Posted on 05/08/2005 7:04:09 AM PDT by Nachum
Now that is the strangest way to post a picture. It doesn't make sense to me. It took me awhile to figure out that the picture has to be on a URL because my head was so jimmied around I couldn't grasp the concept. Once I understood it I immediately began my Comcast personal site so I could post the picture. New computer territory for me, NOT GOOD! LOL! For another day.
Speaking of computers, I'm going to wipe away my present C drive as it's full of garbage. A number of things don't work right and/or are slow. The biggest part as I see it now is making sure I have what I need off my C drive before I ghost it with a beautiful clean and crisp ghost. I've got 2 120 gig hard drives so space is no problem.
Yeah, there has already been a few things I've thought about about NOT putting in a book! A few names might have to be fictionalised for me to put it into the resolving of mysteries parts.
BTW, this is the best people search site I've found:
http://zabasearch.com/
Problem is that almost all women change their names upon marriage so tracking them down after decades is mostly impossible.
Without going through a whole lot of and ifs or buts, I think the final conclusion of nobody's picture gets put up on the internet is practically the best conclusion. If a picture is put up on the internet is it considered public domain?
I was thinking the same thing. I remember going to the playground at my old elementary school during the summers when I was a teen. We would play tournament football games all day long. I remember drinking out of the spigots on the sides of the building.
It was OUR school.
How in the world did you ever make the mental leap that homeschooled kids are somehow not being taught to follow societies rules? That is ridiculous. You might be able to dig up a few, but they would be the exception. Most homeschooled kids are the ones who are being taught to respect authority.
Seems to me you might have some other issue with homeschooling. This "danger" you've imagined just doesn't exist.
At first, I couldn't understand how the linking process worked, but it just comes to you after awhile.
Do you have an ftp uploader? I just use that to upload a picture and don't bother with html. Do whatever works for you until you get the hang of it.
I need to scrub off a lot of junk to make more room. Always have been the type to hate to throw anything away :-). Also installed a backup 80 gig harddrive and am trying not to clutter it up.
The worst problem for me is that I had a shop transfer my files two different times after I got a new computer, once when I got hit by blaster and the second time I tried to rescue a few more files I missed when I had it in the shop to get a router for dsl. They copied over a lot of program junk along with it, and now I'm afraid to delete some of the stuff. I don't even know what it is. I only wanted text and picture files.
The upshot of that is anything you do, you have to know what you want and be very explicit. I even told them the folder name I wanted. Do you think I could even get that? Nooooo. I can easily rename it, but it makes you wonder if they even pay attention to everything I carefully wrote down. I think they assume I don't know anything. Admittedly there is a lot I don't know, but I know how folders and subfolders work, etc.
Did you get your picture working yet?
This is insane.
On the other side, the kids should have left after being told to leave and told their parents. Who in turned should have sued the cop. Hindsite 20/20. What a waste of time and money for something so trivial.
Naw, I haven't been able to finish the web page that Comcast allows. It just doesn't tell what to do to make the already drafted page into an online web page.
I'll be doing the ghosting myself. I had my computer custom built and had specific size drive partitions for each HD. For simplicity sake let's say hard drive A, 20 gigs and the rest 100 gigs, and drive B 20 gigs and 100 gigs. The OS was on HD A 20 gig partition. Then I installed a number of programs onto that same partition and then ghosted it to the HD B partition 20 gigs. The whole idea of ghosting is that you know your C drive over time is going to get corrupted along with your registry. When I actually do the ghosting I put the ghosting floppy disk in the computer it never boots past the BIOS so it is dealing at the basic level of the computer. Then I take that clean ghost image from my HD B 20 gigs and overwrite my drive C (HD A - 20 gigs) and essentially I'm right back at the same point I was when I just bought the computer and installed a few programs on it. This process has saved my computer many times, once when it got severely hosed by a Trojan Horse.
It's too bad when you take your computer into a shop and them not doing what you asked them to. That's disgustingly arrogant on their part, or stupid. I've had people tell me to re-arrange my desktop. "Uh, I use this computer, and I set it up the way I want to." I've heard other ways I should set up or use my computer. Even my keyboard upsets some people!
I sure do know what you mean by unknown files and what do they do. I've been searching through my C drive looking for certain things and I see things I have no idea what they're for. They'll stay there until I ghost them out. As a friend said "If you've got the storage space, don't delete."
