h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Can you see anything now, Titania?

Oops, new page. Here's the link again.

http://www.karon-mcbride.co.uk/learning/beads/

[MTG who does not have shockwave installed]

Still nothing - but my IE is acting up, terribly slow at loading anything right now

Anyone know of a site with a shockwave thingiemajick that I could test just to make sure it isn't my browser?

Try any of the activities in the Games section of this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/art/activities/index.shtml

Those games work just fine, so I'm afraid there *is* something about your site, Amy...

Oh dear . Thanks for trying. I wonder if it's a platform issue. *waits for d'Elaphant to get up*

*makes some adjustments*

Does it work now?

*Enters the lab for the first time ever.*

Amy, I get the same as Titania, except the shockwave logo stays on the page. The process tab on Window Task Manager show cpu usage between 95-97%

I just tried it again and now the beads are displaying.

Woohoo!

If you line up the beads on the string to read 'HELLO WORLD" and press 'Go!' does the string 'hello_world" appear in white writing in the black box?

Yup!

. Which operating system and browser are you using, Witty?

It works for me too now, and I'm using Windows 2000 and IE 5.5

This is starting to look very promising. Thank you, everyone, for your help .

It is working on winxp with firefox. I can try again later if they ever get me my laptop (mac).

Even better! Thanks, Marv .

Sorry, Amy, I had to this morning.

I am using Windows XP and IE 6.0

Can't help with antwork, I haven't got flash loaded.

I've just bought myself a 2nd hand stinkpad T22, to replace my old vaio which is getting a new home with my niece.
On checking it when I got it home, the previous owner hadn't been too careful on line, fortunately this doesn't matter as my first act has been to abolish windows and load mandrake.

And speaking of Mal-ware I spent a large chunk of last weekend trying to clean up the machines at my parents, they were spy-ware city, and some of the nasty little blighters weren't even removable with adaware or spy-bot.
In the end I had to reinstall winbloze just to get them running enough to run winders update.

As I don't use the M$ abomination on my machines, what are currently the best anti-virus and spy-ware solutions in the view of the atelier.

[BB]
In a world without walls and fences... Who needs windows and Gates.

I've mainly used McAfee b/c that's what MIT provides me...I got's no idea how good it works. I would recommend a firewall, eg from "Zone labs", for free, unless you have one already.