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I am in the final throes, thrashing about like a drowning man, of a lengthy editing project. Whether it's because my computer is too old, too slow or otherwise compromised or just because Microsoft Word is lame, the experience of doing this work with "Track Changes" turned on has been hideous. I think I need someone to show me how to make the feature functional, because I have so many color-coded modifications to deal with that I frequently find it impossible to discern the original document underneath. Sometimes, though, I'll pass over a paragraph that is gloriously devoid of color and smile.
Just because a computer is five years old doesn't mean that it won't benefit hugely from an extra gigabyte of memory. I can't believe it took me so long to make the move. Of course, I paid hundreds of dollars less than I would have a few years back. But think of all the hours of frustration I had waiting for the machine to execute tasks. The most surprising thing is how much quieter and cooler it's running now.
Thanks to the help you provided in response to my last entry and the realization that I am capable, when pressed, of figuring extremely basic problems with code out on my own -- all hail Turbo Pascal -- I figured out how to embed video from the Internet Archive in my LJ entries with splash image a la YouTube so that they will not play until you, my readers, wish them to do so. My previous entry showed how the code looked before the fix. And here's how it looks now, with the minor but crucial changes I made indicated in magenta:
Remember if you want to follow my lead to replace the URL for the splash image. I made mine with a screen shot. Oh, and here's the link to my original entry, if you want to see how it works.
I'm going to do something I almost never do: ask for help. I was excited to be able to embed non-YouTube video material in my entries, but realized that the code I'd copied for my entry of earlier today was making the Westinghouse refrigerator infomercial play every time it was loaded. And that's not cool for "Friends" pages.
I've put the video behind the cut for now. But I don't like to use LJ cuts unless an entry is really long. Actually, I don't like to do LJ cuts period. What I'd rather do for circumstances like this is find a way to modify the embedding code so that it doesn't play unless you click first, a la YouTube clips embedded within LJ entries. Here's my question. Do any of you with more coding experience than I have -- it has been a long time since I was messing around with Modula-2 -- know how to realize this goal? I'll present the code I used earlier today, taken straight from the Internet Archive:
I've put the video behind the cut for now. But I don't like to use LJ cuts unless an entry is really long. Actually, I don't like to do LJ cuts period. What I'd rather do for circumstances like this is find a way to modify the embedding code so that it doesn't play unless you click first, a la YouTube clips embedded within LJ entries. Here's my question. Do any of you with more coding experience than I have -- it has been a long time since I was messing around with Modula-2 -- know how to realize this goal? I'll present the code I used earlier today, taken straight from the Internet Archive:
I've never seen this "lj-embed" tag before. The only thing I know about FlowPlayer is that it's the one that the Internet Archive uses, presumably because it's open-source. Anyway, I'd greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide. In the interim, if you see an LJ cut on one of my entries, it will most likely have video embedded behing it.
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I mean no disrespect to those of you who work on elaborate web content when I say what I'm about to say. You have to do what people will pay you to do. That said, however, let me take a minute of your time to register how much I hate the sort of Flash-happy content, much of it advertising, that has prevented me from ever seeing the results of the improvements that my ISP supposedly keeps making. In fact, I'm pretty sure that my experience of using the internet is slower than it was five years ago, largely because of those attention-grabbing boxes. I'm not opposed to seeing ads, necessarily. I actually find some of the ones that Gmail turns up highly amusing. What I can't stand, though, are those moments when my computer slows to a crawl because a series of stupid loops has drained it of the capacity to handle the tasks that matter to me. This is why I've made a vow never to purchase anything that I learn about through animated content, Pitchfork-pitched products included.
I can't get my Mail program to open at work. It was working fine. Then I started to get this error message:
I'm not sure what this means. My hard drive has nearly 66 gigabytes of free space. My home folder contains 18.73 gigabytes, but seems to be working without a hitch with the rest of my applications. Has anyone out there experienced this problem before?
I'm not sure what this means. My hard drive has nearly 66 gigabytes of free space. My home folder contains 18.73 gigabytes, but seems to be working without a hitch with the rest of my applications. Has anyone out there experienced this problem before?.
