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I just downloaded it and installed it in Windows XP. It asked for Trial or Serial Number during installation so I selected Trial. I then ran the work processor and it asked me to register so I just entered my name in the first line - ignoring the other two fields. The 'About' box in all of the apps now says it is registered to me and no mention of trial.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 27, 2008, 08:16 AM »
Maybe I am naive - but if there is an external IE hacks CSS file it is at least obvious that it is there. If you put the hack in your HTML you know about it - having to read someone else's HTML in a design package like Dreamweaver in search of annoying and pointless CSS styles hidden in comments ....
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 27, 2008, 06:24 AM »
I must admit it beggars belief that Adobe would insert that comment into their templates - and it isn't helped by the fact that DreamWeaver colour coding makes comments drop into the background to such an extent that you have to actively choose to look for them to read them!

I can understand that they want to make users aware of the issue but surely the best approach would be to have a standard IE hacks CSS file that templates link to - at least you would then see it in the CSS styles list and be able to edit it as required.

Madness - how many people have spent hours like me trying to work out why IE refused to move items no matter what you did?
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 26, 2008, 04:06 PM »
Ha ha - had me for a moment (NOT!)
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 26, 2008, 12:42 PM »
Don't you just love it when software is 'helpful' !!!

I found this in the template auto generated by Dreamweaver:

<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
/* place css fixes for all versions of IE in this conditional comment */
.thrColLiqHdr #sidebar2, .thrColLiqHdr #sidebar1 { padding-top: 30px; }
.thrColLiqHdr #mainContent { zoom: 1; padding-top: 15px; }
/* the above proprietary zoom property gives IE the hasLayout it needs to avoid several bugs */
</style>
<![endif]-->

I removed it and guess what .... fixed in IE 6 and 7 .... WTF!

ARGHHHHHHH !
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 26, 2008, 03:42 AM »
That's what I am getting too and similar in IE7.

Currently alignment seems to be working fine in FF2, F3, Opera and Safari. It is only IE 6  and 7 that seems to refuse to do what it is told! I haven't tried any of the other browsers.

I think I am just going to have to live with the IE variation - I am not sufficiently up on how to force different behaviours in different browsers and at this rate I think I could spend my life getting nowhere with this!!!  :wallbash:

Can anyone offer a simple solution?
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I have only ever bought one system with Windows pre-installed (98SE). Bad experience but at least at that time I got a proper copy on CD with the computer so I could wipe it and install it without all the rubbish.

Since then I have built my own systems.

I tell a lie - my laptop (bought in March) had Vista pre-installed but somehow XP magically appeared after I phoned the company and complained (they sent me an OEM XP Pro disc instead so I was happy to reinstall). I have to say the system was MUCH faster with XP (it only had 1Gb and Vista as preinstalled took up 70% of that). I have since added an extra Gb of memory and XP flies now.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 25, 2008, 10:31 AM »
OK I have moved it to the bottom - better?
-Carol Haynes (June 25, 2008, 08:04 AM)
Yep, I think you're doing well, the site is looking good :)

Thanks

You had:
Code: HTML [Select]
  1. <p align="left">Friends of GOVI has been a <a href="http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/showcharity.asp?regno=1070173" target="_top">registered UK charity</a> since 1998. We support the only School for the Blind in the Gambia working with and alongside GOVI, The Gambian Organisation for the Visually Impaired.
  2. Many of the children come from very poor families and depend upon having two meals a day at the school so this year our main priority will be to fund those meals.</p>

I changed it to:
Code: HTML [Select]
  1. <span align="left">Friends of GOVI has been a <a href="http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/showcharity.asp?regno=1070173" target="_top">registered UK charity</a> since 1998. We support the only School for the Blind in the Gambia working with and alongside GOVI, The Gambian Organisation for the Visually Impaired.
  2. Many of the children come from very poor families and depend upon having two meals a day at the school so this year our main priority will be to fund those meals.</span>

That aligned the two columns locally for me...
-Perry Mowbray (June 25, 2008, 09:27 AM)

Interesting - is this in IE 6? I can't see any difference (except that it screws up the spacing with the image below) in IE 7. In FF2 it does change the alignment to line up with the sidebar but it also screws up the image spacing.

