2 Little nits to pick

1. The default in Disk Utility, for creating an image is "compressed". I remember changing it to "master dvd/cd" in Panther, I think. Any way to do this in Tiger?
2. Is there a way to send html code in an email, with Mail, so that others can see it as a web page?
Thanks.

hi,
1. in dont think you can change this, if you could it would be in preferences.
2. from memory you have to put tag it as non-code (can't remember how try this site: http://www.webmonkey.com/
regards,
Pete.

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Hello Guys,
Need help. I have already uninstalled my Logic Pro 8.
But somehow, every time I performed a Software Update - it will still somehow detected as if that I have Logic Pro 8 installed on my MBP and asked me to have it update with the latest version.
I have also already removed the file such as com.apple.logic.plist (something like that), and still - during Software Update - it will still picked up the latest Logic Pro 8 version to be update.
Am I missing some files that I am suppose to trash here as well?
Please guide.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best Regards,
Jonathan Gan

Dear Zuelito,
Thank you very much for your help again,
Yes - I have already tried restarting soon after my previous post. Still no luck.
When run SU - still it pick up the Logic Pro 8 latest version update. Grrrrr...
As for my Leopard version, Yes - I have already have it updated to 10.5.2 as well.
I have also check out the 'Ignore Update' configuration as you mentioned. It can be located and works exactly the way you describe it above. The only different is the 'Reset Ignored Updates' menu. For my case, if I were to 'Reset Ignored Updates' - I was advise from the pop up menu right before 'Ignore Update' was apply that it can only be done from the application menu itself. And since my application has already been removed. I guess I can no longer do the 'Reset Ignored Updates' if I want to.
So in the end, I didn't proceed on with the 'Ignore Update' method.
I know it's not really a big deal to have that little update being picked up everytime. After all, I can just unchecked it each time and it will not be downloaded and updated. But sometimes it really annoys me. I am sure you know how it felt too. heh heh heh Especially when our Mac is not performing the way it should be.
I have also learned how to do in-depth search for system files too. But still, nothing was located when the keyword Logic was keyed in.
Anyway, Thanks again. Let's hope we will find ways to tackle this issue.

Picking up a phone call.

There are times when the phone is off and someone tries to call me. I see the little slider to pick up the call. However, I can swipe or try to swipe the slider with my fingers 10 times and nothing happens. I've lost calls due to this and I don't know what could be causing this. Doesn't happen all the time though with is even more vexing.

nkhilnani wrote:
not sure why apple is not able to resolve the introduced with ios 4 in these 3 years
Maybe because it's not an issue... since this thread is almost 3 years old.
Any other unintelligent statements that you'd like the throw out there?

Constructing Binary tree

So this is my first post here and i am beginning to like this forum.
Can anybody help me on how to construct Binary tree from inorder and postorder traversals,i just want to know the algorithm so that i can apply it.
Please help.

I would like to pick a minor little nit with this analysis. The algorithm that has been proposed assumes that all the nodes are all distinct and that having selected the root from the end of the post-order listing that it is POSSIBLE to find it in the in-order list. What if you find multiple copies of this node?
If multiple copies of the root are found, you must have a method to distinguish, which one is the proper dividing point. In the worst possible case, the problem can not be solved at all. For example suppose my post-order and my in-order lists were these:
a a a a a
a a a a a
The shape of the tree is indeterminant in this case.
If you allow different tree nodes to contain identical values your recursive algorithm needs some modification.
The fix is this:
1) allow your recursive algorithm to fail (and report back any success or failure)
This can and happen if the two lists that you passed in are incompatible. For example they could have different nodes in them.
2) when you pick the root off the end of the post order list, you search for it in the in-order list, you could find multiple matches or you could find no matches. You must explore each of these independently because each one could lead to a possible different solution, or could lead to no solution. Of course in the case of no matches, you must report back a failure.
Depending on your needs, you can either stop the first time that you have successfully assembled a tree that matches the two supplied inputs, or you can have it grind on and have it enumerate all the possible tree arrangements that could have generated from the two traversals that you started with.
It might help to visualize if you write out all the possible trees with just the three nodes AAB. There are 15 of them, 5 with B at the root, 5 with A at the root and B in the left and 5 with B in the right. It is easy to draw the trees and to immediately write both their in-order and their post-order traversals.
Any traversal is just a list of the 3 nodes and there are 3 arrangements, AAB, ABA, and BAA. There are exactly 9 ordered pairs of these traversals so you can't get all 15 trees from the 9 pairs.
Sho nuff, three ordered pairs are unambiguous and generate a single unique tree(e.g. in:BAA post:ABA) and six of them come from ambiguous pairs of trees (e.g. in:ABA post:ABA - you can't tell if this is a tree ABA all leaning to the left or all leaning to the right)
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Trouble with String.replaceAll( )

