Eric

Hey Art, I'd say that 12 point font is a pretty standard font size among websites and word processing, and this site using something closer to 13 for the post content. 1152 x 864 is low for a 22" monitor (the native resolution on a my 22" widescreen monitors is 1680x1050) so it should appear even larger still on your screen. This makes me wonder if the site isn't displaying properly in your browser. What browser and version are you using? I assume you're running Windows? Most browsers will allow you to zoom/increase font size by holding down the ctrl button on your keyboard and scrolling up/down with your mouse wheel. (or like Kyle says, use the View menu) But to answer your original question, No, there is no font resize function built into the site.

Sorry, no belts. Just extra little grey squares under your title. Both 'Master' titles get 5 squares. Both Guru titles get 6 squares. The Grand Poo-Bah gets 7 squares! Exciting stuff, huh?

New ranks! 1000 Posts: ATX Master 1500 Posts: ATX Supreme Master 2000 Posts: ATX Guru 2500 Posts: ATX Supreme Guru 3000 Posts: ATX Grand Poo-Bah

Acronis True Image would be my suggestion for backup software also, unless the external drive is bundled with something that works well for you.

Thanks for the donation, but just to be clear, the problem wasn't a funding issue... just an oversight on my part that the community was approaching its bandwidth limit. (And the limit was a guesstimate on my part, I should have been paying closer attention as tax season started heating up) Feel free to add my e-mail address to your address books so you can shout when I make similar air-headed mistakes in the future! eric dot brissette at gmail dot com

If anyone saw the Bandwidth Exceeded message, sorry about that! It's nothing to worry about-I've doubled the bandwidth allocation for this site's account. Thanks KC for letting me know!

It turns out that the forum software was tripping some of the server's security rules. The issue should now be fixed. If any more of these errors come up, please post them here (pasting the whole error message in your post will help me track them down)

I'm going to look through the error logs to see if I can figure out why this might be popping up randomly

When i checked my thermometer this morning, it said -42.. thank God it's not windy.

I'll also mention that in many browsers, as long as you're not in a text box typing, the backspace button on your keyboard is a shortcut for going "back"

I thought that said "If people evolved from apes, why are we still apes?" I like my version better.

If you're not too tied to ZoneAlarm, there are other software firewalls out there that you might want to try and see if they work better for you. I've had good luck with Comodo, which is free: http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/ I only choose to install the firewall portion, so I can't comment on the quality of the other applications in their Internet Security package.

I have yet to reproduce this error. Is it still happening?

Are you still getting it? What specifically are you doing when you get the error?

What do you mean by "the choice codes stay with the name"? Don't forget to hit the "Update my Signature" button at the bottom when you've finished making changes

It's really too bad. There are some really great browsers out there, and IE easily ranks near the bottom, in my opinion. Any company or individual requiring IE is doing their part to kill innovation on the web.

Wow, that was ultra-nerdy. I didn't realize how bad it was until I re-read it. I'll try to keep those outbursts to a minimum. :)

I'd like to see that picture. I remember the bbq but I don't remember if I'm in the pic or not.

I guess I'll throw in my two cents, and reasons for switching to Vista. First of all, Windows XP was released 7 years ago. It took them about 4 of those years to make it stop sucking. By the time the next version of windows comes out, Vista will be more solid, and everyone will be talking crap about the new version... and it's definitely not going to be less resource intensive than Vista, not with the way Microsoft develops software. If they could continuously refine and add to Windows over time, rather than coming out with a giant release every few years, Windows could be so much more solid... but apparently their business model doesn't allow for such sane development processes. The point about driver availability for peripheral devices is probably the best reason to be worried about a switch to Vista, but you have to look into that yourself and assess the risk involved. UAC can also be a pain in the neck, but it can be disabled--it's a great idea, but poorly implemented. They should look to popular Linux distributions for examples of how to do it right. As far as the learning curve, the parts of the interface that you use on a daily basis haven't changed all that much. The start menu is a little different, but not drastically so. Networking is different, but I actually found networking between Vista machines to be easier to set up than with XP. Not sure about networking between XP and Vista, though I had no trouble networking my Vista workstation with any of my Linux laptops/workstations. My personal experience is that Vista works fine. I waited until SP1 to upgrade, and haven't looked back. My reason for upgrading? I have a quad core 64bit processor and 8GB of RAM. I wanted to take full advantage of the 64bit architecture and utilize all of my ram. A 32bit OS like XP can only recognize 3-3.5GB of RAM. I am, however, not the average Windows user. I only use windows for ONE set of applications, and that is Adobe Creative Suite 4. For everything else, I use Kubuntu Linux, which is the base OS on my workstation. When I need Adobe CS4, I fire up an instance of Vista 64 in VirtualBox on top of Linux, which has 5GB of RAM assigned to it.

This forum is for discussing the ATX motherboard form factor. I don't know what you all keep going on about taxes for. :D

Or downgrade to Vista 32 bit... it would be a shame to have to do that though, and not take full advantage of your new hardware.

No need for donations at this time, thanks for asking :)

as long as you can walk faster than the speed of light, then yesterday. :P

Are you still having problems?