Items for sale

[8th SPS USAF]

If you have something for sale, and someone PM/E's

why don't they reply. Either yes or no?

8th

[Bawanna]

Sometimes people sign up here just to sell something. The sell it someplace else and we never see them again.

Some haven't figured out the PM thing either. It took me a while to get a handle on that myself.

[mr surveyor]

the PM format here at KahrTalk gets me too. I still tend to forget to look for the PM notification in the upper right hand of the screen, particularly due to the fact that the format we have here causes me to have to pan the screen even in normal view, so I don't see the PM box when I first open the site. I started to look in user preferences/set-up and see if there was a setting for notification by email when you receive a PM.


surv

[Bawanna]

Theres also an option to create a pop up when you log in. Don't remember exactly how I made that happen but when I log in, if theres a PM, that's the first thing that shows up in the middle of the screen. If theres more than one you have to look for the others which is easy since your already in that PM screen.
Kind of cool.

[earle8888]

How about some instructions on the "POP-UP"

[Bawanna]

Let me go look some at that and see if I can figure out how I did that. I'll be back.

[Bawanna]

Ok, I'm back, here we go. If my arms were just a couple feet longer I'd be patting myself on the back right now. I feel like the smartest man alive.

Blind hog gets an occasional acorn.

Here's how to activate the pop up.

Click on the Private Messages in the upper right corner of you normal screen.

From the menu on the left of that new screen click on Edit Options, it's close to the top of the list.

From that new screen slide down till you get to Messaging and Notifications.
As you go down thru that theres options like who'll you'll accept emails from and who not etc.
Theres one that starts out "If you are browing the forum, yada yada yada, the System can pop-up a notification. There's a little box next to that click it so a check mark appears and your in business.

When I log in if theres a PM the first thing I will see is that pop up. It also gives you the option if your typing a big long monologue similar to what I'm doing now, you can ignore it and finish what your doing. Other wise all bets are off and you'll have to start all over again.
You can then just go look since you know one of your very best friends in the whole wide worlds has some incredibly good news to share with you.
Is this a great country and forum or what?

Remember that if you receive several PM's while your logged off, it will only pop up the last one. So when you read that one, your already in your PM area, it's a simple thing to just look and see if theres others.

Give er a try and see if it works for you.

[mr surveyor]

that's why you became the annoited one:)

[mr surveyor]

O.K. B,

Now tell me how to make the website page fit the screen so I don't have to scroll across with the slide bar!



and, to get back on topic, did 8th SPS USAF manage to find any type of useful answer to his original question?


surv

[Bawanna]

I think the answer to 8th's question was the hit and run guys selling stuff.

I don't know the answer to the screen thing, its been talked about before I recall long ago. I don't have to scroll accross except when some post pictures and it seems to throw the whole thread into large screen mode.

Alot of Jeep's good pictures do that. I don't know why. A few others also.

I'll ask my smart leaders to address this.

[dusty10]

making kahrtalk fit your computer screen has to do with the resolution settings on your computer. You need to change the resolution to higher number. That will also make the printing appear smaller but at least the whole page will be seen by you. Go to the control panel on your computer and follow the promps to set screen resolution.

[8th SPS USAF]

Just venting a little. It happens on all forums. Thanks to all

8th

[johnh]

I spent a lot of time on that one way back when we first added banners. I never found a definitive answer, and you are right it does happen on other forums. Changing this or that setting altered how the issue appeared, but never made it go away for everyone affected. It does not happen on any of my computers, and seems not to happen for most people. I know the banner width plays a part. At some point I will have a graphics overhaul (funding permitting), and will try to make some new locations for banners. The browser used and whether it is updated seems to make a difference, but again not for everyone.

John

[slowpoke]

O.K. B,

Now tell me how to make the website page fit the screen so I don't have to scroll across with the slide bar!



and, to get back on topic, did 8th SPS USAF manage to find any type of useful answer to his original question?


surv
Dose holding down the control key and rolling the mouse wheel do anything for you?

[mr surveyor]

great tip Slowpoke!

Yep, it resizes for sure.... which does answer my question the way I worded it. So, I can resize the page to have it all in view, I just can't read it:o

Poor vision requires me to set resolution at a level that I can see/read the text. Sounds like John has knows that the culprit is in the banners that are graphically at a fixed width, whereas the text blocks generally scale themselves to fit the users screen. When large graphics are attached in posts on a lot of web forums, the photo can act the same as the banner at the top of KahrTalk and cause the entire thread to be expanded out of view. JohnH nailed it.:)

surv

[Bawanna]

Maybe put the computer in the next room so its further away.

I thought about wiring in my TV set as a monitor since it ain't good for much else.

Eye doc suggested I needed computer glasses, different reading glasses and no glasses when I was reading or computing. Told her thats just what I need more hoops to jump thru to get thru the day.

[slowpoke]

great tip Slowpoke!

Yep, it resizes for sure.... which does answer my question the way I worded it. So, I can resize the page to have it all in view, I just can't read it:o

Poor vision requires me to set resolution at a level that I can see/read the text. Sounds like John has knows that the culprit is in the banners that are graphically at a fixed width, whereas the text blocks generally scale themselves to fit the users screen. When large graphics are attached in posts on a lot of web forums, the photo can act the same as the banner at the top of KahrTalk and cause the entire thread to be expanded out of view. JohnH nailed it.:)

surv

Yep, I got that problem also.
Wut I did was got “weak” reading glasses.

