni" />
</div>

So you can not use tables for layout????

(You can, but the big baddies at W3C don't want you to.) :icon_mrgreen:

The problem is that divs don't always work exactly the way you want them to, especially when they are inside other layout tags. I gave up after SIX hours of trying to get a simple three-column set of divs
to line up correctly inside a pair of li tags. It always either dropped one div to a lower area, or took some of the text below the ending li tag and put it on the right of the three divs, or failed to display correctly on one browser while working on the others.

Here is code that fails. Somebody please tell me why. You will note that the set of divs inside the li pair fails, but the ones down below the ul pair work correctly. And IE messes it up differently than FF does. The ONLY difference between the two is that one set is inside the ul list's li pair.

<html>
<head>
<style>

.x3col {float: left; margin: none; border: none; padding: none; width: 33%;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
 <li><p>Here is the list:</p>
  <div class="x3col">
   <ol>
    <li>one</li>
    <li>two</li>
    <li>three</li>
   </ol>
  </div>
  <div class="x3col">
   <ol>
    <li>four</li>
    <li>five</li>
    <li>six</li>
    <li>seven</li>
   </ol>
  </div>
  <div class="x3col">
   <ol>
    <li>eight</li>
    <li>nine</li>
    <li>ten</li>
    <li>eleven</li>
   </ol>
  </div>
 </li>
 <li>Here's the end of the list</li>
</ul>
<p>Here is the next line</p>
<p>And down here, it works.</p>
<div class="x3col">
 <ol>
  <li>one</li>
  <li>two</li>
  <li>three</li>
 </ol> …

Possible causes:
- You executed the alert before defining the variable.
- The variable is local to a different function
- You never gave the variable a value.
- You copied the value of another undefined variable.
- You spellied the variable wrong somewhere.
- You forgot a semicolon, preventing the execution of the statement assigning the value.
- You are trying to access the index of a loop outside the loop.
- You have function call scoping problem (did the function call send the variable, or a pointer to it - common error with arrays).

This is a function of the particular printer's driver and the PAGE SETUP function in the browser the USER of the page is using.

It belongs to the owner of that user's computer, not to the web page designer.

It is a security violation for a web page to be able to alter those settings. You have no right to change it.

Instead of removing it, why not just hide it.

.stealth {visibility: visible;}

Then, at the point where you want something to disappear, change its visibility attribute to:

hidden - if it should still take up the space.

collapse - if it should disappear from the page format too.

Even if you could do that, Firefox closes so quickly that nobody could read it.

If somebody clicks the X, they want to close the program now. They don't want it to do any more.

If IE can do it, it is because IE has a nonstandard extension to web code. Never use nonstandard code.

Use the visibility property. There are three selections: visible, hidden, and collapse. Visibility is also a recognized style method.

Some browsers don't support layers fully.

The dropdown menus are not under the tabs that open them, so they close before you can get the cursor to them.

He wanted to break the law.

We don't help people do that.

Legibility is not just quality. If the text clashes to the point where it is hard to read, people will hit their back buttons.

Did you save a zero count file to get it started?

You can't open the file for read until it exists.