On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:08 pm, D. R. Evans wrote:
> On 12 Feb 02, at 15:50, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > The problem appears, for some reason, to be intermittent. I don't know
> > if it works in netscape because I don't use/have it, just the directories
> > so the plugins have a home. I do have lesstif installed.
> >
> > This is KDE 2.2.2 on Mandrake 8.1.
>
> Odd. Just by coincidence, I got fed up of those annoying pop-ups today
> when I visited a page that spawned 12 of them.
My record was 19.
> I downloaded the shockwave thing from their site. It did some magic
> stuff, trying to install itself without intervention. It didn't work. I
> logged out and back in. Still didn't work. Rebooted. (You can tell how
> well Mr. Gate$ has got me trained.) It's worked fine since then. So far.
I wonder if just restarting the X-server would have worked? One problem with
these self-installers is that you don't know what they're doing to your
system.
> This smells like another of those inconsistencies that seem to be
> plaguing so many of us recently. ("I did the same as you; it worked for
> you; why didn't it work for me?" sorts of things.) Sorry I can't be of
> more help.
>
> Hmmm, while I'm here, can anyone explain why www.saltlake2002.com gives
> a blank screen in konqueror?
I've run into that a couple of times -- looking in the page source code, I've
found a trap that checks for a specific browser (guess which ones). If you
don't have one of the "approved" browsers, you get a blank page. That's why
some browsers (I think Konq is one) allow you to tell the world that you're
running either IE or Netscape. The stupidest case of this I've found was at a
video card vendor site. ("Hey, Harry, I've got this great idea. If we don't
let anybody in who isn't running IE, then we don't have to worry about them
buying our stuff. All we gotta do is to tell them to reformat, reinstall
everything, and download the latest drivers. Think of the time and money
we'll save on tech support.") However, that is not the case here. I just went
to the site and had no problems. (KDE 2.2.1) Either the site was down or
overloaded when you tried, or it's those pesky gremlins that you mention.
Regards,
-- cmg
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