Really basic help needed

I've never done any web work other than look at it. (and buy too much stuff) Now I'd like to set up a family web site (pictures and announcements) on the "free" site available through my provider. I have no idea how to do it; no concept of how a web page or information source is created. Can someone direct me to a rudimentary education source?
My provider recommends Fetch, Anarchie, or Transit. Would one of these have enough instructions to get me started?
Thanks
Geoff Kloster

Geoff K wrote:
My provider recommends Fetch, Anarchie, or Transit. Would one of these have enough instructions to get me started?
Geoff ~ Transmit has a Transmit+iWeb tutorial. Fetch has an _Uploading Webpages_ and _Using Fetch with iWeb_ tutorial.
Can someone direct me to a rudimentary education source?
Apple has some basic _iWeb video tutorials_ and here's a _tutorial based on iWeb '06_.

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Hi
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1) Some tracks don't even allow my to bounce to mp3. When I try to select file>Bounce, I cannot select it as it is not available and is the light grey colour of unavailable items.
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What do I do to fix these two problems. Thank you for your help.

Hi and welcome to Logic Express,
First of all: Bouncing is usually done by bouncing from the Master Output Channel. You should see a small Bounce Button (Bnce) below the Fader (look to the left in the Inspector window - there are 2 Channel Strips. The Left is for the selected Track and the right one usually is the master Output (Out 1-2). Or you can select Bounce from the File Menu. Only Output Tracks can be bounced! You can't bounce individual tracks, but have to route them to an output. Usually, this routing is on by default, so if you didn't change it, it shouldn't worry you.
See if none of your tracks are muted and if you can actually play back the entire project and hear the desired result in Logic. If so, hit the bounce button below the master output (1-2) fader.
The second step is to select the right method of bouncing. There should be a popup menu now asking you about filename and so. Enter the desired filename and maybe another folder. If not, Logic names it Output 1-2.mp3, which isn't that bright. To the lower left, u should see some available file formats. Check mp3 (this is important!) first. Also select offline bounce, if not checked. Check if "normalise" is activated. If not, activate it.
Now, the options change to allow some mp3 specific tweaks. Use the ones you like. I use about 160kbits for stereo, normal stereo mode, and tweak all the ID3 Tags as desired. Also check "add to itunes library".
Now, before you bounce, check if the start and stop marks of the bounce are actually the same that you want them to be. Sometimes they snap to the last marked region, which isn't neccesarily the correct song length. I messed up some bounces before i got this right.
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Basic help needed very much

Hi,
I have an Epson 3800 printer and Adobe Elements 7 (Epson advised me that I should buy some version of Photoshop to take full advantage of the printers capabilities).....Problem is need basic info on how to set all the buttons to make a decent print. There are many,many choices on various drop down tabs all through the process of making a print. Also, It seems that all my pictures are 72 ppi ...is this a default setting ? Or, did I do something wrong when I downloaded them from my camera ? PLEASE help ! If at all possible someone could guide me through the process step by step I would be very, very grateful. I need guidance from the download, through the myriad of buttons (ie: color management, size selections (why do I have to tell both Elements and the printer the size of my paper?!!$#@) what's up with 72ppi on all my pics, if i change to 300 ppi wont pics get worse ? )
I called Epson and asked them to walk me through a print but they wouldnt because they said I'm going through Elements first and that is not their responsibility! BUT THEY ADVISED ME TO GET ELEMENTS IN THE FIRST PLACE !!!
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Frank, here's a couple links to tutorials that may help. They use Photoshop but the print settings in Elements are similar enough.
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-print-from-photoshop-to-the-epson-stylus-pr o-3800-260408/
http://people.csail.mit.edu/ericchan/dp/Epson3800/printworkflow.html
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Oops!
Nicolas, Thank you for correcting my mistake.
SQL> edit
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 CREATE TABLE placement
2 (
3 contactId Int,
4 placementId Int,
5 position VARCHAR(60),
6 description CLOB,
7 lengMonths Int,
8 salary Number(7,2),
9 deadline DATE check (deadline between sysdate and sysdate+365),
10 startDate DATE,
11 addrLine1 VARCHAR(120),
12 postCd VARCHAR(10)
13* )
SQL> /
deadline DATE check (deadline between sysdate and sysdate+365),
ERROR at line 9:
ORA-02436: date or system variable wrongly specified in CHECK constraint
SQL> edit
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 CREATE TABLE placement
2 (
3 contactId Int,
4 placementId Int,
5 position VARCHAR(60),
6 description CLOB,
7 lengMonths Int,
8 salary Number(7,2),
9 deadline DATE check (deadline between to_date('2007-03-21','yyyy-mm-dd') and to_date('2008-03-21','yyyy-mm-dd')
10 startDate DATE,
11 addrLine1 VARCHAR(120),
12 postCd VARCHAR(10)
13* )
SQL> /
Table created.
On the contrary, I think that OP want an error instead of rollback : "I would like for these triggers to display an error rather than just using ROLLBACK"Ah, I had misread additionally. Sorry.

