Posts by MidiMagic

Kirk: "There must be thousands of them, tens of thousands..."
Spock: "One million, seven hundred seventy one thousand, five hundred and sixty one. That's assuming they got in here six days ago, and a litter of ten each day."

It's the same formula, in this case 11 ^ 6.

I miss the TV shows of the 1950s:
- Candid Camera
- Bonanza ("Ponderosa" was the syndication title put on while the show was still on)
- Leave it to Beaver
- Dennis the Menace
- Father Knows Best
- I Love Lucy
- The Andy Griffith Show (Syndication: "Andy of Mayberry")
- Men into Space
- Sgt. Preston of the Yukon
- Steve Canyon
- Car 54
- Route 66
- 77 Synset Strip
- Surfside 6
- My Favorite Martian
- Rin Tin Tin
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- The Virginian
- Bat Masterson
- The Twilight Zone
- Davey Crockett
- Sky King
- The Adventures of Tarzan
- Daniel Boone
- Ed Sullivan
- Howdy Doody
- Space Patrol
- Lassie (Syndication: "Jeff's Collie")
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Dragnet
- Popeye
- The Honeymooners
- Rocky Jones: Space Ranger
- Perry Mason
- The Lone Ranger
- The Roy Rogers Show
- Colonel Bleep
- The FBI
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Adventures of Superman
- Mighty Mouse
- The Mickey Mouse Club

And the shows of the 1960s:
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Petticoat Junction
- Green Acres

Employee: MMMRRRcome to McDonalds... can I have your mmmmmmddr? (I assume she said order, but the speaker was fuzzy)

Me: Yeah, I'll take a number 3 with Super Size fries.

Employee: Um Sir.... we don't MMMMMMMffrrr SSSSPPR SZZZ Fries anym *pop*

Me: Okay. Then I'll go for a large frie, then. Can I still get a Super Size Sprite, then?

Employee: Um Sir... We don't FIIIIZZZZZ ffer that either.

Me: Fine. Give me a large Sprite, too. my wife wants a large Dr. Pepper.

Employee: That'll be $5.90. FZZT around.

This is basic squakese, the language of drive-through operators.

I discovered how to make the sound come out right. If you say it with the fizzes and buzzes, the sound is perfect at the other end.
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It would be much nicer if we had a truly fair election system. The Plurality Voting System now in use tends to favor the oddball candidate when more than two candidates run.

Google "the Independent Voting System" (with the quotes) to see a truly fair election system.

I want to know when the colors got reversed?

When I was a kid, red was Democrat, and blue was Republican. That's because the letters of the color were found in the name:

DEmocrRat rEpUBLican

It's those doggy vitamins.

I wish they had broken Microsoft into baby Bills back in the 1990s. It's too big already.

He just wants Pelosi in the White House.

Unlike President Clinton, who committed crimes and admitted to them (but argued they shouldn't be crimes), neither President Bush nor Vice-President Cheney have committed any impeachable crimes.

Going to war is not a crime, except in the Politically Correct religion (and the Baha'i Faith it was plagiarized from). But we are supposed to have separation of church and state, so that doesn't count.

If the chimps want special rights, let them compose and submit their own writs to the judges.

I discovered a proof that evolution is false.

In order to build a cell, you have to have the blueprint (DNA), and the constructor (ribosome).

My questions:

- If the ribosome somehow evolved independently of the DNA, how did the instructions for making a ribosome get on the DNA?

- If the instructions for making ribosomes started out on the DNA, what was used to read the DNA to make the first ribosome?

It's not so much what it does to the computer but what it does to your web and email access

It blocks access and emails to and from any host computer which is implicated by any AOL user in spam or malware. But it does so even if that host was phaked onto a spoof email.

eBay is very often blocked by AOL because of the phake phishing emails purporting to be from eBay.

Temporary fix = Go into your control panel and under Options tick off the option to not round corners of boxes.

That seems to have worked.

