Why searching for solutions to other problems, I just came across this and wanted to put it here for other people visiting.

The are some situations when connecting through DSL, Router etc. and some web sites can't just be loaded. You can try the following below.

1. Start> Run> and enter

   ping -f -l 1492 www.omotech.com
   (or any other web address instead of www.omotech.com).

2. You'll see responses like "Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set". Gradually reduce the number little by little (let's say by 10), until the server responds with connection time (in my case 1472).

3. Start> Run> Regedit>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>system> CurrentControlSet> Services>Tcpip> Parameters>Interfaces: you'll find many folders with all kinds of numbers and letters. Search in these folders for the one that has your IP numbers.

   

4. Create in this folder a new key (Right Click> New> DWORD (32-bit) Value) with the name "MTU".

5. Assign a new value to the Key. (Double click MTU)> enter the value you just emitted from the ping responses above (e.g 1472).

With a bit of luck, you should be able to get those web sites loaded

Syntax

Just like there is autoplay feature on CDs and DVDs, it is also possible to autorun programs and applications from your removable USB flash drives on Windows XP SP2.

The follwoing is a quick guide on how to autorun portables applications from your USB drive.

1. Open Notepad
2. Type in:

     [AutoRun]
     open=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe
     action=Start PortableApps.com
     icon=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe
     label=PortableApps
     Shell\Option=PortableApps
     Shell\Option\Command=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe
   

3. Save the files as autorun.inf
4. Put the files in the root of your USB flash drive
5. The next time you insert your flash USB drive into any PC running Windows XP SP2, the specified program will autorun from the USB drive.

Below are the explanations to the above options used in our autorun.inf file.

  open=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe

The open option specifies the program that should autorun. You must use relative paths here. Do NOT specify the drive letter since it may vary from PC to PC.

  action=Start PortableApps.com

This describes the action that will be performed. This parameter is used by Windows Explorer in the autoplay dialog.

  icon=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe

Specifies the icon to be used for the USB drive. The icon can be fetched from an .EXE file or it can be in the normal .ICO format. (more on changing icons here

  label=PortableApps

This label parameter is used to specify the name of the drive. Basically, this can be anything you want to call your flash drive.

  Shell\Option=PortableApps

Optionally specify the text displayed in the shortcut menu for the Option above.

  Shell\Option\Command=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe

Adds a custom command to the drive's shortcut menu. This is also the text that will appear in the shortcut menu unless specifically altered to some other text.

In many systems, the autorun is disabled by default for security reasons. Unless it is very neccessary, you are adviced to keep the default settings. Why this might be true for many users, there are those like me who would rather have the autorun enabled to ease working with PortableApps.

If your Autorun is disabled, go here to learn how to enable it.

Favicon is short for "Favourites Icon" ("Favorites Icon" for you Americans ;). The name is derived from the bookmark list for Microsoft Internet Explorer which is called Favorites/Favourites list. When you add a site to your Favourites/Favorites list, Internet Explorer (version 5 and above) asks the server if it has a file called favicon.ico. If present, this file will be used to provide an icon that is displayed next to the bookmark text.

Other browsers such as Mozilla have also added support for favicons. Depending on the browser, the favicon can appear in a variety of places, not just in the bookmarks list (in fact, it may not even appear in the bookmark list at all). It may be shown in the address bar or the title of a browser tab, for instance.

How to create a Favicon

To create a favicon.ico simply create a 16x16 .PNG file and convert it to an icon resource with png2ico. If you want, you can add more images to the same icon resource to provide alternative resolutions. Most browsers only use a 16x16 image but in a different context (e.g. when you drag a URL from the address bar onto your desktop) a larger icon may be shown. If the icon resource only contains a 16x16 image, this will be scaled to the appropriate size, so technically there is never a need to add alternative resolutions. However, doing so can increase the quality of the displayed icon.

Keep in mind that for a user with a slow modem a favicon.ico may increase the page loading time by a few seconds if it is too large, so don't overdo it. Adding a 32x32 alternative should be enough to make sure the image will look good even in contexts with larger icons. Adding even more and larger alternatives is unnecessary bloat. Try to keep the number of colors below 16 and create a 16-color icon using the --colors 16 switch of png2ico (or even create a b/w icon with the --colors 2 switch). This will result in a smaller file that loads faster.

When you create the images to include in your favicon.ico, don't forget that the icon may be composed against various background colors so you should use transparency rather than a solid background if you want to avoid that your icon appears inside a box. Note, that icon resources only support binary transparency, i.e. a pixel may be visible or invisible but not something like 30% translucent.

Installing your Favicon

To add your new favicon.ico to a web page put it on the server into the same directory as the web page it is for (e.g. www.example.com/foo/favicon.ico for www.example.com/foo/index.html). That is the first place a browser will search. If it doesn't find an icon there, it checks the top-level directory of the server (www.example.com/favicon.ico for the www.example.com server), so by putting it there you can have a default favicon for all the pages in your domain. Depending on browser and configuration, the favicon.ico is not always rendered, even if it is in one of the above locations, unless the web page explicitly declares its presence. To declare that your web page has an icon, you add the following 2 lines into the section of your page:

Hex: Red: Green: Blue: Hue: Saturation: Value:

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a:hover tag applies to the links only when they have not been clicked before.

(when a user clicks on the link, goes to the next page and then comes back to the same page, the link will not look as it was originally)

i tried disabling this by using the same prameters in a:link but the a:hover stopped working. is there any way to make it work with visited links? or is there any other tag that has the same effect as a:hover?

Here are the CSS a: classes.

a:link {color: #FF0000} /* unvisited link */
a:visited {color: #00FF00} /* visited link */
a:hover {color: #FF00FF} /* mouse over link */
a:active {color: #0000FF} /* selected link */

These need to be defined in this order or it won't work (according to the w3schools).

A:Visited {
font-family:verdana;
font-weight:bold;
color:black;
text-decoration:none;
}

Here are the CSS a: classes.

a:link {color: #FF0000} /* unvisited link */
a:visited {color: #00FF00} /* visited link */
a:hover {color: #FF00FF} /* mouse over link */
a:active {color: #0000FF} /* selected link */

These need to be defined in this order or it won't work (according to the w3schools).

just an added tip

your link psuedo classes must be in the following order or they will cause trouble in some browsers

:link
:visited
:hover
:active

I've recently been playing w/ this same scenerio as I build the new site for OU Sooners e-comm site and one trick is to make sure you have link elements listed in this order because after all you're working w/ "Cascading" SS ( in short make sure a:hover is listed after a:visited)

a link
a visted
a hover

Dont forget you can always set a .class style you like for your text links before hand (i.e enclosed in a div tag) then after your links take on thier style you can apply an inline style to your links. ( if that makes anysense at all)

What browser are you using? a:hover works the same on visited and unvisited links in IE6 and Firefox 1.5. Obviously the hover style has to be different from the link or visited style to be visible.

If you define a:visited {} with the same styles as the as a {} then your links should always look the same and a:hover {} should work just fine.

you have to make sure there is no a:visited set in your style sheets anywhere.

If that doesn't work you will have to use JavaScript, which can get complicated.

#backgroundlink
{
display: block;
height: 100px; (height of the background image)
width: 200px; (width of the background image)
background-image: url(logo.jpg);
}
...

The anchor tag is naturally inline so you need to make it a block in order to hold a shape without inner content. The height & width are those of the image.

To make this work in a non-CSS user agent as well, you might want to add something like this:

#bglink span
{
display: none;
}
...

Click my logo

If CSS isn't enabled, the text link replace the image link.

Click here to see a good explanation of similar technics

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