I have a standard single style for images in the main part of the page which doesn't add margin at the top - this is because pictures are always put at the top of paragraphs or the top of the div so I don't want it shifting down.

The other disadvantage of using span like this is that I lose control over the p style changing font face site wide. I suppose I could add a global body text style but then I would have to edit the whole site to apply it to all the text!

Given that it doesn't fix the problem in both of the two common browsers I think I will not change to <span. - at least not at the moment.

I have however added a global style change for p and h3 which seems to align the columns better in FF2 (doesn't seem to do much in IE7 though - what about IE6?).

Safari, FF3 and Opera seem OK now.

Anyone using any other browser got any comments?
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 25, 2008, 09:12 AM »
Sorry not sure what you mean - can you give me an example? (use the BBL code, #, tag to enclose the example)
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 25, 2008, 08:04 AM »
OK I have moved it to the bottom - better? The message is equally clear at the top of the home page in the main text anyway.

I have to agree - changing the colour makes it pop a bit more - I have changed the picture frames to match the background to.

Incidentally all of these colours came from the banner photos.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 25, 2008, 07:21 AM »
Picture frames: if it was me I'd be keeping them simple. Though I don't mind what you've done.

Odd concerning the cache...

The new RSS logo is probably better. I think one of the struggles with all these graphics is to get them to fit within your site's style. Too many different types of icons and I think it makes the site look "disjointed" type thing.

Have you tried making the outside border a slightly lighter/darker shade? I wonder if it may help define the content of your page more strongly??
-Perry Mowbray (June 25, 2008, 06:18 AM)

Colours changed - I think it looks better

Not sure if this was mentioned but your Design By link at the bottom of the main page doesn't work.

Thanks - really don't know how that happened!!! It was set correctly - I must have twiddled the mouse wheel at the wrong moment!!
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 25, 2008, 05:57 AM »
The hover over the Creadit Card doesn't highlight as the others do, and the text dims: ie the link hovers OK. Correction: Just on the News and Help pages.

Help, Become_A_Friend & Links pages have centred titles where all the others are left aligned.

News and Help do not have the RSS logo/link.

All the pages should have identical menus because they all come from a template and all the icons should turn red when hovered over. Try emptying the browser cache or refreshing individual pages.

Your RSS logo is antialiased for the cream background

Thanks - didn't notice that. (Can't see the wood for the trees any more which is why it is great to get fresh eyes to have a look).

Changed it for a different logo (and removed text - anyone who wants RSS is likely to know what it is and if they don't they can click and find out ;))

Help, Become_A_Friend & Links pages have centred titles where all the others are left aligned.

Fixed.

Have you thought about adjusting the colours of your links to match the colours of the site?

Changed to use picture frame colour for menu text and hover colours. What do you think?

Have you thought about adjusting the colours of your links to match the colours of the site?

I was thinking of that - I'll sort it out when I sort out the links page.

Thanks Perry - appreciated.
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Living Room / Re: Rock'n'Roll Carlos
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 24, 2008, 07:16 PM »
Oops - corrected the URL now (smarty pants  :-[)

By the way did you notice that Rock'n'Roll Carlos = Carol's Rock'n'Roll  :greenclp: (I didn't until I read it  :-\)
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If you read the lawyers brief in full he does seem to be assuming that just having files and a P2P client is SUFFICIENT to PROVE distribution.
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Living Room / Rock'n'Roll Carlos
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 24, 2008, 02:19 PM »
Not strictly computer related (unless you take into account I have a number of his albums on my MP3 player) but I went to see Carlos Santana at Manchester Arena (UK) last Saturday.