But I still see rounded corners on things.

I think the reason I thought it was the ad was because the ad didn't load until after the script stopped.

One possibility is to find a search function on the web. You will probably have to buy it.

Another is to search the site with a server-side script.

The innerHTML, innerText, and outerHTML don't work because style sheets aren't html code.

My question is, what are you going to do with the style elements if you do reconstruct them? They won't fit your pages, because you don't have the same class names.

Actually, a larger question arises: Why do you need it? Maybe if I understood what you are really trying to do with this information, I can find a better way.

Just load the blank .gif file the same way you loaded the image. Since it was already downloaded when the page opened, it won't have to be downloaded again.

The simplest way is to use an anchor link. Each link can directly call a multimedia video player. Using an anchor link:

<a href="film123.mpg">Movie Number 123</a>

Use one such link for each video file.

But this opens the player by itself in a new window.

It's harder to open the player in a page full of ads.. You need to have some kind of selector to select the proper flash file. It's going to be a dropdown menu, (html select tag), radio buttons (input tag), or some other input device on the html page.

Then you need either an onclick JavaScript function call or a PLAY button telling the JavaScript function to start the video. The selector will provide the url of the flash file in a variable.

The html object tag is used to embed the player in the page.

Use the disabled attribute.

Start with the basic html portion of a form (named "order"):

<input type="text" id="quantity" disabled="disabled" />

Then, in JavaScript, you change the attribute to enable the field:

document.forms.order.quantity.disabled = false;

That new Ask Jeeves ad is the worst yet!

The way they ANNOY us so, I can't believe that these advertisers really want our business.

Javascript has such a function. It is called:

toLocaleString()

I'm not sure what you want. ???

Are you wanting this to help you edit a web page, or to help others find something in your page?

If you want to find words in your page to do edits, Notepad has that capability. just use edit / find.

If others want to search your page, they can always use the Find In This Page function in their web browser. It's in the Edit menu.

If you want a search for your site like Google search, it's beyond the scope of HTML/CSS.

Let me get this straight. You want us to HELP you put MORE advertising on the web?
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If this is not the case, then don't use a pop-up format, or it will be blocked.

Is the user supposed to select a flash file? If so, use a dropdown menu or other selection method, and pass the URL to your JavaScript program.

It happened throughout that day. It is not happening now, though the freezing is still happening (where you can't scroll).

It also makes the Firefox spellchecker work or not work.

How about a selection to disable moving ads and ads with scripts?

It's a script that runs when a certain ad is on the screen. This has been going on about a week.

Without that, you can't install the software.

That's greedy Microsift for you.

Open your audio mixer:

Control panel / sounds and audio devices / volume /advanced

You will find as many sliders on this mixer as you have audio devices.

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 radio buttons and address it in JavaScript?

Let's do a simple set of four groups of radio buttons, each with three selections (the actual set I want to use is much larger, but I can scale up the solution). Each group can have only one selection.

Group 1:  O A  O B  O C
Group 2:  O A  O B  O C
Group 3:  O A  O B  O C
Group 4:  O A  O B  O C

I want to use for loops to count the number of A selections, the number of B selections, and the number of C selections. I also want to look for diagonal lines of three checked buttons.

What I can't figure out is how to name the button groups in the HTML code so I can address all of them in the loops, yet keep them separate for the purpose of having one radio button selection in each group.

I don't want to use the global array of radio buttons on the page, because the number of buttons above this structure in the webpage will vary. I also want to address them in x-y notation.

I thought you would be using a common stylesheet for all of the pages. If you have control over all of these web pages, you can use a common stylesheet.

Are you trying to find out about stylesheets that other programmers wrote for their own pages?

If so, you are asking for, if not the impossible, the very difficult. It's effectively reverse-engineering the other programmer's page. It's a Brobdingnagian task.

You can't know in advance what the other programmer named his styles, or what he intended to use them for.

