Posted by Perseus on 10/10/05 23:56

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 05:23:54 GMT, "George Hester"
<hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Perseus I downloaded the 2.6 PIE patch from here:
>
>http://www.vladd44.com/mx/piepatch.php
>
>Now I have Please be patient!!! in that location that previously had the
>white rectangle. I just cannot remember what used to be there prior to this
>need for the hosts file. But in any case I'm happier with that.
>
>Traffic this evening seems much better. Normally I get over 100 in my queue
>seconds after I go online. Yesterday I never went over 100. Tonight much
>better.
>
>I hope I can go back to using WinMX. It was a lot of fun. Sometimes.
>
>Thanks for all your help.

George,

You're welcome!

And like I told you before, that area (ok, call it a rectangle if you
like) normally shows a bar with a black background. Frontcode
Technologies used to use it for displaying information regarding
updates of its client. These days it's being used by others to display
just about anything they like.

Don M. in a recent post of his explained the whole thing very nicely
when he said:

"The box displays whatever is at
http://www.winmx.com/v353/mainbar/index.html (on version 3.53)
It will be blank whenever www.winmx.com doesn't resolve to an existing
IP address, or the site is down, or the particular html file doesn't
exist, etc.
If you're using the current hosts patch, www.winmx.com should resolve
to 205.238.40.2 and what you see is actually the following message:
http://205.238.40.2/v353/mainbar/index.html (version 3.53);
http://205.238.40.2/v331/mainbar/index.html (version 3.31), and so on."

Greetz,

--
Perseus

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