Posts by MidiMagic

Nope. The 100 gubbies is the unformated raw space. The 95 is the space after the formatting has been added. The rest of that is the format itself - sector headers, file tables, and directories.

It's censorship. :D

It could be some kind of copy-protection on that DVD that is shutting down your computer to keep you from saving the contents to other storage. I had that trouble with one drive with every Disney DVD I have. It's purposely designed to prevent copying.

I had that problem with Windows NT, and it turned out to be a network card which was issuing its recognition signal before Windows was ready for it. Windows got the wrong byte as the first byte, and sat there waiting for the correct signal.

Those files with an underscore in the extension are unfinished files, which must be altered by the installer to be configured to your computer. They can't be just copied.

You have a piece of hardware (probably an accessory card) with a stuck-on interrupt line.

Often this is the result of an unseated card or a loose drive connector.

For a plain textfile, the commands used to be unprintable control characters (the original use of the CTRL key). Those instructions were for a line printer or a teletype - single-font impact printers and some dot-matrix printers.

But now that Wordstar, Windows, and laser printers ruined everything (from this point of view), you have to insert formatting codes with a text editor. Each printer has its own set of instructions (many do not understand the concept of a line of type - they think in pixels). The print driver puts the correct adjustments to the text in when the text editor prints the page.

This is why old computers can't use new printers. The new printers can't understand the stream of text and control characters the old computers generate.

What's CF? Never heard of it.

If you are using an old inpact printer, the ASCII codes are:

letter A = hex 41 (for reference)
Carriage Return = hex 0D (old ctrl M)
Linefeed = Hex 0A (old ctrl J)
Backspace = Hex 08 (old ctrl H)
Formfeed (top of page) = Hex 0C (old ctrl L)

But on the IBM PC screen, these characters were used for special symbols.

Unplug the keyboard and mouse, and install a new computer?

You are flying low over the road now. If you want faster, you probably need to reduce overhead. Don't run more than one program at a time.

Sounds to me like someone needed some extra disk space for downloads, and deleted what to him seemed like unnecessary files.

Going back to an earlier system date won't undelete files. And if the disk space was used for other purposes in the meantime (downloads and defrag will both do that), the files are permanently gone.

Where's the backup disk of the files? Oh, let me guess... There's no backup.

Lesson learned: Make backups.

I can think of some possibilities:

- The boot sector is missing from the hard disk.

- Loose cable inside the computer.

- The hard disk is not working right. Older ones get bearing freeze and won't spin. Or the computer may have been movede with the power on (headcrash).

Once the email is popped to your computer, where it came from is not immediately known to Outlook. It's on your hard drive.

The automatic configuring works when Outlook is interacting with a remote server which has the emails stored on ITS hard disk.

If it's an older computer, the backup battery inside has expired. It's a NiCd battery which is charged when the power is on.

Without the battery, the CMOS RAM forgets what is in it. Then the computer forgets what devices are installed in it.

Newer computers use an EAM (Electrically alterable memory) which needs no backup battery. But it could be that damaged software is writing to the BIOS memory by mistake.

The only thing I can think of to make the taskbar visible is is the Windows setting "Taskbar always on top."

But Alt-tab switches tasks without the taskbar. I just tested it, and it works.

I can think of some other causes for random restarts:

- Damage left behind by viruses, spyware, or power failures could have corrupted some system files

- A loose connector

- Bad power (surges or sags)

- Static electricity

- A failing power supply

- A bad motherboard or card

- A high powered radio transmitter operating within a few blocks (broadcast, police, ham, or RADAR)

- Detritus which has fallen on the motherboard

- Poorly written software

- A ground loop (usually caused where two peripherals connected to the computer are also connected to each other)

- Neon signs

- Ionizing air fresheners

- Lightning-induced currents

- Zxnrbled hard disk format

- High voltage leak in the monitor

method=post means you want to write new data to a file. You have no file open, and you do not intend to write to a file.

Those things are annoying!

I hate pages which change just as I am about to click. I once bought something on eBay because the page shifted just as I tried to click on the bid button. It put the Buy It Now button where I clicked, and I didn't notice it had happened. I ended up paying more than I intended to bid.

If I picked something in the clipboard I want to convey to a certain user, I don't want you messing with the clipboard contents.

