Digital Mntsnow Forum Grand Opening!

[NDC]

Hey guys Mntsnow & I have just opened a new forum on Mntsnow's server. Drop by and say hello! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


Digital Mntsnow Forums (http://forums.digitalmntsnow.com)

*edited* to update the URL as it now has been setup in DNS to http://forums.digitalmntsnow.com

[This message has been edited by Mntsnow (edited 07-30-2001).]

[Imperion1]

Kewl site. Already dropped by, heck, I even figured I'd register while I was there.lol

[Mntsnow]

Its fun learning all the stuff that goes on in the background as I'm hosting this myself for learning and of course for fun http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[BFlurie]

Hey, it's Mntsnow, but sharper and clearer than before!

[Mntsnow]

Hehe Thanks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[otheos]

Could you do something about the colors?
This is what it looks like in Opera:

<IMG SRC="http://www.otheos.clara.net/pub/mnt.jpg" border=0>

[NDC]

Wow, looks like we're having browser incompatibility with Opera. Have you tried using IE?

[otheos]

IE5.5 works ok, but I rarely use it.

Any chance you change the colors?

[NDC]

As you may already know, the background for the board is white and it shows as black on your Opera browser. For you to see it as white, that means the board background will have to be black I think? As you can see in your Opera browser, having a black background makes focusing quite difficult, and very annoying in my opinion. Is there a patch that you can apply for the Opera browser to display the color properly?

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 07-28-2001).]

[nodnerb2]

Otheos,
Did you manage to get a fix for this from Opera? I am also an Opera convert.

Nodnerb2

[MindlessVictim]

Hey Mntsnow...

I am a Opera 5 / IE5.5 user. I also am in the lovely business of web and graphics design.

If you'd like to e-mail me your index page w/o images, I'd be happy to play with it until I find a cross-browser solution.

I offer this because I've struggled with some similar issues in my pages, and it would be a learning experience. Plus, I get to help a fellow out a little. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

E-mail me, and if you'd like, go ahead and attach the html file. imayak@hotmail.com

Edit &gt;&gt; Silly UBB code. I keep forgetting the "mailto" html tag is "email" in UBB. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by MindlessVictim (edited 07-28-2001).]

[otheos]

I haven't come up with a solution yet, as my system is down. I try to find out what started my DVD-ROM to fail to read anything eversince I changed the region (in W2k)

I'll let you know if I have anything newer

[Mntsnow]

I'm checking on that....the board works on ASP pages of which I'm new to. I'll keep working on it. Thanks for letting me know....I'm just an IE kind of guy :P

[NDD]

Does it means SysOpt days are over ?!?! Your board looks very nice, like all the posting options and smilies, but I kinda already in love with SysOpt http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif , maybe can you change it to include several features you've added in yours, Mntsnow ?

Best Regards ...

[lynchmob]

You better take a look at your site-All the posts have disappeared.

[^hyd^]

Since the forum is made by Snitz Communications, can't you contact them about the Opera color problem?

Although, challenges like this are fun!!

Good luck!

[Mntsnow]

Snitz's website is off-line at the moment so unable to check with them concerning the Opera compatablity issue.

As for the missing posts....
Just got home from getting my Haircut getting ready for My 12 yr wedding aniversary date and find this...and I/We are/were planning on being out of town for the next two days to boot! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

No ...Not leaving SysOpt..Just learning something for myself..Broading my horizons..

Sorry guys....Dont know what happened http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif Checking the Database and everything seems fine http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

UPDATE

FIXED IT!!!!!!! Somehow (I think my daughter) changed the DATE on my server! take a look at the date of my postings...

She said she was updating her website which is hosted on the same server and was playing with the time/date stamp for her website and "thinks she might have" applied it to the server! lol

http://207.135.129.29/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8 5&FORUM_ID=4&CAT_ID=3&Topic_Title=Sorry+Guys+and+Gals&Forum_Title=The+Lounge (http://207.135.129.29/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=85&FORUM_ID=4&CAT_ID=3&Topic_Title=Sorry+Guys+and+Gals&Forum_Title=The+Lounge)

Notice the YEAR lol

Changed the date back on my server to 2001 and Everything is showing up fine again http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Whew!

Just about had a broken heart/Heartattack http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by Mntsnow (edited 07-28-2001).]

[flea]

Cool forums.......

.......The opera thing......

The colors in the forum are defined by names like "whitesmoke" isnstead of hex
codes like "#cccccc" This could cause problems, if opera didn't know what
"whitesmoke" was, or rendered it as a different color. I messed about with the
html from one of the messages, whitesmoke seems to be the problem, as it comes
out black http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif Its probably safer to use hex codes, so here's some info you
might want...............


