Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.

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Gudanov - Jan 11, 2006 8:26:11 am PST #6478 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Probably a bad battery.


DebetEsse - Jan 11, 2006 8:31:57 am PST #6479 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.

My laptop got to the point that it was doing that. Just long enough to transport it from plugged-in-in-the-dining-room to plugged-in-in-the-bedroom.

I needed a new battery.


le nubian - Jan 11, 2006 8:34:53 am PST #6480 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Amy, that's what's going on with Thinkpad too. I think it allows me to work for 10-20 minutes.

I think it is a bad battery. There may be instructions on how to "reset" the battery.


Jon B. - Jan 11, 2006 8:55:05 am PST #6481 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

And I could do it that way if it was within a workbook, but I don't know what commands to use to work with multiple workbooks.

You can open and manipulate workbooks from a macro within another workbook.


Jon B. - Jan 11, 2006 9:00:11 am PST #6482 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I've decided to learn more about this new-fangled way of laying out web pages. Folks call it CSS.

Seriously, I've used CSS to format objects, but never to place them. I'm trying to learn how to do the latter, and I've got two questions. Both refer to the page here: [link]

  • Why the f*** doesn't the theremin image appear in Firefox 1.5 WinXP. It shows up in IE.

  • Is there a way to position everything relative to the margins of the big white box? I'm looking to do absolute positioning, but relative to the box rather than the page.


amych - Jan 11, 2006 9:04:52 am PST #6483 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

The link to your theremin image has a backwards slash in it (it's imagestheremin.gif rather than images/theremin.gif) -- IE "helpfully" corrects it, other browsers don't.

As for your positioning question, I haven't poked around at the details in your stylesheet yet, but yes, you can -- more details after I've taken a look.


Tom Scola - Jan 11, 2006 9:06:18 am PST #6484 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Why the f*** doesn't the theremin image appear in Firefox 1.5 WinXP. It shows up in IE.

Your link to theremin.gif has a backslash in it rather than a slash. IE's parsing of backslashes in URLs is completely nonstandard.


Tom Scola - Jan 11, 2006 9:13:04 am PST #6485 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Is there a way to position everything relative to the margins of the big white box? I'm looking to do absolute positioning, but relative to the box rather than the page.

One thing I would suggest before going foward is to get rid of the "align=center" attributes in your HTML code, and to put everything in the stylesheet. Trying to mix CSS styling with legacy styling is going to make things much more complicated.


amych - Jan 11, 2006 9:17:38 am PST #6486 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

What Tom said about your align tags.

As for the positioning, trying making the white block position:relative -- the divs inside it should then align themselves relative to that, and not to the whole page. Yes, it's weird.


Jon B. - Jan 11, 2006 9:22:24 am PST #6487 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Your link to theremin.gif has a backslash in it rather than a slash.

D'ohh!

One thing I would suggest before going foward is to get rid of the "align=center" attributes in your HTML code

Done!