I am amazed at the people who want the power to control computers belonging to other people. Their minds belong in jail.

>But I wanted to find out which of the following had happened
So then why not ask the question in the network troubleshooting forums? Because although it may have not been your end, I don't quite think DaniWeb is providing your internet connection...

I didn't find a network troubleshooting forum. Where is it?

i think your ISPs DNS server was just down. this happens to me all the time

Then why could I get to some sites, but not others?

I know that somthing at my ISP was down, because I couldn't get to any of the ISP's own websites. But I don't understand how I was still able to connect to some other sites not connected to the ISP, but not others.

Use thead, tfoot, and tbody to divide the table into multiple parts. Then sort just the tbody part.

I see quite a few errors which can confuse browsers:

1. You have capitalized tags which are closed with lowercase tags. This causes rendering problems with some browsers.

2. All tags must now be lowercase if CSS is used. An uppercase style selector won't select the same tag in lowercase, and vice versa.

3. Your script must be in the head portion of the page.

4. You can't have special symbols (such as the copyright symbol) in your source code. Instead, you must use the symbol code shown here for copyright.

©

5. I don't understand your percentages in the body style. Percent of what??? Body is the outermost container.

Height with a percentage works only inside block objects, where it takes a percentage of the height of the block object. Inline objects have no usable height value for this purpose.

The body tag has no definite height, so it supplies the rendered height of the entire document.

It must be the moon phase. I had a different BBS notifying me of a personal message on an old email address this week. I had been getting the notifications correctly for months, but suddenly it changed back.

Something tells me the problem isn't on our end :)

I knew that.

But I wanted to find out which of the following had happened:

- My ISP somehow went bonkers (this was probably the case)

- Something destructive (malicious software) had invaded the internet.

- The storms caused a widespread power failure (the 2003 Northeast blackout and Hurricane Katrina were the causes the last two times I saw failures like this).

Everything came back about an hour later with no changes on my part. So it wasn't on my end. But since my ISP is the phone company, it could be that they were having problems from the storms.

I suddenly can't get to many websites I have bookmarked, including:

- Yahoo
- Geocities
- Several small overseas servers
- Terraserver
- Yahoo maps

Your pages are also showing some of the ads broken.

What's going on? It's like a large portion of the Internet is down.

To get rid of both lines, you have to set the attribute for both the table and the td tag (and th if you use it).

To remove the space between the borders, use cellspacing="0" in the table tag.

CSS time!

The overflow attribute of a block element (such as div) can be set in a stylesheet.

<style type="text/css">
div {overflow: scroll;}
</style>

You can choose overflow to be visible, hidden, scroll, or auto.

If you are creating fake email addresses to send spam, you SHOULD be shut down, as should all people who do this. Such people belong in jail.

I can think of only a few causes for this:

1. Your old banner was somehow incorporated into the flash image (maybe during image editing).

2. There is a place you missed in your code where the old image is still referenced.

3. Your browser is not refreshing.

This is my list of things to do to change my old code to make it validate:

1. All html tags and properties must be in lowercase.

2. Close all nonempty tags, including p, li, tr, td, dd, and dt.

<tag>contents</tag>

3. Make all empty tags self-closing. Be sure to put the space before the slash, or IE goes nuts.

<img src="stick-out-tongue.jpg" alt=":p" />

4. Block tags can not be inside inline tags. For example:
- ul or ol can't be inside p
- div can't be inside strong
- table can't be inside h1
- li can't be used without ol or ul, or inside another li without another ol or ul

5. ALL values for properties, including numbers, must be inside quotes.

6. The character code must be supplied for any ampersand, less than, greater than, or quote signs which appear within text. Precede the code with an ampersand, and end it with a semicolon. Use:

& < > "

7. With tables, the tags thead, tfoot, and tbody must either be all present or all absent. If present, they must be in the order I listed them.

8. The center and font tags, and the height and width properties are deprecated.

9. Style sheet names and properties are case-sensitive.

Remember that different browsers display valid code in different ways. The most common difference between browsers is whether the styled widths or heights of …

Yes, at times, specifically: 4-6 A.M. (Eastern)

Usually a shutdown at a specific time like that is scheduled system downtime or hard disk backup time.

It could be either the Daniweb server, or your own ISP.

