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And I seem to have deleted Opera. But I've got it at work, so if I get a chance I'll give another report.

Amy, here is a screen shot of what I saw. This is on Windows XP with Firefox 1.0.6.
http://www.marvthegrate.org/pics/misc/screencap1.JPG

Odd, here is the same thing on Firefox for Mac, but version 1.05 (I forgot to install the update).
http://cat.rutgers.edu/~delaphant/images/Picture%201.png

Thanks very much for all of that- the screeshots were particularly useful. I knew about the footer - I made a small change after I posted here yesterday and broke it. I've broken it before so I know I can fix it. Some of the behaviour in firefox is interesting and unexpected - it could be partly due to the path to the transparent gif being incorrect.
Now that the wicked elves have given in and given me admin rights over my computer, I must install firefox.

I'll post later on this morning when the next version is ready.

Apart from errors that have been spoken about (ie the non floating copyright bar) Amaya 8.5 (Win XP) gives me a not well formed XML document error. The parsing errors it gives are a couple of missing semi-colons in courses.css (lines 260 & 268) and an invalid token error on the main page - line 76, char 30 (a missing = I think). Because of the these if you reload as html it totally screws up the layout.

I've just loaded up the latest version of Amaya (it's a browser/editor from the W3C, so should be standards compliant ). And although it still gives the same error from your page the layout isn't quite as awfull as the other version I used.

Try it again now. I think it's all sorted. You'll all be pleased to know I've been certified .

Looks good Amy! good job and thanks for making it standards compliant!

Uh oh. I don't want to break bad news, but now that I'm in my office I'm seeing the exact same thing that Marv saw with some links covering the photo, in Firefox 1.06, until I resize my window at which point things snap into place. And the bottom banner is improved but still obliterating the "self-assessment" portion of the right column.

On the other hand it looks perfect in Opera 8 for Mac. Opera 6 gives the same results as Mac IE (looks ok, but no rollovers).

Something involving the cache is involved with firefox. Returning to the page, it looks fine. Clear the cache, or shift-reload, and the problem returns.

Now that's odd. When I look at the page as a local file in Firefox 1.06 it's fine, but if I look at it as a web page, it misbehaves.

Hmm.

Admin rights! Does this mean you'll be able to download artrage?

Yes, but this is no time to break the computer. Maybe on Monday afternoon I'll be at a loose end... anything could happen...

OK Java people. I'm stuck. I have this assignment due tomorrow morning and while the program works, it doesn't return the results I need.

You are supposed to enter in a retail price and markup percentage and it is supposed to return the wholesale price. I've been at this all day and can't seem to find the correct coding.

Here's my code:

/*
* WholesalePrice.java
*
* Created on September 2, 2005, 8:19 PM
*
* Ben Zaharias
* Lab 2d
*/

package Main;

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;


public class Main {

/** Creates a new instance of Main */
public Main() {
}

/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {

String retail,
markup,
wholesale;

double retailprice,
markuppercent,
wholesaleprice;

retail = JOptionPane.showInputDialog ("Enter the Retail Price");
markup = JOptionPane.showInputDialog ("Enter the Markup Percentage");

retailprice = Double.parseDouble (retail);
markuppercent = Double.parseDouble (markup);

wholesaleprice = retailprice / 1 - markuppercent;

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The Wholesale Price is "+ wholesaleprice, "Results", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

System.exit(0);
}

}

HELP! PLEASE!

Lets do a quick work through of a couple of examples and then go back and check your maths...

Wholesale price $50
Retail Markup = 50% (0.5)
so retail price is 50*(1+0.5) = 75
so far so good.
Retail = Wholesale * (1 + markup)

Working to what we want to get (ie wholesale from retail and markup)
we get
wholsale = retail / (1 + markup)

So you seem to have managed to get a sign wrong somewhere in your working and the programme tries to do wholesale = retail / (1 - markup) and as you have been finding, gives the wrong answer.

I got it figured out.

I watched a TV movie the other night in which the sun was going supernova and the earth was about to be destroyed, but then the scientists who had figured this all out discovered that they had used a "+" where they should have used a "-" and the sun wasn't really going supernova and the earth was not destroyed after all, just a little worse for wear. Just like in GDZ's program.



It wasn't a movie worth watching. But a striking coincidence nonetheless? OK, maybe not.

That is bizzare d'E.

So ok. I deal with just about every kind of network imaginable. From mom and pop shops up to fortune 100 companies and government systems of all stripes. I support something in the neighborhood of 30 individual procuts spanning 6 or more operating systems. If it's out there, and is Borg Blue, I have likely worked on it.

Why oh why do I get the idiots that get to deal with on a daily basis?

We all get idiots to work with on a daily basis. Some of the idiots I get to work with should know much better - computing lecturers!

I've just invoked the famed peekaboo bug in Internet Explorer. Boy is that weird! Text to the side of a floated picture doesn't show up but it comes back if you resize the window.