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This is what it looks like, text-wise anyway.  The format uses a single coluumn rather than making full use of page width like the old home page:

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Hmm ...

Mark:

What you list looks like the page without the style sheet applied - which is a browser bug on your end. Try more than one browser and see if it looks the same in both. Also, reboot your machine and see if the page still looks wierd like you show.

We haven't changed the home page except to update it with news about issue 4's release date of October 12th.

I've cheched it on all 4 of

I've cheched it on all 4 of my main computers and the 2 Laptops upstairs and even with my one IE browser the home page looks normal. Joe's right you have some sort of browser glitch. Turn off your computer and then wait for 60 seconds with it off and restart and reboot and try your browser again.

Dan

Thanks

Thanks.  I'll reboot when I have 15 minutes to spare.

15 Minutes

If your computer takes 15 minutes to reboot, IT IS THE PROBLEM!  Seek professional help!

I don't know if mine takes 15 minutes to reboot,

but it takes a long time.  My problem is not with my computer or my browser, it is the anti virus software.  It boots up ok on my wife's new computer (less than 1 year old), but is S-L-O-W on my 10 year old model.  I've signed up for 2 years with the program because it was recommended as the best antivirus software on the market, and the latest info I got from them is that the 2010 edition of the software has been redesigned to boot faster.  If the new version doesn't boot up faster in 2010, I will change software in 2011.

Probably anti-virus

I also believe it is primarily the anti-virus programs causing the prolonged boot-up.  I've purchased and applied programs claiming to speed things up, but with hardly an affect.  I find the most convenient time to reboot is to start the process just before bedtime.

Oh, rebooting solved the problem.  My world is now "normal."

Slow re-boot

Interesting.  I'm using McAfee because I can get it for free under a corporate use at home license.  It does not seem to have affected things too much.  My laptop running Vista 64 bit reboots in less than five minutes, probably within three but I would have to check that to be sure.

I used to use Norton but it slowed things down and was such a pain. AVG anti virus started to slow things down too and was getting expensive.  Bit Defender stopped working altogether and the support was hopeless.  That's when I went to McAfee.  I've always liked McAfee myself but opinions vary widely between users.  So far, as I say the system seems to be speedy enough and has no real problems. 

I have Trend

I used to use Norton, but I have to buy my anti-virus software or use one of the free versins like AVG.  I got tired of paying for Norton for 12 months, but at 11 months they quit supporting the software with updates until I renewed.  I figured that if I buy software for a year, only a crook or a con artist would interpret a year as 11 months.

Go to 

Go to  http://www.majorgeeks.com and find the anti virus section. look for "avast" it's a free to use program. It is a back ground anti virus and it works with all other anti virus programs, as a secondary anti virus and it catches everything my AVG and McAfee on all my computers miss like the McAfee Trojan horse and most oddball redirect spy-ware and reports to you verbally when you have a problem. It has helped with my forever on high speed internet and works like having your own Little police force protecting your comp when your not around.

Dan

Why just treat the symptoms?

Why just treat the symptoms? I've found this stays pretty virus free (other than those pesky Microsoft Word Macro viruses....hmm...Microsoft.....)

http://www.apple.com

Hello, I'm a PC - And I'm a Mac ...

Wow, Scarp, shades of the PC - Mac commercials ... (wink and grin)

Need to stay on subect, Trains!

I need to stay on subject, Joe, and focus on trains, but after your reply, I went googling (I'm migrating my machine right now to 10.6, so I have some free time this afternoon).

I never realized these ads have been around for over 3 years! Here are some of my favorites - regardless of your preferences, these are well written. And for the record, I prefer the PC actor - he's a riot.

2006

2007

2008

2009

Finally

Finally!  The down side of all the rich media on MRH,  Mac vs. PC......sheeech!  

Reality is ...