Hi,
I have a string which contains instances of the backslash character followed by the double quote character and I'd like to replace those two characters with just a double quote. Or to put it slightly differently, I'd like to remove all backslash characters which precede double quotes. It seems like this should be straight-forward, but for some reason, I'm not getting the results I expect.
Here is my code:
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Melanie_Green wrote:
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MelJust a little nit-pick: the second parameter is not a plain String but a "regex replacement String". In it, the following characters have a special meaning and therefore need to be escaped if you'd like to use them as literals:
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You should ask such questions over at AEnhancers. I had a quick look at your code but could not find anything obvious, so it may relate to where and when you execute certain functions and how they are nested, I just don't have the time to do a deeper study.
Mylenium

Please tell me i'm crazy

lately i'm becoming slightly annoyed over a few things regarding my MBP. some of these things might be a result of being a little nit-picky, but i need to know if they are things i need to be concerned about.
first thing: the infamous warped screen. this one hasn't been that big of a deal, i've noticed this one almost immediately (but i think outside of the initial 14 days) and since it never really "affected the functionality" of the computer and since apple kind of deems this as a "cosmetic" issue, i learned to just bite my tongue deal with it. however, earlier this year i noticed that on the right side where the screen warp is located that it seems the screen is slightly separated from the outer shell. it's barely visible, but i know it's there and you can physically "push" where the silver border is. you can do this from the corner to about 3 inches towards the center on either the width or height of the screen (when opened). it makes a slight creaking noise when you do this as well.
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both of these things might be considered cosmetic, but i would argue that they compromise the structural integrity of the computer itself, regardless of whether it affects functionality.
secondly, there something wrong with my ctrl key. if i press the key (not any more forceful than if i were typing normally) anywhere on the lower half of the key, it makes a clicking sound. if i do the same thing on any of the other keys, there is no clicking sound. again, in conjunction with this key issue, there might be something off with my trackpad button. it slightly teeters (which might be normal anyways) and if i gently tap it with my thumb it makes the sound as though it was clicked, though it does not perform the clicking action. again, that might be normal, but i don't recall experiencing that on the few occasions where i've had to use my ex-roommate's MBP (which is 8 months older than my own).
lastly, there may or may not be something wrong with my power switch. it seems that 6 out of every 10 times i press the power switch, nothing happens. i have to press it a second time for the computer to turn on and boot. there have been a few occasions where i've pressed the power button and i hear the DVD drive initialize as it usually does when it boots (though there have been times where the drive doesn't initialize) and then nothing happens.
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Take it in! You have mentioned four things, three of which should be looked at - the keyboard is kinda odd. Try to get it into the shop before noon so parts can be ordered and in the shop next day.