The standard set of color names is: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia,
gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal,
white, and yellow. These 16 colors are defined in HTML 3.2 and 4.01
and correspond to the basic VGA set on PCs. Most browsers accept a
wider set of color names but use of these is not recommended.



New computers support thousands or millions of colors, but many
older color systems can only show up to 256 colors at a time. To
cope with this, these browsers make do with colors from a fixed
palette. The effect of this is often visible as a speckling of
colors as the browser tries to approximate the true color at any
point in the image. This problem will gradually go away as older
computers are replaced by newer models.
Most browsers support the same so called "browser safe" palette.
This uses 6 evenly spaced gradations in red, green and blue and
their combinations. If you select image colors from this palette,
you can avoid the speckling effect. This is particularly useful for
background areas of images.
If the browser is using the browser safe palette, the page
background uses the nearest color in the palette. If you set the page background to a color which isn't in the browser safe palette,
you run the risk that the background will have different colors
depending on whether the computer is using indexed or
true-color.


more info http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.html#colors
(the quote source ^)
you'll have to scroll down to get to the relevant bit http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

-Flea

[Mntsnow]

Thanks Flea!

Opera Issue is NOW FIXED! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Changed Whitesmoke to just white and the alt color to silver http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Downloaded and installed Opera just so I could test this out! Must say..Opera has come along way since I last tried it!

[flea]

Wow, its fixed, it looks way cooler now http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[flea]

Talk about quick.... 7 minutes! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Yup opera is very good now, better than Netscape, and catching up on internet explorer.

-Flea

[Mntsnow]

Well When you mentioned "Whitesmoke" (Default color from Snitz) I knew Were I had seen that in the setup so it didnt take long to edit that and with you being so kind to list what colors Opera supported natively it was a breeze to fix http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Thanks again!

ps. Yes I will leave Opera installed on my computer as I kicked Netscape off my systems LONG AGO!

[bhess]

Looks good guys.
Good info posts NDC.

[NDC]

Thank you, bhess! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Hellmund]

Lol, I got a new mission, reach the "OMG get a life member" membership status http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[krusty the klown]

Looking good, dude http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Fingers]

I came here to post the updated URL for the Forum, but I see that Mntsnow already updated the one in the first post http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Digital Mntsnow Forums (http://forums.digitalmntsnow.com/)

At the moment, I'm having a little trouble connecting there reliably, but I'm sure it's just temporary maintance.

[Mntsnow]

Yes...Some minor updates that required a server reboot http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif But should now be humming along nicely http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


Sheeze the things you learn you have to do when you want to host your own websites! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif (I think this is harder than getting any of my Certs so far!)

[NDC]

^^

[jaida]

nice work looking very good http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

I like some of those sections you got there such as pc mods and tips and tricks.

[robin801]

hi there mntsnow. i checked out your site and i like it as much as i like sysopt.

all i do now is read and learn in the two forums now.

question: what is opera and how can i try it?

i try just about everything i read about in sysopt.

it's like new foods, some i like and some i don't. but i'll never know if i don't try. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif.

i have even crashed my system twice trying new things.(not sysopt fault,my fault). not having full understanding before i tried something new.(hasn't stopped me)(I even messed up cpu trying to overclock.)

but i am still trying and having fun and many headaches. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

robin

[vass0922]

http://www.opera.com/

Now also has a linux version as well http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Great browser, I like the MDI (multiple document interface) a lot... can have multiple windows inside the one window, saves taskbar space!

PDQ too!
(Pretty **** quick http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Although I find that I sometimes have to load it in IE for some pages to work http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif http://www.abit-usa.com/ is one of them GRRRRRRR

I think everybody should email them and tell them to clean up their act... I already did!

[otheos]

Yeah, OPERA is excellent, but you still need IE for a few pages. You see people are so stubborn they rather cripple html (so that only works in IE properly) than learn!

[flea]

*duh
[read the posts properly next time, flea]

[This message has been edited by flea (edited 08-02-2001).]

[otheos]

^^

[otheos]

714 posts in 9 days!!!!!!!!! That's 80 posts a day! This is trully becoming a great place!

[NDC]

Yes, I agree! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Fingers]

^Bump^

[Mntsnow]

Thanks for the Bump Fingers http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Well the forum is slowly growing which is nice and I've been learning lots about the headache's that comes along with hosting your own websites and such but truely enjoying it and the membership that we have over there as well...Just like we do have here!