Macs are certainly nice machines - I owned Macs exclusively from 1984 - 1994. I finally moved to PCs with the release of Windows 95 because some of the applications I needed were PC-based, my work was mostly PC-based, and while home-schooling my son we wanted him to build his own PC from the ground up - and that's almost impossible with a Mac.

Mac's famed reliability is mostly true, but when there's a Mac version and a PC version of the same software package available, the Mac version is often buggier.

That's because the Mac market is one tenth the size of the PC market. Nothing against Macs, but market realities say that the PC stuff gets more testing than the Mac stuff when the vendor has a product for both platforms. The Intel Mac move helps, certainly.

We found through hard knocks the PDF format is much more buggy on Macs if you're pushing the envelope into the rich media space like we are. The feud between Apple and Adobe doesn't help - Adobe is dropping Quicktime support from their products and Apple doesn't yet offer Flash support on the iPhone or the iTouch.

We have a Mac-mini that we use in the MRH office and that thing is really small! It's smaller than some external disk drives - talk about cool!

Reality...

Yeah, I started on a Mac too.  Similarily, the applications I wanted to use were for the PC, work was PC, and Mac's were and still are overpriced, IMO.

Wow, that's quite a list

Scarp:

That's quite a list ... I can tell you from the MRH side, the Macs have been our greatest headache - with no thanks to Adobe and their not-exactly-painless PDF format. One of our best discoveries has been Flex, Adobe's robust Flash development environment for software developers (unlike the Flash product, which is instead meant for graphics designers).

Flex appears to work cross-platform much better than Adobe's PDF plugin. Flex produces Flash components that run in the browser. Our experiments with Flashbook technology to present our magazine online for "near instant" reading seem to be much more reliable cross-platform as well.

With Issue 4 (due out next Monday), we will be releasing a Flashbook version as a beta test. If all goes as we hope, as of Issue 5, Flashbook will become the default for reading each issue of the magazine. Never fear, you will always be able to download a PDF version for local reading as well. But the Flashbook approach not only seems more cross-platform compatible, it also gives that near-instant gratification that seems to sell better in our microwave society.

Adobe

I'm not surprised actually that you've run into problems with PDFs, as you're actually really pushing the envelope of that technology.

Flex and Adobe Air appear to be Adobe's attempt at staying relevent; as you can imagine now that Word documents are open source(able) and Google is threatening the computing environment not only with clould based computing but even an operating system, you can see why they might be a bit nervous.

Their "fight" with Apple is unfotunate and pointless, from both sides. I find with the increasing capabilites of iPhoto that I use Photoshop less and less for daily work, yet it's very frustrating that I can't watch Flash on my iPod (except for you tube). Quicktime Pro is also no more, it's basicaly free with the latest Mac OS, and aguably h.264 is the best HIghDef codec out there.

As the handheld market is being driven by the iPhone/iPod touch, I'm personally suspicioius that the Flex was in part designed with that growth market in mind.

Either way it's all good on my end, I have Windows running in emulation on my laptop (which, after a complete wipe of the HD and clean install of 10.6, restored 90 gb of data and applications from the Time machine backup in an hour and 5 minutes). Not too shabby, I know why "techies" who get paid by the hour hate Apple.....

Apples

The Mac is sounding better and better all the time.

I'll just run out and get Mac versions of all the software I use...oh, that's probably the worm in the Apple... there are no Mac versions for 95% of the software I use, so I guess I'll have to run Windows anyway.  Oh look!  I have a  machine that does that already!  Guess I don't really need a Mac.  Too bad cause I hear they're great...plug and play, never get a virus and all that...but wait, I've never had a virus on my own machines either and they are not Mac's.  I must be doing something wrong!

I still doubt that Apple will have to contend with viral infection anytime soon.  As I see it, until hackers start using Mac's, (which may never happen) whose going to create the Mac virus?  Even with 10% or 13% of the market share, are hackers really likely to spend any time writing malicious code to target only 10% of the computers in the world?  Probably not.  But then that should be a good thing.