This is a test of the edit. It works for me. The spelling errors are gone.

Maybe your browser isn't updating the page.

IE did that to me after the upgrade.

Selfish, aren't we?

If your page code is going to run on a user's browser, it must be in source form. The browser itself needs source code. It's an interpreter. The code is never compiled.

If your code won't run on any domain except yours, it won't run on anyone else's ISP, so nobody except people who subscribe to your own ISP could display it.

Also, anyone smart enough to hijack your code could also fix any trick you use to restrict its use.

What I suggest is to put your copyright info in a comment, or on the web page itself. If the info is in a comment, the pirate might not notice it, and then you have proof of piracy when you see your copyright notice on his page in source code mode. Print the screen and see a lawyer. He'll get all the money, but the offender will have to stop using your work.

I am having the same trouble with Netscape. It began just after MS downloaded an upgrade.

First, check for viruses and spyware.

IE 6 has some security bugs. Upgrade.

Ever since Microsoft downloaded its latest upgrade, Netscape won't work right.

About once every two minutes, Netscape suddenly freezes. Other functions on the screen (such as the taskbar, and other software) continue to work. This lasts a minute, and then operation resumes for another minute.

I opened the task manager and selected processes. During the frozen minute, it shows Netscape consuming 99 percent of CPU time.

Virus scans show clean, and spyware scans show only the usual junk my ISP puts there.

It's still doing it. When I am waiting, I notice that it is waiting for an ad to load, not a Daniweb address.

I have seen this before. It usually happens when an ad company oversubscribes its service. Then, many many browsers are sitting there waiting to be serviced.

The leading offender in this type of slowdown is doubleclick.net. They are always oversubscribed. I have never seen a BBS that let them display ads which was NOT slow.

Anything that is in constant motion is annoying to me.

It disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Must have been a code glitch or a greedy ad.

It also makes a difference in how many users can download the page before your download limit is exceeded.

There are several goofy differences between how IE renders and how FF and other browsers render. IE is usually the culprit, because it won't stick to standards.

If you are trying to put a border on an inline object, it often does not work. Try enclosing the object in div tags, and put the border styels on the div.

You still do not have the mime type in the style tag. It is required.

.listbuster {list-style: none;}
.....

<ul class="listbuster">
 <li>thing 1</li>
 <li>thing 2</li>
</ul>

gets rid of the bullets.

The system doesn't evaluate the quote to see whether it was changed from a previous post. It simply discounts everything within quote tags from being a part of the one character minimum.

So, if you just type something up here, it doesn't work.

In other words, you have to type something down here for it to work, not up there.

I wonder if this had anything to do with the Z-axis problem in another thread. The window was obviously being affected by what was under it.

That's impossible to do. It doesn't look any different, except that the menu is suddenly gone (looking like it did before I clicked the tab).

Or do you mean the misplaced links. Someone has already fixed it.

The dropdown problem has disappeared too. Something tells me some advertising code was temporarily mangled, as it did it for only two days.

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One question: how do I "attach a bitmap file of a print screen"? It won't take the bitmap directly from my computer (it wants a url), and I can't upload a file that huge to my website.

It's gone again.

It appears only when the Microsoft ad with the bouncing ball is on the screen.

On the page you are now reading, the dropdowns close when the cursor passes over the line beginning with "Ads by Google".

The link "Get Firefox with google toolbar for better browsing" does NOT cause the problem.

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Something else is wrong with the code of the page you are reading now, because the line

FAQ - About Us - Contact Us - ADVERTISE [IMG]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/dani-images/misc/coffee_house/dani/pdf.gif[/IMG] - Sitemap - Privacy Statement

Is sticking way out to the right (covering the search window) and adding a horizontal scroll bar to the search window.

On the DaniWeb home and development pages, the dropdown menu closes by itself if the cursor passes over a clickable link which is hidden under the dropdown. Thus, I can't click on some items. On the home page, the "Relax with our community in our Geek's Lounge" linked image causes it.

On this posting page, the Software Development and Web Development dropdowns close by themselves if the cursor passes over the hidden part of this text window I am now typing this post in.

This is a change from a few weeks ago.

The need for the center tag is the space saved, compared to adding all of that style code for each centered object. When the ISP charges you by the megabyte of storage space, believe me, it matters.