Where's the "Any" key? New Tech Support Thread

[elpollodiablo]

Probably haters

[diesel_powered]

So since when does Firefox automatically load the next page when you scroll down on certain sites (Google searches, various blogs)? Cuz it's pretty sweet.

[donblood]

That's not Firefox, really, it's a redesign of those sites (and one that's become very common).  Your browser has various events associated with things you do, like once-the-page-has-loaded or once-the-user-reaches-the-bottom-of-the-page; they can trigger browser actions like go-get-more-content-and-append-to-the-current-page.

By the way, when people talk about Web 2.0, they're usually talking about updating the current page without reloading the entire thing using these events & triggers.  Sometimes they're just talking about rounded corners and self-important programmers but for the most part it's stuff like what you described.

[diesel_powered]

I, for one, think it's totally sweet.

[coldforge]

Ajax was definitely the two coolest characters in the Iliad.

[donblood]

AJAX was a name a guy thought up in the shower

[diesel_powered]

You mean it's not named after the Duckman character?

[Aglaya]

I, for one, think it's totally sweet.

I want that in banner form that I can unroll over my head after sharing random useless information with people.

[elpollodiablo]

Does anyone know how to add a simple comment system to a Tumblr blog? I tried Disqus but I'm apparently too inept with the code to make it work.

[davy]

So since when does Firefox automatically load the next page when you scroll down on certain sites (Google searches, various blogs)? Cuz it's pretty sweet.

This doesn't happen for me

[diesel_powered]

I dunno, update Firefox?

[davy]

I always do!

Which reminds me...I'm getting prompted to download iTunes 9. What's the scoop on it?

[lastclearchance]

Does anyone know how to add a simple comment system to a Tumblr blog? I tried Disqus but I'm apparently too inept with the code to make it work.

This is the disqus way, which I think is about as simple as you're going to get it:

   1. Log into tumblr.com/customize.
   2. Navigate to Theme and select "Use Custom HTML" if it isn't already enabled.
   3. Find

Code:

{/block:Posts}

in the custom HTML. Right before that, paste

Code:

<div style="font-size: 10px; text-align: left;"><a class="dsq-comment-count" href="{Permalink}#disqus_thread">Comments</a></div>

Right after

Code:

{/block:Posts}

paste

Code:

{block:Permalink}<div id="disqus_thread"></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://disqus.com/forums/bloggingthesinglesjukebox/embed.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://bloggingthesinglesjukebox.disqus.com/?url=ref">View the discussion thread.</a></noscript><a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">blog comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a>{/block:Permalink}<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
(function() {
var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
var query = '?';
for(var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
if(links[i].href.indexOf('#disqus_thread') >= 0) {
query += 'url' + i + '=' + encodeURIComponent(links[i].href) + '&';
}
}
document.write('<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="http://disqus.com/forums/bloggingthesinglesjukebox/get_num_replies.js' + query + '"></' + 'script>');
})();
//]]>
</script>

Did that not work, or...?

[lastclearchance]

I always do!

Which reminds me...I'm getting prompted to download iTunes 9. What's the scoop on it?

On my Mac it's running smoother and faster than 8 did, which is as much as d_p said in the iTunes Support thread. One thing that really annoyed me is that the column browser got moved from the top to the left. Then I realized I could just change it back in View > Column Browser. Now I'm happy again.

[diesel_powered]

Are you running it on 10.5 or 10.6?

[lastclearchance]

10.6, which has also been working well for me

better than for merlin anyway

[davy]

Any comments from the PC crowd?

Gotta tell you, as much trouble as I've had with v. 8, I've got little to lose by updating.

[diesel_powered]

I'm totally pulling this out my ass, but I'd guess you might have some better luck since this is the first version of iTunes that's specifically written for Intel architecture.

[clare]

10.6, which has also been working well for me

I just dowloaded it last night, and annoyingly, the first thing it did was crash. It seemed OK after that, but I'm reserving my review until I've used it a bit more.

[slow west vultures]

k, so i think i may have brought a virus onto our home computer yesterday by visiting a sketchy site.  something like that happened the last time i visited there, and i ran the virus scan and deleted a few things.  i think my mom just shut it down last night though, when the computer said 'there is a virus detected'.  today we couldn't connect to the internet.  we have a router for my dad's business computer, and he's able to connect to the internet so its not a problem with the connection at all - just something wrong when our computer tries to connect to the internet.  i think we tried every diagnostic thing that microsoft offers, and nothing would work.  it says ' Cannot communicate with Primary DNS server'  it basically says that windows cannot solve this problem, contact your internet service provider or network administrator.

so, whado i do?  are the viruses out there that totally shut off your ability to connect to the internet?  we ran virus scan and deleted a couple of cookies and such, but i don't know what to do now.  my mom's friend said that they got a virus that did the same thing, and a coworker of her husband had to walk them through how to restart it again.  i'm hoping its not as complex as that though. 

[diesel_powered]

Sounds like you might have gotten a virus that redoes your DNS server settngs. The DNS server is the thing that converts 69.248.753.45 into something convenient like www.google.com. Sometimes, certain viruses will switch them around on you to redirect your browsing to some kind of phishing page. As I suspect you're running Windows, I'm a little to rusty to help, but maybe Jim or someone could?

[slow west vultures]

well that's helpful.  and you're not gonna believe this story, but anybody who wants a good laugh line up:
my mom walks into the kitchen this morning, and is like 'the computers working again' ( my dad went out of town and i was really expecting we'd need our neighbors help at the very least to work through this)  what'd you do?  mom: i don't know, it was the last button i pressed. 

[YojimboMonkey]

it's very possible that the DNS client service on your machine crashed and the next time the computer booted it worked fine

[diesel_powered]

What he said.

[elpollodiablo]

So D's Vaio got water damaged on Friday. It was dead as Dillinger Friday night, but two days of drying out and it's good as new. Vaios are apparently a lot more resilient than Macbooks.