I use prescription glasses / contacts.
When I'm wearing the contacts I just use the weak reading glasses over the contacts for computer work.

When I'm wearing my prescription glasses I wear the reading glasses over them. (what I need is tri-focals).

[Bawanna]

What I need is a full body transplant. Lift the hair, park a new body under it, and glue it back down, course I'm hurting in the hair dept too. Never ends. My mohawk days are definitely a thing of the past along with a few other things.
Thank goodness I still have my natural good looks, be lost without that.

[slowpoke]

I thought about wiring in my TV set as a monitor since it ain't good for much else.


32" LCD makes a dam good monitor.
I set-up 2 linux based media boxes that way with XP on Vbox so I can do Netflix.

[Bawanna]

32" LCD makes a dam good monitor.
I set-up 2 linux based media boxes that way with XP on Vbox so I can do Netflix.

This really makes me look dumb but other than 32" LCD I have no idea what you just said. I better ask my son, bet he knows.

[slowpoke]

This really makes me look dumb but other than 32" LCD I have no idea what you just said. I better ask my son, bet he knows.
linux based media box - Just a computer using Linux. I use Slackware64 (64 bit) linux with 32 bit libs installed so I can run 32 bit applications that has several media player on it to watch movies with.

Windows XP on VirtualBox - VirtualBox is software that allows you to run an operating from within an operating system.
So:
If you have linux as a "Host", you can run windows "Guest" from within linux enableing you to run 2 operating systems at the same time.

The advantage is that you can run linux as a main operating system without the risk of viruses and worms and such and just use Windows to use Windows software.

[earle8888]

Kidding aside, I got TriFocal Progressive Grind, as suggested by eye doctor who also is a shootist! That solved my site picture woes and eyestrain on the computer.

[slowpoke]

Kidding aside, I got TriFocal Progressive Grind, as suggested by eye doctor who also is a shootist! That solved my site picture woes and eyestrain on the computer.
I gota do that too.
Right now I wearing 2 pairs of glasses witch is rather awkward.

[Bawanna]

linux based media box - Just a computer using Linux. I use Slackware64 (64 bit) linux with 32 bit libs installed so I can run 32 bit applications that has several media player on it to watch movies with.

Windows XP on VirtualBox - VirtualBox is software that allows you to run an operating from within an operating system.
So:
If you have linux as a "Host", you can run windows "Guest" from within linux enableing you to run 2 operating systems at the same time.

The advantage is that you can run linux as a main operating system without the risk of viruses and worms and such and just use Windows to use Windows software.

You ever see the movie Dumb and Dumber? Your so far over my head with this that I need the Hubble telescope to even see ya. I'm only getting dumber. I tried to talk all 3 of my kids into studying computers, none are listening. I struggle through.

[mr surveyor]

here's your ultimate salvation Bawanna..... a brand new Commodore 64:)


edit to add.... be sure you wire it up to the rotary dial phone correctly

[slowpoke]

Ok.

The other way:
You have a PC with Windows as the operating system.
If you were to install VirtualBox on it.
VirtualBox - VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox)
You would then be able to install an additional operating on to your "running" Windows operating system.
So after booting Windows, you would be able to boot the other system from within your running Windows system.

[Bawanna]

Now your talking my language. A short story.

My son a few years ago went to a trade school a few hours from the house. Near where he stayed there was a gun shop with an outdoor range. So when we moved him up there I stopped in the shop to make sure they would let him shoot and sell him ammo even though he was underage by just a little bit. They were fine with selling for him to shoot but not take with him and even offered to store his guns if he desired.

Anyhow I go in and this shop looks like it hadn't been cleaned in at least 50 years. There were rocking chairs in the aisles, dust on books that hadn't been moved in decades, hardly see thru the windows and on the end of the counter a dial telephone.
A little old lady I'd say 80 if a day is renting guns to a guy and racking the slide on a glock. I ended up spending the afternoon chatting with her. She said they had to have one of those darn push button phones on the back for when they called suppliers and had to use a menu but she wasn't giving up that dial phone for nothing.

[slowpoke]

Now your talking my language. A short story.

My son a few years ago went to a trade school a few hours from the house. Near where he stayed there was a gun shop with an outdoor range. So when we moved him up there I stopped in the shop to make sure they would let him shoot and sell him ammo even though he was underage by just a little bit. They were fine with selling for him to shoot but not take with him and even offered to store his guns if he desired.

Anyhow I go in and this shop looks like it hadn't been cleaned in at least 50 years. There were rocking chairs in the aisles, dust on books that hadn't been moved in decades, hardly see thru the windows and on the end of the counter a dial telephone.
A little old lady I'd say 80 if a day is renting guns to a guy and racking the slide on a glock. I ended up spending the afternoon chatting with her. She said they had to have one of those darn push button phones on the back for when they called suppliers and had to use a menu but she wasn't giving up that dial phone for nothing.
I know the feeling.
I was ticked off when cars went to alternators and then the blasphemous electronic ignition. .. :mad: