Posts by MidiMagic

Did you click on OK at the bottom of the General window after you made the setting?
If not, it threw the setting away.

Are the settings for IE stored in a file owned by the system administrator? If so, you will need administrator privilege to change it.

Is the shortcut you are opening IE with asking for that web page?

I don't allow Quicktime on my system because it causes so many problems (like grabbing file types it can't even play).

Check the settings in My Computer / Tools / Folder Options, and make sure each file type is associated with a player that actually knows how to play it.

hi
having a similar problem on windows vista, so searched the web for a solution and found this thred. i use both opera and IE7 and have nether will load web pages on my laptop, yet my pc loads them all fine connected to the same network on the same router. i have done ping tests to website via command prompt adn they seem to come ok, and both Wow and ventrillo both work fine, any thing i can try?

- Are you using an ISP that allows only one computer. If so, it downloaded the passcodes to that computer, and will not work with any other.

- Does the router need to ID the computer using it in some way?

- Is software present on one computer which is missing on the other?

- Has the laptop been used somewhere else? Was it reconfigured to be used at the other location? If so, it may have to be reselected or reconfigured to be used on the router again. Your browser may have to be set up for the router again too.

You can have multiple connection-settings files, but you have to manually choose the one you are using each time you change connections.

This could be a setting in your printer driver.

There is also a setting "Shrink web page to fit paper" in the browser settings.

You also didn't mention your printer make and model. Some printers have limited fonts and sizes.

You may have also selected a base font which can't get any larger. There are a few of those, particularly monospace fonts. If enlarged more, they turn into pixelated messes.

A few things to check:

- Has someone plugged in a new telephone or answering machine on your system, or removed one of the telephone filters?

- Did the phone and DSL cables on the adaptor get switched?

- Are all of the connection lights lit on the modem? If not, you have a service outage or one of the telephone line problems above.

- Did your internet drivers get switched to a dial-up modem somehow?

- Check the settings under the internet connections tab in your tools/options menu.

- Your ISP may be down.

On the original question of new window vs replace window, that is a browser setting in both Firefox and IE.

There are five tabs at the top of the Task Manager. Click Applications to get what you want.

Some time ago, you clicked on Processes. It stays on the tab you used last.

The reason is that Microsoft is greedy!

If you make 5 hardware changes, it assumes you may have moved it to a different computer or pirated it.

You will have to reinstall it with the disks that came with either the computer or the soundcard.

What kind of file is it? Some types can't be fast wound.

This smells like a hardware problem to me. Check your monitor connections first. It also could be a bad power supply in the monitor.

It could be that somebody is using code to prevent saving the link, or code which your browser can't handle.

I know what a floppy drive is, but what's a floopy drive?

What is missing is the boot sector. You need your original Windows disk to make your new hard drive bootable. The boot sector is not a file that can normally be copied, since it is different for each partitioning.

It did it again today.

Microsoft won't fix it, because ads are of chief priority to Microsift. We would have NO problems with spam or viruses, except that Microsoft put in code to allow ads.

Is it possible that you can put the ads away from the dropdowns, so they don't get in the way?

Another idea is to show the first frame of the ad, and put a button you can push if you want to see the motion. I think all moving things should be optionally started.

There used to be an option on Mozilla browsers to turn off motion, or stop it after one repetition. But it is gone now.

Maybe the users should have a way they can charge the advertisers a dollar each time they are annoyed by a moving ad.

I wonder how many of those attempts were for spam purposes.

It works fine for me. I have Firefox 2.0.

One thing you have to be aware of is how the browser constructs a box object (such as a td):

- Some browsers include the margins, border, and padding of a box object INSIDE the specified dimesions of the box. So the actual contents of the box must be smaller.

- Other browsers place the margins, border, and padding of a box object OUTSIDE the specified dimesions of the box. So the actual contents of the box fit the dimensions, but the box object as a whole takes up more space than tyhe specified dimensions.

The hard part is making anything with declared absolute dimensions work the same on all browsers. But there is a trick to it.

Suggestion 1: Make everything relative. DON'T specify absolute pixel sizes, but let the contents or surroundings of a box determine its size.

Suggestion 2: You can shrink it down to no difference by setting the margins, borders, poaddings, and cellspacings to zero.

Suggestion 3: Nest several boxes. Set them up with the following properties:

- The innermost box contains what you want in the box. It has zero settings on the surrounding attributes listed above. You can define the size of this box.

- The box containing the innermost box is otherwise empty, and has margins, borders, and/or paddings set to the sizes wanted. Note that, since the size of this box is not …

Why do this? It seems pointless.

Why do you want to do this? It sounds very selfish to me.

You are not going to hide any of the other files on your site that way. There are programs which can read your web directory.

The whole purpose of the web is openness. Don't try to defeat that.

I do know ways of hiding email addresses from robots, yet leaving them visible to users.

Why do you want to hide the url? That sounds very selfish.

This setting belongs to the owner of the computer, NOT TO YOU. You have no right or ability to access it.

It is actually found in his printer driver.

The settings are found in completely different windows with different printers. All the browser's "Page Setup" button does is open the printer driver's own setup page.

The only thing you can do is tell the user to set his browser to print landscape, using the Page Setup button.

Leave OUT the target property altogether. It is deprecated.

Why not just let it open a new tab?

