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Well, school is about to end for most schools in the US, so where's that report you were writing? can we see it now? Pleeeeeaaaaassssseeee?

It seems that everyone calls USB flash drives something different. Every day it's You get the point. What do you call those things? Wikipedia calls them flash drives. I call them flash drives, but a lot of people have their own little term for them.

Apparently it's not possible. Here's what I'm trying to do: there's a domain, let's call it example.com. In the root directory and some of the sub directories, there are files that I want to include a common footer and header into using SSI includes. I also want to include those files into some pages inside a subdomain, http://subdomain.example.com. So, I was going to have the files to be included reside in the root directory, and then have the files in the subdomain include the files at http://example.com. But apparently that's not possible. So I guess I'll just set it up separately for the different subdomain. WTF? For some reason it keeps trying to turn those into links. I don't want that, but I can't get rid of them for some reason.

OK thanks.

Is there any way to use SSI includes that will point to an absolute path? I know one can use something like <!--#include virtual="/somedirectory/somefile.html" --> but I want to do something like <!--#include something="http://example.com/includes/included.html" --> with an absolute path beginning with HTTP:// This doesn't seem to be working for me. I have to use html with ssi includes here, PHP and require() aren't an option. Any idea anyone?

What's a "Tiny Windows 2003 Server"? Sounds odd. If it's the image in the logon, windows security, etc. boxes, then use reshack to poke around in msgina.dll.

OK, you probably know this, but I'm just going to through it out there, since some people just seem to forget this: It doesn't matter how darn much security you put on your laptop if someone can get it. Because if they want to, they will eventually get in. If someone has your computer in their hands, they have all the time in the world to get in. Sure, you can make it really, really hard, but in the long run, it doesn't matter. So I'd say, if you haven't already, get yourself a good cable lock and always lock it up, even when it's just sitting on your desk. Better yet, stick it in a filing cabinet or something like that, that you can lock. Physical security is a huge part. Another thing regarding software security, which you probably also know, but hey, it can't hurt to mention. I know you said you have a bios password and logon password, but beyond those, what's your setup? I always recommend to people that they use the Windows 2000-style logon instead of the welcome screen, and that they hide the last username from being shown, since this makes it that much harder to log on without permission. Both of those settings can be accessed from secpol.msc, or through Group Policy. PS: I'm back!

This is where I think... School? oh yeah... school. I better do some work now. I've got stuff due tomorrow. Oh yea... Actually, I might not be at MSFN for a week or two here - lot's of school work happening, so I need to really get some stuff done and not sit around reading MSFN all day. Bye everyone... at least for a little while. (And yes I will be back - I will not have disappeared!)

First question: Does anyone know how to have multiple desktops in Windows 2000? I know about the powertoy for Windows XP but I don't think it works on 2K. Second question: Is there a list somewhere of all the %somethings%, like %systemroot% and %homedrive%, etc, along with where that usually is, like C:/WINDOWS or C:/? (For either Win2K or XP or both) Because that would be handy. Thanks in advance.

Start > run > "control userpasswords2" uncheck "require users to enter username and password to use computer" enter the username and password. Next time you start up, that user will be logged in.

Much better now. Now to work on the colors.... Oh, and do you really want to have CSS at the top of each page? I think it would be better for you to have a master CSS document, and have a consistent layout and color scheme on each page. Did you end up using PHP include() or did you just put it in manually on each page? Also, have you done this yet? Seems to be mostly a lack of alt="" for images and illegal ID names. Getting better...

Convinced you of what? To get rid of frames? Do download firefox?

You realize that there is free anti-virus software out there, don't you? If not permanently, then at least until something official arrives. Not having anti-virus is a baaad idea if you ask me.

Thanks!

You should probably get firefox. Not to use necessarily, but at least to test your pages on. It's one of the most-used browsers on the 'net. I test in IE, FF and Opera. But yeah, using frames to prevent bookmarking = In firefox, it's easy enough to right-click > this frame > bookmark this frame. Then, they come back, and the left frame's gone... you see what I mean. It gets all screwed up. Maybe try to convince whoever's doing the home page to do it differently?

Xper... he visited you two days ago. The ghost is back...

Frames have always p***** me off. Because the thing is when you're using frames, you technically on the same page the whole time. So if you nned to bookmark, you're bookmarking the frame page, and the bookmark will just go to the home page. Also, if you refresh the page, then you will not be where you were, you will be refreshing the frame page and therefore be sent right back to where you were. They have a habit of messing up the back button, and when you have external links, if the target="_self", then you will still have the frame - and people don't want your frame while surfing all of the web. They just cause more problems than they're worth. On the other hand, with PHP includes, you have the same content on each and every page, but you're actually on that page. my source. I prefer using require() because... I dunno, I just do. I guess I figure if that part of the page is gone, I need to have the whole page stop.