You CAN find out the styles applied to a particular web page element, once you know the address index of that element. Use the style methods in JavaScript to find out the style values of the element in question.

e.g. This gets the page's main background color.

bgco = document.body.backgroundColor;
bgcolor = parseFloat(bgco);

Be aware that this works on only those browsers which use the W3C DOM. Ift fails of an older browser is used to display the page.

That does you no good at all if the website has a 56K modem.

Then check your settings in the browser. That's all that's left. Try:

- Internet connection. Make sure it matches what you have for a service.

- Security. Make sure it isn't thumb-sucking security that blocks almost all content.

- Check the driver for the connection.

You are right, I was thinking of the OS-9 similar redirections. DOS uses >> for append.

In my example, dothis.bat is the batch file.

promansr.txt is a text file full of the expected responses to prompts, one response per line.

e.g. (I put the question over to the right. it is not part of the file)

y        (are you sure?)
n        (send to printer?)
          (Press ENTER to continue.)
y        (Replace the file? y/n/c=cancel)

digester.txt takes all of the output and "digests" it. You need to remove the file between runs of the batch file. You can do this by calling another batch file which deletes the file (and the two batch files could delete each other's files).

ECHO OFF

this command as the first line of a batch file also removes a lot of queries.

It might be designed to be used with older polled keyboard drivers, instead of the current interrupt-driven ones.

It might be scrolling too fast for smooth scrolling. Turn off smooth scrolling.

Is your user space on the server full?

Have you run out of replacements? The .553 extension indicates a UNIX server, and that you already have 552 other versions of the file floating about in previous version files. Delete the old versions.

The text at the bottom is too small for easy reading, and is hidden below the screen edge.

Website addresses have always been case-sensitive on UNIX machines. It actually depends on the server's internal code whether it responds to case. Your customers should be told to enter the website as written and that website addresses are case-sensitive.

Everyone should always treat web addresses and email addresses as being case-sensitive, because many servers already treat them so.

Look up "regular expressions" to understand this.

Security rules require the user to confirm any upload that is not a web page component.

Different authorities quote different numbers, from 189 to 194.

The UN has 192 members. But the Vatican refused to join, and the UN considers Taiwan to be a province of China, and won't let it join.

The 194 above don't include areas such as Palestine, Western Sahara, Puerto Rico, and England, which are territories or states in larger countries.

Just drop something else on top of it real fast, or send the focus to the page under it.

It can't be done.

Even if you were able to disable all forms of browser controls which save images, the print screen function always saves the visible screen to the clipboard. Then you can paste the screen to mspaint, cut out the image, and save it.

I can see that you have to have an external stylesheet. Then you can use:

popup.document.write('<html>');
popup.document.write('<head>');
popup.document.write('<title>my popup</title>');
popup.document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystylesheet.css" />');
popup.document.write('</head>');
 .....

Each document.write is a line of html code.

Another way to make it work is to have a gif animation which does the scrolling.

I see some nonstandard tags in your code, which don't work in all browsers.

It did it again during the posting of the above post. This time it said the following, ending in the iddle of a sentence (the ad window was filled):

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ad.doubleclick.net.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable

When the status bar hangs at that point

It's site request overload. Doubleclick OVERSUBSCRIBES their service to the point where more requests come in than their server can handle. They have been doing it since 1999, so I doubt they will change their ways.

My latest error message:

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ad.doubleclick.net.

My latest error is:

Firefox can't find the server doubleclick.com.

Click the tilted A button on the right. It turns the spellchecker on and off for me. It's on when the button is white.

Well that's how it's supposed to work. But there's a Firefox bug right now where, as you can see from the screenshot, the color palette loads at a very weird place (over the submit button) when he clicks. The same thing happens with smilies.

That's where it shows up on mine. And you may think the menu didn't work because you have to scroll down to see it. Then if you start typing, the menu goes away, and you have to click another item on the menu (such as B), and then A to get it back.

Today I got:

Firefox was unable to establish contact with doubleclick.com