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busbyea

23rd of October 2005 (Sun), 00:49

Fairly new; as you can guess. Enjoying all the great info I'm getting here.

One question I have is Why do I no see a member's name in the sidebar?
I get a bunch of Alien Heads?

Sam

23rd of October 2005 (Sun), 01:11

I have no idea...?

Could you take a screenshot and post it?

busbyea

24th of October 2005 (Mon), 11:13

Can anybody tell me why I am getting no names of the members in the side bar as I look through threads?

All I get is the little icon picture they put there and for their name I get a bunch of Alien Heads for the characters.

New to digital photograghy and computers.

Thanks for the help!

Scottes

24th of October 2005 (Mon), 14:23

I also don't know what's going on or understand what could be happening. A screenshot would help a lot.

Jon

24th of October 2005 (Mon), 14:40

You think he's seeing one of CDS' smiley-laden "Welcome to POTN' messages? :{)#

MattyB

24th of October 2005 (Mon), 16:09

when looking at this post - hit the "print screen" button on your keyboard, (nothing noticably will happen)
then open photoshop
open a new canvas
and hit ctrl and the V button

save that, upload it and show us

busbyea

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 16:09

Trying to get you the screen capture.........

CyberDyneSystems

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 16:36

I vaguely see them.. Alien heads above MattyB's avatar... ?

Honestly bubyea,. we just assumed you were nuts! http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2hdzu/pics/kukoo.gif

I certainly can't explain it.. Must be government mind control? Seriously,. I'd scan for spyware,. big time. Whatever it is,. out of 80,000 some odd people this is a first,. so I would have to assume it is a local probelm.

Scottes

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 17:23

My guess is that busbyea doesn't have that font installed.

Hmm, but the style for bigusername seems to be just 14pt Sans Serif... Odd.

busbyea, what browser do you run? And version? Can you try accessing with a different browser, like Internet Explorer?

Or, try going into your browser's options and set the fonts back to the default choices. Perhaps you picked a bitmapped Sans Serif, or something like that?

MattyB

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 17:42

I'VE BEEN VIOLATED!!!!
GET THEM OFF, GET THEM OFF!

heh, possibly a font problem

Michaelmjc

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 18:56

Can you crop the picture and make it a bit bigger so we can actually see it?

tim

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 19:13

Empty your web browser cache, restart your browser, then hold control and shift while you hit reload. Might help, might not.

busbyea

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 19:26

Thanks for the tips guys.......Still working on a fix.
Browser=IE 6.0
Fonts all installed .
???

Carzee

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 19:34

Aliens are a warning I think.

Run, don't walk, to Mozilla Firefox.

busbyea

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 19:52

Hi Carzee !

You did it..................Installed Mozilla Firefox and all seems fine.

Thanks everybody.
Now I gotta get taking some photos for you guys to comment on.

Many Thanks; GOD Bless.

Scottes

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 20:33

I'm glad this was solved. The thread title is a winner, no doubt.

Tom W

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 20:45

Getting mighty close to halloween! Hmmmnnn....

busbyea

25th of October 2005 (Tue), 22:12

Cool; Happy haunting...............

Carzee

26th of October 2005 (Wed), 18:55

Well I'm glad the problem was dodged by using Firefox.

But did you try some spyware scan/disinfectant?

BearLeeAlive

26th of October 2005 (Wed), 19:41