Notices to students
27 January 2000
A couple of the students had trouble printing Assignment 4 tonight. One said she had been using AOL (as a browser, I presume) and fixed the problem by switching to Internet Explorer, which we know from last class always seems to work properly. Another student said that he got a message saying "70 pages": or something like that when he tried to print, but gave no specifics. Let us deal with this problem in three ways at once. First, we will briefly discuss symptoms in class tomorrow and try to find the cause(s). I will independently check some computers on campus Friday or over the weekend to see what I find. Second, we will see if you can retrieve the assignments in MS Word 9 (my current version) more easily. I have posted a link to that file for Assignment 4 as a test. Try it and report to me, please. Third, those who are still having problems should find a computer with Internet Explorer, especially versions 4 or 5, and use it for the short term until we find the easiest fix.
25 January 2000
Yesterday in class somebody remarked that web addresses (URLs) are case-sensitive. I don't believe this is accurate. Try it for yourself and see.