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The board has been upgraded to phpBB 2.0.6. I had a frustrating time doing this because the method of upgrade was a bit different than what the documentation, or any posting, mentioned. Or, perhaps, there was an assumption that was never made explicit. Not only did the upgrade scripts have to be loc...

Yes, it turns out that the above actually was a hoax. There really is a Bjarne Stroustrup , and he really did develop the C++ programming language, but he never had that interview. I still don't know, however, who wrote the fake interview. Even despite the fact that it's a fake, it's still very funn...

I spent a good 6 hours searching for examples of simple HTML code that would generate a dropdown menu when you moved your mouse over a link. What I ended up with was either code that was tremendously complex, or code that only worked in IE. Finally, I posted a plea for help at the MozillaZine forums...

This is the kind of thing you can do where you have a section of a site used for navigation and you want to select various pages that appear in another area of the screen. Following is some example code: <form name="jump"> Page <select name="page" onchange="location.href=jum...

This one is a real pain. While Mozilla properly handles the "margin-[left/right]: auto" directive, IE ignores it completely. Similarly, using "text-align: center" works in IE (although with some additional complications) but not in Mozilla. Previously, I'd been using tables with ...

Please be advised that even though we use Dante's Divine Comedy as the theme for our company, we are not authorities on his life, his times, or his work. We have read his classic, and done some minor research into Dante's life, but that is the extent of our knowledge. As such, we regret that we cann...

And here's another trick! You can set the DVD playback region to be whatever you want - or make it multi-region so that it plays any/every DVD: Turn on the unit. Press "Pause" on the remote. Enter "314159" (display on the unit - not the TV - shows Code - -). Press desired region ...

Okay, so this isn't a computer Q&A. But nothing about this forum says that it has to be. Also, I only just found this out and am now finally able to create CDs of movies that I can play back via my DVD player and TV. I had to document the procedure for posterity. <grin> The T531 supports VCD pla...

I figured out that dynamic resizing issue. It had to do with wrapping the existing form code inside a "width=100%" table definition.

Also resolved an issue with the forums not refreshing properly.

This seems to be a "hot topic" with phpBB. The issue being that the phpBB pages do not get refreshed with changes and you have to force a reload with your browser before you see the updated information. It all has to do with the browser caching information. Even though phpBB 2.0.4 claims t...

Please be advised that even though we use Dante's Divine Comedy as the theme for our company, we are not authorities on his life, his times, or his work. We have read his classic, and done some minor research into Dante's life, but that is the extent of our knowledge. As such, we regret that we cann...

Please be advised that even though we use Dante's Divine Comedy as the theme for our company, we are not authorities on his life, his times, or his work. We have read his classic, and done some minor research into Dante's life, but that is the extent of our knowledge. As such, we regret that we cann...

Please be advised that even though we use Dante's Divine Comedy as the theme for our company, we are not authorities on his life, his times, or his work. We have read his classic, and done some minor research into Dante's life, but that is the extent of our knowledge. As such, we regret that we cann...

Please be advised that even though we use Dante's Divine Comedy as the theme for our company, we are not authorities on his life, his times, or his work. We have read his classic, and done some minor research into Dante's life, but that is the extent of our knowledge. As such, we regret that we cann...

I've removed the section of code in the "new post" template that displays the emoticon panel, and I also got rid of the BBCode panel. I'm working on getting the Subject: and Message body: text areas to resize dynamically, rather than using a fixed width. In trying to figure this out, I've ...