bambii said:
so, everytime i want to open an applet (i think they're called), i get a little red x on the left hand corner of a screen. i went to the java page and the stuff they told me to do didn't work...any advice?
i realize this is somewhat unrelated, but i wanted a quick response.
The red x on the left hand corner is the infamous broken picture icon, basically it means that it can't pull up the picture or applet that you are attempting to pull up. I do not know your exact situation but there are several things that can cause that, in my experiences these are the ones that are the most common:
1. If you are attempting to access a link through an internet connection, sometimes the connection times out. This usually happens if you are on a slow link such as a dial-up link or are experiencing congestion in route to the web server (internet), sometimes their pipe to the server is congested. This however is usually resolved by refreshing the screen or trying at a later time; I am sure you have already tried this by now and this isn't likely to be your problem.
2. Maybe they have temporarily brought down the web server that this applet is being pulled from down for maintenance? Most company's mirror their web servers (not to mention all of the load balancing and backup raids that are typical of SAN's these day's) - so that you do not experience any downtime - but it's possible.
3. The applet or picture has been removed at the web server. The hyperlink to the folder within the web server still exists; obviously, since you are getting to the url, but maybe they removed the contents of it?
If you don't have control over the web server there is not much you can do about this. If the whole page is timing out and you can find the IP Address then you can at least verify that the web server is up. If you do verify that it is still up maybe something is going on on your end, browser settings or a firewall that is preventing it from displaying correctly. Some of the personal firewalls seem to have trouble with certain Active X scripts and need to be tweaked.
I am sorry that I couldn't be of much help, but you usually need access to the web server to truly determine what the problem is. Hope this helped somewhat though - I usually try again later in these scenario's. Let me know how things turn out.
