John Watkins will be hosting
the meeting this week. His program will be Ping & WS_Ping --
what is it and how can it help me. Any time left over will be devoted
to question and answers – our most popular topic.
Disabling Your Browser’s Back Button
Caught in a loop with your Back button Have you visited a web site
only to find that when you press your browser’s Back button – it appears
to be disabled: pressing it takes you back to the same site you are already
at. There are no methods provided by either Netscape Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer to program the Back button – but web page creators are
creative. They create their own workaround. When you visit their site,
you load their web page which will immediately load a second page. This
happens so quickly that you probably won’t even notice it. But when you
click on the back button, you are taken back to their first page that you
loaded – which will very quickly load the second page. And you will be
caught in the loop.
Removing your Back button Some sites will remove the
Back button entirely so that the user can not use it; this is usually done
for security purposes. For example, you may find this on a banking site
which opens the page in a new window that doesn’t have any of the standard
buttons. If you right-click the page, you will still be able to move back,
but hiding the back button is deemed to be a reasonable protection.
Crashes in Your Browser
If you are experiencing numerous
crashes in your browser, begin by dumping your browser’s history and cache
files.
In IE 5 – select TOOLS –
INTERNET OPTIONS – and click DELETE FILES. Next click on CLEAR HISTORY.
In Netscape – select EDIT
– PREFERENCES – click NAVIGATOR – then CLEAR HISTORY. Next move down to
ADVANCED – click CACHE – then CLEAR DISK CACHE.
Windows 95 (using FAT 16) allows
a maximum of 512 directory entries, which are 32 bytes each.
Windows 95 (using FAT 32)
– Windows 98 and Windows ME have no limitations on the number of root directory
entries.
Resume – Write it in Word 2000
Many companies are now accepting
resumes through their e-mail. So, if you need to write a resume, Word 2000
has a wizard to help you create it. Once you have written it in Word, you
can then attach the document to your e-mail. Since the majority of businesses
have the ability to read a Word document, this is becoming a very standard
method of sending it.
If you are doing your resume
in a Resume program, then you must be sure that the outputted format is
in a standard that can be read by the majority of businesses. Resume programs
are very helpful in creating a resume for a printed copy (or output) –
but Word will produce it in a format that is acceptable to be viewed by
a company that is accepting resumes.