Date: 11/12/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, web

Question/Problem: When booting, the computer would load the OS, then immediately shut down. In addition, the A/C power light would flicker on and off, and I'd have to jiggle the power connector to get it to go solid. Now, the computer won't even turn on, and the AC light stays off. I previously lost the cord that went from wall-->brick, so I found another one off of an old stereo that seemed to work. However, I don't know if that caused the mobo to fry. :S

Operating System and VERSION: Windows Vista Beta (I think Version 2)

Web Browser and VERSION: Firefox (I can't remember which version)

Your level of experience: Beginnerish...not a n00b, but not comfortable with hardware.

Duration of problem: Uhm...a long time?

Any steps you've taken to troubleshoot? I tried to see if it was the power brick, but I think it's the inverter on the motherboard. I have a Satellite P25-S520 with a P4 (IIRC) processor, and I *think* 1.5 GHz of RAM. I've had the cover off and had a coworker look at it...he said everything looked good. Is there any way to replace *just* the power inverter on the MB, or am I looking at a whole new setup here? If I'm looking at a whole new setup, is there any way to salvage the processor and RAM off the old MB, or should I just start fresh? Cheaper is better here, as I'm a student...free is best...if someone has a MB that they don't need anymore, I'll take it off your hands. :P

Another unrelated issue is the DVD-RW drive...I need a new one...where's the best place to go for a cheap one? I tried getting one off Fleabay, but it didn't fit. If anyone needs a power brick or DVD/RW drive, I'll gladly sell it. ^_^

(Mods, feel free to edit this post as needed!)

Thanks in advance for any help!!!

/xposted around...apologies if you see this more than once!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/839615.html

Date: 11/12/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Web site staffed by high school, college, and graduate students covering presidential race enters second week of publication. Presidential candidates keep close tabs on the reporters and bloggers who cover them. Now they will have to contend with a press outlet that includes staffers who aren't old enough...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218153.html

Date: 11/13/07 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: html, java, web

This is a simple, hopefully-not-too-stupid question, but does LiveJournal allow javascript?

I'm using a S1 style layout right now and I'm trying to get a simple snowfall script to work (here; another example of a snowfall script in effect is here), but it's not working. I thought it'd be easy enough since the advantage of S1 layouts is it's basically like the HTML needed to make a website layout, so I thought this would be a matter of copy/pasting the javascript, but I guess not.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/145271.html

Date: 11/13/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: web, hosting

Rackspace, a Web hosting firm, should adopt that song "I Don't Like Mondays" as its corporate motto. After all, Monday turned out to be horrendous for the company. That song, a 1979 hit from The Boomtown Rats, sums up Rackspace's last 36 hours. First, Rackspace had a...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6980

Date: 11/13/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Greets folks, I'm perusing my code here and can't figure out why this drop-down (suckerfish) isn't cooperating in IE6. If anyone could offer some advice, I'd sure appreciate it.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1330595.html

Date: 11/13/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css, database, web

I'm currently having an argument debate at work whether it's worthwhile to nitpickingly fix uneven type rags on the web (in a fixed-width div) via line breaks, forced justification, adding spaces, changing type sizes, changing word and letter spacing with CSS (sometimes on individual lines and words), changing the size of the box, etc. much the way one would do on a print piece. My argument is that type renders with slight differences across browsers and platforms, and that trying to manipulate it so precisely is not only insanely time consuming and has to be re-done with every new page -and- every copy change change, it may not look precisely the same across different browsers and different default fonts, or even if people increase type sizes above the default, and if the type doesn't render exactly the way it does on our screens, micro-adjustments may cause even more awkward rags or spacing.

For a large, dynamic, database-driven site, of course this would be even harder, but we're working on it for our small, static corporate site of maybe 10-20 pages that we don't expect to be updated every time. My argument is that it'll end up being a lot of time spent on something that may not work everywhere or backfire, but I'm being outvoted. I would really appreciate any experience or advice dealing with this issue, aside from making the whole thing an image or a Flash file.

I'm posting this in both webdesign and graphicdesign since it's both aesthetic and technical.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1330777.html

Date: 11/14/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, web

Oracle showed how it is bringing a social dimension into its software and offered a peek at Fusion applications this afternoon at Oracle OpenWorld. It demonstrated that Oracle has fully grokked the concepts and technologies of Web 2.0 and that Fusion apps, built on the evolving Fusion Middleware stack,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6997

Date: 11/13/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: web

Thomas Kurian, senior vice president of Oracle Server Technologies, spent an hour on stage at OpenWorld  this morning patiently talking through various new features in the company's growing Fusion Middleware portfolio, which includes a laundry list of products, such as SOA Suite, WebCenter Suite, JDeveloper, Application Development Framework,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6994

Date: 11/14/07 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web

Question/Problem: this one has been around for a while i just have been too lazy to fix it.
i use firefox and i cant download anything through it. I have to open explorer to download anything. The same goes with pictures, i cant save any pictures in firefox either