The dreaded ? and alternating Mac logo folder

I recently won quite a few macs from an auction from public school district, emacs and imacs from 2001-2004 range. For security of course all the drives were cleared. I am quite experienced on pc's as I am a technician at our local cable company, but when it comes to macs I know just enough to mess things up. But we troubleshoot both, so I would like to learn more about them. I plan to set these up at my church as a computer lab, but not sure where to start. I have 2 sets of boot up discs that are labeled imacs, but neither the imacs or emacs will boot when holding c down at boot. These were in a seperate box though so not sure they even go to the computers I got.
What I have read about and done so far:
Followed instructions online about finding the hd (that was fun)to make sure there was no physical damage, the district didn't touch it physically, on 2 mac laptops tha came w/ they just took a drill and drilled through the hd. So no physical damage to hd.
Next, I did the pram reset and got the ding it says, but no change on next boot
Next, I found an article on the open firmware and got into it, and I was like cool(finally a break) something that looks like dos, I can work with this. And I found some artice telling me to change the boot device to X but that didn't work either. And looks like a whole nest of hornets when I started reading about all the stuff that can be done in OF. I found a walkthrough of setting up the partitions.
I thought about calling apple to try to obtain a boot disk for the emacs, and I am sure one the imac or imac dv boot discs will work on the imacs. But how do I get these hard drives prepared to take the boot disk (I understand that is proably what is missing from ibm format and partitioning I can do in my sleep).
I didn't have any info on the macs before, but I noticed the OF had some info on the machines, so I will post that to the thread later
Questions:
1. What would a typical school employee do to clear a mac hd quickly, he had a lot to deal with so I am sure didn't put much time into it, I mean he drilled through the laptops, and some ibm's he just took the hd out? (can he ruin a hd permanently without cracking the case)
2. If the hd's are useable, what do I need to do get it prepped to acccept a boot disk?
3. If unable to get boot disk for emac, can I used what I found on bit torrent to boot, if it is copied from a pc, or should I get an imac working first then try to firewire to an emac (possible?)?
4. In the status these macs are in, after I get one working can I firewire to others(there is like 30 of them)to get them working or do I need to work on each one?
I know this will take a while, and prepared to keep looking till I can find an answer, not expecting a quick fix. If you can answer any one of the questions or offer assistance I would greatly appreciate it.
p.s. A lot of questions I know but if anyone can take me under their wing and help me get these working for the church, I would be more than happy to send you one at no charge

Hey Scooter,
3 - 333mhz/ 32 ram/ 6gb hd
Tray loaders.
Hard to find larger RAM for therefore I usually keeps these on OS 9.2.2 altho' these will run Panther or Tiger.
I set these up with SMIs of preK - 2nd grade. Things like Living Books, Kid Pix 3 Deluxe, Green Eggs and Ham etc.
Slot loaders
2 - 350mhz/ 64 ram/ 6gb hd/512k cache - These have no FireWire
Those below all have FireWire that's a very important fact and makes installs and transfer of data very easy using target mode. They can also be made to boot from an external firewire.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
3 - imac dv/400mhz/512k L2 cache/128 ram/13gb hd (under i/o)
1 - 400mhz/ 64 ram/10gb hd/128 p
1 - 500mhz/ 64 ram/20g hd
12 - 500mhz/128 ram/20g hd
All of the slot loaders will take PC100 - PC133 (those that will under clock) and that's relatively easy to find. I use salvaged RAM from PII-PIIIs.
These will also use salvaged ATA/IDE hard drives from PCs anything up to 128 GB.
Be very aware of the firmware version before running anything past OS 10.2.
I run 10.4.11 in all these that I set up.
I have a bunch of iMac installers for OS 9 so email me.
Emacs
These are all excellent machines. All have FireWire and G4 processors. They're just a little hard to pick up :<}
1 - Emac 700/384mb ram/40gb hd
This one had IVAD cable problems that resulted in the display rolling up like a window shade.
5 - G4/1ghz/384mb ram/80gb hd
3 - 1.25ghz/ 512mb ram/80gb hd
Run the serial #s of the two models above here:
http://www.apple.com/support/emac/repairextensionprogram/
Pay special attention to any that fall within the range. The problem was bad electrolytics that you might be aware of in Dells, Sonys, IBMs etc. These were the overfilled caps that swelled and burst/failed.
Two can be seen in the user access area on the bottom.
The 3 year extended repair program is quickly reaching it's end.
You can run the serial #s here:
http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html
That will give you the date of manufacture.
If you see problems catalog and identify them and approach Apple about a repair. I would think you have an angle as a large not for profit if there are a lot of machines Apple might opt to affect free repairs even tho' the machines are outside the 3 year limit. Keep trying as that's very dependent on the Apple supervisor you get.
Finally look here at mrtotes 2nd post the 3rd site he lists:
http://tinyurl.com/5cpdhr
I think you will find some very useful downloads there for the iMacs and the eMacs.
Some of the new ones might not be there. In that case email me and I'll see what I have.
This is what I do here in Chicago:
http://www.vimeo.com/clip:150591
Richard
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Nokia's Andriod phone

Over internet i heard that Nokia is about to launch Android phone which is Feo 800 is it true or a rumor ?

