[Clydeman]

Hello

Have a subscription to the magazine. This has probably been asked before and answered, but I couldn't find anything in the forums.

How do I get to links such as
find.pcworld.com/72782
which appear in the magazine?

I typed
find.pcworld.com/72782
in my browser's address bar and was sent here:
https://onlinefamily...y/loginStart.fs

I searched www.pcworld.com for the address, the number 72782, and even the subject of the reference article and found some things, none of which was the article I was trying to find.

What am I missing here?

Thanx

[ElfBane]

According to this article... http://www.pcworld.c...dcom_codes.html , you're doing what you're supposed to! Very odd.

Tell us what the link is supposed to take you to, and someone at PCW will figure it out. I presume it's a typo.

This post has been edited by ElfBane: 13 April 2012 - 11:15 AM

[LincolnSpector]

Hi.

The find.pcworld.com/... URLs are pointers, like those from tinyURL.com, that send you to another location. What you did--entering it into your brower's address bar, was absolutely the right thing to do. They're used in the print edition.


The URL you gave us, find.pcworld.com/72782, does in fact bring you to https://onlinefamily...y/loginStart.fs, Norton's OnLine Family service. Since I don't know what article, in what issue, you found it, I can't tell you if that's where it's supposed to go.

Lincoln

[Clydeman]

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa! Mr. Lincoln's Answer Line on page 94, May 2012, contained the link I typed. As you have noted, it takes me exactly where it should. Where I screwed up was in the reference I was looking for which, when I flipped to the next page, 96, I found once again in roughly the same general area on that page. I needed 72744 but typed 72782. My attention to detail is sorely lacking. Good thing I'm not at the helm in an ICBM command and control center like I was some years ago. Back then my attention to detail was scrupulously inerrant. Again, I apologize most sincerely for my initiation of this wild goose chase. But I thank you both for the assistance you rendered.

[LincolnSpector]

Clydeman, on 15 April 2012 - 04:40 PM, said:

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa! Mr. Lincoln's Answer Line on page 94, May 2012, contained the link I typed. As you have noted, it takes me exactly where it should. Where I screwed up was in the reference I was looking for which, when I flipped to the next page, 96, I found once again in roughly the same general area on that page. I needed 72744 but typed 72782. My attention to detail is sorely lacking. Good thing I'm not at the helm in an ICBM command and control center like I was some years ago. Back then my attention to detail was scrupulously inerrant. Again, I apologize most sincerely for my initiation of this wild goose chase. But I thank you both for the assistance you rendered.

It's a natural mistake. You were trying to read Rick's article, but naturally your wandered to my vastly superior prose.

Lincoln

[LiveBrianD]

We've all made stupid mistakes sometimes. For instance, I was trying to install XP on a machine, and needed to use a floppy with the raid driver for that. I tried different floppy drives and floppies, and it just wouldn't work! Finally I came across the solution - I didn't enable the floppy drive in the bios. Dang it!