Luke Skywalker: No.. I gave him the new IP. He also has completely installed Linux on to a new system an no luck. BUT, good news. Marfitalu is in contact with him and is helping out. WOOHOO!

Marfitalu: He has gone through just about every version from mandrake, suse, mandriva, debian etc.. he keeps trying different distributions.. No luck.. He can get every other site he goes to to work, But since the latest down time we had a few weeks ago, he cannot get in here.. He was in for about an hour the other day. Went to get back in next day an nothing.
His browsers are firefox and the mozilla's

So Marfitalu, you are using Linux now and have no problem at all with accessing the site?

I've a friend who uses Linux and they havent been able to access the site in weeks. They reinstalled a few things, tried many different browsers and after playing here for 3 or 4 years just cant get in to the website at all. Any one know of anyone else using Linux with this prob?

ali: Thanks very much for the helpful information. Very much apprecaited!

ali: I just want to take a snippet of film to add to a client's website instead of showing their entire movie. They want a 30 second piece and we figured Mpeg format was best.

Anyone know of any free online software to take a movie clip off a DVD and make it in to an MPeg?

"GERRY": NO, they don't.
I will wait for a response from someone who knows a possible answer to my problem. Thanks.

"GERRY": I never mentioned MSN at all in my post.

A few weeks ago I couldnt use rich text editor until I upgrade to Firefox 2.0. I upgraded, got my rich text editor back. NOW today it is gone again. If I switch to plain text editor I can write but the smiley link is no longer active (Yes I double checked and I have the check box marked to see smilies)
I'm at a loss here. Would it be something in the latest Windows update that might have messed up my java stuff again? Any help would be appreciate. I love Rich text editor!!

xmas is soon: Click on Help , about Mozilla.. it will tell u what version u are running.

xmas is soon: Did you upgrade to Firefox2?

Suspected Web Forgery.

I opened up a page that I knew was a forgery (Curiously wanted to see what it looked it). That usual email from "paypal" telling me my account was out of date and needed to be updated pronto.
Big read sign popped up letting me know the page was a suspected web forgery. Very kool!

MadMonkey: The coolest new feature on firefox is when u accidentally crash or have to reboot and u go to open firefox it says do you want to restore all windows you had open? I had 5 windows open before i had to do an emerg reboot and it opened them all back up.. way kool!
I love firefox!!

Mr. Shumway: Just played around a tad with the new Firefox. I like!! That new undo close tab feature is awesome. So far so good!

Mr. Shumway: Well, I switched to 2.0 and now have my rich text editor back. So far 2.0 looks pretty much the same, smaller icons at the top. That's all I notice

Anyone using Firefox 1.5 get a recent java upgrade that prevents the rich text editor here from working? Fencer suggested I upgrade to Firefox 2.0. Dont know much about it and compatibilities. Anyone has any insite?

Do you mean the windows updates or the tool to remove the Windows Genuine Advantage screen update?

FYI
Anyone that might not have a 100% legal copy of XP and does the latest windows update and find they now get that silly Windows Genuine Advantage screen bother them let me know. I can help you remove it.. shhhhhhhh!!

Anyone else having slow page loads today since the site came back? I tried to ping brainking.com and it timed out 3 times.

anastasia: Do you have a CD burner or a DVD burner? YOU cant burn to DVD unless you have a DVD burner ( which will also burn CD'S)

volant: dat's a lotta batteries.. I have a thinkpad an the battery has never worked right. Always have to leave it plugged in.. no fun

Any one online a lot from 6pm EST 'til all hours of the night?
Ok It isn't a full requirment to be on that long. We are looking for a co-mod to help moderate this board. I am on nearly every day from 8AM to 7 or 8 PM AST (The benefits of working from home and being your own boss is you can have BK open all day)
Anyone who is really in to computers and would like to help Co mod this board give us a shout.

*typo edit

Eriisa: Really? YOu cant just set it up as html mail in Outlook like you can do with hotmail?

anastasia:When you set it up on auto set up did you add your incoming and outgoing mail server settings?