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I've got a bit of a problem here. You see, I just had Comcast High Speed Internet installed in my house. It's a secured network and only my laptop and my mom's laptop can use the signal, so it's not a lack of bandwidth. While the guy was here installing it and explaining how to use the new DVR my mom bought from them I decided to see how fast flash animations load now that I got the high speed connection. Only to my disbelief... nothing. Anything flash doesn't load at all on my laptop. I decided to start a little experiment and picked up my mom's 14" iBook. I opened Safari and Bam... Flash worked for her. "Alright, what the heck's going on?" I said. I then opened the about window for Safari to see if it was a version issue and viola, I believe that's the culprit. She has Safari 2.0 and I have 2.0.2. I thought, "Alright, I'll just download version 2.0 from Apple's website and see if the downgrade helps. I run into another problem, it says that it can't be installed on my Hard drive because I don't meet the system requirements. We both have Tiger (10.4.3) and she's got an iBook and I've got a 17" PowerBook and mine doesn't meet the system requirements? Alright... I went to see what these system requirements were. They were OS X 10.3 - 10.3.8. She's got Tiger... that's 10.4.3! A full 0.0.5 versions newer than what it says it supports, but it runs on her laptop and flash works fine for her. Also, I had no problems when I used Dial-Up.
Anyone know what the heck's going on with my computer?
*Flash works fine in both Internet Explorer and Firefox (Yeah, I don't get it either)* I also tried redownloading the Flash player from Macromedia... did it 3 times and still... no result.
Also, it's my first post here, so if I'm missing some well needed information, sorry. Let me know and I'll try to remember to elaborate more in my posts.
17" PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1.5 GHZ G4 | 512 MB RAM | 80 GB HD

I figured it out. The guy that installed the internet turned off Plug-Ins in Safari. I feel so stupid for not looking at the preferences earlier.

Pro Res v HDV v SD comparison test

Just incase anyone is interested, I have just completed a comparison test for checking the processing times for converting HDV footage into SD (ready for authoring). Having read up on the forum,the options of keeping things in native HDV , converting to 422 or downconverting to SD at the start, I thought I would try a like for like test and see how it came out, both from a processing time and quality viewpoint. (this is only my test, so please don't hammer me if you don't agree, I am only trying to share this basic test.
Exactly 1 minute of footage was filmed on Sony Z1 as HDV
The footage contained a mixture of static, and slow pan shots, to make it a bit challenging.
Option 1 - Capture and edit using Pro Res 422
Option 2 - Capture and edit using native HDV
Option 3 - Down convert from HDV to SD via the camera, edit in SD anamorphic (don't groan just yet)
All clips had the exact same transitions and filters applied
These were 2 x cross dissolves, 1x 3way colour corrected clip, 1 x speed modification clip.
All processed on a new MBP 2.53 with all settings left as default (hopefully a fair representation for many)
The process was to export a self contained QT file, import into compressor (best quality), timed until the MPEG2 and AC3 file icons popped up as complete and ready for import into DVDSP.
The time results were as follows:
Option 1 (Pro Res422) - time taken to exp to QT = 131sec, Compressor encode time=371sec
Total time 502 secs i.e 8m 22s with the QT file size being 731mb
Option 2 (native HDV) - time taken to exp to QT = 197sec, Compressor encode time = 400 sec
Total time 597 secs i.e 9m 47s with the Qt file size being 192mb
Option 3 (DC to SD 1st)- time taken to exp to QT = 22 sec, Compressor encode time = 94 sec
Total time 116 secs i.e 1m 56s with the QT file size being 219mb (strange as i thought it would be less than the HDV version, but there we go)
All 3 options were then imported into DVDSP and the same settings chosen for burning a SD DVD and the 3 dvds then displayed on a 42"plasma (pioneer) and 42"LCD (sony bravia).DVD players Sony upscaling DVD connected via HDMI and Sony Std DVD non upscaling DVD player.
6 people(1 x BBC camera man, 1 X editor and 1 x program manager, 3 x general public ) were then persuaded to view DVDs and pick what they thought was the best. None had any knowledge as to which was which.
Results surprised me, in so much that most struggled to spot the difference!
1 picked the Pro Res (stating they thought it was a little sharper)
1 picked the native HDV, giving a similar reason
4 said that they would be happy with either and couldn't see any concernable difference to pick one over another.
Ok so maybe not a scientific test, and I am sure some will say oh but...if you had done this, or that, then the results would have been different, but hey I only did the test to see in a real world, what the differences are. Certainly the processing times varied hugely from 1m56s to 9m47s for the same 1 minute piece of film. Likewise the QT file sizes from 192mb (hdv) to 731mb (422).
So if storage or time are really critical, I hope it may be useful to anyone with little HDV experience (like me) to make a decision. At least in this case, most people cannot tell the difference for it to be that important.
I would like to hear if anybody else has had too much time on their hands to carry out similar tests and come up with the same or different results?
This is after all only a tiny piece of the jigsaw.
Cheers
Stu