Oh, I get it now. I've never done that. Why don't you just make your own using Resource Hacker? It's not a hard program to use. And no offense, I know english isn't the first language of everyone on the boards, but could you pleeaaasse try to be a bit more clear in your writing? It's a bit hard to understand when it's all spelled whacky. Just use regular english, not txt msg or whatever. Thanks.

I guess that proves that we all have different tastes... ripken and dexter, how much RAM do you have? What percentage does opera use? It would be interesting to calculate RPT, or RAM-Per-Tab.

Not sure I understand that comment, but I take it to mean you don't want to have to put that... thing that's in the left frame on every single page? I would just use a simple php include or SSI include. Instead of a frame, have <?php require("menu.html") ?> on each page, but modify menu.html to be a big div and use CSS float to put it on the left, make it # pixels wide and then have the body of each page have a left margin of that same number of pixels plus an extra five or so. Or maybe you were talking about something totally different and didn't need to read that. At any rate, I'd say get rid of the frames ASAP because they get really annoying. Especially when you want to bookmark a page. Does anyone know how MS technet manages frames so gracefully? Somehow that URL always changes to the correct one even when in frames, and the frames stay there. They made it work somehow... COLORS!! You need them. I don't like sites where it's all eye-sorish and hard to read and too bright but you really need to spruce it up. Keep up your good work - you can do it! Yeah, tables are old-fashioned. They're easier sometimes, but divs are better by far. Now that CSS is supported by almost all major browsers, things are waaay easier. Edit: Whoa! What's with the source of home.php? You have all these really, really looooooonnnnnngggg spaces of blankness. Why?! It makes it very hard to look at the source code successfully.

Ah, I didnt see this post before now. I would have made that "howto" earlier, but since WB5 is released now, and mostly everyone has it, I wont bother doing that.. Unless someone begs me to Its quite simple actually. Resize the wallpaper to the screen resolution, cut the bottom of the wallpaper so that it will fit the taskbar. Use Paintshop and create a 2 layer image, by using the taskbar bitmap and add a new layer that's around 70% opacue, paste the wallpaper cut and merge these two layers. Use a program called ResEdit to edit the msstyle, and change the taskbar bitmap to the one you made in paintshop. Do you know which bitmap(s) those would be for the Royale Noir theme? There's sooooo many and a lot of them look like potential candidates. I am considering doing this, or even changing the look of the task bar itself by changing those files. Not sure where to begin. By the way, how do people make themes? Like make their own .msstyles. I know I'll need the uxtheme patch if I make my own.

22?!?! Now that is a bit much in my opinion. What 22 sites do you have open at once!? No wonder it's using a lot of RAM. But if you have RAM to spare, no reason not to use it...

Dude....what? You started off saying Opera was very professional, and then finished off by calling it crap The reason I prefer IE is because the fact that its fast. In my experience, it has always been fast and uses the least amount of ram out of the 3 browsers I have used. Opera would use 60mb on my computer, Firefox could go from about 50mb - 75mb, depending on how it felt, and IE would use around 20mb or so. That's my personal opinion, so don't try to change my opinion. He says it sucks if you want malware. Most people don't... therefore, it's good for most people. What's wrong with tabs? They keep the taskbar cleaner. Personally, I like to be able to read what the name of each open window is, not just see a little icon. Tabs make it easier to group, for example, work in one window with tabs, MSFN and other non-work in a window in tabs and email, etc. in a third window with tabs. So I have three buttons on the taskbar and two to five in each window. Much easier than 8 buttons on the taskbar. And if I'm not using the RAM elsewhere, why not let FF have it?

I didn't see any animation... Could you upload the animation, assuming it's a .gif, so that we can see what you want? By the way, have you ever used Resource Hacker before? I think that could help you. I've never made an unattended CD before, so can't help you there. I don't know if animation would be possible.

Where did you see that? I have XP running in Virtual PC, and Ubuntu running in VPC, too. You can install it on any computer running XP or Vista, maybe on 2000. Works fine with XP, though Ubuntu took some tweaking. I, too, would like to be able to do this with ALL of office - word, powerpoint, excel, access, etc; version 2003 and 2007 on the same machine. I have yet to try this though. Too lazy to have gotten around to it.