Andersp: That doesnt work either lol I did that.. I created a new username etc.. I still cannot access the original website. Buggers! hahaha

Andersp: I created a site at Geocities back before Yahoo owned them (1996). After a crash one time I lost my password to my geocities account. I can't get back in. i emailed them 4 times and never got a reply. SO my very first site I made in 1996 still sits, unedited and I cant access it. How frusterating. They are full of FAQ's but they will not reply to your email queries.

Groucho: Remember back when screen resolution was 640x480? wowsers!

Fencer: Picky, picky, picky!

anastasia: 3GB means they are providing you with 3 gigabites of free space (3000 Megabites {MB}). That only means they don't want you going over your limit. Once your website is created you can get a close idea on how large your website is if you right click on the website folder on your harddrive (Providing all your website files are in one folder) So you right click and go to Properties and it will tell you size. 3GB is pretty big for a website so the only way you would likely use up that much space is if you put on a lot really huge file sized images with out reducing their size (like what I did with your doggy pic - it was 3MB when you sent it to me and I made it 12kb)

mrloupcity: I think you are way out of line with that comment. When you posted your questions more than one person attempted to help you but you didnt give enough info for people to give you a precise answer to your problem.

harley: Yes that is about what I would say too. If your harddrive is full or nearly full it can stop the system from working properly. Check to see if it is full
Double click the my computer icon, right click on your C drive and go to Properties. See if you have much disc space left.

Pythagoras has a point that pirating is very illegal so hopefully we can end the discussion on piracy and what 'free' programs to get or at least take them to private conversations?

Greatly appreciated!

Try Ctrl + F5. When my emoticons stick and don't move I just ctrl+ F5 and it makes em work again.. Can't hurt to try..
* Or is it Ctrl+ shift F5.. hmmm..
Pretty sure it is Ctrl+F5

Hrqls: is the USB hub powered? (an adapter that plugs in to the wall and in to the USB hub)
If not the most likely cause could be that the USB port on the tower is either not powered or has insufficient power to run more than one item. IE the hub and then anything else, that frequently happens on boot up.
win 98SE alot of times does not work well leap frogging USB devices.
If the USB hub IS powered then it could be the way windows boots and it wont recognize past the hub, until the machine is completely booted. But by that time it is no longer looking for a mouse.

Hope this helps.

Eriisa: Someone rang my name?

BIG BAD WOLF: The great thing with the paid version is you can edit other ppls PDF documents. A must for my line of work. I create tons of PDf documents weekly and think I would be lost with out it. But still waiting on nobleheart to reply and let me know where this website is that allows you to edit and create PDFs.. Would really like to take a look at it.

Thad: IF I only had a MAC

I have a PDF Creator (creater?) but had never heard of a site that converts the files both ways before. Was hoping Nobleheart could enlighten me so that I can pass it on to folks who dont want to buy the Adobe PDF Creater.

nobleheart: For free?

nobleheart: I've got it installed, if anyone wants to try it out lemme know. I like that it connects to my gmail for me too!

nobleheart: Took me a while to find it
http://www.google.com/talk/
Looks like all the other chat progs. Anyone on here using it now?

ArtfulDodger: I myself was glad to have read the post. I followed up on google to find out more about it as I have cans of that same product in my basement and have teenage boys down there alot. One never knows so now they are locked up. Thanks!

volant: Thanks for that update volant. Sad that people will use such an event to try to cause more caos to others.

danoschek: Many thanks!

Anyone have a Gmail test account?

fra: fantastic bit of info thanks! I have learned something new today about the Rip mountain!

Dano.. on my way thanks!

fra: Wow lots of farm land! Awesome area

Any one tried this mail client out yet? I desperately want to get away from using Outlook and thunderbird will not work for me. I heard Foxmail is #1 in China.

Universal Eyes: yup pretty much!

bumble: Xp is 10 times better than 98 in many ways. NO more blue screen of death for one. Plus the many bugs were worked out in XP. Not to say it wasnt with out bugs but once you get Service Pack 2 installed it works pretty ok.

Not with out an operating system on the new one you cant.