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Coursebuilder is a Dreamweaver extension that creates learning interactions, like quiz questions. When I installed the extension in Dreamweaver MX 2004, it seemed to work fine, until I got to the point of using the
Continue readingA client sent me a powerpoint with revisions from last year’s version. Over the year, they must have found the “Animation Schemes” button because the presentation was filled with animated text. When I exported the
Continue readingWe’ve had just about every sort of database connection issue with our two Questionmark Perception servers, so in the interest of saving someone else the kind of struggles we’ve gone through, here are some things to look for.
A typical path to the tnsnames.ora file on a server is
E:\Oracle_HomenetworkAdmintnsnames.ora
There are a variety of things that could be incorrect in this file.
I was given an old Powerbook 15″ aluminum version, which I used a few times, then left idle for several months. When I got it out again, I plugged in the power cord, which did
Continue readingWell they’ve finally done it – made a computer I can afford to buy my parents, who need one even if they don’t know it! One weird thing – I could have sworn that on
Continue readingI had my Mac logging in to the enterprise Novell system with no problems, using Prosoft Engineering’s NetWare for MacOS X v. 1.2.2.
It would mount the various servers I use daily just fine. Then one Monday morning I came in, and nothing would mount, nor could I see them anymore by browsing the tree.
It turned out they had been moved to another tree over the weekend. However I could not see this tree in the NetWare browser, only the old one. I knew the short server name from the notice the Novell team sent out about the migration.
On the ProsoftEngineering site, it says
” To login manually, select the Login tab. You can then manually enter the Username, Password, Tree and Context information. The Tree name should be the IP address or DNS name of the server you want to connect to. You can enter the Context information, or use the Context button to browse for available User Contexts. Please note that if you enter the tree server manually, you must also make this same server a Static SA server in the Directory Services Preferences Panel. ”
So, you can manually log in to a tree that you cannot see by typing its full name into the Tree field on the login screen of Netware. Before doing this be sure to open the NetWare preferences and click user defaults. Make sure Use These As Defaults is not selected. That way it will let you change the login settings.
Continue readingWhen trying out Flashpaper 2, after having already installed Macromedia Contribute 2, on a Windows 2000 machine, things got hopelessly confused. The driver for the earlier version was still in place, and the new driver
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While experimenting with GoLive’s Quicktime track editing features, I opened up a movie, saved using Quicktime’s Export to MPEG-4 function. GoLive slowed to molasses speeds. Thinking I was dealing with a GoLive issue, I searched
Continue readingWhile attempting to build a cross-browser compatible embedded Windows Media Player web interface, I noticed that Safari began to give errors on browsing to any embedded video player. After weeks of suffering through thinking it
Continue readingA usability issue with iTunes: You may think the first column, with index numbers, is the track number. It turns out that it’s just an arbitrary identifier assigned to the tracks, no matter WHAT actual
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