Operating System and VERSION: Windows XP

Web Browser and VERSION: FireFox 2.0.0.9

Your level of experience: Intermediate

Duration of problem: a few months now

Any steps you've taken to troubleshoot? ive tried everything that has been suggested by everyone ive asked. cleared data, uninstalled and reinstalled firefox and everything but i doenst seem to want to work anymore :(

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/404358.html

Date: 11/14/07 (Security)    Keywords: security, web

As part of overhaul, company will focus on Web-site naming, online security while it sells off units ranging from billing services to consulting. VeriSign, which runs the infrastructure that directs most of the world's Internet traffic, said on Wednesday it plans to divest several businesses and focus on...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218409.html

Date: 11/16/07 (Apache)    Keywords: php, html, web, hosting

I've recently been switching my site over from a bunch of static HTML pages to PHP using Smarty templating

I've decided to use mod_rewrite to make more attractive and search-engine friendly canonical URLs

I've chosen this format:

http://example.com/some-words/some-more-words/
http://example.com/some-words/
(both are valid, up to 2 such sections as shown)

index.php?page=some-words/some-more-words/

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+/?[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+/?)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/39655.html

Date: 11/16/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, html, sql, web

Hello Friends

I want to add a search functionality to a project I am working on. I'd like the search function to index text held in several MySQL tables and then generate a list of keywords to be stored in another table. I do not want a web crawler or an indexing function that indexes files on the filesystem.

The search function will then access this table of keywords in order to find matching documents, and hopefully return them in order of relevance.

I know of this project: http://www.phpguru.org/static/PorterStemmer.html However, it is PHP5 only. The PHP4 project it borrows from, http://www.chuggnutt.com/stemmer.php may or may not work, but it seems to perhaps be buggy.

Anyone have any recommendations for such a project?

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/596534.html

Date: 11/16/07 (C Sharp)    Keywords: asp, web

I have the need to pass data in a JPG image.

That is, I'm generating the JPG image dynamically using GDI+ in .NET from an ASP.NET call. What I need to do is place some data into the JPG, say a GUID, and be able to read it back when I load the JPG from the web site where it is displayed.

I surely can't do this with the actual image data, as my understanding is that JPG is run-encoded and getting data in and out would be a bear.

Are there any metadata headers in JPG that I have access to? Anyone know of or have any C# code to read and write these?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/88978.html

Date: 11/16/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: web

I've got a new web camera, and I'm wondering if there's anyway to have it streaming on my site. Not my LJ, but my actual site (http://sarahsmidnightfantasy.com/tm2ts) Any ideas?

Right now, I'm just trying to figure out how to get it online, period.

Any suggestions?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/841307.html

Date: 11/16/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: asp, web

I have the need to pass data in a JPG image.

That is, I'm generating the JPG image dynamically using GDI+ in .NET from an ASP.NET call. What I need to do is place some data into the JPG, say a GUID, and be able to read it back when I load the JPG from the web site where it is displayed.

I surely can't do this with the actual image data, as my understanding is that JPG is run-encoded and getting data in and out would be a bear.

Are there any metadata headers in JPG that I have access to? Anyone know of or have any C# code to read and write these?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1126762.html

Date: 11/16/07 (HTML Help)    Keywords: web

I've got a new web camera, and I'm wondering if there's anyway to have it streaming on my site. Not my LJ, but my actual site (http://sarahsmidnightfantasy.com/tm2ts) Any ideas?

Right now, I'm just trying to figure out how to get it online, period.

Any suggestions?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/htmlhelp/2424606.html

Date: 11/16/07 (HTML Help)    Keywords: html, web

Hi,

I'm new to html and I'm trying to update my work website. I'm using Secure Shell Client and I'm trying to delete a page from the website, but I'm not sure how. The delete button won't work and right-clicking doesn't, either. There is no delete icon or anything. I tried < delete file = "filename" / > but it said "Missing name for redirect." Can anyone help please?

Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/htmlhelp/2424477.html

Date: 11/19/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: php, software, html, asp, web

When quad-cores collide: AMD Phenom vs Intel Core 2 Quad
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=10427

"We can debate all day whether the majority of consumer software is threaded enough to take advantage of four execution cores, but the immutable fact remains that AMD's fastest quad-core offering is slower than Intel's slowest..."

"...AMD's nascent Phenom also suffers under the considerable yoke of Intel's Core 2 Quad 6600 pricing, which at £165 for a hugely-overclockable 2.4GHz part is something of a bargain. AMD, though, is pitching its slightly underperforming quad-core part at roughly the same price."

The problem is, and I hate to ruin the surprise here, Phenom isn't faster than Intel's Core 2 Quad clock for clock. In other words, a 2.3GHz Phenom 9600 will set you back at least $283 and it's slower than a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Quad Q6600, which will only cost you $269.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1127705.html

Date: 11/19/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, ebay

PayPal is set to release a convenient way for its customers to make payments on Web sites that don't accept PayPal directly. PayPal, the payments service arm of online auction leader eBay, is set to release on Tuesday a convenient way for its customers to make payments...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6219255.html

Date: 11/19/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: security, web

The key to success was using the Web Services Interface of SharePoint to move data across to Websphere, while using the Websphere portal's security structure for a single sign-on, mapping the two credentials.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/187338388/