I have a script sending out an email to some users, and I was going to try to use CSS to format it, until I found out it's nearly impossible. So I have 2 questions.

1. Is it possible to use CSS in email, and ensure everyone can read it? (This would be the best option)

No.

Many email systems (such as Pine) don't understand HTML or CSS. They will print your code in the body of the email, making the recipient mad.

Remember that many people don't have a choice of what email client they have to use. It is decided for them by bosses, universities, or ISPs. And some spam filters go "BLEAUGH!" when they see HTML, and throw the email in the spam box.

2. If option #1 is not possible, i need a resource or some info somewhere to show me how to do some af the things that CSS can do, only in plane jane HTML. For instance, a bit of CSS might say:

font: 70%/1.5 Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

But I can't quite get the same effect using plane HTML. I mean the font is easy enough, but I can't figure out how to get the font size the same. I guess I'm just really amature at HTML. Also changing the hover color on a text link. And changing the character spacing, so I can make the lettering a little closer.

Please do not put HTML in emails either. As I …

I can see several possibilities:

- The ISP allows only ONE computer, and put its recognition code on the laptop.

- The cable modem software is not on PCs 1 and 2, and is only partly configured on #3.

- The wrong port is configured in the browsers.

- The browsers are trying to use a dial-up modem.

Thank you all for your help :) It has sorted itself out somehow.

Thanks again.

This usually indicates an ISP problem.

Some possible causes:
- They lost a hard drive or some software
- They had a "denial of service" attack
- A software upgrade they installed was incompatible.
- They lost a major data transmission line.
- The power failed to part of their resources.
- They temporarily locked down because of a major malware threat.

One other possibility is that some settings have been changed in accessibility, or that your keyboard has been remapped.

Check your audio mixer first. It might have one or more sliders all the way down.

Or you plugged a speaker into a line out.

Why is he insisting on only one page?

You can put buttoms on each of the pages to change to any of the other pages.

You didn't leave enough room for the child to fit inside the main.

Unless the margins, borders, and paddings are all set to 0, space is needed for a complete set of these inside the main, but surrounding the child.

When stuff doesn't fit, the browser looks to see where it can steal some pixels to force-fit it. Sledgehammer rendering at work!

Your child object is 70 pixels tall with the margins, and you are trying to cram it inside the main object, which is 50 pixels tall.

It's kind of like all of the department-store Santa Clauses in the world trying to go down the same chimney all at once.

Don't move my mouse! I have enough applications which move the mouse. Then my mouse falls off the mousepad when I try to put it back.

Just turn off javascript in your browser.

It will ALWAYS be different in IE. MS won't stick to the standard.

It just did it to me. I tried to open the Web Development menu, and the Columbia ad is on top of the dropdown, preventing me from using it.

You should not be allowing advertisers to do whatever they please. How about requiring all ads to be .jpg files without javascript.

Some people are dyslexic. Others are dystypic. They hit wring keys, or keys out of odrer.

I have the Firefox spelling checker. It automatically flags errors on most BBS posts, and even on email.

But it doesn't work on Daniweb for some reason.

I don't want all ads removed from DaniWeb, just two kinds:

1. Ads with moving stuff in them. They drive some people's visual systems nuts.

2. Ads from doubleclick.net. Their site often jams up from being oversubscribed, preventing the rest of the page from loading. A 404 error often results.

A suggestion for the games: Give them their own forum.

One more thing: remove the text inside the reply boxes, and
fix them so they don't suddenly add a newline for no reason (like it did here).

how about some animated smileys :?:

No no no no no!

No more stuff that moves. The ads are too distracting as it is!

Moving pictures should be restricted to demonstrating concepts.

The gold stars are a rating of your posts.

The problem is that the moving ads are brain interrupts.

They yank your eyes off the text you are trying to read, because the same type of stimulus could be an impending collision or a bee about to sting.

Require all ads to be still lifes.

It's tax time. Your ISP may be in meltdown mode.

Also check for spyware and viruses.

Another possibility is that they use plug-ins which work in IE, but not Firefox. (Another Microsift monopoly ploy?)

Check your security settings.

It could also be that your OS and browser are not current enough for the latest sites.

Sounds like spyware.

But it could also be tax-time loads on the cable modem system's head end.

What did you expect? They're void! :D

Firefox defaults to Java Disabled when it is installed.

Check to see if your default connection setting in the browser is the one you actually use. You could have two files.

Check to see if it is set to actually dial the phone in the internet connection file, not just Outlook's setting.

You need to check several settings:

- Firewall, if you have one.
- Browser cookie settings.
- Control panel internet preference settings.

- Has your ISP started blocking cookies?

- Is your firewall software marking these sites as not trusted?

- If you are on AOL or Yahoo, the spam control may have blocked sites such as eBay because others reported phake eBay phishing emails as spam.

It could be that your ISP is having a major meltdown. It's tax time. Cable TV modems are especially prone to have this trouble.

If you are on a company-owned network, they may have put in a firewall to block timewasters.

I have both on my computer, but I don't use IE unless I have to.

I think an incompatible Windows upgrade caused it.

A Windows update could also be responsible. Check the following topic:

April 3, 2007 Security Update For Windows Xp

sultan_emerr

See the entry:

April 3, 2007 Security Update For Windows Xp

sultan_emerr

Before you blow a gasket or burn out a bearing, check the audio mixer settings. The install of the other software may have set it to all the way down.