A thread for boring computer questions.

^ anyone care to figure out why the menu (with a Boredoms link) doesn't show in IE?

At one point I might have even known, but it's been a long time since I've bothered to dive that deeply into JavaScript/CSS.

There's obviously going to be more on the menu, but I'm thinking about using some small animated gif patterns to make it more sick.

the menu is the least of your worries as the png transparency also seems to be broken (known IE bug).

also the entities you're using in the background &prop etc should all end in a ;

as for the menu, i'd look into whether the onmouseover event is reaching it when it's under the rest of the page.

andy

Yea, I don't have an IE machine to test on.

I think I fixed the png though.

mozilla on win32 displays all three pages of these perfectly, IE drops the ball on 50% of the greek page and doesn't do the various spaces in the 'other specials' page if that helps. this may just be a font thing though. (try Psi, Omega, part, omega, xi)

the ;s do matter 8) (i've just tried it and i get twice as many of your symbols visible (but still only about half of the total) if i add ;s after the names)

IE menu seems a lot better as does png. however, MY EYES! MY EYES!

8)

andy

When I go to play a new track in Winamp, the sound goes off. INcluding the radio.

Anyone know why this might be? I am using Windows ME and I live on the third floor.

AKA - how do I make it go alt+tab in linux pls. debian. gnome.

anyway.

control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management -> right click hard drive, choose 'format'

right after I posted, I switched off my laptop and opened it up and connected the new drive, in place of my laptop drive, and had it hanging out and powered through the enclosure thing and I started up and had the XP disc in and formatted it that way and it appeared, after, but now I have followed your route and I am formatting it anew. it came up as being only 125 or so GB, originally, as it left 60 something unallocated.

thanks, again.

: )

It depends on your window manager. If you're using Metacity (now the default gnome window manager) it should just work by default. Others, you might have to set up a new keyboard shortcut.

Why we certainly had an "end-of-the-episode-chuckle" at that didn't we NUMBER ONE.

I can't download my e-mails using Outlook Express 6 on Freeserve. I'm getting a message saying 'socket error 10060'. Confusingly, this message appears to have nothing to do with the socket - because the internet works fine.
Freeserve 'how can we call this a help line' Help Line tells me its because my anti-virus software (AVG) is preventing e-mails from being downloaded, and I have to re-configure my anti-virus software.

two questions, then?

1. Are Freeserve LYING?
2. How the buggery bollocks does one re-configure one's anti-virus software.

Clicking 'configure' doesn't seem to work, btw..
Also, I have read the 'help' section on AVG. It is RUBBISH.

Thank you.

I don't have a back-up hard drive but I do have an iPod.

is there anyway I can transfer the music from my iPod back onto the new (formatted, clean) mac hard drive?

btw, hasn't this thread been replaced with one that doesn't have 800 messages on it