Curtis Thompson
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hello…
nope – works fine here as well (mac/pc and a variety of browsers) and the mouseover images i sampled were all under 1kb, so it’s likely not a network issue even for people on a modem…unless perhaps he rest of your page is still loadiing for you – loading takes priority over rollovers, so they could be a bit jerky if you are still loading a large file, but that didn’t seem to be a problem.
but i doubt that is an issue (unless you’re on dial-up?) – do the rollovers work once you go over them once or are they slow each time?
2 other things:
1. in answer to your original question – no, browsers don’t give priority to image types (so rollovers won’t load for you first) – you have image preloaders, but you are also redundantly loading the non-rollover images there. try removing those from that preload call in your body tag, as they will get loaded down on the page anyway – you only need to preload the rollover images
2. try removing the redundant onmousedown and onmouseup actions in your links – onmousedown you’re already on the rollover so switching it does nothing, and onmouseup you’re leaving the page anyway so it won’t render
i don’t think either of these are the culprit, but they are unneeded code, and #1 will definitely hurt people on dialup…
sorry to not have a clear answer, but both bret and i can’t see any rollover slowness from here! did you try other computers yet?
sitruc
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hello…
wsftp le, however, is free – here’s a link to it and what to enter to ensure free usage:
https://itusupport.gmu.edu/downloads/wsftp.asp
sitruc
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hello…
gee thanks for calling the forum here unpopular… :-/
if you’re on pc, wsftp le is fine, and on mac, fetch works…
sitruc
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hello…
there isn’t really a shortcut to maximize what you just minimized unfortunately – apple is more into using expose to control navigation between windows, and while it’s extremely useful, it doesn’t cover what you talk about here in the case of an accidental hitting of apple-m…
and while you can assign new key controls in the ui, you can only do it to existing keyboard shortcuts… :-/
this might help you out a bit:
https://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=witch&layout=default
sitruc
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hello…
by default, unix (under os x) allows non-owners of a folder to read the contents but not write or execute – in addition, you also get automatically logged into a certain directory (usually your home dir) when you use a username/password combo to connect to a unix box.
if you want to limit a certain account to a certain directory, you can do a few different things – but first, make a new account on the box for them only and give them that username and password – then they’ll have a home dir of their own (/Users/[WHATEVER_NAME]. at that point, if you want them to only have access to a another dir on the box, you can:
a. create a shortcut in their home dir to that dir and then they can click on the shortcut
or
b. open the netinfo manager (/Applications/Utilities) and click on users in the middle col – pick their new username and in the bottom panel, change the path from /Users/[WHATEVER_NAME] (where whatever name is the name you gave them) to the path to the desired directory – then when they log in, their home directory is that directory. to find the dir path for any given dir, find it in the finder and do a “get info” on it – the “where” value near the top of that dialog will give you the path…
a is a lot easier and quicker, but you could do b if you really wanted to start them off at a specific dir…
sitruc
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hello…
that’s a very large zip file, but if it’s a valid zip archive, os x should open it fine…i’d double-check with the sender that they can open a copy there first…
sitruc
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hello…
you could try using the command line to get rid of it – here’s an introduction to the command line:
https://www.macobserver.com/tips/macosxcl101/2002/20020524.shtml
basically open the terminal, and type the follwing (one per line):
cd ~/.Trash/
rm -r [FILE]where [FILE] is the name of the folder – so if it’s “Foo Bar”, then it would be:
rm -r Foo\ Bar
typically in most shells if you type the first letter or two and hit the tab key then it will fill in the rest…or you can use a wildcard:
rm -r *
that will delete everything in your trash…
give that a shot and see if it works…
sitruc
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hello…
hard to say without the specific error you’re getting, but if you are inside a firewall/router/proxy server at the office then you won’t be able to connect to it remotely without your firewall knowing about and forwarding the connection…
do you know if you a custom static ip for your box that is publicly available to the net? you can check that by looking in your network prefs (on the office box)…then also compare that ip to the ip that comes back when you hit a site like https://www.showmyip.com/ to see if you are behind some sort of proxy. but if your box address at the office is either (typically) 192.*.*.* or 10.*.*.* then you are behind a firewall…
if you are, then you’re sorta out of luck without a vpn… :-/
sitruc
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hello…
you can make an animated gif into a page backgound, but there are serious file size and quality limitations (256 colors) with that format…but adobe image ready can make those…
or you can make a site into a flash movie and have much fancier animated backgrounds, but there is no good conversion tool for that (adobe after effects has a flash export but it’s not very good)…
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