This computer problem was brought to my attention and I thought I would post it on Mustech.net to see if any of you SUPER TECH SAVVY people out there could shed some light on this problem…. and help all of us with a working solution within the context of how we are trying to get this resolved.
The problem:
If you have a Tablet PC, and XP (or Vista), and have tried to access NBC.com with IE7 (Internet Explorer -I’m not sure about version 6 or prior), you get the following typical, bland, message: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
This is only interesting because it WILL open with Opera, Firefox, and other browsers on the tablet PC. To further compound the issue, it will open fine in any of the other XP or VISTA, non-tablet, PC editions/computers.
The problem seems to be materialized only with the tablet PC and IE combination when going to the site www.nbc.com. I have not find this anomaly anywhere else. Are any of you experiencing this phenomenon with any other sites?
Now, before anyone goes off rambling and posting here on a hundred reasons not to use IE7, Microsoft, tablet PCs, etc… I am looking SPECIFICALLY for solutions that take into consideration this scenario only. The definitive solution at this point, as far as I can tell, is to use a standards compliant browser… but this doesn’t resolve the curiosity as to why this doesn’t work at all in IE7 and the curious webpage not found issue without any clue as to THE WHY…
I have replicated this problem on multiple tablet PCs from different locations and can confirm this to be a problem.
Here is some troubleshooting information:
The IP address of NBC.com is 64.210.192.67
Entering the IP address into the browser also results in the same problem. I can successfully ping and tracert to the above IP Address.
I have cleared all the cache information, flushed all the dns information, added the IP address to a hosts file, and disabled all add-ons and extensions from IE7 and still cannot access the site.
The address WILL open in Firefox and Opera
NBC.com has failed to respond to any inquiries about this as of yet
Toshiba has “called it quits” and Sony’s Blu-ray format has become the undisputed “winner” of the high definition wars. Quite frankly, I’m glad the war has ended.
I decided that I was going to wait until Christmas season this year to decide on which format that I wanted to support/own and now I don’t have to make that decision. As an owner of an XBOX 360, the temptation was there to buy the HD-DVD player but, looking through my “future goggles”, I thought that the format might have a problem ”catching on” with the public for various reasons.
The one sticking point that I always came back to with regard to the specificities of the formats was that Blu-ray, from the outset, could hold 20GB of more data that the HD-DVD for its dual layer type media and the theoretical limit for Blu-Ray is 200GB and HD-DVD is only 60GB. This is a major consideration when you consider how fast we are “chewing up” data allocations with our media storage needs. Although, I’ve never worked with authoring a Blu-Ray menu system, my understanding is that the process is/was much harder than the HD-DVD format. I hope that this gets easier now that all efforts can be concentrated on one format. Especially, because it will not be long before we start to attempt to edit our own HD videos and store them on Blu-ray discs in the near future.
I’m sure as soon as I post this, I’m going to get a lot of feedback from others suggesting other great free hosting sites…and I welcome the feedback! I’ve been looking for a free hosting site that allows me to have a “work lab” for a number of experiments that I’m currently working with that involve the Internet. Because I want to leave my bandwidth at a maximum for the readers and subscribers of MusTech.net, I don’t want to do some of experiments at this site and reduce the experience of the users here.
I came across one of the fastest and full functioning cluster based web hosting service I’ve found to date a couple of weeks ago: http://freehostia.com. If you are a looking for a feature rich, free host that doesn’t bombard you with advertisements or banners (bannerless) and provides you with REAL tools such as Perl, PHP, and MySql databases this might be a host solution for you.
If you are person that doesn’t need a whole lot of customization capability and are not tech-savvy, I’m still recommending http://wordpress.com and http://blogger.com for your web log hosts. You can be up and running on them in about 5-10 minutes.
If you are a person looking for more control and more high-end Internet web applications AND don’t want to pay for it as you are trying these things out then… I suggest giving freehostia.com a try. It’s one of the only free hosts that I know that provide MySql, Perl, PHP and complete FTP support.
I’ve taken a tip from Will and am going to embed the PowerPoint presentation I spoke about in a previous post into this post. If you are interested in the “power” of R.S.S. or even “what it is”. This PowerPoint is a good start.
This PowerPoint is licensed under a creative commons 3.0 license. You are free to share it for non-commercial use as long as you don’t modify it and attribute authorship.