It offers better performance when editing. HDV is processor intensive, and can take longer to render, and a lot longer to compress into your final format. And HDV is an 8-bit 4:2:0 codec. While you can't change that going to ProRes, ProRes is 4:2:2 10-bit, and color correcting that gives you better leway with color...you can push things more. just a TAD more, as your color information is already whack.
But if you intend to master back to HDV, do not go to ProRes. To go back to HDV you need to capture as native HDV.
Shane

Quicktime 10 player stutters and skips but quicktime pro doesn't

I have a early 2011 17inch i7 mac book pro and just recently when I play 60fps footage from my 7D camera in quicktime 10, the clips stutter and skips, it does this intermittently and in different parts of the same clip. I can play the clip and it would stutter at one point and then when i play it back again it would play fine at that same part and then stutter at another part. But when i open the same footage in quicktime 7 (quicktime pro) it play with no issues every single time.
So I then tried the same footage on my 8 core MacPro, and played the clips in quicktime 10, all the footage plays with no problems everytime.
Is this a hard drive issue, a grafics card issue? I was at the apple store and seen a genuis and we tried to troubleshoot it but cold not figure out the issue. The apple rep said to replace the hardrive, but i want to make sure before I do. Does anyone have any suggestions.

Thanks for the response.
I didn't realize those settings weren't controlling the same function, but I see that now... Fact is, I don't use QT all that much, and don't need much functionality from it, just to watch a few screen capture videos I create using Snapz Pro X.
Problem is, I can't control rewind/fast-forward if I can't see the controls, and QT doesn't default to showing the full display. Unfortunately, it seems the pref setting functionality I want apparently doesn't work for MY needs, so I'm stuck with having to manually select the 'fit to screen' setting EVERY TIME I open a new .mov video in QT. I see there's a keyboard short-cut to "fit to screen" (Apple Key/3), but the only thing better than needing to use a key combo EVERY time I open a movie is not needing to use one at all! Very Un-Maclike...
Wondering why QT Pro can't default to opening to the USER'S preference (whether fit to screen or full screen), so as not to have to change it EVERY TIME? This is a PRO app? How long has QT been released, a decade or two? Shouldn't it a mature app, at this point, with little nit-noids like this worked out?

