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I'm building an interface for a client using Flash that shows data from remote weather stations. As well as data fields he's asked to have an externally linked animated gif showing a radar weather forecast added to the interface. I tried loading the animated gif into Flash and it will only show...

Hi all. Some preliminary info about my problem: We have an XP Pro machine running at our office that has some specialist server software running on it. The software is running a remote telemetry system and it's based around the Tomcat web server. The default web port at the IP address for this...

I'm trying to access a remote file that is htaccess password protected using the fopen command. I'm trying this syntax without success: fopen("username:password@http://www.domain.com/protectedDir/file.csv","r"); I've searched around for solutions but I'm drawing a blank. Does anyone know of...

I have a css layout problem that I'm hoping someone can help out with. I have a design that a friend would like me to make into a web page, but working out a CSS layout strategy is causing me a few problems. I need to have a 3 column layout. The central column will be fixed width and will...

Hi all, A friend of mine's computer was running slow and I advised him to upgrade his RAM. The computer had a single 256MB stick of RAM, and in the SYSTEM tab of Windows XP it was only reporting 196MB. We decided on 2GB as RAM, so I took the existing stick of RAM out to try and ascertain what...

Hi all, I now very little about computer hardware, but have figured out that I have a single hard drive in a Raid configuration that divides it into 2 virtual drives (not sure if I'm using the right terminology here). I'm running Windows Vista 32bit and recently noticed that there was an icon I...

We have a PHP shopping cart application on our website called X-Cart. One of its features is for customers to sign up to a newsletter, which we send out quarterly. They are sent out by a php script which runs by pressing a button in the X-Cart admin panel (browser based PHP page), and we have...

I'd like to do something that is very elementary, but not knowing actionscript 2 I'm having problems. This is what I want to do. 1, Scene begins with no animation, and event listener is added to go_mc. 2, go_mc movieclip is clicked and a gotoAndPlay('first_event') is triggered. 3, After about...

I hand code my pages in Dreamweaver and then upload to a remote server. I've found that when I re-download(Get) a file from the remote server to the local server, I'm often getting additional lines between my code. The original may have no blank lines between the code. After a while I may get...

We have an apache server on a shared machine with WHM and SSH access (often called a virtual personal server). A few weeks ago I had to rebuild apache to add the gd library, and I also updated the site adding some PHP/Mysql generated content. The problem we have is that our mysql server keeps...

Does anyone know of a simple method to make a select element that appears underneath a dhtml menu not appear in front of dropdowns of that menu in IE6? If you're not sure what I'm talking about view the following page in IE7 or Firefox and then in IE6...

I'm trying to add a conditional comment either outside or inside an ssi include. I'm using a remote apache server. Here's the server info from phpinfo(): Apache/1.3.36 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.27...

I've just watched a video tutorial that showed several different methods for replacing headings (h1,h2 tags e.t.c.) with images. I'd like to do this as I'm keen to use a stylised font for some of the headings in a site I'm working on. One method uses css positioning to push the heading a few...

I have a Windows XP Pro install disc from an old computer of mine that I scraped long ago. I've also got a friend's computer on to which I need to load Windows XP Pro. There is no disc with my friends computer, but it does have the original XP product key sticker attached to it (It's a Hewlett...

A friend of mine needed a computer that runs XP as his had died, and was given a second hand one by a friend of his. This computer had been a server in it's previous life, and has Red Hat Linux installed on it. No problem I thought. Just get Windows XP, format the drive and Bob's your uncle...

A friend of mine needed a computer as his had died, and was given a second hand one by a friend of his. This computer had been a server in it's previous life, and has Red Hat Linux installed on it. No problem I thought. Just get Windows XP, format the drive and Bob's your uncle, but...

My dvd writer on my Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop is causing problems. It has been working fine for 2 years but started playing up last week. It will read cd's : both CDR's that I've burned myself and software. It will not read dvd's of any kind. I just get whiring noises as if it's trying to...

I'm unhappy with my current host and want to find another in the near future. One of the problems I'm having is with a php script which parses many csv files into a database. It runs as a cron job twice daily. The problem is that it seems to timeout after about 30 seconds without completing its...

I've heard that having variables passed in the URL is generally considered a bad idea from an SEO point of view. Does this include session ID's?

I've had a problem that's been driving me crazy for the last two hours. I was eventually going to post the problem here, but I've managed to find what's causing the problem and fix it. I am , however, at a complete loss as to why it was causing a problem. Let me explain: You may or may not be...