You know I've heard a whole lotta of Apple users say they love their computers but I don't ever remember a Windows users saying that. There's a bunch of good in MSFT's stuff but the pain that comes along with it just seems to flush out building any kind of "resolving mysteries" relationship.
Follow the yellow brick road :-)
Then I clicked on the link publish.comcast.net blah & blah which takes you to a sign in page. Naturally I can't get past that.
From there it should take you to your designated space and have some kind of file management. It should say somewhere "upload files" where you can either click on the browse button and navigate to the html page you have constructed and saved in a folder on your local hard drive and upload it. You also have to separately upload any graphics/pictures, etc., that will be incorporated into your html. Unless yours is different
That's how mine lets me do it. On my new dot com, it is faster for me to use the alternate method which is to first sign in and have my file manager page open, THEN fire up my ftp uploader, I use a freebie WS_FTP32 I got years ago. Won't go into detail, and I have to tell you it confused me for awhile, and I never mastered the thing until I tried to use it to upload photos for online processing. Finally I figured out how to create directories at the remote site using my uploader.
You can buy more user-friendly ones in the $30 range. I'd see if I could find a free one, and if you aren't going to be putting a whole lot out there, you can do it following comcast instructions.
If you get stuck, call their help line. You're paying for that, too. And don't feel bad if it doesn't make sense for awhile.
Now as to the ghosting, I'm outta here on that :-). I'll have to read up on that, but I have too much going in the way of learning curves on some other things, that I won't get into that now. It sounds like wonderful knowledge to have.
Oh, and I never buy software products if I can make do with something I already have, unless I want an important upgrade.
I'll read that ghosting business again to see if I can at least get an overview. Thanks but no thanks for now :-).
How many mb's do you get with comcast? Before I got my own domain and dot com, I got 10. I could get quite a bit out there, especially text files. And it wasn't just one page. I have a couple, separate complete, linked-together files on mine that just sit in the same directory but are accessed by a different sub-url, if that makes any sense.
Ya gotta do your comcast homework. My isp gave me a jump start by giving explicit instructions on how to use the ftp uploader and what to put in each box. Nowhere did they tell me how to use it at the remote host end though. Had to figure that out for myself. You have to be careful with tech support now. Sometimes they tell you to do things you shouldn't do, like system restore your computer after you have worked a week to get some complex new stuff up and running. I just tell them no way and then try to get somebody different or they put you on hold and ask somebody more experienced what to do lol.
And I'm not totally ticked at my local computer technicians, just annoyed about a couple of things. They are close, fairly reasonable, and did get my new hard drive installed so that it WORKS and then tried to charge me for it when I had ordered it from Dell and brought it in. Lucky I caught that lol. And they DID get my wireless router configured to WORK (have to reset it on a regular basis when it flips out) after I got dsl and found out my 50-foot phone line running from my one and only phone jack couldn't handle the modem. I've been through a lot lately with that stuff.
Whoa that's way out of line, we are not brazilian...hispanic and black/white...the arrest was brutal though
school grounds is public property, people go walk there dogs there and use the field...I've seen it
well at first we were planning on shoveling out my parking space, (like make a snow garage) but then my friend and I made the decision to make the snow fort/cave
amazingly the part that people don't see why two kids would go to keep going with the case is the part where they don't believe kids when they say "we were leaving, and in that process we were arrest" it must have been bad judgement that evoked the arrest...because we didn't talk back and we were heading to the cars
Whoa...that' s a bit harsh my friend...that's def. a bad picture of her. I believe a person shouldn't really speak unless they really understand what they are reading...It wasn't the assistant principal and it was not a liability issue. The cop wasn't there to protect us, the assistant of grounds and maintenance (head of janitors), calls the school resource officer, that officer calls smith...smith never got the note that we were in a hazardous situation...(it was pretty safe any how.
the school was not closed...people were going in and out of there...students and kids...it was just a snow day
Don't you mean "snow-man arguments"? : )
LOL.
I don't think building a snow fort was the only erection thay had in mind.
In my day, we would have clobbered the cop with snowballs. What kind of kid can't outrun some fat old cop in the snow? They were never any match for us, because they wore those shiney black shoes you can't run in.
We'd even let them get real close to us before running away. One sharp deke to the left and they'd slip and fall on their ass.
That's when you really really better run and not stop running. Nothing's more dangerous than a cop on his ass looking up at wiseass highschool kids laughing at him.
These kids today have too much respect for authority.
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