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[coxellis]

Is it the LMC? You have to understand, being north of 0 deg, I don't recognise it :confuse2:

I'm sure I will with time... I'm looking forward to having a gander at a few south hem targets ;)

Andy

[ving]

it is a new neb called the ving nebula... aka ngc69 ;)

[rumples riot]

The background is a tiled pic of the Eta Carina nebula in the constellation of Carina. Near the southern cross.

[coxellis]

Sweet, cheers. All new to me like. :)

Andy

[rumples riot]

No problem.

[RAJAH235]

Andy, a quick question. Which browser do you use? Just curious. :thumbsup:

[coxellis]

IE6 - why?

[RAJAH235]

re;your question about the b/g pic. I and a few others run Firefox from *mozilla.org* and it gives you a great selection of extensions/addons, etc. one of which enables you to "view background image". Thought you might already know about it with your work, that's all.Safer browser all round. :thumbsup: L.

[Vermin]

Cool, I hadn't noticed that feature before, or if it was installed as an extension I must have forgotten about it.

[coxellis]

Hiya - my work involves writing JavaScript active content, mainly for an Intranet of around 60,000 desktops (UK Govt, taxes). I am mostly involved in the R&D stages - I develop something, someone else gets the credit - that sort of thing. Not too suprisingly, the lack of imagination in the organisation means they run IE.

Being an active content writer, I've developed stuff for my own websites:

http://www.coxellis.freeserve.co.uk/
http://www.coxellis.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

In the first of the above two links, the whole start page was an experiment in running pages entirely as Javascript library objects. In my astronomy pics site, I can just update an array with a picture's details and it's added.

I doubt if either page runs properly in firefox. I tried firefox out a while back and had problems with missing plugins and limited support for active content, so I switched back to IE. TBH, I could (and should) re-write the pages to support FireFox, but I'm just too busy...

I don't have an issue with security, my main computer is the laptop I'm typing this on and it is firewalled behind a router (NAT firewalled) and has it's own firewall anyway and I run a WEP based wireless LAN. I also use up to date virus software :)

So there you go. ;) I'll try it again sometme in the near future, but tbh, I manage fine with IE :D Generally speaking though, I'd agree firefox is the better product.

Cheers :)

Andy

[RAJAH235]

Thanks Andy. Thought it might be something like that. Hope you do get around to rewriting and using Firefox later. :thumbsup:
BTW, tried both your web sites. Displays O.K. Pics O.K. as well.

[coxellis]

I'm going to have to give FireFox another try then - it could be that whatever issues they had with it were early developmental problems - generally speaking, as a browser I always preferred it.

Cheers

[RAJAH235]

Andy, I have v1.0 released in Nov 04. I think they may have released v1.0.1 now but I am not updating just yet. Will wait for a while to see how it runs. L.
ps. Thunderbird is the email prog. T'is very good.

[Vermin]

I had problems with v0.9 and went back to IE, but v1.0 is great, my browser of choice now.

[Robby]

Hear hear for Thunderbird e-mail. Much better than Outlook Express and doesn't start MSN messenger everytime you run it !! Outlook Express is a real pain that way & my main reason for ditching it.
I also use Firefox browser 1.0 Seems ok, but IE6 is better for flash.
Tend to swithc between the two depending on what I'm viewing.

Cheers