Leaving for the Weekend

I am heading out of town for a couple days, so keep watch of Spacemanbob.com. Make sure it doesn't fly away.

I'll be leaving at 4pm today. Cya Sunday.

I hate JAVA. Or should I say I hate....

Ok this is starting to piss me off again. We now have the Mozilla and Internet Explorer Wars. Something looks good in IE but looks better in Mozilla. Mozilla uses Java 1.4.2 IE uses 1.4.0.3. If you are unlucky enough to upgrade your Java in IE then some of my Java applications won't work, like the fading images. The Remote Control Cam should work. But here is the kicker, If you use or installed Mozilla and then got the Java update from SUN.com you now have 1.4.2 for everything since it is a newer version of Java. Now when you launch IE the Fading images will work but the Remote Control Cam won't, or at least the image coming from the camera won't update. The camera will zoom all over the place with the remote controls, but you won't be able to see anything from it every 5 seconds.

So the Wars are on AGAIN. Now I am have to see if there is any other software out there that is newer for the Remote Control Cam. If webcam32 doesn't update it's software, I may be forced to either buy new software or just get rid of the remote option till someone comes out with some that utilizes NEW Java.

Arghh!!!!

Dual Processor Update

Well the place that sold me the bad processor came through. I slapped the other processor in and now I have a dual Processor system that is running almost at the equivilent of dual 2.3gig processors. Which comes out to almost the same speed as some Servers that companies run their software on.

I am now in the process of installing software and will do some testing to see if it is faster than the system I am on now. It should be.

I'll be a flyin high if this works.

Woooo Hooo!!!!!

Computer Screen Grabs

I am working on making the Computer screen grabs reload correctly. Right now there is a Java issue and a refresh issue going on. I am working with the company that makes the Java Applet that is supposed to fade to the next image automatically. Until that is resolved you may have to close your browser in order to get a new image to show up from the last time you visited the Comptuer Cam Page. Once again I think it is related to IE not recognizing standard Java code. It seems to work at home though so I am not sure what the solution will be yet.

Hope to put an update on this soon.

UPDATE
I put a link to the Java Updates on the Computer Cam page. If you click on either one of these you should get the proper java download. This is weird. The Internet Explorer version is 1.4.0.3 and the Mozilla version is 1.4.2. Since I have mozilla installed I got that java package installed and now it works for IE also, even though I had 1.4.0.3 for IE

Sooo Here is what I have done. If you are using IE try the link and get java installed. Reboot the computer and see if the image fades to a new image. If it doesn't during the day, your only other option right now is to get Mozilla installed on your machine and then click the link I have to get that java package. Then you can uninstall mozilla if you want, and everything will work just fine.
I have to say once again. Microsoft and their proprietary crap is the cause for things not working correctly with java. Someone kick them in the pants will you. :)

New Updates on my site

I added a new feature that I have been wanting to add for a long time. Computer screen grabs. Now you can see if I am looking at dirty pictures at work. LOL

Actually you will most likely see me working on Web stuff, or working on Microsoft stuff at work. It all depends though on how busy I am at work.

Another portal into some of the things I do.

CSS The ongoing Struggle

I will continue learning basic CSS tags and how the work in the scheme of html overall.

As I progress, look for some changes in the site. And as I promised I will get more of the links up and running as I learn what I am doing. I'll also get the forums up and running too.

Being Lonely...

I guess when you've been living on your own with no real Girlfriend living with you, you end up having some really interesting dreams.

I won't go into the details of it but I can tell you I was almost smoothered by a really nice pair. Too bad it was only a dream. LOL

Well, back to the real world. All work and no play. Well, maybe a little play.

Storm Trooper's Arrive

Well, I have spent a small amount of time working on my project that I got from the Post Office. The Storm Trooper Armor. This weekend I spent a little time building the Helmet, which was one challenge I can tell you. I am glad it is done and over with. Now comes the other part, getting all the other armor to fit correctly. I am also working on making a Star Wars Blaster out of PVC which looks pretty good on paper.

But with no further ado. Here is a picture of the Helmet. And yes, you can't see things clearly out of the lenses. No wonder people had a hard time walking around in them.