Tip: Unique Constraint on Part of Table

Here's a cute little trick I picked up from where it was hiding deep within one of the manuals:
Consider a table where one column needs to be unique, but only part of the time based on some condition within the row. For example, col1 must be unique when its value is above 1000 but any number of rows can have the same value for col1 when it is 999 or less. Another example would be a flag column that determines that col1 must be unique. Don't ask me WHY you would do either of these things.
Here's how to accomplish the first example (btw both examples require a PK on the table):
CREATE TABLE junk(
junk_key INTEGER NOT NULL,
col1 INTEGER NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT pk_junk PRIMARY KEY(junk_key)
--The way we accomplish this is with a function-based index.
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx_semiuniq ON junk(
CASE WHEN col1>=1000 THEN TO_CHAR(col1) ELSE '~' || TO_CHAR(junk_key) END);
--The following statements should succeed:
insert into junk values(1,1);
insert into junk values(2,1);
insert into junk values(3,1000);
insert into junk values(4,1001);
update junk set col1=1002 where junk_key=4;
--The following statements should fail:
insert into junk values(5,1000);
update junk set col1 = 1001 where junk_key=1;
The same strategy applies to the second example, except that in this case we'll need an additional column to indicate that col1 needs to be unique:
CREATE TABLE junk( junk_key INTEGER NOT NULL,
col1 INTEGER NOT NULL,
uniq_flag CHAR(1) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT pk_junk PRIMARY KEY(junk_key),
CONSTRAINT ck_junk CHECK (uniq_flag IN ('Y','N'))
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx_semiuniq ON junk(CASE WHEN uniq_flag = 'Y' THEN TO_CHAR(col1) ELSE '~' || TO_CHAR(junk_key) END);
--these should succeed:
insert into junk values(1,1,'N');
insert into junk values(2,1,'N');
insert into junk values(3,1,'Y');
insert into junk values(4,2,'Y');
--these should fail:
insert into junk values(5,2,'Y');
update junk set uniq_flag='Y' where junk_key=2;
Another way to accomplish this is with a "not exists" in a check constraint, but I think the function-based index will perform better especially when inserting or updating large numbers of rows.

You could try something like
(extract(OBJECT_VALUE,compagnie/pilotes/pilote/brevet').getStringVal());
but this is probably unadvisable.
I suggest an alternative is for you to look at XMLINDEX so that you can bring the 'proper' XML functions into play like XMLTABLE etc.

Linking Javascript and CSS?

Hello,
I have a small little script that picks an image based upond
what month it is. When I was first constructing the site I used CSS
to put a backgound image on the body tag. It's this image that I
want to be based on what month it is. I'm wondering if its possible
to link my CSS background image's placement with the image results
that the Javascript gets.
CSS:
body {
background-image: default.jpg;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position: center top
Javascript:
<script>
onload=function(){
document.images["imageOfTheMonth"].src=
["01.jpg",
"02.jpg",
"03.jpg",
"04.jpg",
"05.jpg",
"06.jpg",
"07.jpg",
"08.jpg",
"09.jpg",
"10.jpg",
"11.jpg",
"12.jpg"][new Date().getMonth()];
</script>
<img src="imageOfTheMonth" src="default.jpg">
</style>
Site Location:
http://www3.telus.net/public/surekiss/index2.html
If there is away to do this, I would be greatful for a lead
to follow so that I can figure this out.
Thanks!

c-fqgy,
One way to solve this problem is to predefine 12 classes: one
for each
month:
.month01 { background-image: january.jpg; }
.month02 { background-image: february.jpg; }
/* etc. */
Then in your JS, dynamically apply the class of the current
month to
your element. That way your CSS does not need to be
manipulated with JS.
HTH,
Randy
> I have a small little script that picks an image based
upond what month it is.
> When I was first constructing the site I used CSS to put
a backgound image on
> the body tag. It's this image that I want to be based on
what month it is. I'm
> wondering if its possible to link my CSS background
image's placement with the
> image results that the Javascript gets.
>
> CSS:
> body {
> background-image: default.jpg;
> background-color: #FFFFFF;
> background-repeat: repeat-y;
> background-position: center top
> }
>
> Javascript:
> <script>
> onload=function(){
> document.images["imageOfTheMonth"].src=
> ["01.jpg",
> "02.jpg",
> "03.jpg",
> "04.jpg",
> "05.jpg",
> "06.jpg",
> "07.jpg",
> "08.jpg",
> "09.jpg",
> "10.jpg",
> "11.jpg",
> "12.jpg"][new Date().getMonth()];
> }
> </script>
> <img src="imageOfTheMonth" src="default.jpg">
> </style>
>
>
> Site Location:
>
http://www3.telus.net/public/surekiss/index2.html
>
>
> If there is away to do this, I would be greatful for a
lead to follow so that
> I can figure this out.
> Thanks!
>

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