On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:21:09 -0400, Karl Zimmerman wrote:
>http://www.povray.org/ yields an OK index frame, but the content frame
>says
>
>404 Not Found
>
>The URL requested was: /FlycastUniversal/index.js
>The operating system reports "The system cannot find the path
>specified." (3). 
>
>Attempting to access http://www.povray.org/main.html directly yields the
>same message...

Probably just a transient failure.   You should probably try again.
Also, you should probably take note that the message you responded 
to is over two years old.

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
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In article <397EF3D5.D5F8EF36@alum.mit.edu>, Karl Zimmerman 
<kar### [at] alummitedu> wrote:

>http://www.povray.org/ yields an OK index frame, but the content frame
>says
>
>404 Not Found
>
>The URL requested was: /FlycastUniversal/index.js
>The operating system reports "The system cannot find the path
>specified." (3). 

A number of sites were having this problem last night. The simple fix 
was to turn off javascript in your browser.

What appeared to have been happening was this:

1) the site uses an off-site advertising agency (okay)

2) the off-site advertising agency uses javascript in their 
advertisements (bad) but puts the javascript in a separate file (good).

3) the off-site advertising agency misplaced their javascript file 
(naughty).

(4) when Netscape discovers that a javascript or CSS file that a page 
"needs" is missing, it erases the page that "needs" it and gives you an 
error (silly).

So, whenever you load a page using that advertising agency, it inserts a 
javascript request into the page you're viewing, your browser discovers 
that the javascript file it is requesting doesn't exist, and your 
browser tells you so.

Turn off javascript and your browser never requests the javascript file 
and never discovers that it is missing. You still see the ads, though. 
I'm sure you're thrilled about that :*)

Jerry

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Thanks; it's fine now that I've disabled JavaScript!

-- Karl

Jerry wrote:
> 
> In article <397EF3D5.D5F8EF36@alum.mit.edu>, Karl Zimmerman
> <kar### [at] alummitedu> wrote:
> 
> >http://www.povray.org/ yields an OK index frame, but the content frame
> >says
> >
> >404 Not Found
> >
> >The URL requested was: /FlycastUniversal/index.js
> >The operating system reports "The system cannot find the path
> >specified." (3).
> 
> A number of sites were having this problem last night. The simple fix
> was to turn off javascript in your browser.
> 
> What appeared to have been happening was this:
> 
> 1) the site uses an off-site advertising agency (okay)
> 
> 2) the off-site advertising agency uses javascript in their
> advertisements (bad) but puts the javascript in a separate file (good).
> 
> 3) the off-site advertising agency misplaced their javascript file
> (naughty).
> 
> (4) when Netscape discovers that a javascript or CSS file that a page
> "needs" is missing, it erases the page that "needs" it and gives you an
> error (silly).
> 
> So, whenever you load a page using that advertising agency, it inserts a
> javascript request into the page you're viewing, your browser discovers
> that the javascript file it is requesting doesn't exist, and your
> browser tells you so.
> 
> Turn off javascript and your browser never requests the javascript file
> and never discovers that it is missing. You still see the ads, though.
> I'm sure you're thrilled about that :*)
> 
> Jerry

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Set up an internet connection for a friend last night, and what's
the first site everyone tries (and always works)? 

This was an old PC with an old version of IE on it, we just got
what looked like the page headers at the top of the page, and nothing 
else worked atall.  The background was the same orange colour as usual.




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"Steve" <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain...
|  The background was the same orange colour as usual.

I'd call it road centerline stripe yellow but that's too long to say.
Been wondering if the changes will get back again or another revamped set of
pages are in the works still.  The response last time wasn't overly
negative, just never going to please everyone.

Bob

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