What a fantastic experience. The band were incredibly tight, the rhythms amazingly complex and mulitlayered and Carlos was the man.

Given that he is now into his sixties (and has been performing for 47 years!) he is gobsmackingly fit. He played flat out for nearly 3 hours most of the time dashing about and leaping around like a teenager, and this was just one of three gigs on consecutive nights.

The whole thing was so infectious I couldn't sit down and spent the night doing my version of dancing (jumping about, grunting a lot and trying not to knock people over around me). I still feel knackered and stiff but what a night.

Head over to www.santana.com and checkout some of the sounds and video!
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 24, 2008, 02:03 PM »
Could some kind soul check out the latest incarnation of www.friendsofgovi.org.uk in Internet Explorer 6. I don't have it on my system except in a VMWare installation of Windows 98 and I am getting bad whole page flickering from the menu.

I had to change the CSS tags on div:hover in the menu as it didn't seem to work in IE6 at all. I have instead used a:hover in the menu which works but every time I move the mouse down the menu the whole page flickers and I can't seem to work out why. Is it an ancient hangover of Windows 98 version of IE6 or have I got real problems?

Cheers
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Call me naive, but I would like to think that justice isn't just about being able to get off if you can. I'd like to think that we've still got some ideal of honesty.

Is it about justice at all when the rules of evidence get changed to say 'no evidence is needed' ???

Effectively the MPAA lawyer is saying it is the defendants responsibility to prove they didn't do it - which is impossible and doesn't conform to common law which says a defendant does not even need to open his mouth: the legal onus is on the company bringing forward a charge to prove that the defendant did what they claim.

Take as an example - I think you have slandered me and I get a lawyer to take you to court to claim damages. How would you defend yourself if the judge says I win my case unless you can prove that you have never said anything bad about me ?
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Good for you April - and great comment.  :Thmbsup:
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From the lawyers brief cited in the text:

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Which seems to suggest that if you use a P2P network at all and you have material on your system that could have been shared then you should be deemed guilty of distribution !!

He is suggesting that they shouldn't have to provide any evidence that you did actually distribute !!

Sorry I was under the impression that the US and UK courts are supposed to presume innocence unless guilt is proved - therefore if they can't prove you actually did distribute stuff they shouldn't be able to get a judgement!
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Living Room / Now MPAA want the burden of proof removed in litigation!
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 24, 2008, 10:20 AM »
Alarming argument - seems one judge thinks they may have a point!

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See the full article at http://www.vnunet.co...f-piracy-needed-mpaa
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General Software Discussion / Re: Nero - WHY?
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 24, 2008, 04:39 AM »
Having said that I do thing that "build mode" is pretty cumbersome compared to Nero's approach. In Nero to build a DVD-Video you just create a new DVD-Project, drag the VIDEO_TS folder to the disc and click burn. In ImgBurn you have to use build mode to add the folder, calculate to make sure there is enough space on the disc, set the filing system correctly manually, set the layer break manually if your are using dual layer (and just how are you supposed to select from the list of optional split points they offer?) ...

Let's see how I do it here with ImgBurn:

1) Open ImgBurn in Build mode - my default anyway.
2) Drag VIDEO_TS folder onto window.
3) Click burn to go to a DVD or type an ISO name in and hit the button.

I haven't used it in a while for video - are you saying it now automatically chooses the correct ISO9660+UDF format automatically - because all the tutorials I could find on how to burn DVDs say you have to set that manually?

These days I only use Taiyo Yuden

The big problem in the UK is it is really hard to find dual layer discs let alone specific makes. The only consistent branded make I have found is Verbatim and I don't seem to have too many problems with the DVD+R 16x (with pretty much any software) and DVD+R DL 8x (so long as I use Nero).

I have never seen "Taiyo Yuden" discs in the UK - online or in the shops - but then I haven't really looked for them.