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- Is my service type proxy-cache, type redirect or type transparent cache ?
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Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
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Thanks, that explains a few things.
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active
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content redirect_rule
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port 8080
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Thanks again for the help
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If you would have some time to talk me through the process, I would be very grateful.
Jeanne Loehnis
[email protected]
920-832-6613

I agree about the documentation. It's not always easy to understand how to do something if your situation doesn't exactly match the examples. I had to use a lot of trial and error to finally get some jobs running.
The first misunderstanding I had was that if I want to schedule a document, I have to import my .bqy file as a job from the filesystem. You can't take an Interactive Reporting document from Workspace and use it as the basis of a job. So if you're using the web-based client and working on documents stored in Workspace you have to export the document to your filesystem and then import it as a job. You're probably beyond that point.
The second misunderstanding (and I wonder if this is your problem) is that you must set the job to allow users to create their own cycles for it. If you don't you're stuck with the default cycle set, and you cannot change it. This is where the documentation falls short -- it mentions the attribute, but doesn't go far enough to tell you what happens if you don't check it off -- that even you, as the owner-and-most-likely-also-administrator won't even be able to maninpulate the cycles. What's more, if you don't set this attribute on import, you can't set it later. There's no way to reach the dialog with Properties. I can't vouch for the Batch Scheduler, we don't license that (if it even applies). Maybe it's a bug, maybe I'm missing something, but this is the only way I can get the full functionality to work.
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I'm new to networking, so bear with me. Here is what I am trying to do:
I would like to get to websites that are blocked by a corporate firewall (websense). (I take full responsibility for what I am doing and am not putting myself at risk - don't worry).
It seems like I could use SSH to connect to my home internet connection thus bypassing the firewall.
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I just downloaded a program salled SSHTunnel that sounds like it should help, but I don't know where to start.

The easy route.
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Configure the work TeamViewer with your corporate Proxy settings
TeamViewer -> Preferences -> General -> Proxy Settings...
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This is the easiest way I know about.
The HARD WAY: You can do this via ssh, but there are a lot more detailed steps.
1st question. Does your company allow "Out-Bound" ssh connections? If it does, that helps a lot. If they DO NOT, then you would need to mess with an OpenSource program called "Corkscrew" that will get ssh through a proxy server.
Once you get through the firewall, then you will need to get a dynamic DNS name for your home system. No-IP.com and DynDNS.org offer free dynamic DNS names. You use this so you do not need to worry about your ISP changing your home IP address.
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On your destination Mac, you need to enable System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Login, and while you are at it, you should enable screen sharing preference.
Now on your work system, you ssh to your home system. The form of the command depends on whether you need to use corkscrew or not.
Without corkscrew:
ssh -L 5901:localhost:5900 [email protected]
With corkescrew:
ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900
-o 'ProxyCommand /path/to/corkscrew proxy.server.address 8080 %h %p'
[email protected]
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Finder -> Go -> Connect to server
vnc://localhost:5900
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Thank you for posting to the forums.
I wanted to get some further information from you.
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Use of the DAQ Assistant is a great start and I see you have already configured this to read voltages from the mic continuously.
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Is your motor a stepper motor or a DC brushless motor? Does it require a motor drive to run? Would you be able to post up the model and specifications of the motor?
Would you also be able to post up a diagram of the system you are creating?
You will need to use Digital I/O in order to create the control algorithm. This will be using the DAQmx driver.
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Hello all,
Bit of a novice with RSS etc, just need a bit of help.
After hosting my podcast on my own personal wordpress webspace, where each episode has a 20mb limit, I have signed up to Libsyn to have more space to make episodes longer.
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David,
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