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

Please explain this behaviour to me...

You are on the phone with support. You have a working system. You need help configuring a new feature. You determine that you are going to erase the configuration on your network access device which is currently IN PRODUCTION AND ALL OF YOUR INTERNET TRAFFIC TRAVERSES IT!!!!!11one

WHy?
Just why?

Why is a windows install such a hassle? Even on a clean pc it's durn hard. Doing it on a mac (virtual pc) is just the pits! Took me three goes this afternoon to get the install done Still I did have a chance to read some more of my book (Clear Waters Rising by Nicholas Crane, about him walking the spine of europe from spain to turkey).

I dread having to do a clean re-install of Win98SE on this machine. Apparently the motherboard needs two software patches in the course of the install, and I have never been able to get a techie to explain it properly, because they always want me to depend on them to get it done.

For those who want to look, the website I'm building can be accessed by piecing together the following bits of lego to form a :

http://
www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/
~eduklmc/
5028/
index.htm

It isn't finished for reasons explained elsewhere.

The sampling bit is the coolest.

Actually, it's the sampling activity that's the cool bit. Go to the sampling page and look down the right hand side to find the excel simulation.

Note the gonzo-class javascript simulation on the page.

BTW, the geezer in green isn't me. My moustache is quite different.

The launch of my website project is now fast approaching so if anyone has a minute for further testing the address can be assembled from the part in post 583. I'd copy and paste but h2g2 won't let me .

I'm particularly interested to see if the left hand column is now loading properly in all browsers or if some of the divs are still insisting on sitting on top of the photo.

Yes, a lot of content is still missing. It isn't my fault . *pulls in an agitated fashion on her antennae*

http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~eduklmc/5028/index.htm


See if that works.

Amy, it's looking good in FF and Safari on Mac OSX

Looks fine in IE6/Win

Do you plan to do the printable version by way of a link - or are you adding a print media style via CSS? A List Apart has just run a couple of articles of the latter - I have the links somewhere...

Thanks Marv and SGV

I started out with a print media CSS sheet but it needs some adjustments so I've unlinked it for now. They're much harder to set up correctly than they at first appear. As a temporary measure - since we go live next Monday - I'll probably make some printable versions of the central text by hand.

When the central text has been written, of course...

Looks good... I've been having fun doing the self assesment test in Opera 8.02 on WinXP The test itself works fine; the links at the end (to contents.htm and jcross1.htm) don't seem to work, but I guess that might be a missing content issue.

There are links at the end? Thanks for pointing those out J'au, I'd edited out the ones at the top but missed those blighters.

yeah, for end read bottom...

If there are any Tiger users out there with a moment to spare, could you download the FirstClass client from http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13482

It's version 8.047 I'm interested in. [And what sort of version number is that ]

I've got a student who says he can't get it to install.

No Tigers here...

The CSS print style links - here is one:
http://alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint

I've had a quick play with this and found links to both a US english and a UK english version from the first class website - http://www.firstclass.com/clientdownloads/
I downloaded them both and as the administrator account on the mac I could install them no problem. As a limited user (my regular account) I hit an error - cannot create folder.
The solution is that if it's the student's own machine they need to be logged into the admin account to install it.
If it's a university machine then you need to talk to the that runs the computer lab the machines are in.

Thanks Phil, I'll see if that was the problem .

I was at a WUN online seminar with people from your neck of the woods yesterday. Were you invoved at all. Drew was in charge, if that means anything to you.

Nope, means nothing to me. What's WUN when it's at home?

Worldwide Universities Network

Ah, I've just had a look at their website and it looks like it's the people down the road at the other university in Manchester who you were talking with Amy

Was I? I'm so easily confuzzled. Which one are you at then?