Having just done a search it seems that Verbatim get at least some of their stock from Taiyo Yuden (see eg. http://svp.co.uk/pro...en)_(43548)_3652_box) and most other references I find to Taiyo Yuden refer to bulk purchase Datasafe stock. As far as I can tell it doesn't seem to exist in the UK as a named brand.

Anyone any suggestions for quality DVD+R DL full face printable discs in the UK and a supplier that has them at a reasonable price?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Nero - WHY?
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 23, 2008, 08:47 PM »
In what way doesn't ImgBurn produce non-compliant discs?

Sorry - looks like I am out of date. The versions of ImgBurn I tried to use to build DVD-Video didn't work well (and there was a note on the ImgBurn site saying that 100% compatible DVD-Video was not possible in normal build mode). Given the current homepage it seems they have sorted this out.

Having said that I do thing that "build mode" is pretty cumbersome compared to Nero's approach. In Nero to build a DVD-Video you just create a new DVD-Project, drag the VIDEO_TS folder to the disc and click burn. In ImgBurn you have to use build mode to add the folder, calculate to make sure there is enough space on the disc, set the filing system correctly manually, set the layer break manually if your are using dual layer (and just how are you supposed to select from the list of optional split points they offer?) ...

Don't get me wrong I like ImgBurn and for single layer DVD burning I have been more than happy with it for years (I just build the DVD as an ISO first). Problems started when I started using dual layer discs. They pretty much always burn and verify in Nero without any errors. In ImgBurn I would say I get about 20% failure rate - which is pretty bad given the price of dual layer discs.

By the way I do use discs recommended by Pioneer for the drives I am using - Verbatim 8 x DVD+R DL - which are quite expensive. I tried cheaper ones and had mixed results (but still consistently better in Nero). I can burn those Verbatim discs at 8x in Nero without problem - when I tried ImgBurn I generally had to burn at 4x or less and still got coasters.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Nero - WHY?
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 23, 2008, 07:33 PM »
Interesting comment ... personally I haven't updated to version 8 of Nero (can't see the point) and I can't see my self ever upgrading again unless they offer a simple 'lean mean burning ROM only" option - which is extremely unlikely.

I do have Burning ROM version 7 installed (and wish I had stuck with version 6 and not bothered upgrading then) AND ImgBurn AND AShampoo Burning Studio.

Strange thing is I keep coming back to BurningROM. I get far fewer coasters with it and I can do most things more quickly - especially if you want to build DVDs. ImgBurn doesn't really support building disc contents in a nice way (in fact it is pretty awful and doesn't produce compliant DVD video discs from a VIDEO_TS folder) and AShampoo's offering is not much better.

Even when I do have an ISO file I find I get fewer bad burns with Nero than I do with ImgBurn - especially with Dual Layer DVDs (which are expensive to waste). I don't know why - never been able to figure it out.

Personally I would like to see the back of Nero on my system - I hate the massive downloads for updates, and the annoying installation/uninstallation/reboot nonsense - but it does work and does pretty much everything you need in a burning app.

Incidentally I have non of the other Nero apps installed and disable Scout as a first course of action after installation.

I just don't understand the Nero mentality - why take THE most popular burning app and turn it into a ridiculously over the top bloatfest? They must realise that they are alienating lots of long term users. Presumably the profits from the mindless people who buy the upgrade simply because it came with their computer and think "OOOO Look at all this nice video/picture stufff " (which they will never ever remeber they have got after running it once). Presumably they felt they had to compete with ROXIO - but does anyone even use ROXIO any more - I haven't heard of them in years.

Presumably Nero will start losing out as users become more savvy - let's hope they have the sense to sort things out before they end up down the flusher .... the mind boggles.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 23, 2008, 04:01 PM »
RSS feed added.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: First website for a client
« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 23, 2008, 08:28 AM »
I think I have figured a way to do it with WordPress
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